Based on the famous French dessert, you can cook a Napoleon cake. To prepare such a treat, it will not take much time, because the recipe uses ready-made puff pastry. You can also choose any cream based on cream, condensed milk, cottage cheese or not depart from the traditions and prepare a custard dessert.

Cake “Napoleon” from ready puff pastry

The preparation of the classic Napoleon requires a lot of time, because you need to bake cakes, prepare a cream, form a dessert, soak it in the cold and only then enjoy its taste. But everything can be much simpler if you prepare a French cake from a ready-made puff pastry.

Ingredients:

  • puff pastry;
  • 1.5 tbsp. low fat cream;
  • 1 tbsp. regular sugar;
  • 2 tsp vanilla sweetener;
  • egg;
  • 40 g of corn starch;
  • pack of butter.

Cooking method:

  1. To prepare a dessert you need to buy a kilo of puff pastry. As a rule, four sheets are stacked in such a package. Three of them will go to the base, and the fourth will come in handy for decoration.
  2. Roll out the thawed dough slightly so that the cakes are not so thick.
  3. Soak baking paper with oil, cover it with a baking sheet and put a sheet of dough. Be sure to tilt the base on both sides with an ordinary fork so that the cake blanks do not swell.
  4. Bake each sheet for 15 minutes in an oven heated to 200 degrees. Cool the browned cakes.
  5. For cream, pour two types of sugar with starch into a stewpan, beat the egg and pour the cream. Shake the ingredients with a whisk and bring the mass to a thick consistency in a water bath. The main thing is not to let the cream boil, otherwise you will get a sweet omelet.
  6. Cool the cream and beat with a mixer with oil.
  7. Put three cakes in layers, smear each with cream, crumble the fourth and sprinkle dessert on them. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour, and then cut it in portions.

Cooking Apricot Dessert

Delicious Napoleon cake can be prepared with any fruit cream.

 

For example, with canned apricots. Apricot Napoleon will pleasantly surprise you with its fruity freshness and amazing taste.

Ingredients:

  • puff pastry packaging;
  • canned apricot can;
  • ½ tbsp Sahara;
  • five tablespoons of powdered sugar;
  • three tablespoons of liquor;
  • six drops of vanilla essence;
  • two egg yolks plus one egg;
  • 1 ½ tbsp. cream;
  • two tablespoons of starch.

Cooking method:

  1. Drain the apricot juice, but do not pour it. Mash fruits in mashed potatoes.
  2. Take one whole egg and two yolks, add three tablespoons of regular sugar, starch and a few tablespoons of flour. Beat until smooth.
  3. Puree the mashed potatoes in a saucepan and put on the stove. As soon as the fruit mass boils, pour the egg and flour mixture with the juice. After the appearance of the first bubbles, remove the cream from the stove and cool.
  4. While the cream was being prepared, the dough should unfreeze. Each layer is rolled out a little, do not forget to prick with a fork and bake for 20 minutes (temperature - 200 ° C).
  5. If the apricot cream has cooled down, then bring it to perfection. To do this, whip the cream with the remaining sugar, sweet powder, aromatic essence and liquor.
  6. Combine the resulting creamy mass with fruit.
  7. Put the prepared and cooled cakes in layers, generously coat each layer with a creamy mass, and break the last cake into crumbs and sprinkle them with dessert.
  8. Allow time to soak the cake and cut into equal pieces with a sharp knife.

Recipe for cooking with condensed milk

Traditionally, to prepare a dessert such as Napoleon, custard is required, but it is especially tender and soft with boiled condensed milk and butter. For this recipe we also use ready-made dough, which is simply pre-defrosted and baked in the oven. Therefore, we proceed immediately to the preparation of the cream.

Ingredients:

  • 180 g butter;
  • can of boiled condensed milk.

Cooking Methods:

  1. While the cakes are baking, you need to take soft butter and just beat it until smooth with boiled concentrated milk.
  2. Once the cakes are ready, cool them and lay them in a pile. Soak each cake with cream, leave the last for sprinkling.
  3. Ready “Napoleon” with condensed milk put in the cold for a couple of hours, then cut into equal cakes and enjoy a tea party.

Cake "Napoleon" by Ilya Lazerson

Chef Ilya Lazerson shares his recipe for making a quick Napoleon cake. He uses Italian Mascarpone cheese and cream to make the cream.

A recipe from Laserson uses the following ingredients:

  • puff pastry packaging;
  • 180 g of Mascarpone cheese;
  • two spoons of sweet powder;
  • three tablespoons of cream of any fat content (if necessary);
  • three tablespoons of any cream cheese.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut each layer of puff pastry into equal slices, place on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until golden brown (temperature - 200 ° С).
  2. For cream, whisk two types of cheese along with sweet powder. If the creamy mass is thick, just add the cream.
  3. Collect the finished shortcakes in pairs, finely crumble the remaining ones.
  4. Cream one layer of dough and cover with a second. On all sides, coat the dessert with the curd and sprinkle with crumbs.

How to make strawberries

Strawberries with cream and puff cakes - is not the best combination for making a delicious dessert? Today we will prepare another Napoleon cake, but not the classic one, but with the addition of fresh berries.

Ingredients:

  • puff pastry;
  • a pound of fresh strawberries;
  • two glasses of thick cream;
  • five spoons of sweet powder.

Cooking method:

  1. Defrost the dough layers and soak in the oven until golden brown (temperature - 200 ° C).
  2. Fill the cream with sweet powder with a mixer, cut the berries into thin plates.
  3. Spread the finished cakes with cream and lay the pieces of berries, sprinkle the last layer with crumbs. Put the dessert in the cold for a couple of hours so that it is well saturated.

With whipped cream

More recently, cream for the cake was prepared from heavy fatty butter, today it is also used, but not in such quantity and in combination with other ingredients. But especially popular is cream, which makes desserts light and soft in taste.

Napoleon cake can also be prepared with cream based on cream and high-quality butter.

Ingredients:

  • puff pastry;
  • 1 ½ tbsp. cream;
  • 150 g of regular sugar;
  • half a pack of oil;
  • can of boiled condensed milk.

Cooking method:

  1. Defrost the base for dessert, pierce each piece with a fork in several places and bake cakes for 15 to 20 minutes.
  2. In a deep bowl, mix sour cream with a sweetener and separately whip the condensed milk with butter. Combine the two masses - the cream should turn out with a smooth texture.
  3. Lay the cakes on top of each other, smear each with cream, sprinkle crumb on the dessert.

Delicate honey treat

Cake "Napoleon" can be prepared with sweet honey cream and walnuts. Interested in such a dessert? So write down the recipe!

Ingredients:

  • finished puff pastry;
  • a spoon of honey;
  • one yolk;
  • 80 g of sweet powder;
  • lemon;
  • 80 g of butter and walnuts.

Cooking method:

  1. From the puff pastry, make the basis for the dessert - just lay a slightly rolled layer on a baking sheet and put in the oven for 15 minutes.
  2. For cream, whip the butter with sweet powder, yolk, honey and citrus juice.
  3. Cool the cooked cream and smear it with golden cakes.

Napoleon cake made from puff pastry, yeast-free dough will allow you to quickly prepare a delicious dessert without sweating for half a day in the kitchen. Just choose your favorite cream recipe and start cooking sweet treats.

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