The coming year is the year of the Fiery (Scarlet) Rooster. Therefore, a cake in the form of a motley rooster will be a wonderful decoration of the New Year's table. From ancient times, the sages believed that in red fiery color displays strength, confidence, as well as luck.
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You will need
- Ha 12 pieces
- For the test:
- - 3 yolks;
- - 400 g of butter;
- - a glass of sugar;
- - 7 glasses of flour
- - 5 tablespoons of sour cream;
- - 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- For cream:
- - 80 g of water;
- - 235 g of sugar;
- - 3 squirrels;
- - 1/3 teaspoon of citric acid;
- - red and blue food color
- For cream (to mix the base of the cake):
- - 2 cans of condensed milk;
- - 400 butter
- For registration:
- - red and yellow mastic;
- - black or brown food felt-tip pen
Instruction manual
1
First, make parts from mastic: beak, scallop, eyes, beard. The most difficult eyes: roll out the red mastic, cut out two oblong details from it. From yellow, make eyes and glue on the red parts.
2
Then put food dots in the center of the black dots. Place all mastic parts in a dark place at room temperature. They should dry.
3
Make the dough. Sift flour, part of which is mixed with baking powder. Melt the butter and pour into a large free bowl. Enter the yolks, sour cream, sugar, stir well. When adding portioned flour, start kneading the dough. Pour first flour with baking powder, and then the rest.
4
Roll the mass into a ball and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Grind chilled dough and spread evenly on a baking sheet. Bake in an oven heated to 180 ° C until browned. After cooling the baked goods, break them into crumbs with your hands.
5
Prepare a cream for the cake. Beat softened butter until fluffy. Without ceasing to beat, pour condensed milk in a thin stream. Combine the cream with the baked crumbs. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
6
Form a ball from this mass and begin to sculpt a rooster, smoothing out all the bumps with a wet hand.
Make a trunk and put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
7
Then lengthen the neck and tail by inserting wooden skewers into them, which will also serve as fasteners. Return the cake to the refrigerator for 2 hours. Next, at the chilled billet of the rooster, cut the sticking skewers.
8
Prepare a cream for plumage of a bird Beat the squirrels to the peaks. Pour the liquid into the pan, add sugar, over medium heat, bring to a boil and detect for 4 minutes.
9
Then pour citric acid, mix, continue to boil until lazy bubbles for another 3-4 minutes. Enter the sugar syrup into the proteins, whisking with a mixer for about 5-7 minutes. Dividing the cream into two parts, mix one with blue paint, and the second with red.
10
Arrange it in pastry bags with a small chrysanthemum nozzle. Work on the "plumage" of a rooster is best started with the base of the bird. In the first bottom row, draw short lines from bottom to top.
eleven
In the remaining rows of the line, produce a little longer, from top to bottom.
12
Tail follow the nozzle "rose": first create volume, and subsequently accompany the thin long lines from the trunk to the bottom.
thirteen
Put the cake in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. Attach the mastic parts.
