#Christmas Cake size 21 cm length × 16 cm height. Weighing about 600 -700 gr. The dough can be prepared in advance (it can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks). The cakes are baked quite quickly, the cream is easy to make (it can also be prepared in advance). If you dare to prepare this truly winter dessert, I am sure you will not regret it. By the way, such a cake can be a great New Year / Christmas present 😉.
Ingredients: For cakes:, C0 egg, sugar, honey (take fragrant), butter, soda, wheat flour, Berry filling:, berry puree (I have frozen strawberries), starch, sugar, Cream:, Curd cheese, Cream 33%, Powdered sugar (I put 1 tablespoon), Vanillin
Cooking method:
Mix: honey, sugar and egg. Add butter, diced and put on fire, stirring occasionally, bring to a boil.
As soon as the first bubbles appear, remove from heat. Add baking soda, mix thoroughly. The mass will foam and increase, take this into account and take a stewpan more.
If your mass has not foamed, then either the honey is not of high quality, or the soda is old.
Mix the mass. And cool to room temperature.
Pour the sifted flour into a slightly warm mass, in parts. First, mix with a spatula in a saucepan. Then gradually adding flour to the table, knead the dough with your hands. Put it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
Do not hammer the dough with flour, otherwise the cakes will be too dry. As a result, the dough should be soft enough. Slightly sticks to hands, this is normal. It will be less sticky after the refrigerator.
Let's prepare the berry filling. Punch the berries with a blender (frozen). Put them in a saucepan, add sugar, starch. And constantly stirring, boil until thickened. Remove from heat. Cool and transfer to a pastry bag.
You can use the appropriate gingerbread cutter for the cake shape. Size 21cm. length (vertically, from the crown of the figure to the bottom), 16 cm. width (I measured the distance horizontally, along the widest part of the figure - along the outstretched arms). I didn't have a form and I took a stencil of a gingerbread man from the Internet, printed it out and cut it out.
Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. You can roll it directly onto baking paper or a Teflon mat. Dust with flour and roll out, 0.5-0.7 cm thick. If the edges of the dough crack along the edges, chances are you've overdone it with flour.
Dust the dough with flour, apply a stencil and cut out a shape with a sharp knife. If you wish, you can make more tiers in the cake, respectively, and there will be more people.
We bake until light blush at 180 °. I baked for 7 minutes. But you focus on your oven. This dough is baked quickly - do not dry it out. We carefully transfer all the little men and cool them on a flat surface.
Preparing the cream. Whisk the curd cheese, powder and cream. The cream can be immediately transferred to a pastry bag. It should be thick enough.
We collect the cake as a cake Fig. On the first cake, using a pastry bag, place the cream along the contour of the little man in the form of cone-shaped "circles". If there is a cone nozzle, use it. We fill the remaining space with berry filling, we also use a pastry bag.
On the second, also apply cream and berry filling. Cover with third crust.
I did not put cream on the top cake. Decorated with melted white chocolate. I put the chocolate in a pastry bag and put it in hot water to melt. You can decorate the cake to your liking. We send to soak for at least 6 hours. Better at night.
If you don't dry out the cakes, the gingerbread cake will discharge well and the cream will remain inside.
The cake is ready. Enjoy your tea. Merry Christmas!