A children's holiday cannot do without a cake. Depending on the age of the guests, the theme of the celebration, the preferences of the audience, you can make a cake in the form of one or sometimes an object, and then decorate it with multi-colored mastic.
How to make dough
A cake for a children's party consists of several cakes soaked in cream and mastic, which is the main part of the decoration. For such a case, a butter biscuit is perfect. You will bake it from the following products:
- 10 large chicken eggs;
- 2 glasses of flour;
- 150 g butter;
- 1, 5 cups of sugar.
Separate the whites from the yolks. Mash the last with sugar. This can be done with a spoon, but preferably with a mixer paddle or whisk. When the yolk mass increases in volume, brightens, pour melted butter into it. It should not be boiling, otherwise the yolks will cook. Melt butter over low heat or water bath. Cool to a warm state and only then pour into the yolks, add flour, mix the dough.
Add salt on the tip of a teaspoon to the cooled proteins, beat them until elastic peaks. Put a third of the proteins in the dough, mix until smooth. Put all the proteins in the dough, mix gently. This number of products is designed for a large cake for a children's audience. Grease a deep baking sheet with butter, pour the dough into it. It will rise, so pour halfway into the mold.
The same applies to round cakes. If you are going to bake a 3-tier cake, pour the dough into 3 tins or pans of different diameters. Put in the oven, which has a temperature of 180 ° C, bake the biscuit for 30-35 minutes.
How to bake and make cream
Take out the biscuit. They cut it hot on cakes. If you stopped at the multi-storey version, cut each cake with a long knife into 2-3 pieces, leave to cool. If you want to make a large rectangular cake, carefully (using a helper with two culinary spatulas) remove the cake and transfer it to a suitable form. If the pan is Teflon-coated, cover the cake with a rectangular tray and turn it over. The last option is preferable - the bottom of the biscuit is smoother than the top, so it is easier to cover it with mastic. Cut into 3 pieces with silk thread. From such a base, you can make a cake for children in the form of a pony, a bear, a doll, a toy car. To do this, attach a stencil to it, cut out the shape of the desired shape.
Layer the cakes with butter cream. Whisking 2 cans of condensed milk with 500 g of butter and 5 tbsp. cocoa, add 0.5 cups of ground nuts, stir.
Mastic decoration
Use a white marshmallow marshmallow to make a mastic. To do this, put it in the microwave for 2 minutes at maximum power. Take out, start adding the sifted icing sugar (for 320 g (4 packs) of candies, take 250 g of powdered sugar). Knead the sweet dough. You should have a bouncy ball. Put it in a bag in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, take it out, roll it out, sprinkling a rolling pin and mastic with starch.
To add color, add berry juice or food coloring to individual pieces of mastic. If you want to make a pony-shaped cake, use pink candy or add a little dye to the desired color. Roll the mastic into a thin layer, cover the entire surface of the finished biscuit sandwiched with cream and its sides with it, cut off the excess.
Decorate the background of the 3-tier cake in the same way. On its surface, you can make a fabulous meadow. Sculpt mushrooms, berries from mastic of different colors, put them on a white background. Decorate the sides of the cake as well. Let it chill for 12 hours and serve.
