Those who want to surprise the birthday boy, boss, colleague, friend, loved one, child can bake an unusual cake. Make it in the shape of anything: a mushroom, a laptop, a soccer ball, a bottle of champagne.
It is necessary
- For a sponge cake:
- Dough:
- - 5 eggs;
- - 1 cup of sugar;
- - 1 glass of flour;
- - a pinch of salt.
- Cream:
- - 150 g of condensed milk;
- - 250 g butter.
- Mastic:
- - 300-350 g of icing sugar;
- - 1 tsp gelatin;
- - 50 g of water;
- - food coloring.
- For a pan-fried cake:
- Dough:
- - 3 glasses of flour;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 can of condensed milk;
- - 1 tsp soda, quenched with vinegar or lemon juice.
- Cream:
- - 2 eggs;
- - 1, 5 glasses of sugar;
- - 4 tbsp. l. flour;
- - 1 bag of vanilla;
- - 200 g of butter.
Instructions
Step 1
The scope for imagination when creating a culinary masterpiece is endless. You will make an original cake from the most common products. Sponge cake is an excellent starting material for creating a base. The cream will allow you to mold an object of the desired shape from it. The mastic will turn the cake into an unusual one.
Step 2
To make a biscuit, remove the eggs from the refrigerator. Separate the whites from the yolks. Whisk the last ones with sugar. They should become lighter and larger. Pour in flour, mix the mass. Add a small pinch of salt to the egg whites and beat until stiff. Place in the yolk dough, stir gently with a spoon.
Step 3
Grease the baking dish with a piece of butter, pour out the dough, send it to the oven to bake at 180 ° C. When the top is browned, take out the cake. Cool it down, and at this time make a simple cream by whipping butter with condensed milk.
Step 4
Break the biscuit with your hands into crumbs, add the cream. Feel like real sculptors. Shape the dough into a champagne, animal, soccer ball, or something else. Place the semi-finished product in the refrigerator to freeze. After 2-3 hours, take it out and continue sculpting further.
Step 5
While the cake is cooling, prepare the mastic. Soak gelatin in water, dissolve it over a fire, without letting it boil. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, pour in the still warm gelatin, knead the sweet mass first with a spoon, then with your hand. Take a piece of mastic of the right size, put the rest in a bag so that it does not dry out.
Step 6
Add a few drops of food coloring or berry juice to the selected piece, knead the mass, roll it into a thin layer, giving the desired shape. Wind on a rolling pin, transfer to the base of the cake. Use your hands to attach the mastic to it. So paint and roll out the next portions of the mastic. As a result, you will get an unusual cake.
Step 7
Novice housewives can replace a biscuit with a cookie by crumbling and molding it in the same way.
Step 8
Fans of original cooking methods will not bake the cake in the oven, but will fry the cakes for it right in the pan. To do this, mix all the ingredients, divide them into 8 balls. Roll each into a circle. Place in a hot skillet without oil, pierce with a fork and fry on each side for 1-2 minutes. Trim the edges. Use them to sprinkle on the cake.
Step 9
Prepare the cream. Mix all the ingredients except for the oil. Put on fire. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, cool, whisk with butter. Spread the cooled cakes with it. Put the rest of the cream into a pastry syringe. Create an inscription of interesting content on the surface of the product. Such a cake will also turn out to be very original and unusual.
