Berry cake on the festive table - it is always not only tasty and beautiful, but also not very high in calories. Compared to other cakes, this delicacy does not really hit the figure as frankly as butter-nut or chocolate-cream cake.
Light, tasty and varied cakes can be baked with any berries. Especially popular are strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries, plums, currants. In winter, freshly frozen berry harvest is available. In addition, jam and berry preservation can always be taken in the filling and to decorate the top.
Berry cake - general principles of preparation
The main ingredient of the berry cake is a ripe seasonal berry. It is washed and discussed before use. From cherry and plum take out a stone.
The dough for the treat is most often biscuit. He will need a lot of eggs: the better you can beat them, the more magnificent the cake will be. Therefore, beat the egg base with a mixer. As a rule, housewives are advised to divide eggs into proteins and yolks and work with proteins separately. But actually it is not necessary. The main thing is to make the mass for the biscuit dense, well-kept in shape.
Cottage cheese is popular as a filling for berry cakes. The snow-white layer with delicate sourness is ideally combined with the taste and aroma of the berry. In addition, the filling can be made creamy-jelly using edible gelatin.
Those who especially follow the figure can try baking without flour or a berry treat without baking. It turns out original, tasty and with a minimum of calories.
The baking temperature of the biscuit cake, depending on the characteristics of the oven, ranges from 160 to 180 ° for about an hour. The height of the mold for the cake is important only for baking a biscuit, as it affects the height of the cake. Traditionally, housewives prefer detachable metal or silicone molds with a diameter of 20 mm.
Berry cream cake with rhapsody curd cream
Classic biscuit and curd filling make this version of berry cake the most popular. If you know how to bake biscuit cakes, then this delicacy can become the most favorite in the berry season.
Ingredients:
• a cup of any berries;
• half a liter of cream for whipping (at least 33%);
• a pack of cottage cheese (200 grams);
• three eggs;
• 60 g of white flour;
• a tablespoon of starch;
• 90 grams of sugar;
• six tablespoons of powdered sugar;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• a bag of vanillin (optional).
Cooking method:
First you need to beat the eggs. It is not necessary to divide them into proteins and yolks. Set the mixer to low speed, increasing revolutions every 2 minutes.
Five minutes later pour sugar, without stopping beating, and work with the egg-sugar mass from 7 to 10 minutes. It should turn out to be an elastic, tight, dense-looking foundation of a gentle cream color. The resulting volume is three times the original.
Sift flour through a sieve, after mixing it with baking powder and starch.
Carefully pour the flour into the eggs, stirring with a wooden spoon or spatula in a circular motion from top to bottom. The main thing is not to damage the air structure of the egg foam. The base should remain thick and lush.
Place parchment paper on the bottom of the mold. If you use foil, then it should be lightly greased with oil.
Pour the dough into the mold and bake the cake.
Leave the finished biscuit under the woven napkin until completely cooled.
While the cake is cooling, prepare the curd cream. To do this, rub the cottage cheese through a fine metal sieve.
Whip the cream, pouring vanilla and powdered sugar into them. Beat with a mixer until the mass thickens.
Combine the cottage cheese and cream, mixing until smooth.
Cut the cold biscuit into two or three parts (depending on the height of the cake).
The amount of cream divided into approximately three parts (if you get three cakes).
Brush the bottom cake with a creamy curd cream.
Put a layer of berries, cover with a second cake.
Repeat layers.
Garnish the cake with berries on top.
Leave to soak cakes for 1.5-2 hours.
Berry cake "Strawberry in white chocolate"
A very beautiful and delicious berry cake, successfully prepared, will become a real decoration of any feast. To create a masterpiece of culinary art, you will have to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, but the result is worth it.
Ingredients:
• soft butter (230 grams per dough and 250 grams per cream);
• seven eggs (four for dough and three protein for cream);
• a pound of white sugar 200 grams for cream and 300 grams for dough);
• white flour (380 grams);
• drinking yogurt (200 ml);
• bag of vanillin;
• lemon peel;
• a teaspoon of soda or baking powder;
• two tiles of white chocolate (100 grams each);
• Strawberry jam;
• three hundred grams of strawberries;
• two hundred grams of raspberries;
• one hundred grams of currant (preferably red).
Cooking method:
Immediately set the oven to warm up.
Remove the zest from the lemon.
Pre-soften the butter cake.
Pour sugar into melted butter and beat with a mixer.
Add one egg and a spoonful of flour without stopping whipping. Flour at this stage will not go all.
At the end of kneading add zest and vanillin.
Pour baking powder or soda into the remaining flour, sift.
Pour all the norm of flour into the butter whipped with eggs and pour in the yogurt.
Knead a homogeneous dough.
Pour half the dough into the prepared form and bake.
Bake the second cake.
Make cream. Place four squirrels in a water bath and beat until the mass warms up to 60 ° (if there is no special thermometer, focus on the sensitivity of the hands).
Remove the squirrels from the heat and beat for another 3-4 minutes until steady peaks appear.
Grease the lower cake first with jam, then with cream, cover with a second cake.
Coat the second cake and sides of the cake with the rest of the cream.
Grate chocolate and sprinkle cake on top and sides.
Garnish with berries, pour the remnants of chocolate chips over the berry layer.
Berry cake with delicate meringues
Meringue lovers should definitely try this version of berry cake from shortcrust pastry. Delicate crispy strips of dried proteins in combination with a berry layer - amazingly tasty treat.
Ingredients:
• two glasses of white flour;
• three eggs;
• two tablespoons of sugar in the dough, a glass of sugar in the filling;
• two hundred grams of butter;
• some jam or jam to taste;
• A pound of fresh berries.
Cooking method:
Divide eggs into proteins and yolks. Squirrels immediately put in the refrigerator.
Beat soft butter and sugar well.
Without stopping the whipping, introduce the yolks.
Then add the rate of flour and knead the dough. It should be soft.
Send the dough in a plastic bag or film to the refrigerator for half an hour.
Put cold dough into the mold, smooth with your hands, making the sides, and pierce it with a fork over the entire surface.
Bake in a well preheated oven for ten minutes at 200 °.
Grease the cake with a layer of jam.
Put on top your favorite berries.
Beat cold proteins with sugar until a dense, elastic mass.
Put the squirrels on top of the berries.
Bake in the oven until the meringue is browned for half an hour.
Sour cream jelly berry cake
In a hot summer, a light jelly cake with berries will cheer you up and not ruin your digestion. From a minimum of the product you can cook a wonderful treat for the whole family.
Ingredients:
• two eggs;
• 40 grams of edible gelatin;
• one hundred grams of finished pancake flour;
• bag of baking powder;
• one hundred grams of butter;
• one hundred grams of white sugar;
• a bag of vanilla sugar (you can take vanillin);
• three hundred grams of sour cream;
• half a glass of powdered sugar;
• two hundred grams of berry mixture;
• red currants for decoration.
Cooking method:
From eggs, flour, baking powder, butter, sugar and vanilla, substitute the dough.
Put in a mold and bake in a hot oven.
Dissolve gelatin by prescription.
Beat sugar with a sour cream mixer so that there are no grains.
Pour gelatin into the sour cream base.
Break the cooled cake into pieces.
Cover the cup with the round bottom with cling film so that the long edges remain, and lay out the berries.
Put slices of biscuit in a second layer.
Repeat layers.
Pour the future berry cake with sour cream and gelatin mixture.
Wrap the edges of the film up.
Send in the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.
Unfold the film, knock the cake over to the dish and serve.
Berry cake without baking
For those who appreciate the speed, created a "lazy" version of the cake. No need to bake it. It turns out pretty tasty.
Ingredients:
• two glasses of chocolate or honey peas for a quick breakfast;
• two hundred and fifty grams of mascarpone soft cheese;
• two tablespoons of butter;
• one and a half glasses of strawberries;
• three hundred grams of strawberry yogurt;
• five tablespoons of powdered sugar (or white sugar);
• two teaspoons of gelatin;
• a third of a glass of milk;
• a bag of jelly for the cake;
• some berries for decoration.
Cooking method:
Gelatin powder is poured with milk for swelling.
Melt the butter.
Combine crispy balls, butter and two tablespoons of powdered sugar, mix.
Cover the bottom of the mold with removable sides with baking paper.
Lay out the base of the cake.
Spread washed, dried strawberries.
Beat soft cheese with yogurt and remaining sugar with a mixer.
Melt gelatin, pour into mass.
Cream pour the balls with berries.
Refrigerate for three hours.
Garnish with berries.
Dilute the gelatin for the cake and pour it on top with berries.
Flourless Berry Chocolate Cake
This variant of berry cake is suitable for fans of harmony. Not a gram of flour and great taste - a reward for constant control over cravings for sweets.
Ingredients:
• six eggs;
• one hundred and thirty grams of butter;
• two hundred and thirty grams of granulated sugar;
• two tablespoons of cocoa;
• three hundred grams of dark chocolate (65-70% cocoa);
• a pinch of salt;
• two tablespoons of vegetable oil (for form);
• fresh berries in any combination (about half a kilo);
• four hundred milliliters of cream for whipping go oily sour cream;
• half a lemon.
Cooking method:
Turn on the oven 180 °.
Lubricate the mold with a piece of butter.
Melt chocolate broken into pieces in a water bath.
Two eggs break into a bowl.
Separate the remaining eggs, pour the proteins into a separate bowl, and send the yolks to the first two eggs.
Beat the whites first with a pinch of salt, then with 130 grams of sugar. The mass should acquire a thick consistency, and the sugar should dissolve.
Add cocoa to the yolks, mix.
Pour eggs with yolks into liquid chocolate, stirring vigorously.
Put whipped proteins in portions, mix gently.
Pour into shape, smooth.
Bake for forty minutes.
Allow to cool without removing from the mold.
Remove the zest from the lemon half and squeeze the juice.
Prepare the cream by whipping the cream with the remaining sugar, juice and zest until thick.
Grease the cake with cream, decorate with berries and let it brew to the refrigerator.
Berry Cake - Tips and Tricks
The main difficulty is the preparation of biscuit cake. To make it successful, you must follow these rules:
• use warm eggs, taking them out of the cold in advance;
• do not oil the sides of the mold, otherwise the rising mass will not “cling” to anything and the cake will fall off;
• after pouring the dough into the mold, you need to scroll it several times clockwise so that a funnel appears in the center. In this case, there will be no “hump" on the cake;
• the oven door cannot be opened in the process and immediately after baking (the biscuit will fall off);
• when the cake is baked, you need to slightly open the oven and leave it to “breathe” for 15 minutes.
