Cake at a children's party is the most long-awaited finale of a bright and cheerful holiday. So that he will be remembered by the little birthday boy for a whole year, we offer to decorate the Ninjago birthday cake based on the beloved cartoon of Lego Ninjago.

Mastic Ninjago Cake

Lego Ninjago cake will amaze the imagination of not only children, but also adults - cakes decorated with mastic always look spectacular and professional.

 

For a cake with 15 servings you will need:

For biscuit:

  • premium flour - 0.26 kg;
  • chicken eggs - 8 pcs.;
  • granulated sugar - 0.4 kg;
  • baking powder - 2 tsp;
  • vanilla, salt - to taste.

For cream based cream:

  • cream 34% - 0.5 l;
  • butter - 0.2 kg;
  • boiled condensed milk - 0.4 kg.

To decorate:

  • mastic - 1.2 kg;
  • food coloring yellow, black, white and red (green, blue) colors.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Cooking a biscuit. Beat the whites from the refrigerator with a pinch of salt and half sugar in a stable foam. Separately, beat the yolks with the remaining sugar to a white mass. Add flour with baking powder, vanilla, mix, add protein foam, mix gently with a spatula from the bottom up. If the biscuit is baked in metallic form, grease the bottom and walls with oil and powder with flour, if in silicone, nothing is needed. Bake a biscuit in a rectangular form, after preheating the oven: half an hour at 180 ℃ and half an hour at 150 ℃.
    Little hint. If you put a container of water at the bottom of the oven, the biscuit will be more magnificent.
  2. While biscuit is baking, cut out the silhouette of a Ninjago warrior from paper. When the biscuit has cooled, attach a paper contour on top and cut off excess on it.
  3. Beat cream with chilled ingredients.
  4. Coat the biscuit with cream so that a uniform layer is obtained.
  5. DecorTo give the desired color to the mastic, mix it with a small portion of the dye, mashing it like plasticine. Make a thin layer of yellow mastic - these will be the face and hands of the ninja. From the black layer make the torso and pants. From red (blue, green) mastic - a face mask, sleeves and clothing elements (you can find a photo of the Lego man and make a start from it). From the black scraps, draw the outline of the eyes and eyebrows.
  6. Align the mastic with a pastry iron or spoon, and carefully trim the excess around the edges.

Cooking such a cake takes a lot of time, but this is nothing compared to the degree of joy of the little birthday.

Cooking from cream

This cake is without mastic. Oil cream is universal, even a novice pastry chef can turn an ordinary biscuit into a small masterpiece.

For a cake with butter cream you need:

For biscuit:

  • eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • granulated sugar - 120 g;
  • vanilla;
  • premium flour - 120 g.

Oil cream:

  • butter - 200 g;
  • condensed milk - 1 can (380 g);
  • vanilla;
  • food colorings.

How to make a cake:

  1. Beat the whites from the refrigerator with a pinch of salt and half sugar until fluffy.
  2. Separately, beat the yolks with the remaining sugar to a white mass. Add flour, vanilla, mix, add protein foam, mix gently with a spatula from the bottom up.
  3. Bake a biscuit in a preheated oven for half an hour at 180 ℃ and half an hour at 150 ℃. You can bake a biscuit in a slow cooker (it makes excellent biscuits) on the Baking program for 60 minutes.
  4. Beat cream from room temperature oil and condensed milk, add vanilla. The cream should come out airy and uniform. Beating time 10-15 minutes.
  5. Divide the cold biscuit into 2 layers with a long sharp knife, moving from the outer edges to the center or cut the edge of the cake around the circumference, tie a notch with a strong thread or fishing line, and gently pull the ends together until the cake is cut.
  6. Lubricate the lower crust with cream, lower the second on it, coat the sides and top of the cake.
  7. Paint the remains of the cream in several colors and decorate the cake with the help of a confectionery bag, imitating the blocks of Lego. In the center of the cake, you can put one or more Ninjago figures molded from mastic.

Chill ready cake before serving.

Gingerbread Kids Treat for Boys

Gingerbread - one of the types of toppers for decorating cakes. In addition to the decorative function, such a decoration is also very tasty.

 

From gingerbread cookies you can create either a stand-alone decoration or a whole composition, moreover, on any subject. Introducing the original children's cake decorated with Ninjago gingerbread cookies.

What is needed for Ninjago gingerbread cookies:

  • ready-made biscuit at the discretion of the chef.

For cream:

  • cream 34% - 100 g;
  • icing sugar - 70 g;
  • cream cheese - ½ kg.

For chocolate glaze:

  • chocolate - 50 g;
  • milk cream - 25 g.

For gingerbread cookies:

  • cane sugar - 250 g;
  • water - 100 ml;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • soda - ½ tsp;
  • premium flour - 450 g;
  • salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg - a pinch.

For glaze:

  • egg white - 1 pc.;
  • icing sugar - 200 g;
  • 1st lime juice;
  • food coloring.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Beat cold cream to confident peaks, pour powder through a sieve, add cheese. Mix everything and leave in the cold for 60 minutes.
  2. Cut the biscuit into 2 cakes, between them make a layer of cream. Coat the collected cake with a base layer of cream, cool for 30 minutes. in the cold.
  3. Cover the cooled cake with the remaining cream, smooth. At this stage, the cream can be tinted with food colors as desired.
  4. To glaze, melt the chocolate and cream in a water bath, cool, and pour the cake with it so that beautiful streaks flow from the top to the sides.
  5. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator and prepare the gingerbread dough.
  6. Pour sugar into a pot with thick walls and put on the stove to heat for 3 minutes. Then pour boiling water. Add oil, salt, soda and spices to the resulting syrup. When the mass foams, mix and remove from the stove. Pour in flour, knead the dough and put in the cold for 60 minutes.
  7. To make icing for icing: stir in a tall bowl the protein and sifted icing sugar. Add lime juice and beat the icing to splendor and brilliant whiteness. Divide the finished glaze and paint each part in the desired color.
  8. Form gingerbread cookies: cover a cake from dough with parchment paper and roll to a thickness of ½ cm. Cut oval (or other shape) gingerbread cookies and bake them at a temperature of 175 degrees for 5-6 minutes. on parchment covered with baking sheet. Insert skewers into the warm gingerbread cookies that will hold the toppers in the cake.
  9. Gingerbread decoration: on each gingerbread, attach a ninja figure prepared in advance from paper, with a needle, outline the body contours and elements of the face and costume. Further, according to the outlines, draw borders and elements of the figure with multicolored glaze. Monochrome patches of clothing can be poured by diluting slightly with icing lime juice.

Thus, all available gingerbreads are decorated.

You can buy ready-made gingerbread cookies and also decorate them at your discretion.

The cake is decorated with gingerbread an hour or two before serving. You can’t put a decorated cake in the refrigerator: gingerbread will not benefit from cold and condensation.
The cake is quite simple to implement, but it takes a lot of time. Gingerbread cookies can be baked and decorated in advance, they are perfectly stored. In this case, the culinary masterpiece will take much less time.

With edible picture

You can buy a picture for decorating a cake in any online store for cooking. The picture is an edible wafer paper coated with a pattern made using food colors. The picture can be picked up for boys and girls.

For a protein-nut cake with a waffle picture, you need:

  • edible wafer-based picture;
  • protein from 6 eggs;
  • granulated sugar - 390 g;
  • roasted peanuts - 320 g;
  • corn starch - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • water - 50 ml;
  • condensed milk - 4 tsp;
  • butter - 155 g;
  • jam - 4 tbsp. l .;
  • whipped cream - 1 bottle;
  • salt, vanilla - to taste.

How to cook:

  1. Beat two proteins into the foam, adding a little 100 g of sugar. Mix 4 tbsp. l chopped peanuts and 1 tbsp. l starch. Pour the mixture into the protein mass and gently mix with a spatula from the bottom up. On a parchment paper, draw a circle of about 20 cm, grease with vegetable oil, put a mass ½ cm high on it and bake at a temperature of 100 degrees for an hour and a half. The finished cake when tapped should make a dull sound. Bake 3 cakes.
  2. Prepare a cream: boil water with 90 g of sugar, add condensed milk and cook for 12 minutes at a slight boil. Beat soft butter, pour cooled syrup into it with a thin stream. Add vanilla and mix gently.
  3. If necessary, slightly trim the cakes around the edges (they are very fragile). Grease the lower crust ½ cream. Grease the next cake 2 tbsp. l Jam, this will add a touch of sourness to the sweetness of the cake. Coat the sides of the cake with the remaining cream, and the top cake with the remaining jam. On a jam, “plant” a waffle picture, gently smooth it with gloved hands or a pastry iron. Decorate the joints of the picture with the cake with whipped cream.

Cake decoration with a waffle picture does not take much time. It is better to stack it shortly before serving the dessert.

How to draw a Lego Ninjago on a cake

A fruit cake with a ninja painted on it will certainly delight the little birthday boy.

For a fruit cake you need:

  • chicken egg - 6 pcs.;
  • premium flour, potato or corn starch - 100 g each;
  • granulated sugar - 200 g;
  • baking powder, cream thickener - 1 tsp;
  • fat sour cream - 1000 ml;
  • icing sugar - 200 g;
  • favorite fruits and berries - 3 tbsp .;
  • salt, vanilla.

To decorate:

  • Printed or drawn on paper picture;
  • bar of dark chocolate;
  • white chocolate to fill the contours;
  • dense file for documents;
  • baking paper;
    food colors.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Make the dough for the cake: beat the whites with sugar into the foam, introduce the yolks. Mix flour with starch, salt and baking powder, pour into egg mass. Gently mix with a spatula. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 175 degrees 45 min.After baking, let the cake rest in the oven for another quarter hour.
  2. Prepare the cream: beat the sour cream with powdered sugar, vanilla and a thickener of sour cream. Cut the fruit into slices, mix with 2/3 of the cream.
  3. To make a cake: cut off the top from the cooled cake, cut out the soft part from the middle, leaving the bottom whole. At the bottom, put ½ cream with fruit, then cut the crumb and again the cream with fruit. Top the cake. Coat the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the cream.
  4. Decor: place the picture in a file, wipe it with a swab dipped in vodka or cognac. Place dark chocolate melted in a water bath in a paper cornet. Circle the outline of the picture. Send picture to freezer for 3 min. Transfer the drawing to the cake. Melt white chocolate and partially color in the desired colors. Pour colored chocolate into the cornet and fill in the contours of the drawing. When the picture freezes, apply small details to it with dark chocolate.

Chill the cake before serving.

Decorating a cake, you can give free rein to imagination. Anticipation of the baby’s happy eyes will certainly fill the cook with optimism and will help in this fascinating undertaking.

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