Cake
Description
This "Wallet" cake makes a wonderful, delicious homemade gift. In fact, it's not as difficult to prepare as it seems—just patience and some skill are required. If you don't have an edible printer, you can make the money decorations out of fondant instead, and for a shiny surface, wipe it with vodka. Serve with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. I always prepare this cake in two ways: with honey layers or sponge cake layers. This time I decided not to break the tradition and made honey layers. So, mix butter with sugar, baking powder, and flour, add honey, and place the mixture over heat or a water bath. Cook the dough, then remove from heat. Divide it into portions, roll each portion into a square shape, and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees. For the cream, I mix butter with condensed milk until smooth. Practically any cream will work well for this cake. Spread cream over all the layers.
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Step 2
2. Add fried and crushed nuts to the center. Peanuts or walnuts would go well.
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Step 3
3. I usually mix the trimmings with leftover cream, and use the resulting homogeneous mixture like spackle to coat the cake's surface.
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Step 4
4. Melt the chocolate and whisk it together with the butter. Then, spread the resulting mixture over all the edges. I use a spatula-like pastry scraper.
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Step 5
5. Once all sides of our cake layers are coated, place the cake in the refrigerator to set. This takes me from one to one and a half hours.
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Step 6
6. Now roll out the gum paste and create a skin texture on it (I dab with a sponge), resulting in a texture identical to skin.
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Step 7
7. Working with fondant is actually very easy. This is how the cake looks with the "skin" effect under the fondant. If you don't have an edible printer, you can order edible money from a pastry shop or make it yourself using fondant.
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Step 8
8. To make the surface shine, I usually wipe it with vodka. Put our cake in the refrigerator to set, after which it will be ready to serve.