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

There is no person who would not hear about a bird's cakemilk. This is one of the best works of culinary art. Recently, a lot of a variety of confectionery products have appeared, but the bird's milk cake still remains one of the most beloved to this day. Not everyone knows that cooking it at home is easy and simple.

Making cake cakes

It will take:

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

For cake, poultry milk uses the usualbiscuit dough. For its preparation, take eggs, carefully separate the yolks from the proteins. Add a little bit of salt or a few drops of lemon juice to squirrels, using this little secret, you can whip them much faster. First, whisk only one of the proteins, after a thick lush foam appears, start adding sugar or powdered sugar. Next for the recipe, enter 1 egg yolk, whilst continuing to beat. It is necessary to sift the flour without fail, it is gently padded with a spatula. That's all, the dough is ready. Take the detachable form, grease it with butter, sprinkle with flour, pour the dough. You can bake one large cake and then cut it in half or prepare 2 thin layers. Bake is best at a temperature of 180º. Thick cakes are baked for about 30-40 minutes, thin - much faster, about 7-8 minutes. Readiness is easy to determine by the fragrance, 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 out the biscuit from 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 a soufflé will be usedraw eggs without heat treatment, so you need to wash them with a brush and soda. First of all, soak a sheet of gelatin in cold water. Separate yolks from proteins, put them for 3 minutes in the freezer. This is an additional precaution, it is believed that it is possible to kill some types of bacteria. Next, add a little bit of salt to the squirrels, beat them in strong foam to "peaks", without turning off the mixer, add sugar for 1 spoon (total 175 g). You can also use powdered sugar, it dissolves much faster. To prepare the soufflé, the bird's milk in the industry is used agar-agar, it is a natural thickener made from algae. But at home, you can do with the usual gelatin, as agar-agar can not always be found on sale, and it costs much more. Melt the gelatin on a slow fire, let it cool. In a thin trickle, enter warm gelatin into whipped whites. There are several recipes for soufflé poultry, this is good because yolks are used along with proteins. Put a water bath, whisk on it yolks and the remaining sugar. It is important that boiling water does not reach the bowl with yolks, otherwise they will start to cook, which is extremely undesirable. Combine the whipped yolk mass with proteins. It remains to collect the cake: take the split shape, put the cake on the bottom, pour out the souffle, cover with the second crust, put in the refrigerator. When the bird's milk is solidified, remove the cake, remove the form from it, then melt the chocolate in the water bath, apply top and sides with a spatula. Prepare a cake at home is not a big deal, it is worth trying once, and this recipe will stay in your family for a long time.