Soviet cakes were made according to GOSTs, which clearly prescribed the quantity of all ingredients and the cooking algorithm. Each cake turned out the same, but tasty and correct. Even now, most factories tend to adhere to the old GOSTs, as they provide a guarantee of quality products.
Over time, cakes became much more on the confectionery market
.
Napoleons, Prague, bento cakes appeared. It is difficult to surprise a modern person with a monotypical cake.
Therefore, it is worth learning to prepare homemade cakes as in the USSR. For example, you can make a cake “Turtle”.
Ingredients of sponge cake for the cake “Turtle”:
- Egg – 6 pcs;
- Sugar – 200 g;
- Salt – 1 g;
- Flour – 270 g.
Ingredients for the cream:
- Sour cream 20% – 400 g;
- Village sour cream – 400 g;
- Sugar – 300 g;
- Vanillin – 1 g.
Ingredients for chocolate glaze:
- Chocolate – 100 g;
- Butter – 50 g.
Preparation of the cake “Turtle”:
Break eggs in a bowl, pour salt and sugar, beat with a mixer to a fluffy white foam. Sift the flour in advance and pour in parts into the egg mixture, knead a thick dough with your hands. It
is not desirable to use a mixer to knead the dough, as all the air bubbles will leave the biscuit
.
Put the parchment on a
baking
tray, spoon the dough scones onto the surface and
bake the scones at 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes. Put the second part of the dough in a pastry bag, drop off small scones on the baking tray in the parchment.
Bake the cookies
in the
same way as the scones
.
For the cream, mix both types of sour cream, sugar and vanillin in a blender bowl to a creamy consistency.
Set 8 cookies aside for decoration. Roll each scone in the cream. Place the creamed scones on a flat plate to form a large bump.
Brush the bump with the remaining cream.
Place cookies for decoration in the places where the paws, head and tail of the turtle should be. Place
the shell from bottom to top. Fill the shell cavities with the cream left in the pastry bag.
Cover the cake with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
For the glaze, melt the chocolate in the microwave in small intervals of 5-10 seconds. Add butter to the chocolate and mix until the glaze is thick.
Put the glaze into a pastry bag and decorate the cake.
You get a delicious and unusual cake “Turtle”. The decoration of this cake will definitely appeal to children.
