Napoleon cake is one of the most popular cakes all over the world. Its preparation is associated with France. Many people believe that the cake recipe is directly related to the French commander Napoleon Bonaparte. However, this assumption can not be called true. In fact, the cake was really created by Napoleon, but it is the name of the confectioner. The name has nothing to do with the commander
. Previously, the cake Napoleon was created only in the classic form. Now Napoleon can be completely different, have several types of cream. There is, for example, chocolate Napoleon and honey Napoleon.
Let’s prepare a quick classic Napoleon at home.
Ingredients for Napoleon cake:
- Eggs – 2 pcs;
- Salt – a pinch;
- Sugar – 130 g;
- Cornstarch – 30 g;
- Warm milk – 500 ml;
- Vanilla sugar – 15 g;
- Puff pastry without yeast – 500 g;
- Mascarpone – 250 g;
- Butter – 150 g;
- Powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.
Preparation of Napoleon cake:
Break eggs in a saucepan, pour salt and sugar, starch, mix thoroughly until the grains of sand dissolve. Pour warm milk into the mixture, then put on medium heat and cook until thickened.
Stirring the mixture constantly, pour vanilla sugar into it. After thickening, we put the cream in a separate bowl, cover with food film in contact and leave to cool.
You can put the cream in a bowl, and the bowl in cold water so that the cream is on the surface. This way the cream will cool faster.
Sprinkle the table with flour and divide into small strips 5-6 cm wide. Then divide the dough into 2×2 cm squares and place on a baking tray lined with parchment.
Bake the squares at 220 degrees for 15 minutes.
At this time, pour the mascarpone into the cream, beat with a mixer until homogeneous.
¼
of the finished squares set aside for sprinkles. Cover the pastry ring with parchment and in a separate bowl mix the pads with the cream.
Place the pads in the cream in the pastry ring and tamp them down with a spatula.
Leave the cake in the refrigerator under a food film for 2-3 hours. Shred the rest of the pads into crumbs and mix with sugar.
Sprinkle the resulting cake with the prepared crumbs, remove the pastry ring and foil in advance.
You get a perfect Napoleon cake without cooking the crusts.
This recipe is suitable for people who do not like to mess with cakes for a long time.
