Call me lazy, I won’t be offended :) But this cake is really tasty, nutritious, and not particularly harmful to your figure if you use low-calorie dairy products. Therefore, after trying the cake, I decided to share the recipe with you.
It’s easy to find the necessary ingredients: Armenian thin lavash, cottage cheese and yogurt.
To prepare a cake for one loved one, all the ingredients I specified in the composition are automatically divided in two, but since our family has a little more than one, I wanted to make more.
I cut the pita bread into “circles”. I admit honestly: I cut it with kitchen scissors, the child looked at it with undisguised interest (most likely a new idea was emerging in his brain) - after all, it turns out that not only appliqués can be made from paper, but also from bread :)
I coated each “crust” with filling, alternating cottage cheese and yogurt.
The result was a low cake, which I smoothly transferred to a cold place overnight.
And in the morning, a delicious dessert for breakfast is ready!
The fact that lavash is used is not noticeable. Somewhat reminiscent of a “wet” Napoleon. Cottage cheese goes well together. In general, as for me, it’s quite a filling and healthy breakfast.
If desired, you can decorate the cake with fruit and grated chocolate. In general, what you like. For some reason I immediately had my eye on kiwi here.
They devoured the cake very quickly, and didn’t have time to blink an eye. I think you need to make 3-4 pita breads))
Friendess TAKUV suggested this recipe to me, and special thanks to her for that!
Live well!
Thank you for your attention, Zoya :)
P.S. 1) indicated the time without soaking (all night).
2) I included the price for the whole cake.
Cooking time: PT00H15M 15 min.
Approximate cost per serving: 110 rub.
Homemade Napoleon cake is one of the most popular cakes. According to the classic recipe, it is prepared from thin crispy cakes with custard. In our case, we will prepare the Napoleon cake according to a simplified recipe, using lavash as a cake layer.
By using lavash instead of cake layers to prepare Napoleon cake, you greatly simplify your task, because baking cakes always takes a lot of time. And cottage cheese will make your dessert exquisite and tender.
Required Products:
- Armenian lavash – 0.12 kg;
- apples – 0.10 kg;
- soft cottage cheese – 0.10 kg;
- cottage cheese in a briquette – 0.22 kg;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- vanillin – 0.01 kg;
- soda – ¼ tsp;
- salt – 1 pinch;
- sugar - to your taste.
Preparation:
Rinse the apples, cut off the peel and grate them using a grater with large holes. Then place in a well-heated frying pan and sauté until the apples become like puree and turn brown.
Good to know! It is best to choose sweet and not very dense apples.
Now let's prepare the curd and vanilla filling. In a deep bowl, combine soft cottage cheese, vanillin and sugar. Beat everything thoroughly. The mass should become homogeneous and smooth.
Cut the pita bread into square sheets. Their size depends on how you want the cake to look when finished cooking. You can make many small sheets, then you will get a small but tall cake. Or, on the contrary, cut large squares and make the cake lower but wider.
Place a clean and dry frying pan on the fire and, after heating it, dry the lavash sheets one by one. They should become crispy.
While the cakes are cooling, you need to prepare the next cream. In an enamel bowl, mix cottage cheese in a briquette, egg, sugar, salt and soda. Beat everything with an immersion blender and place on the stove. Cook until the mixture melts. And coat the cakes
Advice! This must be done quickly, since the curd mass hardens very quickly and then does not fit well.
Spread the first sheet of lavash with cottage cheese cream and egg, top with apple filling. Next, cover with a second sheet of lavash and grease it with curd-vanilla cream. Cover with the next sheet and repeat all over again until you run out of lavash sheets.
Leave the coated cake in the refrigerator for a while to soak and soften.
Cake with condensed milk
This one with condensed milk is incredibly simple. Even a child can handle it, but it still turns out very tasty.
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Required Products:
- Lavash – 2 packs;
- condensed milk – 1 can;
- butter – 0.15 kg.
Preparation:
The first step is to cut the pita bread into pieces of the size we need. Place them in the oven for literally 3-5 minutes so that they dry out and become crispy.
The sheet that will be on the very top in the oven will be used to make the crumbs, as it will be the driest.
Interesting to know! The first condensed milk production plant in Russia was in the city of Orenburg.
Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it reaches room temperature. Pour condensed milk into a bowl and add butter to it. Stir until smooth. This is what wakes up our cream.
Coat all sheets with cream, including the topmost cake layer. Crumble a dry layer of lavash and sprinkle it over the top of the cake. Place in the refrigerator to soak for at least an hour.
“Napoleon” of lavash with custard
Lazy Napoleon cake is very quick and easy to prepare, it’s not for nothing that it’s lazy. And the fact that we will use lavash instead of real cakes will not affect the taste in any way.
Required Products:
- Lavash (round) – 10 sheets;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- milk – 0.50 l.;
- butter – 0.05 kg;
- sugar – 0.08 kg;
- flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
In a small saucepan, combine milk, flour, starch, sugar and eggs, stir with a whisk and place over low heat. Stirring the mixture all the time, bring it to a boil. Continue cooking until the cream thickens.
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After removing the cream from the stove, you need to pour it into another container and cover it with plexiglass. Leave until completely cool. Next, add the butter to the cream and mix thoroughly.
Dry the lavash sheets in a dry frying pan until completely dry. Chop two of them into small pieces and set aside for now.
Good to know! If the store does not have pita bread with round sheets, you can cut them yourself by choosing the diameter you need. You can use a plate or pan lid as a stencil.
Place a flat dish on the work surface and place a cooking ring of the appropriate size on it. Place the first sheet of pita bread on the bottom, cover with custard and cover with the second sheet. Do this with all the cakes. Sprinkle the top with prepared crumbs.
Place the finished cake in the refrigerator overnight.
Diet recipe for Napoleon cake
An excellent treat while on a diet. The cake recipe, although dietary, is very tasty.
Do you want a holiday? And there seems to be no reason?! So it's not a problem! Everything can be easily fixed. Every cook, even a completely inexperienced one, can please himself and his loved ones with a delicious cake in 5 minutes. An amazing, delicate “Napoleon” lavash cake will help you prepare a step-by-step recipe with photos. Such yummy food will be eaten in a few minutes, and no one will leave even a crumb behind! A stunning cake will be a real boon for those who are expecting guests. No hassle or worries, everything is done quickly and simply. The tea party will be a blast!
Required products:
- lavash – 2 packs,
- condensed milk - a jar,
- butter – 150 g.
How to cook with photos step by step
1. You need to prepare the pita bread. Open the package. Store-bought pita bread is very soft, so it will need to be dried. Therefore, the product must be cut into pieces. You need to choose the size of the lavash pieces yourself, it all depends on the desire for the volume of the cake. 
2. Place the cut lavash sheets in the oven for 3-5 minutes. The sheets need to dry. 
There should be a sheet on top that will later be used for crumbs, because it will become drier than the rest. 
3. Pour condensed milk into a bowl. 
4. Grate the butter. Place it in a cup with condensed milk. 
Mix the cream well. 
5. Grease the lavash sheets with the prepared cream. 
6. In a separate bowl, crush the driest leaf of pita bread into crumbs. Sprinkle crumbs over the resulting cake. Leave it in the refrigerator for an hour. 
7. You can eat the quick Napoleon cake made from lavash. 
Bon appetit!
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Lavash cake is in no way inferior to the classic “Napoleon” recipe, and thanks to the thin lavash cakes, it turns out to be well-soaked, unforgettably tasty, and most importantly, quick to prepare. Lavash for “Napoleon” can be prepared at home, or you can buy it in a store, at your discretion.
To make it clearer and easier for you to prepare, let’s begin the step-by-step preparation with a photo of “Napoleon” from pita bread without baking.
Ingredients for Napoleon cake
- 3 packs of thin pita bread
- 1 liter of milk
- 3 eggs
- 250 grams of sugar
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 30 grams starch
- 60 grams flour
- 200 grams butter
This cake is made from dried pita bread, which makes the cake very tasty.
Step-by-step recipe with photos
Step 1
We take our pita bread and cut each sheet into three parts. Makes 18 sheets.
Step 2
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, and dry each sheet of pita bread for about two minutes. The drying procedure will take you no more than twenty minutes.
Step 3
The lavash sheets are dried, and while they are cooling, we move on to preparing the custard for our cake.
You can add both butter and boiled condensed milk to the custard, this will give your custard a richer taste.
Step 4
Pour the milk into a saucepan, add 125 grams of sugar, put it on the stove, and bring it to a very hot state, but not to a boil.
Step 5
Beat the eggs for one minute with the rest of the sugar until fluffy.
Step 6
Add starch with flour, vanilla sugar to the egg mass, and pour in one ladle of milk twice, stirring constantly.
Step 7
Pour the egg-flour mixture into the remaining milk, then place on medium heat, stirring continuously, until the mixture thickens. Remove the cooked cream from the stove and continue stirring for a few more minutes (one or two minutes)
To prevent the future cream from burning, try to stir as quickly as possible, especially along the bottom of the pan
Step 8
Cover the finished cream with cling film and let it cool completely to room temperature.
Step 9
Beat softened butter. Hard butter can be softened in the microwave or on the stove.
Step 10
Add all the custard to the butter little by little, remembering to stir.
To prevent the cream from being liquid, it must be added to the oil cooled, at room temperature.
Step 11
The cream is ready. We move on to coating our finished, pre-dried cakes. Distribute a small amount of cream evenly, lightly pressing each cake.
Don’t forget to leave a couple of cake layers for sprinkling the cake, chopped nuts will also work,
Step 12
The smeared cakes will settle a little after half an hour, but to make the cake taller, you need to cut it in half two hours after soaking, and lay it on top of each other, giving it more time to soak a little.
Video with step-by-step preparation of Napoleon cake from lavash
Friends, if you love sweets, but you don’t have time to stand at the stove for a long time, then prepare a lazy Napoleon cake from a ready-made cake. This is a quick recipe - in just half an hour you can pamper your loved ones with a delicious dessert!
It sounds fantastic, but it turns out it’s possible, you just need to know some of the tricks of this masterpiece of homemade delicious baking. Although the name baking can be considered conditional, because “Napoleon” is prepared according to this recipe without baking, it is not for nothing that this cake is called “lazy”. The basis of the cake is thin Armenian lavash. The finished lavash cakes need to be dried and then coated with custard.
Thanks to this ready-made product, in just half an hour you will prepare a delicious delicacy that is not baked, but rather assembled. Even a novice housewife can handle it!
In addition, such a cake is also dietary and does not require any special financial costs, which is an equally important nuance. At the same time, he is in no way inferior.
The product is amazingly tasty, very tender, moderately sweet, well soaked. You simply cannot find a better alternative to homemade baking for tea parties with your family!
Although it’s not even a shame to put such a product on the holiday table. I assure you that guests will not even guess what this “Napoleon” is made from.
If you like the idea of a quick and tasty cake, then using the same principle you can prepare similar products with other creams. For example, Napoleon cake with banana, butter or...
Among other things, pita bread can be greased with boiled condensed milk or chocolate spread.
It is permissible to add flavorings to all creams: lemon or orange zest, vanilla, rum or coffee extract.
I won’t bore you any longer, let’s see how to make a lazy Napoleon cake from Armenian lavash. For your convenience, I have prepared the recipe in the form of step-by-step instructions with photographs.
- Armenian lavash – 8 pcs.
- Milk – 1 l
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
- Flour – 3 tbsp. l.
- Sugar – 150 g
- Butter – 50 g
Stages of preparing Napoleon cake from lavash
- It is advisable to immediately buy round lavash. Round tortillas will do. But if you have large rectangular sheets, then cut out round sheets from them using a plate of the required diameter.
If the pita bread is very thin, then the number of layers in the cake should be greater. The advantage in this case is that such a cake will soak faster.
- Let's cut out round cakes from all the pita breads (I got 16 pieces).
- Dry the pita bread in a dry frying pan for about 1 minute (no need to add oil!) It is better to use a Teflon-coated frying pan.
- Turn it over to the other side and, also at medium heat, fry the cake until it becomes brittle (i.e., each cake should be well dried).
- Now let's start preparing the custard for the cake. Place eggs and sugar in a saucepan.
- Using a mixer, beat the eggs until fluffy and increased in volume.
- Place the sifted flour into the egg mixture.
- And again, mix the products with a mixer until the egg mass thickens.
- Place the pan on the stove and cook the cream over low heat with continuous stirring (to avoid the appearance of lumps) until the first bubbles appear.
Then remove the pan from the stove and add the butter. Stir until it melts and distributes throughout the mixture. - Let's start assembling the cake. Place a sheet of lavash on a dish.
- Let's do a similar procedure with all the pita breads and cream. We will also grease the sides of the cake.
- Sprinkle the cake well with ground lavash (otherwise the top layer of cream will dry out, crack and take on an unappetizing appearance).
- Place the Napoleon cake in the refrigerator to soak for 1-2 hours.
Lazy Napoleon cake made from Armenian lavash turns out very tasty and tender, it just melts in your mouth! The recipe will be a lifesaver for you when there is little free time to bake complex products.
Video recipe for Napoleon cake made from lavash
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