How to make sour cream so that it is not only tasty, but also airy or thick? This question often arises when preparing desserts and baked goods. Sour cream-based confectionery impregnation is a classic of almost all homemade recipes. Confectionery factories produce many products with this impregnation, they manage to make it thick, lush and tasty. Homemade sour cream always turns out for some reason "wet" and most often liquid. Moreover, the recipe is selected correctly and the proportions are respected - why is it so? To achieve the desired effect, you need to know some of the nuances of cooking and use them in practice.
Sour cream cake is considered the most basic to make and the most affordable in terms of the required ingredients. Biscuit cakes, sour cream, eclairs and other types of pastries and cakes are impregnated with it. The impregnation in question is endowed with a lot of advantages:
You can use the thickest and fattest sour cream you can find for cooking. Keep the cream in a cold place (refrigerator) so that it “grabs” well. But all these manipulations do not act as a guarantee that it will be really thick. To get a thick sour cream, you need to use some cooking tricks.
The main ingredient - sour cream should be with the appropriate percentage of fat and fresh. If the fat content in it is insufficient, then the impregnation will turn out to be liquid and such a filling will simply drain from the cake.
If you need the cream in a dessert dish to keep its shape, then you cannot do without gelatin. Here are some ingredients, the use of which will help you prepare a thick sour cream yourself at home:
All of these ingredients help create a thick, fluffy, tasty meal during the cooking phase. In an already prepared liquid impregnation, you can increase the density by adding a thickener to the dish, after which the mass is whipped again. But it is better to initially prepare all the components so that later you do not redo the work.
To make a classic sour cream and soak a medium-sized cake with it, you will need:
The rest of the ingredients are indicated additionally in each of the recipes step by step.
To make sour cream with gelatin, it is necessary in addition to the specified recipe to add: a packet of instant gelatin (15 grams), 100 milliliters of water.
Cooking instructions:
The delicacy is ready for use and impregnation, they can not only smear the skin, but also decorate the cake on top, as shown in the photo.
Advice! To further increase the thickening properties, it is recommended to dissolve gelatin not in water, but in special confectionery cream. However, this mixture should be heated very carefully to avoid curdling.
A couple of tablespoons of starch are added to the specified recipe. The recipe for sour cream with starch is easy to prepare, and you need few ingredients for it, and the taste and texture will meet expectations in full.
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For 500 g of sour cream, you need to take about 100 grams of butter. This recipe will allow you to achieve the maximum density of the impregnation.
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This ingredient contributes to adding volume. Therefore, sour cream with condensed milk made according to this recipe will turn out not only tasty, it will also come out much more than in all of the above. For him you will need: a can of condensed milk and butter (50 grams will be enough). This recipe allows you not to use granulated sugar at all.
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Sour cream with condensed milk prepared using this technology can be used as an impregnation for a cake or as an independent dessert dish, sprinkled with grated nuts on top. This is a very tasty, original and beautiful (see photo) dessert.
Sour cream with fruit is a very delicate and tasty dish. It can be used as an impregnation and as an independent dessert. Great for summer cakes. To the above standard set of components should be added: fresh strawberries 500 grams, a pack of gelatin and strawberry juice 150 grams.
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The resulting delicacy can also be used as an independent dessert dish. Delicious, aromatic impregnation is laid out in portioned cups and garnished, if desired, with fresh strawberries.
Summing up, I would like to note that, creating a delicious sour cream, step by step considered in the material, does not require heat treatment - this is a significant plus. In the books of recipes, here and there it is indicated that to achieve the desired thickness, sour cream must be boiled in syrup (sugar or starch), only this is a completely different kind of creams -. All the considered recipes for making cream based on sour cream are ideal for cakes, biscuits, honey cakes, sour cream and other homemade baked goods.
The history of biscuit baking technology dates back to 1615, and to this day it has not changed significantly. There are seven main types of interlayers for biscuit cakes, but even the sour cream for a biscuit cake, which is familiar to many, can be tasty in different ways (chocolate, banana, cottage cheese or with the taste of condensed milk).
There are only two ingredients in the classic sour cream: sour cream and sugar. You can add some vanilla powder or vanilla sugar for flavor. Despite the simplicity of the composition, not many housewives get the cream thick and lush. What were the mistakes made, a detailed study of the rules of preparation will help to find out.
The proportions of ingredients for sour cream are defined as 1: 2, that is, for one part of sugar, there should be twice as much sour cream. Of course, sweet tooths are not forbidden to increase the amount of sweetener. This will not affect the consistency of the cream, only the taste will become sweeter.
Sour cream with gelatin will help out in the event that it was not possible to find sour cream with a high percentage of fat. For this cream, you can use a product with a fat content of 15-20%. Of course, the consistency of the cream will differ from the classic version, but the result will still be excellent and without extra calories.
The classic sour cream with sugar has one drawback: trying to achieve complete dissolution of all grains of sugar, it is easy to beat it up and get a sweet butter. This will not happen if you replace sugar with condensed milk. It is important to use only high-quality natural products with a high percentage of fat.
Alcohol should not be added to the cream if the cake is made exclusively for children. In this case, it can be replaced with natural vanilla extract or fruit essence to taste.
The addition of an exotic fruit (banana) makes the taste of the usual sour cream unusual and delicious. It is not difficult to prepare such a layer for biscuit cakes, the only difficulty that may arise is the browning of the bananas. To prevent this from happening, sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice before preparing the cream.
This cream is a favorite of both those with a sweet tooth and those who follow their figure. It doesn't have so many calories in comparison to its other sour cream cousins, and the taste is very delicate and velvety, melting in the mouth.
Chocolate lovers can make a mega chocolate sponge cake by complementing the chocolate sponge cakes with chocolate sour cream. For this cream, you can take sour cream of any percentage of fat, but depending on it, you need a little more or a little less powdered sugar to get the desired consistency of the mixture.
The second name of this cream "Plombir" he received for its delicate taste, reminiscent of ice cream. In the finished form, the cream is moderately dense, ideal for creating thick creamy layers between biscuit cakes or for decorating various cakes.
To make your pastries tasty and look terribly appetizing with everything, you should definitely think about what kind of cream you will make for the layer and cap. Of course, there are many of them, and sometimes, making a choice is the most difficult task. And the basis of the foundations here will be sour cream for the cake. This cream is very easy to prepare, and the taste is simply amazing. Such one will come to the rescue of any housewife and turn your dessert into an exquisite dish. Let's find out how he prepares.
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Whatever the baking is, sour cream for the cake will help to make it even better, the recipe for which is simple. To prepare this simple cream, you need only two products - sour cream and sugar. Mix all this and beat well, if desired, you can also add vanillin, it will only improve the taste and add a pleasant aroma. When a thick air cap appears, your cream is ready to use. You can safely spread it on the top of the cake and decorate with fruit. more than 20%.
And be careful, sour cream should be exactly sour cream, not a sour cream product, otherwise everything will be useless.
If you already have sour cream and it just so happens that it is not quite thick, then you can still save it for the cream. To do this, there are two options: either to rid it of excess moisture, or to thicken it. For the first, use a sieve. A piece of thick cloth or gauze should be put on a sieve so that not all sour cream will filter down, but only moisture will come out. Next, lay out the sour cream and substitute the container underneath, so the whey will have where to drain.
This procedure takes a long time, and sour cream may well acidify slightly, therefore, it will be better if you transfer the whole process to the refrigerator. You need to wait several hours, so it will be convenient to leave it like this overnight. In cream with sour cream for the cake, you can also add sour cream, condensed with gelatin. There is nothing wrong with that, if only the sour cream does not beat up airily enough, but this is better than nothing.
In order for the gelatin to fulfill its purpose, you must first leave a few spoons of it to swell for 15 minutes in cold boiled water. After that, stirring constantly, heat up and mix with sour cream, beat. The finished mixture should be allowed to stand in the refrigerator and you can safely spread the cakes.
In addition to the classic version, sour cream cake cream can be presented in other variations.
Let's present some of them.
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This is just the perfect recipe for soaking cakes. Due to its consistency, such a cream will easily saturate any baked goods and give an amazing sweet taste even to ordinary bread. You can spread it on anything, and it will still be terribly delicious.
In order to prepare such a cream for a cake, sour cream and condensed milk are also whipped with sugar until an airy mass is obtained. This cream is remarkable in that you can make a wonderful dessert from it, adding anything: chopped fruit or fruit puree, pieces of cookies or cocoa powder, here is the time to get creative. Freeze this cream in tins and you get ice cream.
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Curd sour cream is also very easy to prepare. Beat sour cream with cottage cheese, gradually adding sugar. Take the amount of cottage cheese in proportions with sour cream at the rate of 1: 1. Cottage cheese must first be wiped through a sieve to obtain a homogeneous mass, otherwise you simply will not be able to beat it.
Such a cream can become a separate dish, even without any additives. It is thick and satisfying enough to exist as a standalone dessert.
In some detail and clearly about the preparation of sour cream for cakes will be described in the next video. We hope that it will help you to please your family with a masterpiece of culinary art.
Dear housewives, remember that the dish becomes tastier not from the amount of ingredients put into it, but from their correct combination. Yes, cream for cakes can be terribly difficult to prepare, consist of more than a dozen products, but it is not always worth spending so much time and effort to achieve an excellent result. Sometimes the genius of a dish lies in its simplicity. With sour cream, you will not only do everything quickly, but it will also turn out great. And the simplicity of the recipe will especially help novice housewives. Such a cream can be prepared at least every day.
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Sour cream is different. The easiest thing is to grease the cake cakes with thick sour cream.
But we are not looking for easy ways and we will make an unusually delicious sour cream!
Simple recipe with sugar
Sour cream - 0.5 liters
Powdered sugar - 1 glass
Vanillin - 1 sachet
1. Choose the fattest and thickest sour cream for the cream. If your sour cream is thin, then let it stand for a day or drain off the excess liquid, discarding it in a colander with gauze.
2. Whisk sour cream at low speed, add vanillin and powdered sugar.
3. Continue whisking until the cream is more fluffy. But do not overdo it with whipping, otherwise you risk getting butter instead of cream. 😉
The mixture should turn out to be liquidish, because the zest of the sour cream lies in the fact that the cakes are completely saturated with creamy yummy and turn out to be juicy, tender. However, if you are not satisfied with the flow of the cream, you can thicken it by adding a bag of cream thickener to the above products. Sour cream with gelatin and butter are also thick (you can read these recipes below).
Vanillin can be replaced with vanilla extract, cinnamon, nuts, grated chocolate, syrup.
Sour cream with berries
Sour cream - 0.5 liters
Sugar - 1.5 cups
Fresh (or frozen berry) - 1 glass (as much as possible)
1. The berry should be washed, peeled of stalks and seeds. The most delicious creams are made with strawberries and cherries.
2. Whisk the berries, sour cream and sugar in a blender.
3. If desired, you can add pieces of berries to the finished sour cream and berry cream.
4. Use the cream immediately after preparation.
Step by step recipe with dried fruits
Sour cream - 0.5 liters
Sugar - 1 glass
Dried fruits - 1 glass
1. Prepare dried fruits: rinse, soak for 15 minutes in warm water, rinse again.
2. Now they can be cleaned of seeds, stalks and other inedible parts of the fruit.
3. Mix sour cream with sugar.
4. Crumble dried fruits into small pieces and cover with sour cream.
5. Let the cream sit for at least half an hour in the refrigerator. The longer the cream stands, the more it is saturated with the aromas of dried fruits.
Sour cream with prunes is the most popular. We also advise you to pay attention to kumquat, with it sour cream acquires an amazing citrus taste.
Sour cream + jam
The simplest recipe for sour cream: mix sour cream and your favorite jam in equal proportions. Fast and delicious! You can grease the cake.
Chocolate cream with sour cream and butter
Sour cream - 1 glass
Sugar - 1 glass
Cocoa - 0.5 cups
Butter - 200 gr.
1. Sour cream, sugar, cocoa and 50 gr. put butter over medium heat and stir.
2. Cook the mixture until thickened.
3. Cool it down.
4. Butter at room temperature, softened, beat until fluffy and slightly increased in volume.
5. Add cooled chocolate mass. Whisk until the mixture is smooth.
Note: it turns out no less tasty.
Recipe with banana and condensed milk
Sour cream - 1 glass
Condensed milk with sugar - 1 glass
Banana - 2 pieces
Sour cream recipe step by step:
1. Bananas should be peeled and cut into pieces.
2. Lick bananas, sour cream and condensed milk into a blender.
3. Whisk until smooth.
Sour cream recipe for cream with gelatin
Sour cream - 0.5 liters
Powdered sugar - 1 glass
Vanillin - 1 sachet
Cream - 3 tablespoons
Gelatin - 5 gr.
1. Whisk sour cream, powder and vanillin.
2. Pour cream over the gelatin and leave for 10 minutes to swell.
3. Heat the cream over medium heat until the gelatin melts in the cream. Do not let the mass boil, otherwise the gelling properties of gelatin will disappear.
4. Let the cream with gelatin cool down and pour into the sour cream in a thin stream.
5. Leave in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. The cream is ready to use.
Please note: if you put more gelatin in the sour cream cream, then you will get not a cream, but a soufflé. Which is no less tasty, but it is used in the confectionery business not at all for impregnating the cakes, but as an additional layer.
Also excellent sour cream comes out. Only this is another article and other ingredients.
Sour cream is one of the most delicious, but not very popular creams for decorating a cake. The fact is that this cream does not hold its shape for a very long time and quickly loses its structure due to the instability of the composition. And it cannot be stored for a long time, up to a maximum of 5-8 hours in the refrigerator.
One of the most common cakes that uses sour cream in the recipe is honey cake. I also want to offer a delicious recipe for pancake cake with sour cream.
Sour cream turns out to be quite fatty and high-calorie, since it is prepared from sour cream with a high percentage of fat content.
The sweetness of the cream is given by sugar or powdered sugar. Moreover, it is better to use the powder, with it the cream will turn out smoother and more delicate, and the sugar grains will not crunch on the teeth. But powdered sugar must also be of good quality, and if you do not have your own trusted manufacturer, then it is better to take more expensive powder. Here it is up to you to decide. But now there is such a huge selection of powdered sugar, and our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used sugar for creams, nevertheless, the cakes did not get any worse from this.
Gelatin can be used as additional ingredients. With it, the cream will keep its shape better, but it will lose its tenderness a little. Vanillin will also not be superfluous to the sour cream, which will add its magical aroma to the cream. Well, I really like how orange peel goes with sour cream.
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1. I recommend taking thick sour cream, homemade sour cream is the best fit here, because there is no trouble with it - beat it with a mixer and you're done. But if you take ordinary store sour cream, you will have to tinker a little with it. In order for it to become thicker and easy to beat, you need to put the sour cream in cheesecloth and put in a colander in a saucepan so that there is a place between the bottom of the saucepan and the sour cream where the whey will drain. Thus, we will get rid of excess liquid in sour cream.
So, put the thick sour cream in a deep bowl.
2. Add powdered sugar to the sour cream.
3. First, mix with the whisk of the mixer in the off state, so that all the powdered sugar does not scatter in different directions. We mix so literally for half a minute.
4. Now turn on the mixer and beat the sour cream. It should grow in volume, become very airy and keep its shape well. Beat for no more than 1 minute. If you overdo it, the airy sour cream will turn into butter.
That's all! Sour cream is ready! Now you can spread them on the cake layers.