Traditional Homemade Napoleon Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients

2. Step 2:

   

   So, at the beginning of the preparation of the Napoleon cake, chop the margarine with flour.

3. Step 3:

   

   Then, add to this well-mixed water and egg with a drop of salt and vinegar.

4. Step 4:

   

   Kneaded dough

5. Step 5:

   

   Divide into ten equal parts and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

6. Step 6:

   

   When the dough has cooled, roll out the cakes thinly and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.

7. Step 7:

   

   Napoleon cake is very fragile, so it is important not to over-dry the cakes, and taking them out of the oven you do not need to break them.

8. Step 8:

   

   Here are our cakes

9. Step 9:

   

   Ingredients for the cream

11. Step 10:

    

    To make custard, you need to grind eggs with sugar, flour

12. Step 11:

    

    And add a tablespoon of milk to the resulting mass. Then, top up the remaining milk.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put a saucepan with cream on the fire and cook until thickened, stirring continuously. Make sure that the egg does not curl, turn down the fire to a small one. Remove the cream when it thickens. Now, warm custard is rubbed with softened butter and vanilla.

14. Step 13:

    

    Crumb cake

15. Step 14:

    

    Lubricate each of the cakes with cream,

16. Step 15:

    

    Like the top of the cake, smear with custard, and sprinkle with crumbs on top, for which it is quite possible to sacrifice one cake.

17. Step 16:

    

    Before serving, the cake should stand in the refrigerator for several hours, or even better overnight.

18. Step 17:

    

    Bon appetit!