Preparing for the New Year, almost every housewife tries to come up with not only themed decorations, but also original desserts. That is why many New Year's dishes surprise not only with their appearance, but also with their taste. The most popular New Year's dessert is the Fir-tree cake. Here are some of the best recipes for making it.
Custard cake
Such a dessert can be prepared by every housewife. In this case, the Fir-tree New Year’s cake consists of custard cakes that are fastened with the appropriate cream. As for the decoration, there are no special restrictions. Fantasy will tell you how to make dessert appetizing and original. It is worth noting that the cake can be prepared in the form of a Christmas tree of any size. This recipe will list the ingredients for two desserts about 30 centimeters high.
What do you need for cooking
To make a Christmas tree cake “Fir-tree”, you will need for the test:
- 3 tablespoons of sugar.
- 380 milliliters of water.
- A pinch of salt.
- 1.5 cups flour.
- 4 large eggs.
- 100 grams of margarine or butter.
To prepare a cream for dessert, you will need:
- 200 grams of softened butter.
- One egg.
- A glass of sugar.
- A tablespoon with a small hill of corn starch.
- 250 milliliters of cow's milk.
To decorate the cake, you can use pastry topping.
How to make a dessert
So how to cook such cakes? New Year's theme allows you to include fantasy and create a real masterpiece. First you need to take a heat-resistant container and put in it starch, sugar and an egg. All ingredients should be mixed thoroughly. Ready mixture must be slowly poured into cow's milk. In this case, you need to mix everything carefully so as to avoid the formation of lumps.
The container with the custard portion of the cream should be placed on fire. The mixture must be constantly mixed until it thickens. Ready cream needs to be cooled at room temperature.
Pour water into the pan and add salt and sugar, and then margarine. The container with the mixture must be put on fire. The contents of the pan must be brought to a boil. After this, the container must be removed from the heat and add flour to its contents. All should be mixed well.
Then the pot should be put on a small fire. Content needs to be constantly disturbed. Keep on fire until the dough is not easily behind the surface of the container and is not formed into a uniform lump.
The cooking does not end there. The dough should be slightly cooled, and then beat eggs into it one at a time. In this case, you need to thoroughly mix everything with a spoon or beat with a mixer. The result should be a homogeneous mass.
To make a Christmas tree cake, you need to make cakes. To do this, cover the baking sheet with special baking paper. The dough should be placed in a confectionery syringe. With it, you can squeeze small balls with a diameter of just a few centimeters onto a baking sheet.
Bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C. Products should acquire a slightly golden hue. From the specified number of products should be about three complete baking sheets of custard products. Baking each serving costs no longer than 20 minutes.
The final stage
Now you need to form a Christmas tree cake. The custard portion of the cream, pre-cooled to room temperature, must be beaten. To do this, it is better to use a mixer. In the process of whipping, softened oil should be added to the cream. The result should be a smooth and uniform mass.
Now it is necessary to make a cone out of paper and put a cling film or a bag inside it. To make the dessert strong and not fall apart, you need to dip each choux pastry in a cream and put it inside the billet. In this case, everything should be carefully tamped, but not much. Otherwise, the cone may not withstand and fall apart.
The finished cake must be cooled in a cold place, and then put on a plate. Do not forget about decorating the dessert. Making Christmas cakes is of particular importance. In this case, dessert can be sprinkled with colored sweets or confectionery sprinkles in the form of confetti or stars.
The recipe for a crispy Christmas cake "Herringbone"
Crispy dessert can completely change the idea of ​​New Year's cakes. First of all, such a treat does not drown in a large amount of butter cream and is not smeared with custard. Crispy delicious Christmas cake "Herringbone" is just a weightless dessert that is prepared exclusively from the finest fried slices of ordinary unleavened dough. In conclusion, the fluffy “Christmas tree” is simply poured with honey syrup and sprinkled with powdered sugar, coconut flakes and all kinds of pastry toppings.
Usually a similar dessert is prepared in the form of a slide. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the cake with nuts, raisins, candied fruits or poppy seeds. From crispy slices you can create a Christmas tree and decorate it with confectionery balls and sprinkle with powder. The result is an extraordinary festive dessert. At the same time, do not forget that the main role in the preparation of such products is played by the design of New Year's cakes.
What will be needed for cooking
The recipe for the Fir-tree Christmas cake is very simple. So, to create goodies you will need:
- A few eggs.
- A pinch of salt.
- 7 to 8 tablespoons of flour.
- Confectionery sprinkle.
- A teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Coconut flakes.
- 7 tablespoons of sugar.
- Powder.
- 4 tablespoons of water.
- For frying - vegetable oil.
- A few spoons of honey.
How to make a cake
In a bowl you need to drive eggs and add a pinch of salt to them. Beat everything thoroughly with a fork. Sift the flour, and then gradually add it to the eggs. From the resulting mixture, it is necessary to form an elastic and smooth dough. This will take about 8 minutes. To make it easier to knead, you can divide the dough into several equal parts.
Sprinkle flour on the table. Put one part of the dough on it, and then roll it with a rolling pin into a very thin layer. After that, the resulting pancake needs to be cut into pieces. It is best to make them in the shape of triangles.
In a frying pan you need to pour vegetable oil and heat it. Each piece must be fried in it to a golden hue. It is better to remove the dough from the table with a wide knife. After all, it is very thin and tears easily enough. The fried pieces should be laid out neatly on a wide plate, previously covered with a paper towel. This will remove unnecessary fat.
To make syrup, you need to dilute sugar in warm water and bring the solution to a boil. Cook it for no more than three minutes. After that, add lemon juice and honey to the syrup. All components must be thoroughly mixed and cooked for a few more minutes. Ready syrup must be removed from the heat and allowed to cool slightly.
We form a dessert
The Fir-tree cake is prepared very easily. Pieces of fried dough, preferably in the form of a pyramid, should be laid out on a suitable dish. In addition, each new layer should be watered with honey syrup. If it turned out to be very thick, then you can add a small amount of water to it and warm it up a bit.
When the Christmas tree cake is ready, pour it with the rest of the syrup. Frozen, it blinds all the components. In conclusion, the dessert should be decorated with sprinkles, as well as coconut. As for powdered sugar, you can decorate the cake with it right before serving.
As you can see, this is a simple recipe. Herringbone cake is ready.
Cooking a biscuit cake in a slow cooker
Each hostess seeks to surprise her loved ones with an extraordinary holiday dessert. Simple Christmas cakes can become a real table decoration. How to cook a regular biscuit cake? To create it, you will need products that are always in any kitchen.
So, for a marble biscuit you need:
- 5 eggs.
- 200 grams of sugar.
- 160 grams of flour.
- A few tablespoons of cocoa powder.
- Pack of vanilla sugar.
- Butter for wiping the mold.
To prepare the cream:
- 250 grams of homemade sour cream.
- 80 grams of sugar.
- A few drops of food coloring.
- A tablespoon of lemon juice or a pinch of citric acid.
Cooking: Step One
To prepare this dessert, you can use a slow cooker. She will make juicy biscuit, in addition, in any case, hedge if the hostess forgets about her pastries. It is worth remembering that this type of test does not like overexposure. Thanks to the slow cooker, a delicate and airy marble biscuit is obtained. The main thing is to beat eggs well.
So let's get started. Pour cold eggs into a bowl and beat them with a mixer. Then sugar should be added to them. Pour it in gradually. After this, the mixture must be beaten again. You need to do this for about six minutes. The result should be a lush foam. If everything went well, then the biscuit will be excellent. If in doubt, then about a teaspoon of baking powder can be added to the mass.
Second step
Now the mixer can be put in place. In the future, it will not come in handy. Sift the flour, and then gradually add in small portions to the eggs. Mix the biscuit dough gently, without rushing, with light movements with a whisk from the bottom up.
Now the resulting mass should be visually divided into several equal parts. Add cocoa powder to one of them and mix gently as well. The mass should be homogeneous. The result should be two types of biscuit dough: brown and white. Now you can start baking.
The bowl of the multicooker must be greased with butter and filled with dough. In this case, it is necessary to lay out both types of prepared mass in a chaotic order. First you can put a couple of spoons of brown dough, then as much white. So it’s worth continuing until the biscuit mass is over. Then you need to set the "Baking" mode for 50 minutes. This period of time will be quite sufficient if the multicooker has a capacity of 800 watts. After the signal of readiness, do not rush and open the cover. It is better to wait another 15 minutes. After that, the multicooker can be opened. The biscuit should be left for another five minutes. After this, take out the biscuit and set the bowl for steaming. If the biscuit cools down a bit, then it can be easily cut.
Step three
From the prepared layers of biscuit we make a delicious dessert. You can leave the cake round, or you can cut the Christmas tree by attaching a paper form to the cakes. When the biscuit is cut, it is worth starting to prepare the cream. In this case, a simple sour cream is perfect. Of course, you can make butter. Homemade sour cream must be mixed with vanilla and sugar. The result should be a lush and dense mass.
Sponge cakes should be soaked with sweet tea with a drop of brandy or compote. Now we start making dessert. The layers of biscuit should be thoroughly smeared with sour cream, and then put for 20 minutes in a cold place. Here's a Christmas tree cake. You can make a decoration from mastic.
How to make mastic
To make the mastic you need to take: a few tablespoons of water, 200 grams of chewing marshmallows, powdered sugar, as well as food colors.
It is prepared very simply. Put marshmallows in a bowl and add water. The container must be covered and placed for 40 seconds in the microwave.
In the finished mixture you need to add the necessary dye, pre-dissolving it in water. After that, you can add powdered sugar. This should be done gradually, carefully sifting the product. As a result, marshmallows should become consistently like plasticine. In this case, the product should not rush to hands.
After that, you need to roll the balls from mastic and wrap them with plastic wrap. The finished product should be placed in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Original jewelry
There are many ways to decorate a New Year’s cake. The most original is to make a miniature Christmas tree from mastic. Bright gifts can be left under the tree. They, of course, also need to be made from mastic. This is actually not so difficult. So, how to make a Christmas tree for a cake? First you need to cook the mastic itself.
To make an original and edible decoration on a cake, you will need:
- 300 grams of sugar mastic.
- 150 grams of any shortbread cookie.
- 100 grams of white chocolate, boiled condensed milk and whipped cream.
Making a Christmas tree for a cake
Decorating a New Year’s cake should correspond to the theme of the holiday. Therefore, the Christmas tree will always be appropriate. To begin, you should grind cookies in a blender. In the resulting mass, add boiled condensed milk. If this component is not present, then it can be replaced with cream. Mix everything well so that you end up with a homogeneous gruel. From the finished mass you need to make a neat cone. This will be the frame of the future Christmas tree.
Now the cone must be wrapped with mastic. All protruding ends should be trimmed. Now with the help of scissors it is necessary to make incisions. It’s best to start from the top. Scissors should be kept parallel to the surface. After this, the Christmas tree should be left to dry for a while.
Food color green should be diluted with a small amount of alcohol, and then cover it with decoration. That's all - the green Christmas tree is ready. Now you can decorate it, for example, making snow from white mastic.
Christmas beauty
Let's say you take some interesting recipe as a basis. The Fir-tree cake is, in fact, ready for you. But how can it be decorated? In this case, a New Year's beauty made from mastic is suitable. It takes a little time to make it. Of the ingredients you need only icing sugar for rolling mastic and mastic itself. First you need to take a sheet of white paper, put it in several layers, and then pierce it with a barbecue skewer or a toothpick. In any case, all the excess is easily cut off.
After that, you need to pinch off a small piece of mastic and turn it into a ball. It should be put close to a piece of paper on a toothpick. Now the mastic needs to be rolled into a fairly thin layer. Using felling from the prepared layer, snowflakes should be cut out. So, to make the decoration of the New Year’s cake beautiful, one big Christmas tree will need three large, several medium and one very small detail.
Cut snowflakes should dry out a bit. After that, you can begin to collect the Christmas tree. To do this, put on a toothpick all the snowflakes. At the same time, they need to be alternated with small balls.
To mask the tip of a toothpick, you can glue a small triangle on the crown of the tree. That's all. When the products are dry, they can be put on the finished cake.
How to decorate a Christmas tree from mastic
Homemade Christmas cakes are usually very tasty. And if they are still original to decorate, then they will look even more appetizing. To decorate the finished Christmas tree from mastic, you can use oil cream, beads for desserts and powdered sugar.
How to make a cake in an original way? With a toothpick, you can apply droplets of oil cream to the Christmas tree made of mastic. If not, then it can be replaced. To do this, mix butter at room temperature with condensed milk. Putting droplets of cream is needed where you plan to hang the ball. They can be perfectly replaced with special beads for the cake or Easter sprinkles in the form of confetti or stars. Balls need to be put on cream. And that is not all. Christmas tree can be covered with snow. To do this, put a little white cream on its branches or sprinkle them with grated white chocolate. In any case, it will turn out original and very beautiful.