Cake can rightly be considered the main holiday attribute. It should be not only attractive enough outwardly, but also very tasty.
Cake "33 cows" can be presented to both women and men. There are different variations in the preparation of this treat. The main thing is the decoration of the base. As a composition for a birthday cake using colored mastic and figures of cows in an amount of 33 pieces. The animals can be supplemented by a humorous plaque on the theme of the birthday of the birthday man: “Don’t tell me, you’re 33,” etc.
A simple basis for a festive treat
The basis of the cake "33 cows" can serve as absolutely any biscuit with a cream layer.
To prepare a standard biscuit you will need:
- Four eggs.
- Sugar is a glass.
- Cocoa - 3 tablespoons.
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
- Flour - 100 grams.
Cream for cake from 33 cows mastic can be prepared from the following products:
- butter - 1.5 packs;
- chocolate bar;
- condensed milk.
To impregnate sweets you need to take:
- plain water - half a glass,
- granulated sugar - 120 grams.
Work begins with the manufacture of cake. In this case, you need one. To do this, beat the egg whites with a mixer, gradually adding granulated sugar to them. It should turn out a lush mass. The volume of products at the same time doubles.
Flour and cocoa are sieved by adding baking powder to them. The resulting dough is poured into a special split baking dish. Biscuit is baked at a temperature of 180 degrees. It is recommended to cool the cake completely, it can be left on the table at room temperature for the whole night. After which it is impregnated with sugar and lubricated with cream.
Meringue base
To prepare the cake "33 cows" you can use fruits and cream. Baking ingredients:
- cream with high fat content - half a liter;
- strawberries - half a cup;
- egg white - 4 pieces;
- one tangerine;
- one banana;
- icing sugar - 20 grams;
- small kiwi;
- orange;
- vinegar - 1 teaspoon;
- potato starch - 40 grams.
At the beginning of cooking, whip the proteins for 10 minutes using a mixer. Powdered sugar is introduced into the mass in small portions. Then vinegar and starch are added to the resulting mass. Beat the composition again. A circle is drawn on parchment, the diameter of which is 20 centimeters. The oven is heated to 150 degrees. Protein mass is squeezed onto the circle using a simple pastry bag. Meringue is baked on average 40 minutes. After baking, the base is left in the oven until it cools completely.
Prepared fat cream whipped in a thick foam. The fruits are washed and peeled, after which they are cut into small slices. On top of the meringue lay fruit and cream layer. The cake is pulled with mastic and decorated with figures of cows. The delicacy for the guests is ready!
Making a DIY cow figure
Sugar from sugar on the “33 Cows” birthday cake will become not just a symbol of prosperity and abundance. She will decorate a confectionery product, give it personality and funny negligence. Creating an animal from mastic is not difficult at all.
To make a cow you need to get:
- confectionery gel;
- Mexican mastic - 34 grams;
- palette knife;
- with a brush;
- 5 sugar sticks;
- food coloring - brown, black and pink;
- sieve;
- scissors;
- black glaze in a small amount;
- white and black mastic for the main part of the figure;
- Dresden stick and roller knife.
First you need to draw a cow pattern. Using Mexican mastic, make a sausage, the length of which is 8 centimeters. They flatten it. Sugar sticks are threaded into the prepared base - these are the legs of the animal. The length of the parts is not more than 5.5 cm.
One sugar stick will serve as the character’s neck. The figurine is dried for 10 hours.
The mastic is rolled out in a thin layer, the contours of the animal are circled on it, cut out with a knife. Free-form specks of black mastic are attached to the skin. They must first be wetted with water.
The body is wrapped in made skin. The excess parts of the skin are cut with scissors. Roll up a ball from white mastic, give it the shape of a pear. This is the head of a cow. Using the Dresden wand, eye sockets are marked out. Mastic is performed on the mouth and nose of the animal. Then the body is connected to the head.
Tail and coat
The remainder of the mastic is passed through a sieve. That’s the fur of the cows. The resulting wool is divided evenly. Do not forget about the ponytail. Using food coloring, the cow can be dyed brown and pink. It all depends on the imagination of the craftswoman. Funny cow figure is ready. It remains to create 32 more pieces. In any case, the decoration is worth it, it will make a due impression on the guests and the birthday man himself. Cake "33 cows" (photo in the article) will be a worthy gift for a friend or relative.