"Monkey" - a cake that will make the holiday unforgettable

No holiday is complete without a cake. It is him who is expected most of all by kids. In our article, we will look at different ways to create a good dessert.

The first cake for the celebration

Such a sweet product is certainly worth preparing for relatives for the year of the Monkey. The dessert is very cute, tasty. "Monkey" - a biscuit cake. Cream for him is prepared sour cream, while it should be two colors.

To prepare you will need:

• 2 eggs;
• 100 grams of butter;
• a pinch of vanillin;
• 125 grams of sugar and flour;
• 40 ml of coffee liquor;
• 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
• 400 ml of sour cream (for cream);
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• thickener for sour cream (required for cream);
• two chocolate drops (required to shape the monkey’s eyes);
• two tablespoons of powdered sugar (for cream).

Cooking

1. First prepare all the ingredients for cream and cake.
2. To do this, mix the dry ingredients: soda, cocoa and, of course, flour.
3. Using a mixer, beat with sugar, eggs, butter.
   
4. Then connect both masses. Again, using a mixer, mix.
5. Next, pour a little lemon juice or vinegar. This is necessary in order to extinguish soda. Next pour the liquor. Then bring the dough to a homogeneous state with a mixer.
6. Now you need to bake a biscuit. Do it in a slow cooker. It’s easier to bake.
7. So, grease the mold with oil, pour the dough there. Select baking for forty-five minutes.
8. While the biscuit is baking, you can make a cream. In a tall glass, beat the sour cream with a thickener with a mixer until the desired consistency.
9. In order to arrange the face of the monkey correctly, you need a cream of two colors (brown and white). Therefore, divide the resulting sour cream into two parts. In this case, there should be a little more white. Add cocoa to the smaller portion. Beat with a mixer. Brown cream will be thicker than white.
10. Now remove the cake from the multicooker, cool.
11. Then cut the biscuit in two. Soak in syrup.
12. After lay the dish on which you will spread the cake with paper.
13. Lay cakes on top of each other, give them the shape of a monkey's head, cut off the excess.
14. Put cream on the first cake (generously!).
15. Cover with a second, apply a brown mass over the entire surface, on the sides too. That cake in the form of a monkey is practically ready , you just need to work a little more on its design.
16. Make crumbs from the remaining biscuit slices. They will be required to design the monkey's face.
17. Next, with white cream, highlight the eye area. Pupils follow with chocolate drops.
    
18. Then fill all the details of the face with cream. Everything, the cake in the form of a monkey is ready. For impregnation, put it in the refrigerator for one hour. Remove the paper before serving the cake.

Cake "Monkey". Banana Recipe

This version of the cake is likely to appeal to those who like bananas. Such a fragrant dessert will delight the sweet tooth. At the heart of it is the same biscuit.

To make a cake for the year of the monkey, you will need affordable foods.

For cooking you need:

• 100 ml of vegetable oil, milk;
• vanilla;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• a tablespoon of cocoa;
• two bananas (one for the cake, the second for decoration);
• 400 ml sour cream (fat content 20%)
• half a glass of strawberry jam (required to soak cakes);
• soda (teaspoon);
• three teaspoons of powdered sugar (for cream);
• one and a half glasses of flour;
• one pack of thickener for sour cream;
• a teaspoon of coconut flakes (needed for decoration).

The process of making a sweet dessert

1. How to make a cake for the year of the monkey? First you need to prepare all the products. Take a deep container for whipping. Put sugar and eggs in it.
2. Then whisk with a mixer until an airy, light mass is formed.
3. Then pour in milk as well as vegetable oil. After again, beat the mixture with a mixer.
4. Next, add flour, cocoa and vanillin. After still, beat with a mixer.
5. Then add the soda quenched with vinegar. Next, beat the dough. As a result of your actions, it should become homogeneous, airy.
6. Now pour the dough into the bowl of the multicooker, pre-oiled.
7. Then select the “Baking” mode for fifty minutes.
8. After waiting for the specified time, you can get the biscuit from the multicooker.
9. Next, cool it.

Next cooking step

1. Beat sour cream with icing sugar, thickener to a creamy state. In order to make the cream thick, you need to use cold sour cream.
2. Next, take the dish, cover it with paper.
3. Cut the biscuit along two equal parts.
4. Next, put the cake, soak it with sugar syrup or jam.
5. Then grease it with most of the pre-made cream.
   
6. Now lay on it a banana that you cut into rings.
7. Make the second cake in the form of a muzzle of a monkey.
8. Put it on top. Fill the cream with a place for the mouth and eyes. That's practically our sweet “Monkey” is ready. The cake now needs to be decorated with banana slices. They lay out the bottom of the "muzzle", "nose" and more. After, garnish with coconut.
   
9. The junction of the cakes with a pastry bag fill with cream. “Monkey” - the cake is very original, beautiful. Therefore, such a product is not stored for a long time. After all, bananas are weathered.

Little conclusion

Now you know how to cook New Year's cakes with a monkey. Such sweet products will please not only the taste, but also the appearance. Of course, at the New Year's celebration this cake will become a real decoration of the festive table. We hope that you can make a cake "Monkey". The cake will surely surprise and delight loved ones.