At any feast, the cake is the main decoration.So the New Year's table is unlikely to do without it, delicious and beautiful. We love different New Year's cakes - sponge cakes, shortbread cakes, made of marshmallow and ice cream, decorated with figures of a New Year's tree and Santa Claus, sparklers and candles, big and small. And which recipe will you choose?
New Year cake Arctic
To prepare the biscuit:
- 5 yolks;
- 1/2 cup of flour;
- 50 g of sugar.
To prepare the cream:
- 200 g of cream;
- 200 g of preserves;
- 50 g of chocolate;
- 1 tbsp sugar powder.
To prepare the meringues:
- 5 egg whites;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 bag of vanillin.
Preparation: Prepare the biscuit dough:First, beat the eggs with sugar with a whisk. Then place the container in a water bath and heat to a temperature of 45-50 degrees Celsius. Then, without stopping beating, cool to room temperature and mix with sifted flour. From the prepared mass, form two cakes on paper, each of which should be about 20-25 cm in diameter. Place them in the oven and bake at a temperature of 200-210 degrees for at least 20 minutes. While the cakes are rising, prepare the meringues: beat the egg whites well, gradually adding sugar and vanillin to them. Take out the finished biscuit and put oval or round cakes of the protein mass (the size of a chicken egg) on a baking sheet lined with paper with a spoon. Bake them at a temperature of 110-120 degrees C for 25 minutes. After baking, the biscuit cakes must be cooled. Then one of them needs to be covered with a layer of jam, put a layer of meringue and cream on top, cover with the second and repeat all the layers again. Decorate the New Year's cake with cream and chocolate. As you can see, the recipe is quite easy, especially for an experienced housewife.
Cake New Year's Eve
To prepare the dough:
- 100 ml of sugar syrup;
- 4 eggs;
- 1 tablespoon of baking powder;
- 1 tbsp sugar powder;
- 120 g of butter;
- 75 g of flour;
- 100 g of almonds;
- 50 g of chocolate;
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice.
For the filling:
- 400 ml of cream;
- 600 g fresh cherries;
- 10 g of gelatin;
- 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar.
To decorate the cake:
- 250 ml of cherry juice;
- 1 packet of sugar glaze;
- 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- almond;
- chocolate.
Preparation:Combine butter with syrup and beat well, add yolks, flour, almonds, grated chocolate and baking powder. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. The recipe calls for baking at 200 degrees - you need to preheat the oven to this temperature. Line the bottom of a springform pan with paper. Pour the dough into it, place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Beat the whites with powdered sugar. After the specified time, remove the cake from the oven, cool and cut into two layers. Whip the cream well, add powdered sugar and dissolved gelatin (prepare it according to the recipe on the package). Place the cherries on the bottom layer, put three-quarters of the cream on top and cover with the top layer. Cool in the refrigerator. While the layers are soaking and cooling, prepare the decorations for the cake. To do this, mix powdered sugar, icing and cherry juice, bring it all to a boil, cook for one minute and remove from heat. Cover the New Year's cake with the resulting icing and cool for 15 minutes. Then grease the edges with whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Decorate the cake with the remaining cream and put it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, melt the chocolate in a water bath, pour it into a parchment bag, cut off the tip, and draw the desired patterns. However, in the matter of decoration, you can not only rely on the recipe, but also come up with your own options.
Lemon cake with champagne
To prepare it you will need:
- 750 ml cream;
- 500 ml of champagne;
- 1 ready biscuit cake;
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar;
- juice of half a lemon;
- 2 bags of lemon dessert cream;
- 6 leaves of white gelatin;
- 2 lemons;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 120 ml of water.
Preparation:Dissolve gelatin in cold water, mix with the cream prepared according to the instructions, cool until jelly forms. Whip the cream with vanilla sugar until fluffy. Place 1/3 of the resulting mass in a pastry bag with a star-shaped nozzle and refrigerate. Add the remaining cream to the cream. Spread the cake with cream and refrigerate. Boil water with sugar. Dip lemons cut into thin slices into the resulting syrup, boil them, remove from heat and cool. Decorate the surface of the cake with stars made of chilled cream. Cut the lemons, turn the edges in different directions and place them on patterns of cream. By the way, you can make the recipe more original and choose other citrus fruits for decoration.
Cake New Year Dreams
For the test:
- 3 tiles of white chocolate;
- a glass of almonds (flakes);
- a bag of decorative dragées;
- 6 eggs;
- a glass of fatty cream;
- 2 tablespoons flour;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 0,5 cups of breading;
- 1 tbsp sugar powder;
- baking powder.
For the filling:
- 300 g of freshly frozen raspberries;
- 2 tablespoon of starch.
Preparation:Heat the chocolate in a water bath until smooth. After cooling, place it in a pastry bag with a narrow tip. Squeeze a few "peas" onto a baking sheet covered with foil, sprinkle them with decorative dragees on top and put them in the refrigerator. Roast the almond flakes in the oven until golden brown, cool and grind. Then mix with flour, baking powder and breading. To prepare the cakes, use 23 cm diameter molds. Grease them with fat and cover with baking paper. Separate the whites from the yolks and beat them into a thick foam. Pour 150 g of sugar into it and beat again. Grind the yolks until white with the remaining sugar. Pour the whipped whites into the almond and flour mixture, mix until smooth and distribute the dough among the molds. Bake the cakes at 140 degrees C for 15 minutes. While the cake base is rising, prepare the filling: defrost the berries and pass them through a sieve, add 1 tablespoon of water and 2 tablespoons of starch to the raspberry puree, mix thoroughly and bring to a boil. Beat the cream with powdered sugar using a mixer. Place the cooled cake upside down on a plate, put half of the filling on it and spread it over the entire surface, cover with a second cake, the surface of which is also greased with raspberry filling, cover with a third cake. Put the cream on the very top, smooth it over the entire surface and decorate with chocolate "peas". Again, you can "refresh" the recipe with other berries, for example, the same strawberries.
Cake for the New Year Winter Cherry
For the test:
- 4 eggs;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 1 lemon peel;
- 100 g of flour;
- 100 g of starch;
- a pinch of salt.
For the cream:
- 200 g of sugar;
- 200 g of butter;
- 200 g of orange confiture;
- 250 ml of milk;
- 4 tablespoons of cherry liqueur (you can have vodka);
- a vanilla pod;
- 2 tablespoons of starch.
To decorate the cake:
- 6 slices of orange candied fruit;
- 50 g of chocolate;
- 50 g of toasted almond leaves;
- 10-12 pieces of cherry berries (canned).
Preparation:Beat the egg yolks with 4 tablespoons of boiled water. Add salt, 100 g of sugar and grated lemon zest. Beat the whites into a fluffy foam, gradually adding the remaining sugar, put on the yolk mass. Sift flour and starch on top, knead the dough and put it in a mold, first covering it with paper. The recipe involves baking in an oven preheated to 200 degrees C for about 40 minutes. Then take the biscuit out and cool on a wire rack. Dip the vanilla pod, cut in half, into the heated milk and bring to a boil, then immediately remove it. Dilute the starch in a small amount of water and, stirring, pour into the milk. As soon as it thickens, cool in a cold water bath. Carefully add the butter and liqueur beaten with sugar to the well-cooled milk mass. Cut the cooled sponge cake into three layers, spread two of them with 1/3 of the cream and 1/2 of the jam. Stack the spread layers on top of each other, cover with the third layer. Spread the surface and edges of the cake with half of the remaining cream, and place the other half in a pastry bag with a star-shaped nozzle. Squeeze out 12 roses, placing a berry in the center. Sprinkle the edges of the cake with almond leaves. Place orange slices cut in half between these cream decorations, having previously dipped one edge in melted chocolate. Instead of roses, you can make New Year's patterns, for example, snowflakes or stars. Put the finished New Year's cake in the refrigerator. We recommend reading: