Looking for a simple and interesting tea cake recipe? We have found for you an excellent, quick recipe for an unusual, but very tasty coconut cake "Mountain". You will definitely like this gentle, sweet dessert. It does not take much time to prepare it. Let's find out how to cook this treat.
Cake "Snow Mountain"
The cake was not given such a name for nothing, because the cake is formed from baked sand balls in the form of a mountain, it is sprinkled with fragrant coconut flakes, which are so similar to snow. Skilled craftswomen decorate the cake "Mountain" in the winter theme adding Christmas trees from mastic, sledges. We recommend sprinkling the cake with sour berries, for example, cranberries, if you are a lover of taste contrasts.
Ingredients
What do we need to make a delicious cake "Mountain"? For a small version of it, prepare:
- 350 g of flour;
- 180 g of sugar;
- 250 g of oil;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 tsp baking powder;
- 70 g hazelnuts;
- 0.5 lemons;
- 500 ml of sour cream;
- 500 ml of condensed milk;
- 1 pinch of vanillin;
- 100 g coconut flakes.
For baking, butter is often replaced with margarine or spread, such a replacement does not affect the taste and structure of baking, but it saves oil costs by half.
Balloons
As mentioned above, a cake is formed from cookie balls or hemispheres. You can make cookies yourself or buy in a supermarket. This will significantly reduce the cooking time of the cake. We will share the mountain cake recipe with homemade cakes.
Let's start making the cake with the dough. To do this, beat two eggs in a deep bowl and beat with a mixer until lush high foam. Use a bowl with high sides for this.
Add sugar to the egg froth and mix again. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon and baking powder there. If you did not find a baking powder, you can replace it with soda, slaked vinegar. Mix well again and leave.
Before preparing the cookie dough, remove the butter in advance and warm to room temperature. In this state, it is easier to work with him.
Sift flour into a separate bowl. This is necessary for baking: the flour is saturated with oxygen, due to which the cookies turn out to be porous and better saturated with cream.
Pour margarine into flour, cut into small cubes. Mix the margarine with flour by hand, then pour in the egg-sugar mixture and knead a damp, soft dough.
Roll the dough into one big lump and leave it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes before you start rolling the balls so that it is a little infused and reaches the desired condition. It is advisable to cover the dough with cling film.
After 20 minutes, remove the dough from the refrigerator. Pinching a piece from the lump, make a small pancake in your hands. Insert one peeled hazelnut in the center. Roll the dough into a ball.
Cover the baking sheet with baking parchment. Put the finished balls on it with a distance of 2 cm from each other.
Cookies are baked for 15–20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Preheat the oven in advance.
Cake making
When the cookies have cooled, you can begin to form a delicious, snowy cake. First, prepare the cream. To do this, in a separate container with high sides, beat the sour cream and condensed milk with a mixer, add a pinch of vanillin.
Dip the cooled cookies in sour cream and put on a wide tray. Leave the hemispheres for 20 minutes so that they are thoroughly saturated with a fragrant cream.
After 20 minutes, fold the cookies with a pyramid. Pour the Mountain cake with the remaining cream, and then sprinkle evenly with coconut. So that the cake is well saturated with the aroma of coconut, softened under sour cream, it is advisable to leave the cake all night. But if you can’t wait, then you can eat it in an hour.
Cut the cake into segments and serve with delicious, hot tea. Enjoy your meal!