Luntik Cake is a good idea for little fans of the lunar creation from a fun cartoon. How to cook and decorate a festive treat - below are the best recipes, design tips and culinary secrets for the successful implementation of the idea.
Material Content:
Luntik cake from mastic
Mastic is a unique confectionery material that allows you to realize any fantasies in the design of the cake. You can make a cake from mastic according to the following recipe.
Ingredients:
- 100 g of honey;
- 200 g of natural butter;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 100 g of walnuts;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 4 cups flour;
- baking powder.
Knead the dough from the prepared ingredients, roll the cakes thinly and bake at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Dough preparation technology below.
- Melt the honey and butter for a couple.
- Beat eggs with sugar separately. It is better to use powder - cakes are more airy and soak faster.
- Pour the egg mixture, gradually interfering, into a container with melted butter and honey.
- Continuously stirring to add 1/2 prepared flour, chopped nuts and baking powder.
- Cool slightly and mix thoroughly with the second half of the flour.
- Cool the dough, and bake cakes up to 10 mm thick. The thinner the cake, the faster it will be saturated with cream.
The cream is prepared from the following ingredients:
- fat sour cream (0.5 L);
- 1 cup sugar.
When everything is ready, you can apply cream and collect the cake. The final part is decorations.
- First, cover the cake with a sheet of mastic.
- Separately fashion a figure of Luntik.
- Separately, additional decor elements - number, flowers.
- Position and fix the figures and other components of the decor using pastry glue.
Send the finished cake from the mastic to the refrigerator for 6-8 hours, after which you can begin to use it.
Cream dessert
An alternative is a cream cake with a biscuit base, which can be prepared 2 times faster, and for decoration you do not need to be able to work with mastic.
Ingredients for cakes:
- 6 eggs;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 2-2.5 cups flour;
- baking powder.
The dough is prepared quickly - you need to beat the sugar and eggs to a foam, without turning off the mixer, mix the flour and baking powder. Pour the finished, batter into the mold and send it to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake until cooked (20-25 minutes). While the cake is baking, you can prepare cream for cakes and decorations.
Ingredients for cream cake:
- cream (0.5 l);
- 2 cups of sugar.
Beat until foam, and when the finished and cut cakes are cooled - grease them and collect the cake. For decoration, you should use a protein custard.
- Beat whites with sugar at the rate of 1 cup per 10 eggs.
- Continue whisking for 5-7 minutes in a water bath.
- Cool, add a little more sugar, lemon juice and colorings.
- Beat again.
From the resulting cream with the help of various nozzles of the confectionery syringe, the basis should be made - to completely cover the cake. Draw the contours of Luntik and inside fill with colored cream, drawing the rest of the elements.
Cooking with Gingerbread Cookies
The fastest option is a gingerbread cake, which can be thematically decorated with mastic figures, a waffle picture or cream decor in the Luntik style.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of gingerbread;
- 400 ml sour cream;
- thickener for cream;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- banana;
- ½ cup walnuts.
Step by step recipe:
- Cut the gingerbread cookies lengthwise into halves.
- Beat sour cream with sugar and thickener.
- Lay a layer of gingerbread in a form covered with cling film.
- Grease a lot of cream.
- Lay a layer of sliced banana.
- Grease the cream again.
- Lay the final layer of gingerbread and pour the rest of the cream.
- Send for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
When the cake has hardened, you can turn it over on a dish, remove the form and cling film and proceed with decorating.
Luntik Cake
Children's cake in the form of Luntik can be prepared according to the classic recipe from a biscuit with fruit filling. After baking, cut a suitable shape with a sharp knife, and decorate with mastic.
Step-by-step instruction.
- Bake 2 round biscuits - small and large.
- Cut, grease and lay the filling into 2 separate cakes.
- Use a small cake to form the head, and a large cake to form the torso.
- Form arms, legs and ears from the remaining scraps.
When the cake is assembled, you should prepare the mastic of the following colors:
- pink (basic, it needs a lot);
- a little white (for eyes, arms and legs);
- raspberry (make hands, legs, blush and ears);
- black for the eyes.
Other mastic colors can be used as a complement. The main pink mass needs to be warmed up and rolled out - it will fit the cake. After trimming, form the remaining elements.
With edible picture
For those who do not just paint with cream or work with mastic, there is a simple solution - ready-made bright pictures that you just need to stick on the top cake. Cake with Luntik and his friends, printed on a waffle picture, can be prepared according to any recipe.
It is important that the cream on the top cake is creamy or protein - the picture will not stick to other mixtures, and there is a risk that it will get wet.
Step-by-step instructions for drawing a picture.
- Trim the picture if it doesn't fit the size.
- Gently stick on the surface of the cake (immediately on the cream).
- Coat with confectionery gel.
- Treat the edges with colored or white cream.
The picture on the cake does not change color, does not get wet if it is applied in accordance with all the rules.
How to make a cake beautifully
Making a cake for a children's holiday is the final part. You need to start decorating the main dessert no later than 2 hours before the holiday.
To do this, determine:
- plot;
- design (invent yourself or copy the finished idea);
- type of design (cream, mastic or finished decor).
You can implement any idea, but it is important to remember that the products used for decoration are combined with the basic composition of the cake. Inspiration, creativity and efforts will help to make an unforgettable dessert for a child who will give the holiday a fabulous atmosphere!
