These days I have had a difficult task: to make a cake for my daughter's twentieth birthday. He was a months asking me that the cake would have done, and I make cakes that I manage (thanks to suggestions from the web), but I have zero manual for decorations and the like, I have long fought against the storm of doubt ... and I finally decided on a Sacher cake and a sponge cake filled with cream, decorated with Hello Kitty (so beloved by my daughter).
For Sacher I used as the basis of the Doughnut Wonders of Wired New York that I find delicious.
INGREDIENTS: 2 eggs
- 150 gr sugar 170 gr flour 70 gr cocoa
- 20 ml coffee
- 180 g yoghurt
- vanilla 1 / 2 jar filled with corn oil
- 2 / 3 of a packet of baking powder
For the filling:
- 150 g apricot jam
For the frosting :
- 150 g dark chocolate 100 gr
- whipping cream 1 tablespoon icing sugar
procedure: for the base I put all the ingredients in the mixer, thereby obtaining a soft and smooth, I then poured into a mold (24 cm in diameter) covered with parchment paper, and I baked at 180 ° C for 35-40 minutes.
I left it to cool, and cut in half I stuffed with melted jam before the fire. I finally coated with glaze obtained by putting the fire in a double chocolate pieces, cream and sugar (mix well together when everything is ready).
We ate breakfast and had ... really good ... try it!
The other dessert we instead ate at the dinner in honor of the birthday girl, and it was a great success, mainly for decoration. To achieve that I used a basic lemon cake, which is always very spongy.
INGREDIENTS:
- 200 gr flour 50 g starch
- 200 g sugar 3 eggs
- 100 g corn oil 50 ml milk
- juice and zest of one lemon
- a sachet of baking powder For the filling
: custard (500 ml of milk, 4 egg yolks, 70 g wheat starch, lemon peel) and pineapple juice.
To decorate: sugar paste, sugar, color pink, Hello Kitty.
procedure: for the base beat with a whisk eggs with sugar, add juice and grated rind of lemon, oil and milk. Add the sifted flour with starch and yeast, then put the mixture in a rectangular mold, buttered and floured (250x45 cm). Bake at 180 ° C for 30 minutes. I prepared by combining the cream in a saucepan the yolks, sugar and starch from wheat, flavored with lemon peel and diluted with cold milk. Stirring constantly with a whisk I brought to a boil.
I cut the cake in half and I have bathed with pineapple juice, I've now filled with cold cream and covered with the PDZ (which I bought for time), first worked with his hands to soften , then colored with pink and spread with a rolling pin. I then covered the cake with the PDZ el 'I've always decorated with hearts of white sugar paste and a Hello Kitty in that space.
promise that the next time I'll make home made sugar paste!
Here are the photos ...
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