Cake "Bear" is a very popular and widespread dessert in Russia, which differs not only in its amazing taste, but also in attractive appearance. It may not be easy to cook it, but believe me, it's worth it, you are guaranteed to be satisfied if you prepare this treat for your kids.
Cake Features
Cake "Bear" - a very sweet chocolate-honey dessert, which gives a special charm to an amazing, even unique design. At the same time, it is very simple to prepare, especially if you can figure out all the intricacies in advance and follow the presented recipe in details.
The main difficulties lie in its decoration, but it will be a real culinary masterpiece on your holiday table.
List of ingredients
To prepare the Bear Bear Cake, you will need the following list of ingredients:
- 3 chicken eggs (two for dough, one for cream).
- 1.5 cups of sugar (one cup will go to the dough, and half a cup to the cream).
- 100 grams of margarine.
- 2 tablespoons of honey.
- A teaspoon of soda.
- 3 cups of wheat flour.
- 250 grams of cottage cheese.
- 100 grams of butter.
- 100 grams of milk chocolate.
- 250 ml cream.
- Mastic (it can be taken from marshmallows).
- A teaspoon of cocoa powder.
- A teaspoon of vodka (it can be replaced with rum or cognac).
Cooking method
To prepare the Bear cake, we first need to get the dough:
- To do this, mix and grind margarine, granulated sugar and eggs.
- Having achieved the formation of a homogeneous mass, put it on fire.
- In a water bath we achieve complete dissolution of sugar and oil (for this the mixture will need to be constantly stirred).
- After that, remove the dough blank from the fire, add soda to it and mix again.
- We send it back to the water bath, stir again until the volume increases at least twice.
- Remove from heat, add two glasses of flour, be sure to constantly stir.
- Now the dough needs to be allowed to cool (for this we leave it for about one hour), and then pour another glass of flour.
- Now we stir the dough with our hands so that it becomes as thick as possible. When you managed to achieve this, we divide the resulting dough into about six identical parts.
- Roll out the cakes and bake them on a baking sheet, previously greased with vegetable oil. If desired, you can roll out the cakes on baking paper (for this it is recommended to cut it to the size of the cakes), and then you can bake without greasing the baking sheets. As a result, each cake should be about the size of a sheet of A4 paper.
Of the listed number of products, you will end up with six or seven cakes.
Cooking cream
Now for the Bear cake you need to prepare the cream:
- To do this, take sugar, cottage cheese and yolk.
- Grind them together, and then beat them with a blender or mixer until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The main thing is that in the future cream no lumps come across.
- Now add the oil, put on a small fire, on which we heat the resulting mixture until the first bubbles appear.
- After that, cook another two to three minutes. It is important to apply the cream on the cake hot.
Now for the same cake we are preparing another cream:
- To do this, heat the liquid cream, add chocolate to them and stir over low heat until the chocolate is completely dissolved.
- After we send the butter to the resulting mass when it dissolves and it means the cream is ready. It should also be applied to the cake only when hot.
Smear the cream into layers, alternating “black” with “white”. We collect the Bear cake and put it in the refrigerator to cool. This will take about three hours.
Decoration
An important stage is decorating the Bear cake, a photo of which you will find in this article:
- In advance, you need to prepare a template in the shape of a bear, according to which then we will trim the resulting dessert. It is most convenient to cut such a pattern out of A4 paper.
- We cut the delicacy according to the pattern. At the same time, we install the cut parts from above, as if building and increasing the cake in height. But do not forget to reduce the thickness of the paws by about half.
- Separately, we collect the resulting scraps, and if the cream remains, add it here.
- When the process of trimming the cake is left behind, from the residues we form a homogeneous mass, which must be thoroughly kneaded by hand or passed through a meat grinder. If your weight is too thick, you can add softened butter to it. As a result, you should get a mixture that tastes very similar to a Potato cake.
- Round off the shape of the cake, especially pay attention to the legs and back. Where there are not enough pieces cut off from the cake, we close up the form with the remnants of the scraps and cream.
- At the end of this mixture, we coat the entire bear and smooth it with a wet hand. We form a back and a muzzle.
It is important not to forget to prepare the stand:
- In the center we apply melted chocolate, which will act as glue.
- The remaining free sections of the stand are covered with a film so as not to stain.
- Now we transfer the cake to the stand, cut it around the perimeter, removing the baking paper. The easiest way to do this is with small nail scissors or a scalpel.
Mastic coating
Our bear cake is ready to be coated with mastic:
- Roll out the marshmallow mastic into the largest possible layer (you can use starch for this) and transfer it to the cake.
- We cover our entire dessert with it, gently press it, especially in the area of the muzzle and ears. Pay attention that the mastic sticks everywhere well, there are no wrinkles and bubbles.
- Now, around the entire perimeter, we trim off the remains of the mastic, leaving an edge of about two millimeters.
- We twist the remaining edge using an oil knife. If the mastic was not enough, we cover the remaining places with pieces literally with an overlap, wetting the joints at the water.
- To prevent mastic from drying before serving, cover it with foil.
- Now apply the wool and gently form the face.
- Claws and eyes are also made of mastic, but black.
- We draw the wool in all places using the most common toothpicks.
- As a paint, we need cocoa powder, diluted with vodka or rum. Please note that the higher the degree of the drink, the faster the liquid will evaporate and dry the cake.
- With a flat brush with a nap, we color the Bear cake from mastic in brown.
- Cover the nose and nails with liquid honey.
- Finally, we remove the film that protected the stand.
Cream cake Bear can be served at the table!
Based on your favorite cartoon
Cake "Masha and the Bear", the photo of which is in this article, is suitable for fans of this popular cartoon. First, we make hero figures from mastic, and to make it tastier, you can hide several nuts and dried apricots inside, and fill the bear’s body with condensed milk and chocolate biscuit.
Here's what we need to make this cake. For biscuit:
- 12 chicken eggs;
- 1.5 cups flour;
- 1.5 cups of starch;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- 2 packs of vanilla;
- 30 grams of butter;
- a teaspoon of lemon juice.
For cream, take:
- 300 grams of butter;
- a can of condensed milk;
- a teaspoon of vanillin;
- 2 teaspoons of cocoa.
To lubricate the cakes, we need another jar of condensed milk, for a close-up - 800 grams of mastic, and for ganache - 200 grams of dark chocolate and 150 ml of cream with a fat content of 35%.
Step by step recipe
Having made the figures, we take up the biscuit:
- Mix flour, starch, cocoa, baking powder and vanillin.
- Beat eggs in foam and add lemon juice and sugar.
- Then we introduce the resulting mixture, whipping with a mixer. We bake this mass in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees.
- To prepare ganache, we rub the chocolate, bake the cream in the microwave, pour them into the chocolate, mix until completely dissolved.
- Beat the mass with a whisk, remove for three hours in a cold place under the cling film.
- Then whisk again with a whisk and cover the cake with this mass.
- We remove our dessert in the refrigerator for an hour, and then cover with mastic.
In conclusion, we install the prepared figures and serve. Bon Appetit!