Many girls are just crazy about the mischievous beauty Rapunzel. A cake with her image can be the main decoration of a children's birthday or other holiday, which will bring together little admirers of this heroine.
The easiest way to get such a treat is to order it in a candy store. But not all mothers consider this option to be the best. Someone is overwhelmed by doubts about the quality, someone simply cannot afford the price, well, there are those who want to create the beautiful themselves, and will never give up the role of the creator of magic sweets to an outsider. If you already have experience with mastic and confectionery equipment, it is unlikely that you will have any special difficulties. But newcomers should not be afraid - there is hardly any material more fertile than mastic. And a few ideas presented in the article will be a little help in making dessert with Rapunzel.
Cake with a doll
Let's face it: this idea is more than one year old. At a meeting of the most fashionable modern pastry chefs, such a cake would look ridiculous, but children are not interested in trends. The idea of combining birthday treats and dolls as a gift leads little girls into an indescribable delight. And the preparation of such a sweet surprise is on the shoulder of any woman who has basic culinary skills.
Our task is to give the cakes a domed shape, layering them with cream and cutting off the excess edges. The doll's legs need to be wrapped with foil or cling film, inserted into the hole in the middle. It remains to decorate the cake with cream. During operation, wrap Rapunzel's long hair with foil.
Cake can be decorated with cream from a pastry syringe. Do not forget: the heroine’s favorite colors are all shades of lilac and gold.
Tower
Cake "Rapunzel", the photo of which is presented below, is made based on a fairy tale. After all, the princess languished in the tower. Do not be afraid that the design will collapse! To create the building, we will use not heavy cakes, but light waffle cups for homemade ice cream. They can be filled with berries, marshmallows, slices of light sweets (for example, "Bounty"), and for stability you need to add a couple of stiffeners made of bamboo skewers. Glade, flowers, a long braid of Rapunzel and other decorative elements can be made from mastic or put off from a syringe.
As easy as pie
Running out of time or overcoming uncertainty? No problems! Use a color picture on a light waffle basis. It just needs to be carefully placed on a cake greased with white cream and decorated around the circumference. By the way, this option is one of the most budgetary - such pictures cost quite a bit.
Suitable cake recipes
The best idea for making a Rapunzel holiday treat is a cake that the birthday girl herself will choose. But if your sweet-tooth is distinguished by broad democratic views and can not make a choice, choose an option from the classics. It can be everyone’s favorite and easy-to-cook “Prague”, spectacular “Red Velvet”, unusual and colorful “Gypsy Path” or any other cake of the right shape, which you can do well. Remember that decorating puff cakes like Napoleon, Kiev or Medovik is more difficult, experiments with mastic are unlikely to be successful.
If it’s hard for you to make a choice, bake a biscuit. This option is liked by almost everyone, and cooking is not complicated.
For the cake we need:
- flour - 100 g;
- egg - 4 pcs.;
- sugar - 150 g;
- vanilla - 1 tsp
Separate the yolks from the proteins, beat with half the sugar. Proteins need to be beaten with the second half to stable peaks. When the yolk mass turns white, we introduce half the flour, whisk again, combine with the proteins. This should be done with the help of a silicone confectionery scapula. Portion enter the remainder of the flour. Bake a biscuit in a preheated oven for about half an hour.
Mastic
If you plan to make a Rapunzel cake from mastic, you will need about 500 g of Marshmallow marshmallow, powdered sugar and food coloring. Heat the marshmallows in a water bath or in the microwave, knead a thick smooth dough, using powder, like flour. When it is ready, divide into parts and color each in the desired shade.