In fact, Boston cake is not a pie, but rather a cake. Between the two gentle biscuit cakes promazyvaetsya layer of cream, and outside the treat is covered with chocolate glaze. Everything is simple and very tasty, and on the plate is almost a living classic, because such a "pie" was prepared as early as the beginning of the 19th century.
Without retreating from dessert traditions, we will try to reincarnate a forgotten recipe together.
Classic recipe for Boston pie
Ingredients:
For the cake:
- flour - 1 item + 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 2/3 of the item;
- powder for baking - 1 ½ tsp;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
- milk - half a century;
- vegetable oil - 1/4;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon.
For cream:
- milk - 2 items;
- egg yolks - 6 pieces;
- sugar - 2/3 of the item;
- vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- starch - 1/4 tbsp.
For glaze:
- chocolate - 230 g;
- cream - 1 tbsp.
Preparation
In a bowl, mix sifted flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. At the center of the mixture of dry ingredients, make a "well" in which we pour milk, oil, drive in the egg yolks and add the vanilla extract. Beat the contents of the bowl with a blender for 3-4 minutes.
In another container, whisk egg whites until soft peaks. The air mass is gently mixed into the dough. Fill the finished dough into a mold and bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
To prepare the cream, we need to bring the milk with the vanilla extract to a boil, then set it aside and allow it to cool down for 10-15 minutes.
In the bowl, beat the egg yolks and sugar. Add the starch and mix again. Constantly stirring the yolk mass, in portions, pour in the milk. Return the mixture for our cream on the stove and cook until thickened on low heat. To the hot cream we add butter. Cover the cream with a food film so that it fits snugly against the surface of the mixture itself (otherwise a weathered shell forms), let the cream cool for 2 hours.
For the glaze chocolate is broken into pieces and mixed with milk, let it melt in the bath.
We proceed to assembly of the cake: split the cake in half and lubricate the halves with cream, combine them and cover with chocolate icing. Let's cool down. That's all Boston pie with custard is ready!
Fast Boston cake without baking
A quick version of the Boston pie was not in vain got its name, because it is prepared in a matter of minutes.
Ingredients:
- sweet crackers - 150 g;
- vanilla pudding - 1 pack;
- butter - 1/4 of a century;
- cocoa powder - 1/4;
- milk - 1/4 of the item;
- powdered sugar - 2 items;
- vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
We prepare the vanilla pudding. In order to speed up the cooking, we decided to use the ready-made packaged pudding, which should be prepared according to the instructions.
To make chocolate icing, you need to mix butter with cocoa and hold the mass on the fire for about a minute. Now in the mixture you can add milk and leave it on fire for 3 more minutes. The last step will be adding to the icing sugar and vanilla extract and ready!
In the form we stack our crackers so that there are no gaps between them, now we distribute a third of the pudding over the cracker layer
In addition to the traditional serving of Boston cake with cream and pudding, our Boston dessert can be decorated to your own taste, for example, add a few fresh berries or fruits to the pudding layer, or sprinkle with the nuts.