Easy and quick Napoleon cake made from ready-made puff pastry

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

• Category:

  dessert

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• puff pastry
• milk
• eggs
• sugar
• flour
• vanilla sugar
• vegetable oil

Napoleon cake is a delicious homemade pastry that will take a lot of time to prepare. But if you really want to enjoy a delicious dessert, then quick and easy recipes from ready-made puff pastry will come to the rescue.

Napoleon cake made of ready-made puff pastry with custard

Cake "Napoleon" from ready-made puff pastry is an easier and quicker recipe for everyone's favorite dessert. As in the classic version, custard is prepared for the cakes. The cake turns out to be just as tender and very tasty.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of puff pastry (ready-made);
• 1 liter 200 ml milk;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 5 tbsp. l. flour;
• 1 pack of vanilla sugar
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

Preparation:

• Defrost the puff pastry and cut it into four equal parts.
• We spread the dough on a greased baking sheet and send it to the oven for 20-25 minutes, temperature 190 ° C.

We take out the finished cakes and divide them into three parts, you can directly with your hands, the layers are well separated from each other

Knead the top layers to a crumb state

• For the cream, pour 1 liter of milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• In a separate container, whisk the eggs with sugar and vanilla sugar.

After that, pour the remaining milk into the egg mixture, mix and add flour

Stir everything thoroughly so that there are no lumps, and pour it into boiling milk. Boil the cream with constant stirring. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from heat and cool

We collect the cake, everything is simple here: we grease the cakes with cream on all sides. And for such a dessert we do not regret the cream

We decorate the cake with crumbs - just sprinkle it on all sides and then send it to a cool place for 12 hours to soak well.

With boiled condensed milk

The "Napoleon" cake made from ready-made puff pastry can be quickly and easily prepared with different tastes, because a lot depends on the impregnation of the cakes. The proposed recipe will surely please all sweet tooths, because the cream will be prepared on the basis of boiled condensed milk.

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Ingredients:

• 500 g puff pastry (ready-made);
• 200 g butter;
• 400 ml of boiled condensed milk;
• 100 ml cream (33%);
• berries and mint for decoration.

Preparation:

Roll out the previously defrosted dough into a thin layer and cut it into strips 2 cm wide

• We put the strips of dough on a baking sheet with parchment and send them to bake for 15 minutes, temperature 190 ° C.
• At this time, we will prepare the cream. To do this, pour cream and condensed milk into the container, beat until smooth.

In a separate bowl, beat the soft butter until it turns white. Then pour the mixture of cream and condensed milk into it in parts, stir, we get a cream

Cover the surface of the table with a film and lay out puff sticks on top, grease with cream, then again a layer of sticks and cream

Now, with the help of the film, we turn the sticks so that we get a log, which we put away in a cool place for several hours

We make crumbs from the remaining sticks

When the time comes, we take out the dessert from the refrigerator, remove the film, grease with cream on all sides and sprinkle with crumbs

We transfer the finished dessert to the dish, if desired, cut off the uneven sides to make the cake look neat, decorate with fresh berries and mint leaves.

Napoleon cake in 30 minutes

In just 30 minutes you can make a delicious and tender Napoleon cake from ready-made puff pastry. The recipe is quick, easy and requires only three ingredients.

Ingredients:

• 450 g puff pastry;
• 400 ml cream (33%);
• 200 ml of condensed milk.

Preparation:

We defrost the finished puff pastry, do not roll it out, but simply cut it into strips 1-1.5 cm wide

• We transfer the strips of dough onto a baking sheet with parchment and send them to the oven for literally 12-15 minutes, temperature 220 ° C.
• While the dough is in the oven, make the cream. To begin with, whip cold cream until fluffy. The main thing here is not to overdo it, so that the output does not turn out oil.

• Next, pour condensed milk into the creamy mass and stir until smooth. The cream should not turn out too thick, otherwise the cakes will be poorly saturated.
• Cover the rectangular shape with a film, coat the bottom with a thin layer of cream and lay out the sticks, on top of which we apply the cream.

Then again we make a layer of puff sticks, cream and thus collect the cake

We cover the form with the contents with a film and transfer it to a cool place for 12 hours

After we take out the cake, put it on a serving dish, remove the film and coat it with the remaining cream on all sides

The dessert is almost ready, it remains only to sprinkle it with crumbs. To do this, take the remaining puff sticks and simply break them with our hands into very small pieces.

Quick dessert with cream and dates

Today, the hostesses have several options for a quick and easy-to-prepare dessert "Napoleon" from ready-made puff pastry. Among them, one can single out very interesting recipes, such as, for example, a cake filled with dates and seeds, which can be replaced with nuts if desired.

Ingredients:

• puff pastry;
• 350 g filling (dates and seeds);
• 200 g butter;
• 1 jar of condensed milk.

Preparation:

• Cut the defrosted dough into strips 2-2.5 cm wide.
• In the middle of each piece of dough, lay out the dates cut into small pieces, which we sprinkle with seeds or crushed nuts.

We connect the edges of the strip, and transfer the resulting tubes with the filling to a baking sheet covered with parchment, bake at 200 ° C until golden brown

• For the cream, beat the butter, which must first be removed from the refrigerator, along with condensed milk.
• In any form covered with film, we collect the cake: a layer of tubes - a layer of cream, etc.

We wrap the collected dessert with cling film and put it in the cold for several hours

After we take out the cake, free it from the film and coat it with cream on all sides

To decorate the dessert, we use crumbs, for this you can grind any cookies or bake several strips of puff pastry without filling together with the tubes. You can also decorate the cake with fresh berries, and use any other dried fruits instead of dates

With sour cream

You can quickly and easily make Napoleon cake from ready-made puff pastry with sour cream. Dessert will certainly delight you with its delicate taste. The only thing is that a special thickener is needed for the recipe, since often the sour cream is too liquid.

Ingredients:

• 500 g puff pastry;
• 400 ml sour cream;
• 150 g sugar;
• 3 sachets of thickener for cream;
• 150 g chocolate waffles.

Preparation:

Cut the puff pastry into two squares, transfer to a baking sheet with parchment and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes, temperature 200 ° C

For the cream, mix the sour cream with sugar and a cream thickener

Grind the chocolate wafers into small pieces

Cut the finished puff cakes into two parts

We grease each cake with cream, and then the entire assembled dessert

Sprinkle the sides and top of the cake with waffle crumbs, which can be taken not only with chocolate flavor, but with creamy, lemon or berry flavor

Lazy "Napoleon"

Lazy "Napoleon" is prepared quickly and easily from puff pastry. According to the recipe, the cakes are soaked in a very delicate cream, so the cake turns out to be even tastier than according to the classic recipe.

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Ingredients:

• 500 g puff pastry;
• 100 ml of condensed milk;
• 200 ml of cream;
• 150 ml sour cream.

Preparation:

Cut the defrosted puff pastry into strips 1, 5 cm wide and 4-5 mm thick

We spread the strips on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C. We take the finished strips out of the oven and give them time to cool completely

For the cream, take cream with any percentage of fat and whip into a strong foam. Then we introduce sour cream into them in several steps. At the end, pour in the condensed milk and beat in a not very thick cream

Cover the form with cling film and lay out the cream with the first layer, distribute it evenly over the entire surface

We spread puff tubes on the cream, which we also cover with cream and thus collect the whole dessert

When the last layer of cream has been applied, cover the mold with a film and put it in a cool place for 12 hours

Then we take out the cake, put it on a dish, remove the film, cover it with the remains of the cream on all sides. Grind the remaining puff bars into crumbs and sprinkle the cake with them completely.

Puff pastry with custard and cherry sauce

Another recipe to share is Napoleon cake with custard and cherry sauce. It can be easily and quickly prepared from ready-made puff pastry.

Ingredients:

500 g puff pastry

For the custard:

• 1 egg;
• 75 g sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour;
• 200 ml of milk;
• 50 g butter.

For the cherry sauce:

• 100 g cherries;
• 25 g sugar;
• 7 g starch;
• 70 ml of water.

Preparation:

Divide the defrosted puff pastry into two parts, each roll out into a layer 2 mm thick

We transfer the dough to a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake each layer for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C

Cut the finished cakes in half, cut off the excess at the edges

For the custard, first beat the eggs and sugar. After that we fill in the flour, stir everything thoroughly and pour in cold milk. We send the resulting mixture to the fire and cook until thickened

Pour the cream into another container, add soft butter and stir until smooth

For cherry mousse, pour water into corn or potato starch, stir so that there are no lumps

• We send the cherries and sugar to the stewpan, bring to a boil, then pour in the diluted starch and keep the mousse over the fire until it thickens.
• Putting the cake together: coat each cake with cream and cherry mousse.

Grind the remaining puff pastry scraps into crumbs, sprinkle the cake completely and remove the dessert for soaking in a cool place for at least 6 hours.

This is how quickly and easily you can make the well-known Napoleon cake from ready-made puff pastry. Choose any recipe you like and indulge your loved ones with a delicious, sweet and delicate delicacy.