Any boy’s favorite hero is Lightning Makvin, and Makvin’s birthday cake will be the most desired gift. The cartoon character will look original and elegant at the children's holiday table.
Material Content:
Mackquin cake from mastic
Covered with mastic, the McQueen cake will look very impressive. The child will like the smooth shiny surface of the machine, the cartoon character will be just like real. For cooking, you will need certain products and some skills in the preparation of confectionery.
Ingredients:
- finished mastic - 1kg;
- flour - 1 cup;
- sugar - 1 cup (200 g);
- sour cream - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- starch - 2 tsp;
- soda - 1.5 tsp;
- cranberries - 100 g;
- cherry - 50 g;
- dried apricots - 100 g;
- walnuts - 100 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- food coloring;
- condensed milk - 0.5 cans.
The cake will turn out weighing about 3 kg. If you want to bake a dessert of less or greater mass, then the amount of ingredients should be proportionally changed.
Cooking:
- You need to bake 4 cakes, 2 of them should have a rectangular shape, 2 others - round. For cakes, knead the dough from a glass of flour and a glass of sugar, 2 tsp. starch, 1.5 tsp slaked soda, 2 eggs and 1 cup sour cream, add fruit and nuts. After kneading the dough, divide it into 4 parts.
- The baking sheet is covered with parchment, the dough is laid out and baked at 180 ° C for 20 minutes.
- Then the cream is prepared. First, 200 g of butter is whipped, then condensed milk is added, whisk until a uniform, lush mass is formed.
- It remains to collect the cake. Rectangular cakes are connected by a cream, as well as round ones. Then the round cakes are cut in the middle into 2 parts and connected to each other with the same cream. In rectangular cakes, recesses for the wheels of the machine are cut out.
- The resulting semicircular part is reduced to the required size in order to establish a cabin view on top of the rectangular cakes. Beat the excess, trimmed parts with a blender and fill out the bulges of the machine from the resulting mass. The wheels can be made from chocolate chip cookies by “sticking” them with butter cream.
- At the end, the cake is covered with mastic, which is easy to make from marshmallows, and to add dye to get a red color. You can make a “muzzle” of a car with chocolate. Cake Lightning McQueen is ready!
Cream dessert with the cartoon character "Cars"
To make a cake from a cream, you can use the previous biscuit recipe, because it turns out to be very tasty, but decorate differently. To prepare a protein cream, you need to carefully beat.
Ingredients:
- chilled egg whites - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 200 g;
- citric acid - ¼ tsp;
- water - 70 ml.
Before preparing the protein cream, you need to thoroughly wash the pan, then boil it with water and only then perform the steps.
Cooking:
- Pour sugar in a saucepan, pour water and put on a strong fire, which you need to reduce after boiling. When the “lazy" bubbles appear in the syrup, it is ready. You can determine the readiness by the nature of the flow of the syrup, if it flows continuously, subtly, like honey, then it is ready. Another way is to dip a clean item in syrup and drip into a container of cold water. A solid ball has formed, which means that the syrup is ready and it is time to add citric acid, while it should be actively mixed.
- When the syrup is set on fire, you can beat the squirrels. They whip to a steady foam of “peaks”. To check it is enough to turn the bowl over, the squirrels in place, then ready. After the syrup is ready, slowly, in a thin stream, add it to the proteins, gently, without spraying, while actively mixing. After administration, the proteins are placed in a basin with cold water and continue to be kneaded until completely cooled.
- If the cream is prepared correctly, it will be a snow-white color, a single consistency without lumps and liquid.
- You can grease the cake with the butter cream from the previous recipe or make it completely protein - both inside and out, this is how anyone wants to. For the design of the machine, paint part of the cream in red with food coloring. Decorate with a pastry bag or pastry syringe.
With edible picture
In the confectionery departments to acquire a beautiful picture with your favorite character, then decorating the cake becomes much easier. The size of the cake should match the shape of the purchased picture. The upper part is covered with rice, waffle or sugar base, only after that it is decorated. For decoration, a protein cream is suitable.
Gingerbread recipe
The original children's cake will be made from gingerbread with sour cream and bananas. The cake does not require baking, and therefore it is easy to cook.
Ingredients:
- gingerbread cookies - 300 g;
- banana - 2 pcs.;
- sour cream 25% - 350 g;
- icing sugar - 130 g.
For decoration, you can use mastic or protein cream, it all depends on preferences.
Cooking:
- Cut the gingerbread cookies along, peel the bananas and cut into thick pieces.
- Beat sour cream with icing sugar for about three minutes. The cream should be thick.
- When laying out the machine, each piece of gingerbread is dipped in cream, a shape is formed where necessary, the gingerbread breaks off.
- Layers of gingerbread are laid with layers of bananas. The voids are filled with pieces of gingerbread.
- Decorate on top of your choice, mastic or protein, according to previous recipes.
How to make mastic figures and decorate a cake
You can decorate the cake with figures made of mastic. Then the filling can be anything you like, and your favorite cartoon characters are set on top.
Ingredients:
- powdered milk and powdered sugar - 150 g each;
- condensed milk - 200 g;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l .;
- dye.
Cooking takes no more than 15 minutes.
Cooking:
- Powdered sugar is mixed with milk powder, condensed milk is added and kneaded like dough.
- In the process, lemon juice and colorings are added.It turns out an elastic mass, from which you can sculpt any figure.
What could be more pleasant than cheerful children's laughter and joy on the faces of babies? Organize a holiday by decorating it with an original final dessert.
