A housewife who has learned to bake thin pancakes definitely moves from an amateur to the category of professionals. Now she can only pamper her family with pancakes, alternating different fillings, and rejoice, watching how happy the household members are. But you can go even further by preparing an original pancake cake. Below is a small selection of recipes that will only encourage creative culinary experiments.
Pancake cake at home - photo recipe step by step
For the pancake cake you need to bake 16 pancakes and prepare the cream. In this pancake cake recipe, the cream will consist of sour cream and sugar.
For the cake you need:
- 0.5 liters of milk.
- A couple of large eggs (or three medium ones).
- 150 g sugar (for pancake dough 50 g and for sour cream 100).
- 5 g soda.
- 60 ml of oil (30 ml for the pancake batter and 30 ml for greasing the pan).
- 250 - 300 g flour.
- 5 g salt.
- 350 - 400 g sour cream.
Preparation:
1. Put sugar, salt, soda, butter in lukewarm milk. Add eggs one at a time. Beat everything well.
2. Add about 200 g of flour and beat again.
3. Add the rest of the flour in parts. The pancake dough should have the consistency of medium thick sour cream.
4. Bake pancakes in a frying pan with a diameter of about 24 cm. Before each pancake, grease its surface with oil.
5. Beat sour cream with sugar. If desired, add vanilla at the tip of a knife.
6. Roll one pancake into a roll and cut into 5-7 pieces. It will be used to decorate the top of the pancake cake.
7. Grease each pancake with cream and place them in a stack on a plate.
8. Place improvised roses on top.
9. After the cake has stood for an hour on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, it can be cut and served with tea.
Pancake cake with sour cream
Let's start with the simplest recipe. For this dish, you can take any number of thin pancakes baked in milk.
- The cream is prepared very simply: mix store-bought sour cream (about 2 cups) with 0.5 cups of sugar and a bag of vanilla sugar.
- Stir until the sugar dissolves, then spread the cakes (pancakes) with sour cream.
- Decorate the top with fresh or frozen berries, sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Serve it up!
Chocolate pancake cake
For this cake you will need not ordinary pancakes, but chocolate ones, where cocoa powder is added to the dough, in addition to premium wheat flour.
There are several secrets to preparing the dough itself - it must stand after kneading for several hours. The second secret is that this dough does not require greasing the pan, since a small portion of oil is added directly during kneading.
Pancake ingredients:
- Premium flour – 300 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
- Chocolate (bitter black) – 60 gr.
- Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
- Powdered sugar – 2 tbsp. l.
- Butter – 2 tbsp. l.
- Olive oil – ½ tsp.
- Salt.
Ingredients for cream:
- Cream cheese – 400 gr.
- Condensed milk (boiled) – ½ can.
- Cream (fat) 200 ml.
- Condensed milk (boiled) – ½ can – for covering the cake.
Algorithm of actions:
- Pour milk into a container, add butter and chocolate broken into pieces. Melt over low heat and stir until smooth.
- In another container, beat the eggs with powdered sugar into an airy foam (using a mixer or blender). Pour in the cooled milk-chocolate mixture in a thin stream.
- Mix flour with salt and cocoa powder. Then connect everything together.
- The first time, grease the pan with olive oil, then the oil contained in the dough should be enough. You can continue to grease the pan with oil as per tradition. Bake pancakes.
- Prepare the cream. Start by whipping the cream. Then add ½ can of boiled condensed milk to them. Finally add cream cheese and mix until smooth.
- Coat the pancakes with cream, placing them one by one. Grease the top pancake with boiled condensed milk.
Additionally, you can decorate the pancake cake with whipped cream or fruits, candied fruits, and nuts.
Pancake cake - useful tips from experienced chefs
1. If you follow a diet and watch your figure, you can treat yourself to a lighter version of pancake cake according to our recipe with photos step by step at home. To prepare it, fry pancakes in water, and use low-fat cottage cheese with yogurt as a layer. It turns out very tasty and safe for your figure.
2. When planning to make a cake from oatmeal or, for example, rice pancakes, strictly follow the proportions indicated in the recipe. The fact is that only wheat flour has good stickiness. You won’t be able to bake pancakes using only rice flour; they will stick tightly to the pan and will not come off. Therefore, any flour should be mixed with wheat in equal proportions.
3. As a rule, pancakes made from curd dough are also quite capricious. A larger number of eggs are added to this dough, and the curd pancakes need to be fried in a good frying pan that has been tried and tested many times.
Chicken pancake cake recipe
A pancake-based cake can be the main thing not only on the sweet table. If you use vegetable or meat filling, it can easily take center stage among appetizers and main courses.
Ingredients (dough):
- Flour – 3 tbsp.
- Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
- Milk – 2 tbsp.
- Sugar – 2 tbsp. l.
- Salt (pinch).
- Vegetable oil (for greasing the pan).
- Butter (for greasing ready-made pancakes).
Ingredients (filling):
- Chicken fillet – 500 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 150 gr.
- Onion – 100 gr.
- Mayonnaise.
- Garlic – 2 cloves.
Algorithm of actions:
- You will have to start preparing the pancake cake with chicken fillet. It must be boiled in water with salt and spices.
- Also boil the eggs (hard-boiled).
- Prepare the dough - add salt, sugar, chicken eggs to the milk. Beat until smooth.
- Add flour and rub until there are no lumps. It is good to use a mixer; it will quickly and unnoticeably make the dough homogeneous. The batter should be a little thicker than for regular thin pancakes.
- Grease a heated frying pan with vegetable oil and bake pancakes. Grease each one with butter.
- Prepare the filling: cut the cooked chicken fillet into cubes. Grate cheese and boiled eggs. Chop the onion and garlic through a press.
- Mix the ingredients in a container. Add salt and mayonnaise and mix again.
- Prepare a cake from pancakes and filling.
Grease the top with mayonnaise, sprinkle with cheese and herbs. Let sit for an hour and serve.
Pancake lasagne “Four cheeses with pear”
Photo: Restaurant "Syrovarnya"
Recipe by Sergei Nosov, concept chef of the restaurant "Syrovarnya"
- 1 tbsp. Sahara
- 1 tsp salt
- 500 ml milk
- 280 g flour
- 3 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 60 g cream
- 40 g Monte Bloom cheese
- 80 g mozzarella cheese
- 20 g parmesan
- 20 g scamorza cheese
- 5-6 slices of pear
Step 1. For the dough, mix all ingredients to a homogeneous thick consistency and dilute with a little milk.
Step 2. Fry in a cast iron frying pan on both sides, after greasing the pan with vegetable oil.
Step 3. Finely chop all the cheeses and place them in layers between the prepared pancakes.
Step 4. Bake at 180 C for 10 minutes.
Step 5. When serving, place pear slices on top of the finished lasagna.
How to cook pancake cake with mushrooms
On Maslenitsa, housewives usually bake so many pancakes that it is simply impossible to eat them. But, if you serve them in an unusual way in the form of a pancake cake, and even with mushroom filling, then you can be sure that not a piece will be left.
Ingredients (dough):
- Flour – 1 tbsp.
- Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
- Water – 1 tbsp.
- Milk – 1 tbsp.
- Sugar – 2 pinches.
- Salt – 1 pinch.
- Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
Ingredients (filling):
- Champignons – 0.5 kg.
- Hard cheese – 0.3 kg.
- Parsley.
- Spices, salt.
- Vegetable oil.
Fill:
- Chicken eggs – 3 pcs.
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
- Spices and salt.
Algorithm of actions:
- Stage one - preparing pancakes. Mix liquid ingredients (milk and water), add salt and sugar, eggs. Beat, best done with a mixer.
- Then add flour little by little. Again, it is best to stir with a mixer. Add vegetable oil last.
- Set the dough aside and start filling. For her, wash the champignons and cut them into beautiful, thin slices.
- Heat oil in a frying pan. Place the champignon slices into the oil. Fry for 10 minutes, add salt and spices.
- Grate the cheese. Wash parsley or other greens and dry. Chop with a knife.
- Mix mushrooms with cheese and herbs.
- To make the filling, whisk all ingredients together (you can use a fork).
- Bake thin pancakes.
- It's time to put the pie together. For this recipe, you first need to take a mold with a lock. Coat with oil and line with paper.
- Lay the pancakes overlapping so that they cover the sides and hang from them. Put some filling and top with a pancake. Then alternate: first the pancake, then a couple of spoons of filling. Raise the hanging edges of the pancakes to the middle of the cake, “close”.
- Pour the filling over the pancake cake. Bake for 40 minutes.
- Carefully open the form. Transfer the cake to a plate, removing the baking paper.
Relatives will remember Maslenitsa with such a treat for a long time!
Banana pancake cake with curd cream
Making the pancake dough:
Peel the banana and cut it into cross-sections.
Blend the banana in a kitchen mixer until smooth. Add melted butter, stir again. Add the remaining ingredients and mix until you have a dough that looks fairly runny.
Pour the dough into a bowl (or leave in the bowl of a mixer), cover with plastic wrap and leave to stand for an hour (can be left overnight or up to two days). When you start frying the pancakes, it will be much thicker than originally. Mix it well before using.
Fry pancakes:
Heat a regular frying pan or a special pancake frying pan over medium heat. Lightly grease a preheated frying pan with melted butter (or vegetable oil). Pour about 4 tablespoons of batter into the pan, tilting it from side to side until it evenly coats the bottom. Cook until the edges of the pancake begin to pull away from the pan (2 to 3 minutes).
Flip the pancake and cook for about 30 seconds on the other side before removing to a plate. Repeat with remaining dough.
You can stack the pancakes in a heap, or you can lay them out on the table so that they can cool completely faster.
Making the filling:
Using a hand mixer, beat the cottage cheese until smooth, then add the yogurt (1/2 cup at a time). Next, add the sugar and vanilla, then beat for another minute. The filling is ready.
Assembling the pancake cake:
First, place the first pancake on a cake stand or serving plate. Generously coat it to the edges with filling.
Repeat with all but the last remaining pancake, which should be stacked but not greased on top.
Prepare the nut sauce:
Combine cream, brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
Stir occasionally at the beginning, and then more often as the mixture begins to thicken. You will know the caramel is ready when it becomes thick and smells toasty. Add vanilla and salt, then walnuts. Stir.
Immediately pour the sauce over the stack of pancakes.
Use a spoon to smooth the sauce to the edges - and if the sauce spills over the edge of the cake, so be it.
Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve. Pancake cake can be stored for up to 3 days, perhaps longer, depending on your luck)))). Bon appetit!
Recipe taken from smittenkitchen.com.
Custard
Ingredients:
- Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
- Vanilla sugar – 1 packet.
- Raw egg yolks – 4 pcs.
- Premium wheat flour – 50 gr.
- Milk – 500 ml.
Algorithm of actions:
- Heat the milk and cool it.
- Mix the remaining ingredients. Rub thoroughly with a spoon until all lumps disappear.
- Pour in milk. Stir again.
- Place the mixture on the lowest heat. Heat.
- When the cream thickens, remove from heat and cool.
You can assemble a cake from custard pancakes!
Simple pancake recipe
Each housewife has her own favorite pancake recipe, from a huge number of different recipes. Let's look at the simplest one.
For pancakes we need:
• Egg – 3 pcs.; • Milk – 400 ml; • A pinch of salt; • 1/2 pack of instant yeast; • Margarine – 1 pack; • Flour to dough consistency. Beat the eggs, add salt, melt the margarine over low heat and add to the eggs. To prevent eggs from curdling from hot margarine, you can add a glass of milk to the melted hot margarine. Then combine the margarine-milk mixture with the egg mixture and add another glass of milk to our dough. Sift the flour and mix with the yeast. You need to start with a glass of flour. Then pour the flour into the batter and stir well. We check the finished dough by sound by pouring it into a saucepan with a ladle. If a sound like “Gurg” is heard, so pleasant and familiar to everyone, then the dough is ready. But pancake cakes are rarely prepared with sour pancakes; the only familiar recipe is with sour cream.
For the cream, strain 0.5 liters of sour cream through cheesecloth and mix with 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
We make a kind of cake out of shortcakes, coat each pancake with cream and add the next one. You can diversify this pastry with finely chopped nuts on each cake or seedless raisins.
Curd cream
This cream based on fresh cottage cheese will require a little more effort from the housewife, but the result will please you more. Curd cream is suitable for those who count calories and try to make their diet both tasty and healthier.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese 9% fat – 300 gr.
- Butter – 70 gr.
- Sugar, ground to powder – 200-250 g.
- Vanilla or vanillin identical to natural.
Algorithm of actions:
- First, beat the cottage cheese with butter and vanilla.
- Then slowly add powdered sugar and continue beating.
- When the powdered sugar runs out and there is a homogeneous mass in the container, stop whipping.
Start spreading the cooled cake layers!
Banana pancake cake with yogurt and walnut glaze
Now let's create a real miracle of a pancake sweet cake. We will not just bake unusual cakes, but we will also make the filling itself not simple.
For this cake you will need to purchase more ingredients, so it will be more expensive than those described above. But definitely all those who try it will recognize you as a real miracle worker.
For banana pancakes you need:
- 1 large ripe banana
- 4 tbsp. butter
- 235 ml milk
- 95 g flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 tbsp. Sahara
- cinnamon, nutmeg
Filling:
- 225 g cream cheese
- 345 g unsweetened “live” yogurt
- 65 g sugar
- a little vanillin
Glaze:
- 125 g heavy cream from 33%
- 50 g brown sugar
- 15 g butter
- 50 g chopped walnuts
The banana needs to be cut and mashed to a puree.
Then combine it with the rest of the ingredients and mix until smooth.
Place the dough in the refrigerator for at least an hour. After this time has passed, take out the mixture and beat it well.
Bake in a hot frying pan until golden brown.
To prepare the cream, beat the cream cheese until fluffy. Then add yogurt with sugar and vanilla. We continue to beat. Let the finished cream cool for about half an hour.
We begin to assemble the cake, coating the pancakes with cream.
We will decorate with delicious glaze with walnuts. Nuts can be ground in a coffee grinder or blender.
