How to prepare a tasty and beautiful pie of "Mikado"

The pie of "Mikado" usually consists of 10-12 layers of dough which are missed the mark with refined chocolate cream and condensed milk. Today there are some options of preparation of a dessert. From each other they differ not so much in dough, how many composition of cream and decoration of a finished product.

Pie of "Mikado": present Armenian recipe

This way is considered traditional and the most original to taste.

Necessary ingredients:

Dough

• wheat flour – 600 gr
• butter – 125 gr
• sour cream – 100 gr
• granulated sugar – 100 gr
• egg – 1 piece
• soda – 1/2 ch.l
• vinegar for clearing
• salt

Cream

• dark chocolate – 1 tile
• butter – 200 gr
• condensed milk – 1 bank

Step-by-step instruction

1. For dough carefully to grind the softened butter with sugar and salt, and then there to hammer egg. To add the sour cream and soda extinguished by vinegar once again properly to mix.
2. To sift a flour through a sieve and to pour into dough. Quickly to knead to uniformity, to cover with food wrap and to put in the refrigerator for about 40 minutes.
3. For cream in a deep bowl to soften oil and to connect it to boiled condensed milk.
4. To kindle chocolate on a water bath, to pour to cream and to shake up the mixer.
5. To divide cool dough on 10-12 equal parts and to roll each of them with a rolling pin in a thin wide cake layer.
6. To bake in the oven which is previously warmed to 200 °C for 2,5 minutes till gentle gold color.
7. Accurately to take out, lay out on the prepared tray and plentifully to miss the mark with cream. So to make with all cake layers.
8. According to the present Armenian recipe the pie of "Mikado" from above and on each side needs to be sprinkled with grated chocolate and to send to the refrigerator to be drawn at least 2 hours. Then it is possible to give on a table.

Pie "the Air Mikado", the recipe with a photo

Dough in this option leaves more abrupt, than in the Armenian recipe. It gives the chance to divide it not on 10-12, and on 17-19 parts. Cake layers turn out gentle and quickly become impregnated with cream.

Necessary ingredients:

Dough

• premium flour – 3 St
• eggs – 3 pieces
• sugar – 120 gr
• sour cream – 100 ml
• butter – 100 gr

Cream

• boiled condensed milk – 1 bank
• it is swept away 15% - 600 ml
• dark chocolate – 1 tile

Step-by-step instruction

1. Spoon to grind the softened oil with sugar, to add extinguished soda and sour cream, to hammer eggs and to mix.
2. Flour to sift and enter into dough. Carefully to vent weight, to turn in food wrap and to put for half an hour on cold.
3. For cream to shake up condensed milk with sour cream.
4. To divide dough into 18 portions and is thinnest to roll everyone.
5. To bake cake layers in an oven to a rumyanost at a temperature of 200 °C.
6. To cool and cut off by the necessary size, carefully to miss the mark with cream and for 4 hours to leave to become impregnated.
7. Just before giving to sprinkle a pie top with grated chocolate.

Milk

chocolate Mikado cakes: the Armenian recipe with a photo

The original and tasty delicacy is prepared not only in the form of a high puff pie, but also in the form of small cakes-rombikov. For mitigation of taste for a decor take not bitter black, but gentle milk chocolate.

Necessary ingredients:

Dough

• the softened butter – 125 gr
• brown sugar – 1/2 St
• egg – 1 piece
• sour cream – 100 gr
• wheat flour – 2,5 St
• soda – 0,5 ch.l
• salt

Cream

• cocoa powder – 3 Art. of l
• condensed milk white – 1 bank
• creamy oil – 200 gr
• milk chocolate – 1 tile

Step-by-step instruction

1. To grind soft oil with salt and brown sugar, to add egg and to shake up mix a nimbus.
2. In sour cream to dissolve soda and to add to oil and sugar weight. Accurately to stir everything to a uniform cream consistence.
3. To pour the flour sifted through a sieve and quickly to knead soft dough. To pack into food wrap and to clean for 1 hour per the refrigerator.
4. For cream of our future pie of "Mikado" according to the Armenian recipe to connect condensed milk, oil and cocoa and to shake up to an air state.
5. To divide dough into 8 equal parts and to take out from the refrigerator on one.
6. To warm an oven to 200 °C.
7. To roll a cake layer on a table it is thinnest. That dough did not stick, to powder a surface and a rolling pin with a flour.
8. To bake until when edges start being gilded.
9. To get, spread out on a board and hot to miss the mark with cream. To collect thus all layers of a pie, on the top part to pour out the remained cream, to fill up with grated milk chocolate and to clean for a couple of hours in the refrigerator for impregnation.
10. After time to take out, cut on rhombuses and a tax on a table.

How to prepare a white pie of "Mikado"

This recipe differs from all others in that in a dish not black, but white chocolate is used.

Necessary ingredients:

Dough

• it is swept away 15% - 300 gr
• butter – 50 gr
• eggs – 2 pieces
• sugar – 100 gr
• soda – 1 ch.l
• flour – 700 gr
• vanilla sugar – 1 bag

Cream

• it is swept away 20% - 500 gr
• sugar – 2 St
• dried peel of 1 lemon
• lemon half juice

Step-by-step instruction

1. To shake up eggs and sugar to white strong foam.
2. In separate ware to connect sour cream, the kindled butter, vanillin and soda. To mix and add to egg and sugar weight.
3. To add all volume of a flour and to knead abrupt dough so that it did not stick to hands. To divide into 12 identical slices, to roll them in balls, to cover with polyethylene and to put for 60 minutes in the refrigerator.
4. To pripylit a working surface a flour and accurately to roll dough on thin cake layers.
5. To bake in an oven at a temperature of 180 °C of 6-7 minutes and to pile.
6. For cream to shake up sugar, sour cream, a dried peel and lemon juice in the mixer.
7. Plentifully to miss the mark with a sweet stuffing each cake layer and sides of a pie.
8. To kindle a tile of white chocolate on a water bath together with a small slice of butter. Mix has to turn out rather dense. To fill in with it a top of a pie of the Mikado and to put in the refrigerator for hardening for 3-4 hours.
9. Before giving by liquid dark chocolate to apply drawing on a white surface.