May 9 is one of the greatest holidays. Bake a cake the day before, decorate it in accordance with the symbols of the day. With such a gift, you can go to visit or celebrate a bright holiday with your family by putting a cake on the table for tea.
Baking a cake, making a cream
Start your cake by May 9th by making the cake batter. For him you need to take:
- 6 eggs;
- 5 tablespoons of thick sour cream with a fat content of 20-25%;
- 1 glass of granulated sugar;
- 2 tsp baking powder;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1, 5 cups of peanuts.
Fry the peanuts in a skillet with some vegetable oil on top. Keep the fire low and stir the nuts frequently. When their sides are reddened, remove from heat, cool. If they are in a husk, peel it off. Then chop the peanuts into 7x7mm pieces. To do this, pour it on the table, roll it several times with a rolling pin.
Whisk the yolks carefully separated from the whites with sugar. Add sour cream, stir. After that, add the sifted flour, peanuts, mix the sweet mass until smooth. Pour a pinch of salt into the cooled proteins, beat them well. Lay out 3 tablespoons. protein mass into the dough, mix. Then add the rest of the proteins, stirring very gently.
Lubricate the form with oil, lay glassine on it. Lubricate it too with a piece of butter. Place the pan in an oven that is preheated to 180 ° C. Bake the sour cream cake sponge cake for May 9th for 30 minutes. Remove, with a sharp knife divide into 3 cakes, let them cool well. Prepare the cream at this time. After beating 400 g of butter with 350 g of condensed milk, add the peanuts prepared as for the dough into the cream, just grind them in a blender into flour.
Cake decoration
Oil the cakes with cream, fold one on top of the other. Decorate the top and sides with cream too, then the mastic will be better attached. It is with her that you can decorate the cake for May 9th.
For her you will need:
- 10 g of gelatin;
- 500 g of icing sugar;
- 50 ml of water;
- 2 tsp lemon juice;
- food colorings.
Soak gelatin in a bowl of cold water. In it, he should lie down for 15-30 minutes (exactly how much is written on the packaging of a particular gelatin). Place the swollen mixture in a small saucepan and put on a small heat, heat, stirring constantly. You can not bring the mass to a boil, when the gelatin dissolves, remove.
Sift the icing sugar, pour into a bowl with a slide. Make a depression in the middle, pour warm gelatin and lemon juice into it. Replace the mastic.
Take half of the mass, roll it into a thin layer. Lay it on top of the cake, folding it over the edges. Iron thoroughly by hand so that the surface is flat, cut off the excess. Take 2 egg-sized pieces of mastic. Add orange to one and black to the other. Mix, roll each piece into a rectangle. Cut strips from these shapes, connect them with water in the form of a St. George ribbon.
Take the next part of the mastic, add a scarlet dye, roll it thinly into the layer, cut out the number nine and the letters "M", "A" from it. "I" and the star. Lay out the inscription in the middle, the St. George ribbon on one side, and the star on the other side. Put the cake to freeze overnight in the refrigerator, the next day you can drink tea with it.
