The ladies' fingers cake is a very delicate delicacy that should be prepared at home.
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When there is a dinner party and you need to serve a dessert to the table, which should like absolutely everyone without exception, look for the desired recipe in your culinary book and make the ladies' fingers cake. Of course, numerous recipes can confuse you, make you get confused and thoroughly think about choosing the right, and most importantly, delicious cake.
Another point that causes doubts may be baking eclairs - the main component of the ladies' fingers cake. In fact, the preparation of the dessert is not difficult, and these proven recipes will help you to decide on the choice of the desired cake.
Classic recipe for the cake "Ladies fingers"
- Butter - 200 g
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Water - 350 ml
- Cream 33% - 360 ml
- Wheat flour - 230 g
- Kurin egg - 5 pcs.
- Sugar - 260 g
- Sour cream 20% - 750 g
- Gorky chocolate - 40 g
- Food parchment
- Pastry bag
- Boil water, add salt to it and 160 g of butter. Remove the mixture from the heat and mix the contents of the container with flour. Having achieved the disappearance of lumps, put the pan again on the fire, bring the custard dough to a boil, not forgetting to mix all the time.
- You need to cook the dough only 2-3 minutes exactly until you get a plastic mass that will not stick to the walls of the container or hands. Transfer half the finished dough into another dishes, let cool a little and drive eggs into it.
- They must be added one at one thing, actively mixing the custard dough after adding each egg. A properly prepared dough should flow out of the bag slowly and smoothly.
- Squeeze the dough, loaded into a confectionery bag on a baking sheet in the form of cakes with a length of not more than five centimeters. Ecclex should be baked at a temperature of 220 ° C for 20 minutes, then it is necessary to slightly reduce the temperature and continue to bake for another 10 minutes. The total eclaire baking time is 30 minutes. For the cream, beat cool cream with sugar, and then put sour cream in the lush mass and beat the cream again until it becomes strong enough.
- Put several tablespoons of the cream on the bottom of the form and spread it evenly. Put the cakes tightly on top, trying to fill all the voids as much as possible. Pour a layer of cream, then place the next layer of eclairs and so on until both components of the cake end. The assembly of the cake ends with a layer of eclairs without a cream with a nest installed on top.
- The cake must be removed for at least 6-7 hours in the refrigerator so that it can brew and soak well. Turn the finished cake and put on a dish. You can decorate the ladies' fingers cake by using melted chocolate or preparing icing according to the following recipe.
- Melt 40 g of chocolate and 40 g of butter in a water bath, transfer the glaze into a confectionery syringe or a paper envelope and decorate the cake.
Cake recipe "Ladies fingers" with condensed milk
- Butter - 350 g
- Water - 230 ml
- Kurin egg - 4 pcs.
- Wheat flour - 230 g
- Condensed milk - 220 g
- Vanilin - 1 bag
- Milk or bitter chocolate - 40 g
- In fully melted 150 g of butter, pour 230 ml of water and bring to a boil. Remove the mixture from the heat for a short while, add the flour and mix very thoroughly, getting rid of each lump. Put the dough again on the fire and cook it at low temperature for several minutes.
- Actively mix the dough to prevent it from sticking and burning to the walls of the pan. Then cool the dough and enter the eggs into it, driving one at one thing. Squeeze the eclairs from the resulting parchment dough, and send them to bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C.
- For cream Beat 220 g of condensed milk with 200 g of warm butter and vanilla. The method of assembling the cake is identical to all recipes: a layer of cream, a layer of cakes, a layer of cream and so on. The cake must be covered and put under oppression in a cold place for insisting for six hours. After the indicated time, turn the cake, put on a festive dish and decorate with grated or melted chocolate.
Cake recipe "Ladies fingers" with cottage cheese and berries
- Butter - 250 g
- Kurin egg - 4 pcs.
- Water - 330 ml
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Wheat flour - 180 g
- Berry jelly - 2 packs
- Cottage cheese 9% - 400 g
- Egg yolk - 2 pcs.
- Fresh berries - 50 g
- Sugar - 200 g
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Put 250 ml of water on fire, add 100 g of butter with 0.5 tsp to it. Salt, bring the mixture to a boil. Constantly stirring, pour 180 g of flour into a boiling mixture and cook until the dough turns into a plastic mass. Cool a little dough and start to drive one egg, continuing to mix intensively.
- Put the dough for cakes on a baking sheet in the form of small sticks or small balls. Heat the oven and bake each portion for half an hour.
- For the cream, bring 80 ml of water to a boil and dissolve in it two packs of berry jelly of instant preparation. Turn off the fire and cool the thick sour mass.
- Combine and beat 400 g of cottage cheese with two yolks, 150 g of soft oil, 200 g of sugar and brewed jelly.
- Collect the cake, laying cakes and cream in layers, and let it brew during the night. Before serving, take out the cake and turn it on the prepared plate, decorate with berries and sprinkle with cinnamon.
The ladies' fingers cake are rightfully considered the best dessert with a soft delicate delicate taste. This cake can be served even the most demanding guests, being absolutely sure that such a dessert melting in the mouth will satisfy any, even the most exquisite taste.