Bake the “Soccer Field” cake for a birthday for a boy, husband, boyfriend. You can award the winners of the competition with such a sweet present, enough for the whole team. Creating this culinary masterpiece is quite simple. First, the base is baked from the dough. Then it is decorated with cream. The gates and the marking of the field are made using white chocolate, and the figures of the players and the ball are made of sweet mastic.
Ingredients for Butter Biscuit
It is best to bake a Football Field cake based on a biscuit, make it buttery. The dessert will be quite high-calorie, but very tasty. If you want the Football Field cake to be large and enough for everyone, take the following quantities of ingredients:
- 9 eggs;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1.5 cups of sugar;
- 300 g of butter;
- a pinch of salt.
How to make a dough?
The oil should be at room temperature. Therefore, if it is in the refrigerator, remove it first to heat up and become more plastic. Beat the softened butter, gradually adding half the sugar to it.
Separate the squirrels from the yolks and put them in the refrigerator for now. Pour the second part of sugar into the yolks. Beat until mass is increased in volume. Now gradually add the yolk component to the oil, beat this base with a mixer. You should get a light fluffy mass.
Attach the dough head to the mixer. Pour 1.5 cups of flour into the yolk-oil mixture, mix until smooth with the help of nozzles.
Remove the proteins from the refrigerator, add a pinch of salt to them, whisk until a dense foam forms. Insert half the protein into the dough, mix gently. Add the remaining rate of flour, protein and mix everything again gently so that the air dough does not fall.
It’s so easy to prepare the base to bake the Football Field cake. The master class continues with a story about the subtleties of baking.
Batter in the oven
Sponge cake can not be done in advance, otherwise it will fall. Before you start whipping the squirrels, turn on the oven. During this time, it will have time to warm up to 170 ° C.
To make a cake in the form of a football field, you will need a rectangular, high enough shape. If you have a baking sheet of this size, take it. You can use a large rectangular refractory shape. Oil her sides and bottom, sprinkle them with a little flour. It is better to take a form with a non-stick coating, so that later, without difficulty, take out a large cake. If this is not the case, lay baking paper on the bottom, grease it with oil.
Pour the dough into the prepared container, smooth its surface with a rectangular piece of cardboard or a wide culinary spatula. There are other subtleties that will help you prepare the Football Field cake correctly. The master class will share them right now.
Place the pan in the middle or top of the oven. From now on, do not open the oven door. Observe the process through the glass window. Baking a biscuit takes 30-35 minutes. After half an hour, carefully open the door, pierce the center of the product in two or three places with a wooden stick. If it remains dry, then the process is complete.
How to cut a biscuit into cakes?
Remove the baking dish. Help the culinary spatula to separate it from the sides if the dough sticks to them. Put a flat tray or a large wooden board on the form, carefully turn it over, it is better to do this together. Cut the biscuit with silk thread or a wide knife into 3 cakes.
If you do not have time to get it hot, cover the form with foil, leave it for 8 hours. After that it will be easy to take out and cut lengthwise into 3 parts. Cakes should be completely cooled, only after that they can be soaked, spread with cream and collect the cake. A cream will help make the football field more realistic. It is prepared on the basis of butter with the addition of eggs, custard milk or condensed milk. Choose whichever you prefer.
Light condensed cream
If you want to make a quick butter cream, take:
- 650 g of softened butter;
- 550 g of condensed milk;
- 1 bag of vanilla sugar;
- a little green food coloring.
Beat the butter with a mixer, without stopping this process, pour the condensed milk in a thin stream, add vanilla sugar. When the cream becomes uniform and airy, then it is ready.
Proceed to the formation of the cake. The lower layer can be soaked in berry syrup. To do this, dilute 50 g of syrup in 100 g of water, moisten the bottom cake. After that, you can collect the football field cake. It’s nice to do such things with your own hands. Each time you can make new elements in the design. The first cake can be without figures of players. Another time, you will create a cake from mastic, not only the goal, the ball, but also the players will decorate the football field.
Making a culinary work
Make the edges of the biscuit semicircular, but do not throw out the remaining crumbs. Place the cakes one on top of the other. If the upper one turned out to be uneven during baking, turn them over so that the lower one is at the top. Then it is necessary to impregnate with syrup the one that now represents the base. To do this, pour the syrup into a baking sheet and put the cake there. After 10 minutes, remove it, place it on a dish in which the finished product will be served.
Lubricate the surface of this cake with white cream, put a second on it, apply cream on this one. The third biscuit is placed on top. Put the cream in a pastry bag, with a small nozzle, cover the sides with it, so that from these sides it turns out to be a beautiful cake. Do-it-yourself football field is easy. First, from the same pastry bag, surround the site by squeezing a trickle of cream around the perimeter of the surface.
After that, draw a transverse strip in the same way. A circle of cream passes through it, here the ball is distributed. You will make it from a biscuit that remains after cutting the edges. Turn these leftovers into crumbs, mix with cream, roll into a ball. Put the workpiece on a saucer, put it in the refrigerator, put it on work a little later.
In the meantime, add green food coloring to the cream , mix. Put it in a pastry bag, with spot motions cover the rest of the football field. To do this, bring the tip to the surface of the biscuit, squeeze a little cream. Move back the pastry bag. Make the next pink point next to the first. Cream should cover the entire surface. Remove the product in the cold for 2-3 hours to freeze the cream.
Cooking mastic
A football field is not only a rectangular area, but also a goal, a ball, players. The surface of the ball is made of sweet mastic. It can be prepared using chewing sweets, for this you will need:
- 100 g chewing marshmallows marshmallows;
- about 2 glasses of powdered sugar;
- 2 tsp lemon juice.
To fit the ball you will need white candies. If you make footballers, pink ones will do. Cut the sweets into pieces, pour in the lemon juice, melt them in a water bath or in the microwave for a minute.
Remove, start pouring a little sugar powder, mixing the warm mass. The mastic should turn out smooth and stop sticking to your hands. Put it in a plastic bag, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
How to make a ball and soccer players?
Take out the sweet mass, break off a small piece, roll it on a surface, sprinkled with starch or powdered sugar, into a layer 4 mm thick. Cover them with the blank of the soccer ball.
Tear off the next piece of mastic, drip a black dye on it, mix, roll. Cut five small hexagonal shapes out of it. Glue them to the surface of the ball with water. Then you will get a real Football Field cake with a ball.
It’s easy to make mastic players too. First fashion their figures. Adding red, blue or other dye to different pieces of mastic, make clothes, facial features, footwear of football players. Ready-made figures, place the ball on the field, they must dry within 15-24 hours. Then the mastic cake will be almost ready, the players with the ball will decorate the football field.
Goal
For the full authenticity of the culinary picture, it remains to make a gate. The mesh and base are made of white chocolate. Melt 2 tiles of 100 g each in a water bath, pour the mass into a pastry bag.
On the cardboard, draw 4 blanks - the top, two side parts and the back side of the gate. Put the cut out patterns in a transparent file, grease its surface with olive oil. From a thin hole in the syringe, apply a grid pattern to the cardboard backing. Allow the chocolate to solidify well, then separate the file from the header. Connect them together with melted white chocolate. Put the gate in its place - the cake with the football field is ready.