Any caring mother pampers her children with sweet pastries, especially when it comes to such a holiday as the birthday of the child. In general, the cake is a decoration of any festive table and is served as a dessert. It is not difficult to bake a sponge cake with fruits, and it will turn out to be much more healthy and tastier than bought in a store.
In general, a biscuit is a very moody dough, so you should take its preparation seriously.
For biscuit we need:
- eggs 6-7 pieces;
- granulated sugar 2 cups;
- premium wheat flour 3 cups;
- baking soda or baking powder 1 teaspoon.
To prepare the dough, it is important to use dry dishes: if at least one drop of water gets into the dough, the dough does not rise and settles, instead of a fluffy biscuit we get a dense cake. First you need to separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolks with granulated sugar, grind the whites to a strong foam in a separate container. Then combine the yolks with proteins, pour in the sifted flour, baking powder and knead the biscuit dough. Grease a baking dish with butter; note that only the bottom of the mold needs to be lubricated, otherwise the dough will not rise. Then put the biscuit and bake at a temperature of 200º. In no case do not open the oven door, any shake can "harm" the biscuit dough. When my grandmother baked a sponge cake with fruits, she locked the door to the kitchen and did not let anyone in. Perhaps that is why her cake was very magnificent.
After the cake is baked and cooled, carefully cut it lengthwise into two equal parts. Cakes are ready, now you need to decide on the cream.
I offer two options.
1) Creamy cream with whole condensed milk. This cream is prepared quickly and is very tender. For cream, you need butter - 100 grams (or half a pack) and a can of condensed milk; make sure that the milk is “whole condensed” and not “condensed milk”. Melt the butter, combine with condensed milk, add a little vanillin for taste and beat to a lush consistency. If desired, you can tint the cream with food coloring, a holiday for children, which means that the fruit biscuit cake should be bright.
2) Curd cream. To prepare this cream you will need: 2 packs of low-fat cottage cheese, one glass of fresh cream, one glass of granulated sugar, a pinch of vanillin. Beat sugar and cream first, then gradually add cottage cheese and vanillin. It will turn out to be a porridge mass. Sponge cake with fruits will go well with cottage cheese cream.
We prepared the cream, it remains to smear the cakes and decorate the cake with fruit. To do this, take the first cake, grease liberally with cream, cover with a second cake and grease abundantly with cream, including the sides of the cake. After this, you need to wait a bit so that the cream is absorbed.
The most interesting thing remained - to decorate the cake with fruit. For this we need the following fruits: kiwi, pomegranate, fresh or canned apricots or peaches. Fruits can be folded randomly or in a specific order, a matter of taste. I propose to lay out three fruit strips. To do this, chop the kiwi finely, peel the pomegranates, and cut the peaches or apricots into a small dice. Next, visually divide the surface of the cake into three strips and alternately fold the fruits: peach, kiwi and pomegranate. The result was a rainbow recipe for fruit cake.
Fruits, of course, can be used any: bananas, pineapple, apples, pears, other exotic fruits. In summer, for example, there are many different berries - strawberries, raspberries, strawberries, lingonberries, blueberries, so the berry biscuit cake is also no less tasty.
Sponge cake with fruits will appeal not only to the child, but also to the adult sweet tooth.