Any sweet tooth dreams of eating cakes on a regular basis. Fortunately, such desires are almost unrealizable. Cakes, of course, are a delicious sweet treat, but it should be consumed in moderation.
Even our ancestors knew that desserts should be eaten on holidays
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It is believed that the first cakes appeared in ancient Rome. In addition to archaeological artifacts in the form of bread with patterns, the Latin language has a word that resembles our colloquial “cake”. Only in Latin this word means curls and decorations.
Italians adopted the preparation of cakes from the ancient Romans
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However, they could not develop the skill of cooking desserts to a proper extent. The initiative was taken over by the French, who then succeeded in this case.
We will not chase the French mastery
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Let’s make a simple budget cake for a tea party.
Ingredients for a budget cake:
- chicken eggs – 8 pcs;
- salt – a pinch;
- sugar – 505 g;
- butter – 110 g;
- honey – 100 g;
- milk – 880 ml;
- baking soda – 8 g;
- water – 100 ml;
- flour – 170 g;
- cornstarch – 60 g.
Preparation of budget cake:
Break into a deep bowl 5 eggs, pour 125 grams of granulated sugar in the same place. Beat the components with a mixer until the formation of a light, semi-thick mass.
In a saucepan over low heat, heat honey. Integrate into the honey soda, after the ingredients have reacted with each other, mix well and achieve an amber color.
Then the honey mass should be added in parts to the egg mixture, beat gently with a mixer until homogeneous
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Sift flour into the obtained consistency, knead the biscuit dough.
Cover a 25×15 cm baking dish with foil, pour the dough onto the surface and spread it evenly. Bake the biscuit for 35 minutes at 170 degrees C.
Cut the biscuit in half after baking and cool in the refrigerator. In the meantime, for the cream you need to melt 200 grams of sugar in a saucepan. When the sand caramelizes, gradually pour 700 ml of milk into the saucepan, stirring constantly.
In a separate bowl, beat 3 eggs with the addition of 100 ml of milk and cornstarch. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, pour it into the caramel base.
Cook over a low heat until the mixture becomes a custard
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Leave the custard to cool to room temperature to then add 60 grams of butter to it. Beat the butter and cream with a mixer until homogeneous consistency.
Similarly, melt 150 grams of granulated sugar in a frying pan. After caramelization, add the rest of the butter (50 grams), mix well.
Pour 80 ml of milk into the glaze, add a pinch of salt and mix additionally. The
cakes should be cut horizontally to make 4 pieces
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Do not forget to cut off the excess pieces, as well as trim the sides of the biscuits. From the remains of the biscuits you need to make crumbs.
Mix water with sugar, soak each cake. Smear all the cakes with custard, assemble the cake. Treat the walls and surface of the cake with cream, sprinkle with sponge cake crumbs.
Glaze the top cream part of the cake. Take the dessert for soaking in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
As a result, we have a delicious budget cake, which turns out no worse than the store. This is a good dessert option for a small celebration.
