If you want something sweet, do not have to go and buy a cake in the store. Even an inexperienced hostess can cook him. Moreover, homemade cake will be much more useful than the purchase. The main thing for the cake - bake cakes, whip cream - a pushover. Let's bake a cake.

  How to make sponge cakes for the cake?

For making biscuit take the simplest, classic recipe.

For cakes you need:

• 5 eggs;
• 1 cup flour;
• 200 g of sugar;
• a pinch of salt.

Start cooking:

• Eggs are divided into proteins and yolks.
• Stir the yolks with sugar until smooth.
• Add proteins of salt to the proteins and knead with a mixer, first at a low speed, then increase the speed. Proteins should turn into resistant foam so that if they are turned over, they do not spill out of the dishes.
• Add flour to the yolks with sugar, knead to avoid lumps.
• We add whipped proteins to the obtained dough, gently knead from top to bottom.
• Pour the dough into a greased and floury round shape.
• Bake in the oven at 200ᵒC for about half an hour.
• Baked cake get out of the form, cool, cut horizontally into 2-3 pieces.
• Cakes grease sour cream, jam. If we have a cake with butter cream, then, before smearing the cakes, soak them in sweet syrup, and then lubricate the cream. Impregnation is needed to ensure that the cake is not dry and is better soaked.

  How to cook custard cakes for the cake?

Not only eclairs can be made from choux pastry, but cakes as well. Custard cakes are made famous in Poland and in Western Ukraine cake "Karpatka". And if from such a dough bake long sticks and smear them with sour cream, then you get the cake "Lady fingers".

For 2 custards you need:

• 100 ml of milk and water;
• 1 cup flour;
• 80 g butter;
• 4-5 eggs;
• a pinch of salt.

Start cooking:

• In a pot of thick metal pour water, milk, add salt and butter, give boil.
• Screw the fire to a weak burning, pour the flour into the pot with boiling water and carefully knead without lumps.
• Remove from heat, let the dough cool slightly (5-10 minutes).
• Beat 1 egg into the dough and knead until it is homogeneous.
• The same principle interferes with the rest of the eggs.
• How many eggs to add - decide for yourself. In the end result, the dough should be like thick sour cream.
• Divide the dough into 2 parts.
• We spread a round form with vegetable oil, we spread 1 part of the test, we try to level it, it will be small tubercles.
• Bake in the oven at 200ᵒC for about half an hour. It is impossible to open the oven door for the entire baking time, otherwise the cake will not rise.
• Then bake the second cake.
• Cool down the cake crush with a thick layer of custard, cover with the second cake, lubricate the sides of the cake, sprinkle the top with powdered sugar.

  How to make honey cakes for the cake?

For sandy cakes with honey you need:

• 3 eggs;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 550 g of flour;
• 50 g butter;
• 4 tbsp. spoons of honey;
• 1 tea spoon of soda.

Start cooking:

• We take 2 pans: one more, the other less.
• In that pot, which is more, pour some water for the steam bath and heat it to a boil.
• Eggs with sugar, beat until fluffy foam, about 7 minutes.
• In a smaller saucepan, mix the beaten eggs, soda, honey and butter. Soda is not quenched with vinegar.
• Put the saucepan in boiling water with medium boiling and stir all the time.
    First, the weight will increase, about 2 times, and then acquire a beige shade (15-20 minutes).
• Remove the pan from the water bath, pour 1 cup of flour, knead, and again put in a water bath for 2-3 minutes.
• Remove the dough from the water bath, sprinkle the remaining flour and knead the dough with a spoon, and when it thickens, knead with the hands, pouring the flour. The dough should be thick.
• Divide the dough into 8 parts, roll out circles and bake in the oven, on a dry metal sheet, at a temperature of 180C for 3-5 minutes.
• With baked cakes, while they are hot, cut off the excess. The cooled cakes are strongly hardened, and then they will not be cut off.
• From scraps in a coffee grinder or blender melem crumb.
• Grease cakes richly with sour cream (top too), when a little cream is absorbed, sprinkle the top and sides with crumb.

  So, we have learned to bake cakes at home to make a cake.

When cooking cakes, we often take purchased dough. But we all know that homemade pastries will be much more airy and tasty.

Sponge cake dough

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 4 eggs
• ½ baking powder bag
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Separate the whites from the yolks. Eggs must be fresh and cold. Make sure that the water and yolk do not get into the bowl with the whites, because in this case you cannot whip the whites well. Squirrels beat in a stable foam, adding to them a pinch of salt. Beat yolks with sugar and vanilla sugar until sugar dissolves. Add half of the proteins to the resulting mass and gently mix with a spoon.
2. In small portions add sifted flour mixed with baking powder. Then carefully add the remaining whipped proteins to the dough.
3. The oven is heated to 180 degrees. In a form lined with parchment, pour the biscuit dough and send it in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
4. Remove the finished biscuit from the mold, cool it a bit and cut it into 2 or 3 cakes. Biscuit cakes are preferably soaked with syrup, coffee with brandy or sweet tea. The cream for this cake can be prepared any - butter, boiled or sour cream. It remains only to decorate the cake and serve. With such a wonderful dessert, rave reviews from guests will be provided to you!

Biscuit dough on boiling water

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 190 g sugar
• 130 g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil
• 3 tbsp. l boiling water
• vanillin.

Cooking method:

1. Very well, beat the eggs with sugar until thick (until the increase in two, about 10 minutes).
2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour with baking powder and gently let it into the egg mixture (this can be done at minimum speed with a mixer). Add boiling water, then vegetable oil and vanilla.
3. Pour the dough into the mold and bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Time depends on the oven. Readiness can be checked with a toothpick.
4. After baking, the biscuit should be turned upside down right in the shape, put on a wire rack, so as not to be worn out, and let it cool.

Sponge cake

Ingredients:

• 5 proteins
• 90 g of powdered sugar
• 40 g of fine sugar
• vanillin
• 60 g flour
• a pinch of salt
• ½ tsp citric acid.

Cooking method:

1. Beat the whites until thick, add citric acid, salt and sugar, beat for about a couple of minutes. The mass should be softer than meringue. Add the flour mixed with powdered sugar and mix gently.
2. We spread the dough in a small rectangular shape of 10 × 20 cm, or in a round 16 × 18 cm. We do not grease the walls of the form. Bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 20 - 30 minutes.
3. When the sponge cake is ready, without taking it out of the mold, we put it cool upside down. After it is completely cool, you can just hit him on the table, and he will fall out himself. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Served with syrup, cream or ice cream.

Shortbread dough for cake

Ingredients:

• 250 g margarine or butter
• 2-3 eggs
• 1 cup of sugar
• 400 g flour
• ½ tsp soda vinegar quenched
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs with sugar until foam appears, add margarine, soda, vanilla sugar, mix everything thoroughly and quickly.
2. Gradually add the flour, knead the soft dough. Perhaps the amount of flour will have to be increased or, conversely, reduced. Knead the dough into a bun, wrap with cling film and put in the fridge for half an hour.
3. You can do it differently from the same ingredients. First, grind the soft margarine with sugar with a whisk, gradually adding eggs, and at the very least add flour.
4. Quickly knead the dough, the next steps are the same as in the previous recipe. Before rolling out the shortbread dough for the cake, wet hands with cold water. Remember that cakes from such dough must be rolled with a thickness of no more than 8 mm, the best temperature for baking is 220 degrees.

Puff pastry for cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 150 g of water (can be mixed with milk)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp citric acid
• 250 - 300 grams of butter.

Cooking method:

1. In water, dissolve the salt and citric acid, add the sifted flour and knead the dough: first with a spoon, then with your hands. The dough should not be too steep, otherwise it will be tough.
2. After the dough is kneaded, wrap it in plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for half an hour. Then we get and roll out in the form of a rectangle. In the middle you need to put a thin layer of butter. Oil should not be frozen, but not soft.
3. We cover butter on all sides with layers of dough, and roll out the dough. Then remove the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes. Then again roll out into a rectangle, roll up in the form of an envelope and put in the cold for another 30 minutes. So you need to do at least 7 - 10 times: the more approaches, the more layers and the better the dough. The finished dough can be placed in the freezer.

Cakes-meringue (as for Kiev cake)

Ingredients:

• 9 proteins weighing about 200 g
• 230 g sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla sugar
• 50 g flour
• 180 g slightly roasted hazelnuts.

Cooking method:

1. Separate the yolks from proteins. Successfully obtained proteins are poured into a closing container and put in a refrigerator for a day. Or you can freeze them, and the day before beating get and put in the refrigerator to thaw.
2. Squirrels beat with a mixer in a lush foam at the lowest speed. When the whites are well whipped, add 50 grams of sugar and vanilla sugar. Beat again.
3. Hazelnut chopped into medium-sized pieces (no need to make nut dust). Mix hazelnuts, flour and the remaining sugar and injected to proteins with a spatula.
4. We cover two forms with a diameter of 24 and 26 cm with parchment. We pour our protein dough into them. It is necessary to try to make the height of the cake layers the same, that is, we need to pour more dough into the 26-inch mold than into a mold that is smaller in size.
5. We put the forms on different levels in a preheated oven and bake for about 1.5 - 2 hours at a temperature of 150 degrees.

1) Cakes for cake on kefir.
   Baking products will require:
   a couple of chicken eggs;
   a glass of sugar;
   a glass of wheat flour;
   200 ml of kefir;
   vanillin;
   soda.
   Cooking Sugar, vanillin and eggs, beat with a mixer or a whisk, then pour in kefir and continue to beat. In the resulting mixture quench soda and gradually introduce flour. The result is not very thick dough. Divide it into three parts and bake in the form until golden brown. Cakes are ready, you can decorate them with cream and berries as desired.

2) Sour cream cakes for the cake.

Ingredients:

a pack of fat sour cream (excellent is obtained from sour cream with fat content of 20%);

half can of condensed milk;

a glass of sugar;

2 spoons of cocoa;

400 grams of wheat flour;

vinegar and soda.

Cooking Whip sour cream and condensed milk. Whip sugar and eggs in a separate container, then combine them all into one mass. We extinguish soda with vinegar, add cocoa and mix everything thoroughly so that there are no cocoa powder lumps. Next, in small portions enter the flour and knead the dough for the cake. Get chocolate dough. If desired, it can be divided and add cocoa only in one piece, you get a striped cake. Bake cakes in the oven for about 20 minutes each. Readiness can be checked with a match or a toothpick. Sour cream cake cakes are ready, you can decorate.

3) Honey cakes. This recipe is a bit more complicated than the previous ones, but it deserves attention.

For the test will require:

2 tablespoons of honey;

a glass of sugar;

500 grams of flour;

one and a half teaspoons of soda.

Cooking process. Beat eggs with a mixer, add honey and sugar, mix and set in a water bath. It is necessary to constantly stir the mixture so that the eggs do not boil. When the grains of sugar disappear, add soda and vigorously mix until the mass increases 2-3 times. Then quickly remove the mass from the fire and enter the flour, knead the dough. It is important not to miss the moment, if the mass subsides - the cakes will be hard.

Divide the dough into 10 equal parts and bake cakes for the cake. One ready cake leave for crumb. They turn out magnificent and fragrant. Great for this cake sour cream.

4) Sponge cakes.This recipe is classic.

Baking will require:

3 cups flour (preferably top grade);

150 grams of sugar (this is almost a full glass);

baking soda and vinegar;

50 grams of vodka and or liquor.

Cooking process. In order for you to get a lush sponge cake, you need to beat the egg yolk and white whites separately, and always in a dry dish. Yolks can be whipped with sugar. Then both masses carefully, without sudden movements to combine, extinguish the soda in it, pour in the liquor and mix gently so as not to force out the air bubbles. Pre-sift the flour so that it is loose, then carefully pour it into the mass. Also, gently mix everything, divide the dough into three parts and bake the biscuit. It should be easy and airy.

For biscuit cakes, it is desirable to provide impregnation, otherwise the cake will turn out dry. It can be liquid jam, jam or fruit syrup. It should be noted that if the biscuit cakes turned out too lush - you can cut them lengthwise into two parts.

Well, now you know how to make cake cakes quickly and tasty. You can safely start baking and pamper your relatives. Have a nice tea party!