Pancakes are a type of pastry that is known to many. A kind of flatbread that took root among the eastern Slavs. Of course, other peoples also have their own pancakes. However, the Slavic peoples have elevated pancakes to a special status. This dish literally has its own holiday – Maslenitsa.
Now pancakes
have
become a tool for cooking a large number of viands. For example, from pancakes you can make pies, if you roll the stuffing in them. Also pancakes are the basis for cakes
. Around the XVIII century, pancakes began to create crusts with cream. Basically, the popularity of such cakes found in Russia.
Let’s prepare a pancake cake in 10 minutes with sour cream.
Ingredients for pancake cake batter:
- Eggs – 2 pcs;
- Sugar – 40 g;
- Salt – 1 pinch;
- Milk – 230 g;
- Flour – 60 g;
- Cocoa powder – 20 g;
- Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Sour cream – 500 g;
- Sugar – 100 g;
- Vanilla sugar – 10 g;
- Quick-soluble gelatin – 20 g;
- Water – 60 ml.
Preparation of pancake cake:
In a bowl break eggs, pour salt and sugar, pour half of the milk and mix everything thoroughly. Sift flour and cocoa into the milk and knead the pancake batter.
Gradually pour the rest of the milk and vegetable oil into the batter. Heat a frying pan and bake thin pancakes over a slightly higher than medium heat.
Let the pancakes cool down.
At this time, mix gelatin in cold water. While the gelatin swells for 5 minutes, combine vanilla and classic sugar in the sour cream.
Twist 2-3 pancakes and cut across, you get ribbons width of 1 cm.
Melt the gelatin in the microwave for 20 seconds and then pour it into the sour cream mixture.
Stir the gelatin into the sour cream mixture and add the pancake ribbons
.
Cover the bottom of the pastry mold with foil and put parchment on the surface.
The sides of the mold can also be covered with food foil, so the cake will be easy to pull out after solidification.
Pour the mixture of sour cream and pancakes into the mold, level it.
Leave the cake in the refrigerator until it hardens.
It remains only to remove the pastry ring and the film, you get a beautiful pancake cake.
