Napoleon is a famous cake that is not quite easy to prepare. First you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll, bake, cut. In addition, you still need to make a cream, grease it all, lay it, soak it and decorate it. All this takes so long, but there is a simpler option with cookies "ears".
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Napoleon cake from the ears - the general principles of preparation
Cookies "ears" are made from puff pastry with sugar, it is crispy, tasty, usually has the shape of hearts. But we also remind rabbit ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff pastry is sold in the store, it can be weighted or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the "ears" are very light, for a medium-sized cake, half a kilogram is enough.
Cream in a classic custard cake. And with ready-made layers of puff pastry, it goes well. Boil it in milk with eggs and starch, often it is replaced with flour. Additionally introduced vanillin and butter.
What creams can I still use:
• sour cream;
• creamy;
• from condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of products and free time. It is not always there for cooking, whipping, sometimes you need to wait for complete cooling.
They collect an impromptu cake "Napoleon" always in deep forms or in bowls. It’s very difficult to lay the ears just like that, the cookies are small, it disperses and crumbles. Since in itself it is dry, there is no need to regret the cream, let there be a lot of it. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to be infused. For 8-10 hours, it is well soaked, "settles", it can be cut into pieces, served.
Ear Napoleon Cake with Custard
This is almost a classic Napoleon cake recipe, but from the ears. The cream is prepared with real custard in milk, eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. An increase in the amount of butter is allowed, as some people like the fatter versions of this cake.
Ingredients
• 600 g of cookies "ears";
• 500 ml of milk;
• 120 g butter;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• a pair of eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Mix vanilla, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, begin to stir with a whisk, gradually adding milk. Once the mixture is homogeneous, you can put the cream on the stove. We start to heat it. We do not stop stirring.
2. The mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. Once it becomes like liquid semolina and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the plate. When cooling, the cream thickens. We cool, introduce softened oil, thoroughly beat with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon we take a detachable form or a bowl, in the first case you can not cover it, in the second version we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside or carefully line the parchment.
4. Lay out the ears biscuits in layers, generously coat with custard. We put the remains in the refrigerator. We also put the cake in it soak. It is advisable to endure twelve hours, for example, all night.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Coat with the rest of the cream. Grind a few pieces of cookies or take crumbs from the ears from the bag. Sprinkle the Napoleon cake on top, also decorate the side parts.
Napoleon cake from the "ears" cookies with sour cream
This version of Napoleon cake is made from "ears" cookies with sour cream. Due to the small acidity of the product, it turns out incredibly tasty, interesting. In addition, sour cream soaks up any cakes very well, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of ears;
• 0.6 kg of sour cream;
• 0.16 kg of sugar;
• vanilla.
Cooking method
1. Prepare a quick cream. Just combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a mixer and beat for a few minutes. It is important to take a sufficiently thick and fatty product, then you get a good cream. But you also need to carefully beat the thick sour cream, it can easily become oil.
2. Put cookies in a suitable form in layers. Broken parts can be thrust into voids. We coat with sour cream, repeat until the products run out. Let the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We get the improvised Napoleon. Lubricate with cream residues, decorate with crumbs from cookies or in any other way.
Cake Napoleon from ears with condensed milk
To prepare such a cake, you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for decoration, for it you will need a little boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients
• 400 ml of white condensed milk;
• 150 g of boiled condensed milk;
• 250 g of oil;
• a bag of vanilla;
• 450-500 g of cookies.
Cooking method
1. Cooking cream. Oil for it needs to be removed in advance from the refrigerator. It is even advisable to cut into pieces so that it softens faster. Then put it in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high speeds of the mixer. Set aside two full tablespoons. The mass should become white, magnificent, will be somewhat reminiscent of whipped cream.
2. In the remaining oil, we begin to pour boiled condensed milk in a thin stream. We continue to whisk. Has the cream become homogeneous? We fall asleep vanilla, after a few seconds turn off the mixer.
3. Lay the “ears” cookies in layers, coat with condensed milk with white cream, cover and send to the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Beat the oil that was previously set aside and immediately whip with boiled condensed milk. Put the cream in the refrigerator.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Coat it on top and sides with cream of boiled condensed milk. Level the cake, fill the voids. Grind a few ears to the state of not very small crumbs. Sprinkle the sides, top. But you can decorate such a cake with cream flowers, grated chocolate.
Cake Napoleon from cookies ears with nuts
A variant of a delicious and very fragrant cake of ears. For Napoleon, you can use a walnut, it turns out deliciously, but it is also allowed to take cheaper peanuts.
Ingredients
• 600 ml of milk;
• 3 yolks;
• 180 g of nuts;
• 200 g of oil;
• 500 g of cookies;
• 2 tablespoons of starch;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking method
1. Since the custard needs time to cool, we start with it. Beat the yolks and sugar with starch, pour milk, put on a stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mass thickens. Enter half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter, whisk a little.
2. Pour nuts on the stove, fry a little. Then cool, spread on a board, roll with a rolling pin to grind, but not to the state of flour.
3. Lubricate the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, stack and remove soaking.
4. Grind pieces of 5-6 cookies, mix with nuts. We take out the impregnated cake from the mold, grease with the remnants of the cream, and fill it with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Napoleon cake from the "ears" cookies with sour cream and condensed milk
Another simple version of the cream for a lazy cake is Napoleon. The ears themselves contain a lot of fat, so the grease is prepared without adding oil. You can lay thin slices of banana between the layers of cookies in such a cake.
Ingredients
• 400 g sour cream;
• 300 g of condensed milk;
• 1 tbsp. l vanilla sugar;
• 500 g of ears.
Cooking method
1. Beat sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar to it. The cream should not turn out liquid, we use thick ingredients.
2. Lay out the finished cookies in layers, lubricate, try to arrange tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the form or bowl, remove soaking in the refrigerator. Then take out, decorate with chopped cookies.
Cake Napoleon from the ears with chocolate cream
Variation of lazy chocolate custard cake. It is also prepared from milk with the addition of cocoa. In addition, you need one bar of chocolate to sprinkle and decorate.
Ingredients
• 700 ml of milk;
• 130 g of oil;
• 210 g of sugar;
• 600 g of ears;
• 3 yolks;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 90 g of chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Mix two full tablespoons of flour with cocoa powder and sugar. Separate the yolks, add to the future cream, rub and add milk. We put the mass to brew on the stove. Heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as the bubbles appear, remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the sliced butter to the hot and thickened cream. Stir until they are completely dissolved. Cool the chocolate cream.
3. In the form we collect layers of cake, spreading cookies “ears” with prepared chocolate cream. Put in the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Take Napoleon out of shape. It is advisable to lubricate it well. Grind the cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. We rub half the chocolate, add the chips to the upper part of the cake. The remaining pieces are cut into small cubes, scattered in random order.
Cake Napoleon from the ears - useful tips and tricks
• When adding a large amount of butter to the cream, it is advisable to whisk the product separately until a good foam. In this case, nothing will flow, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy, high fat content will not be felt.
• If there are no cookies to sprinkle the cake on the top and sides, then you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes and even fried sesame seeds. In any kitchen you can find an alternative.
• If the time for impregnating the cake is short, then you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature, and then cool.
• If there is no cream left, after removing the cake from the mold, you can grease it with ordinary condensed milk or sour cream.
