Guests are invited for a birthday, and a beautiful cake always serves as a table decoration. The choice of recipe depends on taste preferences and complexity of execution. Description of the most popular sweet desserts, read the article.

Beautiful birthday cakes for adults

Delicious Honey cake for a birthday it’s easy to decorate, just pour the sides and top with chocolate icing, and apply a pattern with a pastry syringe or make flowers from the cream.

Products for honey cake:

  • honey - 6 tbsp. l .;
  • sugar and butter - 100 g each;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • flour - 300 g;
  • soda;
  • cognac.

Step by step description of the preparation

  1. Take honey, sugar and butter, mix, and heat in a water bath until the sugar dissolves.
  2. Eggs are broken, the yolk is separated from the protein.
  3. Soda (1 tsp), quenched with lemon juice, is added to the yolks. 20 ml of cognac are poured there.
  4. The honey-oil mass is slightly whipped with a whisk, and removed from the water bath, without waiting for the honey to boil. Add yolks with soda to it.
  5. Sift flour into the dough, mix well.
  6. Then, spread on the table, lightly roll in flour, make a tourniquet, and divide into 10 parts, rolling balls from them.
  7. Leave at room temperature for 30 minutes.
  8. Thin cakes are rolled out with a diameter of about 22 cm.
  9. Each cake is baked at a temperature of 220 ° C for about 3 minutes.

Chilled cakes are coated with cream of butter and condensed milk or sour cream, and set to soak in the refrigerator. Then make out the top of the cake, if desired, with whipped cream or chocolate icing.

Famous treats

There are many culinary desserts that have glorified their creators.

For example, Sacher chocolate cake, which has a history of over 150 years.

For cooking, you need such products (the proportions are indicated in the description of the preparation):

  • eggs
  • flour;
  • chocolate;
  • butter;
  • sugar;
  • powdered sugar;
  • apricot jam;
  • cognac;
  • cream.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Start baking with the preparation of a mold with a diameter of 20-24 cm. Its bottom is covered with parchment, greased with side oil and paper.
  2. The oven is heated to 180 ° C.
  3. Take 6 eggs at room temperature, separate the protein from the yolk in different bowls, and beat. Add 180 g of sugar to protein.
  4. Beat 135 g of butter with a blender, add 45 g of powdered sugar at the end, and 1 yolk each.
  5. Melt 135 g of chocolate in a water bath. When it cools down a bit, add to the mixture of oil and yolks, mix with a blender.
  6. Protein with sugar is introduced into the chocolate mass, mixing in one direction.
  7. 135 g of flour are added to the dough.
  8. Spread out in a form, level with a spatula, and put in a hot oven for about 1 hour. Readiness is checked with a wooden stick.
  9. The baked biscuit is transferred to cool on a wire rack.
  10. Cut in half into 2 cakes.
  11. Mix 200 g of homogeneous apricot jam with 1 tbsp. l water and 50 ml of brandy. Heated to a boil.
  12. Hot jam smeared cakes. Collect the cake and top, on all sides, coated with jam. Put in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.

Cook chocolate fudge from 200 g of cream and 350 g of chocolate. Pour it on top of the cake, which stands on a wire rack. Leave for 2 hours at room temperature so that the cake is well saturated with jam, then put in the refrigerator.

Children's birthday dessert

For children's birthday, cakes decorated with fairy-tale characters and colored mastic are popular; they can be ordered in the confectionery.

And yourself at home to cook an incredibly delicious cake without baking.

For a curd dessert with raspberry jelly you will need:

  • oatmeal cookies;
  • butter;
  • cottage cheese;
  • raspberry;
  • sour cream;
  • sugar;
  • gelatin;
  • vanilla sugar;
  • raspberry juice for jelly.

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. Oatmeal cookies (400 g) are crushed using a blender or rolling pin, mixed with 200 g of soft butter.
  2. They shift into the form, put in the freezer for several minutes.
  3. Gelatin (30 g) is poured into 100 ml of raspberry juice, and heated.
  4. For the curd base, 150 g of raspberries, 200 g of sour cream, 160 g of sugar and 600 g of cottage cheese are mixed with a blender, dissolved gelatin and vanilla sugar are added.
  5. The resulting curd cream is poured onto the cake from the cookies, smoothed, put in the freezer for 20 minutes.
  6. Then they take out a frozen dessert. Fresh raspberries are laid on top, and jelly is poured. For jelly, 15 g of gelatin is dissolved in the top layer in 500 ml of water with raspberry juice and sugar to taste.

Put dessert in the fridge. It can be eaten when the jelly hardens.

The most beautiful wedding cakes

A beautiful wedding cake is prepared for several days.

For a large number of guests, a cake is made of several "floors".

On the first day, cakes are baked. On the second day they smear them with cream, and on the third - they decorate a ready-made treat with glaze, mastic, figures and flowers.

For a biscuit, a standard set of products is taken on the wedding cake:

  • eggs
  • sugar;
  • flour;
  • baking powder at will.

For 1 egg, take 1 tbsp. l sugar and flour.

For the cream you will need:

  • butter;
  • condensed milk.

For 200 g of butter, 50 g of condensed milk.

For decoration, fruits, mastic, flowers from mastic or live roses are suitable.

Cooking:

  1. Before baking, you need to imagine the size of each tier of cake. Since the dessert is three tiered, the top cake will be 18 cm in diameter, the second - 28 cm, the third - 36 cm.
  2. For multi-tiered cakes, the biscuit is not cut in half. The thickness of the finished cake from 2 to 4 cm. In each tier should be 3 cakes.
  3. To bake one large biscuit (7 in total), you need 20 eggs at room temperature. Yolks are separated in one container, proteins in another.
  4. A pinch of salt is added to the protein, and they begin to beat with a mixer at a slow speed, then faster.
  5. Vanillin and 10 tbsp. Are added to whipped to steady peaks protein. l Sahara.
  6. Beat for several minutes to dissolve the sugar.
  7. Go to whipping the yolks, first without anything, then add 10 tbsp. l Sahara. The yolks noticeably brighten, increase in volume, and become thick.
  8. Combine the yolk and protein, mix in one direction with a silicone or wooden spatula.
  9. Add 20 tbsp. l flour and 1 tsp. baking powder. You can bake without it, but then the cakes will not be so elastic.
  10. Pour the dough into a mold, level it with a spatula. The oven at this stage must be preheated to 180 ° C.
  11. Send a biscuit to the preheated oven, it takes about 30 minutes to bake.
  12. Ready cake is transferred to the grill, and left to cool.

For cream, beat the butter with condensed milk. Cakes are soaked in sweet water with lemon juice, and smeared with cream. On each layer put canned peaches or apricots, cut into thin slices. Coat the sides and top of the cake with a cream, put in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, before decorating the cake, roll the mastic with a thickness of 0.5 cm, and cover each tier separately, carefully leveling it. They collect the cake and decorate it at the place of celebration.

On march 8

On March 8, you can bake a delicious cake "Bird's milk", decorating it with flowers from protein cream.

For biscuit you will need these products:

  • eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • sugar and flour 4 tbsp. l

For cream take:

  • eggs - 10 pcs.;
  • milk - 1 tbsp .;
  • sugar - 2 tbsp .;
  • butter - 300 g;
  • gelatin 50 g + water 150 g;
  • vanillin.

Step by step description of the cooking process:

  1. Water is added to the gelatin at room temperature, left on the table while the biscuit is baking.
  2. For the test, eggs are broken, yolks are separated from proteins. Beat with a mixer.
  3. Add to the proteins 2 tbsp. l sugar and as much to the yolks, beat again for 2 minutes.
  4. Combine proteins and yolks, pour 4 tbsp. l sifted flour, mix the dough. Bake a biscuit in a mold with a diameter of 28 cm. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
  5. For cream, 10 eggs separate the yolks from the proteins.
  6. Proteins are cleaned in the refrigerator, and the yolks are whipped with 1 tbsp. sugar, vanilla, 1 tbsp. l flour and 1 tbsp. milk. Heat the mass in a water bath until thickened for 20 minutes.
  7. The yolk cream is cooled to 40 ° C, soft butter is added.
  8. Beat 10 proteins, at the end pour a glass of sugar. Yolk and protein cream are mixed with a spoon, melted gelatin is added.
  9. Collect the cake in the same form in which it was baked. The biscuit is cut into 2 cakes - one is placed on the bottom of the mold, cream on top, then the second cake.

Put the cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours, top with chocolate icing and custard protein cream.

On February 23

Napoleon cake is a good treat for the men's holiday. The recipe describes a simple version of a chopped dough cake.

For him, the products are taken:

  • flour;
  • margarine;
  • water;
  • vinegar slaked with vinegar;
  • egg white.

For cream:

  • milk;
  • flour;
  • butter;
  • egg yolks;
  • sugar.

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. For cakes 3 tbsp. chop the flour with a knife or rub it with your hands with 250 g of margarine.
  2. Add to flour 3/4 tbsp. water and 1 protein, mix. Pour 1/2 tsp. soda, slaked with vinegar, once again well knead.
  3. The finished dough is wrapped in cling film, and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
  4. Then they divide into parts, roll out very thinly, and bake cakes, pricked with a fork.
  5. For cream, you need yolks from 6 eggs, 1 tbsp. milk, 1 tbsp. sugar and 1 tbsp. l flour. All mixed, and put in a water bath, cook until thickened.
  6. Warm cream is mixed with 250 g of butter. You can add boiled condensed milk to your taste so that the consistency is not very thick.

Spread cakes with cream, sprinkle with crushed crumbs on top, leave to soak for 8 hours. With a knife, trim the edges.

Beautiful cakes for the holiday

To decorate the cake for the holiday, a recipe for mastic is useful.

From it you can sculpt figures, make the most incredible jewelry.

For home mastic you will need:

  • icing sugar - 560 g;
  • water - 30 ml;
  • Marshmallows - 300 g

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. Marshmallows are melted in a water bath.
  2. Transfer to a mixer bowl, oiled.
  3. Enter half the powder and 1 tbsp. l water.
  4. Mix until smooth, add the remaining powder. Knead elastic sugar dough.

Wrap the finished mastic in cling film and store in the refrigerator.Heated before use.

How to decorate a cake beautifully at home

Chocolate fondant, to decorate the most beautiful cakes, is used in many recipes.

How to cook it? There are many recipes, here is one of them.

For fudge you will need:

  • cocoa - 150 g;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • oil - 30 g;
  • milk - 450 ml.

Description of the preparation:

  1. It is convenient to cook fondant in a water bath. Pour cocoa with sugar into the container, gradually add milk, stirring with a whisk so that there are no lumps.
  2. Stir in a water bath for 10 minutes stirring.
  3. Add 1 tbsp. l butter.

Fondant turns out to be bitter, this taste perfectly sets off the sweetness of cakes.

The simplest but most beautiful designs

There are very simple ways of decorating, allowing you to make beautiful cakes for birthday and other holidays in 5 minutes. For example, using a cardboard stencil and powdered sugar or cocoa, it all depends on what color the surface of the cakes is.

But it’s better to prepare a thick protein cream based on hot syrup and draw roses.

For custard protein cream you will need these products:

  • sugar - 300 g;
  • water - 1/3 st .;
  • eggs - 4 pcs.;
  • salt;
  • lemon acid;
  • vanilla sugar.

Step by step description of the preparation:

  1. Sugar is mixed with water. The syrup is brought to a boil, and boiled for 5 minutes, until it begins to reach with a thin thread.
  2. Squirrels are separated from the yolks, they are sent to the mixer bowl. Add a pinch of salt, 0.5 tsp. citric acid and a bag of vanilla sugar.
  3. Beat the squirrels to white peaks when the syrup boils. Without stopping the whipping, hot syrup is gradually poured.

The finished protein cream will be thick, from it you can easily twist beautiful jewelry with a pastry syringe. If something went wrong, and the cream is a little liquid, add a little powdered sugar to it.

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