A children's holiday is a great way to practice pastry and make a cake that will not only be delicious, but also beautiful. Recently, it has become fashionable to decorate a children's cake with figures from mastic. Such cakes are especially popular with the smallest children. In our article, we will consider the step-by-step preparation by everyone of their favorite cake “Thomas the Engine”.
To do this, you need to decide on the ingredients. The basis for the cake can be completely different, depending on the preferences of the child. In our case, we will use biscuit cakes as the basis.
Ingredients for Cake
We will need about 400 gr. flour, you need to take as much sugar. Be sure to add 340 gr. butter and 320 gr. sour cream. Plus you need to add half a teaspoon of vanilla sugar or vanilla essence, 150 gr. peanuts, you can also take half a teaspoon of almond essence (optional), which will give the cakes a pleasant aroma. Be sure to add 3-4 chicken eggs. And of course, do not forget about the need to add soda, slaked with vinegar (about one teaspoon).
Ingredients for Cream
For cream, we need 200 gr. sugar, as well as for cake we take 340 gr. butter and 4 proteins, previously separated from the yolk. Optionally, you can take one banana.
Marshmallow based ingredients for mastic
For mastic, we take about two glasses of powdered sugar, although more may be needed. It is also necessary to take 200 gr. marshmallows and pre-purchased food colors of the required colors.
In this case, there is no special need to stage-by-stage paint the recipe for making a biscuit for the Thomas Engine cake.
After all, the cooking method is quite simple and familiar to every housewife. Having prepared the cake, cut it with a thread into two equal parts. The size of the cake is approximately 30 by 30 cm.
To give shape, you need a dense cardboard, which must first be wrapped in foil and cling film. The size of the cardboard should be 10 by 23 cm. The made template must be attached to the cake and cut out three identical parts. The remaining trim is suitable for small parts.
At the next stage, it is necessary to form the shape of a steam locomotive from the cut out biscuit cakes. Now we need to gently smear all the details with a protein-oil cream. Peel the banana and cut it into round identical slices, then put them on the cream.
The next important step in the preparation is the assembly of the cake, after which we send it to the refrigerator for cooling. After the cake has cooled, you need to cut off the excess, which we mix with the cream. Coat the cake with the resulting crumbs, giving it a more neat shape.
Now we send it to the refrigerator again for 40-60 minutes. We take out and coat the cake with the remaining cream and again send it to the refrigerator. Then you need to get the cake and use a towel to smooth the oil surface and put it in the refrigerator for no more than half an hour.
The final stage of preparation of the cake "Engine Thomas" - decoration with mastic
So, the edge of the engine should be brown, it is necessary to "wrap" the engine around the perimeter. It is important to remember that before gluing mastic on the cake, the place must be greased with honey.
Next, we apply the blue mastic in several stages, combining several canvases with each other with a pre-prepared “glue”. Next, from the red mastic, you need to wind the flagella - for windows, wheels. The inscription on the cake can be made of mastic of any color. Cake "Engine Thomas" (photos are presented in the article) is almost ready. You can please them with little sweet tooth.
So, as you can see, for the preparation of the “Engine Thomas” cake with mastic, we need several hours and a small amount of ingredients. But the result will please not only you, but also your children.