Cakes are a dessert product served at major celebrations. Often cakes are prepared for Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries. This is one way to show how everyone around treats the birthday boy. It is hard now to imagine a celebration without a dessert. Although, in the past, cakes were just an invitation to the banquet
. The change in the presentation of the cake is due to the fact that the dessert itself had a different status. Over time, cakes began to appear at balls and loud festivals. Therefore, there was a tradition to prepare a cake not before the holiday, but for the celebration itself.
You can make a cake at all on your own. Let’s tell about the recipe for a crispy cake.
Ingredients of the dough for the crispy cake:
- margarine – 250 g;
- flour – 800 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- salt – a pinch.
Ingredients for the cream:
- butter – 500 g;
- condensed milk – 180 g;
- vanilla sugar;
- brandy – 1 tbsp.
Preparation of the crispy cake:
Melt margarine to a liquid state, mix in it 200 grams of flour.
In a separate container break eggs, put sour cream, salt and mix.
Pour into the egg mass 600 grams of flour, knead elastic soft dough
.
Divide the dough into 6 equal parts, form
rolls
.
Roll out the rolls into tortillas, each one smeared with thick margarine dough.
Stack the tortillas on top of each other and then roll up into a
roll. Seal the roll in foil and send it to the fridge for 12 hours. Then divide the dough into 16 equal parts and roll out thin layers.
Cut off the excess from the sheets by laying a flat plate.
Place each new crust on the parchment.
Bake each cake in the oven at 200 degrees for 7-8 minutes. At
this time, beat butter, add cognac, vanilla sugar and condensed milk.
Grease each cake with cream, lay them on top of each other. The sides and top of the cake are also smeared with cream.
Cognac is an optional ingredient in this recipe.
You can sprinkle the resulting cake with flaked almonds, it will give a beautiful appearance and new notes of flavor to the cake.