Не знаете, как оригинально поздравить малыша?Give him a handmade lion cake. Do not worry, the cooking process is so simple that even an inexperienced cook will cope with the cake. Rather, wear an apron, because we will study the confectionery craft with you!
Light original dessert
Cake "Lion" is easier than you think.All you need is to make round cakes and mastic, and then give free rein to your imagination. In this recipe, we will not cook the cakes on our own, but will purchase them in the supermarket. Now within 150 rubles you can buy three biscuit cakes (chocolate, vanilla). They are not cloying, they are easily soaked, but they do not crumble either. Ready-made cakes will help cooks who suffer from the lack of an oven.
Ingredients: Essential Products
- Biscuit cakes ready (chocolate) - 3 pieces.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Orange or lemon jam - 100 grams.
- Coconut chips - 3 tablespoons.
- Peanuts or walnuts - 100 grams.
- Food yellow dye - 1 pack.
- Condensed milk - 200 grams.
- Powdered milk - 5 tablespoons.
- Sugar powder - 200 grams.
- Dark solid chocolate - 1 tile.
Stages of preparation
- Since the cakes are ready, we have for the cake"Lion", we will proceed to the preparation of the cream. To do this, carefully separate the whites from the yolks. Using a blender or hand blender, beat the proteins to stable peaks, gradually adding icing sugar and jam. The finished cream will look like an airy lush cloud.
- Then prepare the mastic:put condensed milk in a deep bowl and add icing sugar. Use a spatula to mix thoroughly, add powdered sugar with a dye and knead the not tight dough. You can add a little flour. Mastic should turn out yellow, so that the cake "Lion" was bright and rich. Please note that the plastic mass should stop sticking to the hands - this will indicate that it can be used for the cake.
- While you are making the cake, the chocolate must be placed in the freezer.
- On a flat dish, put the cake, smear with cream. Repeat the procedure for all layers, covering the very last cake.
- Roll out a small layer of yellow mastic and place it in the center of the top cake - this will be the face of our lion cub.
- Make small ears and set them aside.
- Get the chocolate out of the freezer, rub it with a carrot knife so that you get chips, 5-10 centimeters long - this will be our mane.
- Gently spread the chocolate around the face to completely hide the top layer of cream.
- Crush nuts and chocolate. Lay the ears of mastic, make eyes out of chocolate chips. You can also melt the chocolate in a water bath and make a neat spout, eyes and antennae.
- To get the cheeks, grease with cream, sprinkle with nuts and lay a chocolate mustache.
- Instead of the mouth, you can also use cream and nuts.
- Decorate the cake "Lion" coconut chips and can be served at the table!
Cream cake
Use interesting and useful tips thatwill help you create a unique and tasty dessert. If you still don’t know how to make a Lion Cake from a cream, then you need to learn how to make poultry milk.
Попробуйте сделать желейный десерт, который resembles bird milk. To do this, you need to take gelatin, powdered sugar, yellow dye, bananas or apples and 10 chicken eggs. The first step is to fill the gelatin with water to dissolve. Then, using a blender, beat the proteins to stable peaks, gradually adding sugar powder. When the cream is ready, you need to add the finished gelatin with fruit and dye to it, and then gently mix with a spatula. The finished mass should be poured into a round dish and put into the fridge for several hours before solidification. Ready bird's milk should be turned over and put on a plate, decorated with orange slices, pour with melted chocolate and give the cake a lion's shape. Children like this dessert because it is light, airy and moderately sweet.
Work with mastic
- Приготовьте торт «Львенок», используя готовую mastic. It can be found in any confectionery department, which is even in the smallest towns. It is also possible to order plastic mass on the Internet. During the preparation of the cream cake "Lion" use cardboard templates, with which you can cut the mane, eyes and predator nose.
- If you purchased a white mastic, then you can simply use a liquid dye.
- Do not take the mastic on the cream or sour cream, otherwise it just will not hold.
How to make a sponge cake
In a deep bowl, mix two glasses of siftedflour, 2 teaspoons of potato or corn starch, 1 teaspoon of salt and 3 teaspoons of baking powder. Add 7 chicken yolks, vegetable oil 60-70 milliliters, water 150 milliliters and vanillin. Knead a homogeneous mass, carefully breaking the lumps of flour. Beat the remaining 7 proteins with a mixer along with citric acid (0.5 tsp) to stable peaks. This mass must be added to the flour mixture, mix and put in a round shape. Bake a biscuit for 1 hour in the oven. The temperature should not exceed 170 degrees Celsius. Ready sponge cake to cool and cut into several cake layers. If desired, add cocoa powder or melted chocolate.
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