The life of housewives at times facilitated the appearance on the market of ready-made puff pastry. Dough for every taste with the addition of yeast, or without them, is suitable for cooking both sweet and salty baked goods.
In this article we will share with you the recipes of puff pastry cakes, as well as the way of making a home puff pastry, which can significantly save your money.
Recipe for a puff pastry "Napoleon"
"Napoleon" is, perhaps, the most famous cake cooked on the basis of a puff-free batter, so an article like ours simply could not do without such a recipe.
Ingredients:
For puff pastry:
- butter - 400 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- water - 150 ml;
- flour - 6 items;
- vodka - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt - pinch.
For custard:
- egg yolks - 7 pieces;
- milk - 6 items;
- sugar - 1 ½ st .;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon;
- flour - 1 item;
- butter - 150 g.
Preparation
Mix water with vinegar and vodka. In another bowl, beat the eggs and salt. We connect both prepared mixtures.
We sift the flour and mix it with chopped cold oil. Add the water to the flour crumb and mix the smooth and firm dough. Divide the dough into 12 balls and leave them in the refrigerator for an hour.
In the meantime, we'll take care of the cream. Beat eggs and sugar in a bowl, add milk (100 ml). We pour the flour into the mixture and again beat everything to smoothness. The remaining milk is brought to a boil. Egg mixture pour into a saucepan and stirring intensely, pour hot milk to the eggs. Cook the cream on low heat, without stopping stirring, until thick. We add butter to the cream, mix everything again and cover the pan with a film.
The dough is taken from the refrigerator, finely rolled and baked until golden color at 200 degrees. One cake is cut into small pieces, and the rest is smeared with custard . Sprinkle the cake with crumbs and set to soak in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
Snack cake from puff yeast dough
Ingredients:
- puff yeast dough - 1 pack;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- tomato paste - 2 tsp;
- coriander (ground) - 1/2 tsp;
- sugar - 1/2 tsp;
- ground beef - 250 g;
- grated hard cheese - 150 g;
- Butter - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- cream - 100 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Puff knead yeast dough and cut into cakes. Each biscuit is baked according to the instructions on the package. Ready cakes cool.
In the frying pan, we warm up the vegetable oil and fry the onion on it until it is transparent. After the onion, we send stuffing to the frying pan and fry the meat until ready. We make tomato paste in a glass of water, add salt, sugar, pepper and ground coriander. Fill the tomato mixture with minced meat and stew everything until thick. If necessary, you can add a little flour.
In another pan until golden brown, fry the flour in butter. We mix the mixture with milk, season it to taste and cook the sauce until thick.
On the cakes alternately lay out meat and white sauce. The last cake is sprinkled with grated cheese and put the cake in the oven, so that the cheese melts. We serve the cake to the table.
Fish cake made from ready-made puff pastry
Ingredients:
- ready cakes puff pastry - 1 package;
- smoked salmon - 300 g;
- cheese "Philadelphia" - 1 package;
- pepper - to taste;
- dill greens - to taste;
- lemon juice.
Preparation
This cake is prepared in a few minutes. In a bowl, put the cheese "Philadelphia", add to it pepper, lemon juice and chopped greens of dill. We carefully beat the cheese mass with a mixer. Lubricate the baked puff cakes with cheese mass and spread over thin slices of smoked salmon. Before serving, let the cake stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour.