One of the favorite cakes of my childhood is Napoleon. It came out insanely delicious at my grandmother's! What the shops now offer under the popular name does not even come close to that amazing pastry ... And to cook on your own "Napoleon", the homemade recipe of which was preserved in my mother's notebooks, alas, does not have enough determination and time. But I really want to remember the taste of childhood, and to please my children. Therefore, I decided to try one of the new ideas - "Napoleon" without baking!
It turned out that I have a lot to choose from! The recipes for "Napoleon" without baking are offered in a variety of ways. The imagination of modern home cooks is rich, which is very pleasing. Comparing these sentences with distant memories, I chose to cook cake "Napoleon" from cookies "Ears"... Sugar flaky cookies themselves resemble crunchy, tender cakes. It remains only to add cream to it, and the delicacy will be ready!
So that the cake would not be too greasy (it was for this that my mother did not like it and never cooked it ...), I picked up a cream for it without butter. He looks like . However, this is a matter of taste and health. You may well choose a different custard recipe.
So, here's what it took me to cook Napoleon without baking:
Custard for Napoleon cake:
In addition, you will need detachable round shape... This is the most convenient way to lay out the cake neatly and then take it out without sacrificing its appearance.
Cook in advance custard.
Please note: I did not add vanillin to the cream. There are enough flavors in the cookies themselves! Therefore, the cake will turn out to be not only tasty, but also very stocky.
We cover the bottom of the split mold with parchment for baking, snap the mold and start creating our "Napoleon" without baking from the "Ushki" cookies:
Cover the finished Napoleon without baking with cling film and put it in a cool place for several hours (it can be overnight or even for a day). During this time, the layers will be saturated with cream, become homogeneous enough to turn into a real cake. All that remains is to remove it from the mold, transfer it to a beautiful dish - and serve it to the festive table!
In my opinion, this is a great outlet for busy moms and those with a sweet tooth. In addition, the option is a win-win: nothing will burn, everything will surely be baked. That is why "Napoleon" without baking cookies "Ushki" has become one of our cakes for the New Year 2017. Both in taste and in appearance, it deserves this honor.
In conclusion, I suggest those who also want to cook Napoleon without baking a video - this video inspired me:
Delicious cakes and happy holidays!
Tatyana Lukyanenkova, site specially for the culinary site.
Napoleon is a famous cake that is not exactly easy to prepare. First you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll it out, bake it, cut it off. In addition, you still need to make a cream, lubricate it all, lay it down, soak it and decorate it. All this takes so long, but there is a simpler version with "ears" cookies.
Ushki cookies are made from puff pastry with sugar, they are crispy, tasty, and usually have the shape of hearts. But we also remind bunny ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff cookies are sold in the store, they can be weighed or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the "ears" are very light, half a kilogram is enough for a medium-sized cake.
Cream in a classic custard cake. And with ready-made puff pastry cakes, it goes well. It is boiled in milk with eggs and starch, and is often replaced with flour. Vanillin and butter are additionally introduced.
What other creams can you use:
Sour cream;
Creamy;
Condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of food and free time. It is not always there for cooking, whipping, sometimes you need to wait for it to cool completely.
The improvised Napoleon cake is always collected in deep forms or in bowls. It is very difficult to just lay the ears exactly like that, the cookies are small, disperse and crumble. Since it is dry in itself, you do not need to feel sorry for the cream, let there be a lot of it. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to be infused. For 8-10 hours, it will be well saturated, "settle", it can be cut into pieces, served to the table.
This is almost a classic recipe for Napoleon cake, but made of ears. The cream is prepared real custard in milk, eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. Increasing the amount of butter is allowed as some people like the fatty versions of this cake.
Ingredients
600 g of "ears" cookies;
500 ml of milk;
120 g butter;
3 tablespoons flour;
A couple of eggs;
A glass of sugar;
Vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Mix vanillin, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, begin to stir with a whisk, gradually adding milk. Once the mixture is homogeneous, you can put the cream on the stove. We begin to heat it up. We do not stop stirring.
2. The mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. As soon as it looks like liquid semolina and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the stove. When it cools, the cream will still thicken. Cool, add softened butter, beat thoroughly with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon, we take a detachable form or a bowl, in the first case it is possible not to cover it, in the second version we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside or carefully line the parchment.
4. Lay out the ears of cookies, generously coat with custard. We put the leftovers in the refrigerator. We also put the cake in it to soak. It is advisable to withstand twelve hours, for example, overnight.
5. Take the cake out of the mold. We coat with the remains of the cream. Grind a few pieces of cookies or take the crumbs from the ears from the bag. Sprinkle the Napoleon cake on top, also decorate the side parts.
This version of the Napoleon cake made from cookies "ears" with sour cream. Due to the slight acidity of the product, it turns out incredibly tasty and interesting. In addition, sour cream soaks any cakes very well, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
0.5 kg ears;
0.6 kg sour cream;
0.16 kg sugar;
Cooking method
1. Preparing a quick cream. We simply combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a mixer and beat for a few minutes. It is important to take a sufficiently thick and fatty product, then you get a good cream. But you also need to gently beat the thick sour cream, it can easily become butter.
2. Put cookies in a suitable shape in layers. Broken pieces can be shoved into voids. We coat with sour cream, repeat until the products run out. Let the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We take out an impromptu Napoleon. Lubricate with the rest of the cream, decorate with cookie crumbs or in any other way.
To prepare such a cake, you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for decoration; you will need a little boiled condensed milk for it.
Ingredients
400 ml of white condensed milk;
150 g boiled condensed milk;
250 g butter;
Vanilla bag;
450-500 g of cookies.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the cream. The oil for it must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. It is even advisable to cut into pieces so that it softens faster. Then put it in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high mixer speeds. Set aside two full tablespoons. The mass should become white, fluffy, and will somewhat resemble whipped cream.
2. We begin to pour boiled condensed milk into the remaining oil in a thin stream. We continue to whisk. Has the cream become homogeneous? Fall asleep vanilla, after a few seconds turn off the mixer.
3. We spread the "ears" cookies in layers, coat with white condensed milk cream, cover and send to the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Beat the previously set aside butter with boiled condensed milk. We put the cream in the refrigerator.
5. Take the cake out of the mold. We coat it on top and on the sides with boiled condensed milk cream. We align the cake, fill in the voids. Grind several ears to a state of not very small crumbs. Sprinkle the sides, top. But you can decorate such a cake with cream flowers, grated chocolate.
A variant of a delicious and very fragrant ear cake. For Napoleon, you can use a walnut, it turns out delicious with it, but it is also allowed to take cheaper peanuts.
Ingredients
600 ml of milk;
3 yolks;
180 g of nuts;
200 g butter;
500 g cookies;
2 tablespoons of starch;
1 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking method
1. Since the custard takes a while to cool, start with it. Beat the yolks and sugar with starch, pour in milk, put on the stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mass thickens. Add half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter, beat a little.
2. Pour nuts on the stove, fry a little. Then we cool it down, put it on a board, roll it with a rolling pin to grind it, but not to a state of flour.
3. Lubricate the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, stack and remove soak.
4. Grind 5-6 cookies, mix with nuts. We take out the soaked cake from the mold, grease with the rest of the cream, cover it with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Another simple lazy Napoleon cake cream option. The ears themselves are high in fat, so the smear is prepared without the addition of oil. You can lay thin slices of banana between the layers of cookies in such a cake.
Ingredients
400 g sour cream;
300 g of condensed milk;
1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
500 g ears.
Cooking method
1. Beat sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar to it. The cream should not turn out to be liquid, we use thick ingredients.
2. Lay the finished cookies in layers, grease them, try to arrange them tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the form or bowl, remove and soak in the refrigerator. Then we take out, decorate with chopped cookies.
A variation of the lazy chocolate custard cake. It is also prepared from milk with the addition of cocoa. Additionally, you will need one bar of chocolate for sprinkling and decoration.
Ingredients
700 ml of milk;
130 g butter;
210 g sugar;
600 g ears;
3 yolks;
2 tablespoons flour;
3 spoons of cocoa;
90 g of chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Mix two tablespoons of flour with cocoa powder and granulated sugar. We separate the yolks, add to the future cream, grind and add milk. We put the mass to brew on the stove. We heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as bubbles appear, remove the saucepan from heat. Add the sliced butter to the hot and thickened cream. Stir until they are completely dissolved. Cool down the chocolate cream.
3. In the form, collect the cake in layers, smearing the cookies "ears" with the prepared chocolate cream. We put it in the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Take Napoleon out of the mold. It is advisable to lubricate it well. Grind the cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. Rub half of the chocolate, cover the top of the cake with shavings. Cut the remaining pieces into small cubes, scatter them in random order.
When adding a large amount of butter to the cream, it is advisable to beat the product separately until a good foam. In this case, nothing will flow, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy, and the high fat content will not be felt.
If there are no cookies to sprinkle the cake on the top and sides, then you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes, and even toasted sesame seeds. An alternative can be found in any kitchen.
If there is little time to soak the cake, then you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature, and then cool it.
If there is no cream left, after removing the cake from the mold, you can grease it with ordinary condensed milk or sour cream
Cooking a step-by-step photo recipe for a lazy Napoleon cake from ears of cookies.
In our fast-paced age, sometimes there is not enough time to cook even the most
simple dishes, not to mention masterpieces. Therefore, the so-called "lazy recipes", according to which you can cook quickly and with
the least labor costs.
But, the most difficult in terms of the lack of time with baking. And so I want to enjoy the delicacies familiar to us from childhood. They deserve special fame and recognition
cakes "Bird's milk", "Prague", and, of course, "Napoleon". Here is the recipe for the last we and
we want to offer you. But, not a classic one, consisting of many cakes, but a lazy one,
which is based on puff pastry with a funny name "Ears".
The cake is impregnated with a delicate and aromatic custard. And to taste "sloth"
absolutely no different from his famous relative.
Cooking time: 40 min.
Number of Servings: 10 - 12
Let's prepare the products
Remove the butter from the refrigerator.
Sift the flour through a sieve. Be sure to do this:
after all, you do not need pieces of starch, threads or,
what good, flour bugs.
The most important thing in our instructions is step by step
custard recipe. We will deal with it. Into the pot
with a volume of 1 liter, pour 0.5 liters of cold milk and beat in
eggs.
Beat with a whisk or mixer.
Add granulated sugar.
Add vanillin. Whisk.
Without stopping whipping, add in small portions
flour. Be sure to make sure that there are no lumps.
Pour the remaining milk into a 2 liter saucepan. Put on fire and bring
until boiling.
While boiling milk, add thin
trickle, stirring constantly, egg-milk mixture.
Cook over low heat after boiling for 5-7 minutes.
The mixture should thicken. Hint: to prevent the cream
stuck to the bottom or, even worse, not burnt, substitute
a flame divider under the pan.
Remove the pan from heat and cool the resulting mixture.
Put the softened butter in a bowl and
beat first on small and then on maximum
mixer speed. The oil should become fluffy and strong
brighten.
Add the butter little by little to the cooled mass, whisking well each time after
adding the next portion.
The custard is ready. You can start assembling the cake
Place the cookies on a large, flat dish as
square. Make sure there are no voids: cookies
break into small pieces and insert into empty ones
space.
Liberally grease the biscuit layer with cream.
Lay out the rest of the cake layers in the same way. Of 1
kg of cookies 5-6 layers are obtained.
Napoleon is a famous cake that is not exactly easy to prepare. First you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll it out, bake it, cut it off. In addition, you still need to make a cream, lubricate it all, lay it down, soak it and decorate it. All this takes so long, but there is a simpler version with "ears" cookies.
Let's try to cook?
Ushki cookies are made from puff pastry with sugar, they are crispy, tasty, and usually have the shape of hearts. But we also remind bunny ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff cookies are sold in the store, they can be weighed or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the "ears" are very light, half a kilogram is enough for a medium-sized cake.
Cream in a classic custard cake. And with ready-made puff pastry cakes, it goes well. It is boiled in milk with eggs and starch, and is often replaced with flour. Vanillin and butter are additionally introduced.
What other creams can you use:
Sour cream;
Creamy;
Condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of food and free time. It is not always there for cooking, whipping, sometimes you need to wait for it to cool completely.
The improvised Napoleon cake is always collected in deep forms or in bowls. It is very difficult to just lay the ears exactly like that, the cookies are small, disperse and crumble. Since it is dry in itself, you do not need to feel sorry for the cream, let there be a lot of it. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to be infused. For 8-10 hours, it will be well saturated, "settle", it can be cut into pieces, served to the table.
This is almost a classic recipe for Napoleon cake, but made of ears. The cream is prepared real custard in milk, eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. Increasing the amount of butter is allowed as some people like the fatty versions of this cake.
Ingredients
600 g of "ears" cookies;
500 ml of milk;
120 g butter;
3 tablespoons flour;
A couple of eggs;
A glass of sugar;
Vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Mix vanillin, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, begin to stir with a whisk, gradually adding milk. Once the mixture is homogeneous, you can put the cream on the stove. We begin to heat it up. We do not stop stirring.
2. The mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. As soon as it looks like liquid semolina and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the stove. When it cools, the cream will still thicken. Cool, add softened butter, beat thoroughly with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon, we take a detachable form or a bowl, in the first case it is possible not to cover it, in the second version we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside or carefully line the parchment.
4. Lay out the ears of cookies, generously coat with custard. We put the leftovers in the refrigerator. We also put the cake in it to soak. It is advisable to withstand twelve hours, for example, overnight.
5. Take the cake out of the mold. We coat with the remains of the cream. Grind a few pieces of cookies or take the crumbs from the ears from the bag. Sprinkle the Napoleon cake on top, also decorate the side parts.
This version of the Napoleon cake made from cookies "ears" with sour cream. Due to the slight acidity of the product, it turns out incredibly tasty and interesting. In addition, sour cream soaks any cakes very well, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
0.5 kg ears;
0.6 kg sour cream;
0.16 kg sugar;
Cooking method
1. Preparing a quick cream. We simply combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a mixer and beat for a few minutes. It is important to take a sufficiently thick and fatty product, then you get a good cream. But you also need to gently beat the thick sour cream, it can easily become butter.
2. Put cookies in a suitable shape in layers. Broken pieces can be shoved into voids. We coat with sour cream, repeat until the products run out. Let the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We take out an impromptu Napoleon. Lubricate with the rest of the cream, decorate with cookie crumbs or in any other way.
To prepare such a cake, you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for decoration; you will need a little boiled condensed milk for it.
Ingredients
400 ml of white condensed milk;
150 g boiled condensed milk;
250 g butter;
Vanilla bag;
450-500 g of cookies.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the cream. The oil for it must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. It is even advisable to cut into pieces so that it softens faster. Then put it in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high mixer speeds. Set aside two full tablespoons. The mass should become white, fluffy, and will somewhat resemble whipped cream.
2. We begin to pour boiled condensed milk into the remaining oil in a thin stream. We continue to whisk. Has the cream become homogeneous? Fall asleep vanilla, after a few seconds turn off the mixer.
3. We spread the "ears" cookies in layers, coat with white condensed milk cream, cover and send to the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Beat the previously set aside butter with boiled condensed milk. We put the cream in the refrigerator.
5. Take the cake out of the mold. We coat it on top and on the sides with boiled condensed milk cream. We align the cake, fill in the voids. Grind several ears to a state of not very small crumbs. Sprinkle the sides, top. But you can decorate such a cake with cream flowers, grated chocolate.
A variant of a delicious and very fragrant ear cake. For Napoleon, you can use a walnut, it turns out delicious with it, but it is also allowed to take cheaper peanuts.
Ingredients
600 ml of milk;
3 yolks;
180 g of nuts;
200 g butter;
500 g cookies;
2 tablespoons of starch;
1 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking method
1. Since the custard takes a while to cool, start with it. Beat the yolks and sugar with starch, pour in milk, put on the stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mass thickens. Add half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter, beat a little.
2. Pour nuts on the stove, fry a little. Then we cool it down, put it on a board, roll it with a rolling pin to grind it, but not to a state of flour.
3. Lubricate the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, stack and remove soak.
4. Grind 5-6 cookies, mix with nuts. We take out the soaked cake from the mold, grease with the rest of the cream, cover it with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Another simple lazy Napoleon cake cream option. The ears themselves are high in fat, so the smear is prepared without the addition of oil. You can lay thin slices of banana between the layers of cookies in such a cake.
Ingredients
400 g sour cream;
300 g of condensed milk;
1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
500 g ears.
Cooking method
1. Beat sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar to it. The cream should not turn out to be liquid, we use thick ingredients.
2. Lay the finished cookies in layers, grease them, try to arrange them tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the form or bowl, remove and soak in the refrigerator. Then we take out, decorate with chopped cookies.
A variation of the lazy chocolate custard cake. It is also prepared from milk with the addition of cocoa. Additionally, you will need one bar of chocolate for sprinkling and decoration.
Ingredients
700 ml of milk;
130 g butter;
210 g sugar;
600 g ears;
3 yolks;
2 tablespoons flour;
3 spoons of cocoa;
90 g of chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Mix two tablespoons of flour with cocoa powder and granulated sugar. We separate the yolks, add to the future cream, grind and add milk. We put the mass to brew on the stove. We heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as bubbles appear, remove the saucepan from heat. Add the sliced butter to the hot and thickened cream. Stir until they are completely dissolved. Cool down the chocolate cream.
3. In the form, collect the cake in layers, smearing the cookies "ears" with the prepared chocolate cream. We put it in the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Take Napoleon out of the mold. It is advisable to lubricate it well. Grind the cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. Rub half of the chocolate, cover the top of the cake with shavings. Cut the remaining pieces into small cubes, scatter them in random order.
When adding a large amount of butter to the cream, it is advisable to beat the product separately until a good foam. In this case, nothing will flow, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy, and the high fat content will not be felt.
If there are no cookies to sprinkle the cake on the top and sides, then you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes, and even toasted sesame seeds. An alternative can be found in any kitchen.
If there is little time to soak the cake, then you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature, and then cool it.
If there is no cream left, after removing the cake from the mold, it can be greased with ordinary condensed milk or sour cream.
How sometimes you want, spending a little time, to cook something tasty, for example a cake. I will now describe to you the recipe for Napoleon's cake made of custard cookies.
The lazy Napoleon prepares very quickly, although he needs to be given time to stand a little in order to soak. But this Napoleon cake made from cookies with ears and custard is prepared very quickly and does not differ in taste from the usual one.
The cream is taken custard, the ingredients for the cream:
Break the eggs, throw them into a bowl and stir with a whisk. Add sugar, milk and flour to the eggs, mix everything well. It is best to mix with a blender, lumps break well.
You can brew the cream in the usual way on the stove, but I made the cream in the microwave. I set the timer for one minute, stuff the bowl with the mixture into the microwave. After stopping the microwave, I take out a bowl and mix the mixture well. Again I set the timer for one minute and again I take it out and stir it. And I did this 6 times. Do until you see that the cream is good for the cake. When we take the bowl out of the microwave for the last time, add the butter to the bowl and mix well again.
We take a beautiful dish for cakes and begin to spread the ear cookies on it. Dip the ear cookies well in warm cream and lay out one by one, forming a circle. Place the second circle of cookies on one circle of cookies, and so on until you run out of cookies. Pour the rest of the cream on top of the cake and let the cake stand for 2 or 3 hours, let the cookies soak well. You can also decorate our Napoleon cake from cookies with custard ears with whatever is convenient for you, even with crumbs from cookies, you can decorate with nuts or chocolate. In just 3 hours you will be able to enjoy a delicious cake.