In order to bake a delicious dessert, you do not need to be a genius of culinary art. It is enough to master a simple, but at the same time amazing, with its gentle taste, recipe for the tortoise cake with sour cream.
Classics of the genre
The recipe for the “Turtle” cake, familiar to many, with sour cream is quite simple both in composition and in the method of preparation. And the most delicate, and at the same time light taste of the cream with which it is soaked will seduce the most ardent adherents of strict diets. And in order to verify this, it is worth at least once baking it.
So, to pamper yourself and your loved ones with this wonderful dessert, you will need:
- For mini biscuit cakes: six eggs, 250 grams of sugar, two and a half glasses of sifted flour, soda, slaked in vinegar, in the amount of one teaspoon.
- Sour cream sauce will, of course, require sour cream (its volume must be at least one liter), a pack of butter (the fatter it is, the better) and sugar with a volume of at least 300 grams.
- For glaze - only cocoa powder.
Having prepared these ingredients, you can proceed directly to the execution of the recipe. And first of all, biscuit mini-cakes are baked . To do this, mix all the products indicated in the first paragraph to obtain a dense mass. After that, a biscuit mixture in the form of small pancakes is spread on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. It should be noted that the distance between future mini-cakes should be equal to the diameter of the semi-finished products, because the biscuit during the baking process tends to increase in volume.
The pan itself is sent to the oven, heated to 180 degrees (for gas) and 200 degrees (for electric), for the time it takes for the cakes to bake.
While mini-biscuits "fit", it is worth preparing a cream-impregnation. The tortoise cake recipe with sour cream provides that all the ingredients from the second paragraph are mixed until the sugar is completely dissolved. You can do this in two ways: beat with a blender or stir the resulting mass by heating it in a water bath.
The impregnation is ready, and the cakes are not only baked, but also cooled. So, you can proceed to the "assembly". For this, each mini-biscuit is dipped for several minutes in a sour cream, and then laid out on a dish in the shape of a turtle.
Cocoa is added to the residues of the impregnation and mixed thoroughly, after which it is covered with the already formed cake with the obtained glaze.
Fantasies on the subject
The recipe for the tortoise cake with sour cream is so loved that many culinary specialists began to make changes to it. And the first thing they touched became mini cakes. Very often you can find an option in which cocoa is added to the biscuit dough, and the cream is used directly as the icing.
Another option on the theme of this delicious dessert is the tortoise cake with kiwi. The changes relate only to the fact that during the “assembly” and decoration this sweet and sour fruit is added. Mini biscuits are stacked together with its slices, and the “shell” is completely decorated with it. By the way, this is why this option was called "Emerald Cake" Turtle "with sour cream." Photos of such a cake can decorate any culinary album.
You can fantasize not only with cocoa or fruit. You can apply your rich experience in decorating the cake. To do this, use special culinary pencils and mastic to give the dessert a more recognizable shape. You should only try to create this delicious cake once.