Napoleon, perhaps, is the most beloved cakemost sweet tooth. There are different options for its preparation, but today we want to tell you about how to make Napoleon on beer. The recipe is simple, so if you already have experience of making such a dessert, be sure to try it and this is an option. Such cake is never boring and always pleases with the novelty of taste.
Why the recipe on beer?
The recipe for this delicious cake is known a long time ago, but there are new and new options for its preparation.
The answer is very simple. The beer produces the most wonderful puff pastry, and without any effort, it breaks down by itself. And the cake on these cakes is wonderful.
Cake "Napoleon" on beer: ingredients
To prepare the dough, we will acquire such products:
- Margarine - one packet (250 g).
- Wheat flour - two glasses.
- Beer - 100 ml.
For cream:
Butter - a pack (200 g).
Milk - 300 g.
Sugar - 1 glass, vanilla.
Recipe
Let's look at how Napoleon cooks on beer. Recipes with photos will help you understand this issue.
Take flour and margarine and put them in the kitchencombine, knock to the state of large crumbs. Add the beer in the batch and mix again. Next, knead the dough with your hands, when it is ready, divide it into eight equal parts and remove the rest in the refrigerator.
Custard
While our dough will cool down, let's take care of the cream. They use different types. We are preparing a cake "Napoleon" on beer, with a custard.
Take 300 grams of milk and pour into a saucepan. There we pour out the sugar and bring the mixture to a boil, then cook for about 30-40 minutes. At the very end, add vanillin (you can vanilla sugar).
We bake cakes
Let's start baking cakes. To do this, we take two balls from the refrigerator and roll out our dough. Cut out the desired shape of the cake from the seam. And put it on a baking tray.
We collect cake
Ready-made cakes should cool down a bit.In the meantime, we’ll break our custard. Get our mass out of the fridge and start the process itself. During the beating we will gradually add the cooled milk. It turns out very fluffy mass.
Our napoleon (on beer, mind you!) almost ready. It remains only to collect and lubricate his cream. We take the dish, put on it the first cake and begin to apply a milky-creamy mass. In the process of baking bubbles formed on the dough, but it does not matter. Feel free to press them down. Then spread the second cake on top and also apply the cream. So gradually collect the whole cake.
Next, we need to make a crumb of scraps. To do this, pound them with a rolling pin. That's all. Our cake "Napoleon" - on beer, with custard - ready. It remains only to sprinkle it with crumbs on the sides and on top.
Готовое изделие нужно только пару часов выдержать at room temperature, letting it soak. And then you can safely put our cake "Napoleon", cooked in beer, in the fridge. When insists, you can start tasting.
Another custard recipe
How to make beer dough for Napoleon, wefigured out. But I want to offer another recipe for custard, since there are a lot of options for its preparation. All of them differ only in the addition of individual components, however, it affects the taste. The more delicious the cream, the better the cake will turn out.
So, we need the following components:
1. Butter - 50 g
2. Milk - half a liter.
3. Sugar - incomplete glass.
4. Egg yolks - 3 pieces.
5. Starch or flour - two or three tablespoons.
6. Cream fat (not less than 35%) - 150 ml.
7. Half vanilla pod.
Let's proceed to cooking.Cut in half a vanilla pod and scrub the seeds out of one half. The second part can be put in a sealed box, and then used another time for cooking.
Pour milk into dishes and fill them exactlyhalf the sugar, add the vanilla seeds and the half of the pod itself. Mix and bring to a boil. Then remove from heat and let it brew for half an hour. As the milk cools, it absorbs the flavor of vanilla and its flavor.
Sifted flour orstarch and add the remaining sugar. Dry mixture mix with a whisk. The more put starch or flour, the thicker the cream will turn out. Its consistency and sweetness are regulated. It all depends on your taste. Add yolks to the mixture and mix.
From the milk you need to get a pod, then again itboil. Then pour the third part of it into a mixture of starch and egg. Mix thoroughly with a whisk. And then, continuously stirring, pour in the rest of the milk.
Next, put the whole mixture in the pan, put it onsmall fire and we will heat, constantly stirring with a spatula. The cream will thicken very quickly. Now it can be removed from the heat. In finished form, it can be rubbed through a sieve so that there are no lumps.
If you use starch, then after boiling it needs a little more boil. And if you took the flour, then the fire can be turned off as soon as the cream thickens.
Instead of an afterword
Today we talked about how to cookdelicious cake "Napoleon" on beer. As you can see, the recipe is simple. You can easily make such a treat yourself. A feature of the recipe is the use of beer for puff pastry. Each hostess has its own secrets of cooking specialties and desserts. And you try to cook our cake, who knows, maybe it will become your calling card. Delight yourself and your loved ones with a new culinary masterpiece.