The Napoleon cake is considered one of the most delicious of the classic cakes. It will always be popular and there are a lot of recipes for its preparation.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 500 g flour;
- 300 g margarine;
- 1 egg;
- 200 ml of water;
- ½ tsp soda;
- 1 tsp lemon juice or vinegar
Ingredients for the cream:
- 200 g butter;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- ½ glass of milk;
- 1 egg;
- ¼ a bag of vanilla or 2-3 tbsp. liquor
Preparation:
- Take a bowl, add flour and add pre-chilled margarine to it. The margarine must be cut into small cubes and chopped with a knife until the margarine combines with the flour into a homogeneous crumb.
- Then take water, lightly salt it, add an egg, lemon juice or vinegar to it, stir until the salt dissolves.
- Make a small depression in the flour and add prepared water with an egg and lemon juice to it. Knead an elastic dough.
- Divide the resulting dough into small balls and put to cool in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes to solidify the margarine. The number of balls is the number of cakes.
- After the time has elapsed, take out the balls, roll them out thinly and bake in the oven until a beautiful golden brown crust.
- Let's prepare the cream. Thoroughly grind the sugar with the egg and add milk to the mixture. Put on fire and bring to a boil with constant stirring. After that, it is necessary to remove from heat and leave to cool.
- Beat butter separately until white. Continuing to beat, add the cooled egg-milk mixture. Add vanillin or liqueur.
- We shape the cake. We put the cake and coat it with cream. And so all the cakes to the top. Grind one cake into small crumbs. She will decorate the topmost cake layer.
