Cake for New Year 2022
Description
The recipe won’t take much time. For the New Year’s table, you don’t have to buy a cake in the store—you can make it at home. Believe me, you’ll get a dessert that is far more beautiful and tastier than a store-bought one. You just need to put in a little effort. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the listed ingredients.
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Step 2
Crack 4 chicken eggs into the bowl of a food processor or mixer, add 150 grams of granulated sugar and a pinch of salt. Beat for about 4–5 minutes until fluffy and foamy. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
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Step 3
Gently fold 130 grams of wheat flour into the egg mixture.
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Step 4
Grease the pan with vegetable oil or butter, pour the batter into it, and bake the sponge cake in the oven for about 25–30 minutes. Then remove it and turn the pan on its side so the baked cake does not collapse while cooling. Let the sponge cake cool. Bake another sponge cake in the same way using the remaining batter ingredients. Let it cool. The photo shows a sponge cake from a 20 cm diameter pan.
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Step 5
Combine sugar, water, and lemon juice for soaking in a ladle or saucepan. Heat for about 2–3 minutes until the granulated sugar dissolves.
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Step 6
Place sour cream of any fat content into the bowl of a food processor, add sugar and a sour cream thickener. Whip for about 2–4 minutes until thick.
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Step 7
The sour cream frosting should hold on the whisk.
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Step 8
Place 5 tbsp. of cream into separate bowls or dessert cups. Add black food coloring to one of them, and orange to the other, and mix thoroughly. Transfer the creams into piping bags. Also put the white cream into a bag, about 6–7 tbsp.
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Step 9
Cut both sponge cakes in half horizontally so that you get 4 cake layers. Put some of the cream and the first layer on a plate. Thanks to the cream, it will not “slide” around on the plate. Then drizzle the layer with the soaking syrup and spread some of the sour cream frosting. Place the second layer, soak it, cover with cream, and so on.
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Step 10
Soak the fourth cake layer on a board or in a plate, press it with your hands, and shape the tiger’s brow ridges, broad nose, and cheeks or whiskers from it, placing them onto the third greased cake layer. Cover everything with sour cream frosting.
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Step 11
Then draw the eyebrows themselves with black cream under the brow ridges, and make the pupil, stepping back slightly from the eyebrows. Make an orange circle around the pupil, then a white one. Put two white dots of cream on each pupil as highlights. Outline the eye from below with black cream like a rim.
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Step 12
Fill the nose halfway with orange cream; also spread this cream under the eyes up to the eyebrows, on the back of the head, and a little on the sides of the cake layers.
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Step 13
Draw the nose with black cream—a triangle with the point facing downward. From it, draw a line downward and draw two lines under the sponge cheeks in different directions. Cover the cheeks with white cream, imitating fur. Cover part of the cheeks on the sides with white cream, and the eyebrows as well. With black cream, draw dots on the cheeks like whiskers. Make lines on the orange forehead and around the muzzle itself.
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Step 14
Insert small round cookies on the sides of the head. Spread orange cream on them. Draw fur-like patterns with white and black cream. Make the chin of the muzzle and the tuft with white cream. Cover the sides of the cake with orange cream. The tiger is ready!
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Step 15
Place the cake in the refrigerator for 2–3 hours to soak. Before serving, trim it if necessary.