In a fit to congratulate your child on his birthday for what tricks parents do not go. The best way to congratulate a little sweet tooth can rightfully be considered a cake with an image of his beloved hero, for example, the cake "Masha and the Bear."
Cake summary
Anything can be inside the cake; the choice of the filling depends on the preferences of the birthday man and his parents. The most common and easiest solution is sponge cake. It will take no more than an hour to cook it.
Ingredients:
- Sugar - 200 g.
- Chicken eggs - 6 pieces.
- Wheat flour - 1 cup.
- Baking powder.
Cooking process:
- Separate the squirrels from the yolks.
- Mix the yolks with 100 g of sugar, mix thoroughly until the mass acquires a pure white color.
- Mix the proteins and 100 g of granulated sugar and beat the thick foam.
- Combine both masses, beat thoroughly.
- Pour flour, baking powder into the resulting mass and mix until completely homogeneous.
- Line the baking dish with parchment paper.
- Before putting the cake into preparation, it is necessary to heat the oven to an acceptable temperature. For a biscuit, the optimal temperature will be 190 degrees.
- The baking speed of each oven is different, on average it is 35 minutes. After half the time has passed, pierce the cake with a wooden skewer, if it is dry, then the baking is ready.
After the cake is ready, do not immediately take it out, it is better to wait another 10 minutes. To start cooking the cake is only after the cake has cooled down. The cream can be used to taste, the simplest - from condensed milk and butter. Apply the cream after the cake is thoroughly soaked. You can soak the cake with sweet tea, sugar syrup or condensed milk, diluted in water.
Cake decoration
Cake decorating is perhaps the most creative and interesting part. Masha and the Bear cake can be decorated either with mastic or with cream. Before proceeding with the design, it is necessary to prepare consumables.
Mastic
Decorating Masha and the Bear cake from mastic will not take so much time, it will require manual dexterity and a prepared design idea. You can get mastic in a specialized store or cook it yourself. For tog, to prepare mastic at home and make a unique design of the cake, you will need:
- Invert Syrup - 170 g
- Sugar - 2 cups.
- Gelatin - 25 g.
- Cold water - 1 cup.
- Salt is a quarter teaspoon.
- Powdered Sugar - 1200 g
- Starch - 300 g.
Cooking:
- Pour gelatin in 0.5 cups of water.
- Mix half a glass of cold water, salt, invert syrup, sugar and put on fire in a pan with a dense and thick bottom. Wait until it boils.
- After the mass has boiled, reduce the heat and cook, without disturbing, for 8 minutes.
- Beat the mass with a mixer, gradually pouring in the gelatin, until the mass increases three times and becomes dense.
- With dough nozzles (spiral), mix the powder with the total mass, before which it is necessary to sift through a fine sieve.
- Leave the finished "dough" for a day in a tightly closed container so that it does not dry out.
- After time, the mass must be thoroughly mixed with starch to the required consistency. The result is homemade mastic.
In order to color the mastic, it is necessary to purchase food coloring. This mastic is quite obedient when sculpting, it is easily painted and does not crack.
Mastic jewelry
To decorate the cake "Masha and the Bear", you will need to first draw up a general appearance and divide the details of the proposed application. You can cut out of mastic with scissors, a knife or a special mold. If you don’t want to make a flat application, you can fashion the figures of heroes from mastic.
Cream jewelry
Decorating Masha and the Bear cake with cream is also simple, you need curly nozzles, a similar image, and a pre-painted cream. For the image of Masha you will need the following colors:
- Green - eyes.
- Light peach - face.
- Pink and light pink - for dress
- Red - to decorate the dress.
- Yellow for hair and white for a shirt.
It is better to make the decoration from cream on the cake "Masha and the Bear" flat so that it does not spread and does not lose its presentation.
After completing all the work, you need to put the cake in the refrigerator for a while, so that the cream has time to soak the cakes, decorations - to freeze and get a finished look. With proper skill and dexterity, the product should turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful, which will please the little sweet tooth.