For the birthday of a teenage boy, you can bake a cake on the surface of which a football field is located. There will be everything you need - a lawn made of cream, a ball of sweet mastic. You will make a gate with a net out of white chocolate according to a template.
Butter biscuit
Most of the time when creating a cake in the form of a football field takes the decoration. But this is a creative process, it helps to feel like real artists and sculptors. Making dough, baking cakes is also interesting. From this you will start creating a confectionery masterpiece.
Butter biscuit is best for the base, here's what you need for it:
- 9 eggs;
- 3 glasses of flour;
- 2 glasses of sugar;
- a package of vanillin;
- 2 tsp baking powder;
- 1 glass of sour cream;
- 200 g of butter.
For the cream:
- 1, 5 cans of condensed milk;
- 600 g of butter;
- green food coloring.
For gates:
- 200 g of white chocolate.
The butter and eggs must be removed from the refrigerator in advance and kept in the kitchen for about 40 minutes. After that, you can start making the dough for the cake. Pour sugar into butter, add sour cream, beat for 3 minutes. Beat the eggs into a separate bowl, mix them with a whisk. Add eggs to the butter and sour cream mixture one tablespoon at a time. When the mixture is smooth, add another spoonful of the egg mixture. In this way, mix the butter with all the egg mass.
Pour vanillin, baking powder into flour, sift it all over a wide bowl of butter. Stir the dough until smooth. Grease a rectangular shape with butter, pour in the dough, put in an oven preheated to 185 ° C for 30 minutes. When the surface turns golden, stick a toothpick in the middle of the crust. Take it out, if it remains dry, take out the cake, if not, let it bake and check the readiness after 5 minutes.
Deliver the biscuit, cut it into 3 parts, cool, prepare the cream during this time. Beat the softened butter, gradually adding condensed milk to it in small portions.
Cake decoration
If desired, soak the cakes with sweet water and start collecting and decorating the cake in the form of a football field. Lubricate the first cake with cream, put the second on it, then again the cream and the third cake.
Put some of the cream into a pastry syringe, cover the sides of the cake and the edges of the top with it. Make a transverse strip through which you pass a circle - like on a real football field. Add a few drops of green food coloring to the cream, mix, cover the rest of the field with it.
It is better to make the gate in advance. Draw 4 details for the gate on a piece of paper - the back is in the form of a wide rectangle, the top is in the form of a narrow one. The two sidewalls are identical, they are also made in the form of a rectangle, but its upper corner is beveled, it is semicircular. Place the stencil in a transparent file. Lubricate its surface (file) with vegetable oil. Melt the white chocolate in a water bath, put it in a confectionery syringe with a narrow end, border the details of the gate and cover them with a mesh pattern. Let the chocolate set in the refrigerator for 3 hours. Take out, connect the parts with melted chocolate, put the gate in place.
Blind a ball out of the same white chocolate or mastic, mark on it a few dark spots made of dark chocolate. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours, after which it can be served.
