On his birthday, the birthday person wants not only gifts, but also a beautifully and deliciously decorated table, the center of which should be a luxurious cake. Well, not so much that it’s a masterpiece, but it’s beautiful, tasty and unusual. To immediately feel the birthday, and to take a photo, and to keep it as a memory. Birthday cakes are made to order and sold in stores, but a homemade sweet miracle, without dangerous additives, will be much tastier and more soulful.
In fact, even if you have never baked cakes yourself, it is not difficult at all. Of course, a beginner may not be able to create some kind of complex structure with all sorts of mastic elements and figurines of heroes. But it’s quite possible to make a simple, beautifully decorated cake with a personalized inscription. To do this, look at recipes for birthday cakes, get inspired, and delight your loved ones with homemade masterpieces.
Cakes for a man's birthday can be different in form and content. The main thing is to please the man’s hobby or favorite preferences. For example, you can make a cake in the shape of a mug of beer, decorating it with lush foam and an appropriate inscription. For this, an ordinary sponge cake, butter cream, a little melted chocolate will do - and a wonderful cake is ready, a man who likes to knock back a mug of foamy drink with friends will definitely be delighted with it.
A separate topic: cool cakes for your husband’s birthday - you can look at the photo and choose what would be so interesting to surprise your husband, make him laugh, and lift the birthday boy’s spirits. For example, it would be funny to have a cake in the shape of a head of cabbage, in which lies a tiny person and the inscription - in this cabbage you were ours 20 (30) years ago. Or this option, if the husband is an avid fisherman: decorate the cake in the form of greenery with fondant, lay a tent on top, and next to it, using a pastry syringe, build a fishing rod and a bucket for the catch.
If your child is planning a birthday party, look at the birthday cakes for girls with photos. With a little imagination, you can create such beauty yourself at home. After all, what a child needs is something tasty, bright and colorful. The child does not need complex structures that are scary to touch, lest they fall apart. Girls will love cakes in the shape of a basket of flowers, a sweet duckling, or a cartoon character. It’s not easy to make such a cake, but you can even try hard for a child. See recipes with photos, our ideas will help you.
To prepare a delicious birthday cake with your own hands, you need to take a closer look at the recipes, choose the one you can afford, buy the ingredients, and then get started. Of course, a cake is a troublesome task, but there’s already a lot of cooking to do. Therefore, it is better to bake it in advance the day before and hide it in the refrigerator. Then it won’t turn out that after preparing the rest of the dishes it didn’t come to dessert.
To bake a delicious birthday cake at home, you don’t need much - look at the recipe with photos, choose what ingredients you can afford, what you know how to bake, and get started. For housewives who know how to bake biscuits or shortbread, it is not at all difficult to make such a dessert. The main thing is to bake the base, that is, the cakes, and only then look in our section for ideas for creams for layering and various decorations.
You can create a delicious cake for your child’s birthday with his or her participation. Kids love to feel like adults, to help with important tasks in the kitchen, and they will happily take part in decorating the birthday cake for themselves or their brother/sister. A little imagination, a couple of hours of time, and the result will be simply a masterpiece. And the baby will brag to the guests that he helped in this creative process.
08.09.2019
Pancake cake with chocolate and drunken cherries from Yulia Vysotskaya
Ingredients: flour, egg, milk, butter, cocoa, vanilla sugar, vegetable oil, salt, coffee, water, chocolate, cherry, wine, lemon, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla extract, cream, mint, berryPancake cake with chocolate and cherries is very tasty and beautiful. This dessert will appeal to both adults and children; it can be prepared for any occasion.
Ingredients:
For pancakes:
- 180 g flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 300 ml milk;
- 50 g butter;
- 20 g cocoa;
- vanilla sugar to taste;
- 1 tbsp. olive oil;
- 1 tbsp instant coffee;
- 1 pinch of sea salt;
- 70 ml of water.
For cream:
- 400 ml heavy cream;
- 280 g of white chocolate.
For filling:
- 450-500 g cherries;
- 100 g sugar;
- 250 ml dry wine;
- 1 lemon;
- 2 cinnamon sticks;
- 1 cardamom pod;
- 0.5 tsp. vanilla extract.
For decoration:
- 1-2 tbsp. cocoa;
- 3-5 mint leaves;
- berries to taste.
19.07.2019
Cake "Flight" according to GOST
Ingredients: peanuts, protein, sugar, vanillin, butter, yolk, milk, cocoaThe “Flight” cake, if we are talking about the classic version, is prepared without any flour at all, but with nuts and meringue. It turns out very tender and airy, incredibly beautiful and incredibly tasty.
Ingredients:
For the cakes:
- 130 g peanuts;
- 5 egg whites;
- 320 g sugar;
- 0.5 g vanillin.
For white cream:
- 220 g butter;
- 200 g sugar;
- 0.5 g vanillin;
- 5 yolks;
- 150 ml milk.
For chocolate cream:
- 2 tbsp. white cream;
- 1.5 - 2 tsp. cocoa.
20.06.2019
Cake "Count's Ruins": sweet meringue cloud
Ingredients: egg, sugar, lemon juice, starch, milk, cocoa, vanilla sugar. butter, prunesThe "Count's Ruins" cake will appeal primarily to children: they love such beautiful names, and the shape of the cake will certainly impress them. Preparing the dessert is not as easy as you might like, but it turns out incredibly tasty.
Ingredients:
For the meringue:
- 4 squirrels;
- 200 g sugar;
- 5-6 drops.
For cream:
- 4 yolks;
- 100 g sugar;
- 1 tbsp. corn starch;
- 200 g of milk;
- 1 tbsp. cocoa;
- 20 g vanilla sugar;
- 150 g butter 82%.
For sprinkling:
- 100 g prunes.
19.06.2019
Cake "Mashenka" on condensed milk with sour cream and nuts
Ingredients: condensed milk, sour cream, butter, flour, baking powder, egg. cocoa, vanilla sugar, powdered sugar, sour cream thickener, peanutsAmong the many recipes for homemade cakes, it is worth paying attention to this one - sponge cake with sour cream. It turns out not only very appetizing, but also delicious, so we definitely recommend preparing it for the next holiday.
Ingredients:
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 250 g sour cream
- 30 g butter;
- 350 g wheat flour;
- 2 tsp. baking powder;
- 3 eggs;
- 2 tbsp. cocoa;
- vanilla sugar;
- salt.
For cream:
- 350 g sour cream 26%;
- 50 g of powdered sugar;
- 2 tsp. sour cream thickener.
For decoration:
- 70 grams of peanuts.
25.03.2019
Cake "Snowflake"
Ingredients: cream cheese, cream, chocolate, sour cream, powdered sugar, coconut flakes, salt, baking powder, butter, egg, flourThose who love tender, airy cakes will love this recipe for “Snowflake” cake. It turns out very white, very beautiful, appetizing and tasty.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- 330 grams of wheat flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 180 grams of sugar;
- 45 grams of butter;
- 1.5 tsp. baking powder;
- 1 pinch of salt.
For cream:
- 300 grams of cream cheese;
- 450 ml heavy cream (33%);
- 150 grams of white chocolate;
- 240 grams of sour cream;
- 150 grams of coconut flakes;
- 3-4 tbsp. powdered sugar.
25.03.2019
Brownie cake
Ingredients: flour, soda, salt, cocoa, sugar, vanillin, egg, butter, milk, vinegar, cheese, cream, chocolate, condensed milk,This recipe will appeal primarily to ardent fans of chocolate: there really is a lot of it in this cake called “Brownie!”
Ingredients:
For the biscuit:
- 120 grams of wheat flour;
- 5 grams of soda;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 2-3 tbsp. with a heap of cocoa powder;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 1 g vanillin;
- 1 egg;
- 30 grams of butter;
- 30 grams of vegetable oil;
- 130 ml milk;
- 1 tsp. bite 6% (wine or apple).
For cream:
- 250 grams of mascarpone cheese;
- 200-250 ml of whipping cream;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 150 - 200 grams of dark chocolate.
For impregnation:
- 5-6 tbsp. boiled condensed milk;
- 4-5 tbsp. cow's milk.
For the glaze:
- 80 grams of dark chocolate;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 50 ml milk;
- 1-2 tbsp. .l powdered sugar.
For decoration:
- chocolate bars, balls, cookies - at your discretion.
25.03.2019
Strawberry sponge cake
Ingredients: strawberries, sugar, water, thickener, sour cream, egg, flourStrawberry and biscuit lovers will definitely love this cake. In addition to airy dough and delicious berries, it also contains very delicate sour cream, as well as sweet strawberry syrup... It turns out just great.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- 4 eggs;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 1 glass of flour.
For cream:
- 450 ml sour cream (20% fat);
- 3\4 cups sugar;
- 5-12 grams of thickener.
For the syrup:
- 50 grams of frozen strawberries;
- 2 tbsp. Sahara;
- 150 ml of water.
For filling:
- 400 grams of frozen strawberries.
24.03.2019
The most super fast cake
Ingredients: flour, baking powder, vanillin, cocoa, egg, sugar, milk, butter, salt, sour creamA delicious cake can be prepared in just 15 minutes if you have this recipe for a delicious and beautiful dessert on hand. This is a great option for meeting unexpected friends!
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of flour;
- 25 grams of potato starch;
- 20 grams of baking powder;
- 2 grams of vanillin;
- 25 grams of cocoa;
- 2 eggs;
- 80 grams of sugar;
- 150 g of milk 3.2%;
- 7 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- salt to taste.
Cream:
- 250 ml sour cream 25%;
- 3 tbsp. powdered sugar.
20.03.2019
Cake "Esterhazy"
Ingredients: egg, sugar, vanillin, butter, rum, jam, chocolate, almonds, flour, cinnamon, salt“Esterhazy” cake is an incredibly delicious dessert that anyone can prepare at home on their own. This cake can be prepared for a holiday.
Ingredients:
- 270 grams of almond flour,
- 1 tsp. cinnamon,
- 270 grams of egg whites,
- 330 grams of powdered sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- 130 grams of egg yolks,
- 500 ml. milk,
- 40 grams of starch,
- 120 grams of sugar,
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar,
- 280 grams of butter,
- 1 tbsp. rum (cognac, kirsch),
- 60 grams of apricot jam,
- 120 grams of white chocolate,
- 30 grams of dark chocolate,
- 60-80 grams of almond petals.
07.03.2019
Strawberry cake without baking
Ingredients: cream, strawberries, sugar, gelatin, water, vanillin, sour cream, butter, cognac, cheese, cookiesI love making no-bake cakes. My favorite is the strawberry cake. The recipe is very simple, so be sure to try it.
Ingredients:
- 400 grams of shortbread cookies;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 50 ml. cognac;
- 400 grams of Ricotta cheese;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 250 grams of sugar;
- 1 tsp. vanilla sugar;
- 2 tbsp. gelatin;
- 50 ml. water;
- 400 grams of strawberries;
- whipped cream.
07.03.2019
Cake "A Busy Woman's Dream"
Ingredients: sour cream, powdered sugar, tangerine, lemon juice, soda, cocoa, butter, egg, condensed milk, flourIt’s not for nothing that this cake was named that way. It is very simple and quite quick to prepare. The taste of the cake will please absolutely everyone.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of flour;
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 grams of butter;
- 3 tbsp. cocoa;
- half tsp soda;
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice;
- 400 grams of sour cream;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 2 tangerines.
07.03.2019
Cake "Dream of Life" with sour cream
Ingredients: sour cream, sugar, vanillin, milk, egg, butter, flour, cocoa, baking powderYou will spend less than an hour preparing this delicious “Dream of Life” cake. The cake is soaked in cream and assembled hot until the cakes have cooled. The dessert is easy to prepare and incredibly delicious.
Ingredients:
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 2 eggs;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 155 grams of wheat flour;
- 6 grams of baking powder;
- 35 grams of cocoa powder;
- 400 grams of sour cream;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- Vanillin on the tip of the knife.
06.03.2019
Mousse cake with mirror glaze
Ingredients: egg, sugar, flour, salt, vanillin, persimmon, gelatin, pear puree, cream, chocolate, milk, cocoa, waterMousse cake with mirror glaze is very tasty, but making it is not so easy. Don’t worry, my detailed recipe with photos will help you prepare this cake without any hitches.
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken eggs,
- 360 grams of sugar,
- 70 grams of wheat flour,
- a pinch of salt,
- vanilla sugar to taste,
- 200 grams of persimmon,
- 24 grams of gelatin,
- 150 grams of pear puree,
- 720 ml. heavy cream,
- 50 grams of white chocolate,
- 75 ml. milk,
- 60 grams of cocoa,
- 150 ml. water.
30.11.2018
Cake "Rotten stump" with jam
Ingredients: butter, cocoa, sugar, milk, meringue, sour cream, vanillin, crackers, flour, jam, egg, kefir, soda, saltI make this delicious and beautiful cake for almost every holiday. Of course you'll have to work hard in the kitchen, but it's worth it. Absolutely every housewife can prepare this cake.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of flour,
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp. Sahara,
- a cup of seedless jam,
- 2 eggs,
- a cup of kefir or sour milk,
- one and a half tsp. soda,
- a pinch of salt,
- 500 ml. sour cream,
- 2 tbsp. powdered sugar,
- vanillin on the tip of a knife,
- 2 tbsp. breadcrumbs,
- 50 grams of butter,
- 2 tbsp. cocoa powder,
- 50 ml. milk,
- 3 meringues.
Any housewife can make a delicious birthday cake. The main thing is to show creative imagination and strictly follow all the requirements of the recipe.
In this article we will present several options on how to make an unusual and tasty dessert for the holiday table.
Homemade Birthday Cakes Recipes
There are many options on how to prepare a tasty and tender delicacy for a children's party. Many housewives believe that they cannot do without colorful mastic. Indeed, using this confectionery material you can get a rather original cake for a girl or boy. But, unfortunately, not all housewives know how to prepare such a product. In this regard, we invite you to make a simple, but very tasty and delicate sponge cake that does not require a lot of time and many components.
So, to prepare the dessert we will need the following products:
Making biscuit dough
Children's cakes should not only be very beautiful, but also tasty and healthy. Before you start forming such a dessert, you should knead the biscuit dough. To do this, place the whites and yolks in different bowls, and then add 125 g of granulated sugar to them. The yolks are thoroughly kneaded with a spoon, and the whites are beaten vigorously using a blender (until very stiff peaks). After this, both products are combined and mixed thoroughly.
By adding slaked soda and snow-white flour to the fluffy and airy mass, you get a viscous but thin dough.
Bake the cake crust in the oven
To prepare unusual children's cakes, you need to form them correctly. To do this you need to bake a sponge cake.
After greasing a deep pan with oil, place the airy and tender dough into it. After this, the base is placed in a preheated oven and baked for 50-58 minutes.
As soon as the sponge cake becomes rosy and fluffy, take it out and place it on a cake pan. After waiting for the product to cool completely, it is cut into two layers. The one on top is chaotically broken by hand, and the bottom sponge cake is left intact.
Making sour cream
Homemade cake recipes may involve the use of different creams. For a children's party, we decided to use sour cream. To prepare it, edible gelatin is poured with water and left aside for 20 minutes. After time, it is heated and cooled slightly.
As for thick and fatty sour cream, place it completely in a blender bowl and beat at the highest speed. Granulated sugar is gradually added to it. After this, ¼ of the cream is set aside, and gelatin is added to the rest and beaten well.
Forming and decorating process
A delicious birthday cake is quite simple to create. First, coat a whole sponge cake with gelatin-free cream. After this, pieces of cake are placed on it, which are first dipped into another sweet milk mass.
As soon as you get a tall cake in the form of a slide, you should pour the remaining cream over it and immediately put it in the refrigerator.
After keeping the dessert in the cold for about 10 minutes, it is doused with chocolate icing (in a thin stream). To prepare it, place milk chocolate slices in a bowl and add a little milk.
Slowly heating the components, wait until a homogeneous chocolate mass forms in the bowl. It should be used for its intended purpose after slight cooling.
Serving a cake for a children's party
A delicious birthday cake is served only after a long period of time in the refrigerator. This treatment will allow the sponge cake to absorb sour cream and become softer and more tender.
For a children's party, homemade dessert should be served along with a cup of tea.
Simple and delicious buttercream cake
If you need a more high-calorie and filling dessert, we suggest making a chocolate cake with condensed cream. We don’t need a lot of products or time to prepare it. To make sure of this, we suggest looking at the list of ingredients and the step-by-step recipe right now.
So, for chocolate cake we will need the following ingredients:
Knead the base
A simple and delicious chocolate sponge cake is prepared quite quickly. First you need to knead the dough. The yolks are ground with sugar, and the whites are whipped into a stable foam. Then both components are combined and mixed thoroughly. They also add high-fat sour cream, slaked soda, cocoa powder and white flour. All ingredients are mixed and a chocolate dough of viscous consistency is obtained.
Chocolate cake baking process
After preparing the chocolate dough, it is placed in a deep mold, which is greased with any oil (vegetable). Next, the base is sent to the oven and baked for 55-58 minutes.
Once the dough is puffy and completely cooked, remove it and allow to cool. Next, the biscuit is cut into two layers.
Cream preparation process
A delicious birthday cake is made well from condensed cream. To prepare it, you need to put the butter in the bowl of a blender and beat it vigorously at maximum speed. After this, you need to continue whisking and slowly pour in condensed milk in a thin stream. The process continues until the pomp and uniformity are achieved again.
As a result of the described actions, you should have a fairly stable cream. It should be used for its intended purpose immediately after preparation.
How to properly form a festive chocolate cake?
To create a delicious and beautiful cake, you should use a large cake pan. Place one of the cakes in it and grease it thoroughly with condensed butter cream. In turn, it is covered with a second sponge cake. After this, the entire dessert is completely coated with cream and they begin to decorate it. To do this, use chocolate glaze. It is made as follows: a milk chocolate bar is broken into slices and placed in a bowl. A few tablespoons of full-fat milk are also poured in there.
By placing the dishes on low heat, slowly heat up the contents. Having received a homogeneous and thick chocolate glaze, it is immediately applied to the surface of the cake and its side parts. After this, the dessert is placed in the refrigerator and kept for 5-8 hours. After this time, the cake should be thoroughly saturated with cream, become softer, juicier and more tender.
How to serve chocolate dessert for a festive feast?
After the cake has been kept in the refrigerator, it is taken out and cut into portions. If desired, you can first decorate the dessert with candles and let the birthday person blow them out.
Such a delicious and delicate chocolate delicacy should be presented to the table on beautiful saucers along with a small spoon. You also need to serve a cup of hot and strong tea with dessert.
Cake. Cake is a confectionery product, usually round or rectangular, with fruit, cream, chocolate, etc. As a rule, it consists of several layers.
Initially, cakes were baked only in round shapes. This was associated with the sun and it was believed that baked goods in this shape were a symbol of fertility. This tradition has been preserved in the preparation of loaves and wedding cakes. Decorating cakes with candles also came to us from our ancestors. According to beliefs, it was believed that blowing out candles is a sacred act: along with the smoke from the candles, our desires are carried into the sky, which are sure to come true.
Today, the variety of cakes is amazing. They can consist of several tiers, be decorated with various figures or made in the form of cartoon characters, cars, dolls, etc.
Cakes can be made from sponge, puff, shortbread or waffle dough. Chocolate, cream, marmalade, fruit, jelly, meringue, etc. are used as decorations.
As a rule, cakes are baked to mark some special event. Depending on this, they are decorated accordingly.
All cakes are conventionally divided into three categories:
*real cakes. They are baked whole. These usually include pies, Easter cakes, Easter cakes;
* Italian type cakes. They are also called Neapolitan cakes. The basis of such cakes is a dough crust. There is a filling on it - fruit, cream, etc.;
* prefabricated cakes. This is the most common group of cakes. The dough cakes are baked separately and then laid out in layers, which are soaked and coated with cream.
Depending on the type of dough from which the cake is made, there are also several types:
* French. They are usually prepared from puff pastry or biscuit dough. The puff pastries are baked and then coated with cream and stacked on top of each other. The sponge cake is baked as one large cake, and then carefully cut lengthwise into several cake layers, which are necessarily soaked in some kind of syrup.
* Viennese. These cakes are based on yeast cakes, which are soaked in milk-chocolate or milk-coffee cream.
* waffle. Waffle cakes are most often soaked in boiled condensed milk. Such cakes are stored for a very long time and are easily transported, but the taste is very monotonous.
* sand. As a rule, they are coated with marmalade or fruit and berry filling. These cakes are the cheapest. They are not recommended for people who are prone to obesity.
* "liquid". This type of cake is common in the UK. The base is a biscuit. Method of preparation: place a sponge cake in a deep bowl. Pieces of biscuit of various shapes and sizes are placed on it in a chaotic manner, leaving large gaps between them. This whole mass is filled with cognac syrup, and then with liquid marmalade or butter-egg cream. You can add nuts, raisins, candied fruits. After this, the cake is placed in the cold for a day.
* curd. From the name it is clear that the main component in the dough is cottage cheese.
You can decorate cakes with cream, icing or various decorative elements made of chocolate, marmalade, etc.
Hello, my dear guys!
Yesterday I bought bread at a bakery and my aunt, the baker, told me that there is not enough bread anymore, who takes it - everyone is on a diet))
What can we say about sweets? I know, I know, in the summer my site is not in very high esteem, and if I bake myself, it’s mostly diet cookies and pp-casseroles.
But now I won’t dwell too much on the topic of summer desserts, but will address those who came for the cake.
Diets are diets, but no one canceled birthdays and visits? So why don't we bake our own birthday cake? Moreover, it is so simple and tasty.
I made this cake for my nephews' name day. The idea of the cake was inspired by the fact that it was the name day of two completely different children - a boy and a girl. Hence the black and white center, held together with delicate cream and bright red confiture.
But the taste of this cake exceeded all my wildest expectations: there’s nothing to even describe here: complete harmony and mutual understanding, as it should be between a brother and sister.
By the way, it was this sister who assisted me in decorating the cake. What do you think of our improvisations? In my opinion, it’s time to hire her as an assistant.
Well, actually, the recipe itself...
Chocolate vanilla cake with cream cheese
* as an option, you can make cream for this cake based on mascarpone. It will be even tastier this way. It’s just that at that time I only had cream cheese. You will find the recipe for this cream in my best one.
Ingredients:
for vanilla sponge cake:
- butter, softened - 150 gr.
- sugar - 150 gr.
- vanilla extract - 1 tsp.
- eggs, room temperature - 3 pcs.
- flour - 150 gr.
- baking powder - 1 tsp.
- salt - 1 pinch
for chocolate sponge cake:
- cocoa powder - 85 gr.
- flour - 200 gr.
- sugar - 225 gr.
- soft brown sugar - 200 gr.
- baking powder - 1 ½ tsp.
- soda - 1 ½ tsp.
- salt - ¾ tsp.
- eggs, large - 2 pcs.
- kefir - 235 ml
- coffee, hot - 235 ml
- sunflower oil – 120 ml
- vanilla extract - 2 tsp.
Don't be alarmed by the large amount of sugar. It only neutralizes the bitterness of coffee and cocoa.
for strawberry confit:
- strawberries - 200 gr.
- sugar - 100 gr.
- pectin - 5 gr.
for cream:
- cream cheese - 200 gr.
- powdered sugar - 70 gr.
- vanilla extract - 1 tsp.
- cream, 33-36% - 350 gr.
for finishing coat:
- butter, softened - 180 gr.
- powdered sugar - 240 gr.
- cream cheese - 200 gr.
- vanilla extract - 1 tsp.
Preparation:
Vanilla sponge cake
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease a 23 cm diameter mold with butter and line the bottom with parchment.
- In a mixer bowl, combine soft butter with sugar, salt and vanilla, beat until a white fluffy mass forms, about 10 minutes (periodically scrape the butter from the sides of the bowl).
- Lightly beat the eggs and add them to the oil in several batches, continuing to beat after each serving of eggs and also scraping the oil from the walls.
- Pour flour mixed with baking powder into this mass and mix the dough at low speed until the ingredients are combined.
- Transfer the dough to the prepared pan and bake at 180º for 30 minutes or until the skewer comes out dry.
- After this, cool the biscuit in the pan for 5 minutes, and then turn the biscuit onto a wire rack, remove the paper and leave to cool completely.
Chocolate sponge cake
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Grease a mold with a diameter of 23 cm with oil, cover the bottom with parchment and grease again with oil.
- Place all dry ingredients in a mixer bowl: cocoa, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix on low speed mixer for 2 minutes.
- Then add all the remaining liquid ingredients and mix for another 3 minutes until a homogeneous mass is formed.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out dry.
- Cool the finished biscuit in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack, remove the paper and leave until completely cool.
- After the biscuit has cooled, cut off the dried top.
Strawberry confit
- Cut the strawberries into slices, place in a saucepan and heat over moderate heat.
- Mix the sugar thoroughly with pectin and after the strawberries boil and release enough juice, pour this mixture in a thin stream into the saucepan.
- With constant stirring, cook the confit for 2-3 minutes until slightly thickened. Remove from heat and leave to cool.
Cream cheese cream
- Using a mixer, beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth.
- Separately, whip the cold cream to stiff peaks and transfer to the cream cheese.
- Gently, but not for long, mix with a spatula using upward movements until smooth.
Place the cream in the refrigerator before use.
Finish coating
*prepare immediately before use, keep at room temperature.
- Using a mixer, beat soft butter with powdered sugar until fluffy and white, about 10 minutes.
- Add cream cheese, vanilla extract and mix with a spatula until smooth.
Assembling the cake
- Cut both biscuits into two equal layers.
- Divide the cream into three equal parts.
- Cover the cakes one by one with cream, spreading the strawberry confit on top.
- Using a spatula, cover the sides of the cake with a thin layer of finishing coating, collecting crumbs.
- Cover the top of the cake with a thicker layer of cream, level it and put the cake in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
- Transfer the remaining cream into a pastry bag and pipe a layer of cream around the entire perimeter of the cake, starting from the bottom and moving upward in a spiral.
- Then we use a spatula to level the surface of the sides, the cream protruding beyond the edges is pulled to the center with a spatula.
- Place the finished cake in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
As you can see, I didn’t do anything like that with this cake, because the holiday tea had already started to be brewed and it was getting close to night, in general, there was no time for even sides.
But the cake turns out so delicious that no matter what its appearance, it will be sold out in a matter of minutes.
And I say goodbye until we meet again with new recipes.
Good luck, love and patience.
It just so happens that most holidays are accompanied by family or grand feasts, for which the hosts of the celebration try to prepare the most delicious, most unusual dishes. The center of the festive table is always the cake.
With the help of themed decorations, the cake can be given symbolic meaning. Thus, it is customary to order multi-tiered masterpieces for a wedding, and to make them taking into account the name of the anniversary. You can present a cake decorated with flowers and with a thematic inscription.
Every housewife has a couple of sweet masterpieces in her piggy bank that work best.
But even if you don’t have pastry experience, you can resort to a win-win option for any holiday and prepare a classic cake, the taste of which is familiar from childhood.
DIY Birthday Cake – Napoleon
It is unlikely that anyone will dispute Napoleon's popularity. This layered cake dessert has many interpretations.
The cakes themselves are prepared using various products and technologies. And custard, sour cream, and oil impregnations are used as cream.
In addition, there are snack options when the cakes are sandwiched not with cream, but with a filling made from meat or fish, vegetables or cheese.
It’s difficult to highlight the classic version of Napoleon, but let’s try to prepare the cake according to the well-known simplified recipe.
- flour - 4 cups;
- butter or margarine – 400 gr.;
- egg yolks – 2 pcs.;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp;
- salt and ice water.
- flour - 1 tbsp;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 2 cups;
- butter – 250 gr.;
- milk – 800 gr.
We start preparing Napoleon by preparing the cakes. Sift all the flour through a sieve so that it is saturated with air. Add grated butter to the flour.
To make the butter easy to grate, chill it in the freezer.
Quickly rub the flour and butter mixture with your hands to form a homogeneous mass. Separate two yolks into a 250 ml glass or cup, add salt and vinegar and mix well. Add ice water to the top of the same container and immediately pour the resulting mixture into the flour mixed with butter.
Knead the dough with your hands, divide it into 9 parts, from which we form individual lumps. Place them on a plate and refrigerate for about an hour.
At this time, we begin preparing the cream. Mix sugar, flour and eggs in a small saucepan. Pour the mixture with milk and start heating over medium flame.
Do not forget to stir the cream so that there are no lumps and the cream does not burn. After bringing the custard to a boil, remove from heat and leave to cool. Add softened butter to the cooled mass and beat thoroughly with a blender.
Roll out thin cakes from the chilled dough and bake each on a dry baking sheet. Before sending the cake into an oven preheated to 180 degrees, it must be pricked in several places. Bake each cake until browned. Bake the ninth cake a little longer to get brown crumbs, which will be used for topping.
Baking time will depend on the features of the oven, but usually 10-15 minutes are enough for one cake.
Grease the finished cakes with cream, pressing each of them with your hands. Decorate the top with crumbs and leave the birthday cake for several hours to soak.
The famous Napoleon is ready - you can invite guests and enjoy a delicious dessert.
Chic homemade birthday cake – Honey cake
A piece of homemade honey cake and a cup of warm milk are warm childhood memories. For many, this childhood dessert remains their favorite. It is very simple to prepare, and the taste always remains excellent. Let's try to prepare the most delicate version of Honey cake, for which we will make sour cream.
- flour - 3.5 cups;
- eggs – 3 pcs.;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- honey – 3 tbsp;
- soda – 1 tsp;
For the cream you need:
- sour cream – 0.5 liters;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- a bag of vanilla sugar.
We will make the dough in a water bath. To do this, place the bowl over boiling water in a saucepan. We send sugar and honey into it, which should gradually dissolve. Add soda to the liquid sweets.
Be careful - the mixture quickly increases in volume.
As soon as the mixture turns white, remove it from the heat. Add flour and one egg at a time and knead the dough. Roll out 8 thin cakes from the finished dough.
We will bake our shortcakes at 180 degrees. This process is very fast. It only takes five minutes for the cake to bake.
The finished shortcakes can be carefully trimmed so that our cake is even and neat.
We prepare the cream by whipping sour cream with sugar, to which you can add vanilla or other spices. Coat the cooled shortcakes with the prepared sour cream and leave for soaking.
You can decorate the cake with berries or chopped cake scraps.
A simple and delicious birthday cake – Smetannik
It’s hard to imagine an easier cake to prepare than sour cream. But this does not make its taste any worse. In addition, the ingredients for making this dessert can be found in any refrigerator.
To prepare the cakes you will need:
- flour - 1 glass;
- sour cream – 1 glass;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- soda – 1 tsp.
To prepare the cream you need:
- sour cream – 1 glass;
- sugar – 1 glass.
The dough is very easy to prepare. Grind the egg and sugar, add sour cream to the mixture. It's soda's turn.
Do not use pure soda - extinguish it with vinegar or lemon. You can replace soda with baking powder.
Pour the sifted flour into the mixture and mix thoroughly with a spoon. We will bake the dough in a greased round pan. Usually sour cream is cooked at 180 degrees for at least 40 minutes.
Be sure to check the readiness of the cord with a wooden stick, which should be completely dry if the cake is baked.
After cooling completely, cut the cake into two parts.
Preparing sour cream cream is even easier. Beat sour cream with sugar - that’s the whole secret of a delicious cream. The main thing is to cool the sour cream well, for which it is better to prepare it first - before preparing the cake. If desired, you can add raisins or poppy seeds to the cream.
Coat the cakes with sour cream and decorate the top with chocolate or berries.
All. The sour cream cake is ready. You can put the kettle on and invite your family to the table. But it’s better to leave it for a couple of hours to soak.
Recipe for a delicious cake for a children's birthday – Curd cake
Baking with cottage cheese is a great option to diversify the menu with a healthy dessert and feed your child such an important product as cottage cheese. The proposed recipe for cottage cheese cake will require you to set aside a certain time for preparation, but the result will undoubtedly please your guests and baby.
To prepare you will need:
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- soda – 1.5 tsp;
- homemade cottage cheese – 250 gr.
To prepare the cream you need:
- sugar – 1.5 cups;
- flour – 4 tbsp;
- milk – 3.5 cups;
- butter – 150 gr.;
- vanilla sugar;
- lemon zest.
We start by preparing the dough. It is better to make the curd dough in the evening, because it needs to rest for at least 8 hours.
Mix grated cottage cheese with egg and sugar in a bowl. Add slaked soda and leave the mixture for 20 minutes. During this time, the curd mixture will be saturated with air and increase slightly in volume.
Now add the sifted flour and knead the dough. It will stick to your hands, but this is not a reason to add extra flour. Cover the dough with film and refrigerate, where it will spend the next 8 hours.
If you need to prepare cottage cheese urgently, let the dough rest for at least a couple of hours in the cold. Taking out the chilled dough, form it into 6 identical balls.
This must be done quickly so that the dough does not heat up from the heat of your hands and the surrounding air.
The curd balls must be refrigerated before baking. Therefore, we take them out one by one and roll them into a layer. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour and place a thin layer of dough onto it. Be sure to prick the dough in several places before baking.
Immediately place the pan in the oven. The cakes bake very quickly. At 180 degrees, literally five minutes is enough for the cake to brown.
We will make custard cream. To do this, add sugar to the milk and bring it to a boil. At this time, mix the eggs with flour. As soon as the milk boils, carefully add the egg-milk mixture into it. The cream must be stirred constantly. Warm it up until the consistency reaches the consistency of thick sour cream.
Set aside the custard mixture to cool to room temperature. Now you can add oil. For aroma, add vanilla and lemon zest to the cream. To make the cream more fluffy, beat it with a mixer.
Layer the curd cakes with custard. If desired, you can put crushed nuts or pieces of dried fruit between the cakes.
How to make an original, but simple birthday cake with your own hands: preparing Cheesecake
If you look into history, the first desserts made from cream cheese and shortcrust pastry can be found in Ancient Rome. This curd miracle came to us from America and became a frequent guest on the everyday or holiday table.
Ideally, the cheesecake is made with Savoyardi cookies and Philadelphia cream cheese. But today we’ll try to make a simpler version of dessert from available products.
To prepare you will need:
- anniversary cookies – 300 gr.;
- butter – 100 gr.;
- eggs – 1 pc.
To prepare the filling you need:
- cream cheese – 450 gr.;
- sugar – 1 glass;
- eggs – 5 pcs.;
- fat sour cream – 1 cup;
- vanilla sugar.
First we make the base of the dessert. To do this, grind the cookies and mix them with soft butter and egg. Use the resulting mixture to cover the bottom and sides of the pan in which we will bake the dessert. To allow the sand mass to set, place the mold in the cold.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling. We begin to mix the cheese, gradually adding sugar to it. Without ceasing to stir the filling, add one egg at a time. At the very end, add sour cream.
The cheesecake filling is not whipped, but gently mixed.
Take the dessert base out of the refrigerator and pour out all the filling. The cheesecake is baked at low temperature. We keep it for about 40 minutes at 165 degrees. We don't take the cake out of the oven. After turning off the oven, keep the dessert in it for about another hour.
Now you can remove the cheesecake. There is one last important touch left.
The cheesecake will spend the next 4 hours in the cold and only after that you can safely set the table, looking forward to enjoying the taste.
Beautiful cake for a holiday with your own hands: Bird's milk
This dessert is difficult to classify as simple confectionery. Its appearance and taste characteristics will not leave any guest indifferent.
If you are afraid to experiment with complex recipes, try making a lighter version of the Bird's Milk cake.
To prepare the dough you will need:
- flour - three quarters of a glass;
- sugar - half a glass;
- butter – 100 gr.;
- yolks – 3 pcs.;
- soda.
We will prepare the soufflé from:
- glasses of milk;
- 3 proteins;
- 1 tbsp. l. gelatin;
- citric acid.
To prepare the glaze you need:
- sugar – 3 tbsp;
- sour cream – 2 tbsp;
- cocoa – 2 tbsp.
This original cake is prepared in three stages, each of which requires attention from the hostess.
Let's start cooking with the base of the cake. To do this, you first need to beat the yolks with butter. Add all the sugar and a little slaked soda to the whipped mass. Without ceasing to knead the dough, add a little flour.
We will bake the base crust on baking paper, which you need to cover a baking sheet with. Keep the crust in a hot oven until golden brown.
We will make the soufflé for the cake using gelatin. Therefore, you will have to fill the gelatin with water in advance so that it swells. Place the container with the swollen gelatin in a water bath and heat it until it is completely dissolved.
Do not allow gelatin to boil - it will lose its quality.
Separate the whites and place them in a clean, dry container. Make sure that no moisture or fat gets into the whites - otherwise they will not whip up.
You can add a little citric acid - this will help beat the whites faster and give the soufflé a pleasant sourness.
Without ceasing to beat the whites, add sugar in portions.
When you get a thick protein foam, you can start adding gelatin.
Just keep the gelatin mixture chilled or the whites will curdle.
Immediately make the glaze. Combine sugar with cocoa and add sour cream and vanillin.
After stirring all the ingredients, we send the preparation to the fire.
After warming up a little, remembering to stir, put the butter in the container.
The glaze is ready when the mixture begins to boil.
When all the components of the cake are ready, you can begin assembling the masterpiece. Place the entire soufflé on the cold base, spreading it evenly over the surface, and put it in the cold to harden.
If desired, this process can be divided into two stages, dividing the soufflé into equal parts.
Bird's milk usually hardens in about a couple of hours. Take out the frozen cake and pour cooled chocolate glaze on top. This beautiful cake does not require any additional decorations.
It will decorate any feast and surprise guests with its unusual light taste.
Experiment and choose your own original cake recipe for the holiday - and you are sure to find that masterpiece that will become the hallmark of your holiday table.
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