In our article, we want to talk about a delicious fruit dessert. Tropikanka is a custard cake with lots of fresh fruits and berries. It turns out very tasty and will appeal to those lovers of sweets who do not like dry cakes, but prefer a delicious creamy mass.
What products will be needed?
What do you need to make a tropicanka custard cake? Its ingredients are very simple and accessible to every hostess. Dessert is done very quickly and without unnecessary trouble. Of course, it can be cooked at any time of the year, but it turns out to be so light, bright and airy and for some reason it is associated with the summer. To prepare the Tropikanka cake with custard dough, you will need the following products:
- Flour - 250 g.
- Butter - one pack.
- Chicken eggs - six pieces.
- Water - 250 ml.
- Salt.
For custard:
- Butter - 300 g.
- Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 300 g.
- Milk - 700 ml.
- Starch - 10 tbsp. l
- Fruits.
- Fruit gelatin (optional).
- Vanilla Sugar - two packs.
Fruit for cake
Today we are preparing a delicious treat with the exotic name Tropicanka. This cake is sure to appeal to all the sweet tooth. The name itself indicates the presence of exotic ingredients in it. For its preparation, you can use oranges, kiwi, bananas, tangerines, pomegranates.
However, do not limit yourself to the use of overseas fruits, ours are quite suitable. For example, in the summer you can add apples, pears, cherries, cherries, peaches. Berries are also wonderful: raspberries, currants, gooseberries. Ideally, you can use a fruit and berry mix. There are no restrictions, it all depends on your preferences.
Tropicanka cake with custard dough: a step by step recipe
This dessert has some features. For its preparation, unusual cakes are used. They are more like a grid of individual cells. This is done intentionally to give ease to the delicacy. "Tropicanka" - a delicious and tender cake . Its main part is fruits and custard. To many sweets, it resembles the taste of fruit ice cream.
So, for its preparation it is necessary to sketch out a scheme of future cakes in advance on paper. It is better if there are two of them: with diagonal lines and ordinary squares.
Then you can proceed to the preparation of custard dough. On the fire you need to put a pan with water and butter. Bring them to a boil. Then gradually pour the flour, mixing thoroughly, let the dough boil for several minutes until a white film appears on the bottom.
Next, the dough needs to be transferred to another container and allowed to cool slightly, and then gradually introduce eggs. The dough should be homogeneous. Then put it in a pastry bag and use a wide nozzle to draw a grid on the baking sheet. Three or four pieces can be made of such cakes. Bake at a temperature of two hundred degrees until a light ruddy color appears.
Cooking custard for Tropikanka cake
The cake is essentially a fruit and berry mixture soaked in cream. So the taste of the latter is very important. In our recipe we use custard.
It is prepared as follows. Milk is heated with sugar. In a separate bowl, starch is bred with half a glass of milk, eggs are added. And the whole mixture is poured into milk with sugar and cook until thickened. You can add vanilla sugar.
When the cream has cooled slightly, add oil to it and beat with a mixer until smooth. That’s practically our Tropicanka cake. The recipe is not at all complicated. The matter is left to the small ... It is necessary to assemble it into a single whole.
How to collect dessert?
On the dish you need to put the first cake and very carefully grease it with cream, put on top chopped fruits and berries without stones. Next, put the next cake with a different pattern. We advise you to pin it down a bit so that it dips a little. We also apply cream on it, and then fruits on top. We do similar manipulations with all the cakes. So the Tropicana cake is ready. A step-by-step recipe indicates the speed and simplicity of its preparation. Now you can move on to the most interesting part - decoration.
We give free rein to fantasy
How to decorate the Tropikanka cake? The recipe for a sweet dessert does not contain unambiguous prescriptions in this regard. We offer the top layer of the cake and decorate the sides with white shanti. This option is more festive. If you are preparing a tasty dish for yourself, then you can do just custard. Sliced fruits and berries are laid out on top.
Or you can fill the top layer of the cake with the fruit with jelly. This option is more complicated. However, it looks very impressive. And the berries will not wind off.
How to pour jelly dessert?
To decorate the top layer of the cake, you can buy a special jelly for confectionery. It differs from the usual one in that it hardens very quickly, which means that it must be applied very quickly.
Filling is done like this:
- Dry jelly must be diluted with juice or water.
- Next, bring the mixture to a boil and hold on low heat until the crystals are completely dissolved. At the same time, do not stop stirring.
- Then remove the pan from the heat.
- Pour jelly on the chilled cake and quickly put it in the refrigerator.
Such a confectionery mixture hardens quickly enough, and therefore the layer may not be completely even. But there is nothing to worry about. Everything can be corrected. The excess jelly layer can be removed with a hot knife after solidification. And since we fill in the fruit, no irregularities will be visible at all.
Also, to decorate the cake, you can buy ordinary instant jelly. It is diluted according to the instructions on the packaging. Then it cools a little. Using a culinary brush or spoon, the top cake along with the fruit is smeared with a gelatin solution and sent to the refrigerator for twenty minutes. During this time, he will have time to grab a little. Then the remaining gelatin needs to be heated to a liquid state, and then very carefully pour on the original layer. Next, cooked food should be put in a cold place for complete solidification.
Reviews
Tropikanka (cake) is prepared very quickly and is a wonderful holiday option. However, oddly enough, it has mixed reviews. He is liked by those sweet tooth who love a large amount of cream. They will be pleased with the absence of dry unbaked cakes. The cake impresses with its lightness and airiness, fruity taste.
Some housewives talk about the cloying of the finished product. However, this only indicates incorrectly picked fruits. Still, you need to consider individual taste preferences. If you do not really like sweets, add berries with sourness or put less sugar in the cream. You can adjust the recipe to your taste. So, deciding to make such a sweet miracle, first think about whether you like custard, and then pick up the berries and fruits that you like.