Congratulate your defender on February 23 in an original way - present him with a tank cake. He will not forget this gift soon. You can treat male colleagues at work with such a cake or arrange a home tea party with it with your beloved male relatives.
It is necessary
- For biscuit:
- - 200 ml of milk;
- - 100 g of butter;
- - 220 g of sugar;
- - 5 eggs;
- - 250 g flour;
- - 10 g baking powder;
- - 1 g vanillin;
- - a pinch of salt.
- For the cream:
- - 200 g of sugar;
- - 1 large or 2 small chicken eggs;
- - 250 g of milk;
- - 1, 5 tbsp. flour;
- - 350 g of butter.
Instructions
Step 1
Start preparing a cake in the form of a tank with dough, make a biscuit in hot milk. Sift flour, add baking powder to it, mix. Turn on the oven.
Step 2
Pour a pinch of salt into the eggs, beat on medium speed for a minute. Add sugar in small portions, beat until the mass triples. It will take 6-8 minutes. Add flour, vanillin, stir quickly.
Step 3
Pour the milk into a saucepan, put the chopped butter in it. Put the container on fire, stir, wait for the butter to melt. The liquid temperature should be 80 ° C. Pour half of it into the dough, stir, add the rest, stir again.
Step 4
In the meantime, your oven has warmed up to 180 ° C. Lay glassine in a round shape, grease it with oil, pour in the dough. Send the container to the oven to bake for 25-30 minutes. Prepare the cream during this time.
Step 5
Put all the ingredients for it, except for the butter, in a saucepan, which does not burn the bottom when boiling milk. Mix the products into a homogeneous mass using a mixer. Place the saucepan over medium heat, stirring vigorously every 10 seconds. When the mass begins to thicken, reduce the heat, stirring now without interruption. Boil the custard for a minute, remove from heat, cool.
Step 6
Remove the oil in advance so that it warms up and becomes plastic. Beat it with the blades of a mixer. Add the cooled custard in a spoon, beat. Well, if someone helps, then you will beat without interruption. Make sure that the spoon does not hit the blades! Place the cream in the refrigerator.
Step 7
Take out the finished biscuit, cut off 2 opposite sides from the circle. The result is a straight body with two rounded edges. Cut the cake crosswise into 3-4 pieces, let it cool. Turn the remaining sidewalls into a tank cabin. To do this, make them the same - straight from the side of the cut, rounded on the opposite.
Step 8
Coat the parts of the tank hull with cream, fold them one by one. Spread the semicircular pieces of the cockpit with cream too, put them on the back of the hull in the cut - the turret at the top turned out to be rounded. Spread the cream over the top and sides. Roll the green mastic into a thin layer, put it on the cake, cut off the edges. Draw on the side with a wooden kebab stick the wheels of the sweet tank. Then grease it with cream, wrap it with mastic and fix it on the cabin.
Step 9
Put the tank cake in the refrigerator overnight, then take it out and hand over a sweet present, warning that the barrel of the cannon is inedible.
