Let's treat your kids and beloved adults with an interesting dessert prepared in the conditions of their own kitchen. Cake "Turtle" (a simple recipe with a photo provided to your court) will cope with its task as well as possible. He will delight the guests or make delight and positive in the family tea party. This homemade dessert will make the holiday even warmer and more interesting. The tortoise cake recipe is simple, so you can cook it very quickly. The set of products is also not overseas. Everything can be found in the most ordinary store.
Classical
The classic "Turtle", a simple recipe for a cake that has become a legend for children's parties, opens our list. What you need to cook it:
- Chicken eggs - 6 pieces.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Powdered cocoa - 2 tablespoons.
- A pinch of salt.
- Baking powder - 2 teaspoons without a slide.
- Premium flour - 2-2.5 cups. The exact amount depends on the quality and level of gluten.
Components for cream:
- Sour cream 20% fat - 1 liter.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 pack.
- Butter or margarine - 250 grams.
- Sugar - 1.5 cups.
- Cocoa Powder - 2 tablespoons with top.
Glaze:
- Sour cream 20% - six tablespoons.
- Butter or margarine - 20 grams.
- Sugar - half a glass.
- Cocoa Powder - 2 tablespoons.
- Walnuts - optional. If you decide to use them to decorate the product, take 150-200 grams.
Cooking dough
We translate into reality the simplest classic recipe for the tortoise cake. We need a very deep bowl. In it, beat all six eggs intended for the test. Add sugar to the eggs. It is better to do this in several steps. The base of the dessert will turn out to be much more airy if you beat the eggs with a mixer. The procedure lasts until the egg-sugar mass is clarified.
To achieve a pleasant shade, mix cocoa powder and flour, designed for our simple recipe for the classic tortoise cake. Sift flour and cocoa through a sieve. This is a tried and tested way to enrich the future test with oxygen. As a result, the dessert will have a porous and airy structure. Mix salt and baking powder with dry ingredients. Gradually introduce the resulting mixture into the egg. You need to get a dough that has a consistency of thick sour cream. It will have to keep its shape on the pan.
How to bake a cake
Down with all sorts of baking dishes. We need a baking sheet. Lubricate it with vegetable oil or cover it with special baking paper resembling parchment.
We arm ourselves with a deep tablespoon. We scoop it with the required amount of dough and lay it on a baking sheet. Repeat the action until the baking sheet (or dough) is over. From the side it looks as if we are baking biscuit cookies. Do not forget about the distance between the raw workpieces. In the process of thermal exposure, they will rise and generally increase in volume, so a distance of one and a half centimeters will save the appearance of a future dessert.
We heat the kitchen oven to the required temperature standards. Typically, the baking process occurs at 180-200 degrees. Baking time - from seven to ten minutes. As soon as the biscuit "islands" are browned, you can take out a baking sheet, lay out blanks for a simple tortoise cake.
Cream recipe
Even when the biscuit blanks are in the bowels of the oven, we do not lose time. We will have time to prepare a gentle cream for soaking biscuits.
Oil or margarine must first be softened, but not melted. Use any means at hand. The most universal is to let the briquette lie down at room temperature for several hours and then use it in the recipe.
Mix sugar with cocoa so that the powder does not fly around the kitchen.
Now we combine soft butter and sugar with cocoa in a bulk dish. Here again it is more convenient to use a mixer or at least a whisk. Beat, gradually adding sour cream and vanilla sugar. When you get a uniform air mass, our cream is ready for further use.
Cake making
In order for the appearance of the dessert to correspond to the proud name, you need to correctly form the cake. It can be laid out on a large flat dish or even on a wide kitchen board by wrapping the appliance with cling film. Focus on your abilities and preferences in choosing a "pedestal" for the sweet "Turtle".
We put all the obtained cakes for the base into dishes with cream. You can do this in batches. Now take out the cakes one at a time and put on a plate. Recall what the tortoise shell looks like. This image will be our guideline. In general, you need to end up with a rounded slide.
We leave five blanks to give the dessert a finished look. We will make the head and paws out of them. We do not dip these preparations into the cream.
The remaining sour cream also goes into business. We distribute it on the surface of the "shell" of our cake. Smooth using a spoon or a pastry shovel.
We put in the refrigerator a semi-finished product baked according to a simple recipe. The tortoise cake is not ready yet. Glaze awaits us ahead. It is also very simple and cooks in minutes. Before pouring icing on our cake, give it about 10 minutes so that the cakes that make up the product are slightly condensed and stick to each other.
We prepare glaze and decorate dessert
Of course, a simple homemade tortoise cake recipe is simply required to be accompanied by no less than simple instructions for preparing the glaze. Even if you have never cooked it before, everything will work out. Repeat the steps:
- Mix sugar and cocoa powder.
- Take a stewpan, it is desirable that the dishes have a thick bottom. In a stewpan, heat oil (or margarine) at a quiet temperature. Once it melts, spread the mixture of sugar and cocoa. Mix with a spoon. We continue to languish at a quiet temperature.
- After boiling the glaze, we hold from one minute to three, achieving the desired thickness of the glaze.
- Turn off the stove. We take out the cake from the refrigerator. We substitute the "shell" head and legs from the desired sides.
- Fill the cake with hot icing. We decorate with nuts at our discretion.
After waiting five minutes until the icing has cooled, we will send the finished cake to the refrigerator. And now he needs to stay here for at least five to ten hours. After this time, the dessert becomes wet and incredibly tasty. Have a nice tea party.
Gingerbread "Turtle"
The simplest recipe for the "Turtle" cake from the gingerbread cookies will help out in minutes when there is no time for preliminary baking of the blanks. More about how it is prepared and from what. List of necessary components for creating a confectionery product:
- Gingerbread cookies - half a kilogram. You can take any that you like.
- Sugar - 1/2 cup or more if you and your loved ones are very fond of sweets.
- Bananas, or kiwi, or any other juicy berries and fruits - half a kilogram
- Sour cream product - 100 grams.
- Something for the decor: nuts, raisins, candied fruit or coconut pulp - at your discretion.
Stages of creating a simple cake
We cut each gingerbread into two or three plastics.
Beat sour cream with sugar until the sweet crystals are completely dissolved.
Put a layer of gingerbread slices on a flat dish. Coat the surface with cream.
We clean bananas (or what you will use). Cut the filling thinly and finely. Spread on the cream. Next comes a layer of gingerbread blanks. Again, smear with sour cream and put a layer of juicy fruit. We form the shell of our "Turtle".
We fill the surface with the remnants of production. They are trimmed tops of gingerbread. Knead all the leftovers and use. Garnish with nuts, raisins or chips.