Children's cake with a bear
Description
Making such cakes is certainly not easy. You need to calculate the proportions correctly, otherwise you might fail and end up having to go to the store to buy a ready-made cake for the celebration. To avoid this, read the recipe carefully. Approach cake preparation with ingenuity. Choose ingredients to your taste, but don't forget the essential ones, without which the cake simply won't turn out. The baking is ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
I'll say right away that we'll need a good powerful blender. If you don't have one, use a coffee grinder. If that's not available either, you'll have to put in some effort and grind the nuts manually using a mortar and pestle. So, take walnuts and any other nuts you'd like to add to the cake—peanuts can even be used. I recommend roasting the nuts in a pan and removing their skins. Then, grind the nuts in a blender together with two tablespoons of cocoa.
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Step 2
Now we proceed to the dough. Melt or simply soften the butter and cream it with a cup of sugar. Add a cup of sour cream, baking powder, and mix. Add half of the flour portion and knead the dough.
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Step 3
Divide the dough into 2 parts, adding 2 tablespoons of cocoa to one of them. Now gradually add the remaining flour to both portions of dough until they become elastic.
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Step 4
Divide the dough of both colors into 3 parts. Roll out each ball into a thin round layer. If the dough crumbles, place it directly into the pan and stretch it with your hands over the surface. Repeat with each ball. Prick the dough in the pan with a fork and bake for 8–10 minutes at 180°C. In the end, you'll get 6 layers. If you want perfectly even layers, trim them into a circle while they're still hot. It will be difficult to do later.
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Step 5
Prepare the sour cream frosting. It's very simple. Mix one and a half cups of sour cream with one cup of sugar, or better yet, powdered sugar. I recommend using an ordinary fork or whisk. Add the mixture of nuts and cocoa to the sour cream frosting. Prepare the frosting for the top cake layer in a separate dish. Mix boiled condensed milk with sour cream and one tablespoon of cocoa. Place both types of frosting in the refrigerator.
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Step 6
Spread the cooled cake layers with white sour cream-nut cream. Cover the top layer with brown cream. Sprinkle coconut flakes to shape a little bear. Grate bitter chocolate and sprinkle it along the edges to outline the bear's shape. This step is optional, as the contrast will be good anyway. Sprinkle the cake edges with crumbs made from trimmed and ground cake pieces, or with ground nuts. The white bear cake is ready. For best results, let it chill in the refrigerator for a couple of hours before serving to allow it to absorb the flavors. Serve with hot tea!