This dessert is prepared very quickly and turns out incredibly tasty. In fact, the Napoleon cake made from lavash is in no way inferior to its classic counterpart with condensed milk, banana or custard. To prepare the dessert, you will need a set of the simplest ingredients, and even a novice cook can assemble such a whole cake.
What is the secret of the popularity of the Napoleon lavash cake? It's all about the subtlety of the cakes used. During the soaking process, the fresh, neutral-tasting dough becomes unusually juicy and sweet. There are many different recipes for Napoleon cakes made from lavash. We present to your attention some of them.
Cake "Napoleon" from lavash with condensed milk
To prepare a delicious dessert according to one of the simplest recipes, you should stock up on nine to twelve round pita breads in advance so that the cake is of sufficient height. In this case, you need to choose round tortillas or classic thin rectangular pita breads. The latter, due to their large size, are cut into two or three parts. The thinner they are, the more layers there should be in the cake.
Cooking tips
In order for the lavash cake to turn out sufficiently tall and fluffy, you should stock up on ten to twelve pancakes. It works on the principle of “the more, the tastier.” You can buy them at any store or bake them. You can choose any shape for the cake: square, round.
Another tip: there’s not enough filling, but you want to serve your guests a sweet and fluffy lavash cake? You just need to use the sweet syrup that you have on hand. There will be less cream, but the pita bread will be soaked, which will make it quite soft and juicy.
Store-bought pita bread is selected according to certain rules:
- First of all, you should pay attention to the cleanliness of the store and the hands of the seller. No one will be pleased if bread is prepared by unkempt and dirty employees.
- You should also make sure that there are no signs of mold on the product.
- If the pita bread is packaged in a bag, then it should have holes for unhindered air flow. Bacteria can often grow in humid environments.
If you adhere to these rules, you can choose the appropriate pita bread.
Lavash Napoleon cake: step-by-step recipe
The dessert is prepared like this:
- Large pita breads are cut (there should be exactly nine cake layers, from the tenth one it will be possible to make a topping). Round pita breads are used untouched, but rectangular ones should be adjusted to size.
- To make the cake as similar as possible to the classic Napoleon, make sure to dry the improvised cakes in a dry frying pan (without using oil) on the stove or in the oven. If this is not done, they will become “rubbery” during impregnation. In an oven preheated to 200 °C, or on the stove, keep the cakes for 2-3 minutes and remove. Stack on top of each other. The last 10th cake can be dried longer so that it breaks more easily.
- While the lavash cakes are cooling, begin preparing the cream. Using a mixer at low speed, mix the butter (softened) with condensed milk. The number of revolutions can be gradually increased slightly, but the oil should not break into fractions.
How to assemble a cake with condensed milk
Assembly is carried out in several stages:
- Coat each layer and carefully place the cakes one on top of the other. Before starting to lubricate each of them with condensed milk, dry pita bread is pressed against the stack so that it is slightly compacted.
- Next, the cake is left to “rest”, and in the meantime they begin to make the topping. The last dry pita bread is rolled out with a rolling pin or chopped with a knife, trying to keep the crumbs very small, so the dessert will look more aesthetically pleasing.
- Sprinkle them first on the top of the cake, and then, using a wide knife, on the side surfaces.
- After this, the “Napoleon” lavash cake with condensed milk cream is left to soak for 1-1.5 hours at room temperature. After this time, the dessert is put in the refrigerator, where it should soak for about 3-5 hours (preferably all night). After soaking, the treat will be tasty and juicy.
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We offer a recipe for Lavash Napoleon soaked in custard.
A thin lavash cake is not inferior to the classic version. Thin sheets are well soaked in custard, forming a soft, moist, juicy, tender and moderately sweet cake. This cake is often called “Lazy Napoleon” due to the speed of preparation, because there is no need to bake the cakes in the oven in advance. To make Napoleon cake from pita bread you will need:
- thin lavash – 600 g (3 packs)
For the custard:
- milk – 500 ml
- eggs – 2 pcs.
- sugar – 100 g
- butter – 50 g
- wheat flour – 2 tbsp.
- starch - 1 tbsp.
Lavash Napoleon cake - step-by-step recipe with photos:
First of all, start preparing the custard. Beat two chicken eggs into a saucepan, add the required amount of sugar.
Whisk the ingredients vigorously until you get a fluffy mixture with a lot of bubbles.
Sift the flour through a sieve, then add it to the liquid mass in small portions, stirring at the same time, eliminating lumps. At the same moment, add a small portion of starch.
Next, pour in the milk in a thin stream. The dairy product must be at room temperature.
Go through the mixture with an immersion blender, achieving the most homogeneous structure.
Place the container with the contents on the stove and adjust the heat slightly. Stir the cream constantly, otherwise the thickening mass will stick to the bottom of the container. Simmer the cream until it thickens, about 10 minutes. Then remove it from the stove and cool completely.
When the cream is warm, throw in a soft piece of butter. Stir continuously until the butter is completely incorporated into the mixture. Once completely cooled, the custard will thicken even more.
Meanwhile, prepare the pita bread. Cut large sheets of pita bread into pieces of the same shape and size. You can make any shape of the cake you choose - rectangular, square or round. The original is a rectangular shape. The more sheets you get, the more beautiful the cross-section of the cake will be.
Dry each sheet in a frying pan or in the oven.
Lavash after drying should not be soft, but hard, and not fried.
We will form Napoleon from pita bread on a flat dish of large diameter. Grease a layer of pita bread generously with custard, place the second one on top, pressing it down a little. If the fragile sheets break a little, it's okay.
Thus, grease all the sheets of pita bread with cream.
Leave about 4-5 sheets of lavash for sprinkling. Place them in a blender bowl and crush them into small pieces of different sizes. Cover the top and sides of the cake with the resulting shavings.
Lavash Napoleon cake is ready! First, leave it to soak at room temperature. After 2 hours, put the cake in the refrigerator for a day. A few hours before serving, remove from the refrigerator.
Bon appetit!
How to cook
Prepare pita bread as described in the recipe presented above. If desired, use 10 or 12 cakes. While the dried pita breads are cooling, they prepare the cream. It is made both with and without oil. In the first case, the cream will be more tender, in the second, its calorie content will decrease:
- Break four eggs and add 200 g of sugar. Whip everything until a fluffy foam is obtained. Add 40 g (two heaped tablespoons) of flour and vanilla on the tip of a knife. Pour in milk (450 ml) in a thin stream and mix with a mixer until smooth.
- The resulting mixture is placed on low heat and cooked until thickened with continuous stirring. The consistency of the cream can easily be varied according to the housewife's preferences: you just need to keep the cream on the stove for a little more or less time.
- Next, remove the product from the heat and cool (to speed up this process, the saucepan can be placed in water).
- The finished cream is used to lubricate the cakes. But some housewives advise improving it by adding oil to the product. Chop 200 g of butter into pieces and gently beat with the prepared custard. It is very important that the cream is used completely cool, otherwise the butter will melt and the product will be spoiled. The cream is also made from chocolate, dark or milk, and from bananas with the addition of walnuts - all these products radically change the taste of the cake, so you should choose your own option and experiment at your own discretion.
- Next, coat the cake layers and decorate the cake with crumbs, chocolate (grated) or fruit (fresh).
A quick dessert without baking is ready. Bon appetit!
CORN STICKS CAKE
An almost instant no-bake dessert recipe. You won't even have time to get tired
You will need:
- Corn sticks – 100-130 g
- Candies “Iriska” – 500 gr
- Butter – 200 gr
- Nuts, chocolate, jelly bears - to taste
Cooking method:
- Unwrap the toffees!
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the candies.
- Stirring thoroughly, dissolve the toffee into the caramel sauce.
- Remove the pan from the heat and quickly pour the corn sticks into it and quickly mix everything so that they are covered with caramel.
- Place the corn sticks on a plate, sprinkling them with chocolate pieces or gummy bears and worms if desired.
- By dipping your hands in cold water, we form a cake - a slide, a cube, an oval, as you like.
- We wait for it to cool down and serve.
