Forms and preparation of cake Austrian Tyrol

Contents:

• Legend of the Austrian cake
• What is the famous Austrian dessert?
• Sand Cherry Pie
• Cake with mincemeat
• Cheese Dessert Tyrol
• Tips Housekeeping tip

In recent years, Russia has a lot of new dishes and foods, a variety of flavors citizens. This news came from abroad, and when he heard about them, many are trying to find victuals viands on supermarket shelves or in the menu of cafes and restaurants to try them. Among the variety of foreign cuisine occupies a special place baking, because a lot of people by nature a sweet tooth.

That's why, when he heard the name of desserts cheesecake brioli, strudel, Tyrolean cakes and learn their prescription, most mistresses running to the kitchen, trying to create your own hands these exquisite masterpieces. Pies from Tyrol are the product though imported to Russia recently, but had time to find a whole army of fans. The secret to the popularity of these cakes, where they came to us and how to prepare a delicious and beautiful dessert?
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Legend of the Austrian cake

Tyrolean cakes are now known in many countries, and in fact could be the world about them and would not know if it was not the case. In Austria there is one old legend, which could well be in fact. Legend has it that one day, a few centuries ago, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph went hunting with his entourage in the forest neighborhood of Tyrol. After a successful day with the favor of the lap of nature, of the royal family and its close we were surprised to find that lost. Having strayed a time of dense bush, the travelers came upon a path that led them to a small village at the foot of the Alps.

Going into the first hut, tired and hungry poor Franz Joseph confused its inhabitants asking to feed him and his entourage. Since farmers no refined food nobles in the house was not available, the owner filed a single dish, which she had prepared before the arrival of unexpected guests. It was a berry tart, baked according to an old family recipe. Tasting food, the emperor was surprised and delighted with its delicate flavor. Franz Joseph generously thanked peasants. This family will never stricken by becoming the supplier of delicious cakes to the Austrian court, where they tried nobles. So gradually it grew and expenses of the fame of the pie, which received later the name of Tyrolean and his recipe eventually became available to others.

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What is the famous Austrian dessert?

The famous Tyrolean cake - a confection of sand or biscuit dough with a delicate custard, decorated with berries or fruit.

The most widely used cherry, blueberry and strawberry desserts, but many prefer to pineapple, apple, and even cheesecake. In addition to the classical version, currently there are several types of Tyrolean cake. It can be cooked as apple pie or cake, filled with top fruit and berry jelly. The dough can add nuts, cinnamon, cloves. But the fruit or berries must be an essential ingredient of this dish. Here are 3 recipes Austrian dessert. And every sweet tooth will find a Tyrolean cake to your liking.

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Sand Cherry Pie

This recipe is a classic pie from the Tyrol. To cook it you need three product groups.

1. Products for the dough: 200 g butter, 1-1, 3 tbsp. sugar, 1, 5-2 Art. flour, 1 egg.
2. Products cream 3 eggs, 2 tbsp. milk, 1 tbsp. l. flour, 1 tbsp. l. starch, 100 g of powdered sugar.
3. Items fruit filling: 2 tbsp. cherries, 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. gelatin.

You should first wash the cherries, clear them from the seed and cover with sugar or powdered sugar. Butter knife cut into pieces, and combining with the sugar, stir until smooth. Then add the egg and then flour and knead the dough elastic. To cool the warm sand mass, it should be placed for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Cooled down and gently roll the dough out onto a oiled baking. Bake 15 min at 220 degrees. The finished base and remove from oven, cool, shift into a deep form.

The recipe of the Tyrolean custard includes fried flour, cream imparts a nutty flavor. 1 tbsp. l. flour need to fry in a pan until golden brown. Then follows whisk the egg yolks with sugar. The mixture is lightly browned add the flour and 1 tbsp. l. starch, beat until smooth. In a saucepan heat the glass of milk, enter the cream, mix well, add the remaining milk, stirring mass to bring it to a boil. At the first signs of thickening remove the saucepan from the heat and cool to room temperature cream. On the sand to lay the foundation in the form of a warm cream and put the product in the refrigerator.

After 30 minutes, remove from the refrigerator cake, decorate it with sweet cherries on top. Dissolve 100 g of cold water, instant gelatin, add the juice, which gave the cherries. Pour this mixture of cherries and again put the dessert in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to pour a layer of fruit jelly. Classic Tyrolean cake is ready!

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Cake with mincemeat

This recipe is quick and easy to prepare another kind of Tyrolean delicacies. First, you need to stock up the necessary products. To prepare the dough, will need a 500 g flour, 250 g of butter and sugar, 2 eggs a pinch of salt and 1 tsp. Disintegrant. For the filling will need 2 tbsp. pitted prunes, 1 ch. l. vanilla sugar for 2 h. L. sugar and powdered sugar, a little spice to spice: cardamom and cloves.

Pre-soak for an hour should prune in cold water to soften. Butter with sugar, add the eggs and mix until smooth. Sift the flour, baking powder and combine with the salt and add to the egg-oil mixture. Knead the dough until consistency of thick cream and divide it into two parts.

Lined with greaseproof paper or baking form and put them on the first half of the dough. Bake it for 10 minutes. At this time, discard in a colander soaked prunes and cut each fruit in half. Mix them with sugar, spices and vanilla sugar. Remove from the oven or furnace to form podpekshimsya Korzh, put it mincemeat and pour all of the second part of the test. The product is baked for about 40 minutes. Then, the cake should be removed from the oven and cool slightly, sprinkle with powdered sugar. This Tyrolean recipe can be modified by replacing the mincemeat fresh fruits: apricots or plums.
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Cheese Dessert Tyrol

Another tasty dessert, which came from the Tyrol - this cheesecake whose main component, giving it originality is cottage cheese. To make this dessert, you will need 500 grams of cheese, 300 grams of sugar, 100 g butter, 1 tbsp. flour, baking powder, 4 eggs, 2 small sour apple and 150 g strawberries. In addition, the need to have on hand a half lemon, 30 g cognac and 30 g of water.

The recipe is quite simple dessert cheese. Previously should squeeze lemon juice and rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, sift the flour and mix with baking powder. Softened butter and beat it with a mixer with 250 g of sugar. Continuing to whisk mass, pour a thin stream into her lemon juice and brandy, and then enter the egg. Then add flour with baking powder and cheese. With the mixer is possible to obtain a homogeneous mass, the consistency of thick cream.

Round baking dish lay a parchment paper and pour into the prepared dough. Place in preheated oven and bake Tyrolean cake at 180 degrees about 20 minutes. Until the dough comes to availability, you need to cook the syrup and the fruit and berry cake top. For the syrup remaining 50 grams of sugar in a saucepan, mix with 30 ml of water, put the dishes on a small fire and cook until the mixture thickens. Apples and strawberries Wash, remove core from the apples and cut them into slices, berries cut into plates. Ispekshiysya cake removed from the oven and cool slightly. After that, it is beautiful to lay apples and strawberries and pour their syrup. When the syrup has cooled, the dish is ready.

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Tips Housekeeping tip

As mentioned above, the Tyrolean cake can be prepared in different ways. In any recipe you bring something of their own, a little modified the composition of products, retained only the basic components. For example, tarts, you can decorate the top of the classic custard recipe or prepare a protein cream. Some sweet tooth is poured on top of caramel sweets or chocolate.

You can cook pies with one type of fruit, or mix them with each other, for example, only the combination of sweet berries and sour and sweet, as you like . By the way, it is recommended to use a Tyrolean dessert is not only fresh, but frozen berries, but before you put them on the cake, they first need to unfreeze. If the hostess wants to prepare high sponge cake can be baked several cakes, interbedded their fruit filling and cream on top and putting another layer of berries and fruits. Thus, you get a real Austrian cake.

Custard and jelly belonging to the pies have quite an unstable structure, so Tyrolean cakes in the shops can be seen in paper form, or they simply raspolzutsya apart during transport. At home, too, care should be taken to make the tins delicacies sustainability. Some housewives are added to the custard a little gelatin, which makes it more dense, but the cream thus gets another taste. If you want to fill with fruits and berries of the top layer of the cake jelly, better to buy a special jelly for cakes, which hardens quickly without soaking deep into the product.

Delicate Austrian desserts with a long history, year after year traveling around the world, gaining thousands of new fans, and this is logical. It tasted delicious cakes ever, their fans are beginning to experiment with the preparation of confectionery, trying one recipe after another, sand baking and biscuit goodies, mixing them in a variety of fruits and berries, while creating their own sweet masterpieces.