Cake "Fairy Tale" is familiar to many. Prepare this dessert by shaping it into a rectangle, oval, or roll. A step-by-step description, photos will help in this creative work.
The Fairy Tale cake was a popular dessert back in the USSR. It can be cooked in the form of a log, roll or rectangle. The hallmark of this biscuit dish is the decoration of the top in such a way that it resembles a fairy glade.
Cake "Fairy Tale" according to GOST - recipe
Take:
- 140 g wheat flour;
- 4 eggs;
- 400 g sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l. cognac;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 200 g butter;
- 70 g icing sugar;
- 110 ml of water;
- 120 ml of milk;
- 2 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
- 50 g of candied fruits;
- 1 tsp cocoa powder.
How to make a biscuit
An easy recipe will help you make a homemade Fairy Tale cake. A step-by-step master class begins with the preparation of a biscuit.
- Separate the whites from the yolks. Put the squirrels in the refrigerator. Add 200 g of sugar to the yolks and beat. The mass should increase in volume and brighten. Then add flour here, stir.
- Add a pinch of salt to the cooled egg whites and beat well. Place it on the yolk dough, stir gently.
- Grease a rectangular dish with butter, lightly dust it with flour. This trick will prevent the dough from sticking to the bottom of the container and the finished biscuit can be easily removed from it.
- Next, a step-by-step classic recipe suggests putting the dough in the oven, which is preheated to 180 ° C, for half an hour.
- While the base of the cake is baking, do not open the oven to prevent the biscuit from falling. You need to cook with the door closed, and sometimes you can watch the biscuit through a glass window.
- In appearance, it will be clear that the cake is ready. It should turn golden. Then open the oven and pierce the biscuit in the center with a wooden skewer. Take it out, if the dough does not stick to it, then you can get the container out of the oven. Cool the crust, then remove it from the mold.
- A delicious cake will be ready in a few hours. In the meantime, the biscuit needs to be left for 7-8 hours so that it infuses. At this time, place the cake on the wire rack, as if it is on a container with a solid bottom, it may stick to it. And in this position, the lower part will not get stronger, but may remain soft.
- The night has passed, you can start forming the cake. First, cut the corners of the biscuit to create an oval shape. Do not throw away the cut. Grind these pieces of biscuit with a blender into small crumbs. Look, if these residues are too light, then fry them a little in a dry frying pan so that the future sprinkling turns light brown.
How to make a cream, impregnation
This is how the "Fairy Tale" cake is made further. Such a homemade recipe is quite understandable, and the products are affordable, so this dessert can be prepared not only in the factory, but also in your own kitchen.
- To make the cake cakes more tender, they will need to be soaked. But first, prepare the syrup. Pour 80 g of sugar into a container of water, heat this mixture until hot, stirring occasionally to disperse the granulated sugar.
- Remove syrup from heat and cool completely. Only then pour in the cognac. If you do this earlier, then some of this product may evaporate. And the classic recipe involves the presence of a small amount of alcohol. But if you then give the Fairy Tale cake to young children, then you need to make the impregnation without a strong drink.
- To make Shallot cream, put 2 yolks, 120 g of granulated sugar in a container with a thick bottom, pour in 120 ml of milk. Whisk these ingredients together and place over low heat. Stir it all the time to keep the yolks from curdling. After boiling the mass, you need to cook it for 5 minutes, stirring continuously. You will understand that the cream is ready when large bubbles appear on the surface, and it will be similar in consistency to condensed milk.
- Set the Shallot aside to cool. At this time, beat the butter and icing sugar until the mixture is light. Then add vanilla sugar here and beat for another minute. Add milk cream to butter cream in small portions and beat at low speed of the mixer blades. Place some of this mixture in a piping bag. Set aside the rest of the chocolate cream, then you will grease the sides of the finished product with it.
Cake shaping
- Take two tablespoons of white cream and place it in a small container. Place the same amount in another small bowl. Add green food coloring to one part and pink food coloring to the other. You can also use beet juice or red currant and spinach juice.
- Cut the biscuit lengthwise twice to make 3 parts. Drizzle with cooled sugar syrup. Now you need to grease each cake with white cream and put them in a pile to make the "Fairy Tale" cake. It remains to coat it with chocolate cream on all sides, sprinkle with biscuit crumbs.
- Decorate the top of the cake with the rest of the chocolate cream. And between these islands, place cream roses of the corresponding color, green leaves and candied fruits.
- Now the “Fairy Tale” cake should stand in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours, so that the cakes have time to soak in the syrup and the cream hardens. After this time, you can taste a successful dessert.
If you like unusually shaped cakes, then take a look at the following recipe.
Cake "Fairy Tale" in the form of a roll
To prepare such a fabulous dessert, take for a biscuit:
- 4 eggs;
- 180 g granulated sugar;
- 150 g wheat flour.
- For Charlotte cream you will need:
- 2 yolks;
- 400 g butter;
- 240 g of condensed milk;
- 50 g cocoa powder;
- 40 ml of water;
- 1 tsp vanilla essence.
To make a syrup for impregnation, you will need:
- 100 g granulated sugar;
- 120 ml of water;
- 1 tsp cognac
- The biscuit preparation technology is the same as in the previous recipe. Then you need to cover the baking sheet with oiled parchment and pour the dough over it. The cake is baked at 190 ° C for 10-12 minutes.
- When the layer is ready, you need to put on thick culinary mittens, use them to get the baking sheet out of the oven. Without removing the protection from your hands, transfer the cake to another sheet, freeing it from the old parchment. Roll the layer immediately while it is still hot.
- Let the biscuit cool down while you prepare the cream. To do this, beat the yolks with water, then add vanillin and condensed milk, mix. Place this substance on fire, cook, stirring occasionally, until the liquid evaporates.
- To check if the cream is ready, dip a wooden spoon into it, remove it, then run another spoon over the back of the working part. If there is a path left, then the cream can be removed from the heat. If the edges of these shores close, cook it a little more.
- Cool the cream, you can cover it with cling film for a while so that a crust does not form. Whisk in softened butter. Then add the cooled cream little by little and continue whisking.
- Divide the finished mass into two parts, pour cocoa into one and mix. Set aside some white cream in two containers to add green and pink dye to one.
- Boil the sugar syrup, saturate the unrolled roll with it. Then apply white cream here, roll the layer again with a roll. Cover the cake with chocolate cream, sprinkle the sides with biscuit crumbs, decorate the product with roses and leaves of green and pink cream.
This is how easy it is to prepare the Fairy Tale cake in accordance with GOST. You can decorate it to your liking, decorate the glade surface with cranberries and cream mushrooms.
