Cake made of mastic for children can look likedifferently. It depends on who gets dessert (boy or girl), how old the birthday boy is and how he has his favorite cartoon characters. In the event that your baby does not have favorite heroes, a treat can be made in the form of a Barbie doll (for girls) or a car (for boys).
How are cakes made of mastic for children?
Deciding to cook the original and very beautifuldessert, many housewives are afraid that they will not do anything. However, it should be noted that the mastic cake for children is done quite easily. The main thing at the same time is to show proper creative imagination and observe all the requirements of the recipe.
So what products are needed to make a cake of mastic for children? Most often these desserts are prepared using a biscuit base. To bake it, we need the following components:
- Condensed milk - ½ cup;
- sour cream of fat content - 175 g;
- eggs raw large - 4 pcs .;
- white sugar - 200 g;
- soda slaked or baking powder - incomplete dessert spoon;
- twice sifted flour - from 250 g (add at discretion);
- vegetable oil - 7 ml (for lubricating the bowl).
Preparation of the dough
To get delicious and beautiful cakes frommastics for children, it is necessary to prepare a base so that it is easy to form any character from it. To do this, most often use a soft and lush biscuit. Before baking it in the oven, you should knead a homogeneous dough.
Egg yolks whitewash together with sugarsand. Then, the ingredients are added with condensed milk and sour cream of high fat content. Having received a homogeneous mass, it is laid out strongly whipped proteins (pre-cooled) and slaked soda. After this, the basis is poured twice sifted flour and mix all the products thoroughly. At the output, a rather viscous creamy consistency dough is obtained.
Pastry baking
To present cakes of mastic to children (photo of the finished dessert you can see in this article), you should bake a lush and soft biscuit.
Глубокую разъемную форму смазывают растительным oil, and then spread the whole base into it and place it in a heated cabinet. Sponge cakes are baked for 65 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. The readyness of the cake is determined with a toothpick. If nothing sticks to the dry wooden object, then the biscuit can be safely removed from the oven and the mold. In the future, it is completely cooled.
Required Products
Mastic decoration (for children) is carried out in the last place. Before this, you need to prepare the ingredients for the cream:
- butter fatty high quality - 180 g;
- Condensed milk - a can (1,5 can be).
Cream Preparation
Cream for mastic can be prepared with completely different products. However, you can not use liquid cream categorically.
So, to make a delicious and beautiful cake forchildren, we decided to apply the oil base. Well-melted culinary fat is spread in a deep bowl and whipped with a mixer. Gradually, they spread the condensed milk. At the output, a rather thick and sweet cream is obtained, which is immediately used for the intended purpose.
The process of dessert formation
Before decorating the cake for the child with mastic,it should be properly formed. Cooled biscuit cut into the right parts. If you decide to make a dessert in the form of a machine, then from the cake make a body, and from the remains - wheels, lights and so on. If the cake is meant for a girl, then you can prepare it in the form of a doll. The Barbie doll is carefully washed and wrapped with food film. She is put in a previously prepared "skirt" of biscuit.
Whichever form you choose, the main thing to remember is,that all the details of the cake should be fastened together with such culinary material as oil cream. By the way, they need to cover the already formed cake. For this, you can use both a regular large spoon and a special patisserie spatula.
Products for mastics
Mastic for a cake can be done in many ways.Someone uses for this purpose milk powder, someone - gelatin, and someone prefers to make it from marshmallows. We decided to use the latter option.
So, for the preparation of mastic we will need:
- powdered sugar - about 350 g;
- marshmallow white or multicolored - about 170 g;
- dry cream - about 80 g;
- lemon juice - a large spoon;
- food colorants - for obtaining different colors;
- Vanillin fragrant - on the tip of the knife.
The process of preparation of mastics
To make mastic for a cake, fresh marshmallowscrushed, put in a deep bowl, and then placed in a microwave oven. In it, the sweet product is held for 30 minutes. Then warmed up marshmallin carefully mash with a spoon. After that, it is mixed together with dry cream, powdered sugar and vanillin. If necessary, the resulting mass is divided into individual portions and food dyes added. In this composition, all ingredients are thoroughly kneaded his hands as long as it forms an elastic and pliable putty that stops sticking to your hands.
Making cakes with mastic for children
Now you know how to easily and quickly cookmastic for cake. But this is not enough to cover it beautifully with dessert. To do this, carefully masticated mastic is well rolled out on a flat board. So that it does not stick to the hands and the surface of the table, it is sprinkled with either corn flour or sugar powder. The mastic is rolled with a rolling pin like a regular dough. It should be taken into account that it will cover not only the top of the dessert, but all its sides. Make a shape for this or that detail a little more than necessary. Extra centimeters can be cut off later.
After the products of a certain color andthe sizes will be ready, they accurately spread on a biscuit, greased with a cream, and with a small effort press hands to a surface of a cake. Try not to touch the mastic with your fingers. Otherwise, your fingerprints will remain on it.
It should be specially noted that it is strictly forbidden to place mastic on freshly ground cakes. Otherwise, it just melts, then ruins all your dessert.
After the main surface of the cake iscovered with mastic, proceed to decorate the dessert. To do this, from a sweet and colorful marshmallow mass make various ruffles, bows, asterisks, hearts, eyes, spouts and so on. They are also gently placed on the dessert and pressed gently.
We serve to the table
A decorated mastic cake for children is sent torefrigerator and stand it for several hours. During this time, the cakes should be soaked with cream, and the mastic - frost. Presenting such a dessert to the table is desirable in its entirety. And only after the children appreciate the appearance of a homemade delicacy, it should be cut and served to each child along with a cup of tea.
