One of my favorite cakes as a child is Napoleon. It turned out incredibly delicious at my grandmother’s! What stores now offer under the popular name is not even close to those amazing pastries... And to prepare “Napoleon” yourself, the homemade recipe for which was preserved in my mother’s notebooks, alas, I don’t have enough determination or time. But I really want to remember the taste of childhood, and to please my children. So I decided to try one of the new ideas - “Napoleon” without baking!
It turned out that I had plenty to choose from! Recipes for “Napoleon” without baking are offered in a variety of ways. The imagination of modern home cooks is rich, which is very pleasing. Comparing these suggestions with distant memories, I chose to cook Napoleon cake made from Ushki cookies. Puff sugar cookies themselves resemble crispy, tender cakes. All you have to do is add cream to it, and the delicacy will be ready!
To prevent the cake from being too greasy (that’s why my mother didn’t like it and never made it...), I chose butter-free cream for it. He looks like . However, this is a matter of taste and health. You may well choose a different custard recipe.
So, here's what I needed to make Napoleon without baking:
Custard for Napoleon cake:
- milk – 1 l;
- eggs – 4 pcs.;
- sugar – 2 cups;
- wheat flour – 6 tbsp. spoons
In addition, you will need split round shape. This is the most convenient way to carefully lay out the cake and then remove it without damaging its appearance. 
How to make “Napoleon” without baking from “Ushki” cookies:
Cook in advance custard.
- To do this, pour 800 ml of milk (4 glasses of 200 ml each) into a saucepan, gradually heating and stirring, add sugar there, ensuring complete dissolution.
- In a separate container, beat eggs, flour and another 1 glass of milk.
- When the milk and sugar have boiled, add the egg mixture to it, stirring carefully and without stopping.
- Over low heat, bring the cream to a boil again to form a homogeneous thick mass. The consistency of the finished custard for the Napoleon cake resembles thick semolina porridge.
- Let the cream cool to room temperature.
Please note: I did not add vanillin to the cream. There are quite enough flavors in the cookies themselves! Therefore, the cake will turn out not only tasty, but also very fragrant.
We cover the bottom of the springform pan with baking parchment, snap the pan into place and begin to create our “Napoleon” without baking from “Ears” cookies: 
Cover the finished “Napoleon” without baking with cling film on top and put it in a cool place for several hours (you can overnight or even for a day). During this time, the layers will be saturated with cream and become homogeneous enough to turn into a real cake. All that remains is to remove it from the mold, transfer it to a beautiful dish - and serve it to the festive table! 
In my opinion, this is a wonderful solution for busy mothers and those with a sweet tooth. In addition, it’s a win-win option: nothing will burn, everything will certainly be baked. That is why “Napoleon” without baking from “Ushki” cookies became one of our cakes for the New Year 2017. Both in taste and in appearance it is worthy of this honor.
In conclusion, I offer those who also want to cook Napoleon without baking a video - it was this video that inspired me:
Delicious cakes and happy holidays to you!
Tatyana Lukyanenkova, a website specially for the culinary site.
Napoleon is a famous cake that is not very easy to prepare. First you need to knead the dough, then cool it, then roll it out, bake it, cut it. In addition, you still need to make a cream, lubricate it all, lay it out, soak it and decorate it. All this takes so long, but there is a simpler option with “ear” cookies.
Shall we try to cook?
Cake Napoleon from ears - general principles of preparation
Usha cookies are made from puff pastry with sugar; they are crispy, tasty, and usually have the shape of hearts. But we also resemble bunny ears, which is why it got such a funny name. Puff pastry is sold in the store, it can be by weight or packaged, you can choose any option. It is noteworthy that the “ears” are very light; half a kilogram is enough for a medium-sized cake.
Cream in a classic custard cake. And it goes perfectly with ready-made puff pastry cakes. It is cooked in milk with eggs and starch, often replaced with flour. Vanillin and butter are additionally added.
What other creams can you use:
Sour cream;
Creamy;
From condensed milk.
The choice is influenced by the availability of products and free time. It is not always available for cooking or whipping; sometimes you need to wait for it to cool completely.
The improvised Napoleon cake is always assembled in deep molds or in bowls. It’s very difficult to just lay the ears evenly, the cookies are small, they spread and crumble. Since it is dry in itself, there is no need to skimp on the cream, let there be a lot of it. Like any other version of Napoleon, this cake will need to sit. In 8-10 hours it will be well soaked, “settle”, it can be cut into pieces and served.
Cake Napoleon from ears with custard
This is an almost classic Napoleon cake recipe, but made from ears. The cream is prepared as a real custard with milk; eggs and flour are added to it, which can be replaced with starch. You can increase the amount of butter, as some people like richer versions of this cake.
Ingredients
600 g “ear” cookies;
500 ml milk;
120 g butter;
3 tablespoons flour;
A pair of eggs;
A glass of sugar;
Vanillin.
Cooking method
1. Mix vanillin, flour and granulated sugar in a small saucepan. Separate the yolks, add one at a time, start stirring with a whisk, gradually adding milk. Once the mixture is brought to homogeneity, you can put the cream on the stove. We begin to heat it up. We don't stop stirring.
2. The mass will begin to thicken at the bottom. As soon as it looks like liquid semolina porridge and the first bubbles appear on the surface, you can remove the stove. The cream will thicken further as it cools. Cool, add softened butter, beat thoroughly with a mixer.
3. For Napoleon, take a springform pan or a bowl; in the first case, you don’t have to cover it; in the second case, we lay out a layer of cling film from the inside or carefully line it with parchment.
4. Lay out layers of cookie ears, generously coat with custard. We put the leftovers in the refrigerator. We also put the cake in it to soak. It is advisable to withstand twelve hours, for example, all night.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Cover with remaining cream. Grind a few cookies or take ear crumbs from a bag. Sprinkle the top of the Napoleon cake and also decorate the sides.
Napoleon cake made from “ear” cookies with sour cream
This version of the Napoleon cake is made from “ear” cookies with sour cream. Due to the slight sourness of the product, it turns out incredibly tasty and interesting. In addition, sour cream soaks any cake very well, and its preparation takes no more than three minutes.
Ingredients
0.5 kg ears;
0.6 kg sour cream;
0.16 kg sugar;
Cooking method
1. Prepare quick cream. Just combine sour cream with sugar and vanilla. Better yet, take a mixer and beat for a few minutes. It is important to take a sufficiently thick and fatty product, then you will get a good cream. But you also need to carefully beat thick sour cream, it can easily become butter.
2. Place cookies in layers in a suitable form. Broken parts can be stuffed into voids. Spread with sour cream and repeat until the ingredients are gone. Let the cake soak for at least five hours.
3. We take out an improvised Napoleon. Lubricate with the remaining cream, decorate with cookie crumbs or any other way.
Cake Napoleon from ears with condensed milk
To prepare such a cake you need two types of condensed milk. The main cream is made from white milk with butter and vanilla. The second cream will be used for decoration; it will require a little boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients
400 ml white condensed milk;
150 g boiled condensed milk;
250 g butter;
Vanilla bag;
450-500 g of cookies.
Cooking method
1. Prepare the cream. The oil for it must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. It is advisable to even cut it into pieces so that it softens faster. Then put it in a bowl and beat for about five minutes at high speed with a mixer. Set aside two full tablespoons. The mixture should become white, fluffy, and somewhat reminiscent of whipped cream.
2. Start pouring boiled condensed milk into the remaining oil in a thin stream. We continue to beat. Has the cream become homogeneous? Add vanilla and after a few seconds turn off the mixer.
3. Lay out layers of “ear” cookies, coat with white condensed milk cream, cover and place in the refrigerator for at least five hours.
4. Immediately beat the previously set aside butter with boiled condensed milk. Place the cream in the refrigerator.
5. Remove the cake from the mold. Coat it on top and sides with boiled condensed milk cream. Level the cake and fill in the voids. Grind several ears until they are not very fine crumbs. Sprinkle the sides and top. But you can decorate such a cake with cream flowers and grated chocolate.
Cake Napoleon from cookies ears with nuts
A variation of a delicious and very aromatic ear cake. For Napoleon you can use walnuts, it turns out delicious, but you can also use cheaper peanuts.
Ingredients
600 ml milk;
3 yolks;
180 g nuts;
200 g butter;
500 g cookies;
2 tablespoons starch;
1 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking method
1. Since the custard will need time to cool, we start with it. Beat the yolks and sugar with starch, pour in milk, and place on the stove in a non-stick saucepan. Cook until the mixture thickens. Add half the oil, dissolve and cool. Then add the second part of the softened butter and beat a little.
2. Pour the nuts onto the stove and fry a little. Then cool, place on a board, roll with a rolling pin to chop, but not to the point of flour.
3. Grease the layers of cookies, lightly sprinkle with nuts, place and remove to soak.
4. Grind 5-6 cookies, mix with nuts. Remove the soaked cake from the mold, grease with the remaining cream, and cover with a mixture of nuts and cookies.
Napoleon cake made from “ear” cookies with sour cream and condensed milk
Another simple version of cream for a lazy Napoleon cake. The ears themselves contain a lot of fat, so the coating is prepared without adding oil. You can place thin slices of banana between the layers of cookies in this cake.
Ingredients
400 g sour cream;
300 g condensed milk;
1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
500 g ears.
Cooking method
1. Whisk the sour cream, add condensed milk and vanilla sugar. The cream should not turn out liquid; we use thick ingredients.
2. Lay out the finished cookies in layers, grease them, try to place them tightly so that there are fewer voids.
3. Cover the mold or bowl and put it in the refrigerator to soak. Then take it out and decorate with crushed cookies.
Cake Napoleon from ears with chocolate cream
A variation of the lazy cake with chocolate custard. It is also prepared from milk with the addition of cocoa. Additionally, you will need one chocolate bar for sprinkling and decoration.
Ingredients
700 ml milk;
130 g butter;
210 g sugar;
600 g ears;
3 yolks;
2 tablespoons flour;
3 spoons of cocoa;
90 g chocolate.
Cooking method
1. Mix two full spoons of flour with cocoa powder and granulated sugar. Separate the yolks, add to the future cream, grind and add milk. Let the mixture brew on the stove. Heat and stir constantly.
2. As soon as bubbles appear, remove the pan from the heat. Add chopped butter to the hot and thickened cream. Stir until they are completely dissolved. Cool the chocolate cream.
3. In the mold, assemble the cake in layers, coating the “ear” cookies with the prepared chocolate cream. Place in the refrigerator for seven hours.
4. Remove Napoleon from the mold. It is advisable to lubricate it well. Grind the cookies. Sprinkle the sides of the cake.
5. Grate half the chocolate and cover the top of the cake with shavings. Cut the remaining pieces into small cubes and scatter them in random order.
When adding a large amount of butter to the cream, it is advisable to beat the product separately until well foamed. In this case, nothing will leak, the taste will improve, the mass will be airy, and the high fat content will not be felt.
If you don't have cookies to sprinkle on top and sides of the cake, you can use nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes and even toasted sesame seeds. You can find an alternative in any kitchen.
If there is not enough time to soak the cake, you can first hold it for a couple of hours at room temperature and then cool it.
If there is no cream left, after removing the cake from the mold, you can grease it with regular condensed milk or sour cream.
Napoleon is a favorite delicacy that everyone remembers from childhood.
But not every housewife likes to tinker with it. In fact, the classic Napoleon requires large financial costs, and it will take a lot of work from the housewife.
Therefore, enterprising chefs have come up with interesting recipes that do not require kneading the dough or struggling with kneading it.
One of the most popular recipes that is popular among housewives is Napoleon without baking cookies. Most often, when preparing Napoleon, abalone cookies are used.
In fact, this is a delicious recipe that is popular with our housewives. Today we will prepare a no-bake napoleon using abalone cookies.
The ears themselves are quite tasty cookies, but as soon as you start eating them, they crumble very much.
That's why not many people buy it home for tea. That is why you can make a cake from abalone cookies without baking.
I'll tell you about the most popular recipes that are most often used in cooking.
Napoleon cake without baking from cookies
No-bake Napoleon cake made from ear cookies, also called “Nimble Napoleon”.
To prepare the cake we will need the following products:
ears 350 - 400 grams, half a liter of milk, two chicken eggs, three tablespoons of wheat flour, salt, sugar 5 tablespoons, powdered sugar 3 tablespoons, a pack of butter and vanillin. Take a pinch of salt and vanilla.
To prepare the cake, you need to follow the following recommendations and it is better to do everything step by step.
- The butter must melt in advance. If you know in advance that you will be preparing such baked goods, then it is better to leave the butter out of the refrigerator. The softer the butter, the tastier the cream will be.
- Set aside 5 cookies from the bulk of the cookies; you will need them to sprinkle on top of the pie.
- Let's move on to preparing the cream. The cream on the pie will be custard. To do this, eggs are mixed with salt and sugar and beaten thoroughly. Beat the whole mass until the mass becomes homogeneous.
- The milk is heated, but there is no need to bring it to a boil. This is very important so that the cake is well soaked. Since the milk will be warm, you need to pour it in a thin stream into the eggs so that the cream does not curdle.
- The finished mass is placed on the fire and stirred constantly. The cream should stand on the stove until it thickens. Then add vanillin and let it rest. The cream must be covered with cling film to prevent a crust from forming on its surface.
- Cream the butter with powdered sugar. If the milk mixture has already cooled, then it must be gradually added to the butter and whisked.
- Next, take the cookies and place them on a plate of the shape you want the cake to be. Spread the cream and grease each cookie. Then a layer and again cream are laid out on top. The layers of the cake can also be topped with sliced banana. Then you will get a banana napoleon.
In order for your cake to turn out beautiful, you need to decorate its top with crumbs, which you grind in advance.
If you don’t feel comfortable grating the cookies, you can wrap them in a towel and run a rolling pin over the top. Baking with custard is very tasty and therefore you need to learn how to prepare the cream correctly.
You will need it not only for Napoleon or other pie, but you can also use it to fill other pastries.
Ear Cookie Cake
The cake that we will now prepare is very easy to prepare and its cost will be cheap. This will be a puff pastry pie using biscuits.
According to the recipe, we will need:
ears - 600 grams, chicken eggs 3 pieces, pasteurized milk 600 ml, vanillin - pack, 100 grams of granulated sugar, butter half a pack.
- chicken eggs are mixed with sugar and vanillin. Everything needs to be whipped.
- add wheat flour and milk. Just add the milk gradually. In this case, you constantly need to whip the cream.
- Put everything that we have mixed on low heat and cook for about 5 minutes until it thickens.
- After the cream is cooked, it must be cooled. It is better if the cream cools naturally. Don't forget to cover the pan with film to prevent a crust from appearing on top.
- The ears are laid out on a dish and coated with cream. Place the cookies in the desired shape. Cover the top of the pie with cookie crumbs and serve.
When preparing baked goods, housewives are accustomed to the fact that a prerequisite is the preparation of dough using flour. But you can do everything much easier and cook everything from cookies.
The following baking recipe has almost the same composition of ingredients, only we will also use cream.
Puff pastry cake with cream
To make the cake, we need about half a kilogram of Ushki cookies. When buying ears, pay attention to the expiration date.
They should be crispy as they are made from puff pastry. To prepare the cream for the pie, we need half a glass of sugar and 35% cream, half a liter.
Preparing the pie:
- We buy puff pastries in advance. Be sure to set aside 6 cookies. You will need them to decorate your cake;
- Since we have the main product - cookies - ready, let's move on to preparing the cream. In order for the cake to turn out delicious, you need to prepare the cream correctly. To do this, pour the cream into a container in which it will be convenient for you to whip and begin to whip the cream for the pie until a good foam appears.
- Add sugar to the pie cream and start beating. After adding sugar, the cream will become liquid. Add vanillin and a couple of spoons of cognac.
- The cream is ready, let's start assembling the cake. Place cookies on a beautiful dish and pour cream on top. So we alternate until the cookies and cream are gone. After this, your pie is ready and can be served.
And finally, the simplest recipe that any housewife who has no experience in making a cake can make.
Simple ear cake
To prepare the pie, we take puff pastries, as you understand, ears - half a kilogram. Cream, a can of condensed milk and a pack of butter.
Accordingly, we don’t do anything with the cookies, but whip the cream with condensed milk and butter. In this case, you first need to beat the butter, and then gradually add condensed milk without ceasing to beat.
We place the cookies in the cake by analogy with previous recipes and serve. This pie is quite tasty, and it doesn’t require much effort to prepare it.
Every housewife wants her cooked dishes, cake or pie to be delicious. But everyone has their own tastes and therefore the cream for that cake may vary.
I'll tell you what cream you can use for cooking.
Sour cream - it requires half a kilogram of sour cream, ¾ cup sugar.
Everything is mixed and whipped. This cake cream will be liquid, but at the same time it will perfectly saturate the puff pastries.
We discussed the option of making custard, so I won’t repeat it. I recently came across a recipe for making pie cream. The cream is called “Charlotte”. It will require:
half a glass of milk, half a glass of sugar, 2 chicken eggs, butter.
Mix all products except butter and place on low heat.
After it thickens, remove from heat and let cool.
Then the cream is gradually poured into the softened butter and whipped.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is that when you assemble the cake, each cookie needs to be soaked in milk.
By preparing such a pie, you can spend a minimum of time and financial costs on it. And many people like it because it resembles Napoleon cake.
My video recipe
The classic Napoleon cake takes several hours to prepare. The most time-consuming part of the preparation is rolling out and baking the cakes. Down with slave kitchen labor with zero results.
Try making Napoleon cake from Ushki cookies with custard. The cream recipe is classic. It is important to choose high-quality butter and homemade milk. For a delicious cream you will need natural vanilla sugar, which can be easily made at home. Just “drown” a vanilla bean in a jar of sugar for 3 days. When choosing cookies, give preference to flaky, browned products with crunchy properties.
Ingredients:
- ear cookies – 0.5 kg;
- milk – 0.5 liters;
- vanilla sugar – 0.5 cups;
- caramel sugar (optional) – 10 grams;
- butter – 75 grams;
- eggs – 1 piece + 1 yolk;
- starch or flour - 3 tablespoons.
How to make a cake from Ushki cookies
Place the egg and yolk in a blender glass. Add half the sugar, caramel sugar and beat for 1 minute.
Add starch and beat until smooth.
Pour in 150 grams of milk and beat. The mixture should be airy, with bubbles, without grains of sugar.
Bring the milk and remaining sugar to a boil. Pour in the egg mixture in a thin stream with constant stirring.
Bring the mixture to a boil, but do not boil. The consistency of the hot cream should be as in the photo.
Add the butter, mix and beat lightly.
Place a layer of cookies on the bottom of a suitable springform pan, as shown in the photo. Fill the gaps with crushed cookies too.
Spread a little warm cream so that it covers the cookies.
Repeat layers until finished with cookies and cream. Leave some cookies for sprinkling. Leave the cake to soak overnight in the refrigerator.
Delete the form. Place the cake on a serving plate.
Sprinkle the cake with crushed cookies and garnish with almonds if desired.
Offered by us lazy Napoleon cake recipe, which does not need to be baked at all, is not much different from its predecessor - the classic Napoleon layer cake with custard. To tell the truth, if you don’t reveal the secret of its preparation, it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to guess that you didn’t stand at the stove all day baking numerous cakes. Only the most experienced housewives will be able to understand your culinary trick.
But such a recipe is a big plus for many women - it saves a lot of time, which can be spent, for example, on a cozy conversation over a cup of tea and a piece of cake with the family, as well as energy and nerves. The only thing you will need to spend your time on is preparing the custard, but this is also quite simple. By the way, lazy Napoleon cake, thanks to our step by step instructions Even a man can cook, which can pleasantly surprise his family. So let's get started.
Ingredients for making a no-bake Napoleon cake
Step-by-step preparation with photos of Napoleon cake without baking
As you can see, the lazy Napoleon cake made from Ushki cookies is quite simple to prepare. Depending on the soaking time, the cakes may remain crispy or moist. Serve the cake by cutting it into portions. Bon appetit!
