Napoleon is a cake or puff pastry cake with custard. Today, Napoleon is already a classic, deservedly considered one of the most delicious cakes. For the first time the recipe of Napoleon was created at the end of the XIX century. It is believed that its name is associated with the name of the city of Naples.
According to another version, the recipe was invented by the emperor Bonaparte himself. Trying to justify his wife's meeting with the young maid of honor, he said that he just wanted to share a cake recipe with her, and then composed a recipe on the go. Anyway, the delicacy, then and now, is very popular among gourmets and sweet teeth.
Classic Napoleon Custard
Traditionally, Napoleon’s puff cakes are smeared with custard. This cream is very gentle in taste, it is combined with various types of dough, in addition, based on it they prepare various souffles, mousses and puddings. Custard cream is also frozen and served as an independent dessert.
To prepare a delicious custard, you do not need any special cooking skills, nor large monetary costs. It is enough to follow all the recipe recommendations and use only fresh and high-quality ingredients.
Today there are a huge number of different recipes for custard. In order to make a classic custard, you need the following ingredients:
- four yolks;
- 1 l. milk;
- 300 gr. Sahara;
- 100 gr. flour;
- vanilla sugar optional.
How to cook custard cake Napoleon? Milk should be boiled over low heat. In another vessel, in the meantime, beat the egg yolks with sugar and vanilla, gradually adding flour.
Put the vessel on the fire and, while stirring, pour milk into it. Do not stop stirring the mixture, bring it to a boil. To make the cream thicker, we continue to keep it on low heat for several minutes.
Cake Napoleon: A Classic Recipe
Today, Napoleon cake is prepared in a variety of variations, which every year becomes more and more. However, the classic recipe for this sweetness does not lose its popularity. So, for the preparation of classic Napoleon will need such products.
For the test:
- 3.5 cups first-class flour;
- 400 gr. butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 5-6 drops of vinegar;
- 1/3 tsp salts;
- Tea glass of water.
For cream:
- four egg yolks;
- 100 gr. flour;
- 1 l. milk;
- 300 gr. Sahara;
- vanilla sugar to taste.
The preparation of such a treat takes about 460 minutes.
Caloric content is 404 kcal per 100 grams.
Cake Napoleon puff pastry with custard is prepared for a long time, so please be patient. Cooking a cake should start with a test. Mix flour, salt, eggs, water and vinegar together and mix until smooth. Then we cover the dough with a towel and leave for 10-15 minutes.
Half a cup of flour gently knead with butter. Then the infused dough is swung with a thickness of one and a half centimeters. Put butter mixed with flour in the center of the cake and wrap the dough in an envelope, closing the edges.
We gently swing the envelope, fold it in half two times, sprinkle with flour a little and put it in the cold for 30 minutes. Then again we shake, fold and set in a cold place. This action is repeated three times.
After cutting the dough into four equal parts. Three leave in the cold, one swing in the cake. So that he does not pout, before putting it in the oven, we stick the dough with a fork several times. Alternately roll out all the cakes.
Baking at a temperature of 220-230C for about 15 minutes until the cakes are browned.
While preparing the cake, you can do the preparation of the cream. After the cream boils and thickens, let it cool slowly to room temperature.
When the cakes and cream are ready, you can proceed directly to the assembly of the cake. Cakes need to be carefully cut. Crumbs are collected in a separate container and leave them for the final stage - cake sprinkling.
Alternately, we smear the cakes with cream, form a cake. Shuffle crumbs with hands and sprinkle cakes with them. We leave the cake for 2-3 hours to soak and voila - classic Napoleon is ready!
Recipe for homemade Napoleon on cottage cheese dough
At home, with the recipe of the legendary cake is often experimented by adding those or other ingredients to the dough or cream. Thus, home cooking has gathered a lot of interesting variations of the recipe.
For example, the recipe for cottage cheese Napoleon. For the preparation of the cake will need the listed products.
For the test:
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice;
- 500 gr. cottage cheese;
- 400 gr. Sahara;
- 700 gr. flour;
- 6 eggs;
- 1/3 tsp slaked soda.
- 1/3 tsp salt.
Cake preparation time is approximately 460 minutes.
The caloric value of this delicacy is 202 kcal, which is equal to 10% of the daily norm.
Consider how to cook homemade Napoleon cake with custard on cottage cheese dough. Whitewash eggs with sugar, add salt, lemon juice, soda, cottage cheese. Mix everything and add flour. Knead soft and elastic dough.
We divide into 15 even parts and put in the cold. As you may have guessed, there are a lot of cakes in this cake, so you should take care of a sufficient amount of cream. After half an hour, we pull the dough out of the fridge and alternately finely shake its parts.
We bake cakes at a temperature of 200C for 6-8 minutes. To the cake was equal and neat, it is better to cut the cakes. In the case of cottage cheese shortcakes, they should be cut immediately after pulling out of the oven.
Cakes can be cut by attaching any pattern of kitchen utensils
For this cake, you can make almost any cream, for example sour cream. But still, the classic custard will best complement the richness of taste.
Useful tips
In order to make the cakes more voluminous, soft and elastic, for making a cake, take only flour of the highest grades. Before you enter it into the dough, re-roll several times.
Fatty butter or margarine also matters. Better to take more fatty oil. Begin to mix it with flour that is still cold, but not frozen, so as not to tear the dough.
So that the dough is not smeared and does not "float", it must be cooked in a cool room. Try to do everything quickly, otherwise the products will heat up, which may adversely affect the final result.
In order to make the swaged cakes turn out to be even and equal in thickness, on the raw dough during the swaying, make a marking and wrap the cake so as not to swing all the time in one direction.
We must not forget that the custard quickly deteriorates, so you should not cook it in advance. To save time, you can cook the cream while baking cakes.
The earlier you apply the cream, the more “wet” the cake will be.
And another cooking option - in the next video.
