Almost every Russian family has its own original recipe for the Napoleon cake, which has been passed down from generation to generation. I bring to your attention a recipe for making a quick and tasty Napoleon cake with cream based on Mascarpone.
It is necessary
- for the test:
- • yolk - 1 pc.;
- • vinegar 9% - 1 teaspoon;
- • premium flour - 2, 5 glasses;
- • butter - 300 g;
- • salt - 3 g;
- • water - 100 ml.
- for cream:
- • dark chocolate - 200 g;
- • cream 33% - 1 l;
- • icing sugar - 120 g;
- • vanilla sugar - 10 g;
- • milk 3, 2% - 1 l;
- • vinegar 9% - 50 ml;
- • almond petals - 150 g.
- Caloric content: HIGH
Instructions
Step 1
We start the cake making process by kneading the cake dough. To do this, pour the flour onto the surface and immediately combine it with pre-cut small cubes of cold butter. In this case, the oil should not be either frozen or thawed. Otherwise, we risk that our chopped stretched dough will be very difficult to knead.
Having evenly distributed the butter cubes in the flour, we begin to chop them together with the flour with a knife, bringing both ingredients to a uniform consistency. This should be done so quickly that the oil does not have time to start to melt.
Step 2
Now beat the yolk by adding a teaspoon of vinegar and a pinch of salt, and by the end of the process, some cold water. Pour the resulting mixture gradually into flour and butter, quickly kneading the dough with your hands.
Step 3
Divide the dough into seven equal parts and form them into balls. If you are cooking for the first time, and you cannot knead the dough quickly, or the temperature in the room is high, then in these cases it is more advisable to put the dough in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
Roll each of the balls into a thin rectangular cake with a thickness of 1-3 mm, and so that the cake does not swell when baking, we pierce it with a fork in several places.
We cut the cake in shape, and dry the scraps in a dry frying pan, they will come in handy for sprinkling our cake.
Bake the cakes for 7 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. The characteristic ruddy color is an indication of the readiness of the cake.
Step 4
On the basis of Mascarpone cream and whipped cream, we prepare a cream for our cake. To make "Mascarpone" at home, you need to heat milk and cream on the stove, add vinegar to them and let the mixture boil. At this moment, the process of separating the cheese from the whey or fermentation takes place. The resulting mass can be thrown into a colander and filtered.
Whisk Mascarpone with chilled cream, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar and chocolate chips. First, we do this at low speeds, and then at medium speeds.
Step 5
We spread each cake with cream and lay it on top of each other, while the thickness of the cream should be twice the thickness of the finished cake.
We break the dried scraps from the cake with our hands and sprinkle them on the finished cake.
Decorate with almond petals.
