By the festive occasion, you can make a cake "Lady's fingers", its recipe is quite simple to perform, and the finished cake will look very impressive on the table.
Tell you how to make a cake "Lady fingers".
The recipe for the cake "Lady's fingers"
To prepare the cake "Lady's fingers" we need separate custard cookies, eclairs , a delicate cream made from ready-made chocolate and sour cream (or better from thick unsweetened yogurt).
Ingredients:
- egg of chicken - 5 pcs .;
- natural butter - 100 g;
- cognac or rum - 30 ml;
- flour - 1 glass;
- milk - 1 glass.
For cream:
- sour cream or thick unsweetened yogurt - about 700 ml;
- sugar - 100-150 g;
- chocolate - 150 g.
Preparation
First we prepare the brewed dough for eclairs: rinse the ladle with water, pour the milk, heat it on the fire and melt the butter in the milk. We bring to the beginning of boiling with continuous stirring. We add flour and cognac to this mixture.
Slightly cool and inject into the egg mixture, vigorously mixing until uniform.
Preheat the oven to a temperature of about 200 ° C.
We spread the baking sheet with baking paper and cover it with butter. Squeeze out long strips of dough (about 8 cm) - billets of eclairs - using a confectionery bag or a syringe. Bake eclairs for 20 minutes, then turn off the fire and, opening the door, let the eclairs cool in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.
Cooking cream: rub carefully sour cream or yogurt with sugar. Add the melted chocolate, stir.
Usually, individual eclairs are filled with cream and poured from above. It is necessary to fill eclairs with cream before folding the cake or do it in the process of construction. If you have a confectionery syringe or a special bag with a nozzle, it will be easy to fill the cakes. In a simplified version, we cut the eclairs from one side and fill it with cream.
On the dish, we spread out the cake from the eclairs, promazyvaya each layer of cream cakes. Place the cake for 3 hours in a cool place to soak up.
If you want the cream in eclairs and on the cake to froze, you need to add a little gelatinous aqueous solution (gelatin needs 10-25 g).
Cake "Lady fingers" with cherry
Cherries are taken fresh pitted or canned in their own juice, or frozen. Cherry for a while we put in a colander, let the juice drain, then pour it with a mixture of sugar and cornstarch. We spread cherries alternately with eclairs (read the first recipe, see above). A little cherry juice can be included in the cream.
Ready cake "Lady fingers" after the cream is well sprinkled with chopped nuts and grated chocolate. After that, the cake should be put in a cool place for about 3 hours, so that all eclairs are well soaked with cream.
We serve cake "Lady fingers" with tea, coffee or rooibos.
There is another version of the cream for eclairs and for the cake "Lady's fingers" - chocolate-custard.
Ingredients:
- yolks of chicken eggs - 2-3 pcs .;
- sugar - about 50 g;
- milk of medium fat content - 250 ml;
- corn starch - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
- bitter chocolate - 100 g;
- Butter - 20 g.
Preparation
Thoroughly grind yolks, sugar and starch in a bowl.
Pour the milk into a wet dipper and bring to a boil over medium heat.
Slightly cool the milk and pour a thin trickle into a bowl with yolks with continuous stirring. Filter this mass through a sieve into a clean pan. At the lowest heat, we warm up a little, stirring to the desired degree of thickening.
In another container, melt the chocolate (preferably in a water bath).
Mix milk and egg custard with chocolate.
Slightly cool the cream, fill them with eclairs and build a custard cake "Lady fingers".