Confectionery Art for Beginners - video recipes at home

The famous confectioner Alexander Seleznev will teach you the oven delicious pies and cakes, crumbly pastry and delicate petit fours, making candy, jellies and other desserts.

In his new book "Confectionery Art for Beginners", you'll find useful information for beginners confectioners:

What tools should I use?

How to mix different types of dough?

How to Beat the whites into a solid foam lush?

How to cook the caramel, so it does not overheat?

The preparation will help you step by step photos and tips of the author.

You will learn how to cook cakes and cakes homemade, fragrant bread, cakes and other dishes according to the recipes you will find in this book.

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RECIPE "CHEESECAKE chocolate and vanilla"

from the book "Confectionery art for beginners"

It is necessary: ​​

Chocolate basis:

125 g butter

150 g of dark chocolate

1 egg

150 g of sugar

140 g flour

layer Vanilla:

250 grams of cheese "Philadelphia"

1 h. L. vanilla sugar

5 g of sugar

1 egg

125 g of cream (33%) Strawberry and apricot jam to decorate

HOW TO PREPARE:

Chocolate basis:

1. Oil Beat with sugar until white.

2. Chocolate melt in a water bath to a temperature of 40 ° C.

3 in the butter with the sugar then add the egg, then the melted chocolate, mix thoroughly

4 Sift flour and add to mixture, mix again.

5. Transfer the resulting mixture into a circular shape for baking with high sides and bake 20 minutes at 180 ° C.

Vanilla layer:

1. Beat the cheese "Philadelphia" with sugar, vanilla sugar, eggs and cream until smooth.

2 Put the resulting mixture over the baked chocolate base and smooth shape.

3. Bake cake another 35 minutes at the same temperature.

4 Decorate the finished cake with fresh strawberries

By the way: to check the readiness of cheesecake possible by pushing on the cake. Ready cheesecake should spring back and pushes.