Danube Waves is a cake that has long won the sympathy of the sweet tooth of the whole world. The history of the dessert and original recipes for its preparation are carefully preserved by German cookbooks.

The story of the appearance of the Danube Waves cake

Just as the majestic Danube river originates in Germany in the Black Forest, the history of the Donauwelle Donauwelle cake is connected with this country. The Germans love dessert and consider it a national treasure.

Dr.Oetker Donauwellen baking set is sold in German stores. Cake recipe is indicated on the package.

The company appeared in Germany at the end of the 19th century. Around the same time, the famous waltz of the Romanian composer Ion Ivanovich was first published under the title “Danube Waves”. Everyone had the name, and a sweet dessert with great taste was quickly remembered by everyone.

Classic recipe

If you live in Russia and you can’t buy the Danube Waves cake baking set, be sure to try baking this dessert according to the classic recipe.

To prepare the dough you will need these products:

  • fresh or canned cherries;
  • sugar;
  • flour;
  • milk;
  • cocoa powder;
  • butter;
  • eggs
  • baking powder.

For cream and glaze:

  • vanilla pudding in a pack;
  • sugar;
  • oil;
  • chocolate.

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. Before starting to cook the butter biscuit, preheat the oven; kneading the dough will not take much time. For baking, according to tradition, they use a rectangular shape that needs to be lubricated.
  2. Beat 250 g of butter with 1 tbsp. Sahara.
  3. Add 6 eggs one at a time.
  4. Flour (400 g) is mixed with 1 tbsp. l starch, a pinch of salt and 1 p. baking powder.
  5. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts. In one add 5 tbsp. l milk and 3 tbsp. l cocoa.
  6. Light dough is poured onto a baking sheet, on top is a dark dough.
  7. On the chocolate layer spread 0.5 kg of pitted cherries.Bake the cake until cooked.
  8. For cream, cook the pudding from the dry mixture in a pack, adding 3 tbsp. l sugar and 500 ml of milk.
  9. The cream is cooled to room temperature, 250 g of softened butter is added, and applied to the cooled biscuit.
  10. For chocolate icing, mix 250 g of melted chocolate with 2 tbsp. l butter. Coat a layer of cream on top, drawing waves.

Cooking with apples

The Danube Waves cake is made only with cherries. If apples are indicated in the recipe instead, then this is already a dance, popular in Western Ukraine and in Poland.

A cake with apples needs the following products:

  • flour - 210 g;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • Cocoa - 40 g;
  • eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • sugar - 70 g;
  • baking powder - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • milk - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • apples for the filling - 0.5 kg.

For cream:

  • milk - 0.5 l;
  • yolks - 4 eggs;
  • sugar - 120 g;
  • starch - 40 g;
  • butter - 180 g

Step by step cooking:

  1. Knead the dough, whipping soft butter with sugar, eggs and flour mixed with baking powder.
  2. It is divided into two parts, milk and cocoa are added to one.
  3. White dough is poured onto a greased sheet, then chocolate, without mixing the layers.
  4. Pieces of peeled apples are laid out on the surface of the chocolate dough, slightly pressing down.
  5. Put the billet in a heated oven and bake until cooked for about 40 minutes (t 200 ° C).
  6. Custard is brewed from milk, yolks, sugar and starch. When it cools down, spread it on the cake.
  7. Sprinkle grated chocolate over the dessert.

Recipe for multicooker

To cook the cake "Danube Waves" in the slow cooker does not need special culinary skills. You should only pay attention to the baking time, it may differ from that indicated depending on the model of the multichotter.

Cooking a cake in a multicooker of the following products:

  • eggs
  • sugar;
  • pitted cherries;
  • oil;
  • flour;
  • baking powder;
  • cocoa.

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. Beat 0.5 tbsp. sugar with butter (125 g) and chicken eggs (3 pcs.).
  2. Add 200 g sifted flour and 1 tsp. baking powder.
  3. Pour cocoa into half the mixture.
  4. Light dough is laid out on the bottom of a greased multi-cooker bowl, leveled.
  5. Dark dough is poured on top, the cherry is laid out.
  6. Bake 1 hour in the "Baking" mode.
  7. Cool, grease the dessert on top with a cream based on milk and vanilla pudding.
  8. Sprinkle the pastry with grated chocolate.

Danube Wave Cake with Cherry

Cake Dough Products:

  • butter - 135 g;
  • flour - 270 g;
  • baking powder dough - 20 g;
  • milk - 3 tbsp. l;
  • cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • canned cherry - 0.5 kg;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • eggs - 3 pcs.;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 p .;
  • water - 3 tbsp. l

For pudding:

  • moderately sweet cherry juice - 0.5 l;
  • vanilla pudding - 1 p.

For cream:

  • starch - 20 g;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 p .;
  • milk - 250 ml;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • butter - 120 g.

For glaze:

  • dark chocolate - 180 g;
  • oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • white chocolate - 20 g.

Step by step description:

  1. Butter at room temperature lightly beat with sugar.
  2. Add vanilla sugar, eggs and milk. Pour flour with baking powder. Beat the mixture with a mixer.
  3. Half of the dough is transferred into a split mold with baking paper at the bottom and leveled.
  4. In the other half add cocoa and 2 tbsp. l water.
  5. The dark dough is spread on top of the light in the form, leveled.
  6. Canned cherries are transferred to a dark dough, slightly pressed.
  7. Cake is baked in an oven heated to 180 ° C for about half an hour.
  8. For fruit pudding, cherry juice is diluted with water, there should be only 500 ml of liquid.
  9. Add 1 packet of vanilla pudding or 40 g of starch. Stir and cook until thick.
  10. Hot pudding is poured onto baked cakes in the form, leveled.
  11. For milk cream, milk, vanilla sugar and starch are mixed, boiled until thick.
  12. Cover the cream so that a crust does not form, and cool.
  13. Then add oil at room temperature, whisk.
  14. Spread milk cream on a chilled biscuit with pudding, level it, and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  15. Chocolate icing from melted chocolate with 2 tbsp. Is poured onto the chilled cake. l oils.
  16. Waves are drawn with white melted chocolate.

Dessert decoration and decoration

The Danube Waves cake is decorated with cream on top. There are no strict design restrictions. On a biscuit you can pour a cream of cherry juice with vanilla pudding, milk butter, chocolate or cream cream.

Top the dessert with icing or sprinkled with grated chocolate. Confectionery comb draw waves.

Most often, the cake is made in a rectangular shape and cut into square cakes before serving.

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