I offer you a recipe for a birthday cake. There is nothing complicated in the cooking process, but it takes a lot of time. It is best to cook it in stages, so to speak, between cases.
Cooking cakes is a fascinating and unusual process. It seems to me that a homemade cake at a family holiday is a pleasant end to gatherings, and sometimes, if you're lucky, a wonderful breakfast with a cup of coffee or tea.
I baked biscuits in advance, and on the eve of the holiday I soaked them with sour cream. Decorated a few hours before serving, chocolate figures were made in advance and waited in the fridge for their hour.
The whole process of making cakes consists of three stages. At each stage, knead the dough for the biscuit and bake it until cooked in the oven.
What taste the cakes will have depends on your desire. This time I made chocolate, raspberry and poppy seeds. The following rule applies here: if you add dry ingredients (cocoa, poppy seeds, nuts, dried fruits), put less flour than in the recipe, if you use fruits or fruit puree, on the contrary, you need to increase the amount of flour.
A detailed recipe for making a birthday cake
The preparation of any biscuit begins with the fact that we beat the eggs with sugar. For one biscuit, take 1 egg and half a glass of sugar.
Whisk until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then add sour cream, also half a cup.
Mix until smooth. Last add 3/4 cup flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder.
This is the main dough for our biscuit.
In chocolate, add 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa. Bake in a mold greased with butter and sprinkled with flour.
The baking time depends on the oven, check the readiness with a toothpick, it should come out of the dough dry. Remember that you can open the oven door only 5-10 minutes before the end of cooking, otherwise the biscuit may fall off.
We knead the second cake in the same way as the first, only at the end we add not cocoa, but poppy seeds.
I decided to make the third cake with raspberry puree. The pink color during baking, unfortunately, was not preserved, but the taste and aroma remained.
I crushed the frozen raspberries in a blender, rubbed through a sieve to get rid of the seeds, and added the resulting puree to the dough. Please note that this time we add 1 cup of flour.
It took me about 35-40 minutes to bake each cake (let me remind you that I have a gas oven and sometimes I have to increase the cooking time by 1.5-2 times, i.e., perhaps your biscuit will be ready in 20-25 minutes).
Carefully remove the finished biscuits from the mold and let cool completely on a wire rack. The structure of the cakes turned out to be porous, but at the same time quite dense. The next day, I cut each into two pieces without any problems.
Cooking sour cream. Everything is elementary here: beat 800 g of sour cream, 150 g of sugar and vanillin with a mixer until creamy.
Plentifully soak the cakes with cream, laying them out one by one. We also grease the surface of the cake and the sides with cream. Decorate with chocolate figurines. It turned out to be such a delicious birthday cake.
Enjoy your meal!
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