Cake "Bird"

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I want to introduce You a festive homemade cake "pigeon milk". Yes, it's not the quickest cake recipe, but cooking it is not difficult. Importantly, the result is simply stunning! Treat yourself and your loved ones this "sweet classics".

Ingredients for Cake "Bird"

Step by step instruction of cooking Cake "Bird"

Шаг 1

Prepare the dough. Seven eggs, separate yolks from whites. Proteins are put away in the fridge. Grind the yolks with the sugar until lush white mass. Add the vanilla sugar and again beat.

Шаг 2

Add 100 grams of soft butter, whisk.

Шаг 3

Sift flour with baking powder. Stirring gently, knead the dough.

Шаг 4

The bottom of a split form with baking paper and put in her dough, even out from the middle to the edges (it can be done with a wet hand). Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.

Шаг 5

Soak agar-agar in 110 ml of water at room temperature. Leave for 10-15 minutes for swelling. Do the same thing if you use gelatin.

Шаг 6

Ready cake remove from oven, let cool to room temperature. Then with a sharp knife cut it the height of the two layers.

Шаг 7

Begin to whisk the egg whites with citric acid. Before that, I cool the tank, which will whip in the fridge and then put it into a pot of ice water.

Шаг 8

At this time, put on medium heat a container of agar-agar, pour there sugar and heated to 116 degrees and switch off the stove. You can also check the readiness of the syrup with a spoon. When the syrup take a spoon, for her the sky, and the thread keeps its shape.
If You use gelatine, then heat the syrup to 70 degrees.

Шаг 9

A little of the cooled syrup in a thin stream pour into the whites while continuing to beat. The mass becomes lush, dense, creamy.

Шаг 10

Gradually add soft butter.

Шаг 11

And condensed milk. Or you can add butter cream with condensed milk.

Шаг 12

In split form, put the cake layer, spread over 3/4 of soufflé.

Шаг 13

Cover with second half of cake. And spread rest of cream, even out.

Шаг 14

Sent the cake in the fridge for 3 hours, but preferably overnight.

Шаг 15

Then melt 20 grams of dark chocolate in a water bath.

Шаг 16

And using kornetika draw the bird, put it in the fridge.

Шаг 17

When the cake is completely frozen, cover it with icing. In order to do this it is necessary to fill dark chocolate with hot cream and a good grind, then add the butter and again to move.
The icing on the cake send in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Шаг 18

Then proceed to the decoration. I drew the tree with icing, made a nest inside it put the nuts and all of this complements the bird.

Шаг 19

The bird I decided to add volume, lighter chocolate.

Шаг 20

To make the nest should be on the opposite side of the frozen baking sheet to put kineticom thin strips of chocolate and roll them.