A piece of cake Napoleon. A piece of puff cake Napoleon stands on a plate in the form of a human head. The cake is on the table. In the background are flowers in a jar

A woman holds Napoleon cake in her hands. A woman holds a cake in her hands. The cake is decorated with fresh raspberries.

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Napoleon on chopped dough

Prep Time: 10 min / Cook Time: 1 hr / Total Time: 1 hr 10 min

This recipe will allow you to get pseudo-puff pastry in 10 minutes. You can make tubes, just cookies or a cake (as I did) from it.

Author and photographs: Olga

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I give you the recipe for 2 small cakes with a diameter of 16 cm and a height of 10 cm. This cake is enough for a company of 8 people maximum. I did this - to eat 1 cake at home, and take the other one and treat friends and colleagues. If you have the same story - feel free to follow the recipe.

Or this amount of dough is enough for you for 1 cake with a diameter of 21 cm (10-11 cm high) - if the holiday is for 12-15 sweet teeth.

If you need a small cake - divide the ingredients in half.

Napoleon on chopped dough

Yield: 2 cakes

Ingredients

Layery dough

450 gr flour
250 gr butter 82-84%
200 gr sour cream
2 eggs
2 tbsp strong alcohol
4 gr fine salt
powdered sugar for dusting the cakes

Cream

750 ml milk
vanilla
180 gr yolk
120 gr sugar
55 gr starch
95 gr white chocolate
75 gr butter
lime peel
130 gr cream 33%
20 gr powdered sugar

Instructions

Grate well-chilled butter with flour (I do it just on a grater) Mix sour cream with eggs, salt, and alcohol. Add liquid to the flour mixture. Knead the dough quickly. The dough should come together in a ball, but be slightly heterogeneous (see carousel photo). Divide the dough into 16 pieces. While you work with one piece - the rest - in the refrigerator are waiting for their moment.

Chopped Dough Ingredients Set. Chopped dough ingredients set.

The consistency and texture of the dough. The consistency and texture of the dough. It is heterogeneous. Visible oil streaks.

Roll out each piece into a disc about 17 cm, dusting the table with flour. Cut off the excess immediately. Cakes after rolling - cool, prick with a fork, sprinkle with powdered sugar (see photos)

(You should get 1 more cake per cake from scraps, and we will use them to sprinkle the cake on the outside)

We bake cakes at 200 ° C for 18 minutes without convection.

The dough during baking will "run down" a little - about 1 cm in diameter and you will get cakes of about 16 cm

Dough preparation process Dough preparation for the rolling process

The dough rolled The dough rolled out on the table is cut into the shape of a disk before baking.

Mix sugar with yolks and starch in a bowl. Bring milk and vanilla to a boil. Pour the milky part over the yolk part in a thin stream, stirring vigorously. Return mixture to saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil for one minute. Add chocolate, and butter, and mix with a blender. Cool under the film in contact. Before use - whip the cream - to give it airiness. Whip cream with sugar. Pour the cream into the cream, and combine with a spatula.