Not every hostess can boast the ability to bake a delicious Napoleon cake. To prepare homemade puff pastry you need to have special skills and follow the recipe exactly. Modern sweet tooth is lucky, because you can cook your favorite cake from the dough prepared by professional confectioners. Accordingly, the risk of failure is minimal. The hostess only needs to roll out the dough and cook the custard on her own.

  Cake Recipe From Purchased Puff Pastry

Ingredients for cooking:

• 1 pack of puff yeast-free dough (1 kg);
• 100 g chopped walnuts for decoration.

a) If you decide to cook yourself:

• 4 eggs;
• liter pack of milk;
• 2 cups sugar;
• 3 tablespoons of flour.

b) Using a dry concentrate:

• 3 packs of custard;
• 1 liter of milk.

Cake cooking sequence

1. Frozen dough must be gradually heated. In the warm season, the mass defrosts on the way from the store. If this did not happen - put the dough out of the freezer overnight in the refrigerator. Put it in the air an hour before cooking.
2. Remove packaging and divide the strip into 8 equal parts.
3. Each strip must be divided in half to make 16 cakes.
4. Korzhiki should be rolled out as thin as possible. The shape must be selected so that they match the size of the baking sheets. When forming cakes, the table and rolling pin are thoroughly sprinkled with flour.
5. Parchment is laid on a baking dish, the cake is laid out and sprinkled with flour. Before baking, the layers must be pierced with a fork so that the cakes are airy.
6. Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Cakes are baked for 5-12 minutes.
7. With the acquisition of a golden color, cakes must be removed from the oven. In this way, prepare all 16 servings.

Cream preparation:

A) Independently:

1. In a blender, beat eggs with sugar to prepare a homogeneous mass.
2. Milk is heated over low heat. A mixture of eggs and sugar is gradually added to it.
3. So that the cream does not burn and becomes homogeneous during cooking, the mixture must be stirred.
4. Flour is gradually added to the cream after egg-sugar mass.
5. After boiling, remove the cream from the stove and cool.

B) From the finished concentrate:

On each packaging of custard, the cooking method is described in detail.

1. Pour the composition of the bag into cold milk and bring to a boil over low heat. In order to prevent the appearance of lumps, the ingredients can be whipped with a blender before brewing. As a rule, 1 bag of dry cream is designed for 250-300 ml of milk.
2. On cooled cakes, the resulting mass is abundantly applied.

For Napoleon puff with custard, you should leave 1 cake for decoration. It is pre-crushed and stirred with nuts.

After a few hours, the cake is served on the table. Cakes should be soaked in cream.

Puff cake Napoleon first appeared in the late 19th century. French confectioners initially prepared it in the form of a cake decorated with custard, whipped cream and strawberries. Modern craftsmen add new ingredients to an old recipe. Now, you can try a cake with butter cream or with condensed milk. At home, Napoleon cake is most often prepared from ready-made puff pastry with custard or according to old grandmother's recipes.

1. Cut the dough with sharp movements with a sharp knife. Otherwise, the cakes will not be thin and crispy;
2. Do not re-freeze the dough;
3. It is necessary to bake cakes on baking paper without fat;
4. It is strictly forbidden to put the dough in a cold oven;
5. To make the cake soak faster, you can put a cutting board on top. In this case, you can not press in order not to deform and squeeze the cream;
6. Rational housewives cook cakes the day before making the cake. It is very convenient during the holidays when you need to cook a large number of dishes.

Often, home-made Napoleon differs from that purchased in a pastry shop by the absence of a crunch and too thick cakes. To make the cake perfect, and the guests asked for a recipe, you must follow all the recommendations and start cooking in a good mood.

Multilayer dessert is rightfully one of the most popular cakes. In the classic version, Napoleon’s cake is cooked with custard, but this recipe is for those who save their time. Believe me, Napoleon’s quick-cooked cake from ready-made puff pastry with condensed milk will be a great treat. , whipped with butter, also perfectly copes with the impregnation of cakes, and they turn out to be very soft and tender. To make cooking easier and minimize the time spent on it, take store puff pastry. And we will not knead it on our own. Then it remains only to bake cakes. Such a cake is prepared in a maximum of an hour, so you can afford it not only for the holiday, but also on a typical weekday.
  Cake "Napoleon" from ready-made puff pastry with condensed milk, recipe with photo.

  You will need:

- 200 g of butter,
- 1 can of condensed milk,
- yeast-free puff pastry (1 kg),
- a little flour.

How to cook with a photo step by step

  On the shelves there are two types of dough: already formed into sheets and just frozen. If you bought the second option, then carefully cut the dough into the same squares.

  Gently roll out, not very thin, each cake.

  Cover the baking sheet with parchment. And carefully transfer the raw cakes to it.
  We make holes in them with a fork or a toothpick. So we exclude the appearance of bubbles.
  I did not fit all the cakes together, I baked one at a time. If your oven and pan are large, you can immediately bake cakes from the finished dough for Napoleon.

  We set the temperature in the oven to 200C.
  Leave the dough to bake for 15-18 minutes.

  To make a delicious cream, soften the oil to room temperature. Beat it to a lush consistency.
  Add a little condensed milk. Leave in the refrigerator for half an hour.

  We form a cake, thickly greasing with cold cream already cooled cakes. The top layer can be sprinkled with crumbs - just cut the edges of each layer with a knife.

  Tips: to make Napoleon cake from ready-made puff pastry with condensed milk more tender, soak each cake in sweet syrup or milk. And only after that lubricate with cream.
  Oil and condensed milk are the most convenient and fastest to beat in a blender.
  Instead of butter, you can combine condensed milk with fat sour cream. And you can leave both of these ingredients, mixing in equal proportions.




Another option, to diversify the taste of the cake, is to pre-cook condensed milk. Just put a can in water and cook over low heat after boiling for at least two hours.
  You can add a little vanilla or a little orange zest to the cream - this way the cake will get new fragrant notes.
  It is better to roll cakes with a thickness of two millimeters.
  Enjoy your meal.
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  But that is not all!

But in cooking, there are enough secrets familiar to experienced chefs. One is that cake recipes from puff pastry are not limited to variations of the namesake of the great emperor. There are also puff logs, almond, sour cream and honey desserts. Boiled condensed milk, beloved by everyone since childhood, gives a special charm to the taste. Summer cakes with fresh berries are quite common: raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, cherries. In autumn, apples, pears and plums are used.

The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes:

It is not difficult to cook any of these delicacies, although some of them may require up to several hours to prepare. But do not be scared. There is a pleasant secret: it is not necessary to make the dough yourself. For those. who "is not friends" with baking there is a wonderful way: semi-finished products. Now, without a long search, you can buy frozen plates in the store, the cake of which can turn out to be just as airy and magically delicious. Taking this method into service, you can replenish the piggy bank of sweets for unplanned tea parties in case of accidentally arriving guests.

Puff cake with condensed milk is a wonderful dessert based on unsweetened puff pastry cakes, coated with boiled condensed milk. This combination gives an excellent non-sugary taste of the cake with a rich caramel flavor. You can prepare the “Roman” cake with condensed milk using the purchased cakes of yeast-free puff pastry, or you can cook it yourself. Using this recipe, you will get an incredibly delicious dessert and surprise your household.

Ingredients

• Flour - 500 g.
• Creamy margarine - 300 g.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Water - 250 ml.
• Vinegar - 15 ml.
• Soda on the tip of a knife
• Condensed milk - 2 cans

Cooking

  We take margarine from the refrigerator, cut it into small pieces and spread it on the surface with sides. Sift flour into it and with the help of a scraper or a large knife we \u200b\u200bturn the mixture into fine crumbly crumb.

Break one egg into a glass and fill it with water, mix until the egg has lost its structure, pour in vinegar and pour a little soda.

Pour the foaming mixture into the flour crumbs and knead the elastic dough.

We divide the dough into 5-7 balls, wrap each in a plastic film and put in the refrigerator for at least an hour and a half.

For cream, we should boil condensed milk. This should be done right in the bank, without opening it. Pour water into the pan, put tin cans without labels and cook on low heat for an hour. Pay attention to the water level in the pan - if you do not keep track, the cans will explode and then all the condensed milk will fly into your kitchen. In fact, after the allotted time, the cream is ready. But you can add a little butter and vanilla to the cooled condensed milk to enrich the taste.

For shortcakes of puff cake, it is convenient to use the reverse side of the baking sheet, as it is easier to roll out the dough on it due to the lack of sides. Pour a little flour onto a baking sheet, roll out a dumpling on it, cutting off excess on the edges. You can trim the cakes in the shape of a plate, then they will be even and the same. Leave the trimmings directly on the baking sheet - later we will use them to sprinkle the cake. Often pricks with a fork so that ugly bubbles do not appear during baking.

Here's a bought puff pastry - my best friend and a lifesaver when a girlfriend or guests are on the doorstep! You can’t imagine how much you can bake from it! My family especially loves the Puff log cake, the excellent taste and the simplest recipe. And you need only three ingredients for cooking, well, for decoration, you can use nuts 🙂

Ingredients

• yeast-free puff pastry 750-900 g
• cream 33% 500 ml
• condensed milk 380 g
• almond petals 70-100 g

Cooking

To prepare the cake, we need ready-made puff pastry. Cut into strips about 2 cm.

Put on parchment and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees, 15-20 minutes. Before browning.

Let's make a cream. Take cold cream, at least 33% fat and whisk for 5 minutes with a mixer. We start at minimum speed, gradually increasing speed. When the cream leaves a trace of the whisk, they are ready. Now gradually pour in the condensed milk and beat slightly again.

Cover the table with cling film and put sticks on it. Lubricate with plenty of cream. Then another layer of sticks and cream. And so on. I got three rows.

Wrap with foil on top. We send the cake overnight in the refrigerator. It must be well saturated.