Cake "Football Field": master class

Bake a cake "Football field" for a birthday party for a boy, husband, boyfriend. You can award such a sweet presentation of the winners of the competition, enough for the whole team. To create this culinary masterpiece is quite simple. First, the base of the dough is baked. Then it is decorated with cream. The gate and the marking of the field are made with the help of white chocolate, and the figures of the players and the ball are made of sweet mastic.

Ingredients for butter biscuit

It is best to bake the cake "Football field" on the basis of biscuit, make it butter. The dessert will turn out to be quite high-calorie, but very tasty. If you want the "Football field" cake to turn out to be big and it's enough for everyone, take the ingredients in such quantities:

- 9 eggs;

- 2 cups of flour;

- 1.5 cups of sugar;

- 300 g of butter;

- a pinch of salt.

How to make a dough?

The oil should be at room temperature. Therefore, if it is in the refrigerator, remove it first, so that it warms up and becomes more plastic. Beat the softened butter, gradually adding half of the sugar to it.

Separate the squirrels from the yolks and remove them until the refrigerator. In the yolks, add the second part of the sugar. Whisk until weight increases in volume. Now gradually add the yolk component to the oil, whisk this mixer base with a mixer. It should be a light, lush mass.

Attach a dough nozzle to the mixer. Pour 1.5 cups of flour into the yolk-and-oil mixture, mix to homogeneity with the help of nozzles.

Remove the proteins from the refrigerator, add a pinch of salt to them, whisk until a thick foam forms. Put half the proteins into the dough, gently mix. Add the rest of the norm of flour, proteins and again mix everything carefully so that the air dough does not opal.

It's so easy to prepare a base to bake a cake "Football field". The master class continues with a story about the subtleties of baking.

Dough in the oven

Biscuit dough can not be done in advance, otherwise it will fall off. Before you start whipping the whites, turn on the oven. During this time, it will have time to warm up to 170 ° C.

To make a cake in the form of a football field, you will need a rectangular, high enough shape. If you have a baking tray of this size, take it. You can use a large rectangular refractory shape. Lubricate the sides and bottom of the oil, sprinkle them with a small amount of flour. It is better to take a mold with an anti-stick coating, so that then without difficulty remove a large cake. If you do not, put baking paper on the bottom, oil it.

Pour the dough into a prepared container, level its surface with a rectangular piece of cardboard or a wide culinary spatula. There are other subtleties that will help to properly prepare the cake "Football Field". The master class will share them right now.

Place the pan in the middle or top of the oven. Since then, do not open the oven door. Watch the process through the glass window. The baking of the biscuit will take 30-35 minutes. After half an hour, gently open the door, pierce the center of the product in two or three places with a wooden stick. If it remains dry, then the process is complete.

How to cut a sponge cake into cakes?

Get the baking dish. Help the culinary shovel to separate it from the sides, if the dough suits them. Put on a flat tray or a large wooden board, gently turn over on it, it is better to do it together. Cut the sponge cake with a silk thread or a wide knife into 3 cakes.

If you do not have time to get it hot, cover the form with foil, leave for 8 hours. Then it will be easy to take out and cut along into 3 pieces. The cakes should completely cool down, only after that they can be soaked, smeared with cream and collect the cake. The football field to make more realistic will help the cream. It is prepared on the basis of butter with the addition of eggs, brewed milk or condensed milk. Choose which one you like best.

Light cream of condensed milk

If you want to prepare a quick oil cream, take:

- 650 g of softened butter;

- 550 g of condensed milk;

- 1 packet of vanilla sugar;

- A little green food color.

Whisk the butter with a mixer, without stopping this process, pour in a thin stream of condensed milk, pour in vanilla sugar. When the cream becomes homogeneous and airy, it means that it is ready.

Proceed to the formation of the cake. The lower layer can be impregnated with berry syrup. To do this, dilute 50 g of syrup in 100 g of water, moisten the lower cake. After that, you can collect the cake "Football Field". It's nice to do these things with your own hands. Each time you can add new elements to the design. The first cake can be without the players figurines. Another time you create a cake of mastic, a football field will decorate not only the gate, the ball, but also the players.

Making a culinary work

Make the edges of the biscuit semicircular, but do not throw away the remaining crumbs. Place the cakes one above the other. If the upper one in your baking process turns out to be uneven, turn them over so that the bottom one is on top. Then to impregnate the syrup is necessary that which now represents the basis. To do this, pour the syrup into the baking tray and put the cake there. After 10 minutes, remove it, place it on the dish in which the finished product will be served.

Lubricate the surface of this crust with white cream, put a second on it, apply the cream on this one. The third biscuit is placed on top. Place the cream in a pastry bag, use a small nozzle to cover the sides, so that you can get a beautiful cake from these sides too. Football field with their own hands is easy to make. First, from the same confectionery bag, fringe the pad, squeezing a trickle of cream around the perimeter of the surface.

After that, draw a transverse strip in the same way. A circle of cream passes through it, the ball is distributed here. You make it from a biscuit that remained after cutting the edges. Turn these leftovers into a crumb, mix with cream, roll into a bowl. Put the workpiece on a saucer, put it to freeze in the refrigerator, finish you work on it a little later.

In the meantime, add green food coloring to the cream , mix. Place it in a confectioner's bag, with dot motions cover the rest of the football field. To do this, bring the tip to the surface of the biscuit, squeeze a little cream. Move aside the pastry bag. The next pink point near the first. The cream must be covered with the entire surface. Remove the product in the cold for 2-3 hours, so that the cream stiffens.

Preparation of mastics

The football field is not only a rectangular area, but also a gate, a ball, players. Them, the surface of the ball is made from sweet mastic. It can be prepared using chewy candy, for this you will need:

- 100 g marshmallow marshmallow;

- about 2 glasses of powdered sugar;

- 2 tsp. Lemon juice.

To tighten the ball you need white candy. If you make players, pink will do. Cut the sweets into slices, pour the lemon juice, melt them in a water bath or for a minute in the microwave.

Get out, start pouring a little sugar powder, blending a warm mass. Mastic should get smooth and stop sticking to your hands. Put it in a cellophane bag, put it away for half an hour in the refrigerator.

How to make a ball and soccer players?

Remove the sweet mass, break off a small piece, roll it on the surface, sprinkled with starch or powdered sugar, into a 4 mm thick layer. Cover them with a piece of soccer ball.

Tear off the next piece of mastic, drip on it a black dye, mix, roll. Cut out of it five small 6-coal figures. Glue them with water to the surface of the ball. Then you will get a real cake "Football field" with the ball.

Players from mastic to do, too, is easy. First, sculpt their figures. Adding red, blue or other dye to different pieces of mastic, make clothes, facial features, football players' shoes. Finished figurines, the ball is placed on the field, they must dry for 15-24 hours. Then the cake from mastic will be almost ready, the football field will be decorated with the players with the ball.

Goal

For the full certainty of the culinary picture, it remains to make a gate. The mesh and the base are made of white chocolate. Melt 2 tiles of 100 grams in a water bath, pour the mass into the pastry bag.

On the cardboard draw 4 pieces - top, two side parts and the back side of the gate. Put the cut out patterns in a transparent file, brush its surface with olive oil. From the thin hole of the syringe, apply a pattern in the form of a grid to the cardboard bases. Give the chocolate well to freeze, then separate the file from the header. Connect them together with melted white chocolate. Put the gate in your place - the cake with the football field is ready.