You think that the Pancho cake is an invention of the Spanishkitchen? Do not be deceived by his Toledian name. Although, perhaps, the originators of the recipe were inspired by the story of the companion and squire Don Quixote. But the first cake "Pancho" was baked at one of the Moscow confectionery factories. And it happened not so long ago - about twenty years ago. But during this time the cake managed to fall in love with Muscovites, and not only them. Since the company keeps the authentic recipe in the strictest secrecy, the chefs "laid out the creams and cream on notes", creating an approximate instruction on the preparation of the product. As is often the case with popular dishes, the Pancho cake has many variations. Culinary specialists wanted to either bring their creation closer to the branded product, or to surpass it. So there was "Curly Pancho", a cake with cherries, bananas, pineapple, condensed milk, prunes or nuts. Nevertheless, all these recipes share one feature. At the end of the culinary process, you will get an amazingly delicious masterpiece with chocolate cakes, intertwined with delicate creamy cream cream - Pancho cake. Step-by-step recipes and photos you will find in this article.
Lazy Pancho
The hero of Cervantes named Sancho did not knowa workaholic. Therefore, this recipe for a pancake "Pancho" he would surely like. In order to prepare the product, you do not even need to kindle the oven - in that case, of course, you have ready-made sponge cakes. If you have never tried "Pancho", we will explain: unlike most cakes, it does not have clearly defined layers of dough. Crusts for it (whether purchased or made by hand) are cut into cubes. That's why Lazy Pancho is a great way to find an application for a broken biscuit and a slightly dried cake.
- Step one - cut these finished products into cubes.
- Now we proceed to the second phase.In a bowl of a mixer we beat up 800 grammes of fat farmer sour cream with a glass of a usual and a sachet of vanilla sugar. We work at low speeds, so as not to get the oil, but only dissolved crystals of sweet sand.
- Then add a bag of sour cream thickener. Continue to beat until a thick cream is formed.
- The next step is that the can of canned fruits (300 grams) we strain from the syrup. It can be peaches of peaches, pineapple rings, pitted cherries, etc.
- On a dry frying pan, we burn one hundred grams of the nucleoli of walnuts.
- And, finally, the final stage is the assembly.In a split form we lay the cake "Lazy Pancho". First a layer of cream, then biscuits, sliced fruit, nuts and sour cream again. Ingredients can be divided in half, and put not four, but eight layers. We do not only cover the top with cream, but also the sides of the cake. We send the product to the refrigerator for the night. We decorate it with grated chocolate.
A simple recipe
If you know how to bake ordinary biscuit cakes,This recipe for Pancho cake with a photo will suit you. We start with the preparation of the dough. We separate the yolks from the five eggs. Proteins are still hiding in the refrigerator. Yolks are mixed with ¾ cup of granulated sugar until the mass is whitened. In a separate bowl we connect 50 grams of flour and starch, two tablespoons of cocoa powder. Slowly pour this mixture to the sweet yolks. Chilled proteins are poured into the bowl of a mixer, a little bit of salt and whipped into a lush foam. Carefully put it into the dough. We interfere all the time in one direction and from the top down. We round the round form with oil, fill it with dough. We bake one chocolate cake at 180 degrees. It may take 20 minutes. While the cake is baked and then cooled, prepare the cream, whipping the sour cream with sugar and vanilla, as indicated in the previous recipe. Canned fruit - in the classical version it is pineapples - we strain out the syrup. We cut them in equal cubes.
We put together the pancake cake with pineapple. Recipe with a photo
To "Pancho" stood out from a number of similar cakesfrom chocolate dough with sour cream, the completely cooled cake should not be cut evenly, but on a thin lower part and a thick upper one. This is the first stage. The upper part we immediately cut into large cubes, a border of two or three centimeters. A thin cake is the foot of the Pancho cake with pineapple. The prescription prescribes to lubricate it with cream at the next stage. To do this, each cube of the cut corn is dipped in sweet sour cream and put together a pineapple slide on the base. You should still have enough cream to decorate the cake. We pour out on a hill from cubes of a cake and pineapples, we level with a knife. And at the end we clean for the night in the refrigerator for impregnation. The next morning we proceed to the final step: we prepare chocolate icing for watering the cake. On a water bath, melt 25 grams of butter and a tablespoon of milk, add as much cocoa powder and sugar. When the mass becomes liquid, we use the top of the product.
"Curly Pancho"
The dough for this recipe is made a little differently. Immediately turn on the oven so that it heats up to 190 degrees. Then:
- Two large or three standard eggs are mixed with a glass of sugar. Add a tablespoon of sour cream and half a can of condensed milk.
- In a separate container, we connect one and a half cups of flour with a packet of powder for biscuits and a spoon-two dry cocoa. The flowable mixture is gradually added to the liquid.
- We knead the dough, in a consistency resembling fatty sour cream.
- You can bake two cakes at once.One - round, with a diameter of 20 centimeters, it will take a third of the test. And the second cake - in an arbitrary form, it is possible in a flat pan, laid with oiled paper. Baking for about a quarter of an hour, we check the readiness of the match.
- Cream whisk as described in the recipe for the cake "Pancho Lazy", but do not add the thickener sour cream.
- With this rather liquid substance we impregnate the round cake. It is better to do this when the dough is still warm.
- The second cake is cut into cubes. The list of ingredients of "Curly Pancho" includes homemade candied fruits or a multicolored shop marmalade, nuts and coconut chips.
- We collect the cake, as described in the classicrecipe. But alternate the pieces of cakes soaked in sour cream with candied fruits, nuts and coconut flakes. After cooling in the refrigerator, pour chocolate icing on the product.
A little trick to know
Until now, the general public is unknownthe original recipe for Pancho cake. At home, every cook is trying to reproduce the store product and make it better. But with a cream at many there are difficulties. If you make it too viscous, for example, to introduce a thickener of sour cream into the recipe, it will not permeate the cakes. Then the cake will have an unpleasant sandwich structure. If the cream is too liquid, it all goes inside the "curly head of Sancho Panza", exposing a naked bald skull for viewing. And the whole dome of the cake can "swim". In order for the product to hold its shape well, it is necessary to resort to a little trick. We impregnate the cakes with a liquid cream. In the remaining mass, pour the thickener of sour cream and whisk again. With this thick cream we fix the dome of the cake. But you can do otherwise. We put a certain amount of fatty sour cream into gauze, folded into several layers. We suspend the pouch so that excess whey drains. And already this sour cream is mixed with sugar and vanilla - you will get a thick and delicate cream that does not even smell of "chemistry". Instead of granulated sugar it is better to use powder.
Cherry Pancho cake: recipe with photos
At home you can use andfrozen fruit. Along the way, learn a new recipe for sponge cake. Immediately we set to thaw 150 grams of frozen cherries, and we send a handful of walnuts into the oven and calcine them for ten minutes at 180 degrees. For now let's do the test. Four egg yolks with a mixer with one and a half cups of fine sugar. In another container, we turn six proteins into lush foam by adding a teaspoon of lemon juice. Combine both whipped mass. Carefully introduce, sifting through a sieve, flour (one and a half cups), mixed with a bag of baking powder. Gently knead, trying to ensure that the egg foam does not fall off, as can be seen in the above presented, in one of the recipes of the cake "Punch" photo. We divide dough equally. In one half, enter three tablespoons of cocoa powder. Knead the chocolate dough. We cover two baking sheets with parchment paper. Pour the dough. The recipe recommends baking light and dark cakes for about a quarter of an hour at 180 degrees. From the still warm dough, cut the lid from the pan two circles of 25 centimeters in diameter.
Fold the Pancho cake with cherries
Prepare sour cream according to the recipe specifiedabove. Place a circle of light cake on a flat dish. Thickly smear it with cream. Sprinkle with nuts. It is not necessary to grind them, quarters of the nucleoli are the ideal size. Next we place thawed pitted cherries. Cover with chocolate cake. Repeat the action (cream, nuts, cherries). Trimming two types of cakes crushed into cubes the size of two centimeters. We mix. We spread a hill, forming a dome, as required by the recipe for the Pancho cake. At home, we recommend the use of juice, released from cherries. Moisten them with pieces of cake, so they will be more stable. If you still have cherries and nuts, place them on top of the dome. Generously grease the whole cake with thick cream. In a water bath, melt a bar of dark chocolate with a spoonful of butter. We pour the liquid mass top of the product. Decorate with cocktail cherries.
Another recipe for cream
As you can see, the cake in this cake is nothingnoteworthy. Famous "Pancho" made the original form of styling and gentle cream and sour cream. And the latter will be more, the tastier your culinary masterpiece will turn out. Many cooks fought over the recipe of the Pancho cake recipe, trying to make the cream both softer and thicker so that it could reliably fix a scattering of pieces of cake layers. And that's what they did. It turns out that for a successful cream you need not only sour cream, but also cream. We will need a glass (200 milliliters) of this product. Choose cream maximum fat content, at least 30 percent. Cool them well. Pour into a deep bowl and, slightly tilting it, beat with an immersion mixer at low speed. Gradually increase the speed of the whisk. Four hundred grams of fat sour cream mixed with 150 grams of powdered sugar. We connect both masses. The cream is ready.
Dough on yogurt
Since the cooks are still trying to openPancho's secret cake recipe, cakes and cream are made in different ways. Here, for example, dough on kefir. It is believed that the sponge cake with it turns out more friable, porous. And, thus, perfectly soaked in fat cream. The recipe is easy to remember because all the ingredients are added equally. So, pour into the bowl two glasses of kefir. Pour the same amount of sugar. We drive in two eggs. Pour 2 teaspoons of soda. All lightly beat a whisk. Sift into the bowl two cups of flour. Stir with a spatula until uniform. Divide the dough equally. In one half pour two tablespoons of cocoa powder. We bake cakes for half an hour in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
Cream on condensed milk
If you like very sweet pastries, cooksuch a pancho cake. Step-by-step recipe prescribes to first bake one big or two small cake layers. You can make both chocolate layers or leave them white at your discretion. What will be the next step? As in other recipes, one of the cakes will be cut into cubes of medium size. We will leave the second whole - it will be the “pedestal” of our cake. This recipe makes a special cream, which we prepare in the third stage. Cook a can of condensed milk. Open the canned food, shift the contents into the mixer bowl. Add 400 grams of sour cream and 200 g of granulated sugar. Beat cream with a mixer.
Other Pancho Cake Ideas
The classic product is prepared with cannedpineapple But you can show imagination and use other fruits. Syrup, by the way, you can soak the bottom cake. The dough can be a standard biscuit, sour cream, condensed milk, kefir, with wheat or oatmeal flour. It is also creative to approach the filling. Candied fruits, marmalade, dried fruits, a variety of nuts, strawberries - all these goodies will be appropriate in the cake. And finally, the cream. There is only one rule. Crema should be a lot. At least enough to soak the cakes and completely hide them.
