Today, in stores you can buy cakes for every taste, so desserts at home began to cook less and less. In vain, a self-made cake does not compare with a purchased one. It turns out not only tastier, but also healthier. Cake with dried apricots and prunes is quite simple to prepare, therefore, without a doubt, it will often appear on your table.
Cake with dried apricots and prunes - general principles
To begin with, all the components of the dessert are prepared: bake cakes, make a cream, prepare the filling.
Cakes can be biscuit, shortbread, honey, in butter, sour cream or milk. It all depends on taste preferences.
It can also be any cream. The main thing is to beat it well so that the mass is tender, uniform.
In addition to the main dried fruits, you can take others, as well as candied fruits, nuts.
Recipe 1. Classic cake with dried apricots and prunes with sour cream
Ingredients:
135 g margarine;
Condensed milk - 135 g;
Flour - 255 g;
Eggs - 2 pcs.;
45 g of baking soda;
15 ml of acetic acid;
55 g of cocoa powder;
525 g of sour cream of medium fat content;
Sugar - 545 g;
· 2 handfuls of dried apricots and prunes;
· 155 g of white chocolate;
65 g of dark chocolate.
Cooking method:
1. Wash all dried fruits, fill with clean warm water and leave for a while until the dough is kneaded and cakes are baked.
2. Margarine is placed in a pan, melt, cool a little and pour into a deep cup.
3. Spread condensed milk to margarine, carefully stir with a whisk.
4. Sift the flour, mix it with extinguished acetic acid soda and slowly pour it into the cream-milk mixture, mix thoroughly with a whisk.
5. In the resulting mass, break the eggs and knead with your hands until a thick, elastic state.
6. Cut the dough into three identical pieces. Sprinkle one slice of cocoa powder and mix well until the slice is completely brown.
7. Each piece is rolled into a thin cake and baked in a red-hot oven in a baking oven on a greased baking sheet a little less than half an hour.
8. The baked cakes are allowed to cool.
9. Dried fruits are laid out on a paper towel and left for several minutes to dry.
10. Put white chocolate on the pan and melt, cool slightly and dip part of the prunes in it.
11. The remaining prunes are cut into a cube along with dried apricots, spread on a flat tray and left to dry.
12. Prepare sour cream: put sour cream in a small cup, add sugar and beat at an average speed of the mixer for about 5-7 minutes.
13. First, put the white cake on a flat dish, spread it well with cream and spread pieces of dried apricots and prunes on the entire surface.
14. On it lay brown cake, also smeared with cream and lay out dried fruits.
15. Put the last cake and thoroughly grease it with cream, including the sides and top.
16. Optionally, sprinkle the surface of the cake with coconut or chocolate chips, and prunes in white chocolate are beautifully laid out in the middle.
Recipe 2. Cake with dried apricots and prunes in a pan
Ingredients:
Condensed milk - 345;
Eggs - 4 pcs.;
· The floor of a dessert spoon of soda;
· 35 ml of acetic acid of 9 percent;
Flour - 565 g;
· Milk - 245 g;
Sugar - 55 g;
Butter - 90 g;
· 100 g dried apricots and prunes.
Cream:
70 ml of milk;
· Egg - 1 pc.;
· Sugar - 4 dessert spoons;
Flour - 55 g.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the cream: one egg is broken into a small container, pour sugar in and beat thoroughly with a whisk. Pour milk, pour flour, put the container on the stove, turn on the smallest fire and, stirring often, heat until the mass thickens. Turn off the fire, put the butter and whisk again with a whisk for 2 minutes.
2. Start the dough for the base: put the condensed milk in a cup, pour in ordinary milk. Eggs are beaten, soda, previously quenched with acetic acid, is added, everything is mixed well. Slowly pour the sifted flour and knead the dough with your hands until a soft homogeneous state.
3. Cut the dough into several small pieces, take turns into flat cakes and bake in a dry, well-heated skillet from one side and the other to a light brown color.
4. Cakes cool slightly.
5. A small amount of cream is spread in a blender bowl. Add dried apricots and prunes, pre-soaked in water, and beat until tender, smooth consistency. Leave some dried fruit for decoration.
6. The resulting fruit cream is coated with cakes, spreading them on top of each other.
7. The surface of the last cake is smeared with a simple cream, decorated with dried fruit slices on top.
8. Before serving, allow to drink in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
Recipe 3. Cake with dried apricots, prunes and walnuts
Ingredients:
· Dried apricots, prunes, peeled walnuts - 255 g each;
365 g flour;
185 g of sugar;
· 5 eggs;
35 g soda.
On cream:
· High fat sour cream - 520 g;
5 large spoons of sugar;
Gelatin - 40 g;
Boiling water - 110 ml;
Vanillin - 15 g.
Cooking method:
1. Walnuts are sorted and ground in a blender.
2. Dried fruits are washed and left in warm water for a while to swell. The water is drained, and the fruits are laid out on a clean cloth to dry.
3. In a small cup, beat eggs with sugar at a low mixer speed for 4 minutes.
4. The sifted flour is combined with soda and slowly poured into the egg mixture, mixed with a mixer for 2 minutes.
5. Dried fruits are laid out in the dough, pre-cut into small pieces, and nuts are added, everything is thoroughly stirred with a spoon. Leave some fruit and nuts for decoration.
6. A baking sheet is greased with butter and spread half the dough, level the surface, put in a hot oven for 10 minutes.
7. The same is done with the second half of the test.
8. Cakes are placed on a clean cloth and left for a while to cool.
9. Cream is prepared: gelatin is diluted with hot water in a small bowl. In another cup, beat sour cream with sugar and vanilla with a mixer for 5 minutes. Slowly poured gelatin is poured into sour cream, everything is thoroughly stirred until a semi-thick homogeneous mass.
10. On a flat dish put one cake, smeared with cream, put the second and also smeared with cream, the side walls are also lubricated.
11. The surface of the cake is sprinkled with chopped nuts, slices of dried fruits are beautifully laid out.
12. The cake is kept for several hours in the refrigerator.
Recipe 4. Cake with dried apricots and prunes on kefir
Ingredients for the dough:
255 g of flour;
320 ml of kefir;
Sugar - 215 g;
· 2 eggs;
65 g of honey;
25 g of soda.
On cream:
Sugar - 165 g;
560 g of sour cream;
Prunes, dried apricots - 2 handfuls.
To lubricate the mold:
Margarine - 80 g.
Cooking method:
1. Soak dried fruits in warm water for 20 minutes.
2. Sifted flour, sugar, soda are mixed in a deep cup, kefir is poured, eggs, honey are added and everything is thoroughly beaten at a low speed of the mixer for 5 minutes.
3. Lubricate the form with margarine and pour 7 tablespoons of dough, put in a hot oven and bake for 8-10 minutes. Do the same with the rest of the test.
4. The baked cakes are cooled on metal grates.
5. Cream: in a cup combine sour cream, sugar, finely chopped prunes, dried apricots and beat thoroughly with a mixer at an average speed of 3 minutes.
6. Warm cakes are liberally coated with cooked cream.
7. The surface is decorated with slices of dried fruit or just optionally sprinkled with chopped any nuts.
8. They are allowed to drink in the refrigerator for two hours.
Recipe 5. Cake with dried apricots and prunes without eggs
Ingredients for the dough:
225 g margarine;
· 345 g sour cream with an average percentage of fat content;
· 1 kg of flour;
· 30 g of soda;
15 ml of acetic acid with a lower percentage of acidity;
· Salt - 5 g;
Vanillin - 3 g.
For filling:
Prunes, dried apricots - 210 g each;
Fruit jam - 135 g.
On butter cream:
· Butter - 360 g;
Vanillin - 2 g;
985 g of powdered sugar;
Milk - 55 ml.
To sprinkle:
Dark chocolate - 95 g.
Cooking method:
1. A dense, elastic dough is kneaded: soft margarine is finely chopped with a knife and mixed with sifted flour. In a clean cup, mix sour cream with hydrated acetic acid, soda, salt, vanilla, and mix well. Spread the butter and flour mixture on the countertop and knead the dough well with your hands until a dense, soft state. Wrap the dough in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour 30 minutes.
2. Cut the dough into 15 identical pieces. Each in turn is rolled into a thin layer 30 cm long, 10 cm wide.
3. All the stripes are greased with fruit jam, put along the entire length of the slurry of prunes and dried apricots, pre-soaked and ground in a blender.
4. Roll up.
5. Rolls are laid out on a greased frying sheet and placed in a red-hot oven for 12 minutes.
6. Rolls are cooled on a wire rack.
7. Oil cream: slightly melted butter is put in a deep cup and beat at the highest speed of the mixer for 6 minutes. Slowly, without turning off the mixer, pour vanilla, powdered sugar, pour in milk and whip for about the same time. Cool the cream in the refrigerator for half an hour.
8. The cooled rolls are placed on a flat plate: first in a row of six pieces, then five and four, each layer is greased with oil cream.
9. The top of the cake is also smeared with cream and sprinkled with grated chocolate.
10. Put the cake in the refrigerator and stand for 45 minutes.
Recipe 6. Cake with dried apricots, prunes and candied fruit
Ingredients for the dough:
· 15 percent sour cream - 245 g;
Flour - 265 g;
Sugar - 140 g;
Condensed milk - 485 g;
· Eggs - 3 pcs.;
Soda - 25 g;
· 9 percent vinegar - 35 ml;
Cocoa powder - 75 g;
Vanillin - 10 g.
On cream:
Fat sour cream - 375 g;
Condensed milk - 170 g;
· One egg.
To decorate:
Dried apricots, prunes, candied fruits - 125 g each;
Cognac - 155 ml.
On the icing:
220 ml of milk;
35 g butter;
· 20 g of cocoa;
15 g of vanillin;
· 10 g of nutmeg powder.
To soak the cake:
Cognac - 50 ml.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the icing: pour milk into a small metal saucepan, put butter, pour nutmeg, vanillin, cocoa, place on a stove on a medium flame and boil, stirring, until slightly thickened.
2. Dried apricots, prunes are washed well and soaked for a while in cognac, candied fruits are put here.
3. Of all the necessary ingredients, a dense, elastic dough is kneaded, wrapped in polyethylene, cooled in the refrigerator for half an hour. The dough is divided into several equal pieces, rolled into thin cakes and placed in turn on a greased baking sheet, baked in a hot oven for 10 minutes.
4. Sour cream: in a deep cup combine sour cream, condensed milk, protein, everything is well beat with a mixer for about 5 minutes.
5. From one baked cake, a circle is cut out with a saucer and placed on a flat dish, soaked in cognac.
6. The remaining cakes are cut into middle squares and dipped into sour cream each, spread them randomly on the cut out circle of the cake.
7. Dried fruits and candied fruits are removed from cognac, chopped with a knife and sprinkled with chopped squares of cakes.
8. On top lay the second layer of squares in sour cream.
9. Sprinkle with icing on top, optionally decorate with fresh berries. Put in the refrigerator for several hours.
Cake with dried apricots and prunes - tips
It is imperative that the cake stands in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours.
So it is well soaked, it turns out tender and juicy.
