Today we suggest everyone cook for a long timethe beloved, familiar to everyone from childhood cake "Turtle". Fans of this dessert are mainly children, and you most likely guessed why. That's right, all thanks to the attractive name and external shape, reminiscent of a real turtle. Having understood the whole essence of creating this cake, you can change the fillings, add various fruits and creams, nuts and dried fruits, change the design options and thus surprise and delight your children every time. Inspiration and fantasy will tell you the right recipe.
Cake "Turtle" from Julia Vysotskaya
To begin with, I would like to offer youclassic recipe for this cake. A delicious dessert for children, which can be easily prepared at home. Despite all the external complexity, the "Turtle" cake with sour cream is quite simple to make, it is not at all difficult to prepare. Ingredients: In the dough:
- sugar - 1,5 cups
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- two glasses of flour
- 6 eggs
In cream:
- half a pack of butter
- sugar - half a glass
- 20% sour cream - 2 cups
for decoration ready-made chocolate sauce MethodPreparation: First, you will need to make a simple sponge cake dough. Beat the eggs until fluffy. Add sugar gradually, in small portions. When the sugar has dissolved completely and traces of the mixer remain, you can stop. Sift the flour with baking powder and cocoa through a fine sieve, gradually stir into the dough with a spoon. You need to make a dough that resembles pancakes in consistency. Line a baking sheet with parchment, you can use several at once, because most likely the cookies will be baked in several stages. Use a teaspoon to lay out small circles of the prepared dough, leaving a distance of 2-3 centimeters between them. Put the baking sheet in the oven (temperature 1800 C). The cookies need to be baked quickly and then they will be ready after 7-10 minutes. Using this recipe, you will get about 40 cookies. Separate the pastry from the parchment, leave about 10 layers for decoration: you will use them to make the head, tail and paws of the turtle. You will also need a few layers for the shell. Next, you will need to prepare the cream: take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance, when it softens, beat it with a mixer until fluffy, then add sugar, but only gradually. Then add sour cream to the cream. Now you will have to assemble the cake: dip each layer in sour cream, put them in a pile one on top of the other, thus building the shape of a lying turtle. Form the paws, head and tail. Beautifully lay out the biscuits in the shape of the shell. Put it in the refrigerator. After a few hours, take it out and pour the ready sauce or some other topping.
Cake "Chocolate tortoise-brunette"
It's no secret that children love chocolate andeverything from it, so this recipe is created especially for little sweet tooths. You won’t buy such a homemade cake in a store, you won’t be offered it in a cafe either. It can only be baked at home with your own hands. Its uniqueness is that it consists entirely of chocolate components, from the cakes to the decorations. Ingredients: In the dough:
- sugar - one and a half cups
- cocoa - 2 tablespoons
- flour - one and a half cups
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 5 eggs
In cream:
- 50 grams of butter
- sour cream - one and a half glasses
- cocoa - 3 tablespoons
- granulated sugar - 1 glass
Decoration:
- chocolate - 50 grams
- handful of walnut kernels
- multicolored powder - 1 pack
- chocolate dragée
Method of preparation:Making a delicious sponge cake in a hurry is not difficult at all. Moreover, the cooking process itself does not take much time: so, beat the eggs, when the mixture is fluffy and increases in volume, add sugar little by little. During the whipping process, it should completely melt. Sift the flour several times, add baking powder and cocoa powder to it. Using a spoon, add the dry mixture to the dough, carefully crushing the lumps to make it soft. Spoon out small cakes of dough onto a baking sheet covered with paper, keeping a small distance between them. Bake the cakes for no more than 10 minutes at a standard temperature (1800 C). In total, this dough is enough for 3 such baking sheets. The next step is to prepare the cream: first, mix all the dry ingredients - sugar and cocoa. Then add sour cream, put the bowl with the ingredients on the fire and stir constantly so that the chocolate cream does not burn. Do not boil the mixture - just bring to a boil, at the end throw in a piece of butter, stir and leave to cool. Take a large round dish and start laying the biscuits in a circle, generously soaking each layer with chocolate cream. Place the cakes in a pile in the shape of a turtle's body, do not forget about the tail, paws, and head, so that the cake looks most realistic. Arrange the top few cakes in a flower, do not soak them with cream, but pour thin strips of biscuits from a pastry bag. Now it's time to decorate your masterpiece. Sprinkle the cake with multi-colored sprinkles, make eyes for the turtle from dragees. Place chocolate chips and large nut kernels on the cake. Using your culinary skills and imagination, you can turn this brunette turtle into a blonde. Just do not add cocoa to the biscuit dough, and use the most ordinary sour cream, without cooking. You can pour melted white chocolate on top of this cake. In both cases, the dessert will look very beautiful.
Coffee "Turtle" with condensed milk
This recipe is another variation on the themefamous cake. In this case, the turtle also has a coffee flavor, and boiled condensed milk acts as a cream. Your children will be happy to take part in making this cake. They will get maximum pleasure with minimum effort. Ingredients: In the dough:
- 350 grams of flour
- sugar - 150 grams
- 150 grams of margarine
- vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- coffee soluble - 2 tablespoons
In cream:
- can of condensed milk
- butter - half a pack
Method of preparation:Boil the condensed milk in a can for two hours in advance. When the can has cooled, open it with a can opener, put the condensed milk in a bowl, add half a pack of softened butter, and beat with a mixer. The cream is ready. Rub the sugar with margarine and flour with your hands into crumbs. Separately beat the eggs into a fluffy foam, let the mass increase significantly in volume. Dissolve the coffee in hot water (you need very little). Combine all the resulting mixtures in one deep bowl, add vanilla sugar. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Put one teaspoon of the dough cakes separately from each other. Now the cakes need to be baked at a temperature of 1800 C until done. When they cool, separate them from the paper and get ready to assemble the cake. This is how you do it: put a circle of cakes on a large plate, coat each with condensed milk cream, gradually lay out a hill, leave a few cookies for the head, paws and tail. When the turtle is formed, decorate it as desired. Put the cake in the cold for a few hours. Enjoy!
Cake "Turtle light"
As mentioned earlier, there are many optionsThere are a great many ways to prepare this cake. What is the variety of fillings worth? The recipe for this "Turtle" is rich in dried fruits: prunes and dried apricots, and adding nuts to it, you will get a real treat. As a result, you will get an unusually tasty cake. By putting your culinary skills into practice, you can easily invent more and more new recipes for this dessert. Ingredients: In the dough:
- sugar - 1,5 cups
- cocoa - 3 teaspoons
- 2 cups of flour
- soda - 0.5 teaspoon
- 200 grams of margarine
- 5 eggs
- some vinegar
In cream:
- granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
- 0.5 liters of sour cream
- a glass of cream (fat content 35%)
For the glaze:
- cocoa - 3 tablespoons
- sugar - half a glass
- 40 grams of milk
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 30 grams of butter
For the filling:
- dried prune without pits - 100 grams
- dried apricots - 100 grams
- nuts any - 100 grams
Method of preparation:Making this cake is not difficult at all, and you will see for yourself right now. Beat the eggs with granulated sugar, add melted margarine. Quench the soda with a small amount of vinegar and mix it into the dough. Now it’s time for the flour. Sift it together with the baking powder and then add it to the dough. It should be thick in consistency. Divide the dough in half, add cocoa powder to one part. Leave the other half light. Put the adze one spoon at a time on a baking sheet covered with parchment, leaving space between the pancakes. When you bake them, they will rise and spread out a little to the sides. Put the baking sheet in the oven for 10 minutes — this time is enough for the pancakes to reach readiness. Next comes the cream: beat half a liter of thick sour cream with one and a half cups of sugar, add liquid cream and beat again. You probably already know how to make the glaze correctly: mix milk, sour cream, sugar, cocoa and cook everything for about 5 minutes. And when the glaze becomes thick, add butter to it. Basically, everything is ready. The only thing left is to assemble the cake. Place the light and chocolate pancakes on a large plate one by one, dipping each one in sour cream. Place your turtle in a pile, leave 5 pancakes for the head, paws and tail and about 7 to decorate the shell. You don’t need to dip the top cakes. It’s better to melt white and dark chocolate, place them in a pastry bag and make beautiful black and white patterns, as if emphasizing the stripes of your turtle. Leave the cake overnight so that it has time to soak.
Cake "Emerald Turtle"
This kiwi petal cake is in a moldyour child will remember the turtles better than the most delicious store-bought one. We assure you that your guests' delight, and yours, in fact, will know no bounds. Making such a cake using our step-by-step recipe is not difficult. It is prepared in a peculiar way - in a frying pan. Believe me, this recipe will serve you as a real lifesaver if you find yourself in conditions where there is no oven. So, let's look at the step-by-step version of the recipe for this cake. Ingredients: In the dough:
- 1 egg
- evaporated milk - 1 jar
- 450 grams of flour
- 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda
In cream:
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 eggs
- milk - 500 milliliters
- butter - 1 packet
- sugar - 160 grams
- vanillin
Design:
- kiwi - half a kilogram
Method of preparation:The layers for this cake are baked very quickly, so we recommend making the cream first. Just as it is cooling, you can start making the layers. Making custard is not very difficult - many housewives know how to do it.
- Step 1: So, in a saucepan mix the flour, milk, sugar, eggs and vanillin. Beat the mixture with a whisk and put on a fire. Stir, cook the cream until thick. At the end, put butter, stir and cover it, let it cool. Next, your task is to learn how to properly make such a dough, so that it can be baked in a frying pan.
- Step 2:Pour a can of condensed milk into a bowl, beat it with an egg, quench the soda with a spoon of vinegar and add to the dough. Mix in the flour in small portions, when the dough becomes quite tough and it is difficult to stir it with a spoon, transfer it to the work surface and continue kneading, gradually adding flour. Remember that the dough should be prepared so as not to clog it with flour. It should remain elastic and soft.
- Step 3: Divide the dough into 8 identical parts. Each crust is thinly rolled, approximately the size of your frying pan, nib with a fork.
- Step 4: heat the frying pan over medium heat and start the oven. It happens quite quickly - literally a minute from one side and you just need to turn it over. In the same way you need to bake all 8 cakes.
- Step 5: The next step is to trim all the uneven crusts to the size of the dish. Remains do not rush to throw away, they are still useful for sprinkling cake. Each cake make a little smaller in diameter than the previous one, so that when forming a turtle, a dome shape is obtained.
- Step 6: lay out the cakes on a round flat dish, soaking every one with a warm cream. Well lubricate the sides and top of the cake. Sprinkle it with fine crumbs from the scraps.
- Step 7: Kiwi fruits should be washed with water, peeled, cut thinly the fruit pulp. 2 pieces leave for the head, paws and tail. Petals from kiwi in a circle will decorate the entire shell of the turtle.
The cake looks very appetizing and attractive - once you've made it, you can invite guests!
Cake "Turtle" with bananas
In our country the cake is called "Turtle"is one of the most popular desserts, because it can be made at home without much effort. And next in line is the recipe for a well-known cake, which must be made from cookies, based on curd cream with the addition of bananas. The result is not only a tasty, but also a healthy treat, which can attract children who do not like cottage cheese to the table. We assure you that with this serving, they will change their attitude to this product. Ingredients:
- 500 grams of cookies
- milk - 1 glass
- sour cream - 1 glass
- cottage cheese is low-fat - 1 packet (200 grams)
- sugar - 1 glass
- chocolate - 2 tiles
- bananas - 1 kilogram
Method of preparation:First, let's say that this recipe is a quick one, without baking, based on ready-made cookies. The cake can be made from sponge, oatmeal, biscuit, shortbread cookies. Find a deep bowl with a round bottom, cover it with cling film. Dip each cookie in sweetened milk and tightly place it in the bowl. Soak with cream. Next comes a layer of sliced bananas. The recipe for curd cream is simple: grind cottage cheese with sugar, add a glass of sour cream, beat with a blender or mixer. In the same way, lay out the cookies soaked in sweet milk, spreading layers with cream, alternating with bananas until you reach the top of the bowl. Then it is advisable to put this cake in the refrigerator overnight. Before serving, turn the bowl upside down on a plate, remove the film. Form the head, tail and paws of the turtle from banana pieces. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and, putting it in a pastry bag, carefully apply patterns to the turtle shell. In search of original and interesting cakes, be sure to pay attention to the "Turtle". It may well become your signature dessert, which is remembered at any holiday.
