Lamb Cake

A cute lamb will look good on the New Year's table. Hi everybody. I think many people already know that 2015 is the year of the Sheep or the Goat. Therefore, I propose to cook you a nice cake in the form of a lamb, or rather in the form of a muzzle. To be honest, at first I planned to make a cake with a full-fledged lamb and even thought about decorating it with mastic, but then thinking about how much time it would take not only to prepare the components, but also to decorate, and to buy products (for example, dyes, recesses for cutting mastic), I rejected this idea. Undoubtedly, a lamb decorated with mastic would have turned out much prettier, but I decided to offer you an easier cooking option, because New Year's holidays are fun, good mood, meeting with loved ones, and not cooking all day long. Therefore, I really hope that you will like a cute cake that can be decorated in just 30 minutes, or even less. The cake consists of an ordinary sponge cake, which you can cook yourself or buy in a store. For the inside, I made a custard with the addition of coconut chips - it turned out very fragrant. You can also use butter cream, sour cream or just take a little more whipped cream. I soaked the sponge cake with syrup based on tangerine juice. It gives a very light sourness and, what if not tangerines to use in the New Year :) In order to decorate the cake, you will only need a pastry bag or a syringe, a nozzle in the form of an asterisk, two dense bags, a desire and a good mood.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 5 g
Fats 29 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 60 % 27 g
232 kcal
GI: 11 / 0 / 89

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Ingredients for the cream.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    In a saucepan, rub the yolks with sugar.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add flour and mix.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Constantly stirring, pour in the milk. Put the pan on the fire and constantly stirring bring the mixture to a boil.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    As soon as the first bubbles appear on the surface of the cream, add coconut chips, mix thoroughly. We send the pan back to the fire and bring it to a boil again (but do not boil it).

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Remove the finished cream from the heat, add the butter and mix until it completely dissolves. Leave to cool.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    I prepared the biscuit in advance. You can take a ready-made sponge cake and cook according to the proportions that I indicated. I got a biscuit with a small cap, I cut it off and cut out ears for the sheep from this part.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Cut the finished biscuit into 2-3 pieces.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    I used tangerine juice for impregnation. But you can use regular sugar syrup. Squeeze the juice from 2 tangerines.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Pour the juice into a saucepan, add powdered sugar (to taste) and a few tablespoons of plain water (optional). Put on fire, bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Putting together a cake. We take part of the biscuit, soak it with syrup.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Spread half of the coconut cream. Cover with the second part of the biscuit, soak it and lubricate with the remaining part of the cream.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Cover with the last part of the biscuit.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    For decoration.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Add a drop of pink dye to the heavy cream.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Whisk cream with powdered sugar to a density.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    The surface of the cake is covered with a thin layer of butter cream.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    Decorate the sides with curls, plant them with a pastry bag with an asterisk attachment.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19.

    We also make a bang on top in the form of curls. And attach the ears. I cut them out of a biscuit cap that I was leveling. If you have a biscuit turned out to be smooth (this is very good) and there are no segments, you can make ears from ready-made sponge cookies or when you bake a biscuit, put a couple of spoonfuls of dough into cupcake molds, and you can also cut ears from marshmallows (it's better to take pink). I attached the ears to toothpicks and smeared cream on top.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20.

    In order to make a nose and tint the middle of the ears, 1 tbsp. l. cream will be tinted in a more intense pink color.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21.

    We make a nose with saturated pink cream (put the cream in a tight bag and cut off the corner, so it will be convenient to put the cream) and tint the middle of the ears. Draw the eyes and mouth with melted chocolate (for convenience, we also use a dense package). The cake is ready. Let it soak for a few hours and serve.

The most difficult thing for me in this cake was to cut out plausible ears. At first I made them triangular, but my lamb became like a cat (in photo 19 it is even noticeable). Therefore, after thinking about it, I had to redo my ears:) but since there were very few scraps of biscuit left, it turned out somehow not as I wanted:(I advise you, cut out the lop-eared ears (they do not stand upright in a sheep))). By the way, you can cut ears out of ordinary pink marshmallows and you can also cut a spout out of it.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Tangerines - 33   kcal/100g
  • Canned tangerines - 40   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Coconut chips - 592   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolks - 352   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Chocolate 70 % - 539   kcal/100g
  • Dark chocolate - 539   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Food coloring - 0   kcal/100g

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