Cake is an essential attribute of any tea party. It is impossible to imagine a birthday without it, especially for children. Sometimes treats are acquired in a store, but there is nothing tastier than a self-made cake.
To attract the attention of guests, regardless of age, you can prepare a delicious treat, such as a cake "Winnie the Pooh." The recipe is quite complicated to execute, but the result is worth it.
Would need:
- a few tablespoons of honey;
- water: 6 tbsp (50 ml);
- soda: 3 tsp;
- sugar: 2 tbsp. (200 g);
- drain. oil: 6 tbsp (965 g);
- eggs: 6 pieces, protein and 4 yolks;
- flour: 7 tbsp. (650 g);
- condensed milk - 4 boiled and one undigested can;
- margarine: 400g;
- baking powder, cocoa: 2 tsp;
- icing sugar: 350 g;
- gelatin: 20 g;
- cream: 0.5 l;
- almonds, white chocolate, toffee sweets: 200 g each;
- milk: ¼ cup.
Step-by-step execution
"Winnie the Pooh" (cake) begin to make from dough and honey. Six tablespoons of honey are brought to a boil, then two glasses of sugar and six tablespoons of water, soda, a pinch of salt are added and boiled until the mass becomes saturated brown with an orange tint. After that, remove from heat, introduce butter and cool.
Then add six eggs and seven glasses of flour. The dough is covered and infused for about two hours.
The resulting dough should be divided into fifteen shares. Each piece should be rolled out between sheets of baking paper.
Cakes are baked in a heated oven for eight minutes, after which the baking paper is removed and the cakes made are stacked on top of each other.
Cream for cake
Beat 450 g of butter, add 3 cans of boiled condensed milk into it and mix thoroughly. Cakes are smeared with cooked cream and soaked for eight hours.
Shortbread dough
This dough is necessary for making a pot. For its preparation, margarine must be mixed with sugar, add 4 yolks, flour and a baking powder without a hill. Divide the dough into 14 lobes, each rolled out between baking sheets with a diameter of 17 cm. The edges should be cut in a circle.
Cakes are baked in a heated oven. They turn out white, with slightly brown edges.
Now you need to make a cream for the pot. Melt 250 g of oil, add undigested condensed milk, vanilla, a spoonful of honey and heat, but do not boil. Remove, add gelatin, refrigerate and beat.
After this, you need to whip 0.4 liters of cream and add to the resulting mass. The cream is ready, sand cake is smeared with it. This should be done carefully, as they are very fragile.
The honey cake that has already been soaked is cut in the shape of a figure eight, thus creating a silhouette of the head and body. The scraps are ground in a blender and the ears, arms and legs are fashioned from them. The stomach does not need to be made very round, since a pot will be attached to it.
Glaze
40 g of butter is added to milk and brought to a boil. Then you need to introduce powdered sugar and toffee. Cook until dissolved. The icing is cooled and covered with a teddy bear, after which it is put in the refrigerator for solidification.
Mastic
The next product needed to cover the Winnie the Pooh cake is mastic. She is used to bears. It is prepared as follows: boil 50 ml of water, add a pinch of salt, 25 g of oil. After boiling, add another fifty grams of flour and cocoa. Remove, mix, add icing sugar. The muzzle covers the muzzle, ears, arms and legs. Marzipan is used for eye proteins and tongue.
Next, beat 200 g of butter, add condensed milk and cover with this cream using a confectionery syringe Winnie the Pooh, imitating wool. "Winnie the Pooh" (cake) after cooking is put in the refrigerator.
Pot
The pot must be shaped. White chocolate is poured with warmed cream and boiled until smooth. Cover it with a pot and put it in the refrigerator.
Then you need to chop the almonds, mix with powdered sugar and protein. The resulting marzipan is divided into two parts, rolled, then transferred to the finished pot.
"Winnie the Pooh" (cake) is placed on a tray, a pot is brought to the bear.
It turns out a tasty and beautiful-looking treat. It will not only attract the eyes of guests, but also become a real joy for children. The treat will be moderately sweet, with soft cakes after soaking. "Winnie the Pooh" - a cake worthy to decorate any holiday table.