A skilled hostess will always have a couple of recipes for delicious cream in her culinary notebook, with which you can decorate cakes, cupcakes or any other dessert. Sometimes the cream is used only to decorate the cake, but often it is applied to completely impregnate it.
Basic framework
Each dessert requires its own cream. For example, a sponge cake needs a very strong impregnation, as its cakes are dry and brittle. For this dessert, it is better to use butter or sour cream.
One of the simplest recipes is as follows: you need to take 1 can of boiled condensed milk and 400 ml of thick sour cream. Stir the ingredients together and let it brew well. It is better to grease the cake with such a cream in advance so that the cakes are well saturated. If desired, chopped dried apricots can be added to the cream. This cream is good both for impregnation and for decorating the culinary product itself.
Another option is an oil cream, which contains:
- 200 g softened butter;
- 1 can of condensed milk.
These components should be mixed together until thick sour cream. You can also add cocoa powder to the mass for a simple chocolate cream.
Creamy delights
But a simple cream sometimes looks a little boring, so many chefs have learned how to cook real masterpieces, decorating cakes with unprecedented colors and shapes. Typically, complex creams include eggs, butter, and cream (or milk) with sugar. Food colors are added for beauty. Today they can be easily purchased in the store, but it is better to use natural colors.
For example, grated lemon zest will give a beautiful yellow hue, red or pink color can be obtained using the juice of red berries, wine or beetroot juice. Green is great from spinach, while brown comes from strong brewed coffee or burnt sugar.
Probably the most difficult to prepare are cottage cheese and custard, as they must be boiled. But the cream, which contains gelatin, will allow you to create a real culinary masterpiece, because you can add various fruits and berries to it, which means that the cake will look truly festive. In addition, such a dessert will not only be tasty, but also healthy.
To obtain a cream with gelatin, the base must be properly prepared. To create such a decoration, one packet of powder is usually enough (about 25 g), which must be prepared in the manner indicated on the package. Then the resulting mass is added to a cup with the main ingredients (usually sour cream or whipped cream).
For sour cream with gelatin you need:
- 25 g of gelatin;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 120 g icing sugar;
- vanilla or other food flavorings - to taste.
Steam the gelatin in the manner indicated on the pack. In a separate cup, beat the sour cream and powder, let the mixture brew. Then, after the appearance of foam, pour in the gelatin, continuing to stir. Put the resulting cream in the refrigerator until thickened.
