Bird's milk - a cake that is easy to make at home

There is no person who has not heard of cake.Bird's milk. This is one of the best works of culinary art. Recently, many different confectionery products have appeared, but the Bird's milk cake remains one of the most beloved to this day. Not everyone knows that it is easy and simple to prepare it at home.

Making cake cakes

You will need:

4 chicken eggs:
250 g of sugar (one faceted glass);
170 g of flour;
split form.

For the Bird's Milk cake, regular milk is used.sponge cake dough. To prepare it, take eggs, carefully separate the yolks from the whites. Add a little salt or a few drops of lemon juice to the whites, using this little secret, you can beat them much faster. At first, beat only the whites, after a thick fluffy foam appears, begin to add sugar or powdered sugar little by little. Then, according to the recipe, add 1 yolk at a time, continuing to beat. It is imperative to sift the flour, carefully mix it with a spatula. That's it, the dough is ready. Take a split form, grease it with butter, sprinkle with flour, pour in the dough. You can bake one large cake and then cut it in half or prepare 2 thin layers. It is best to bake at a temperature of 180º. A thick cake is baked for about 30-40 minutes, a thin one - much faster, about 7-8 minutes. You can easily determine readiness by the aroma, and also with the help of a wooden toothpick: stick it into the middle of the biscuit and pull it out, if the surface remains dry, then the cake is baked. Do not rush to take the biscuit out of the mold, let it cool down, then it will not settle.

Cooking soufflé

According to the recipe you will need:

5 chicken eggs;
350 g of sugar;
200 g of dark chocolate (for glaze);
1 sheet of gelatin.

To prepare the soufflé you will need:raw eggs without heat treatment, so you need to wash them with a brush and soda. First, soak a sheet of gelatin in cold water. Separate the yolks from the whites, put them in the freezer for 3 minutes. This is an additional precaution, it is believed that this can kill some types of bacteria. Next, add a little salt to the whites, beat them into a strong foam until "peaks", without turning off the mixer, add 1 spoon of sugar (175 g in total). You can also use powdered sugar, it dissolves much faster. To prepare bird's milk soufflé, agar-agar is used in industry, this is a natural thickener made from algae. But at home, you can do with regular gelatin, since agar-agar is not always available for sale, and it is much more expensive. Melt the swollen gelatin over low heat, let it cool. Add warm gelatin in a thin stream into the whipped egg whites. There are several recipes for making bird's milk soufflé, this one is good because it uses yolks along with the egg whites. Put a water bath on it, beat the yolks and the remaining sugar in it. It is important that the boiling water does not reach the bowl with the yolks, otherwise they will start to boil, which is highly undesirable. Combine the whipped yolk mass with the egg whites. All that remains is to assemble the cake: take a split form, put a cake layer on the bottom, pour in the soufflé, cover with a second cake layer, and put it in the refrigerator. When the bird's milk hardens, take out the cake, remove the form from it, then melt the chocolate in a water bath, grease the top and sides with a spatula. It is not difficult to make such a cake at home, it is worth trying once, and this recipe will stay in your family for a long time.