The taste of bird cherry is specific. The berry cannot boast of universal love and reverence. But it makes delicious cakes from it. The aroma of baking is unusual, stupefying and magical, and the color is dark and unusual. This dessert is worth a try!
Bird cherry cake - general principles of preparation
Most often, dry bird cherry, which is also called flour, is used for cakes. The product can be prepared in the season on its own or purchased. Bird cherry flour is poured directly into the dough or pre-steamed in water or milk. There are recipes for cakes from jam, one of them is below.
What else is put in the dough:
• sugar;
• cultivators;
• eggs;
• milk products;
• fats.
Be sure to add wheat flour, since only a small part goes to the ground cherry, in rare cases half. The dough is usually prepared semi-liquid, which is poured into one or more forms, baked in the oven or in a slow cooker. Ready cakes are smeared with cream, give the appearance of a classic cake, you can use all kinds of decorations, sprinkles.
Bird cherry cake in milk
The simplest recipe for bird cherry cake, which can only be prepared at home. Dry ground berries, that is, flour, are used. It must be steamed in advance, so that the mass stands for two hours in milk and the bird cherry reveals all its aroma.
Ingredients
• a glass of wheat flour;
• a glass of bird cherry flour;
• three eggs;
• a glass of milk and sugar;
• 10 g of soda.
For cream, 700 g of sour cream and a glass of powdered sugar.
Cooking
1. Pour ground cherry into a bowl, pour a glass of hot milk, cover and wrap in something warm, for example, in a terry towel. Leave for two hours.
2. Beat three eggs with a glass of sugar. The taste of the cake will be more saturated if you add a little salt.
3. Add the bird cherry mixture to the eggs, stir.
4. Pour wheat flour, then pour the baking soda, which we must extinguish with lemon juice or ordinary vinegar. Stir the dough.
5. Divide into 3 parts, bake individually thin cakes. The temperature in the oven is in the region of 190 degrees. Cool the blanks.
6. Mix sour cream with powder; vanilla or cocoa can be added to taste.
7. We smear bird cherry cakes, collect the cake.
8. Top with the same cream, you can sprinkle with nuts or grated chocolate. Leave for impregnation for at least four hours.
Bird cherry cake in a slow cooker
Another simplified version of bird cherry cake, which is baked in a slow cooker. The dough is cooked on eggs with sour cream. The cake turns out quite high, magnificent.
Ingredients
• 120 g flour;
• 60 g of bird cherry;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 1 tsp with a large hill of cultivator;
• a glass of sour cream.
For cream:
• 240 ml cream;
• 80 g of powder.
Cooking
1. Break the eggs. Take a large bowl. Beat with sugar for about five minutes to form a good froth.
2. Add sour cream, stir.
3. In a dry bowl, combine the cultivator with bird cherry and ordinary flour, mix thoroughly.
4. Pour the mixture with bird cherry into the dough, mix again and pour into the greased bowl of the multicooker.
5. Close, set the baking program for 50 minutes. Then leave it heated for another 15 minutes. It is advisable to check the degree of readiness of the cake with a match. If suddenly the crumb is damp, you can add another ten minutes.
6. We get the cake, cool to a cold state, then with a long knife we need to cut it into three parts.
7. Whip the cream for five minutes. It is important that they are oily (at least 30%), otherwise the cream will be liquid. Introduce icing sugar, continue to beat until smooth. You can add vanilla.
8. We coat the cakes with butter cream, alternately setting on top of each other.
9. Top of the cake also needs to be greased, cover the sides. Leave overnight for impregnation.
Bird cherry cake on kefir
If there is no kefir, then we boldly use fermented baked milk or yogurt for the test, this will not affect the taste of the cake. Also, butter is added to this recipe, melt it in advance so that it can cool.
Ingredients
• a glass of kefir;
• 40 g butter;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• a glass of sugar and flour;
• 60 g of bird cherry flour;
• three eggs.
For cream:
• 350 g of fat sour cream;
• 70 g of sugar or ground powder;
• a pinch of vanilla.
To decorate shortbread cookies or a little grated chocolate.
Cooking
1. Separate the yolks, toss in a bowl.
2. Pour sugar to the yolks, rub them together until smooth. Add bird cherry flour followed by kefir, which should have room temperature. We interfere to uniformity.
3. Pour the melted butter, which at this point should also have room temperature.
4. Add a pinch of salt to the proteins. Beat with a mixer to cool foam. It is important that the corollas are dry and clean, otherwise the process will be long and nothing will work.
5. Add ordinary flour and soda to the dough, you do not need to extinguish anything, since lactic acid is present. Stir.
6. At the very end, add whipped proteins, mix and immediately spread in a greased form.
7. We send bird cherry cake to the oven. We bake at 170 degrees until tender. You can bake this cake in a slow cooker too, in which case using the standard program will take about 60 minutes.
8. Cool, cut into several plates. The thinner they are, the faster the dessert will permeate.
9. Sour cream mix with sugar, spread the cakes. We try not to crush them, so that the cream does not come out on the sides, it is completely absorbed. Garnish with crushed cookies or sprinkle with chocolate.
Bird cherry cake with cream cheese
The recipe for a chic cherry cake, which is prepared with cream of cream cheese. You can use mascarpone or any other, but it should not be too salty.
Ingredients
• 200 ml of milk;
• 200 g flour;
• 200 g of ground bird cherry;
• 180 g of sugar;
• four eggs;
• ripper package.
For cream:
• 400 g of cherries;
• 180 g of cheese;
• 250 g sour cream;
• 160 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
1. We heat milk, combine with ground bird cherry, we insist an hour for swelling.
2. Mix the eggs and sugar for the dough. Immerse the mixer and turn on the highest speed. Beat for about ten minutes.
3. Add the usual flour and steamed bird cherry tossed a bag of baking ripper. Stir, shift into shape.
4. Bird cherry cake is baked for about 40 minutes at 170 degrees, check readiness with a match or any other wooden stick.
5. Cool, cut in half.
6. Mix all the ingredients of the cream, except for cherries. From the berries, just take out the bones. If a lot of juice will stand out, drain it and sprinkle cakes. The cake will be even juicier.
7. Lubricate the cake with cream, randomly spread the cherries between the cakes and gently squeeze them into the cream so that they do not stick out. We leave some berries for decoration.
8. On top of the bird cherry cake we also cover with cheese cream, decorate with cherries, leave it to soak for six hours, keep the dessert in the refrigerator.
Bird cherry jam
To prepare the cake, you can use not only ground bird cherry, but also fragrant jam from this berry.
Ingredients
• 1.5 cups flour;
• a glass of bird cherry jam;
• 7 g of soda;
• 0.5 tbsp. powder
• five eggs;
• two glasses of sour cream.
Cooking
1. Put one glass of sour cream in a bowl, put jam, stir. Next we add all five eggs, shake well. You can use a mixer throughout the batch, it will be easier.
2. Pour flour into a homogeneous mass and add slaked soda. Stir the dough.
3. Lubricate the mold, sprinkle with flour, spread the cherry dough. We bake the cake until ready, check. We take out and cool.
4. Combine the powder with sour cream, which remains (one glass).
5. Cut the cake in the center, spread the cream inside, grease the bird cherry cake from above. Leave to soak, it is better to keep dessert in the refrigerator.
Pancake cherry cake with cottage cheese
The absence of an oven is not a reason to refuse a cherry cake. It can be easily cooked in a pan. If desired, you can use another cream, for example, condensed milk or custard.
Ingredients
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 0.5 l of milk;
• 50 g of bird cherry flour;
• two eggs;
• 170 grams of ordinary flour;
• salt, soda.
For cream:
• 500 g of cottage cheese;
• 200 ml of condensed milk.
Cooking
1. Heat a glass of milk, pour bird cherry flour, leave for thirty minutes, let it swell.
2. We start the most common dough for pancakes: beat eggs with sugar, salt, pour milk and spread the bird cherry. Season with wheat flour, stir. We throw a pinch of soda.
3. No need to add oil to the dough, as you will have to lubricate the pan before each pancake.
4. We heat the pan, pour the bird cherry dough with the ladle, and bake thin pancakes. Cooling down.
5. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, add the condensed milk and beat with a blender. It is better to add milk in parts, you do not need to make a liquid cream. For flavor, you can add vanilla or zest, or even make chocolate cream with cocoa.
6. We coat the cooled pancakes with curd cream, collect the cake. Sent to the refrigerator, it is better for him to stand all night.
Bird cherry cake - useful tips and tricks
• It is better not only to grease the baking dish before laying the dough, but also sprinkle it with flour, semolina. Korzh will definitely not stick.
• If the dry bird cherry is large enough, it is better to twist it on a coffee grinder before adding it to the dough.
• Steaming dry bird cherry is desirable with hot water, but not boiling water.
• Bird cherry goes well with cocoa. Therefore, you can smear cakes from it with chocolate creams or cover with icing.
