Napoleon pastry
Pastry (please collect the ingredients in the "Pineapple Pie" recipe) 290g | Weifeng cake slice ingredients: 85g cake flour, 5 eggs, fine sugar (20g add egg yolk, 80g add egg white, 40g milk, 40g corn oil, 10g raisins, appropriate amount of rum, 2g salt, Appropriate amount of baking powder, 1g of vanilla extract) 2 tablets |
Cream frosting material: unsalted butter 250g | Egg white Amount of 3 |
Fine sugar (half with egg white and half with water) 100g | Clear water 30g |
Step 1
Roll out the puff pastry into three thin pieces with a length of 16 inches and a width of 12 inches, then poke some small holes in the dough with a fork and let it rest for 20 minutes.Step 2
After preheating the oven, bake the pastry at about 230 degrees for 8 minutes, then bake at about 180 degrees for 25 minutes. After baking, let it cool and set aside.Step 3
Make chiffon cake slices: Soak the raisins in rum for half an hour, then add them to the chiffon cake liquid, mix well, and bake in a baking pan at 175 degrees for 20 minutes. (Please refer to the previous cake roll making method for the specific process, so I won’t repeat it here)Step 4
Cream frosting material (Italian cream frosting, lighter in taste and simpler in process)Step 5
Soften the butter and cut it into small pieces. Use a whisk to beat it until smooth. Add the egg whites and sugar and beat until it is 60% to 70% smooth. Just keep it from flowing.Step 6
Boil water and the remaining sugar in a small pot to make a syrup of 210 degrees. Without a thermometer, you can see that the syrup has many small bubbles and is slightly yellow in color. Immediately add the syrup to the beaten egg whites and stir.Step 7
Then add the beaten egg whites to the butter and continue beating until smooth. (This cream has a larger amount, while Napoleon uses less. The excess cream can be used to adjust colors for markings. It’s okay to keep it in the refrigerator for a few days, but it will harden. It can soften naturally after taking it out)Step 8
Arrange the puff pastry - cake slices - puff pastry - cake slices - puff pastry in this order, and apply cream frosting on each layer. The prototype of Napoleon is completed.Step 9
Then put it in the refrigerator for more than an hour to let the cream freeze slightly, then you can take it out and shape it.Step 10
After cutting, a beautiful dessert was born!Step 11
The little angel couldn't help but want to take a biteStep 12
It’s so fragrant and sweet! Napoleon puff pastry cooking tipsThis recipe uses less puff pastry, so the dessert only has two small pieces. Making it at home is easy. You can make more puff pastry at once, divide it into small packets and put it in the freezer. Take it out and soften it naturally when you use it. . This kind of QiThe amount of wind cake is basically based on an 8-inch baking pan, which is also the amount used to make cake rolls. Napoleon cake can be freely matched with fillings. I used the most basic version. Friends who like it can feel free to add fruit, cream, or chocolate.