A no-bake cookie cake is a real find for those who don’t like to waste time preparing dough and baking cake layers. We offer several delicious options that can be prepared without much effort.
Quick and Easy No Bake Cookie Cake
This cookie dessert is very easy to prepare. The most labor-intensive part is preparing the cream. Any one will do here: custard, sour cream or butter. The best option– make with custard, it helps the cookies soak well, and the dessert comes out very tender.
Contains:
- cookies (milk or shortbread) – 36 pcs.;
- flour – 2 tbsp. l;
- milk – 500 ml;
- sugar – 2/3 tbsp.;
- egg – 2.
For the cream, combine the eggs with the sugar using a fork until the latter dissolves. Then add flour to the egg-sugar mixture and stir. Pour in half the milk, mix well, and only then add the rest. Combine everything until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Products should be mixed in this order to prevent the formation of lumps.
After mixing, put the cream on low heat and, stirring, heat it until it thickens to the consistency of sour cream. It’s better to make it thick, so it won’t spread and soaks the cookies well.
Next, place the cookies on a tray or mold of a suitable size and coat with cream. Then put another layer of cookies, and again cream on top. Repeat this action several times until one of the ingredients runs out. The final layer should be creamy; the sides of the finished product should also be covered with it. Decorate as you wish - with grated chocolate or confectionery sprinkles. The treat needs to brew.
Recipe with condensed milk
Cookie cake with condensed milk consists of a minimum amount of products:
- cookies – 350 gr;
- condensed milk (regular or boiled) – 1 can (320 g);
- butter – 120 gr.
Beat melted butter and condensed milk until smooth. The mass should be airy. Grind the cookies until crumbly. You can put it in a tight bag and knead it well with your hands. Next, combine all the ingredients, stir well and form the cake. Alternatively, make small cakes from the resulting mass. Drizzle chocolate glaze on top and let sit in the cold for a couple of hours before serving.
On a note. It is better to remove the butter from the refrigerator several hours before cooking so that it softens thoroughly.
With sour cream
The recipe will always help out if you don’t have time for full-fledged baking.
The composition of the cookie cake with sour cream includes:
- sour cream – 500 gr;
- granulated sugar - to taste;
- vanillin – ½ tsp;
- cracker cookies (like “Fish”) – 300-400 gr.
Napoleon is a famous cake that is not very easy to prepare. First you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll it out, bake it, cut it. In addition, you still need to make a cream, lubricate it all, lay it out, soak it and decorate it. All this takes so long, but there is a simpler option with “ear” cookies.
Shall we try to cook?
Cake Napoleon from ears - general principles of preparation
Usha cookies are made from puff pastry with sugar; they are crispy, tasty, and usually have the shape of hearts. But we also resemble bunny ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff pastry is sold in the store, it can be by weight or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the “ears” are very light; half a kilogram is enough for a medium-sized cake.
Cream in a classic custard cake. And it goes perfectly with ready-made puff pastry cakes. It is cooked in milk with eggs and starch, often replaced with flour. Vanillin is additionally introduced and butter.
What other creams can you use:
Sour cream;
Creamy;
From condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of products and free time. It is not always available for cooking or whipping; sometimes you need to wait for it to cool completely.
The improvised Napoleon cake is always assembled in deep molds or in bowls. It’s very difficult to just lay the ears evenly, the cookies are small, they spread and crumble. Since it is dry in itself, there is no need to skimp on the cream, let there be a lot of it. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to sit. In 8-10 hours it will be well soaked, “settle”, it can be cut into pieces and served.
Cake Napoleon from ears with custard
This is an almost classic Napoleon cake recipe, but made from ears. The cream is prepared as a real custard with milk; eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. You can increase the amount of butter, as some people like richer versions of this cake.
Ingredients
600 g “ear” cookies;
500 ml milk;
120 g butter;
3 tablespoons flour;
A pair of eggs;
A glass of sugar;
Vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Mix vanillin, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, start stirring with a whisk, gradually adding milk. Once the mixture is brought to homogeneity, you can put the cream on the stove. We begin to heat it up. We don't stop stirring.
2. The mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. As soon as it looks like liquid semolina porridge and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the plate. The cream will thicken further as it cools. Cool, add softened butter, beat thoroughly with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon, take a springform pan or a bowl; in the first case, you don’t have to cover it; in the second case, we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside or carefully line it with parchment.
4. Lay out layers of cookie ears, generously coat with custard. We put the leftovers in the refrigerator. We also put the cake in it to soak. It is advisable to withstand twelve hours, for example, all night.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Cover with remaining cream. Grind a few cookies or take ear crumbs from a bag. Sprinkle the top of the Napoleon cake and also decorate the sides.
Napoleon cake made from “ear” cookies with sour cream
This version of the Napoleon cake is made from “ear” cookies with sour cream. Due to the slight sourness of the product, it turns out incredibly tasty and interesting. In addition, sour cream soaks any cake very well, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
0.5 kg ears;
0.6 kg sour cream;
0.16 kg sugar;
Cooking method
1. Prepare quick cream. Just combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a mixer and beat for a few minutes. It is important to take a sufficiently thick and fatty product, then it will work good cream. But you also need to carefully beat thick sour cream, it can easily become butter.
2. Place cookies in layers in a suitable form. Broken parts can be stuffed into voids. Spread with sour cream and repeat until the ingredients are gone. Let the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We take out an improvised Napoleon. Lubricate with the remaining cream, decorate with cookie crumbs or any other way.
Cake Napoleon from ears with condensed milk
To prepare such a cake you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for decoration; it will require a little boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients
400 ml white condensed milk;
150 g boiled condensed milk;
250 g butter;
Vanilla bag;
450-500 g of cookies.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the cream. The oil for it must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. It is advisable to even cut it into pieces so that it softens faster. Then put it in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high speed with a mixer. Set aside two full tablespoons. The mixture should become white, fluffy, and somewhat reminiscent of whipped cream.
2. Start pouring boiled condensed milk into the remaining oil in a thin stream. We continue to beat. Has the cream become homogeneous? Add vanilla and after a few seconds turn off the mixer.
3. Lay out layers of “ear” cookies, coat with white condensed milk cream, cover and place in the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Immediately beat the previously set aside butter with boiled condensed milk. Place the cream in the refrigerator.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Coat it on top and sides with boiled condensed milk cream. Level the cake and fill in the voids. Grind several ears until they are not very fine crumbs. Sprinkle the sides and top. But you can decorate such a cake with cream flowers and grated chocolate.
Cake Napoleon from cookies ears with nuts
A variation of a delicious and very aromatic ear cake. For Napoleon you can use walnuts, it turns out delicious, but you can also use cheaper peanuts.
Ingredients
600 ml milk;
3 yolks;
180 g nuts;
200 g butter;
500 g cookies;
2 tablespoons starch;
1 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking method
1. Since the custard will need time to cool, we start with it. Beat the yolks and sugar with starch, pour in milk, and place on the stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mixture thickens. Add half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter and beat a little.
2. Pour the nuts onto the stove and fry a little. Then cool, place on a board, roll with a rolling pin to chop, but not to the point of flour.
3. Grease the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, place and remove to soak.
4. Grind 5-6 cookies, mix with nuts. Remove the soaked cake from the mold, grease with the remaining cream, and cover with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Napoleon cake made from “ear” cookies with sour cream and condensed milk
Another simple version of cream for a lazy Napoleon cake. The ears themselves contain a lot of fat, so the coating is prepared without adding oil. You can place thin slices of banana between the layers of cookies in this cake.
Ingredients
400 g sour cream;
300 g condensed milk;
1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
500 g ears.
Cooking method
1. Whisk the sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar. The cream should not turn out liquid; we use thick ingredients.
2. Lay out the finished cookies in layers, grease them, try to place them tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the mold or bowl and put it in the refrigerator to soak. Then take it out and decorate with crushed cookies.
Cake Napoleon from ears with chocolate cream
Variation of lazy custard cake chocolate cream. It is also prepared from milk with the addition of cocoa. Additionally, you will need one chocolate bar for sprinkling and decoration.
Ingredients
700 ml milk;
130 g butter;
210 g sugar;
600 g ears;
3 yolks;
2 tablespoons flour;
3 spoons of cocoa;
90 g chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Mix two full spoons of flour with cocoa powder and granulated sugar. Separate the yolks, add to the future cream, grind and add milk. Let the mixture brew on the stove. Heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as bubbles appear, remove the pan from the heat. Add chopped butter to the hot and thickened cream. Stir until they are completely dissolved. Cool the chocolate cream.
3. In the mold, assemble the cake in layers, coating the “ear” cookies with the prepared chocolate cream. Place in the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Remove Napoleon from the mold. It is advisable to lubricate it well. Grind the cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. Grate half the chocolate, cover with shavings top part cake. Cut the remaining pieces into small cubes and scatter them in random order.
When adding large quantity butter into the cream, it is advisable to beat the product separately until well foamed. In this case, nothing will flow, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy and will not be felt high content fat
If you don't have cookies to sprinkle on top and sides of the cake, you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes and even toasted sesame seeds. You can find an alternative in any kitchen.
If there is not enough time to soak the cake, you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature and then cool it.
If there is no cream left, after removing the cake from the mold, you can grease it with regular condensed milk or sour cream.
This cake is very easy to make and tastes like the classic Napoleon.
There are several nuances when preparing a cake.
It is very important to take thin cookies. A cake made from thick cookies turns out to be rough. And from the thin ones it is beautiful.
The cream for the cake can be anything - custard, sour cream, cream. But it is important that the cream is quite liquid so that the puff pastries are well soaked. If using buttercream, the cookies must be moistened with milk, otherwise the cake will be dry and crispy. Depending on the cream, the cake will taste different.
COMPOUND
500g puff pastry "Ears"
CREAM
500g 33~35% cream, 0.5 cups sugar (100g)
Buy ready-made puff pastries in advance.
Set aside a few cookies to decorate the cake.
Cream
Whip the cream to soft peaks.
Stir in sugar.
The cream will become thinner after adding sugar.
To flavor the cream, stir in 1~2 teaspoons of cognac or 5 drops of Vanilla flavoring.
Assembling the cake
Cover the mold with polyethylene film so that the ends of the film hang out.
Place a layer of cookies tightly on the bottom of the pan.
Pour cream onto cookies.
Alternate layers of cookies and cream until they are gone. There should be a layer of cream on top.
Cover the top with cling film and place in the refrigerator for at least 10 hours. It is advisable to let the cake soak for 24 hours.
When the cake is soaked, remove the top covering film from the mold.
Place a dish on the mold and turn the structure upside down.
Remove the pan from the cake and remove the film that was on the bottom of the pan.
Crush the reserved cookies into crumbs.
Lightly brush the top of the cake with sour cream or cream and sprinkle thickly with crumbs.
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You can already feel the approach of the Christmas holidays. People are starting to stock up on food New Year's table. And you probably want to please your family and friends with something tasty, filling and sweet? For example, a cake or a pie. However, you don't want to spend a lot of time preparing the dessert. In our article you will find several no-bake options that are quick and easy to prepare.
Ingredients for Napoleon
Cake from is a great alternative to everyone’s familiar and favorite dessert. If preparing a classic cake takes a lot of time, then from “Ears” it is made in literally half an hour. For it you will need the following ingredients:
- Base - "Ears" cookies - 1 kilogram.
- Milk with fat content from 3.5% - 1 liter.
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sifted flour - 200 g.
- Sugar 1.5 -2 cups (to taste, depending on how sweet you want the cake to be).
Preparing the cream
“Napoleon” is prepared from puff pastry and delicate custard. We are sure that in childhood none of you remained indifferent to this tasty treat. We present to you a simple and step by step recipe Cookie cake "Ears" with custard:
- First you need to pour the milk (not all, 900 ml) into a saucepan and then put it on the stove over low heat. Pour sugar into it and stir until it dissolves.
- Next you will need to mix wheat flour and eggs, adding a little milk (100 ml).
- After the milk comes to a boil, add the egg mixture. Don't forget to stir constantly.
- When the cream boils a second time, remove it from the heat and leave to cool. The mass should be thick and homogeneous.
Forming a cake
The Napoleon cake made from Ushki cookies is no worse in taste than the original. It's gentle and airy dessert that will please any guest in your home. “Napoleon” is formed in several layers:
- First you need to prepare deep form for the cake.
- The bottom of the container needs to be greased with a little cream so that the cookies are well soaked and soft. Then we lay out the first row and the sides.
- Next, grease the top of the layer well with cream and place a new row. We carry out this procedure until we form our cake.
- Each row must be compacted a little using light pressure from a spoon.
- When you are finished cooking, you need to crush the cookies and crumble them on top. You can also sprinkle chocolate chips on the cake.
- Then we put the dessert in the refrigerator for several hours to soak it.
As a result, the no-bake cake should turn out very juicy, smooth, spicy and tender. It will undoubtedly whet everyone's appetite.
Cookie cake "Ears" (no baking) with sour cream
A high-calorie and filling cake called "Ushastik" is perfect for any holiday, such as New Year, For example. The basis of the dessert will be puff pastry, and the cream is made from rich and tasty sour cream. For this you need to stock up on the following products:
- Cookies "Ears".
- Butter - 180 g.
- Milk - 800 ml.
- Fresh cottage cheese - 100 g.
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sifted wheat flour - 6 tbsp. l.
- Sour cream with a fat content of 25%.
- Vanillin packet.
- Sugar to taste, but approximately 190 g.
- Milk chocolate.
Recipe
Preparing "Ushastik" is not difficult. But in the end we get a tender, creamy, flaky cake. It will taste somewhat like Napoleon. But their main difference is that “Ushastik” is more filling and high-calorie. Below is a recipe for a cake made from Ushki cookies without baking:
- First of all, you need to prepare the filling for the dessert. Eggs should be mixed with sugar and vanilla, beat with a whisk or blender until foam forms.
- Next you need to heat up the milk.
- While the milk is heating, add wheat flour to the eggs and mix thoroughly.
- Then add warm milk and butter to the mixture and continue whisking.
- Afterwards, you need to put the cream to simmer on low heat for about 5-10 minutes.
- Next, you should send the mixture to a cold place for a few minutes to cool down.
- You need to melt the milk chocolate in a water bath.
- Then add sour cream and cottage cheese, melted chocolate to the cream. It is important to mix the entire consistency well. The mixture should be thick and homogeneous without lumps.
- Let's start decorating the cake. First you need to lay out a row of cookies, then coat them well with chocolate and sour cream.
- And so each layer should be lubricated.
- At the end of cooking, the cake should be placed in a cool place for a couple of hours.
- You can decorate the top however you like. For example, whipped cream, which will make it even more tasty and tender.
- When the cake hardens, it will be easy to cut into pieces.
Layer cake with bananas. Ingredients
A no-bake “Ears” cookie cake with condensed milk and bananas will give you a delicate heavenly pleasure with its taste. To prepare you need to buy:
- Bananas - 4 pcs.
- Puff pastry - 700 g.
- Sour cream with a fat content of 15% - 350 g.
- Condensed milk.
- A bar of milk chocolate.
- Sugar - 220 g.
- Walnuts For decoration.
Cookie cake recipe "Ears"
This dessert is a fruity treat for the whole family. In addition, you won’t spend a lot of time and effort on cooking it.
- First, you will need to add sugar to the sour cream.
- The sour cream mixture must be thoroughly mixed until the sugar is completely dissolved in it.
- Then you should add boiled condensed milk to the mass. The entire consistency must be beaten well with a whisk.
- Next, you need to peel the bananas and cut them into slices.
- Then we begin to form our dessert. First, lay out the puff pastry, bananas on top, and then pour the buttercream on top. The same should be done with the next layer.
- When the cake is finished, you need to melt a bar of milk chocolate and coat the cake on all sides with the resulting mixture.
- Walnuts must be chopped and sprinkled on top as decoration for the product.
- Then the dessert goes into the refrigerator overnight to soak well and harden.
How to make your own puff pastry
Some housewives believe that making puff pastry at home is very difficult. However, we will refute this common rumor and tell you a step-by-step recipe. In addition, the dough can then be used as a base for the cake. You can also use it to make simple “Ears” cookies. Ingredients:
- Sifted premium flour - 3 cups.
- Egg.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp.
- Dry yeast (half a teaspoon).
- Butter - 120 g.
- Milk - 100 ml.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
- First you need to add dry yeast and half a teaspoon of sugar and mix.
- Next, you should wait until the foam appears, and then add the rest of the sugar and beat in egg. Leave the mixture for 20 minutes.
- Then we start preparing the dough. You need to form a hole in the flour and pour it into it. vegetable oil, yeast liquid and milk.
- Then we start kneading the dough. Then you should leave it for 2 hours, covered with a towel. It should fit a little.
- Roll out the dough and place warm butter in the middle.
- The dough should be formed into an envelope, closing the edges with butter. And then roll it out using a rolling pin.
- This procedure must be done several times. Remember that the more layers of dough you make, the softer and fluffier it will be.
You can store the puff pastry in the refrigerator or cool place for several days. The main condition is to wrap it tightly with cling film. And if you put it in freezer, then you can use it at any time.
Making "Ears" cookies at home
You can prepare “Ears” yourself. To do this, you can purchase special puff pastry in the store or make it yourself. Products:
- Sugar - 100 g.
- Pre-prepared puff pastry - 500 g.
- Butter.
- A little flour (approximately 100 g).
- First of all, you need to prepare the surface before cooking - sprinkle with flour.
- Then you should put the dough on it. It needs to be rolled out into a thin layer with a rolling pin.
- Next, you need to evenly distribute the sugar over it. The dough should be folded in half and rolled out again.
- Then sprinkle sugar on top and wrap the ends of the dough into two equal rolls.
- You will also need to cut the tubes into equal pieces and lightly flatten them with a rolling pin.
- The last stage will be baking cookies. It is necessary to grease a baking sheet with butter and place raw “Ears” on it.
- Then you should put them in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 200 degrees.
- Ready “Ears” can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
In addition, you can add raisins, chocolate chips or soft curd mass to the dough. In any case, the cookies will be tasty and appetizing. And with all our hearts we wish you a pleasant cooking experience. And we hope that our article has become useful and informative for you.
Sometimes you want to spend a little time and cook something delicious, like a cake. I will now describe to you the recipe for Napoleon cake made from abalone cookies with custard.
Getting ready lazy Napoleon very quickly, although it needs to be given time to stand for a bit to soak in. But this Napoleon cake made from abalone cookies with custard is prepared very quickly and tastes no different from the usual one.
Ingredients:
Dough:
- Puff pastry Ushki - 800 grams (I took Ushki cookies)
The cream is taken as custard, ingredients for the cream:
- a little vanilla sugar - 10-15 g
- premium wheat flour - 6 tbsp. l.
- fresh milk - 1 l.
- half a glass of granulated sugar
- 3 chicken eggs
- butter - 150 grams
Making Napoleon cake from cookies:
Brew the cream.
Break the eggs, throw them into a bowl and mix with a whisk. Add sugar, milk and flour to the eggs, mix everything well. It is best to mix with a blender, the lumps are broken up well.
You can brew the cream in the usual way on the stove, but I made the cream in the microwave. I set the timer for one minute and put a bowl of mixture in the microwave. After stopping the microwave, I take out a bowl and mix the mixture well. I set the timer again for one minute and again take it out and stir. And I did this 6 times. Do this until you see that the cream thickness is good for the cake. When we take the bowl out of the microwave for the last time, then add butter to the bowl and mix well again.
We take a beautiful cake dish and begin to place the ear cookies on it. Dip the ear cookies well in warm cream and place them one by one, forming a circle. Place a second circle of cookies on one circle of cookies, and so on until you run out of cookies. Pour the rest of the cream on top of the cake and let the cake stand for 2 or 3 hours, let the cookies soak well. You can also decorate our Napoleon cake made from ear cookies with custard with whatever is convenient for you, even with cookie crumbs, you can decorate with nuts or chocolate. In just 3 hours you can enjoy a delicious cake.
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