On their birthday, kids are waiting for a real miracle - and one of these miracles is a birthday cake. Girls will like products in the form of animals and princesses, but boys will be pleased with cars. Racing or cargo, realistic or reminiscent of cartoon characters - at home you can realize any fantasies.
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Sweet cars: cooking features
Cake in the form of a typewriter is one of the most frequent orders at a pastry shop. Typically, such products are decorated with sugar mastic, it gives a perfectly smooth coating that can be painted in any color. Such cakes look very nice in family photos and videos, and the hero of the occasion is delighted. However, there are also disadvantages to custom-made confectionery products: high calorie content, an abundance of fragrances and bright dyes, which are not very useful for the children's body. Another significant drawback is the price. Confectioners' products are not cheap, the larger the cake, the more expensive it costs.
At home, you can cook a safer, but no less tasty option. The base of the cake is made of biscuit or a denser gingerbread mowing, cream, chocolate or marzipan are used as decoration. When cooking, you can take into account the tastes of the baby and worry about its safety using only natural dyes: fruit or vegetable juices, cocoa powder, caramel.
A simple cake for the baby: a step by step recipe
Beginners should cook a simple but beautiful cake decorated with cream. Ready-made treats are used as decor: dragees, glazed sweets, marmalade, cookies. From the specified number of products you get a cake for 8-14 servings. The nutritional value of each is about 350 calories.
Ingredients:
- 8 eggs;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 2 cups premium wheat flour;
- sugar or fruit syrup for soaking cakes.
For cream and decoration:
- 200 g of natural butter;
- 0.5 cups peeled walnut kernels;
- 200 g of condensed milk;
- a pinch of vanillin;
- 200 g of dark or milk chocolate;
- 4 round biscuits;
- dragees in colored glaze.
Separate yolks from proteins, grind with sugar until white. Beat the whites with a mixer in a strong foam, adding a pinch of salt and a few drops of lemon juice. Add protein and sifted flour to the yolk mixture in portions, kneading a light airy dough. Put it in a circular detachable form, place in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. To prevent the biscuit from donkey, do not open the door while the cake is in the oven. Bake until golden brown, checking readiness with a wooden skewer. For the cake you will need 2 identical round cakes, it is convenient if the farm has 2 forms. Put the finished biscuits on a wooden board and cool. This will take at least 8 hours, if soaked hot cakes, they will fall apart when assembling the cake.
Prepare the cream by whipping the softened butter with condensed milk and a pinch of vanillin. To make the cream uniform and lush, it is better to use an immersion mixer. If the oil begins to exfoliate, place the container with cream in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, and then continue whipping.
With a sharp knife, cut out the rectangular base for the machine from the first cake. Divide it into 2 parts along (you can use a special knife-string or ordinary fishing line). Soak both parts with fruit syrup, coat with cream and fold. Pour walnuts between the layers, fried in a dry pan and chopped in a mortar or blender. If the child or his young guests are allergic, it is better to refuse to sprinkle or replace walnuts with almond petals.
From the second biscuit cake, cut the cab: a square with a wedge-shaped protrusion on one side. Sizes are chosen arbitrarily. Cut along the biscuit billet, soak in syrup and coat with cream. Fold the halves, slightly pressing them to each other. Apply a serving of cream to the bottom of the cab and attach it to the base.
Cut the remaining biscuit into cubes, soak in syrup and assemble a platform for the machine from them. Level the surface with a knife, fill the platform with chocolate, grated on a fine grater. An alternative is to fill the platform with icing by melting the chocolate in a water bath with a little milk or cream.
Set the blank of the machine on the platform and start decorating. Cover the car body with cream from a confectionery syringe, applying it in stripes or sockets. Outline the windows with molten chocolate or cream with the addition of cocoa powder. The wheels are made from round biscuits, covering it with chocolate icing. The finishing touch is the design of the product in color dragees. It can be scattered around the platform in random order or lay out a beautiful congratulatory inscription.
Children's cake "Machine" from mastic: step-by-step preparation
Experienced culinary specialists can try a more complex recipe using sugar mastic and homemade ganache. In order for the baking to be successful, it is important to proceed step by step. The process will take 2 days: the first part is made, the second is devoted to baking a cake and the final design.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups of wheat flour;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 1.5 tsp soda;
- 6 tbsp. l cocoa powder;
- 15 g of baking powder;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 cup of milk;
- 0.5 cups butter;
- 1 cup boiling water.
For cream and decoration:
- 2.5 tbsp. l flour;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 250 ml of milk;
- 250 g butter;
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla sugar;
- 200 ml of heavy cream;
- 530 g of white chocolate;
- 200 g of dark chocolate;
- 390 g marshmallows;
- 900 g of powdered sugar.
Prepare the mastic by melting 330 g of white chocolate in a water bath. Marshmallow (300 g) soften in the microwave and add to chocolate. Mix the mass very quickly, otherwise it will freeze. Add 2 tbsp. l butter and 6 tbsp. l whip cream again. Pour 600 g of powdered sugar into the portions and knead until the mastic stops sticking to your hands. Divide it into 3 parts and add a few drops of dye to each: orange, blue, white. Knead the mastic until completely homogeneous.
Repeat the procedure for mixing the mastic, mixing dark chocolate and the remaining marshmallows. Add powdered sugar and blue dye to the mass - you get an elastic elastic mass of dark green color.
Cut mugs from white mastic - future wheels rims. Roll dark green mastic on a board sprinkled with icing sugar, cut out squares. Wrap cookies in each, form a knot, smooth the folds and fasten the joints with water. Glue white discs to the outside. Make 4 wheel blanks.
Roll the orange mastic into a layer, cut into ribbons. By folding each loop, form a magnificent voluminous bow. Twist the remaining tapes into a spiral, wrapping a pencil. Cut out small details from white rolled mastic: side mirrors, headlights, number plates. Spread out the parts to dry.