Cake with mastic - not only the work of art, but also joy for children. Confectionery mastic is a way to turn even a usual sponge cake into a sugar clearing or the wood with favourite heroes from animated films.
Ingredients for preparation of cake
- egg - 6 pieces; - wheat flour - 2 glasses;
- granulated sugar - 1 glass; - baking powder - 1 tsp; - a desi - 2 tablespoons; - vanillin - 10 g; - a condensed milk - 1 bank and 70 гр. for mastic; - almonds - 100 g; - icing sugar - 150 g; - powdered milk (or a children's milk mix) - 100 g;
- lemon juice - 1 tsp; - food colors at will.
Way of preparation
Separate the whites from the yolks. Mix proteins with sugar and shake up a nimbus before formation of magnificent weight. Implicate yolks in proteinaceous weight, add a desi. Mix flour with baking powder and vanillin. Add flour to dough and knead it. Divide ready weight into equal parts and consistently bake three cake layers in an oven.
Boil whole condensed milk in a can within 1 hour (it is possible to use a ready boiled condensed milk). Miss the mark ready cake layers with a condensed milk and collect cake. Cut all uneven edges that the form of a circle or a rectangle depending on a form in which the biscuit was baked turned out. Wash out nuts (almonds) and place in the blender. Add 50 grams of icing sugar and shake up all weight. Lay out ready marzipan on the top cake layer and on side parts of cake that topping covered all surface. Mix in the separate volume of 100 grams of icing sugar, 70 grams of a condensed milk, 100 grams of powdered milk or infant milk formula. Add 1 tsp of lemon juice. Knead until mass doesn't become homogeneous and plastic. Roll a sphere and put in the fridge for 30 - 60 minutes. Take out mastic and roll in thin layer. Carefully cover cake with layer of mastic and level it. If desired previously make mastic of different flowers, having added food color to the main components. It is possible to use mastic of different flowers. Figures in the form of flowers can be made by means of a napkin - make of it ""paper bag"", place a piece of mastic there and create a petal a finger. Make several petals and connect them by means of protein of egg. On it it is possible to fix any figures from mastic. Simpler elements, for example leaflets, cut out from mastic of green color by means of a knife. It is enough to make several thin cuts, imitating leaflet streaks. If in the course of work mastic thickened, warm it in the microwave or wind oven within 5 minutes. Surely you fix mastic on marzipan, - it can't be put on a damp basis of cake. If after preparation of cake mastic remained, it can be inwrapped in food wrap and to store in the fridge within 2 weeks or in the freezer within 2 months.