New Year's cake "Snowman": recipe, photo

Each time before the New Year, the housewives ask themselves about what to indulge their loved ones. Especially I want to make nice children. There is no way to do without a delicious dessert. Let's talk about how to make a cake "Snowman". We would like to offer you several options for preparing a New Year treat.

Cake "Snowman". The recipe is classic

It is based on the use of sand cakes and a very tasty cream. And the main thing is that the original design of it will please the whole family.

So, for the test, we need to acquire such products:

1. Vanilla Sugar - 2 sachets.
2. Eggs - 2 pcs.
3. Salt - 5 g.
4. Food soda - 5 g.
5. Butter - 1.5 packs (melted).
6. Flour - 6 glasses.
7. Sugar - 2 cups.

Preparation of the dough

Before kneading the dough, first sift the flour. Then you need to beat the sugar and eggs very well. If you have a mixer or blender, you can use them. Then gradually to the eggs add all the ingredients, except wheat flour, and beat until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

Then add the flour and knead the dough. After this, it should be wrapped in a packet or food film and put in the refrigerator for a while (no more than forty minutes).

The cooled dough is divided into two parts. Sprinkle the table with flour. Roll out two round cakes, the size of which should match the size of your baking dish.

A tray or a form is smeared with oil. We put the dough in it and lubricate it with some milk to make a beautiful color. Oven preheat up to two hundred degrees and put our cakes there. Bake them no longer than 20-25 minutes. Readiness can be checked with a toothpick.

Ready cakes cool and cut into small pieces. Then you can start preparing the cream.

Cream Cake

To prepare the cream, we need 900 grams of sour cream and one and a half to two glasses of powdered sugar. To make the cake "Snowman" beautiful, we will prepare for decoration:

1. Fruit jelly of different colors.
2. Coconut white shavings.
3. Prunes.
4. Cooked carrots.

Mixer or whisk whipped sugar powder with sour cream. Then we will take chopped pieces of our cake, alternately dunk everyone in the cream and put them in a deep plate. Wait until all this is well soaked, and then lay out the workpiece on a dish in the form of a snowman. And pour the remnants of the cream on top.

Now you can proceed to the design. From red marmalade it is possible to make a cap and a scarf, from prunes - eyes, buttons and a mouth. And from a small piece of carrot we'll make a spout. Top with white coconut shavings. New Year's cake "Snowman" is ready! We put it for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.

As you can see, this wonderful dessert is not difficult to cook at all. As for the decoration, then you can come up with your own options using dragees, raisins, candies, mastic. By the way, we'll talk about mastic more ...

Ornaments from mastics

In general, to make a cake "Snowman", in principle, you can use any recipe for cakes, most importantly - decorate it later in a festive style. For this you can use mastic. From it, wonderful ornaments are obtained. The mastic can be prepared, or you can buy ready-made. We will consider both options. So, what do you need to make a cake "Snowman" from mastic?

The list is small:

1. Mastic.
2. Dyes for food.
3. Glue food.
4. Cutter for mastic.
5. Roller pin pastry.

How to fashion a snowman?

First you need to mash the mastic, roll the balls and leave them to dry. Then glue them with pastry glue. You are required to gradually make all the necessary details for our figure, glue them with the trunk. In general, you can fashion any decorations for a cake this way. It all depends on your imagination.

Preparation of mastics by yourself

To decorate the cake "Snowman", you can prepare mastic and yourself. To do this, we need condensed milk, powdered sugar, milk powder. All this must be mixed in equal proportions and well kneaded until a uniform thick and very ductile mass is obtained.

There is another way of preparing mastic. Eat gelatin (two tablespoons) soak in water, preferably warm, for swelling for a couple of hours. Then bring it to a complete dissolution on a slow fire, not forgetting to stir constantly. Allow the mass to cool. And then add the powdered sugar and knead. The amount of powder will depend on the plasticity and density of the mastic you want to get. With this cooking option, it turns out to be very elastic, like plasticine. This will help to mold out any figures, even the smallest details.

You can give the color of the mass to food colors, although if you plan to treat the children, it is better to use natural juices. Lemon zest will give us yellow color, coffee - brown, cherry juice, currants, beets or cranberries - pink and red.

There are also special helium dyes. They have a very rich palette, you can choose any shade. And it's very easy to work with them.

Cake "Snowman" (photo is given in the article) is very festive, and thanks to jewelry from mastic is also "natural", as if just a character from a cartoon came to visit you. Such a dessert at times even to eat it is a pity ...

Mastic on marshmallows

Mistress, Who faced cooking Mastics, know that the key to beautiful jewelry is precisely its proper preparation. Then it is sculpted perfectly, and even the smallest details are remarkable.

We want to tell you another recipe for an incredibly soft mastic. To prepare a packet of marshmallows. Melt it in the microwave. Then gently add chopped oil into it, add a teaspoon of lemon juice. All this we mix and add the powdered sugar. So we got the "dough". From it further mold is very simple, wonderful come out any elements. The mastic does not stick to the hands at all, it is moderately viscous. From it you can make not only decorations, but also a cap for a cake. It turns out very nice and tasty. Your children will like this cake. Snowman (the photos shown in the article show his fairy-tale and unusual) reminds of a real cartoon character.

And another idea for a snowman

Cake "Snowman" can be flat or multi-tiered. If you want to prepare a three-dimensional version, you will have to use special shapes (they have the shape of a hemisphere). And you can still make a fairy-tale hero from two round biscuits.

One of them (the smaller one) you will cut a little in the place of connection with the other. And then it will only remain to apply the cream and decorate according to the subject. Get a flat snowman. By the way, each of the cakes in this version can be smeared with different creams, adding different ingredients (raisins, nuts, chocolate). The cake will be one, but with different tastes.

Instead of an afterword

A merry cake "Snowman" is the most successful New Year's variant. It can be done for children and on matinee in kindergarten, and in school for first-graders. Everyone will like the winter fairy tale.

And giving a delicacy to the table, you can tell the children the history of the origin of the snowman. It is said that the first such figure was made by the Italian architect and sculptor Michelangelo. And it was at the end of the fifteenth century. In general, the first mention (written) of such characters refers to the eighteenth century. One of the books of that time tells of a big beautiful snowman. At first they were considered evil snow creatures. But gradually, towards the end of the nineteenth century, they became the most kind and merry companions of Christmas and New Year.