Golden Cockerel Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   This cake is sponge cake, so we will knead the dough. To do this, beat the eggs with sugar. Beat the eggs a little until smooth. Then, in a thin trickle, without stopping whipping, we introduce sugar.

2. Step 2:

   

   Now, without stopping whipping, pour the sifted flour mixed with soda in a thin stream.

3. Step 3:

   

   Beat the dough until smooth and pour it into a buttered baking dish. We put the oven to warm up to 180 degrees Celsius.

4. Step 4:

   

   Flatten the dough in the mold and bake the biscuit in the preheated oven for forty minutes. Let the finished biscuit cool down.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then we cut out a figure in the shape of a month from the sponge cake with a knife. The cut-out part will be the head of a cockerel. One end of the resulting month is cut off - in this place there will be a cockerel neck.

6. Step 6:

   

   From the workpiece for the head, cut off the side crust.

7. Step 7:

   

   Outline the biscuit base of the future cake. Where you need to correct - correct with a knife.

8. Step 8:

   

   We divide each blank lengthwise into two cakes for further impregnation and filling with cream. Let's put the cakes aside for now.

9. Step 9:

   

   Let's beat the cream. Mix the cream with powdered sugar and whisk until thick.

10. Step 10:

    

    We will put aside part of the cream - it will go to the outside of the cake and a little to the decor. The rest of the cream will go to the filling. This part is whipped with jam a little more until smooth.

11. Step 11:

    

    Soak the lower cakes with syrup. The syrup is prepared simply - sugar is mixed with water and cooked over moderate heat until the crystals are completely dissolved. To make the process of cooking and assembling the cake go faster, make the cream and syrup while the biscuit is baking and cooling.

12. Step 12:

    

    Soaked cakes are liberally smeared with cream and jam.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the top cakes on the cream.

15. Step 14:

    

    Soak the cake with syrup on top.

16. Step 15:

    

    And we coat it well on all sides with the cream left for this. Don't forget to leave some cream for decoration.

17. Step 16:

    

    Coconut chips will be tinted yellow with food coloring.

18. Step 17:

    

    Sprinkle the cake liberally with shavings from all sides.

19. Step 18:

    

    Using a pastry bag or a syringe, we make a cockerel tail and a wing from the cream.

20. Step 19:

    

    Sprinkle the tail and wing with shavings.

21. Step 20:

    

    From melted chocolate or candy we spread the eye of the cockerel.

22. Step 21:

    

    Cut the marmalade into strips. We also cut out the beak and scallop from the marmalade.

23. Step 22:

    

    We decorate the wing and tail with marmalade straws. We lay out the beak and scallop.

24. Step 23:

    

    The cake is ready and decorated! Before serving, let the cake soak a little in the refrigerator. Happy holidays and delicious cakes!