Napoleon Cake - Classic Recipe from Grandma Emma

There are quite a few versions of the appearance of this dessert, which has become traditional at all festive events. The most beloved in Russia is the one that talks about the presentation of the cake in 1912, when Moscow celebrated the 100th anniversary of the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The most delicate flaky delicacy, named after the French emperor, was served in the form of cakes cut into triangles. A similar shape was supposed to be associated with the famous three-cornered hat. The popularity of the delicacy was downright impressive.

Other sources confidently say that the cake originates from French cuisine. Legend has it that the cook, whose name was lost in historical chronicles, in an effort to impress the crowned ruler, cut the traditional national cake “Royal Galette” into portions. He coated his cakes with custard and strawberry jam mixed with whipped cream. The idea turned out to be very successful, and the cake itself was sold all over the world under the name “Napoleon”.

Now every self-respecting sweet tooth knows the taste of the popular dessert. We have collected a selection of his most original and interesting recipes.

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Homemade Napoleon cake made from puff pastry - step by step photo recipe

The essence of any Napoleon cake is a multi-layer base and custard. For it, you can use ready-made puff pastry, but if you have a little time, it’s better to make homemade puff pastry. If you don’t have the time or desire to bother with milk and egg custard, you can make regular buttercream. For homemade Napoleon cake you need:

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Quantity: 6 servings

Mixing the ingredients

The next step in preparing the “Napoleon from Grandma Emma” cake is to combine the prepared ingredients. To do this, in the formed slide, you need to make a depression in the center and gradually pour the mixture cooled in the refrigerator into it and mix.

A simple puff pastry needs to be formed fairly quickly, but under no circumstances should you knead it, as it will lose its layeriness. The dough must be lifted from the sides to the middle, as if laid out in layers and not pressed too hard. After this, you need to wrap it in film and place it in the refrigerator for eight to ten hours.

How to make a delicious Napoleon cake with condensed milk - the best cream for those with a sweet tooth

The main highlight of this recipe is the very sweet, but quick to prepare cream.

Required ingredients:

• 0.3 kg flour;
• 0.2 kg of quality margarine;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 ml water;
• 1 tbsp. fat sour cream;
• a can of store-bought condensed milk;
• a stick of butter;
• lemon zest, vanillin.

The procedure for preparing Napoleon, beloved by all sweet tooths:

1. Cut the margarine into small pieces and give them a quarter of an hour to soften a little. When this happens, use a mixer to bring it until smooth, then add the eggs, continuing to knead.
2. In small parts add flour into the butter-egg mixture, and then water and sour cream.
3. Set aside the mixture until smooth and set aside for 30 minutes.
4. We have to make 6 cakes from the resulting dough, so we divide it into the appropriate number of parts.
5. We bake the cakes rolled out in the shape of a circle, after piercing them in several places with a fork, in a hot oven. Try to brown them, but not to dry them out; usually a quarter of an hour is enough for this.
6. While the first cake is baking, we begin to roll out and pierce the second one with a fork, and so on.
7. From the six prepared cakes, choose the most unsightly one in your opinion, leaving it for dusting.
8. Let's start preparing the cream. Everything here is extremely simple: mix condensed milk with slightly softened butter, beat using a mixer. The addition of zest and vanilla will give the cream pleasant and harmonious notes.
9. Place the bottom cake on a dish, generously grease with cream, cover with another cake, repeat the described process. Finely crumble the rejected cake and sprinkle it generously over the top and edges of the cake.

The most delicious Napoleon cake made from ready-made dough

When the desire to please guests and loved ones is great, but there is no desire to bother with kneading dough, the right decision is to bake your favorite cake from ready-made dough.

Required ingredients:

• 1 kg of ready-made puff pastry without yeast;
• can of condensed milk;
• 0.2 kg butter;
• 1.5 tbsp. 33% cream.

The procedure for preparing a simple, tasty and very high Napoleon:

1. Carefully unroll the defrosted dough. We cut each of the half-kilogram rolls into 4 parts, i.e. in total we will have 8 pieces.
2. Roll out a round cake from each, cut out an even circle from it using a plate of a suitable size (22-24 cm in diameter).
3. Lubricate the rolling pin used for rolling and the work surface with oil.
4. Prick each cake with a fork and then transfer to a baking sheet lined with wax paper. We put the trimmings aside.
5. Baking each cake in a hot oven takes about a quarter of an hour.
6. We do this with each cake, baking the scraps separately.
7. Now you can pay attention to the cream. To do this, beat the slightly softened butter with condensed milk at low speed. Separately whip the chilled cream; when it begins to hold its shape, transfer it to the cream, carefully mix with a wooden spoon until smooth.
8. Next we start assembling the cake. Without saving inappropriately in this case, we grease the cakes with cream and stack them on top of each other. Grind the trimmings to crumbs and sprinkle them on the sides and top.
9. Before serving, it is advisable to place the cake in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours. During this time, he will have time to soak in perfectly.

Baking cakes

1. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-4 mm. We only need 2/3 of the finished dough. This portion is designed for 25 people. You need to bake 2 identical cake layers and a third 2-3 mm thick for topping.
2. Place the dough on a baking sheet and prick it in several places so that it does not swell.
3. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees and place the dough in it. Bake the cake for about 20 minutes. The finished cake is well browned and does not sag when rising.
4. In the same way we bake the second cake and the third cake.

Napoleon cake made from ready-made cake layers

To prepare this more than acceptable alternative to completely homemade baked goods, you will have to look at the nearest large supermarket and buy:

• ready-made cakes;
• a stick of butter;
• 1 liter of milk;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.3 kg granulated sugar;
• 50 g flour;
• vanilla.

Cooking procedure:

1. Break the eggs into a saucepan, add sugar and flour, stir until smooth and put on the stove.
2. Gradually add milk, continuing to stir all this time. When the mass begins to remind you of semolina porridge, remove it from the heat, cool and put it in the refrigerator.
3. Add softened butter and vanilla to the completely cooled cream and beat.
4. We generously grease each of the finished cakes with cream and arrange them on top of each other. Finely crumble one of the cakes and sprinkle the top of our lazy Napoleon.
5. Place the almost finished cake in the refrigerator to soak for 6 hours.

Description of preparation:

My grandmother's recipe makes a tender and moist Napoleon.
This is exactly the dessert that is undoubtedly worthy of the title of the emperor whose name it bears. I won’t say that it’s easy to prepare. There is nothing complicated about it, but it is a matter of experience; roll out the cakes correctly, thinly, bake them well so that they are not soggy, but also do not burn. If the custard still turns out with lumps, don’t worry. Rub the cream through a sieve. I am sure that your efforts will not be in vain and everything will work out great. Good luck! Purpose: For the holiday table Main ingredient: Dairy products / Milk / Butter Dish: Baking / Cakes / Napoleon

How to cook Napoleon cake in a frying pan

Required ingredients:

• 1 tbsp. fat sour cream;
• 1 + 3 medium eggs (for cakes and cream);
• 100 g + 1 tbsp. sugar (for cakes and cream);
• ½ tsp. baking soda,
• ¼ tsp. rock salt,
• 2 tbsp. + 2 tbsp. flour (for cakes and cream);
• 0.75 l milk;
• 2 tsp starch;
• Pack of butter.

Cooking procedure:

1. We start with the cakes. To do this, beat the egg with sugar and salt until smooth.
2. Separately mix flour and soda, add sour cream and beaten egg. Gently knead the dough, the result should not stick to your palms.
3. From this amount of dough we have to make 6-7 cakes, divide it immediately into the appropriate number of parts and put it in the refrigerator for at least 35-40 minutes.
4. Preparing the cream. Pour a glass of milk and set it aside for now.
5. Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil. We make sure that the milk does not run away from us.
6. Beat the eggs separately.
7. In another container, mix flour with starch and milk set aside in step 4, add beaten eggs, knead thoroughly. Pour the boiled sweet milk into the resulting mixture, mix again and return to the heat for another 5-7 minutes until thickened. Don't stop stirring for a minute.
8. Remove the cream from the heat, when it has cooled, beat in the softened butter.
9. Let's return to our test. It should be taken out of the refrigerator, each part should be rolled out to the size of your frying pan. The taste of the future cake depends on how thin the cakes are. Trim the cakes using a frying pan lid. You can use the scraps to form additional cakes or leave them to crumble.
10. We bake in an ungreased frying pan. Brown the shortbreads on both sides. Turn over when the dough is just beginning to change color.
11. Grind the worst flatbread in a blender for decoration.
12. Grease each of the cakes with cream and place them one on top of the other. Coat the top and sides.
13. Sprinkle the top with the resulting crumbs.
14. The cake is not served immediately, but after keeping it in the refrigerator overnight, otherwise it will not soak through.

"Napoleon" with honey

Cream and sour cream are perfect for this cake. Do not use very sweet cream. Cakes baked according to this recipe can be stored in your refrigerator for some time.

You will need

1. 250 grams of sugar
2. four eggs
3. one large spoon of soda
4. one glass of honey
5. five glasses of flour

Preparation

Mix honey, eggs, soda and sugar, add flour to them and knead it all into the dough. Wrap the dough in plastic and leave it for a couple of days (the main thing is that it is at room temperature). Once this time has passed, we begin to divide the dough into parts, roll them into thin layers and bake. Before doing this, preheat the oven to 180 degrees, bake the cakes for about 7 minutes.

Snack cake Napoleon

Napoleon is a traditional sweet dessert. But let's try to let go of our imagination and prepare a snack option with savory filling. We prepare the cakes ourselves according to any recipe given above or buy ready-made ones. In addition to this you will need:

• 2 carrots;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 garlic clove;
• can of canned fish;
• packaging of curd cheese;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking procedure:

1. We do not drain all the liquid from the can of canned food. Knead it with a fork.
2. Peel the boiled eggs and grate them, do the same with the boiled carrots, only mix them with garlic passed through a press and a small amount of mayonnaise.
3. Let's start assembling the cake. Grease the bottom cake with mayonnaise and place about half of the fish mass on it.
4. Place the second cake layer on top, on which the spicy carrot mixture is laid out.
5. Place eggs on the third cake layer greased with mayonnaise.
6. On the fourth - the remaining fish.
7. On the fifth - curd cheese, we grease the sides of the cake with it.
8. If desired, you can sprinkle with crumbled cake and place in the refrigerator to soak.

How to bake cottage cheese “Napoleon” at home?

According to the proposed recipe, you can prepare a delicate, interesting-tasting curd Napoleon. You can use any cottage cheese for the cake, but, of course, soft and fatty is ideal. This cake does not need long-term soaking; 3 hours is enough. It can be decorated with fresh berries, bananas, nuts or coconut flakes.

Ingredients:

Cooking process:

Serve the curd Napoleon with fresh aromatic tea and bon appetit!

A very simple recipe for Napoleon cake

After much searching, we finally found the recipe for the simplest variation of Napoleon. You will need a minimum of products to implement it, just like effort. We hasten to share our find.

Required ingredients:

• 3 tbsp. + 2 tbsp. flour (for cakes and cream);
• 0.25 kg butter;
• 0.1 l of water;
• 1 liter of fat milk;
• 2 eggs;
• 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• vanilla.

The procedure for preparing an unusually simple, but tasty and tender Napoleon:

1. Let's start preparing the cakes. To do this, rub butter from the freezer into the sifted flour.
2. Grind the resulting crumbs with your hands and pour water into it.
3. Without wasting time, mix our dough, form a lump out of it and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. The dough is ready. Agree, it’s much easier than puff pastry!
4. While the dough is chilling, prepare the necessary tools: a rolling pin, wax paper, a plate or other form with which you will cut. By the way, the shape of the cake does not have to be round, it can be square.
5. From the resulting volume of dough we make 8 cakes, so we divide it into as equal pieces as possible.
6. Preheat the oven.
7. Sprinkle a piece of wax paper with flour, place a piece of dough on it, carefully roll out a thin flat cake, which we pierce with a fork.
8. Together with the paper, transfer the cake to a baking sheet and put it in the oven.
9. Baking the cakes happens quite quickly, in just 5 minutes. We try not to dry them out.
10. We do the same with the rest of the cakes.
11. While the cake is still hot, we cut it according to the template, and then use the trimmings for decoration.
12. Let's make the cream. To do this, pour half the milk into a saucepan and put it on the fire.
13. Mix the remaining milk with sugar, vanilla, eggs and flour, beat with a mixer until smooth.
14. After the milk boils, pour it into the whipped products, return the future cream to the heat and cook until thickened for 5-7 minutes, stirring all the time.
15. Cool the hot cream, then put it in the refrigerator to cool completely.
16. Generously coat the cakes and place them on top of each other. We traditionally crumble the scraps onto the top.
17. Let the cake brew thoroughly and enjoy with the whole family.