Cake "Basket with flowers" is not only tasty, but also a beautiful dessert, which is ideal for a children's holiday. Preparing such a treat on your own is quite difficult. After all, it is done using mastic. Also, the dessert in question is often prepared from butter cream.
Butter cake “Basket with flowers”: master class
Once you have prepared such a dessert, you will make it again and again. However, it should be noted right away that in order to get a beautiful and tasty cake you will have to devote a lot of time to this culinary process.
So how is the “Basket with Flowers” cake made from cream? To do this, prepare:
- sour cream of 20 percent fat content - 170 g;
- large eggs - 4 pcs.;
- white sugar - 260 g;
- table soda + kefir sour - ½ a small spoon;
- wheat flour - 1.3 cups;
- sunflower oil - 7 g.
All of these ingredients will be needed for us to prepare a gentle biscuit.
Making dough for biscuit cakes
Cake "Basket with flowers" is well obtained from biscuit cakes. To prepare them, egg yolks are combined with sugar and rubbed strongly with a spoon. Then they add 20% sour cream and heavily whipped proteins. At the very end, add the flour to the ingredients and spread table soda, slaked with sour kefir.
The process of baking biscuit in the oven
Before forming a cake in the form of a basket with flowers, you should bake a lush and high biscuit. To do this, use heat-resistant dishes. Having greased the form with sunflower oil, all the pre-prepared dough is laid out in it. In this form, the base is sent to a preheated oven. Bake it at a temperature of 195 degrees for 47 minutes.
As soon as the biscuit rises and is well browned, it is removed from the mold and cooled. Subsequently, it is cut into three identical cakes.
Cream Products
Cake "Basket with flowers" from butter cream is much easier to prepare than a dessert from mastic. To implement such a recipe, we need:
- butter, good, 72% fat - 400 g;
- natural condensed milk (unboiled) - 2 cans;
- food colors red, green, yellow and brown - at its discretion.
Cream Process
Oil cream for such a dessert is quite simple. Cooking oil is softened at room temperature, and then whipped with a blender. Having achieved a homogeneous, lush and whitened mass, natural condensed milk is gradually poured into it.
Continuing to whip the cream for a few more minutes, you get a very tasty and high-calorie mixture. It is divided into several parts, and then intensively mixed with dyes. As for the cream for greasing cakes, it is left in its natural form (that is, without additives).
The process of forming a homemade treat
To make the Basket with Flowers cake really beautiful, during its formation it is necessary to use a special pastry spatula and a cooking syringe.
First, all the cakes are greased with white cream and stacked on top of each other. Next, the entire semi-finished product is covered with the same mass using a pastry spatula. After that proceed to its decoration. To do this, the culinary syringe is filled with brown butter cream. Then it is gently squeezed onto the sides of the cake, creating a pattern similar to basket weaving.
Having washed the syringe thoroughly, first red and then yellow cream are laid out in it alternately. Having chosen suitable nozzles, the mass is beautifully squeezed onto the surface of the cake, making voluminous flowers.
At the very end, a green cream is injected into the cooking syringe. Thanks to him, they create petals and other beautiful elements.
How to present to the table?
After the formation and decoration of the cake “Basket with flowers”, the photo of which is presented in this article, is immediately sent to the refrigerator. So that the cakes are saturated with cream, and the voluminous flowers and the "weaving" of the basket are frozen, it must be removed only after 10-13 hours.
Serve this dessert to the festive table should only be chilled. It is carefully cut into pieces, and then laid out on flat saucers. To the table, such a delicious and beautiful delicacy is served with tea.
Making a Basket of Flowers Cake from Mastic
Mastic is a fairly common material, which is often used to decorate cakes and cakes, as well as the manufacture of various decorations. It is done quite easily and simply. But for the formation of flowers and other elements from this material, the culinary specialist needs special skills.
Cakes for dessert
Cakes for mastic cake can be used different. But most often, for the preparation of the considered delicacies, an ordinary biscuit is used. It can be purchased at the store, or you can do it yourself. To do this, use the recipe that was presented at the very beginning of the article.
Cream for cake
Like cakes, mastic creams may consist of different products. However, it should be noted that such a component should not be too liquid. In other words, the mastic on the cream should fit tightly. To do this, you can use the following ingredients:
- chilled egg whites - about 8 pcs.;
- fine sugar, but not in the form of powder - about 450 g;
- fresh butter - 620 g;
- small table salt - an average pinch.
Cooking
Protein-oil cream for such a dessert is quite simple. First beat the egg whites with a mixer, and then add a pinch of salt and sugar to them. Next, the ingredients are placed in a water bath and, regularly stirring, slowly heated (do not bring to a boil).
The resulting mass is removed from the stove as soon as all bulk products are completely melted. While the components are cooling, proceed to the processing of soft butter. It is intensively whipped to a creamy state. Similarly, with cooled sweet proteins.
After the described actions, both masses are combined and continue to intensively beat. At the exit, a homogeneous and shiny mass is obtained, doubled exactly.
Do the mastic
To prepare the mastic we need:
- marshmallows (marshmallows) - about 300 g;
- powder - about 250 g;
- food coloring - at the discretion;
- potato starch - 250 g;
- lemon juice - 20 ml.
To prepare the confectionery material, marshmallows marshmallows are laid out in a glass form, lemon juice is added and microwaved for two minutes.
Having taken out the thawed product, add about 100 g of powdered sugar to it and mix thoroughly. Next, the homogeneous mass is divided into several parts, to which food coloring is laid out . Having mixed the components again, elastic mastic is obtained.
The process of forming and decorating the cake
How to make a basket of flowers (cake)? To do this, biscuit cakes are smeared with oil-protein cream, and then stacked on top of each other. The resulting semi-finished product is also covered with egg mass. Next, proceed to the processing of mastic. Brown material is rolled into a layer, which is applied to the entire surface of the cake. After this form the "weaving" of the basket (directly on the sides of the dessert). Also, flowers and petals are made from mastic, which are installed on the surface of the product.
Having formed a cake, it is cleaned in the refrigerator. So that it freezes well, it is kept in this form for at least 11 hours.