Classic dessert "genre" is often calledNapoleon cake". The credit for the invention of the traditional recipe is attributed to the very Bonaparte, then his cook. But not every landlady sometimes has time to prepare a classic version of the dessert. In this case, "Lazy Napoleon" comes to the rescue.
With this recipe even culinary beginners will cope.Simple, fast and easy. You do not even need to turn on the oven! The main ingredient of dessert is the usual cookies, which are popularly called "Ears". When you eat them for nothing, they always crumble. Option is better - make them a quick cake. Let's try to cook an amazingly delicious "Lazy Napoleon" with amazingly delicate cream.
What will be required
- Cookies from puff pastry "Ears" - eight hundred grams.
- Flour - six tablespoons.
- Milk is one liter.
- Butter - 150 grams.
- Sugar sand - half a glass (150 grams).
- Egg - four or five pieces.
- One packet of vanillin or sugar vanilla.
The basis
Cake "Lazy Napoleon" from cookies is preparedvery fast. You do not have to cook puff pastry. And the housewives know how much time it takes to prepare a quality basis for cake. You just need to go over the bought cookies and choose equal and equal in size. They will be the foundation for the future dessert.
Cream Preparation
In order for the cream to turn out to be gentle and airy,do not rush to mix all the ingredients at once. To begin with, mix the sugar, vanillin and chicken eggs. Do not rush these foods immediately mixed with flour. She will bind them, but you will not achieve the splendor of beating eggs.
Add flour after yolk and proteinwill be thoroughly whipped and mixed with sugar. Pour it should be gradually, while working with a whisk or a mixer. Now you can pour a liter of milk and put the container on a small fire. Mixer far not clean, it will be needed during the whole process of cooking the cream. Stir is necessary in order for the mass to thicken gradually, without lumps, and not burn.
As soon as the cream thickens, you can remove the pan from the fire. We leave it for half an hour to cool down. Remember, the hot cream will spread and will not give a good biscuit hook.
Building a cake
In a chilled cream, add butter.Thoroughly mix the whisk and immediately proceed to assemble the cake. "Lazy Napoleon" can be done in any form. As a rule, mistresses stop on a square or a rectangle.
Dip each cookie in the cream and spread onprepared dish. If you chose a rectangle, then lay out three "ears" in length and four in width. The rows must be level and neat. Cream do not regret that the cake turned out to be full, lush and tasty. Usually from eight hundred grammes of "ушек" it turns out about five - six layers.
Cake Decoration
Those cookies that have not been selected, crushed andsprinkle the resulting crumb top of the cake. Pre-lubricate it with cream. In general, to decorate the cake "Lazy Napoleon", the recipe of which we just presented, you can do anything. Someone uses special confectionery sprinkles, someone likes to add a fruit or nutty note to this dessert. If desired, you can add cocoa to the cream, then the cake will turn out to be chocolate. Not a classic, of course, but you'll surely surprise the guests. And that the cake is better soaked in cream, leave it for half an hour "to reach" in the refrigerator.
"Lazy Napoleon" - a dessert that cancook even children. It is also a lifeline for busy housewives, to which the guests unexpectedly came. You can cook a cake in half an hour. This is the time that is necessary for the fried chicken or pork ham in the oven. The possibility of simultaneous preparation of several dishes is an ideal option for any hostess.
