Do not know how to congratulate a baby in an original way? Give him a do-it-yourself lion cake. Do not worry, the cooking process is so simple that even an inexperienced chef will cope with the cake. Rather, put on an apron, because we will learn the confectionery craft with you!
Light original dessert
The Lion Cub Cake is easier to prepare than you think. All you need is to cook round cakes and mastic, and then give free rein to your imagination. In this recipe, we will not cook cakes on our own, but will purchase them at the supermarket. Now within 150 rubles you can buy three biscuit cakes (chocolate, vanilla). They are not sugary, easily soaked, but also not crumble. Ready-made cakes will help cooks who suffer from the lack of an oven.
Ingredients: Essential Products
- Ready-made sponge cakes (chocolate) - 3 pieces.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Orange or lemon jam - 100 grams.
- Coconut flakes - 3 tablespoons.
- Peanuts or walnuts - 100 grams.
- Yellow food coloring - 1 pack.
- Condensed milk - 200 grams.
- Powdered milk - 5 tablespoons.
- Powdered Sugar - 200 grams.
- Dark chocolate - 1 bar.
Cooking steps
- Since we have ready cakes for the Lion Cub cake, we will start preparing the cream. To do this, carefully separate the proteins from the yolks. Using a mixer or hand blender, beat the whites until they reach steady peaks, gradually adding icing sugar and jam. The finished cream will look like an airy lush cloud.
- Then we prepare the mastic: place the condensed milk in a deep bowl and add the powdered sugar. Mix thoroughly with a spatula, add powdered sugar with dye and knead a dough that is not tight. You can add a little flour. The mastic should turn yellow so that the Lion Cub cake is bright and saturated. Please note that the plastic mass should stop sticking to your hands - this will indicate that you can use it for a cake.
- While you are making the cake, the chocolate must be placed in the freezer.
- On a flat dish, put the cake, brush with cream. Repeat the procedure for all layers, covering the very last cake.
- Roll out a small layer of yellow mastic and place it in the center of the upper cake - this will be the face of our lion cub.
- Make small ears and set them aside.
- Take the chocolate out of the freezer, rub it with a carrot knife so that you get 5-10 centimeter long chips - this will be our mane.
- Gently spread the chocolate around the face to completely hide the top layer of the cream.
- Grind nuts and chocolate. Put the ears from the mastic, make the eyes from the chocolate chips. You can also melt the chocolate in a water bath and make a neat little nose, eyes and antennae.
- To make cheeks, brush with cream, sprinkle with nut and lay chocolate mustache.
- Instead of mouth, you can also use cream and nuts.
- Decorate the Lion Cub cake with coconut flakes and you can serve it to the table!
Cream cake
Use interesting and useful tips to help you create a unique and delicious dessert. If you still do not know how to make a Lion Cub cake from a cream, then you need to learn how to make bird milk.
Try making a jelly dessert that looks like bird milk. To do this, you need to take gelatin, powdered sugar, yellow dye, bananas or apples and 10 chicken eggs. First of all, it is necessary to fill the gelatin with water to dissolve. Then, using a blender, beat the proteins to stable peaks, gradually adding icing sugar. When the cream is ready, you need to add ready-made gelatin with fruits and dye to it, and then gently mix with a spatula. The finished mass must be poured into a round dish and put in the refrigerator for several hours before solidification. Ready bird milk should be turned over and put on a plate, garnished with orange slices, pour over melted chocolate and give the cake the shape of a lion cub. Children like this dessert because it is light, airy and moderately sweet.
Work with mastic
- Prepare the Lion Cub Cake using the finished mastic. It can be found in any confectionery department, which is even in the smallest towns. It is also possible to order plastic mass on the Internet. During the preparation of the “Lion Cub” cream cake, use cardboard templates with which you can cut the mane, eyes and nose of the predator.
- If you purchased a mastic of white color, then you can just use liquid dye.
- Do not take the mastic on a creamy or sour cream, otherwise it simply will not stick.
How to make a biscuit
In a deep bowl, mix two cups of sifted flour, 2 teaspoons of potato or corn starch, 1 teaspoon of salt and 3 teaspoons of baking powder. Add 7 chicken yolks, vegetable oil 60-70 milliliters, water 150 milliliters and vanillin. Knead a homogeneous mass, gently breaking the lumps of flour. Beat the remaining 7 proteins with a mixer along with citric acid (0.5 teaspoon) to steady peaks. This mass must be added to the flour mixture, mixed and laid out in a round shape. Bake a biscuit for 1 hour in the oven. The temperature should not exceed 170 degrees Celsius. The finished biscuit needs to be cooled and cut into several shortcakes. Add cocoa powder or melted chocolate if desired.
Look at the photo of the Lion Cub cake and see for yourself that even a homemade pastry chef can prepare a delicious and beautiful dessert. Experiment, delight your loved ones, surprise your friends with our original recipes!