Cake

This section contains step-by-step recipes for cakes with photos - at home. Here you can also find simple, easy cake recipes that you can please your family not only on holidays.

Such delicacies can be divided into several groups, classifying them according to the composition of cakes and cream, the number of layers, cooking method.

Classification by composition

Choosing a recipe for a delicious cake, first of all pay attention to the types of cakes (sponge cake, sand, waffle, etc.) and the composition of the cream (custard, cottage cheese, butter, etc.). It is these components that affect the taste of the dish and its calorie content.

Dough

1. Sponge cakes, except flour, are based on beaten eggs. Cakes after baking are soft even without impregnation.
2. Puff pastry, as it is already clear from the name, is prepared from puff pastry. The cakes are made very thin, and you need a lot of them for the cake. This dessert has a high calorie content, as a lot of oil is added to the dough.
3. Sponge cakes, except flour, are based on beaten eggs. Cakes after baking are soft even without impregnation.
4. Puff cakes, as the name implies, are made from puff pastry. The cakes are made very thin, and you need a lot of them on the cake. This dessert is high in calories, as a lot of butter is added to the dough.
5. Shortbread - dry and crumbly, as the dough is prepared on the basis of fats. To make the product softer, the cakes are soaked in wine or syrup.
6. For honey cakes, the dough is made with the addition of honey. Any cream is suitable for baking with honey.
7. Waffle cakes are made from waffle cakes, which are more often bought ready-made. But there are recipes for cakes, where cakes are prepared at home in a waffle iron. Waffle cakes are low-calorie.

Cream

1. Custard is prepared by heating from cream or milk with the addition of sugar and eggs. They make the Napoleon cake and a number of other classic cakes with it.
2. Butter keeps its shape well, it is used to make details for decorating cakes. For buttercream, use quality unsalted butter with 82.5% milk fat.
3. For cottage cheese cream you need fresh cottage cheese 5% - 9% fat.
4. Sour cream creams are very soft and tender, tasting with a slight sourness. A good cream is obtained only from fat sour cream.

By cooking method

There are two ways of making cakes: "with baking" and "without baking". In the first case, the cakes are baked on their own, and in the second, ready-made cookies, waffles or similar products are bought instead.

Sometimes cottage cheese and jelly (like blancmange) desserts are called cakes – the recipes are simple, they are prepared without baking, but this is a different kind of dessert.

Choose a delicious cake recipe and cook with pleasure!