Tortoise Cake - general principles and methods of cooking
Children's holiday should be bright and memorable in the child's life. To do this, you can order your child a sweet gift in the form of a typewriter, cartoon characters or a fairy-tale princess. And you can bake a cake yourself. There are many recipes for home baking to give her a fabulous look, to interest the child and his guests. Cake Turtle is a popular confectionary masterpiece that any mother can bake. If you understand the system of its creation, you can even invent your recipe, taking into account your kid's favorite products.
Tortoise Cake - Food Preparation
The fact is that this cake is remarkable in that its base does not have to be baked on its own. Of course, you can bake a biscuit, and decorate it as it should be, but you can use other products, such as cookies, exotic fruits. The smallest to taste will be a curd bug with cookies, soaked in milk mixture. And if the party is prepared for adults - soak the base with cognac or liqueur, and pour the finished cake with melted chocolate - a sort of imposing tanned turtle.
Another advantage of the cake is just a limitless area for the manifestation of ingenuity when making. For example, turtle legs and its head are round biscuits, unglazed gingerbread, banana, kiwi, marshmallows, meringues. If you are baking the cake yourself, take care of these details. The shell also should not be as dense as that of a living turtle - otherwise how can it be eaten? Often there are also cream variants, when the shell is painted only with cream by the corresponding cells, and is decorated on top with fruits and berries, a certain shape of the cream, in general, with details of the turtle “design”.
Tortoise Cake - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Biscuit Turtle Cake
This “Turtle” will cause your kids a whole hurricane of positive emotions with their appearance and taste, but for mom, it will not take long to prepare. At the heart of it is a biscuit in a hurry and sour cream.
Ingredients:
dough: flour (1, 5 glasses), sugar (1, 5 glasses), cocoa (1-2 teaspoons, baking powder for the dough, 1 teaspoon. cream: butter (200 g), sugar (1 cup), sour cream (2 cups),
decoration: walnuts, chocolate (50-70 g), multicolored topping from sweets, dragee.
Method of preparation
In order to quickly prepare the sponge cake, beat the ingredients with a mixer, spread the baking sheet with parchment paper and bake the cakes in small portions with a spoon. All the dough is about three times. The oven temperature should be about 180-200 degrees, each set-in is approximately 7-10 minutes. 6 things are set aside for the head, legs, and the tortoise tail and shell.
Preparing the cream: soften the butter and whip with a mixer a fluffy mass, gradually add sugar and whisk again well. Without stopping, add sour cream. It should make a light fluffy mass. We form a cake: we dip each cake in the dough and spread it on a large dish with a slide. Deferred tortillas form a head and paws with a tail. At the end lay out the shell, melt chocolate in a water bath, on the shell draw a chocolate pattern from the pastry bag in the form of a spiral on each cake. Eyes make of dragee. We decorate the shell with nuts, multi-colored sprinkles, in general, with all that is. The cake should brew a little, and here's a true Turtle!
Recipe 2: Cookie Turtle Cake
This is the case when we will not bake anything, but use ready-made cookies. Saving time and effort there, and the result is unexpected. The cream can also be any - boiled, protein, cottage cheese.
Ingredients: Cookies (500 grams). What kind - decide for yourself. Any suitable - shortbread, oatmeal, baby, ready-made rolls, cut into 1-1, 5 cm thick.
Impregnation: for children we take sweetened milk or fruit juice, for adults - diluted brandy or coffee. Your cake will get a certain taste and become softer.
Cream: condensed milk 1 can, butter (150 grams).
Method of preparation
We spread the cookies in a slide, coating each layer of cream until all the cookies are filled. In order for it to be soaked, remove it for 2 hours in a cool place. Turn over a bowl of cookies on a dish and remove the film. Now is the time to turn on the imagination. As an option, sprinkle banana slices with lemon juice so as not to darken, and lay out the paws, the muzzle and the tail. Cream smear the top of the cake and shell with cream, sprinkle with chocolate. On our head we wear a panama from tangerine skins, in the foot we attach an umbrella, around the grass we will put green coconut shavings. Such a cake will be remembered by a child and guests better than the most beautiful purchased one, and there will be no limit to your delight.
Recipe 3. Green Fruit Bug
If you're tired of baking, it's time to make a white chocolate fruit cake. We will decorate the shell with green kiwi circles, I assure you, you will not see such a ridiculous green cake anywhere, unless you prepare it yourself. Stock up on food and time - nothing complicated, just have to put parts of the cake in the fridge for freezing.
Ingredients: kiwi (kilogram), strawberries (half a kilo), apricots (half a kilo), gelatin (2 packs), yogurt, white chocolate (one tile), icing sugar (100 grams), kiwi jelly.
Method of preparation
Prepare jelly prescription packaging. In yogurt, mix in the dissolved and cooled gelatin. We will cut the strawberries and put them into a jelly pouring mold. Fill with gelatinous dough and put some powder on it, put it in the fridge for 1 hour. Cut apricots and spread over strawberries. Fill with yogurt, sprinkle with powder and refrigerate for 1 hour. Armor lay out rings kiwi. We melt the chocolate and paint the details on kiwi. The children's spontaneity of this colorful cake will surprise not only children, but also adults.
Tortoise Cake - useful tips from experienced chefs
- To decorate the cake in different colors, you can add food coloring to the cream. A red, yellow or green bug looks a lot more fun.
- Many types of cream will be suitable for impregnation and filling, as long as it and the filling are well combined with each other. For example, cream and cottage cheese filling. Soluble gelatin. Cream, whipped in a thick foam, mix with sugar and gelatin, add lemon zest and lemon juice. Cottage cheese for the filling mix with lemon peel and gelatin. Gently mix the whipped cream.
