Monkey Pastries
Description
To make "Monkey" pastries, bake a low sponge cake using your favorite recipe. You can also bake half of a tall sponge cake recipe, then cut the cooled cake into pieces and assemble them into little faces using cream as glue! Good luck. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for the pastries. To make it clearer which ingredients go where, I've visually separated them. On the left – for the cream, on the right – for the dough.
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Step 2
Take a convenient deep container for whisking. You can use a whisk or a mixer. Beat the egg with sugar until fluffy foam forms.
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Step 3
Pour in the full-fat kefir and continue mixing.
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Step 4
Add the flour, cocoa, and baking soda (neutralize it). Mix the ingredients until smooth.
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Step 5
The dough is ready.
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Step 6
Grease the multicooker pot with odorless oil, pour in the batter. Place the pot into the machine, select the "Baking" mode, set the time to 45 minutes. Start.
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Step 7
While the sponge cake is baking, you can prepare the cream. Combine cold sour cream (with a fat content of at least 21%) with sour cream stabilizer and powdered sugar. Beat with a mixer until smooth and creamy.
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Step 8
Cover the finished cream tightly and refrigerate.
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Step 9
Remove the finished biscuit from the pot. Cool completely on a wire rack. Cut it into two parts (to make two layers). Using a cookie cutter like in the photo, cut out shapes from the biscuit.
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Step 10
You should get 7 cake bases from each cake layer. Soak each base with sweet syrup or jam.
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Step 11
We start assembling the pastries. Spread cream on all the prepared bases.
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Step 12
Cover with the second halves.
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Step 13
And use the cream to draw eyes, ears, and a face. From the remaining biscuit, cut out pieces for the eyes and mouth, and place them into the cream. Optionally, sprinkle the cream with coconut flakes. The pastries are ready!
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Step 14
Serve the pastries with tea!