On New Year's eve, the kitchen is too much trouble, but without the most beautiful cake - nothing! Of course, a special chic is homemade baking, but where to get the strength and time for it?
Do not worry. There are a lot of simple and quick recipes in world culinary: "There will be a holiday on our street too!"
Housewives who do not have enough experience in the confectionery art have a fear that they may not work out and the festive mood will be spoiled. But, as they say: "The eyes are afraid, but the hands do!"
New Year's cake: simple recipes - basic technological principles
What is important for the New Year's cake? Ease of preparation and assimilation, as well as - festive decoration. With an abundance of delicious dishes on the main table, meringue cakes, jelly, cottage cheese - just right! They are not as nutritious and high-calorie as, say, butter biscuit. Ease of execution can be provided by a recipe without baking or in the style of anthill, broken glass - any recipe that does not require large time and emotional costs, such that it works for sure.
Of course, if there is no experience in decorating, then this issue will have to work more. But certain tricks will help to cope with this task: in the confectionery departments they sell colored dragees, marmalade, marshmallows, cookies with icing and many beautiful and tasty elements of the future decor for the "finest hour" of the hostess of the festive table. Choose what you need. Take your time and pick sweets so that they are combined with cakes and cream.
Some simple decorations will have to be made independently. Let's not lose time - let's get started!
1. New Year's cake: simple recipes. Light curdless fruit cake without baking
Products:
Homemade cottage cheese 500 g
Oil (82.5%) 150 g
Milk 100 ml
Vanillin 5 g
Powder 220 g
Gelatin 20 g
Fruit juice, strawberry 300 ml
Strawberry 0.5 kg
Sugar Syrup 100 g
Egg white 3 pcs.
Agar 5 g
For decoration: colored marmalade
Cooking Technology:
Wipe fat cottage cheese through a sieve, add softened butter and beat in a lush mass, adding powder (120 g), and then gelatin (10 g) dissolved in milk. Transfer to a detachable form and place in the refrigerator for solidification. The basis for the cake is ready.
Heat the juice to 90 ° C. Add agar and berries. Pour the jelly into another form, the same diameter as the form with the curd base. Put fruit jelly on the base when both masses are well cured.
Beat the chilled proteins until a stable foam is added with the remaining powder and vanilla powder. Dissolve 10 g of gelatin in 100 ml of boiled water, strain and pour into a protein cream in a thin stream, continuing to whip the mass. Immediately transfer the finished cream to a pastry bag and place it on the cake, filling out the edge and sides of the cake. Garnish with thin slices of green marmalade on top. Soak the finished cake again in the refrigerator until the protein cream has set. After an hour, the cake can be served.
2. New Year's cake: simple recipes. Fantasy cake, without baking
Products:
Meringues 500 g
Nuts (any) 200 g
Chocolate 150 g
Oil 250 g
For cream:
Milk 0.4 L
Cocoa 30 g
Sugar 180 g
Vanilla 4 g
Cognac 75 ml
Yolks 3 pcs.
2 eggs
Flour 50 g
Cooking Technology:
Prepare a split mold (o28 cm), grease it with oil. Line the bottom of the mold with oiled parchment. Instead of air cakes, in time-saving mode, use ready-made meringues, which are sold in the confectionery departments.
It remains to prepare the cream and collect the cake.
Pour milk into a stainless steel pan and place on the stove. Rub eggs and yolks in a deep bowl. Combine the flour with cocoa and sugar, add to warmed milk, bring to a boil, stirring continuously to avoid the formation of lumps. Combine the boiled mass with eggs, pouring the milk mixture in a thin stream and at the same time whisking the eggs with a whisk. Put custard again on the stove and bring to a boil. After cool to room temperature and beat in a bowl of the mixer with softened butter, add vanilla and cognac.
Put a layer of meringues on the bottom of the mold. Lubricate it with cream and sprinkle with crushed nuts. Again - a layer of meringues, cream, nuts. The last layer is cream. After filling out the form, put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours, so that the cream is well frozen. Then shift to the cake stand and proceed to decorate.
You can close the sides, if desired, with meringues or sprinkle with crushed nuts, but first you need to grease them with cream.
To decorate the surface, you need a sheet of parchment and a flat dish. On parchment, draw leaflets or other patterns that you would like to put on the surface of the cake, turn the sheet over with the back side, put on a dish. Melt the chocolate, add 50 g of butter and 25 g of cognac to it, beat with a whisk until a shiny, uniform consistency is obtained. Put the chocolate mass in a cornet or confectionery syringe. Squeeze onto the cooked sheet along the contour. It all depends on the imagination. Place the chocolate pattern in the freezer for a few minutes. After carefully remove them with a thin blade of a knife and transfer to the surface of the cake.
3. New Year's cake: a simple recipe without baking - a sweet couple sponge cake souffle
Ingredients:
Cookies, biscuit 400 g
Bananas 3 pcs.
Lemon juice 50 ml
Strawberry 200 g
Squirrels 3 pcs.
Rum 40 ml
Strawberry Syrup 150 ml
Gelatin 15 g
Oil 180 g
Cocoa 50 g
Sugar 300 g
Vanillin 6 g
Milk 150 ml
Apricot jam 100 g
Cooking Technology:
As indicated in previous recipes, prepare the form. Use any biscuit cookies bought in the store or ready-made biscuit cakes instead of cakes. A layer of biscuit must be laid at the bottom of the form. Combine the rum with a bag of vanilla and add fruit syrup (use strawberry juice and powdered sugar). Syrup soak in the biscuit layer.
Start cooking soufflé: whisk the peeled bananas in mashed potatoes, adding lemon juice, 150 g sugar, 80 g butter.
Use the rest of the sugar to make chocolate icing:
Combine cocoa with sugar and add the mixture to boiling milk. It is better to steam the glaze so that the milk syrup thickens well and does not burn at the same time. Add the remaining oil, 2 g vanilla and 10 ml cognac. Stir the chocolate icing constantly with a whisk until a shine appears. Cool to room temperature, and in the meantime finish cooking the souffle cream. Dissolve the gelatin and beat the whites. In banana puree add whipped to a stable foam proteins with gelatin, strawberries. Transfer the cream to a mold on a biscuit layer. Put in the cold for 1-1.5 hours. When the cream hardens, put a second layer of biscuit. Also soak it with fruit syrup, combined with brandy. Spread the top layer with apricot jam. Put the frozen cake on a stand, pour the surface and sides with chocolate and decorate with strawberries and whipped squirrels.
4. New Year's cake: simple recipes. Gems Cake
Products:
Marmalade, multi-colored 150 g
Cream (33%) 250 ml
Powder 120 g
Vanillin, crystalline
For shortcrust pastry:
Yolks 1 pc.
Oil 150 g
Egg 1 pc.
Sugar 70 g
Flour 200 g
Essence (or Vanillin)
Salt
Order of preparation:
Rub the egg, yolk and sugar with white oil, add a mixture of sifted flour, salt and vanillin. Roll the dough into a ball, remove for half an hour in the cold. Then roll a round layer no more than one centimeter thick. Grease the mold and sprinkle with flour. Put the dough in it with a rolling pin, so that its edges hang over the side of the form. Bake at 200 ° C until cooked. Allow to cool.
50 g marmalade cut into curly plates to decorate the cake. The rest - cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape.
Cool the cream and whisk with a mixer, gradually adding speed. Make sure that the mass does not start to clump. Add vanilla and powder. Carefully insert the pieces of marmalade and transfer the cream into a sand basket. Garnish with carved marmalade figures.
5. New Year's cake: a simple recipe without baking - "Meteorite"
Products:
Dried fruits or candied fruits (in assortment) 300 g:
Prunes
Dried apricots
Raisins
Cherry
Figs
Shortbread cookies 1 kg
Condensed cream with cocoa 400 g
Oil (82.5%) 200 g
Rum 50 ml
Orange essence 5 ml
Vanilla 6 g
Chocolate icing (see recipe number 3)
For decoration: colored sugar or dragees 100 g, figures from sugar mastic.
Cooking method:
Whip cream with condensed cream and butter. Grind cookies and mix with cream. Add the essence, rum and vanilla, dried fruit or candied fruit (optional). In a deep bowl of a spherical shape, line the cling film and put the cooked mass on it. Put the bowl in the refrigerator. When it hardens, turn over onto a dish, pour with chocolate icing prepared as described in recipe No. 3, or use plain chocolate for this, melting 2 tiles and combining it with 50 g butter and 50 ml cognac. Sprinkle sugar dragees on the cake and lay out the “stars” from the mastic.
6. New Year's cake: simple recipes - "Iceberg"
Products:
Strawberry 1 kg
Sugar 200 g
Ice cream 600 g
Sponge cake 700 g
Cooking:
Dice the cookies and dry them in the oven. Transferring to a dish, pour the juice of grated strawberries. To do this, combine half the berries with sugar and beat with a blender.
Pour 200 g of ice cream into the chilled form, half of the mixture of strawberries and biscuit crackers on it, again - 200 g of ice cream and a layer of biscuit with strawberries. The top layer is made from ice cream. Take the cake out of the mold for a day in the freezer. Before serving, wrap it in a towel dipped in hot water and turn it over onto a dish. Put the strawberries on top.
Christmas cake: simple recipes - useful tips and tricks
Align the dough in a mold with a scraper dipped in water (cold).
To prevent chocolate icing from dripping from the surface of the cake, grease the top with apricot jam, sprinkle with powder, and then pour the icing into the center of the cake and level it with a scraper moistened with alcohol (cognac or rum).
For the preparation of chocolate icing, sieve icing sugar and cocoa.
Before serving, the finished cake should be in the refrigerator for at least 5-6 hours, so that it is saturated with cream and tastes better.
