Birthdays are remembered as gifts and treats. Cake "Ship" will be an excellent decoration for the festive table in the style of a pirate party. The thematic dessert not only looks beautiful and elegant in appearance, inside it is no less attractive.

Cake "Ship" in milk

Making a cake in the form of a ship consists of two stages: the first is the baking of a base biscuit, the second is the assembly and decoration of the dessert.

Ingredients for the base:

  • flour - 200 g;
  • cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • sugar - 200 g;
  • egg - 200 g;
  • butter - 90 g;
  • milk - 250 ml .;
  • soda - 1 tsp;
  • vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l;
  • favorite cream;
  • chocolate - a tile (for glaze).

Cooking process:

  1. Grate the eggs with sugar, beat with a mixer until lush foam.
  2. Pour milk and butter melted in a water bath.
  3. Sift flour, soda and cocoa into a liquid mixture.
  4. Bake a biscuit at a temperature of 170 ° C for 60 minutes. Cool.
  5. Cut the contour of the ship from paper, put on top of the biscuit and cut the cake. Cut the convex top, cut the billet of the ship horizontally into 3 parts. The upper cake is divided into the bow, aft and middle. Remove the middle one, thereby elevating the bow and stern.
  6. To connect the parts, use custard, sour cream or butter cream.
  7. Coat the hull of the ship with icing, for this it is necessary to melt the chocolate with the addition of several tablespoons of milk in a water bath.
  8. Use a sharp knife or a toothpick to draw the board of a ship. You can engrave the name.
  9. To make a mast from a wooden skewer for a barbecue.
  10. Sails can be made of mastic, but faster and no less beautifully obtained from white paper.

Cake can be decorated with figures of pirates or sailors.

Chocolate sponge cake with custard

Not only boys, but also many girls like to be pirates, and, consequently, having arranged a thematic birthday, one cannot do without the Pirate Ship cake.

Essential ingredients for the base:

  • chicken egg - 6 pcs.;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp .;
  • flour - 3 tbsp .;
  • sour cream - 1 tbsp .;
  • soda - 1 tsp;
  • cocoa powder - 2 tbsp.

Essential ingredients for cream:

  • milk - 4 tbsp .;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp .;
  • egg - 4 pcs.;
  • vanillin - 1 sachet;
  • butter - 20 g;
  • flour - 0.5 cups;

Cooking process:

  1. Drive 6 eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar, beat the mixture with a mixer until lush foam.
  2. At low revolutions, add sour cream, soda, slaked with vinegar, sifted flour.
  3. Bake cakes in a preheated oven at a temperature of 160 - 180 ° C until fully cooked.
  4. Cool the resulting biscuit. Set aside the sails, make the ship from the rest, connecting the pieces with custard.
  5. For cream, combine milk with sugar in a pan. While stirring, cook until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat.
  6. In a deep bowl, mix the eggs with flour until smooth. Pour in half the sweet milk, mix quickly, combine with the rest.
  7. Pour the mixture back into the pan and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened.
  8. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla, mix thoroughly, cool.

The shape of the ship is very simple. At the bow, it is necessary to sharpen the hull, and at the stern make an elevation for the captain’s bridge. Coat the assembled ship with cream on the outside to hide the connecting seams. Clean in a cold place for impregnation.

Collect the sails, for this put the prepared biscuit on wooden skewers for barbecue.

The sailboat can be decorated with chocolate icing by drawing an anchor and chains, and on the flag - a skull and bones.

Fresh fruit

Children love sweet fruit desserts. And if you can make a mistake with citruses and buy oranges with sourness, then bananas will never cease to be sweet. Most often they are used in the preparation of cream or in conjunction with a cream layer.

 

To prepare a children's cake you will need:

  • finished biscuit base;
  • banana - 3 pcs.;
  • sour cream - 350 g;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • milk chocolate - 200 g;
  • butter - 3 tbsp. l .;

Cooking process:

  1. You can bake biscuit yourself according to your favorite recipe, or buy ready-made cakes in the store.
  2. From biscuits cut blanks in the shape of a ship.
  3. Combine the sour cream with sugar and beat with a mixer.
  4. Fold the ship out of parts, lubricating each layer with sour cream. Put slices of thinly sliced ​​banana in the layers.
  5. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for soaking for about 30-60 minutes.
  6. At this time, make the mast and sails. To do this, you need wooden sticks for barbecue, toothpicks, white paper and a little imagination.
  7. Make ganache from chocolate and butter by simply melting these two ingredients in a water bath.
  8. Glaze the deck of the ship and sides approximately to the middle, starting from the top.
  9. From the bottom of the cream, make an imitation of the waves breaking on the side of the vessel.
  10. Install a mast with sails on the deck.

The cake is ready! Before the start of the celebration, it is better to put the delicacy in the refrigerator.

Armenian recipe

This dessert is made from thin cakes and custard.

Ingredients for cakes:

  • chicken egg - 1 pc.;
  • baking soda - 5 g;
  • sugar - 100 g;
  • flour - 470 g;
  • sour cream - 100 g;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • a pinch of salt.

Cooking process:

  1. Softened butter mix with sugar and salt, beat with a whisk.
  2. Add sour cream and egg, mix thoroughly again.
  3. Combine with flour and soda pre-quenched with vinegar.
  4. Put the resulting dough in the cold for at least 30 minutes, then divide into 10 parts. Roll out a thin layer from each and cut the workpiece according to the shape of the ship (pre-make a paper pattern). Pierce with a fork over the entire surface.
  5. Bake cakes at 200 degrees for 5 minutes. Coat each with a custard prepared according to the second recipe. Assemble the ship and leave for 2 hours for impregnation.
  6. At this time, make a mast with sails from paper and skewers and install them on the deck.

The layers of cake layers with cream perfectly imitate the cladding of the ship, therefore, additional decoration of the sides of the vessel is not required.

Do-it-yourself dessert without baking

The genius of such a culinary invention is that the cake does not need to be baked, and it can be made with children.

Essential Ingredients:

  • square cookies "For tea" - 65 pcs.;
  • curd mass - 400 g;
  • sour cream with a fat content of 26% - 400 g;
  • milk - 200 ml .;
  • butter - 20 g;
  • milk chocolate - 200 g;
  • sugar - 2 tsp.

Cooking process:

  1. Beat the curd mass with a mixer with sour cream. When using soft unsweetened cottage cheese, add sugar to taste.
  2. Spread cookies in layers in 5 rows according to the shape of the ship: 1st row - 1 pc., 2nd row - 2 pcs., 3rd and 4th rows of 3 pcs., 5th row - 2 pcs. Center relative to the middle.
  3. Pre-dip each cookie in milk.
  4. Grease a layer of cookies with cream, put new squares on top of it.
  5. Thus repeat 5 times.
  6. On 4 and 5 rows lay another 2 layers of cookies and cream to simulate the captain’s bridge at the stern of the vessel.
  7. Remove the workpiece in the cold for about 30 minutes. Then with a sharp knife to cut off the extra corners and give the shape of the ship a complete look.
  8. In a water bath melt chocolate with butter and 3 tbsp. l milk.
  9. Coat the cake with icing on all sides.

Do-it-yourself cooking together with children helps to develop creativity, love for cooking and cleaning.

Stylized birthday celebrations make it possible to diversify celebrations, and you can prepare a treat yourself, introducing not only adults, but also children to this business.

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