Lady's whim cake

A breathtakingly tender homemade cake with shortcakes made with sour cream dough and a delicious light cream made with cream and boiled condensed milk. All cake layers are baked separately and with various fillings: ground poppy seeds, dried apricots, chocolate, prunes, raisins or nuts. The choice of filler is only at your whim. It's quite tasty. Try it!

Ingredients

For 1 cake (4 cakes in total)

Chicken egg 1 pc.

Flour 80 g

Sour cream 120 g

Sugar 120 g

Baking powder 1 tsp.

Starch 15 g

Additionally for black cakes

Cocoa powder 1 tbsp.
l. Fillings for 4 shortcakes

Ground poppy seeds 100 g

Dried apricots 100 g

Prunes 50 g

Walnuts 100 g

Raisins 50 g

For impregnation

Sour cream 10–20% fat 500-700 g
For cream

Cream 33% fat 500 ml

Boiled condensed milk 1 can

Lady's whim cake video recipe

Lady's whim cake step by step photo recipe

The first step is to bake 4 shortcakes. Any of them must be kneaded and baked separately, because the dough contains baking powder. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.

For dark cakes, in addition to flour, cocoa and baking powder, cocoa powder is added.

Beat the egg and sugar until white with a mixer.

Add sour cream, stir.

Sift the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and knead into a homogeneous dough.

Next, add poppy seeds to the kneaded dough, and dried apricots, walnuts with prunes and walnuts with raisins to the remaining shortcakes. You can take any ingredients in the shortcakes to suit your own taste.

Pour the dough into a baking dish, which must previously be lined with parchment, greased with butter and dusted with flour.

Bake the shortcakes one by one in an oven preheated to 170-180*C for 20-25 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer.

Carefully remove the freshly baked shortcake from the mold and leave it to cool on the parchment.

In order for the shortbreads to come out very tender and moist, you need to soak them. For impregnation, mix sour cream with sweet powder.

Remove the parchment from the cooled cake layers.

Cut any shortbread lengthwise into 2 equal halves.

We grease any shortbread with sour cream impregnation and leave it on the table for 1-1.5 hours. During this period of time, the sour cream should be absorbed almost one hundred percent into the dough.

Beat the cool cream with a mixer until soft peaks form.

Add boiled condensed milk into the whipped cream in several steps and stir until smooth.

We assemble the cake, alternating the shortcakes and coating any of them with cream.

Place all the shortcakes, not counting the top one, with the sour cream cut side up. And on the contrary, place the top crust with the baked side up.

Grease the top and sides of the cake with cream and decorate to your liking.

After production, the cake can be cut into portions immediately and served. Bon appetit!

Cake "Lady's whim"

Ingredients

Wheat flour – 400 g

Sugar – 1 glass

Butter – 2 tbsp.

Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp.

For cream:

Boiled condensed milk – 1 can

Butter – 200 g

Milk chocolate – 50 g

For layering and sprinkling:

Walnuts – 100 g

Chocolate glaze:

Dark chocolate – 100 g

Cream – 10-15% – 80 ml

To soak the cakes:

Coffee with sugar – 250 ml

387 kcal
2 hours 30 minutes
2 hours 30 minutes

B: 5.67
AND: 21.55
U: 46.08

Photo of the finished dish

Step-by-step recipe with photos

For my daughter-in-law’s birthday, I decided to make a “Lady’s Whim” cake. This cake is from the category of honey cakes.

The dough is prepared according to the same principle as in the Spartak cake, although the ingredients are slightly different, but the cream is completely different. The cake is layered with cream based on boiled condensed milk and sprinkled with nut crumbs, due to this it has a rich nutty taste and smell.

To make the cakes, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Mix the eggs with sugar, place in a steam bath and beat until white.

Then add honey and butter while continuing to beat.

Add cocoa and soda to a bowl. Bubbles will begin to appear in the consistency.

Add flour evenly and knead into a soft dough.

Divide the dough into 8 parts, roll into balls.

Cut a piece of parchment into a square shape and use a rolling pin to roll out the dough very thinly. I rolled out the shortcakes with a diameter of 22 cm. The shortcakes will rise during baking. I rolled out 2 cakes at a time and baked them one by one. The shortbreads are baked very quickly, 4-5 minutes per shortbread at a temperature of 190 degrees.

Cake Ladies whim? — 6 delicious recipes

Sour cream lovers should try baking the “Lady's Whim” cake. It is a close relative of Smetannik, but there are some differences that make it special.

Basic recipe for a delicious dessert

There are no difficulties in manufacturing. The base of the dessert is sponge cakes and sour cream.

eggs – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 1.5 tbsp;
sour cream (for dough) – 1.5 tbsp.;
soda – 3 tsp;
starch – 3 tsp;
butter - a pack;
sour cream with a fat content of at least 35% (for cream) – 500 g;
flour – 1.5 tbsp;
any nuts, raisins and poppy seeds - 100 g each.

To prepare the “Lady's whim” cake, it is important to create a cream of a suitable mixture. To prevent it from spilling, you should take homemade sour cream, always paying attention to its freshness. It doesn't have to be sour. When purchasing a store-bought product, you should also purchase a cream thickener. It must be added during the preparation of the cream so that it is thick.

Before use, raisins should be soaked for 1 hour in warm water, poppy seeds should be crushed or poured with boiling water for 1 hour.

Prepare the shortcakes. To do this, combine a third of the flour and sugar, add 1 tsp. soda and starch, whole poppy seed, egg. Knead the dough, pour in a third portion of sour cream, about 75 ml.
Bake at 180˚C for about 20 minutes.
Bake 2 more shortcakes in the same way, only when kneading the dough, instead of poppy seeds, add raisins to the first portion, and crushed nuts to the second.
Beat the butter with sour cream, do not turn off the mixer for at least 7 minutes. Place the cream in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Assemble the cake, placing the shortcakes one by one and brushing them with the cream mixture. It's better to put the nut biscuit underneath. Decorate the top of the cake as desired.

Cake “Lady's whim” with dried apricots, poppy seeds and nuts

When making this cake at home, the beauty is that you can experiment with the inside and add what you like best.

eggs – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 1.5 tbsp;
sour cream 25% (for dough) – 0.5 kg;
flour – 2 tbsp;
fat sour cream (35%) – 1 kg;
baking powder - 1.5 tbsp. l.;
nuts, dried apricots and poppy seeds – 100 g each.

It is better to chop dried apricots and poppy seeds. They can be used not only for the interior, but also for decoration of the dessert.

For the biscuit, beat the eggs with sugar. The mixer should not be turned off for 10-12 minutes until stable peaks appear. Then add sour cream, flour and baking powder.
Divide the mixture into three bowls: add poppy seeds to one, nuts to the other, and dried apricots to the last. Now you need to bake 3 separate cakes. Note. If, when you pierce the crust with a wood stick, it is dry, then the dough is baked.
Beat the sour cream. If the cream comes out watery, then you should add a cream thickener.

How to cook in a slow cooker

This is an ideal option for those who are short on time, but still want to treat themselves to something delicious.

eggs – 3 pcs.;
flour, sour cream and sugar - 300 g each;
condensed milk and butter – 200 g each;
starch and soda - 2 tsp each;
vanilla – 1 sachet;
poppy seeds, nuts and cranberries - a handful each.

The highlight of this recipe is cranberries, they give sourness. But you can take the rest of the berries instead.

Knead the dough by combining eggs, sour cream and all dry ingredients. Mix everything well until the mixture becomes glossy and there are no lumps. Note. It is better to add soda by mixing with flour.
Next, set the “Baking” mode, pour 1/3 of the dough into the bowl, adding poppy seeds. Cook for 30 minutes. (depending on the device model). Do the same with the remaining parts of the dough, only add nuts to one portion and cranberries to the second.
For the cream you need to beat soft butter and condensed milk.

Assemble the cake and put it in the cold to infuse for several hours.

Chocolate flavored

A very ordinary recipe for a “Lady's whim” cake with chocolate flavor.

eggs – 4 pcs.;
wheat flour – 150 g;
sugar – 100 g;
sour cream – 400 g;
baking powder - 1 tbsp. l.;
butter – 300 g;
condensed milk – 1 can;
inside - 150 g of nuts and poppy seeds and 2 tbsp. l. cocoa.

The chocolate dessert will be decorated with icing. To make it you will need:

chocolate bar;
2 tbsp. l. milk;
a piece of butter.

Prepare the dough using the usual method. Mix the eggs and sour cream with all the dry ingredients (not counting the insides). Divide the mass into 3 parts.
Add your own filling to each (nuts, poppy seeds, cocoa).
Cook at 170-180 °C for about 20-25 minutes.
Beat the butter first, then add the condensed milk. Continue beating until peaks form.
To prepare the glaze, you need to melt the chocolate with butter and pour in the milk. The result should be a homogeneous mass.

After all the components of the dessert have cooled, you can begin assembling. The glaze does not have to harden, so it is important not to miss this moment. It should be poured over the purchased dessert sparingly.

Honey cake “Lady's whim”

A honey-flavored dessert is a variation of the cake for those who don’t like sour cream. This recipe will use a custard mixture.

For the cream you need:

milk – 400 ml;
testicle – 1 pc.;
sugar – 1 tbsp;
butter – 100 g;
flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
walnuts – 1 tbsp.

The nuts must be finely chopped and can be lightly fried to enhance the flavor.