Custard cake shu

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make shu custard cakes? First of all, make the upper part of the sand — craquelin. Prepare the products for him. Choose butter of the best quality corresponding to GOST. Half an hour before cooking, cut it into cubes and put it in the freezer — it should cool down a lot. The dye can take any color, I have red.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a bowl, mix sugar and flour in it, add dye. The color of the cakes will depend on its quantity.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add the diced cooled butter, quickly rub it with flour with your hands until crumbs form. Continue to rub until the dough rolls into a ball.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the dough between the parchment sheets and roll it thinly into a layer. Put the dough together with the parchment in the freezer for 40 minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Next, prepare the custard dough. How to make custard dough? Prepare the products for him. Choose eggs of the first category, butter — corresponding to GOST.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour milk and water into a saucepan with a thick bottom, add butter, put on a small fire. Stirring the mass with a spatula, melt the butter in the liquid.

7. Step 7:

   

   Continue to cook the mass, at the first bubbles pour all the flour at once and, without removing it from the heat, intensively mix it.

8. Step 8:

   

   Continue stirring the dough until a velvety coating appears on the bottom of the pan, about 2 minutes. As soon as this happens, remove the pan from the heat.

10. Step 9:

    

    Cool the dough slightly, about 5 minutes. Start adding eggs to it one at a time, stirring well all the time after each. The dough should become smooth and fluid.

11. Step 10:

    

    Using a cooking bag, place the dough on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, leaving a distance between the future cakes for lifting.

12. Step 11:

    

    Take out the frozen craquelin dough. Cut out the mugs from it with a suitable shape and put them on top of the blanks.

13. Step 12:

    

    Bake the cakes in a preheated 180 degree oven for about 30 minutes. The cakes should rise well and turn brown, and the shortbread dough should crack on top. Cool the finished cakes on the grill.

14. Step 13:

    

    Prepare the cream. How to make a cream? Prepare the products for him. Take milk of any fat content, butter is the best, take it out of the refrigerator in advance, it should become soft. If you only have potato starch, then reduce its amount by half.

15. Step 14:

    

    Mix the yolks well with sugar, add starch to them, mix. It is enough to take a whisk, a mixer is absolutely not required.

16. Step 15:

    

    Bring the milk to a boil, then pour it in small portions into the yolks, stirring all the time. Return the mass to the stove, make the fire small and cook, with constant stirring, until thickened. Then remove the cream from the heat and cool slightly. Add soft butter to the cooled cream and stir well. Cool the cream by covering it with a film "in contact " so that it touches its surface. Otherwise, a crust will appear on the cream, like on jelly.

17. Step 16:

    

    Carefully cut off the tops of the cakes so as not to break the craquelin. Put the cream in a cooking bag and stuff the cakes with it.