Masterpieces of confectionery art are in demand for any holiday. Customers of baking companies give a lot of money for them, because a delicious beautiful cake is able to leave the most positive impressions of the event. We are talking about products whose appearance can not leave indifferent even those who do not like sweets.
Naturally, it is extremely difficult to refuse a piece of a Ferrari car or the Eiffel Tower. It seems to us that at home it is extremely difficult to cook something like this. In fact, simple and affordable recipes for incredibly beautiful cakes open up unlimited possibilities even for those who are just starting to try themselves in the confectionery art.
For example, a cake in the form of a book is one of those options that everyone can make in their home kitchen. This will not require any special equipment, and products for your own culinary masterpiece can be bought at every supermarket.
Events for which you can make such a cake
Cake in the form of a book is one of the most popular dessert design for the holiday. It looks quite original, and most importantly - there are a lot of options so that such a treat is relevant.
For example, a cake in the form of an anniversary book can be presented to a teacher who works in any educational institution. It may be a person who just loves to read. You can only imagine how a connoisseur of good literature will be happy with a cake in the form of a favorite book.
On September 1, the cake can be presented to the student or teacher. The same campaign can be applied to the celebration of the prom. And by Teacher’s Day, this is a perfect present. In general, having shown a certain degree of imagination, a cake in the form of an open book can be prepared to celebrate a variety of events, and for this you will not have to pay a lot of money to the confectionery company.
Undoubtedly, the book is the best gift. What then to say about the cake in the form of a literary work!
Biscuit
A cake in the form of an open book is easiest to make from a biscuit dough. This is the most popular option for all treats covered with mastic. To prepare the base you will need:
- butter - 100 g;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon without slide;
- kefir - 1 cup;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.
Products are mixed in the following order:
- beat butter with a mixer with sugar, then beat eggs;
- flour, baking powder and vanillin are added, everything is whipped;
- kefir is poured, everything is mixed for five minutes.
The dough should be divided into two equal parts. Cocoa is added to one of them. Both cakes are baked separately in a rectangular shape for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. The readiness of the biscuit is checked with a match or a toothpick. If the dough is soft and not wet, then it is ready, and you can proceed to the next step in the preparation of the cake book.
Cream
A cake in the form of a book can have different tastes and textures, and they will depend on the cream chosen for the sweet literary work. You can take a regular oil cream. To do this, beat 250 g of butter with a glass of icing sugar.
You can approach the issue even easier and decorate the cake with a whipped cream bottle. But it is better to supplement the classic biscuit with more original varieties of creams, then the taste of the product will be refined and truly homely. Here are the simplest and most popular recipes:
- Sour cream, boiled condensed milk and butter are whipped in the same proportion.
- In 200 g of mascarpone cheese, one melted bar of milk chocolate, half a glass of powdered sugar and sour, pitted cherry are added.
- 100 g of dark chocolate is melted with 50 ml of water and 50 ml of cognac. When the homogeneous mass cools down a little, it is whipped with a mixer with 100 g of heavy cream.
If the question arises of how to make a cake in the form of a book, then without mastic it is practically impossible to cook a real culinary masterpiece.
Mastic
It can be bought at a specialized confectionery store, but sometimes it takes a long time to find one. You can also cook mastic for cake decorating yourself. To do this, you will need:
- a pound of powdered sugar;
- 60 ml of water;
- 1 teaspoon of gelatin;
- 1 teaspoon of lemon juice;
- vanillin.
Gelatin is soaked in water and cooked for half an hour in a steam bath. Lemon juice, vanillin is added to it, if desired, a dye. Powdered sugar is gradually added to the bowl with this mass. Then the mastic is wrapped in cling film and left in the refrigerator for an hour.
Decor
Making a cake in the form of a book is quite simple:
- Chocolate cake is placed on a large rectangular dish.
- Top - a thick layer of cream.
- On top of the cream is a white cake.
- The edges of the “book” are neatly trimmed around the entire perimeter.
- In the middle with a sharp knife, a small indentation is made across the cake.
- Top and sides - cream again.
- The mastic is rolled into a layer with a thickness of about 0.5 cm, the cake is covered with this layer from above. Excess edges are trimmed. You can leave a thin ribbon from mastic for bookmarking in a book.
- On the pages you can draw various drawings with the help of a confectionery syringe and multi-colored oil cream and, of course, make an inscription corresponding to a solemn occasion.
Cooking options
Cake in the form of a book of mastic can be prepared not only according to the above recipe. For example, there may be more than two sponge cakes with different creams between them.
Sponge cake is not the only type of dough for this original cake. It can be cakes for Napoleon, Honey cake or any other dessert. Their preparation will take a little longer, but thin pages of such cakes will look especially original. They should also be coated with mastic.
The book may be closed, such a cake is even easier to prepare. In this case, you will have to try only on a beautiful sweet cover, but the pages can be made of thin tiles of white chocolate.