Cake "Tank" - surprise the guests! How to make a cake in the form of a tank?

Make a gift to a man is not an easy task. And to come up with such a present that would surprise him and leave memories for a long time is doubly difficult. There are plenty of reasons for congratulations to the male half of the population: birthdays, professional holidays, memorable dates, unexpected events, but what else is there. In any case, I want to bring great joy to the originator of the celebration. And every holiday is invariably accompanied by a covered table. Here, and you can give vent to fantasies, surprising everyone with a variety of dishes. One of them can be made the main, bright, memorable - a cake in the form of a tank. Such a gift is sure to please not only the beloved man, it will be appreciated by the guests, noting the artistic taste and talent of the hostess.

Actual will be such a present in the case when a man has a military profession. To celebrate the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland, the cake-tank will do its best. An original congratulation can be presented as a symbol of courage and fortitude in the fight against life's misfortunes. And for a young son such a "toy" will surely cause real enthusiasm. Having prepared a cake-tank, the photo of which you see in the article, and treating them to the kids, the birthday mom will become an authoritative expert in the field of military equipment.

At first glance, the task of creating an unusual confectionery product will seem very difficult. But do not despair, in fact, everything is much simpler and more understandable. We propose to decompose the task of creating a culinary surprise for components.

Advice

First you need to determine the appearance of the military machine. It is possible to look through the technical literature, in which a description is proposed, the tank diagrams. The revision of military films will also help to form the forthcoming image of a cake in the style of the military. And if the family has a boy, then among the many toys for sure there will be more than one unit of military equipment.

After deciding what the future cake-tank will look like, it is desirable to print out its close-up pictures on the printer. This will help a lot in the design work, when it will be necessary to create many different incomprehensible details on the car body.

The next step is to choose the basis of the tank. It is necessary to decide what kind of pastry will be inside the military product. The cake should be dry and soft, so that when cutting, there are no difficulties. For these purposes, biscuits and cakes from butter dough will do.

Impregnation for them is better not to use, and if you can not do without it, you should do it in very moderate quantities. The choice of cream for a cake-tank depends on the tastes and preferences of the hostess. The optimal option can be an oil layer, chocolate-cream or ordinary boiled condensed milk. It is highly undesirable to use creams based on sour cream, since the excess moisture contained in them will prevent the form of the finished product from being retained. The final stage of the preparatory stage will be the choice of the most important - the material for the design of the cake.

If the hostess is an experienced confectioner, then it will not be difficult for her to decorate the product with a confectionery bag with butter cream. Lubricate the product can also be tinted jam or jam. But it is best to make a cake-tank of mastic. This design material is very convenient to use even for those who bake pie for the first time. It's just worth remembering the years of childhood and the fascinating pursuits of modeling plasticine.

How to cook a cake-tank? Now tell. To housewives it was easier to determine with the kind of delicacy, it is suggested to consider several recipes for the preparation of a sweet base.

Cake-tank from Charlotte cream in hot milk

To make a dough, we need:

• 3 eggs;
• 5 g of a disintegrant;
• 120 ml of milk;
• 170 g of sugar;
• vanillin;
• 60 g of butter;
• 170 g of flour;
• Salt (pinch).

To prepare the dough, you need to heat the milk and dissolve the butter in it. Separately whip the mixer at high speed eggs with sugar until the volume increases three times. Introduce in the mass of flour mixed with baking powder, and evenly distribute it. Hot milk and oil mixture pour into the dough and mix.

Bake the cake in a split form, placing it in a preheated oven. If you cook with a multivark, you can avoid burning the cake.

Cooking cream

You will need:

• 200 g of butter;
• 4 tbsp. L. Granulated sugar;
• 100 ml of milk;
• Two chicken eggs.

For the "Charlotte" cream, the ingredients should be laid out from the refrigerator in advance so that they have the same temperature. In the milk, drive in eggs and add the sugar. Put on medium heat and, stirring, bring to a boil. Boil the mixture for three to four minutes. After this, cool to room temperature.

Mix butter with a mixer at medium speed until white, then gradually add the milk mixture. As a result, you will get a very luxurious and delicate cream, in which you will only have to add vanilla sugar for flavor.

In this cake there is one more unusual component - jam from kiwi. To cook the original jam, you need to clean and grind a few (4-5 pieces) of ripe fruit in a blender. Add to them sugar (150-200 g) and lemon juice (2 tablespoons), put it on medium heat. After boiling, pour gelatin (1/2 sachet), stir and continue to cook for about ten minutes. In the cooled mass to strengthen the color, you can add a few drops of green food color.

Picking up the cake

Cutting the finished biscuit into several parts, it is necessary to lay it down as a base for the tank. Use cream to reseat all the cakes. Outside the cake tank, the photo of which you see in the article, is smeared with a thick layer of green jam. It is convenient to do this with a soft confectioner's brush. A wafer will serve as a wafer tubule. First it needs to be coated with a thin layer of cream and soaked in a refrigerator to freeze, and then covered with green mass. The wheels of the tank can be made from round biscuits or waffles. The product is simple to prepare and is available even for a beginner cook.

How to bake a cake-tank "Prague"

To prepare such a delicacy, you will need:

• 2 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. Flour;
• 0.5 tsp. Soda
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• Half a can of condensed milk;
• 1 cup of sour cream;
• Cocoa capsules.

Cooking process

Chicken eggs beat up with a mixer with powdered sugar until lush foam. Continuing the mixing, gradually introduce sour cream first, then condensed milk.

In the resulting mixture, pour the flour, previously sieved and mixed with cocoa powder and baking soda. According to the consistency, the dough should look like thick sour cream. In a preheated oven, bake three cakes alternately.

To make it convenient to take out the ready-made cakes from the mold, it should be pre-lubricated with oil and lined with parchment paper.

The composition of the cream includes butter (150 g), condensed milk (half-cans), egg yolks (two to three pieces) and cocoa powder (half-packs). By thoroughly mixing and whipping all the ingredients, you can get a delicate oily cream of a pleasant chocolate shade. Ready cakes are cut into individual parts in accordance with the prepared drawing. Of these, the silhouette of a military machine is being formed. The cake-tank is evenly lubricated with cream and placed in the refrigerator at night for impregnation and solidification. You can decorate it the next day with the help of confectionery mastic, which will smooth out all contours of the product and help make it more realistic.

We make an elastic mass

You will need:

• 850 g of powdered sugar;
• 400 g of marshmallows.
• 4 tbsp. L. water;
• 1 tsp. Vanillin.

The easiest way to prepare an elastic mass is from a marshmallow - a ready-made soft marshmallow. It is sold in the form of multi-colored chocolates such as "Bon Paris". In addition, you will need powdered sugar.

Candy should be slightly heated in a microwave oven to the melting point. In this form, the sweet mass becomes soft and plastic. It should be carefully mixed, gradually pouring powdered sugar. If the mastic is hard, then you just need to warm it up a little, stretch it and continue to knead. If the mixture begins to crumble, you should drip water or lemon juice into it. During cooking, add a little food coloring green.

Roll out the mastic is very convenient, placing it between sheets of polyethylene. Then without difficulty it can cover the entire surface of the cake. The thickness of the mastic should be about three millimeters. A thicker layer creates an extra volume. And if roll out very thin, then the surface is easy to damage. Also, through a thin layer, stains from the cream may appear.

Next step

To make a ready "sheet" of mastic laid on the cake smoothly and without wrinkles, you need to roll it out with a large margin of diameter. Then the coating will stretch evenly under its own weight. After this, all the excess can be cut off with a knife. To give a glossy shine to the mastic surface, you can grease it with a brush using a layer of honey and vodka solution.

Final step

The last stage of the work is an exclusively creative process. Carefully looking at the photo of the original, you should create the necessary design elements from the mastic.