Custard cake with butter cream

If you want to cook a chic and very tasty cake without extra labor, this option is for you! The most delicate choux pastry cakes are saturated with silky fragrant custard butter and sour cream - it is impossible to resist such a delicacy!

Ingredients

• For the custard test:
• Water - 200 ml
• Eggs (large) - 4 pcs.
• Butter - 50 g
• Refined vegetable oil - 50 ml
• Flour - 130 g (1 cup with a capacity of 200 ml)
• Salt - 1 pinch
• For cream:
• Sour cream 20-25% - 300 g
• Butter (room temperature) - 200 g
• Egg (large) - 1 pc.
• Flour - 60 g (0.5 cups with a capacity of 200 ml)
• Sugar - 120 g
• Vanillin - 1 g
• For decoration (optional):
• Almond flakes - 1 tbsp. a spoon

Directions

1. First of all, we prepare the cream, since it still has to cool down: in a thick-walled saucepan we combine sour cream, sugar, flour, egg and vanillin.
2. Mix everything with a whisk until smooth and send to medium heat.
3. Bring to a boil and thicken with constant stirring (this will take about 5 minutes).
4. We lay cling film directly on the surface of the cream and leave the pan in a cool place until the cream cools to room temperature (to speed up the process, the pan with cream can be placed in a larger container with cold water).
5. We take out the butter for the cream from the cold so that it warms up to room temperature.
6. We prepare custard dough: pour water into a thick-walled pan, add butter and vegetable oil, add salt. We send it to the stove.
7. Turn on the oven to heat up to 200 degrees.
8. As the oil in the pan heats up, the water boils.
9. The fire is reduced to a minimum. Pour all the flour into the boiling liquid. Stir with a wooden spatula or spoon until smooth.
10. Knead the dough on the fire for 1-2 minutes - it should move away from the walls of the dishes and stop smelling like raw flour.
11. Allow the dough to cool slightly (at temperatures below 60 ° C, the eggs do not curl).
12. Add the eggs one at a time to the dough, immediately mixing them with a mixer at low speeds.
13. At first, the dough will take lumps.
14. After 30-60 seconds of the mixer operation, the structure will become homogeneous.
15. The finished dough should be smooth, shiny, uniform, slightly reach for a spoon.
16. Now we need to bake cakes. From this amount of dough, two cakes 30x30 cm are obtained (the size of my baking sheet).
17. We cover the baking sheet with parchment.
18. We distribute the dough on parchment with our hands or a spoon, wetting our hands (spoon) in cold water or vegetable oil. The crust is very thin.
19. We bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for about 10-12 minutes. Do not open the oven door during baking so that the cakes do not settle.
20. Immediately remove the finished cakes from the paper and transfer to a dry towel, leave to cool to room temperature.
21. While the cakes are cooling, let's go back to the cream: in a bowl, combine the sour cream custard base and room temperature butter, cut into pieces.
22. Beat everything with a mixer at high speeds for 2-3 minutes, until silky smooth.
23. Now we cut each cake in half - a total of 4 cakes (halves) will be obtained.
24. Lubricate the cake with a portion of cream (when distributing portions, we take into account that part of the cream will be needed to decorate the sides of the cake).
25. Cover with a second cake, which is also smeared with cream.
26. So we collect the whole cake from four cake layers (halves).
27. Having smeared the top layer with cream, trim the sides with a knife to make the cake more accurate.
28. You can leave the cake low, rectangular shape.
29. And I make it taller, square in shape: I cut it across in the middle - it turns out two low square cakes.
30. I put one on top of the other - and it turns out a tall cake of 8 layers.
31. Grease the sides of the cake with the remaining cream.
32. On top of the cake, if desired, you can decorate - I sprinkled it with almond petals.
33. Custard cake with butter and sour cream is ready. Leave the cake in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight).
34. Enjoy your meal!