It is known that a cake is not only a delicious dessert, but can also be a wonderful gift for a birthday or a hero. Especially if the delicacy is created by loving hands. Treats can be safely presented to a dear person, but the main thing is not to miscalculate with a recipe.
Among the huge variety of confectionery masterpieces, a special group is made up of cakes made on the occasion of the celebration, the culprit of which is a man: after all, it is believed that sweets are not for the harsh representatives of the stronger sex. But life, as usual, destroys stereotypes, and often male birthday men are no less than children and ladies rejoice at the skillfully created dessert that decorated the festive table. The most popular among the variety of delicious confectionery products are cream cakes for men. This article offers some recommendations for their manufacture.
Cream cakes for men: general principles of preparation
Making a dessert with cream in the conditions of home cooking is a rather laborious task. But the author of the creation and his guests are most often satisfied with the result.
The basis of any cake is made from rich cakes, which are combined using cream or other sweet types of filling. Varieties of delicious dessert vary in shape, ingredients, size - depending on their purpose.
The main purpose of the cream in confectionery is to decorate the product. Beautiful turrets, roses, or other decor options are usually made from cream, the variety of which is limited only by the author’s imagination and the necessary set of culinary accessories (a pastry bag, nozzles for him).
So, what desserts do the men like best? Cream cakes for men are most often prepared using alcoholic beverages, for example, cognac is added to them. This alcohol may be present in syrup or cream. For the filling, pickled cherries in cognac are often used. In cream cakes for men, dark chocolate and cocoa are placed, emphasizing the taste of the dessert and making it stronger and more expressive.
Men's desserts (if they are not preparing for the anniversary) do not require a large number of decorations. It will be enough to sprinkle the cream cake on top with nuts and chocolate, pour over the icing. Allowed the use of fruits and berries. A popular way of decorating, often used to create anniversary cakes or desserts for special occasions, is to use sugar mastic, with which you can create a real thematic masterpiece.
Overview
Cream cakes come in various sizes and shapes. The classic version is a round or square dessert. The size of the cakes, as a rule, is from 20 to 35 cm.
Often sweet tooth prefer one kind of treat. Depending on the type of cakes used:
- biscuit;
- waffle;
- sand;
- cottage cheese;
- puff pastry cake.
Each type of treat is easy to cook with your own hands. To make this or that cream at home also does not cause difficulties. Whichever cream you prefer - protein, custard, butter, sour cream, chocolate - it is very important to strictly adhere to the recipe.
Anniversary Cakes for Men
Cream jubilee cake for 50 years for a man or any other for a significant date, created with strict observance of technology and containing a piece of the author’s soul, will leave the most pleasant memories of the past holiday.
An anniversary, wedding, birthday or any other holiday is a wonderful occasion for making a delicious themed cake. In the creation of such desserts, special emphasis is placed on its design.
How to decorate a jubilee cream cake?
There are many ways to decorate a birthday cake. A classic option is one in which the sides and top of the product are smeared with the same cream that the cakes are soaked with. Then they are sprinkled with small crumbs, grated chocolate, a layer of powdered sugar, crushed nuts. By using powders, original patterns and congratulatory inscriptions are formed.
A slightly more time-consuming method is to use butter cream to decorate the cake . This product is able to keep its shape well, because it is often used to create a confectionery decor. Using a pastry bag with a curly nozzle on the surface of the anniversary dessert, you can create very original patterns. And approaching the issue of decorating delicacies fundamentally, you can use sugar mastic for decorating. Using it, it is easy not only to create additional decorative elements in the form of various figures, but also to turn the treat itself into an edible sculpture.
In the design of the cake, you can reflect the personality characteristics of the hero of the anniversary, no matter how old he is - 20, 30, 50 or 80 - as well as his hobbies, addictions and achievements. If you have developed imagination and great patience, you can create wonderful anniversary cakes with your own hands.
30 years old man: cream birthday cake
What many gourmets like this dessert is the versatility of the product. Such a treat is an excellent option not only for the 30th anniversary of the man, but also for 40 and 50 years, for the New Year or another holiday. To prepare this cake, you should bake a lot of cakes, preferably multi-colored.
Ingredients
To prepare 6 servings of dessert use:
- 2-3 glasses of flour;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- 3 cups sour cream;
- 3 teaspoons of cocoa;
- 0.5 teaspoon of soda;
- nuts to taste.
How to cook?
Sugar is poured into a bowl, melted butter is added and mixed. Sift the flour into a separate bowl. Soda and sour cream are added to this composition, mixed. Next, add half the flour and knead the dough.
After that, it should be divided into two parts, add cocoa to one of them. Then in each you need to pour the remaining flour and knead. If you divide the dough into equal parts, you get three multi-colored cakes, which are rolled, flattened and baked in a greased form.
Bake cakes should be for 8 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Be sure to pierce them with a fork to avoid bloating. Then cut the warm cakes according to the shape and size of the dish on which the cake will be located. Scraps can be crushed and used as a powder.
Roast nuts or bake in the oven, peel. The cream is prepared as follows: beat sour cream, gradually pouring sugar. It can be sour cream (with sufficient fat content of the product) or oily. Confectioners also recommend the use of praline cream: add nut mass with cocoa powder to butter with condensed milk or sugar and beat. Next, cakes should be greased with cream and sprinkled with nuts.
Then you should add all the cakes in turn. Mistresses recommend leaving black on top. For impregnation, dessert is sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. They decorate the finished cake for 30 years in accordance with their imagination and capabilities, sprinkle with nuts, put the numbers from the mastic.
Cream cake for a man's birthday: a simple recipe
On the birthday of your beloved husband, you can not reinvent the wheel, but prepare a traditional, which is a favorite treat of the whole Napoleon family. But you can decorate it in a special way. A cream cake for a man on his 50th birthday (40, 30, 25) or just on his birthday in external design can reflect all the achievements and hobbies of a loved one. The treat design can be complemented by a variety of sugar mastic decorations.
For this cake, custard is prepared, in which butter is added. As a result, it turns out not only delicious, but also a very unusual and beautiful cake for the beloved man’s birthday.
Structure
To prepare 4-5 servings of treats use:
- 1 kg of flour;
- 4 eggs (1- for cream);
- 600 g of margarine or butter (200 g is used for dough);
- 1 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vodka;
- 1 liter of milk;
- 260 g of sugar;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- vanilla to taste.
Cooking
Grind flour with cold margarine or butter. The second option will not give sufficient crumbiness of the cakes. Flour and margarine can be cut with a knife or grated using a coarse grater, while the dough will be more uniform. Then, vinegar and vodka are dissolved in ice water, an egg is added, everything is stirred until a homogeneous state is obtained.
From chopped or grated flour and margarine (butter) make a slide with a hole in the middle. A mixture of eggs, vinegar and vodka is poured into the hole, after which they begin to knead the dough until it reaches a state of elasticity. Next, the finished dough should be divided into 12 parts (first 6, and then each two more) and send to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. After this time, the pieces of dough must be rolled out, cut and sent to bake in the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
During baking cakes from one part, you can roll out the layer and cut out hearts or any other figures. After the cakes are ready, you should also bake these curly blanks. Before sending to the oven, pierce the cakes with a knife.
Next, prepare the cream. For Napoleon, it is best to use custard, which can be prepared from milk, butter and eggs. Put milk on the fire and bring to a boil. Beat eggs with sugar separately, then gradually introduce this egg mixture into boiling milk. As soon as the cream begins to thicken, it is removed from the fire.
Separately, beat butter with sugar (one half of the sugar is added to boiling milk, and the other in butter). After this, the cooled custard is gradually introduced into the cream and whipped at full power. The consistency of the cream should be homogeneous.
Each cake should be generously smeared with cream, not forgetting the sides. At the end, you need to crush the cake (some housewives use spacing for this) and send it to the refrigerator for about 5 hours. On the sides, the cake is decorated with hearts or other cooked figures and served to the table.