Raffaello cake can be the pinnacle of your culinary excellence. A delicate creamy taste, a pleasant aroma of almonds and coconut shavings formed the basis of this delicious dessert, which dizzy even the most picky gourmets.

Classic Raffaello cake made of white cakes

All fans of Raffaello sweets should definitely make an airy dessert with coconut flavor. The cake of the same name is a magnificent sponge cake, a gentle creamy cream, a layer of almonds and coconut flakes.

Ingredients for Biscuit:

  • 600 g flour;
  • 200 g of sugar;
  • 5 eggs;
  • 120 g of oil;
  • bag of baking powder.

For cream:

  • 500 ml of fat sour cream;
  • a bag of vanilla;
  • 220 g of granulated sugar;
  • 70 g coconut flakes.

Cooking method:

  1. Grind eggs with sugar, pour melted butter, add baking powder and flour. Knead the dough thoroughly, it should become soft, but not liquid. We divide it into six parts and put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. We roll out the cooled preparations with thin cakes and alternately bake white cakes from them at a temperature of 200 degrees.
  2. For cream, mix sour cream with sugar, vanilla and coconut flakes, leaving a little of the last for decoration.
  3. As soon as the cakes are cooled, grease them with cream, between the layers you can make an almond layer. Coat the top of the cake and sides well, sprinkle with coconut. For decoration, it is beautiful to use ready-made Raffaello sweets.
  4. We give the dessert an hour to stand in the heat, and then put it in the refrigerator for 6 hours.

With custard

Custard is one of the best for biscuit cakes, due to its light and delicate texture. For its preparation it is necessary to use only natural products of high quality. Milk should be at least 3.2% fat, and butter, at least 72%.

Ingredients for the dough:

  • ½ kg of flour;
  • 5 eggs;
  • teaspoon of baking powder;
  • 220 g of sugar;
  • a pack of cottage cheese;
  • vanillin.

For cream:

  • ½ liter of milk;
  • 220 g of sugar;
  • pack of butter;
  • 50 g of flour;
  • vanillin, coconut flakes.

Cooking method:

  1. For the test, grind the eggs with sugar and a pinch of salt, add baking powder, flour and cottage cheese. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth. Roll out the dough, cut round cakes and cook them in the oven for no more than 10 minutes.
  2. We drive the eggs into the container, mix them with sugar and pour the milk, pour the flour and vanilla. We put the mixture on a small fire and start cooking. Raffaello cream must be constantly stirred until it thickens. We bring it to a boil, but do not boil, but immediately remove from the stove and, adding butter, mix everything well.
  3. Lubricate the cakes with a cooled custard and sprinkle the cake with coconut flakes on all sides. The finished dessert is infused in the refrigerator for several hours.

Cooking in a slow cooker

Making desserts always requires a lot of time, but today anyone with a slow cooker can enjoy the delicate taste of sweet pastries. Rafaello’s cake with condensed milk and walnuts is also easy to prepare. You can add a little cognac to the biscuit, which will give the dessert a unique flavor.


Ingredients for the dough:

  • 5 eggs;
  • 220 g of sugar;
  • 30 ml of brandy;
  • 400 g flour;
  • vanilla;
  • salt, baking powder.

For cream:

  • ½ kg of curd cheese;
  • 100 ml of condensed milk;
  • ½ liter cream.

For filling:

  • a pack of wafer cakes;
  • almonds;
  • 200 ml of condensed milk;
  • pack of butter.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar and salt until smooth. We introduce flour with baking powder, add vegetable oil (3 tablespoons), brandy and knead the dough.
  2. Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil, and put a circle of parchment paper on the bottom. We pour out the dough and turn on the “Baking” mode for one hour. As soon as an audible signal sounds, do not immediately remove the biscuit, but it is better to leave it for 20 minutes in the "Heating" mode.
  3. Fry the almonds in a dry pan and grind with a knife. Wafer cakes are cut to the size of the cooked biscuits, and the leftovers are crumbled.
  4. Now whip two creams - for waffle cakes and for biscuit. For shortcakes, mix condensed milk with butter. Coat the cake with the resulting cream on both sides.
  5. For biscuit we combine condensed milk with cream, curd cheese and vanilla.
  6. We collect the cake: biscuit cuts in half and grease the first cake with the finished cream. Put the wafer cake on top, sprinkle it with crumbs and make a cream layer with nuts on top of them. Once again, we coat with butter cream and put the second biscuit. Smear the top and sides of the cake with cream and decorate with coconut.

Soft and delicious cake

A snow-white sponge cake with white chocolate cream and nuts will make the Raffaello cake the best gift for all women.

For cream, it is better to use natural cream, and for decoration - air confectionery. This will give the dessert a special taste and airiness.

Cooking method:

  1. Using a blender, grind 200 g of coconut. We leave half for the cream, and the second we will use in the preparation of the dough.
  2. We take 6 eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites in a thick foam, along with 2 tablespoons of icing sugar and lemon juice. Grind the yolks with sugar (200 g). Combine the two mixtures obtained, add 200 g of flour, ground coconut flakes and a few drops of vanilla extract to them.
  3. Mix everything, put the dough in the form and put in the oven for 45 minutes, after preheating it to 180 degrees.
  4. Pour 300 ml of coconut milk into a container and put it on fire. As soon as the milk is warmed up, but does not boil, pour 30 g of starch, 80 g of sugar and a little vanilla. We begin to cook the cream until it acquires a thick consistency. Once it thickens, remove from the stove and mix with the remaining chips.
  5. Melt a bar of white chocolate in a water bath. Separately, whip 300 ml of cream with 80 g of sugar. Then combine them with chocolate and coconut cream.
  6. We cut the finished biscuit into three parts. Soak each cream cake and make layers of crushed almonds. We decorate the finished cake with whole nuts, snow-white chips and send the dessert to the refrigerator for several hours.

Recipe from Emma's Grandma

Famous videoblogger grandmother Emma shares her recipe for making the cake in question. The dessert is lush, with a pronounced coconut flavor. The peculiarity of the recipe is that it does not have a single gram of flour. Grandma Emma uses cream to make the cream, and berries and mint to decorate.

Cooking method:

  1. In a water bath, melt 300 g of sugar and grind it with salt and eggs. We will need 6 of them. Combine the mass with coconut, mix and pour the dough on a baking sheet. Cook the coconut biscuit in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.
  2. We take 700 ml of cream, pour them into a saucepan and put on fire. Add 400 g of crushed white chocolate to the warmed cream and mix until it is completely dissolved.
  3. Soak the cooled sponge cake with cream, sprinkle with chips and decorate with berries and mint leaves. Before serving, the cake should be soaked well, so it must be put in the cold for 10 - 12 hours.

Mascarpone stuffed

Rafaello cake with Mascarpone filling is sure to be appreciated by all lovers of soft and light desserts.

It is the Italian cheese that makes the biscuit so juicy and soft. The main thing is not to spare the cream, because it makes the cake taste great and gives it a presentable appearance.

Cooking method:

  1. In a deep container, beat 6 yolks with 100 g of sugar and separately grind the proteins with the same amount of granulated sugar. Combine the resulting compounds, add 150 g of flour and mix everything thoroughly.
  2. We cover the baking dish with parchment and put the dough on it. Cook the biscuit base for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
  3. Now prepare the cream. To do this, beat 200 ml of cream, mix them with Italian cheese (300 g), chips (100 g) and condensed milk (100 ml).
  4. Cut the cooled biscuit into three cakes, each soak in cream and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Smear the sides and top and put the dessert in the refrigerator.

Raffaello cake without baking cookies

For those who do not want to bother with the dough and spend their time baking cakes, we offer a quick recipe for dessert without baking. The cake is juicy, delicate and very tasty.

Cooking method:

  1. Pour 300 ml of milk into the stew-pan, add 80 g of granulated sugar, 30 flour, and the same amount of starch. A few drops of vanilla extract will give the dessert a pleasant aroma. Cook the cream on low heat until thickened, do not forget to stir constantly so that there are no lumps. Add 100 g of soft oil to the cooled cream and mix the resulting composition.
  2. We take a round container - in it we will collect the cake. At the bottom, spread a spoonful of cream and distribute it on the surface. On top of it we place evenly any cookies (shortbread, biscuit). Spread the base with condensed milk and place another layer of cookies.
  3. Now spread the remaining cream and evenly distribute it. In order to make the cake juicy, we make a fruit layer, here you can use a banana, plum or any other fruit with pulp.
  4. Put cream on top of the cake. To prepare it, beat 200 ml of cream with powdered sugar (80 g). We smooth the cream over the entire surface of the dessert.

Decorate the finished cake with scythe chips or sprinkle with grated chocolate.

Berry dessert

For all the sweet tooth we offer a delicious dessert with a delicate cream and berry filling. For cooking, you can use any berries, fresh or frozen.

Ingredients for the dough:

  • 450 g of flour;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 220 g of sugar;
  • 220 ml cream (fatty);
  • 2 packs of vanilla sugar;
  • baking powder.

For cream:

  • 220 ml cream;
  • 220 ml sour cream;
  • 3 packs of vanilla sugar;
  • 70 g of sugar.

For filling:

  • 300 g of berries;
  • 7 Raffaello sweets.

Cooking method:

  1. To prepare a biscuit, grind the eggs with sugar and vanilla. Add flour and baking powder, mix everything.
  2. We grease the baking dish with oil or cover it with parchment. Pour dough into it and bake in the oven for 25 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees. The finished biscuit needs to be cooled and cut into two parts.
  3. For cream, whip cream with sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Soak the first cake with cream and spread any berries on top of it. If frozen are used in the preparation, then they should not be thawed.
  4. We cover the berries with a thin layer of candies crushed in a blender and cover with a second cake. Smear the sides and top of the cake with the remaining cream and decorate it with coconut flakes.

How to cook with cottage cheese

One of the options for baking the original dessert is Raffaello cake with cottage cheese. The dessert is not only tasty, but also very airy and tender.

For the recipe, it is better to find a real rustic cottage cheese, it beats well and gives the delicacy a delicate creamy taste.

Ingredients:

  • a pack of cottage cheese;
  • 4 eggs;
  • ½ kg of flour;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 220 g butter;
  • ½ liter of milk;
  • coconut flakes, soda, salt.

Cooking method:

  1. Using a whisk, shake two eggs with a glass of granulated sugar. We put cottage cheese, a pinch of salt, soda and flour. We mix everything well with a spoon and put the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  2. The remaining 2 eggs need to be whipped with sugar, add a couple of tablespoons of flour to the resulting mixture and pour milk. Mix the composition and put on fire. As soon as the cream boils, turn off the heat and immediately add oil to the hot mass and stir until it is completely dissolved.
  3. Take the chilled dough, divide into several parts and roll out. We bake each cake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
  4. We coat the finished cakes with cream and decorate the dessert.

The cake can also be baked in the form of a square, and before serving, cut into small portions. Such snow-white cakes will pleasantly surprise your guests at any celebration.

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