Today we offer to cook all long agoloved, familiar to each of the childhood cake "Turtle". Fans of this dessert are mostly children, and you most likely guessed why. It's true, all thanks to an attractive name and an external form reminiscent of a real turtle. After understanding the essence of creating this cake, you can change the filling, add to it various fruits and creams, nuts and dried fruits, change the design options and thus surprise each time and delight your children. Inspiration and fantasy will tell you the right recipe. 
Cake "Turtle" from Julia Vysotskaya
First I would like to offer youthe classic 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 in execution, it's not difficult to cook at all. Ingredients: In dough:
- sugar - 1,5 cups
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- two glasses of flour
- 6 eggs
In the cream:
- half a pack of butter
- sugar - half a glass
- 20% sour cream - 2 cups
for decorating ready-made chocolate sauce MethodPreparation: First you need to make a simple biscuit dough. Whip eggs in a lush foam. Sugar pour gradually, in small portions. When the sugar dissolves completely, and the mixer remains traces, you can stop. Flour with baking powder and cocoa, sift through a fine sieve, gradually spoon into the dough. It is necessary to prepare a dough, in a consistency reminiscent of pancakes. Spread a baking tray with parchment, you can just a few, because, most likely, biscuits will be baked in several stages. With a teaspoon lay out small circles from the prepared dough, leaving a distance of 2-3 centimeters between them. Send the baking sheet to the oven (temperature 1800 C). Korzhiki need to bake quickly and then they will be ready after 7-10 minutes. Using this recipe, you will get about 40 biscuits. Separate the pastry from the parchment, leave just 10 pieces of cake for registration: from them you lay out the head, tail and paws of the turtle. Also a few pieces will go to the shell. Next, you need to make a cream: get out of the refrigerator beforehand, when it softens, whip it with a mixer in a lush mass, then enter the sugar, but only gradually. Then add sour cream to the cream. Now you have to build the cake: dipping each biscuit into sour cream, spread them with a slide one on top of the other, while building the shape of a lying turtle. Form the paws, head and tail. Beautifully lay biscuits in the shape of shell. Send it to the refrigerator. After a few hours, take out and pour the prepared sauce or some other topping. 
Cake "Chocolate tortoise-brunette"
It's no secret that children love chocolate andall of it, so this recipe is created specifically for small sweet tooth. Such a home-made cake you do not buy in the store, you will not be offered it in the cafe. You can bake it only at home with your own hands. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it consists entirely of chocolate components, from the cake to the decorations. Ingredients: In dough:
- sugar - one and a half cups
- cocoa - 2 tablespoons
- flour - one and a half cups
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 5 eggs
In the 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
Cooking method: Make a delicious biscuit in a hurry will not be difficult. Moreover, the process of cooking does not take much time: so, beat the eggs when the mixture is lush and increase in volume, add a little sugar. In the process of whipping, it must completely melt. Sift several times the flour, add to it a baking powder and cocoa powder. Spoon the loose mixture into the dough, carefully crushing the lumps to cook it soft. On a baking sheet, place a small spoon with a spoon of dough, keeping a short distance between them. The biscuit oven should be no more than 10 minutes at a standard temperature (1800 C). In total this test is enough for 3 such baking trays. The next step is to prepare the cream: first mix all the dry ingredients - sugar and cocoa. Then add sour cream, put a bowl of 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 a piece of butter, stir and leave to cool. Take a large round dish and begin to lay biscuits in a circle, each layer generously soaked with chocolate cream. Lay the crusts in the form of a turtle body, do not forget about the tail, paws, and head, so that the cake looks the most realistic. Top a few cakes with a flower, do not soak the cream, and pour thin biscuits from the pastry bag. Now it's time to decorate your masterpiece. Sprinkle the cake with a multicolored powder, from the dragee, make tortoise eyes. Arrange the chocolate chips and large kernels of nuts on the cake. Using his culinary abilities and imagination, you can turn this turtle-brunette into a blonde. Just do not add cocoa to the biscuit dough, and use the cream of the usual sour cream, without cooking. From above you can pour such a cake with melted white chocolate. In both cases, the dessert will look very nice.
Coffee "Turtle" with condensed milk
This recipe is another variation on the themefamous cake. In this case, the turtle also has a coffee taste, and boiled condensed milk is used as a cream. In the preparation of this cake, your children will be happy to participate. They will get maximum pleasure with a minimum of effort. Ingredients: In dough:
- 350 grams of flour
- sugar - 150 grams
- 150 grams of margarine
- vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- coffee soluble - 2 tablespoons
In the cream:
- can of condensed milk
- butter - half a pack
Cooking method: Pre-cook the condensed milk in the jar for two hours. When the bank has cooled down, open it with a can opener, transfer the condensed milk into a bowl, add half-packs of softened butter, whisk together with a mixer. The cream is ready. Sugar with margarine and flour rub your hands in a crumb. Separately, whisk the eggs into a lush foam, let the mass increase significantly in volume. Dissolve coffee in hot water (it needs very little). Mix all the mixes in one deep bowl, add the vanilla sugar. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Spread a single teaspoon of separately dough pieces from each other. Now the cakes should be baked at a temperature of 1800 C until ready. When they cool down, separate from the paper and get ready to collect the cake. Do this as follows: on a large plate lay a circle of cakes, each coated with cream of condensed milk, so gradually lay out the hill, leave a few biscuits for the head, paws and tail. When the turtle is formed, decorate it at will. Put the cake into the cold for a few hours. Bon Appetit! 
Cake "Turtle light"
As mentioned earlier, optionsThe preparation of this cake is great. That only there is a variety of toppings. 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 delicious cake. Applying your culinary skills, you can easily invent more and more recipes for this dessert. Ingredients: In 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 the cream:
- granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
- 0.5 liters of sour cream
- a glass of cream (fat content 35%)
In the glaze:
- cocoa - 3 tablespoons
- sugar - half a glass
- 40 grams of milk
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 30 grams of butter
In the filling:
- dried prune without pits - 100 grams
- dried apricots - 100 grams
- nuts any - 100 grams
Cooking method: Doing this cake is not difficult at all, and now you will see this. Whisk the eggs with sugar, add to them melted margarine. Soda is extinguished with a small amount of vinegar and stir in the dough. Now it's flour. It must be sifted with the baking powder, and then added to the dough. The consistency should be thick. Divide the dough in half, add cocoa powder to one part. Leave the other half bright. Spread the adzo on one spoon on a baking sheet covered with parchment, leaving the distance between the pancakes. When you bake them, they will rise and spread out a little. Put the baking tray on the oven for 10 minutes - this time the pancakes will be enough to achieve readiness. On the turn of the cream: half a liter of thick sour cream whisk with a half cup of sugar, add liquid cream and whisk repeatedly. You probably already know how to properly prepare the glaze: to do this, mix milk, sour cream, sugar, cocoa and cook all about 5 minutes. And when the glaze becomes thick, add oil to it. In principle, everything is ready. The case for small - you just need to collect the cake. On a large dish, lay out in turn the light then chocolate pancakes, dipping each in sour cream. Lay out your tortoise with a hill, leave 5 pancakes for the head, paws and tail and pieces 7 for the shell design. Top cakes do not need to be dipped. It is better to melt the white and black chocolate, put it in a confectioner's bag and make beautiful black and white patterns, as if emphasizing the striping of your turtle. Leave the cake for the night so that it can soak.
Cake "Emerald Turtle"
This cake with kiwi petals in the form of a turtleyour child will remember better than the most delicious purchased. We assure you that the delight of your guests, and yours, in fact, there will be no limit. To make such a cake, using our step-by-step recipe, will not be difficult. It is prepared in a peculiar way - on a frying pan. Believe me, such a recipe will serve you as a real wand if you are in an environment where there is no oven. So, let's look at the step-by-step version of the recipe for this cake. Ingredients: In dough:
- 1 egg
- evaporated milk - 1 jar
- 450 grams of flour
- 1 teaspoon of hydrated soda
In the cream:
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 eggs
- milk - 500 milliliters
- butter - 1 packet
- sugar - 160 grams
- vanillin
Decor:
- kiwi - half a kilogram
Cooking method: The cakes for this cake are baked very quickly, so we recommend to make a cream first. Just while it will cool down, it will be possible to proceed to the cakes. Preparing the 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: in a bowl, pour out a jar of condensed milk, whisk it with the egg, squeeze the soda with a spoonful of vinegar and add to the dough. Mix the flour in small portions, when the dough becomes rather tight and it will be difficult to stop the spoon, put it on the work surface and continue to mix, gradually adding flour. Remember that the dough should be cooked so that it does not get stuck 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 - after making it, you can invite guests! 
Cake "Turtle" with bananas
In our country, a cake called "Turtle"is one of the most popular desserts, because it can be done at home without much difficulty. And on the turn the recipe for all the famous cake, which must be cooked from cookies, based on curd cream with the addition of bananas. As a result, it turns out not only a tasty, but useful treat, which can attract children to the table who do not like cottage cheese. We assure you, with such a presentation, 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
Cooking method: First of all, let's note that this recipe is among the fast, without baking, based on the finished cookie. Cake can be prepared from biscuit, as well as from oatmeal, gallet, shortbread cookie. Find yourself a deep bowl with a round bottom, cover it with food film. Each pechenyushku dip in sweetened milk and put it in a bowl. Saturate with cream. Next comes a layer of chopped bananas. The recipe for the curd cream is simple: rub cottage cheese with sugar, add a glass of sour cream, whisk with a blender or a mixer. In the same way, spread the biscuits soaked with sweet milk, layering the layers with cream, alternating with the bananas, until you reach the top of the bowl. Then this cake is preferably stored in the refrigerator for the night. Before serving, turn the bowl upside down on the dish, remove the film. Form a piece of bananas head, tail and paws turtle. On the steam bath, melt the chocolate and, folding it into a confectioner's bag, carefully apply the patterns to the tortoise shell. In search of original and interesting cakes, please pay attention to the "Turtle". It can well become your crown dessert, which is remembered at any celebration.
