A wonderful dessert, which came straight from the Soviet Union and the taste of which is perfectly familiar to every person from childhood, is a school cake. Sand, sprinkled with sweet fudge and with a layer of delicious jam, the cake could be bought in any dining room and confectionery, tasted for a holiday from every Soviet mistress.
School cake: simple and affordable
Since dessert is a product of Soviet culture, its main features are practicality, simplicity, and affordability. For its preparation, you will not need any complex and expensive components - all the ingredients are simple and can be found in the house of any hostess. And even if something is missing, you can always buy it at the nearest store. The cake has one more obvious advantage - with its simplicity it is also very tasty.
To store dessert, unlike sweet counterparts with protein, butter, cream and other complex creams and sauces, you can quite a long time. It is based on no perishable products, and storage conditions are easy to follow.
GOST ingredients
To prepare a school cake, the recipe of which was used in Soviet times, and completely repeat it according to GOST, it is necessary to prepare a certain set of products.
For friable shortcrust pastry, melting in your mouth, you will need 1 egg, 330 grams of wheat flour, 1 pack of butter (200 grams), 130 grams of granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking powder (without a hill) and half a teaspoon of vanilla essence (if it is absence can be replaced with a small bag of vanilla sugar).
For a layer of jam or jam is used. The indicated amount of dough will require 165 grams. Top school cake is covered with fondant. To prepare it, you will need sugar - 500 grams, water - 150 ml, and lemon juice in the amount of 1 tablespoon.
Instructions for preparing the basics
Step one: make the basis for the cake. Soften the oil with a fork and mix thoroughly with egg, sugar, vanilla. Pour flour mixed with baking powder into the resulting mass. It should be friable dough, from which a lump is formed. Pre-wrapped with cling film, it is placed in the refrigerator for half an hour for cooling.
Step two: bake cakes in the oven. The chilled dough is divided into two equal parts, placed on parchment paper and rolled into layers of 19 by 25 cm. Before baking, the base must be sent for 15 minutes to the freezer, and then to the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes. After cooling, connect the cakes with a layer of jam.
Cooking Instructions
Cooking fondant. This process can cause difficulties for a housewife who is about to bake a school cake. The recipe with a photo (step by step) will save you from any difficulties, since it clearly demonstrates what, how and in what sequence you need to do. So, for starters, sugar and water are mixed in a saucepan and put on medium heat until completely dissolved.
After boiling, remove the foam and remove the adhering sugar from the sides of the pan with a wet brush. After that, over high heat without stirring, sugar syrup is cooked for about 3-4 minutes. Lemon juice is added to the thickened liquid and boiled for about a minute. You can check the readiness by lowering part of the syrup in cold water - after cooling, it is easy to get a soft elastic ball from it.
You can cool all the syrup in a bowl that is pre-coated with ice packs. Even cooling will ensure constant stirring of the liquid. When the temperature drops to 40 degrees - it is beaten. A thick and whitened mass is the result of fondant preparation.
At the last stage, decorate the school cake. The recipe is completed by smearing the cake surface with a thick layer of fudge. If she managed to crystallize strongly, then you can heat it a little (but not above 50 degrees). After applying and hardening the glaze, uneven edges are cut off at the layers, and they are cut in size of 9 by 4 cm.
Features of cooking in a multicooker
Technological advances have given cooking enthusiasts an excellent tool with which you can greatly simplify this process. Of course, this is a multicooker. And such a dessert as a school cake can be prepared using it.
The ingredients for such a cake can be used from the above recipe. The baking of the prepared test takes place in the “Baking” mode for 1 hour. Then the sand cake is removed and divided into rectangular parts. We also prepare fondant in a slow cooker. Glaze is cooked in the “Warm-up” mode with the device lid open. Syrup readiness is checked in the same way.
If you are going to cook a school cake - a recipe with a photo, a positive attitude and a desire to enjoy a delicious dessert will definitely lead you to a positive result.