Goose Feet is a cake that has been known to everyone since childhood. Its history dates back to Soviet times - even then, our mothers and grandmothers learned to cook it. The recipe for this confectionery has been preserved to the present, which allows us to taste the taste of this cake. The Goose Feet cake, the recipe with a photo of which is given here, is prepared very easily - for this it is enough to have basic confectionery skills.
To make a cake, you need the following list of ingredients:
For shortcakes
80 g of wheat flour;
a pair of chicken eggs;
70 g of sugar.
For cream:
For glaze
80 g of milk chocolate;
50 g butter;
- black or milk chocolate to sprinkle.
"Goose paws" - a cake for which preparation must be prepared in advance - you need to prepare cherries several hours before the start of the process, which will be used for the filling. Berries should be separated from the seeds (if the cherry was whole) and pour 50 ml of the selected alcohol (wine or brandy). After this, the berries must be refrigerated for 4-5 hours so that they are nourished.
Cake process
"Goose feet" - a cake for which cakes are made from ordinary biscuit dough and are very easy to prepare. Chicken eggs must be broken into a separate dry bowl and beat with a mixer at high speed until foam forms - continue the process until the egg mass is tripled. Once this happens, you can add flour and sugar. Pour them carefully, thin stream, mixing everything into a homogeneous mass. It is advisable to stir in the direction from the bottom up. Before pouring the flour, it must be sown through a sieve.
The mass of flour, sugar and eggs must be brought to a homogeneous consistency and, pouring it into a round shape on parchment, bake in the oven, which must first be heated to a temperature of 220 degrees. When the cake is ready, it must be cooled, without getting out of shape.
The process of preparing cream and glaze, forming a cake
In the process of baking the cake, it's time to start cooking the cream, which is done on an oil basis. To do this, slightly soften the butter and beat it well with powdered sugar. In the resulting mass, add 10 ml of alcohol and cocoa, and then repeat the whipping procedure again. The cream is ready. Part of it will be needed in order to cover the crow's feet cake - a photo will help to understand how the product should look. The other part is for the cherry filling.
When the cake and cream are ready, it's time to start assembling the cake. To do this, cut the cake to the desired diameter, aligning the edges, and then lay the alcoholized cherry on it. At this point, the most important thing is to press the berries well onto the cake, as otherwise the finished product will lose its shape. Berries need to be covered with half a cream. Now that the bulk of the work has been completed, the nearly finished Goose Feet cake recipe recommends putting it in the refrigerator for partial solidification of the filling.
At this time, proceed with the preparation of the glaze. It is made from chocolate and butter. These two ingredients are placed in one dish and melted in a water bath or in a microwave, after which the resulting mass cools.
After the cream hardens slightly on the cake, it needs to be removed and freed from the round shape, smear the edges of the cake with part of the cooled icing, after which the product must be sent back to the refrigerator until it solidifies completely.
The remaining glaze (a couple of teaspoons will be enough) should be placed in a pastry bag with a very thin nozzle and squeezed onto a cake with a frozen cream, drawing the image of the bird's legs. Alternatively, instead of a pastry bag, you can use parchment folded into a cone with a thin hole.
From the remnants of chocolate cream, you can make decorations for the cake, which should be placed along the edges of the product - in this matter you should turn to your imagination. At the final stage of preparation of the sides of the cake, you need to sprinkle with chocolate chips, after which the completely finished confectionery should be sent to the refrigerator until serving.
"Goose feet" - a cake, some recipes of which include the preparation of two cakes. This is due to the large amount of chocolate cream that covers the confectionery product. In order to cook two biscuit cakes, you will need to take 4 chicken eggs, 160 g of wheat flour and 150 g of granulated sugar, during the preparation of the cakes, divide the resulting mass into two parts and bake each of them separately. In this case, the cake will turn out to be twice as voluminous, nourishing and with more balanced proportions of cream and biscuit.
Goose Feet is a cake that is ideal for celebrating a birthday or for a regular tea evening with friends or family. Bon Appetit!