You think, what would surprise guests at the celebration? Try to make a spectacular broken glass cake. Bright, incredibly tasty and easy to prepare, it will have to be in place at the children's party and at any banquet. How to cook this dessert and what tricks to adopt?
Why they love this delicacy
It’s worth making the Broken Glass cake at least once, and the recipe will certainly take its rightful place in the piggy bank of your beloved ones. Not without reason hundreds of housewives prefer to cook this particular cake, because it has several advantages at once.
He is really very tasty. Made from jelly, the cake has a delicate and very unusual taste.
Its not necessary to bake. Many women will probably agree that during the pre-holiday mess, the recipe for a cake without baking will be a real gift. “Broken glass” does not require long preparations and at the same time it always turns out to be excellent.
The basic recipe can be changed and supplemented in every possible way, as a result we get exactly the dessert that the whole family will love, and the children will be delighted at all.
Ingredients
According to the classic recipe, this cake includes:
- finished jelly - 3 bags are enough;
- sour cream is not very oily - 500 g;
- sugar - about 200 g;
- gelatin without additives - 20 g.
Jelly is best chosen with different tastes and colors. The brighter it is, the more beautiful and appetizing the finished dish will look. The best option is green, red and yellow.
Advice from the hostesses. To prepare a festive dish, it is best to buy products from those manufacturers who are already familiar. Jelly is the main ingredient here, so a poor quality product can ruin the whole result.
Preparation of colored “glass”
Despite the fact that the preparation of this dish does not require much time and effort, it is worth starting it early, it is better the day before the expected celebration. Why? The fact is that jelly should keep its shape well, so it must be properly cooled in the refrigerator.
First of all, they make colored jelly. In order not to make a mistake with the technology, it is worth studying the packaging of the product - each manufacturer gives special recommendations regarding the preparation. Most often, to prepare jelly, it is poured into a container, poured with a certain amount of water (about 0.5 liters per pack), thoroughly stirred and brought to a boil. In this case, the liquid must be constantly stirred. To make the jelly strong enough, the amount of water should be reduced by 30% from what the manufacturer recommends.
As soon as the jelly begins to boil, it is removed from the stove (unless otherwise indicated on the packaging). The resulting liquid is cooled at room temperature, and then cleaned in the cold for 3-4 hours. The result should be 3 containers with a multi-colored jelly of dense consistency.
Cooking basics
The classic broken glass jelly cake is prepared on the basis of sour cream. Plain gelatin without additives is poured with boiled hot water. About 20-70 ml of water is taken per 20 g of gelatin. In this form, the container is left for 5-15 minutes, during which time the gelatin has time to swell. You can put a bowl in a water bath to speed up the process.
At this time, you can do the preparation of sour cream. To do this, 0.5 l of sour cream is mixed with sugar. If desired, you can add a little vanilla to this mixture. The cream is whipped with a mixer or whisk until the sugar grains are completely dissolved. Now the prepared mass is poured into gelatin and mixed thoroughly.
As a variety of this dessert, you can name an option based on yogurt and cottage cheese. The recipe for the broken glass cake in this case allows you to get a dessert with a delicate creamy taste. Instead of sour cream, a mixture of yogurt and cottage cheese is used to prepare it. The cottage cheese is carefully rubbed so that lumps do not come across. In all other respects, the course of work is the same.
Cake Fill
To properly prepare the broken glass jelly cake, you will need a suitable glass form (preferably a round shape). Many advise to line the bottom and walls of the container with cling film. Presumably, this will allow faster and easier to take out the frozen jelly. However, it is worth considering: it is almost impossible to lay out the film perfectly evenly, and therefore creases, pits and other irregularities will remain on the finished Broken Glass cake, which significantly spoils the appearance of the dessert.
The finished colored jelly is removed from the containers and cut into small pieces, about 1 cm in size. It is not necessary to adhere to any particular shape - you can cut it arbitrarily.
Sliced colored jelly is placed at the bottom of a large container, poured with sour cream filling on top and checked for air voids (especially near the walls of the bowl). The surface is made even and cleaned in the cold until completely solidified.
How to remove the broken glass cake
To make the cake not only tasty, but also look presentable, it must be carefully removed from the container. Those who lined the bottom of the mold with cling film should turn the mold over and put the extracted jelly on a flat dish. Carefully peel off the film.
However, there is another option. It saves the time, energy and nerves of the cook. When pouring jelly, the film will not be needed at all. Before pulling out the dessert, the container must be placed in hot water for a few seconds. In this case, the cake will separate from the walls of the dishes without any problems. It is enough just to quickly turn the form on a flat dish.
Cake with biscuit
I must say that such a dessert, consisting of one jelly, not everyone will like, because it does not have the component that many are accustomed to see in the cake - this is cake.
However, there is a solution. Everyone can quickly cope with this task and make a completely traditional cake "Broken Glass" with a biscuit. You can save time and buy ready-made cakes, or you can make them yourself.
This will require:
- eggs - 5 pcs.;
- sugar - 200 g;
- flour - 160 g.
In a clean dry container, eggs are beaten with a mixer for a long time until their volume doubles. At this time, a little sugar is added. Egg-sugar foam should be sufficiently dense in consistency and not have sugar grains. At the end add flour and gently mix with a spoon so that the foam does not fall.
The dough is poured into a mold with baking paper and immediately sent to the oven (it should already be heated to 180 degrees). After about 20-30 minutes, the biscuit can be removed. The degree of readiness is checked with a wooden toothpick.
After cooling, the cake is divided into 2 or 3 parts. Two of them are finely chopped and mixed together with colored jelly. All this is poured with sour cream. The third part of the biscuit is laid on top and pressed well. After turning the biscuit will be at the bottom. Using the same principle, you can make a broken glass cake with cookies.
What else can be added to dessert
In fact, there are a lot of options for making this sweet, because it can be combined with almost all fruits and berries. Bananas, oranges, apples, peaches, pears, strawberries are just a few supplements.
On top of such a treat you can decorate with whipped cream. Home-made broken glass cake will be tasty, very healthy and low-calorie.
So, is it worth taking on the preparation of this dessert? Of course. Any housewife can cope with it, even the one to whom many masterpieces of culinary art have not yet succumbed. At the same time, a bright jelly treat can truly decorate the festive table.