Below are the recipes for the five most popular cake creams.
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How to make custard for a cake
Custard layered cakes "Napoleon", "Ginger" and "Honey", they also fill it with eclairs and custard cakes. When preparing custard, you need to be very careful, otherwise you can ruin everything, but if you follow all the recommendations, you get a melting mouth and a delicious cream!
Ingredients
- 500 ml of milk;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
- 4 yolks;
- 50 g flour
Cooking
Mash the yolks with sugar and vanilla sugar. Add flour and mix. Heat the milk. As soon as it begins to boil, immediately turn off the heat, do not boil!
Gently pour the milk into the yolks in a small stream in a thin stream. Stir the mixture and put on a small fire. Boil the cream, stirring continuously, until thickened. Cool the resulting cream and begin to forge over the cake! If you wish, you can add pieces of chocolate to the still hot mixture, and then you get a chocolate custard.
How to make butter cream
This is perhaps the most popular and simple cream recipe. Many were able to do it in childhood! The cream can be used in combination with any cakes: waffle, biscuit, honey, sand.
Ingredients
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 200 g butter
Cooking
Put butter (softened) and condensed milk in a bowl and beat with a mixer. First you should whip the cream at a low speed, and then gradually increase it. The finished cream is a thick mass of white. If desired, it can be varied with various additives: before whipping, add banana slices, strawberries or melted chocolate to the main ingredients.
How to make sour cream
A variety of sour cream and honey cake are layered with sour cream, and it is also traditionally used in the preparation of cakes "Monastery hut", "Count ruins" and others. You can apply this cream to pancakes or cheesecakes.
Ingredients
- 1 liter of 20% sour cream;
- 250 g of sugar;
- zest of one lemon (optional);
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
Cooking
Whip all the ingredients with a mixer.
Cream of boiled condensed milk
Usually, this cake is layered with honey cake and anthill cakes, you can also fill it with eclairs, nuts, custard rolls.
Ingredients
- 1 jar of boiled condensed milk;
- 200 g butter
Cooking
Before starting to prepare the cream, it is necessary to remove the condensed milk and oil from the refrigerator and wait until they warm to room temperature. Put the prepared products in a large container and beat with a mixer until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Usually, three minutes is enough to achieve this.
Useful advice: if you want to impress guests and prepare a truly luxurious cake, use two types of cream: sour cream and cream of boiled condensed milk. Spread cakes with them alternately when you collect the cake - you get an original and delicious dessert. These two creams are ideally combined with honey cakes, so you can use them when preparing a honey cake.