Can simple baking be beautiful? Yes! The photo of Kalla cakes is a confirmation of this. They do not need a lot of different ingredients, but they have an interesting appearance that resembles the flowers of the same name.
Flower petals
The cake itself consists of two parts: dough and filling. You can take any cream, but the thicker it is, the better it will keep its shape. Yes, and there is such a cake "Calla" will be more convenient. The petals themselves are made from a simple biscuit dough. To cook it, you need to take the following ingredients:
- an incomplete glass of sugar;
- as much flour;
- two eggs.
As you can see from the list of ingredients, the recipe for the Calla cake is very simple. To begin with, both eggs are broken into a bowl, sugar is added. Grind the ingredients. After introducing the flour and knead enough liquid dough.
A little vegetable oil is poured onto a baking sheet or baking paper is placed so that the dessert blanks do not stick. Using a spoon, spread the cakes from the dough, trim them.
Petals bake just a few minutes to make them rosy. In hot form, they wrap the edges like petals. If the dough cools down, then it will break, so you need to act quickly.
Custard option
In the middle of the Calla cake, a cream is hiding. For such a common option, you need to take the following ingredients:
- half a glass of sugar;
- one egg;
- a glass of milk;
- a spoonful of flour;
- one hundred grams of butter;
- vanillin to taste.
Sugar and flour are mixed, after which the egg is added. Stir the ingredients, pour in the milk, it should be warm. The mass is put on medium heat, stirred. After bubbles appear on the surface, remove the base for the cream from the stove, cool. Vanillin and softened oil are introduced, whisk thoroughly. Ready cream is removed for an hour in the refrigerator. Using a spoon, place the filling in the petals of the Calla cake.
"Pestles" of orange
A beautiful dessert can be obtained if, instead of cream, you use orange zest or dried apricots. For this option of filling, you need to take:
- zest of one orange or a handful of dried apricots;
- three tablespoons of sugar;
- third of a glass of water.
Dried apricots are pre-soaked with warm water, cut into strips. The zest is removed from the orange, the white part is removed. Washed.
Boil water, put sugar. The zest is cut into strips. Add zest or dried apricots to the syrup. Cook for about five minutes. After just insert them into the base of the petal. So that they definitely do not fall out, grease the cookies with the remains of sugar syrup.
Tasty apricot jam filling
This version of the filling looks very beautiful in the petals of the Calla cake. For him you need to take:
- 1.5 kilograms of apricots;
- 1.8 kilograms of sugar;
- 1.5 cups peeled walnuts.
Sugar is poured with two glasses of warm water, heated and after boiling it is boiled for three minutes. In this case, stir the syrup so that it does not burn. Cool the mass, filter through cheesecloth and sieve. The remaining syrup is boiled again until it decreases in volume by half.
Apricots are washed, incised to remove the bone, after which the parts of the fruits are reconnected. Fry nuts in a dry pan to reveal their taste and aroma.
In a hot syrup put nuts and apricots, cover. Turn off the stove. Keep everyone in syrup for ten hours. After they take out the fruits, again boil the syrup for a couple of minutes, send the apricots back and leave for another ten hours. After they put the jam on the stove and cook for another five minutes. Cool down. This jam can be rolled up in sterile jars for the winter. After the fruit with nuts is placed inside the cake. One apricots and a nut on a petal.
Cake with the poetic name "Calla" is a simple biscuit with a delicate cream or candied fruit. It can be filled with anything, the main thing is that the filling is not liquid and looks beautiful. The dough itself is prepared in minutes, which makes it especially popular.