Every mother wants to give her baby the very best birthday. How to do without a cake? For a large group of children, it is best to prepare a treat on their own. So you can take into account the tastes of each fussy. A great option would be the Ninja Turtle Cake.
For this treat, any cakes and any filling are suitable. Everyone can choose their own taste and color.
Cake sponge cake
Everyone’s favorite biscuit is prepared quite simply. This will require the following ingredients:
- chicken eggs - a couple of pieces;
- granulated sugar - five tablespoons;
- sour cream or very thick cream - a glass;
- sifted flour - a glass.
Beat sugar and eggs well, add sour cream or cream. To make a dark biscuit, you need cocoa powder.
Pour the flour a little and mix gently with a whisk until a homogeneous consistency. The dough is ready. It is baked in the oven at a temperature of no more than 200 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.
The finished large cake is cut with a special knife into several thin ones to coat with filling.
Shortcakes for cake
Lovers of shortcrust pastry can make a turtle cake from it. It also does not require special skills. Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - 2-3 tablespoons;
- sifted flour - a glass;
- butter - 1 package;
- cinnamon - 10 g.
Flour mixed with cinnamon and granulated sugar. Oil is heated in a water bath, then poured into the future dough. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed and sent to a cold place for a couple of hours.
Chilled dough is divided into several small pieces. They need to be rolled into round cakes. They must not be made too thin, otherwise they may crack.
Puff pastry for cake
Puff pastry for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” cake is a little more difficult to prepare, but it's worth it. Ingredients required:
- sifted flour - 800-1000 g;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- baking margarine - 400 g;
- drinking water - a glass;
- apple or grape vinegar - 50 ml.
Margarita rubs and mixes with flour. Then eggs, water and vinegar are added. Everything is kneaded until smooth. Once the dough is elastic, it is divided into ten equal pieces and put in the refrigerator.
After a few hours, the prepared pieces are rolled thinly and baked for 10 minutes each.
Cake toppings
The filling can be absolutely any. There are many variations:
- Whipped cream with strawberries.
- Chocolate cream.
- Condensed milk with butter.
- Nut Cream
- Cream of proteins.
- Curd cream.
- Custard, etc.
Surely every hostess has her own branded filling in the arsenal, which will delight guests.
Cake assembly
Before the Turtle cake is decorated with mastic figures, it must be assembled.
Cooked and cooled cakes are greased with the selected cream and stacked on top of each other. You don’t need to smear the top, a mastic decoration will be located here. Once the assembly is completed, the future masterpiece is sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. This time is enough to saturate well.
After that, the turtle cake should be given the perfect shape of a circle. Cut edges do not need to be thrown out. They can be crushed and applied to the sides.
Next, the base for the mastic is prepared. This will require:
- butter - 1 pack;
- condensed milk - 1 can.
The ingredients are whipped with a mixer and applied over the cake. After that, it is again cleaned in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Making mastic
Mastic is needed so that the cake can be called "Ninja Turtles." In this case, it is considered the main ingredient. A few examples of the photo of the turtle cake are in the article.
It is necessary to take the following components for the mastic:
- marshmallows marshmallows - 200 g;
- butter - 20 g;
- icing sugar - 200 g;
- food colorings.
Marshmallows must be heated in the microwave for about 20 minutes. So it will increase in size. Powder with dyes of the necessary colors is added to the resulting mass. Everything is mixed until a uniform color. Then either fantasy or a photo of the Ninja Turtles cake will come to the rescue.
Cake decoration
- Cake-head ninja turtles. Most of the mastic needs to be made green and rolled out with a thin layer. Wrap the cake with the resulting pancake, trim the edges. Make a bandage in color, like a favorite hero, and her eyes are on it.
- Cake made of figures. Turtles can be placed both on the cream and on a rolled layer of mastic of any color. Easier to do all the figures at once. So the details will look the most the same. Roll four torsos, heads, arms and legs from green mastic.
In the head, you can immediately make an incision in the shape of a mouth, and on your feet two fingers.
The body is attached to the legs, and it is better to put the head on a toothpick. So the figure will turn out more stable. Then fingers and carapace are formed. Then blindfold dressings of the corresponding colors and draw eyes on them. In addition to the cartoon characters themselves, the cake can be decorated with something else. For example, to blind other heroes.
The resulting masterpiece will surprise not only small, but also adult guests who came to the celebration.