Capcake is a popular confectionery product, which is often served on tea parties, weddings, celebrations, and a number of other festivities. To us it came from the USA, where it appeared two centuries ago. In English, literally means "cake-cup". This is a small cake, often with a certain filling, baked in paper, silicone or aluminum forms (the latter in our time are rarely used), decorated with fruit, glaze or Cream. From a more familiar cupcake or from muffin is different in that it is actually a mini-cake. This culinary product is prepared from a sponge cake and is always decorated on top with a cap made of cream or glaze.
The first written recipe for the capkake dates back to the late eighteenth century. He is in the book "American Cooking", released in 1796. The recipe for the capkake, proposed in it, provides for baking a small cake in the cup. Gradually the dish became more and more popular. Home culinary recipes of the nineteenth century contained different names for this product - from "cake in a cup" to "fairy cake". A new round of popularity this dish received at the beginning of this century. Recipe capkake was popularized in the serial movie "Sex and the City", which in those years watched tens of millions of viewers.
There is a wide variety of these varieties of confectionery. They are decorated with various, sometimes bizarre and original ways - from pieces of fruit to whole patterns of cream, glaze, etc. Next, the reader is offered one simple recipe for a capcake. Note that you will need twelve special molds made of thin paper or silicone.
Sift 100 grams of premium flour, add to it four grams of baking powder, a teaspoon of vanilla, 120 g of sugar and 30 g of dry milk. Mix it all. Add the butter (80 g), mash the same. Again Stir until smooth. Add one egg and 0.1 L of fat cream. Using a mixer, mix it all at slow speed, but do not whisk. Your dough should turn out soft and gentle. Distribute it in twelve forms. Note that if you put it in the baking container a little more than you need, then there is a danger that the dough will simply flow out in the oven, pouring a baking sheet. Therefore, the molds need only be filled in half. Another point - the oven is better to preheat in advance (up to 180 ° C). Bakkaki is baked for fifteen to twenty minutes. To check the readiness, you can puncture one of them with a toothpick. If it remains dry, your dish is ready. It remains only to remove and cover top with cream, chocolate or glaze. To prepare the latter, you can mix three to four teaspoons of lemon juice with 100 grams of sugar powder. Then top with this mixture and leave your capcasks for a while for the glaze to dry. Received products are tasted. They can be used as wedding cakes. They are crumbly, tender and just melt in the mouth.