Don't have the time and desire to bake cakes for your favorite cake for a long and tedious time? Then make the Napoleon cake from ready-made yeast-puff pastry. The superbly delicate taste of the delicacy will surprise and delight every eater. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
All housewives know the traditional "Napoleon" in a variety of versions. However, not many people want to bother with baking cakes for him. In this case, you can easily prepare your favorite delicacy using puff yeast dough. A semi-finished product is a great way out for those who are not “friendly” with baked goods. Such a Napoleon cake made from puff yeast dough is much faster and easier to make than the classic version. Since the dough is completely ready, it does not need to be kneaded or rolled out. Nowadays, you can buy frozen plates at any store. In this case, the cake will turn out to be just as magically tasty and airy. Napoleon according to this recipe will not leave anyone indifferent, and even a beginner can cope with its preparation. Take this method into service, and replenish the piggy bank of sweets in case of unexpected guests and unplanned tea parties. Such a cake will look good on a festive table.
The classic version of Napoleon is made with custard in milk. But if desired, the cream can be replaced with another one that you like more. Also, a well-known delicacy can be diversified by adding chopped bananas, strawberries and other fruits to it. This will make it even tastier.
See also how to make homemade Napoleon cake.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 569 kcal.
- Servings - 1 cake
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Puff yeast dough - 1 kg
- Butter - 75 g
- Eggs - 6 pcs.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
- Milk - 1 l
- Sugar - 200 g
- Flour - 4 tablespoons without top
Step-by-step preparation of Napoleon from puff yeast dough, recipe with photo:
1. Defrost the cakes of the ready-made commercial dough naturally without using a microwave oven. Cut them into layers as large as you want to see the size of the finished cake, and place them on a baking sheet without rolling.
2. Bake the dough in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 15 minutes until a golden crust forms on the cakes.
3. Remove the baking sheet with the dough from the oven, and while it is hot, cut the crust lengthwise into 2 pieces. Place them on a baking sheet, cut side up.
4. Send the cakes back to the preheated oven to 180 degrees, bake for another 7-10 minutes.
5. In the meantime, prepare the cream. Pour the yolks into the pan in which you will cook the cream. The whites are not needed for the cream, so put them in a bowl, cover with cling film and send them to the refrigerator.
6. Add sugar to the yolks.
7. Beat the yolks and sugar with a mixer until smooth and fluffy, lemon-colored. Then pour room milk into them.
8. Mix milk with yolks with a mixer and add sifted flour through a fine sieve. Mix the food again with a mixer until smooth.
9. Place a saucepan on the stove over medium heat and simmer the cream, stirring constantly to prevent lumps from forming.
10. As soon as the first bubbles appear on the surface of the cream, remove the pan from the stove, but continue stirring it for another 5 minutes.
11. Place the butter and vanilla sugar in the cream. Stir the cream and leave to cool to room temperature.
12. On the plate in which you will collect the cake, apply a small layer of cream to soak the cake from the bottom.
13. Place the baked crust on the cream.
fourteen. Spread cream on the cake with a generous layer.
15. Continue to lay out all the cakes one by one and grease them with cream.
16. Spread cream over the edges of the cake so that it is well saturated on all sides.
17. Sprinkle the puff pastry napoleon with crushed nuts, cookie crumbs, cake trimmings, or any other powder. Leave it to soak at room temperature for 3 hours, then wrap it with cling film to keep it dry and refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Then the homemade cakes will be ready for tasting.
See also a video recipe on how to make Napoleon cake from ready-made puff pastry.
