Cooking the most delicious cakes at home

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  dessert

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• flour
• sugar
• cocoa
• baking powder
• eggs
• salt
• soda
• butter
• cream
• kefir
• dye

You can bake any cake at home. The advantages of such baked goods are in a more pleasant taste and in the use of natural ingredients. There are a lot of options for homemade desserts, but consider the most famous step-by-step recipes for cakes with photos, the taste of which won the hearts of many gourmets.

Cake "Red Velvet"

The Red Velvet cake is a delicate sweet miracle that captivates with its velvety taste and bright contrast of the cakes. Such a dessert can hardly be called simple, at home it will take time and effort, but if you follow all the instructions in the recipe with a photo step by step, then everything will definitely work out.

Ingredients:

• 340 g flour;
• 300 g sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• ¼ h. L. salt;
• 2 tsp baking powder;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 3 eggs;
• 300 g butter;
• 200 ml cream (33%);
• 200 ml of kefir (3.2%);
• 2 tsp dye.

For the cream:

• 100 g butter;
• 100 g icing sugar;
• 350 g cream cheese.

Cooking step by step:

• First, sift the flour twice along with cocoa, salt, soda and baking powder.
• Now pour sugar into the dry sifted ingredients, pour in cream, kefir and butter. We also drive in the eggs and add the dye. And here is the important point that no beets and no dry dyes will give the dough a bright and rich color. Experienced confectioners advise using only proven brands of gel dyes.

• Beat the ingredients on medium speed for 5 minutes. And from the resulting dough we bake two identical cakes for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.
• Cool the cakes completely, cut off the tops from them, break them into pieces and interrupt in a blender into small crumbs.

• For the cream, take a good fatty oil, beat for 2 minutes. Then pour out the icing sugar and after 2 minutes of beating add cold cream cheese, knead for another 2-3 minutes.
• Put the resulting cream in a pastry bag and place it on the first cake, cover with the second cake, put a board on top and press lightly.

After the sides and surface of the cake, we also cover with a thin layer of cream and sprinkle it with crumbs on all sides

Before serving, put the dessert in the refrigerator for several hours.

It is not so difficult to bake such a gorgeous cake at home according to our step-by-step recipes with a photo, the main thing is to use only high-quality ingredients.

Also, experienced pastry chefs advise to keep the baked cakes in the refrigerator and only then apply cream to them. The fact is that the cream will spread on warm cakes, the biscuit will get wet and the dessert will lose its airiness.

Cake pigeon's milk"

Bird's Milk cake is a light, airy and delicate dessert, for which huge queues lined up in the Soviet years. But today, every housewife can bake such a delicacy at home, if you know a step-by-step recipe with a photo of its preparation.

Ingredients for the biscuit:

• 3 eggs;
• 125 g flour;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 125 g sugar;
• 50 g cocoa;
• 30 g butter.

For soufflé:

• 5 proteins;
• 300 g icing sugar;
• 10 g gelatin;
• 100 ml of water.

For glaze:

• 100 g dark chocolate (50%);
• 70 g butter;
• 30 ml caramel syrup.

Cooking step by step with a photo:

Sift flour with cocoa and baking powder into a bowl, mix

• Beat eggs with granulated sugar in a separate container until fluffy.
• Now pour the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and knead the thick dough, which we slightly dilute with melted butter.

We transfer the chocolate dough into a mold and bake a biscuit for 20 minutes, temperature 180 ° C. After completely cool, put the cake in a split form and soak in caramel syrup

• For a soufflé, beat the cooled egg whites, gradually add powdered sugar and add gelatin, which we pre-soak in water and then melt in the microwave or on the stove.
• Pour the resulting protein mass over the biscuit, level it and put it in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

• For the glaze, simply melt the chocolate pieces in the microwave along with the butter.
• Now we take out the dessert from the refrigerator, release it from the mold, pour it over with icing and after it has set, serve the cake to the table.

Bird's milk is a special cake and the main thing here is to observe all proportions so that everything works out. If you listen to the advice of experienced pastry chefs, they recommend separating the proteins for the soufflé the day before making the cake, then they will beat faster and better. And the soufflé will turn out to be light with an openwork texture.

Real Snickers Cake

Snickers cake is a delicious dessert inspired by the famous chocolate bar. Who invented such a delicacy is unknown, but today, thanks to a step-by-step recipe with a photo, such a masterpiece can be baked at home.

Ingredients:

• 250 g of peanuts;
• glucose syrup;
• 350 g sugar;
• 150 ml of water;
• 2 g citric acid;
• 1.5 g of soda.

For peanut butter:

• 100 g of peanuts;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 2 tsp icing sugar.

For caramel:

• 225 g sugar;
• 80 ml of milk;
• 150 ml cream (20%);
• 250 ml glucose syrup.

Nougat:

• 30 ml glucose syrup;
• 330 g icing sugar;
• 60 ml of water;
• 2 egg whites;
• 60 g peanut butter;
• 2 tsp salt.

Ganache:

• 200 ml cream (20%);
• 400 g of chocolate.

Cooking at home step by step:

We take peeled raw peanuts, rinse under cold water, dry, pour on a baking sheet with parchment and send to the oven for 5 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

• Now we cook glucose syrup and for this we take a deep saucepan with a thick bottom. Pour sugar, citric acid into it and pour in water.
• We put the saucepan with the contents on the fire and boil the syrup to 115 ° C. You can also determine the readiness of the syrup by the thread flowing down from the spatula.

• Pour the soda into the hot syrup immediately, stir until the foam falls, then set the syrup aside so that all the bubbles leave its surface.
• For peanut butter, we also take fresh peeled peanuts, pour into a pan and fry with constant stirring for 10 minutes. And then we interrupt the nuts along with salt and powdered sugar in a blender for at least 10 minutes to make a paste.

Now pour sugar into a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour milk, cream and glucose syrup. And we cook caramel, like syrup, up to 115 ° C. Immediately pour the peanuts, which were dried in the oven, into the finished caramel, mix and pour into a form covered with parchment. Fill a deep container or sink with cold water, lower the mold with caramel and nuts, leave it to cool completely

• Take the pan again, pour the powder into it, pour in water, glucose syrup and cook to 120 ° C.
• In a mixer bowl, beat the whites with salt and then add the syrup in portions, then add the peanut butter and knead until smooth.

• Now pour the nougat on top of the cooled peanuts in caramel and return to cold water.
• At this time, we heat well, but do not boil, the cream, melt the pieces of chocolate in them, then beat the ganache with a mixer.
• Then we take the cake out of the mold, remove the parchment and completely cover it with chocolate.

The proposed recipe provides for the use of only peanuts, but there are other options for such a dessert with baking a biscuit. But, the recipes may be different, but nuts are used everywhere, caramel and ganache are prepared.

Chocolate cake "Black Forest" at home

Black Forest cake is a delicious and aromatic dessert with cherry filling, delicate cream and a lot, a lot of chocolate. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of such baking is simple, so every housewife at home will be able to arrange a small holiday for her loved ones.

Ingredients for the biscuit:

• 160 g flour;
• 200 g sugar;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 5 chicken eggs;
• 30 g cocoa;
• 70 ml of vegetable oil;
• 10 g baking powder;
• a pinch of salt.

For the cream:

• 300 ml of cream (from 33%);
• 50 g icing sugar;
• 1 tsp gelatin;
• 5 tsp water.

For filling:

• 300 g cherries;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• cherry liqueur.

Cooking step by step:

• Drive eggs into a bowl, add salt and sugar, beat until foam forms.
• Now pour in the milk, beat again with a blender. Pour butter into the egg-milk mixture, stir.

• Separately mix flour with cocoa, baking soda and baking powder. Sift dry ingredients and add portions to liquid ingredients, knead the dough.
• We cover the bottom of the form with parchment, if the paper is not of very good quality, then grease it with oil. We shift the dough and put in the oven for 35-40 minutes, temperature 180 ° C.

Cool the finished biscuit, then cut off the crust from its surface and cut into 3-4 cakes

• For the filling, pour the cherries into the saucepan, the berries can be taken frozen, thawed and used together with the juice.
• Pour half the sugar to the cherry, put on the fire and after boiling, put the berries on a sieve. If desired, you can add cognac or cherry liqueur to the syrup.

• Return the cherry juice to the fire along with the remaining sugar, boil and cool.
• For the cream, beat the fat cold cream and as soon as it begins to thicken, add the icing sugar in two steps. Whisk until soft peaks.
• Soak the gelatin in water, then melt it, cool it, send it to the cream and beat it again to dense peaks.

Now we take the first cake, soak it with cherry syrup, apply cream on top and spread the cherry berries, and do this with the rest of the biscuit layers

Once the cake is completely assembled, cover it with cream, sprinkle with chocolate chips and decorate with a cocktail cherry.

If you wish, you can make a layer of cream and freeze-dried cherries in the cake. And for an even coating of the dessert, prepare a denser cream from butter with the addition of cream, condensed milk and powdered sugar.

Delicate berry cheesecake without baking

Cheesecake is an American dessert whose taste has conquered the whole world. By tradition, the base for the cake is baked in the oven, but today there are step-by-step recipes with a photo of such a delicacy without baking. This is an easier option that you can use to make dessert at home.

Ingredients:

• 200 g shortbread cookies;
• 90 g butter;
• 350 g strawberries;
• 400 g cream cheese;
• 150 g icing sugar;
• 200 ml of cream (from 33%);
• 15 g gelatin;
• 50 ml of water;
• 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• vanilla.

Cooking step by step:

Grind the cookies in any convenient way to a crumb state and then mix with melted cooled butter

Pour the crumb into a mold, distribute it in an even layer, tamp it slightly. Put it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes.

• Pour gelatin into a bowl, pour water and lemon juice into it, stir and leave to swell.
• Grind the strawberries with a blender and beat the cream cheese with the addition of powdered sugar and vanillin until fluffy. Now we combine the strawberry and creamy mass.

Dissolve the gelatin in a water bath, add a little cream to it, stir and pour into the total mass, mix everything well

Now pour the mass onto the cooled base, cover the form with a film and put it in the refrigerator until it solidifies completely

Decorate the finished dessert with berries and mint leaves

You can also use curd cheese for the filling, the main thing is that there is little moisture in it. If such a product turns out to be excessively wet, then it must be laid out on cheesecloth, placed in a sieve and refrigerated overnight.

Cake "Prague" at home

Cake "Prague" is a real symbol of the Soviet era and its name has nothing to do with Czechoslovakia, just the invention of such a masterpiece belongs to the pastry chef of the restaurant of the same name.

Today there are several options for such baking, but consider a step-by-step recipe with a photo of a cake at home in accordance with GOST.

Ingredients for the biscuit:

• 6 eggs;
• 150 g sugar;
• 115 g flour;
• 40 g butter;
• 25 g cocoa.

For the cream:

• 1 yolk;
• 20 ml of water;
• 120 ml of condensed milk;
• 200 g butter;
• 10 g cocoa;
• vanilla sugar;
• apricot jam (jam).

For impregnation:

• 100 ml of water;
• 70 g sugar;
• tea.

For glaze:

• 70 g of dark chocolate;
• 50 g butter.

Preparation:

For the biscuit, separate the whites from the yolks. Pour half the sugar to the yolks and beat in a fluffy cream. Beat the whites with the remaining half of the granulated sugar until persistent peaks. Then carefully mix the whipped whites into the yolk mass

Mix the flour with cocoa, sift and add the liquid mass in portions, gently mix from bottom to top

Pour in the melted and cooled butter and mix everything carefully

Cover the bottom of the mold with parchment, pour out the dough and bake a biscuit for 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C. We take the finished biscuit out of the mold, cover it with a towel and, if possible, leave it for 8 hours

Pour the yolk, water and condensed milk into a saucepan, stir, put on fire and cook the syrup until thickened

Beat butter with vanilla sugar until fluffy. Then add the syrup in parts and beat each time. Add cocoa and mix everything again

• For impregnation, brew ordinary tea, mix with sugar and cool.
• Cut the biscuit into three cakes. And soak the first cake and spread half of the cream. Put the second cake on top, also saturate and cover with the second half of the cream.

• Soak the third cake and cover with apricot jam or jam. We send it to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
• Melt the butter together with the chocolate, and cover the whole cake with icing.

When the glaze has cooled down, you can apply a pattern, for this we simply melt the chocolate, transfer it to a regular bag, make a small incision and draw. Put the cake in the refrigerator for several hours before serving

Pancho cake

Pancho cake is an appetizing dessert that will appeal to all those with a sweet tooth. At home, such a delicacy can be baked with any filling, but the traditional step-by-step recipe with a photo involves adding pineapples.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 6 eggs;
• 200 g flour;
• 4 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• 250 g sugar;
• 1 tsp baking powder.

For the cream:

• 400 ml sour cream (20%);
• 200 ml of cream (from 33%);
• 150 g sugar.

For filling:

• 1 can of pineapple;
• 1 cup walnuts
• For glaze:
• 50 g dark chocolate;
• 30 g butter.

Preparation:

1. Beat the eggs until fluffy for 5 minutes. Then add sugar and continue to beat until all the sweet grains are dissolved.
2. Mix the flour with baking powder, cocoa, sift and gradually add to the egg mixture. Knead a homogeneous dough without lumps.
3. Grease the bottom of the mold with oil, pour the dough and bake the biscuit for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.
4. For the cream, beat the chilled cream until thickened. After adding sour cream and sugar, we continue to beat until a fluffy mass and granulated sugar dissolve.
5. Cut the finished and already cooled biscuit into two cakes, but make the lower one thin, about 1 cm high. And cut the upper cake into cubes 2-3 cm thick.
6. Put a thin crust on a plate, pour canned pineapple syrup and coat with cream.
7. Put half the pineapple pieces and half the chopped nuts on the cream.
8. Now we take biscuit cubes, dip them in cream and spread them in an even layer, and the subsequent layers should be smaller than the other, so that the result is a slide. In this case, alternate the layer of biscuit with nuts and fruits.
9. The resulting slide of biscuit, pineapple and nuts is completely coated with cream.
10. Melt the chocolate and butter in a water bath. Cool the glaze a little, put it in a culinary bag and pour over the surface of the dessert.
11. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator for 3 hours before serving.
12. The cake is easy to prepare but delicious. If desired, instead of pineapples, you can take bananas, cherries, strawberries, and other pieces of fruit and berries at your discretion.

It is not so difficult to bake a delicious and beautiful cake at home. Thanks to a large selection of step-by-step recipes with photos, you can create real masterpieces. But if there is no experience, then in the first preparation you should not take risks and follow the recipe exactly, and it is better to weigh all the ingredients on a scale.