Cake "Broken Glass" - a classic recipe and variations on the theme

An airy, gentle and indescribably delicious dessert. This is how you can characterize the cake "Broken Glass", which can create not only a beginner culinary, but a child.

Classics of the genre

Cake "Broken glass" - it's a bright and unique dessert game of tastes. Very often it is called "Mosaic" or "Aquarium". And it is these names that convey the beauty and riot of colors by which it differs. In such a cake gracefully combines the tenderness of fruit, the melting taste of jelly and the airiness of the biscuit. And to cook it is very simple, the main thing is to follow the instructions exactly.

So, to serve guests and friends jelly cake "Broken Glass", the following components will be required. For a sponge cake should be stocked with eggs in an amount of four pieces, flour about 150 grams and 175 grams of sugar. Jelly "corn" will require jelly of three kinds, canned peaches in the amount of 200 grams, sugar in the amount of 100 grams, a half pack of sour cream (or 0.75 liters), fat content of not more than 20%, a bag of gelatin, and vanilla sugar.

The very process of preparation is not so complicated. So, on the eve of the holiday, you should prepare jelly and a biscuit. The first is prepared according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer.

To bake a biscuit, you can use a classic recipe. For this, the sugar is divided into two equal parts. With one of them whipped yolks, and on the other - proteins to a strong foam. Then add half the volume of flour to the mass of sugar and yolk, having sifted it first, and also ½ protein foam. Stir should be gently spoon in the direction from the bottom up. When the mass becomes uniform, again add flour and the remaining foam, kneading the same method. After that, the dough is poured into any shape of the contour and sent to bake for 40-50 minutes in a gas oven at a temperature of 170 degrees (for electric - 200 degrees, in a multivark - "Bake" mode for at least 40 minutes). Once the cake is baked, it is taken out and left under a paper napkin for 8-12 hours.

On a festive day, jelly is removed from the molds and cut into cubes. Peaches are transferred to a colander and allowed to drain excess liquid. Gelatin is prepared according to the instructions, and then add to sour cream, pre-mixed with sugar. Sponge cakes are also cut into cubes.

All the ingredients are prepared and now you can "collect" the cake "Broken glass". To do this, put pieces of jelly and peaches in rows in a previously prepared form (for example, silicone or simply in a large salad bowl), and then pour them with sour cream sauce. In conclusion, to this mass in an arbitrary order put the biscuit cubes, sending for two hours to freeze in the refrigerator. To serve the table, dessert is turned over to a dish of suitable diameter and decorated with a ready cake "Broken glass".

A photo of this dessert, by the way, will perfectly decorate any family photo album.

Variations on the theme

The popularity of this simple and tasty dessert is so wide that it is not surprising that its basic recipe varies in accordance with the flavors of the cook.

So, very often biscuit cubes are replaced with cookies "Whipped milk" or at all refuse it. In addition, peaches are replaced with other fruit jam (for example, strawberry), sweet and sour fruit or add another kind of jelly.

And all because, once you try the cake "Broken Glass", you want to enjoy this wonderful riot of flavors again.