Birthday is not the only reason to eat sweets. You can make a cake just like that. For example, the preparation of the cake “Sissy” will not take much time, but it will be a great addition to tea on a weekday and an appropriate decoration on the table for the holiday. The cake itself is tasty, not sugary and moderately sweet. It has its own unique taste, which distinguishes it from those products whose dignity is only appearance and sugar.
Ingredients
To begin with, it is worth looking into your refrigerator and checking for the presence of all components, if everything is there, then proceed to cooking, if not, go ahead to the store. The cost of the ingredients from the recipe for the cake "Sissy" is low, and everyone can afford it. You will need the following products to prepare the dough:
- 2 cups of flour;
- 5 pieces of eggs;
- 1.5 cups of sugar;
- 0.5 cups of boiled condensed milk;
- 1.5 cups sour cream;
- 1 teaspoon of soda extinguished with vinegar.
To prepare the cream, you need only two ingredients: 1.5 cups of boiled condensed milk and 250 grams of butter.
Cooking process
To make the cake itself quickly, and the dough turned out tender, you should take a mixer or a blender (who has what, if there is nothing, then you can ask the neighbors). Manually preparing the dough for the cake "Sissy" may stretch. The softness of the product is ensured by continuous whipping, which is rather difficult to make with a simple whisk - your hand gets tired (for this, the benefits of civilization were invented in the form of kitchen appliances).
To begin with, gently beat eggs with sugar until a lush foamy mass is obtained - this is the basis of cakes, if this is not done, they will resemble rubber. In the resulting mass, you need to add 0.5 cups of boiled condensed milk, of course, this sweetness is loved by many. You need to add it to the dough, and not to the mouth, the sweet tooth will have a jar of leftovers (as you know, the leftovers are sweet). Then comes the sour cream, beat well again, and finally, you can start adding flour, gradually, continuously whipping and mixing, so that the mass remains as magnificent as possible. The greater the amount of air in the product, the more magnificent it is, of course, do not forget about soda.
How to bake and collect?
As soon as the dough is ready, you need to start baking, it is not necessary to put off, the longer the mass in liquid form stays, the more it will “fall”. Only one third of the test takes one medium-sized cake, and two can be obtained from one cake if cut in half, especially since they are better soaked. It should be baked at a temperature of 200 ° C for 20 minutes, by this time a beautiful golden crust should form on the cake. If the oven is old and constantly burns a little in it - it doesn’t matter, you can cut off the charred crust.
After baking, the cake must be cooled to room temperature, and then cut it lengthwise into two parts. In total, 6 cakes should turn out, they need to be lubricated with cream, evenly stacking on top of each other. It is also better to whip the cream with a mixer, so it will turn out visually more, it will be more tender and without lumps.
Decoration
The sides of the cake can be glazed, to prepare it you will need:
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 2 teaspoons of cocoa;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of milk;
- 50 grams of butter.
Glaze should be cooked over low heat for 5 minutes, after which it is allowed to cool the future decoration to room temperature, after which it is possible to decorate the sides with it. You can sprinkle the top of the cake with chopped nuts and grated chocolate, and to crown this work of culinary art with a few cocktail cherries, this is the design of the Sissy cake in the photo that is most often found.
The decoration of this cake is not clearly spelled out anywhere and you can give free rein to imagination: someone will prefer traditional chocolate and cherries, someone else filled with jelly fruits. The cake is neutral in taste and will accept almost any sweet decoration, which makes it possible to change the appearance of the cake to suit the occasion and mood. Yes, the cake is not some kind of delicious dessert, but its advantage is precisely that it is simple.