Baking a cake at home is easy. If you are not confident in your ability to make delicious, fluffy cakes for biscuit, we suggest you use shortcrust pastry for this purpose .
It may sound unusual, but they are great for baking a cake at home. Moreover, it will not be a simple delicacy, but with the taste of mulled wine. You definitely won’t buy it anywhere!
How to Bake Homemade Mulled Wine Cake on Shortcake
This is an excellent alternative for those who do not drink alcohol, but want to please themselves with the taste of a warming drink. If you need to bake a cake at home for the celebration in advance, then start cooking it in a day, because it should have time to soak. In a wide bowl, prepare buttery crumbs of three cups of flour, one cup of starch and butter. Do not take margarine - it will give the dough an unpleasant aftertaste.
Oil should be taken 250 g, it should be cold, but not icy - it’s easier to chop it with a knife. Beat one egg and a half cup of sugar separately, add a quarter cup of cold milk, a spoon of sour cream, a pinch of
slaked soda, powdered spices for mulled wine (pepper, cloves, cardamom, star anise, ginger). Pour in a thin stream into the oil crumb and continue kneading the shortcrust pastry. This must be done quickly. If the dough is not going to lump, add milk. Before baking the cake at home, put the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. Make a cream of five baked apples (they need to be mashed) with butter (soft, but not melted, in an amount of 150 g). These ingredients need to be whipped with half a glass of sugar. You can flavor the cream with vanilla, cinnamon, cognac.
At the end of whipping, add 200 g of the maximum fat cream. Bake 4 cakes, dividing the dough into equal parts. Before placing the rolled seam in the oven, prick it with a knife or a toothpick. This will help the cream absorb better. Bake on a dry baking sheet until browning - it will take about seven minutes. You need to smear the cakes while they are hot. On each apply three tablespoons of cream. Having smeared all the cakes, apply the cream on the sides and top of the
cake, shape them with a knife. Cover the product with cling film and place a small load on top. In this form, the cake should spend 12 hours in a cold place. Then it can be decorated with gingerbread crumbs, cinnamon and icing sugar. An ornament from slices of stewed apples and whole star anise star flowers will look original. You can dip the mint leaves in melted chocolate - they will serve as an excellent decoration. Also a good decoration option is to cut the cake into cakes and decorate each one with cream.
Bake a light cake from one cake
If making a biscuit is not difficult for you, and you don’t want to bother with decorations, then this is a treat for you. The baked cake should be (not letting it brown) to get out of the oven, cut into cubes while still warm, pour sour cream mixed with powdered sugar, sprinkle with prunes. After the cake cools and hardens, pour the melted chocolate icing on top.