Homemade recipe Stepashka cake [Noginsk] Recipe No. 1

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass with a smooth glossy surface, well retaining its shape.
Manual: Whipped butter, peeled and cut into pieces. Then, gradually, in several steps, add chilled milk-sugar syrup. At the end of whipping, add vanilla powder, cognac, wine. Duration of whipping is 20-30 min.

Manual: Milk is poured into the boiler, granulated sugar is added. The mixture is thoroughly mixed and boiled for 3-5 minutes to a temperature of 104-105 ℃ (test per thin thread). Milk-sugar syrup is filtered through a sieve with a mesh size of 1.5 mm and cooled.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Shape rectangular, square, round, etc. The structure is fragile, large-porous, airy, white.
Manual:
** Preparation of the whipped mass. ** Egg whites are cooled to 2 ℃ and whipped in a whisk machine, first at low, and then at high speed until the initial volume is increased by 7 times. Gradually add granulated sugar, vanilla powder to the resulting mass and beat for another 1-2 minutes. Duration of whipping is 30-40 min.
The finished whipped mass should be fluffy, homogeneous, foamy, dry in appearance, white. The moisture content of the whipped mass is 22-24%.
** Shaping. ** The whipped mass is deposited on sheets, greased or covered with paper.
For cake cakes (layers) of rectangular, square and round shapes, a stencil (frame) is laid on the sheet. The whipped mass is poured to a layer thickness of no more than 8-10 mm.
For airy cakes, the mass is deposited in the form of round or oval cakes from a pastry bag through a round tube.
** Baking. ** at a temperature of 100 ℃ the duration of baking cake cakes and large cakes is 60–70 min, small cakes and balls - 20–30 min. The baked semi-finished product is cooled for 30–35 minutes, then removed from the sheets of paper.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Shape rectangular, round, etc. Thickness no more than 8mm. The crumb is well-porous, crumbly, light brown, and light yellow for the Sandy Biscuit with Apples cake and Krakowski pastries.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Put butter into the kneading machine, add granulated sugar, melange, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, salt, essence and mix for 20-30 minutes until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then add flour and continue kneading the dough for no more than 1–2 minutes. Shortcrust pastry should have a smooth surface without lumps and traces of impurities, color from light yellow to yellow, pleasant smell and light aroma of essence. The moisture content of the dough is 18.5–19.5%.
** Shaping. ** The dough is cut into 3-4 kg pieces and rolled into layers on a table dusty with flour. Then the layers are cut and transferred to the pastry sheets using a rolling pin. The excess dough at the edges of the sheet is cut off. Before baking, the surface of the dough is pricked in several places to prevent swelling. The shortcrust pastry sheets are not greased.
The dough for cakes and sliced pastries is rolled out to a thickness of 3-4 mm. For round cakes, the rolled dough is formed with a round metal recess, for square cakes, cut with a knife.
The ring dough is rolled out to a thickness of 6–7 mm. The rolled dough is formed with a metal recess.
The dough for cakes "Krakowski" is rolled out to a thickness of 5–6 mm, the dough for baskets is rolled out to a thickness of 7–8 mm, placed on corrugated molds and the bottom and walls are lined with dough; molds with dough are baked on sheets.
** Baking. ** Duration of baking layer at a temperature of 200-225 ℃ 10-15 minutes, baskets and rings - 10-13 minutes. Sand layers for the Sandy Biscuit with Apples cake and the Krakowski pastries are baked until half cooked.