Every time before the New Year, the housewives ask themselves what to pamper their loved ones with. I especially want to make the kids happy. There is no way to do without a delicious dessert. Let's talk about how to make a Snowman Cake. We want to bring to your attention several options for making a New Year's treat.
Snowman Cake. Classic recipe
It is based on the use of sand cakes and delicious cream. And the main thing is that its original design will delight the whole family.
So, for the test we need to get these products:
- Vanilla Sugar - 2 sachets.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Salt - 5 g.
- Baking soda - 5 g.
- Butter - 1.5 packs (melted).
- Flour - 6 glasses.
- Sugar - 2 cups.
Cooking dough
Before kneading the dough, first sift the flour. Then you need to beat sugar and eggs very well. If you have a mixer or blender, you can use them. Then gradually add all the ingredients to the eggs, except for wheat flour, and beat until smooth.
Then add the flour and knead the dough. After that, you need to wrap it in a bag or plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for a while (no more than forty minutes).
The cooled dough is divided into two parts. Sprinkle flour on the table. Roll out two round cakes, the size of which should match the size of your baking dish.
We grease a baking sheet or a form with oil. Put the dough in it and grease it with a little milk to get a beautiful color. Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and put our cakes there. Bake them no longer than 20-25 minutes. Readiness can be checked with a toothpick.
Cool the finished cakes and cut into small pieces. Next, you can begin to prepare the cream.
Cream for cake
To prepare the cream, we need 900 grams of sour cream and a half to two glasses of powdered sugar. To make the Snowman cake beautiful, we’ll prepare for decoration:
- Marmalade in different colors.
- Coconut white chips.
- Prunes
- Boiled carrots.
Using a mixer or whisk, beat the powdered sugar with sour cream. Then we will take sliced ​​pieces of our cake, each dipping in a cream and put in a deep plate. Let's wait until all this is thoroughly saturated, and then lay out the blank on a dish in the form of a snowman. And pour the rest of the cream on top.
Now you can proceed to the design. From red marmalade you can make a hat and a scarf, from prunes - eyes, buttons and a mouth. And from a small piece of carrot we’ll build a nose. Sprinkle everything on top with white coconut. New Year's cake "Snowman" is ready! We put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
As you can see, this wonderful dessert is not at all difficult to prepare. As for jewelry, you can come up with your own options using dragees, raisins, candy, mastic. By the way, we’ll talk about mastic further ...
Mastic jewelry
In general, in order to prepare the Snowman cake, in principle, you can use any recipe for shortcakes, the main thing is to design it later in a festive style. You can use mastic for this. It makes wonderful jewelry. Mastic itself can be prepared, but you can buy ready-made. We will consider both options. So, what does it take to make a “Snowman” cake from mastic?
The list is small:
- Mastic.
- Food colors.
- Food glue.
- Cutter for mastic.
- Rolling pin confectionery.
How to fashion a snowman?
First you need to stretch the mastic, roll the balls and leave them to dry. Then glue them with pastry glue. You are required to gradually make all the necessary details for our figure, glue them with the body. In general, you can fashion any cake decorations this way. It all depends on your imagination.
Cooking mastic yourself
To decorate the “Snowman” cake, you can prepare the mastic yourself. For this we need condensed milk, powdered sugar, milk powder. All this must be mixed in equal proportions and knead well until a homogeneous, dense and very plastic mass is obtained.
There is another option for making mastic. Soak edible gelatin (two tablespoons) in water, preferably warm, to swell for a couple of hours. Then bring it to complete dissolution over low heat, not forgetting to constantly stir. Allow to cool. And then add the icing sugar and knead. The amount of powder will depend on the plasticity and density of the mastic you want to receive. With this cooking option, it turns out to be very elastic, like plasticine. This will help to sculpt any figures from it, even the smallest details.
You can add color to the mass with food colors, although if you plan to treat the kids, it is better to use natural juices. Lemon peel will give us yellow, coffee - brown, cherry, currant, beet or cranberry juice - pink and red.
There are also special helium dyes. They have a very rich palette, you can pick up any shade. Yes, and working with them is very simple.
The “Snowman” cake (see the photo in the article) is very festive, and thanks to the mastic decorations it’s also “natural”, as if the character from the cartoon just got to visit you. Such a dessert is sometimes even a pity to eat ...
Marshmallow Mastic
Mistresses who faced cooking mastics, know that the key to beautiful jewelry is precisely its proper preparation. Then it is molded wonderfully, and even the smallest details are wonderful.
We want to tell you another recipe for incredibly gentle mastic. For cooking, you need a pack of marshmallows. It must be melted in the microwave. Then gently add chopped oil to it, add a teaspoon of lemon juice. Mix all this and add icing sugar. So we got the "dough". It is very simple to sculpt from it further, any elements are wonderful. Mastic does not stick to hands at all, it is moderately viscous. From it you can make not only decorations, but also a hat for the cake. It turns out very nice and tasty. Your children will love this cake. The snowman (the photos in the article demonstrate his fabulousness and unusualness) resembles a real cartoon character.
And another idea for a snowman
The Snowman cake can be flat or multi-tiered. If you want to prepare a volumetric version, you will have to use special forms (they have the shape of a hemisphere). And you can also make a fairy-tale hero of two round cake.
One of them (smaller) you cut a little at the junction with the other. And then it remains only to apply the cream and decorate according to the subject. Get a flat snowman. By the way, each of the cakes in this embodiment can be smeared with different creams, adding different ingredients (raisins, nuts, chocolate). The cake will be one, but with different tastes.
Instead of an afterword
The cheerful Snowman cake is the most successful New Year's option. It can be done for children at a matinee in kindergarten, and at school for first-graders. Everyone will like the winter fairy tale.
And serving a treat on the table, you can tell the children the story of the origin of the snowman. It is said that the first such figure was made by the Italian architect and sculptor Michelangelo. And it was at the end of the fifteenth century. In general, the first mention (written) of such characters dates back to the eighteenth century. One of the books of that time tells of a big beautiful snowman. At first, they were considered evil snow creatures. But gradually, towards the end of the nineteenth century, they became the kindest and most cheerful companions of Christmas and New Year.