"Napoleon" - the most delicate dessert with custard. A classic cake is made from puff pastry, but this dish can be prepared without baking, using several sheets of regular pita bread for your culinary masterpiece.
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“Napoleon” from pita bread, although it differs in taste from a classic puff pastry cake, but it is by no means worse. If you strictly follow the recipe for making sweets using specific ingredients, then the dish will turn out to be tender and moderately sweet.
It is also worth considering that the taste of the cake and its consistency directly depends on pita bread. Thin “pancakes” are ideal for the recipe, because it is thanks to them that the dessert turns out to be airy and tender. No, of course, you can use thick sheets of pita bread in the preparation of the cake, in this case, less cakes will be needed, but the food will need more time to soak in the cream. Therefore, if you need to cook something quickly for tea, it is better to use a lot of thin cakes and not skimp on the cream (the more it is, the more tender the cake will turn out).
Napoleon from pita bread with custard without baking
The advantage of this cake is that it does not require baking and takes only half an hour (this is not taking into account the time for impregnation). It is also worth noting that the dessert turns out to be more dietetic in comparison with the classic version of the dish, its calorie content is only 240 kcal per 100 grams of product, while the calorie content of an ordinary cake is 350 kcal and more.
Ingredients:
- 10 sheets of pita bread;
- liter of milk;
- three eggs;
- three tablespoons of flour;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of sugar (you can take less, it all depends on taste preferences).
Step by step recipe:
If the pita breads are rectangular in shape, then use a sharp knife and a round plate of suitable diameters to cut out the rounded cakes. The recipe states that 10 sheets of pita bread are needed, so 20 sheets of cake should be cut from these sheets (the optimal amount to get a high cake).
Dry each cake in a hot frying pan on both sides. It is necessary to achieve that the sheets become brittle. Spend one or two minutes of time drying each cake (make sure that the workpieces are not burnt).
Break the eggs into the pan and add sugar to them. Beat these ingredients to double the mass. Add flour to the egg mass and beat everything again.
Add a liter of milk to the mixture, mix and place on a stove over low heat. Heat the mass to 70-80 degrees, not forgetting to stir the product so that it does not burn. As soon as bubbles begin to appear on the surface of the cream, remove the pan from the heat, add oil to the mixture and whisk everything.
Start assembling the cake. Put one cake on a flat dish and grease it with plenty of previously prepared cream. Put on the smeared cake the following preparation of pita bread and also grease it with cream. So do the procedure with all the cakes.
Dry the pieces of pita bread that remained when cutting the cakes, dry them well in a pan, then grind them into medium-sized crumbs using a rolling pin. Sprinkle the cake on top with the resulting product. Leave the cake at room temperature for an hour, and after the indicated time, put it in the refrigerator to cool for another hour.
Before serving, the food can be decorated as you wish. For decoration, sliced fruit, berries or nuts are suitable.
"Napoleon" from pita bread with condensed milk
If you want to enjoy a delicious dessert or to please your loved ones with such a dish, but there is absolutely no desire to mess around with the preparation for a long time, you can prepare a delicious pita bread cake with condensed milk. The delicacy created according to this recipe is not dietary, but still a couple of times a year you can indulge yourself and enjoy the taste of this dessert.
Ingredients:
- two packs of pita bread;
- can of condensed milk;
- 150 grams of butter.
Step by step recipe:
First of all, decide on the shape of the future cake. If you want to cook a rectangular cake, then just cut the sheets of pita bread in half and trim the edges of the cakes so that they are the same size and shape.
Fold all the cakes on top of each other and place on a dry baking sheet. Dry the sheets in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about five minutes (they should become brittle).
Korzh, which was on top, using a rolling pin, grind into crumbs. Set the product aside.
Pour the condensed milk into a bowl and add grated butter to it (the butter should be frozen, then grated on a coarse grater and left at room temperature for 30 minutes to make it soft). Mix everything thoroughly.
Put a tray in front of you, and place one cake on it, grease it with condensed milk with butter. On the smeared cake, put the next sheet of pita bread and also coat it with a cream of condensed milk. Continue to collect the cake until the cakes or condensed milk run out. Sprinkle Napoleon with the previously prepared crumbs.
Let the dish soak in “cream” at room temperature (30-40 minutes), then put the cake in the refrigerator to cool. You can serve dessert with any hot drink.
"Napoleon" from pita bread with cottage cheese
If you want to cook a delicious delicate dessert using homemade cottage cheese, then take a look at this recipe. This layer cake, richly soaked with sour cream and curd cream, has a rich creamy taste.
It is worth noting that if you add any food coloring to the cream, you can give the dish a more interesting color. Such a dessert, perhaps, will not leave indifferent any child.
Ingredients:
- five to eight sheets of pita bread of a suitable size;
- 500 grams of tender fat cottage cheese;
- 250 ml of sour cream 15% fat (thicker will not work, as the cakes are poorly saturated and the cake will turn out to be dry);
- ½ cup sugar;
- 50 grams of butter.
Step by step recipe:
Cottage cheese pass through a sieve a couple of times, add all the sugar and sour cream to it. Beat all the ingredients with a mixer (it is necessary that the sugar is completely dissolved).
Cover the baking sheet with oiled parchment. Put the first sheet of pita bread on the parchment, brush it with melted butter, and then apply a little curd cream with a spatula. Try to evenly distribute the cream throughout the cake.
On the cream, put the next sheet of pita bread and repeat the procedure again. Thus, assemble the cake completely. The last layer - the final - cream.
Place the cake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes. The cake is ready. Cutting the dessert is best before it cools.
