Cake "Kolibri" Jamie Olivera

Today we will learn how to prepare an amazing dessert from the western hemisphere - the "Kolibri" cake. Jamie Oliver, known to many on the TV project "Naked Chef", kindly provided a recipe. We ask all those who wish to impress their household with an original and amazingly delicious novelty for tea to join the reading of our publication.

What is this cake known for?

The presented dessert is noteworthy in that it won a prize at the state fair in Kentucky in 1978. Earlier, from the middle of the 19th century, the Kolibri cake enjoyed great success in the countries of South America. In the year of recognition at the fair, a dessert recipe was published in one of the US magazines and immediately made a furor over American citizens. Since then, dessert has not lost its position in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, moreover, moved to the tables in European families.

Features

Of course, having a rich history, the cake "Kolibri", the recipe of which we will provide below, could not but be subjected to all kinds of changes. Many mistresses, honing their skills, try to prepare various creams for this dessert. However, the classical, non-modified things, still remained. As a nut supplement, a rather fat pecan is traditionally used, as a fruit component - banana puree and chopped pineapple.

Cake "Kolibri" like all those who do not like dry biscuit, because in this dish of fruit, even more than the test itself. The original cake is a two-layer cake, someone used to make 3 or even more layers. Americans use cream cheese as a glaze . Jamie Oliver slightly interpreted the composition of the glaze, from which his culinary masterpiece became even more delicious.

What does the British master think about the dish?

"Naked Chef" often shares his thoughts and remarks about this or that dish. What are the thoughts of the master cake "Kolibri"? Jamie's reviews say that an unusual dish exudes an amazing flavor. It's only necessary to cut the first piece, a smile will appear on your face. But when a piece of delicious baking is in your mouth, a person realizes that this is the true perfection of taste.

Cake "Kolibri": a recipe with a photo. Baking Ingredients

Of these ingredients should be 14 servings. Here is the complete list of products that will be needed for the test:

• Flour pancake - 350 g;
• Bananas overripe - 4 pieces;
• Olive oil - 250 ml;
• Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
• Chicken Chicken Egg - 2 pieces;
• Canned pineapple - 1 can (425 ml);
• Pecans - 50 g;
• Powdered sugar - 350 grams;
• Vanilla - 1 teaspoon;
• Sea salt - 1 large pinch.

It should be noted that to lubricate the mold you will need some more olive oil. Bananas choose an average size. We also note that a product such as pancake flour has the property of rising. Now go to the ingredients for the glaze to decorate the cake "Hummingbird". We need:

• Butter (unsalted) - 150 grams;
• Powdered sugar - 400 grams;
• Lime - 2 pieces;
• Cream cheese - 200 grams.

The oil for making the glaze must have room temperature. Well, to decorate the cake, we will need some more components:

• Pecans - 50 grams;
• Powdered sugar - 100 grams.

As you can see, the recipe completely lacks sugar and ordinary wheat flour. Well, the products are prepared, it's time to start cooking. Perhaps, someone already anticipates an unusual and original taste.

Cooking method

The first thing we'll do is warm up the oven, where the cake "Kolibri" will go in a few minutes. Jamie Oliver argues that the dish will not cause any difficulties for the amateur culinary on the way to the shipment to the oven. By the way, the oven needs to be heated up to 180 degrees, no more. Prepare 2 baking dishes with a diameter of 23 cm, soak the parchment paper with olive oil and cover both containers.

We cook the dough. Pancake flour should be sifted through a sieve along with cinnamon. Now add sugar powder and sea salt to the flour . In a separate bowl, peel the ripe bananas and mash them with a fork until smooth mashed. Canned pineapples must be drained and cut into slices as finely as possible.

By the way, in the cake "Kolibri", the recipe of which we are now mastering, you can add fresh pineapples.

Sliced pineapples are sent to a bowl to a banana puree, and then in the same container we add olive oil, eggs and vanillin. We mix the fruit component of the dish. Now it's time to combine the dry mix and fruits, and also add pecan to the composition. The nucleoli are well succumbed to cutting with a knife, but you can use the old good, proven method of crushing nuts with a rolling pin.

Baking

As you can see, the dough is prepared very quickly and we did not even need a mixer. It remains to pour the dough evenly over the molds and send the cake "Kolibri" to the oven for 35-40 minutes. After the cakes have been taken out of the oven, separate the side surfaces of the baking from the mold with the blunt side of the knife, however, do not remove the contents until 10 minutes have elapsed. Through this time, the baked cakes will lightly cool and will not be able to settle. Accordingly, the appearance of the cake will be at an altitude.

Cake "Kolibri": recipe from Jamie Oliver. Cooking glaze

And now the mixer will be needed. Sift in a bowl of powdered sugar, add a soft oil and whip into a lush foam. Now put the cream cheese in the container. With limes it is necessary to proceed as follows: one with a small grater, remove the zest, cut the other half and squeeze the juice. After the cheese, just send the juice, leave the peel for decoration. Stir the resulting composition with a whisk, but do not whisk. What further advises Jeremy Oliver? Cake "Kolibri" has 3 stages of cooking. Now it is necessary to be engaged in preparation of an ornament from nuts, and glaze should be removed for a while in the refrigerator.

Decoration baking

Take the non-stick frying pan, place the powdered sugar in it, add a tablespoon of water to the container. Do not turn on a strong fire, the composition in any case in a couple of minutes will come to a boil. Do not use a spoon to stir, just rotate the frying pan, and the powder itself will dissolve. Now add the nuts in the pan, and at the end one more pinch of sea salt. Take the parchment leaf, put the contents of the pan there. When the composition cools down, pecans can be milled.

Build process

Collect immediately on the serving dish. Put one of the cooled down cakes there and grease with a piece of glaze. Then lay over the glaze and the second cake. Lubricate the top of the baking. Now the turn has reached and to finely grated peel - decorate with it a surface of a cake, then lay out the cooled down pecan. But that's not all. Ideally, this dessert is decorated with edible flowers: thyme, violets, sage, cucumber grass. It turns out amazingly beautiful!

If you follow the figure, the following information will be useful for you. Cake "Kolibri" (recipe from Jamie Oliver) is quite high-calorie. "King" among the ingredients used (in addition to oil) is a pecan - a regular for various delicious desserts. So, one piece of treats contains 684 kcal. However, such an amazing dessert really deserves that each of us try this piece once in a lifetime.

Cream glaze

There are options for making glazes, however, a characteristic sour should always be preserved. Another time for comparison, you can prepare a glaze of the following components:

• Sour cream 30% fat content - 300 g;
• Cream cheese - 350 g;
• Lemon - 2 pieces;
• Powdered sugar - 2 cups;
• Cognac - 100 ml.

Lemons use exactly the same as in the recipe from Jeremy used lime: from one of them, remove the zest, and squeeze the juice from the other. Important: in this method half of citrus juice is mixed with cognac exclusively for impregnation. The remaining ingredients of the glaze are beaten with a mixer. In this case, the edges of the product are also greased with glaze.

Options for making decorations

There are also other ways of decorating a cake. The ingredients used are:

• Pecans - 1 cup without a slide;
• Honey - 2 tablespoons;
• Cinnamon - ½ teaspoon;
• Vanilla sugar - 2 tablespoons.

In this case, caramel is cooked from honey, cinnamon and vanillin, into which each nut kernel is dipped, and then spread on the cake. Also, there are options when crushed pekan cover the sides of the baking, and leave the top uncolored. Have a nice tea!