"Baskets" - cake with cream: recipe

Many remember from childhood cakes "Baskets". They were sold in Soviet times in all cafes. Decorated were in the form of mushrooms, a flower, a strawberry or even a chicken. What they were delicious ... Sandbasket just melted in the mouth. And the protein cream was very gentle. We want to offer you a recipe for making such cakes at home. The process is not too time consuming, and such a treat will bring a lot of joy to children. So...

Dough for baskets

To prepare a dough for baskets, we need to stock up with such products:

1. Butter - 150 g.
2. Sugar - 100 g.
3. Sugar vanilla - 10 g.
4. Egg - one.
5. Sour cream - 1 tablespoon.
6. Flour - 250 grams.
7. Baking powder is one teaspoon.
8. Molds are made of metal.

So, let's start making a dough for baskets. To do this, you need to beat up sugar with butter and vanilla sugar until fluffiness. Then add sour cream and egg, mix well.

It is better to sift the flour, and only then to inject it into the mixture. We mix it. But long to knead is not worth it, because the short pastry does not like it. Baskets - tender cake, but because "cups" should be crumbly. We shall wrap up the received mass in a food film and we shall put in a refrigerator approximately for one hour. After a while, we take out the dough and, cutting a small part of it, roll the sausage. Cut it into pieces, each of which must be rolled into a thin cake. The size should be approximately the same as the diameter of the baking dish. Each such circle must be put in a mold, tightly pressing down against the walls and bottom. The lower part can be pricked with a fork so that during the baking process the basket is not deformed. We want to warn that the dough turns out to be very sticky, that's why you will have to use flour. Here our sandbaskets are ready. It remains only to bake them.

Formochki with the test put on a baking sheet and sent to the oven. Bake better at a temperature of 200 degrees. Seven minutes is enough. Baskets - delicate cakes, are prepared quite quickly, and therefore, look, do not overdo them in the oven.

Now you can proceed to the preparation of the cream.

Ingredients for Cream

As you know, baskets - a cake with cream, although today there are many ways to decorate them: with jelly fruit, nuts, honey, berries ... We will now dwell on the first option. And first of all we need to decide which cream we will make. The classic recipe implies the use of protein. For its preparation, take:

1. Protein from three eggs.
2. Sugar - 250 grams.
3. Water - no more than 90 grams.
4. Citric acid is one third teaspoon.

Cooking cream for cakes

You can start preparing a delicious cream. To make it dense, you must remember about two rules:

1. The dishes should be absolutely clean. The pan in which the syrup will be prepared can generally be cleaned with a powder in advance.
2. In no case should proteins be mixed with yolks. The fact that the yolk - it's fat, which will not allow to whip the proteins normally.

When making baskets, we advise you to stick to the prescription exactly to make it work out as it should. So, let's begin.

Separate the proteins from the yolks and send them into the mixer bowl.

Next, in the pan, pour water and pour sugar, put on fire. You can disturb a little once, so that it does not burn out. The syrup is cooked for about four minutes. To it you need to add a little citric acid. Mix everything again. Readiness can be very simply checked - for this, drip some sweet mass into a plate of cold water. If the drop does not spread, then it's ready.

Important! When checking the syrup, remove the saucepan from the fire. It is necessary that it should be a light color: if it is digested it will turn out to be creamy and will be bitter, and this can damage the cream, we want it to be white, with a dense texture.

Are you sure that everything is all right? Excellent! At this point, you can start whipping the proteins. The peaks should be very strong. And at the final stage, at the full speed of the mixer, you need to gently pour the syrup with a very thin trickle. Weight directly in front of the eyes will increase in volume. Beat for another ten minutes, until the cream has cooled. It should have a dense and homogeneous consistency and keep the shape well. Here's the cream for pastries and ready. Now it's up to the little thing. We need to collect our cakes. And then you can go and tasting.

How to collect baskets?

Do you remember that at the bottom of the cakes that your mother bought as a child, was she always a dark jam? He seemed terribly tasteless. Doing our baskets, the recipe, of course, will be respected, but put down on the bottom a delicious jam or jam with berries. For example, cherry. And you want - put some boiled condensed milk. Or chopped prunes. From above spread the cream with a culinary syringe. If you want, you can then sprinkle a little cake with chocolate or powder. Of the amount of products taken, twenty-four baskets must be obtained. You can start tasting.

As you can see, if you want, you can cook a basket with a cream and at home, and believe me, the result will please you and your children, because the delicacy will be no worse than what is sold in the cafe. Your household will appreciate such a culinary masterpiece. And they will ask you to make another sweet.

What other cream can you make cakes?

We discussed with you how to prepare a basket of "basket", so to speak, according to the classic recipe. But you understand that there are a lot of variations on this topic. Do not limit your culinary fantasy and try all the new options.

Instead of a protein cream, for example, you can make a cake with cream and marmalade, pour fruit on the season of jelly (strawberries, red currants), decorating with cream. In general, there is where to go fancy.

Cakes with whipped cream

If you want to quickly prepare an excellent dessert, then this option is definitely for you. Whipped cream will add festivity to your sweet dish. Think just how delicious will be with cream baskets! The cake will turn out exquisite, beautiful and very delicate.

We advise you to make the cream yourself. Of course, you can buy ready-made cream, but this is absolutely not what we need. We will reveal the secret to you, how to beat them yourself so that they do not fall.

When buying cream, make sure they are fresh, this is very important. In addition, their fat content should be at least thirty-five percent. At home, before they are poured from the package, shake well so that all the fat does not stay in the corners.

Remember one trick: the dishes in which you will whip the cream should be very cold. Therefore, beforehand, well cool the mixer bowl and cream in the refrigerator.

In addition, wash the dishes very well and dry them. This is also important for the final result. And it is better not to take sugar, but powder, which must be sieved beforehand, so that it is without lumps and turned out to be light and airy. Add it in small portions, after the cream itself has crept into a stable foam.

And one more tip. Cream start whisking at the lowest speed, gradually increasing it to maximum, and finish in reverse order.

Do not make the process of whipping long, because on the surface of the cream there may be inclusions that will spoil the appearance. You can end up, when you stick a spoonful into the mass, you will see that the hole from it does not tighten.

Of course, you can still use thickeners or gelatin. They are introduced during whipping. Using all these tricks, you will get an excellent result. Well, do we turn to practice?

Preparation of whipped cream with gelatin

In order to prepare "Baskets" cakes at home, we take the following ingredients:

1. Fatty cream - 600 ml.
2. Gelatin - 20 grams.
3. Sugar powder - three tablespoons.
4. Vanilla sugar - one package.

Whip cold cream with powder and vanilla sugar until peaks are obtained. Gelatine is dissolved in water according to the instructions written on the package. Very quickly, you need to mix a couple tablespoons of cream with the resulting solution. Then, whisking, slowly add it to the cream. Here our cream is ready. Before use, the mass is better to cool a little. And then lay out the baskets. Ready cakes are stored in the refrigerator. By the way! Remember that the cream is very absorbing odors.

And further. Cakes can be decorated with marmalade of own preparation or buy ready.

Caskets with butter cream

Cakes with butter cream are very delicious . For cooking, take a hundred grams of butter and four tablespoons of condensed milk.

Let's oil the butter to the state of thick sour cream and start whipping with a blender, mixer or whisk. Must be a lush mass of white. Next, you need to slowly pour condensed milk and continue to beat for another ten to fifteen minutes. The cream will be homogeneous. It needs to be cooled a little and then can be laid out on the baskets. It is recommended to decorate a ready cake with fresh fruit slices.

Combination of cream fillings for pastry "Korzinochka"

In fact, each cream can be used alone or combined with other excipients. For example, lay out first the protein mass in the basket, and then from above make an oil rose with a leaf. It will turn out beautifully and deliciously.

If you made a gelatin baskets of fruit, then surely you need to decorate on top with some kind of cream.

And another option is possible. But with him it is necessary to tinker a little longer. In the basket lay a cream, for example, protein, combining it with fruit in a gelatinous shell. The berries are taken by the season. Very beautiful looks in such cases, strawberries and raspberries, even twigs of currants. Cake is not very sweet, because the cream is combined with fruit sour. And it's not necessary to talk about the beauty of such baskets. They turn out very bright. A real culinary masterpiece.

Instead of an afterword

As you can see, it is not necessary to buy sweet stuff in shops and cafes - if you want, you can prepare a wonderful dessert at home. We hope that the recipes given in this article are sure to be useful to you, and you decide to make baskets for the first time. A cake originally from childhood is likely to please your children. Enjoy your meal!