The process of assembling a cake as a whole is a fairly simple task, but beginners have many questions about how to assemble a beautiful, even cake. There are a lot of methods. This photo lesson presents the technique of confectioner Kaitlin Flannery. So, without further ado, let's assemble the cake.
Materials:
- spatulas;
- knife-saw, it is very convenient for them to cut the cake along to get biscuit layers;
- an ice cream spoon, or any container with which it will be convenient for you to collect the same portions of cream (can be replaced with a pastry bag);
- cardboard substrate for the cake;
- turntable (this is optional, but believe me, it will make it very easy for you to assemble the cake);
- Non-slip mat to keep the cake from moving out;
- cake layers (yes, where without them! The biscuit should be well chilled, put it in the refrigerator at least 3-4 hours before assembly);
Advice: bake a biscuit the day before, cool it on a wire rack, wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator overnight. The moisture inside the biscuit will be optimally distributed, and not only will the cake be very easy to cut into layers, but it will also be tastier at times! - cream (any cream you choose to cover the cake with, but buttercreams are easier to work with. Caitlin uses Swiss meringue. The recipe for this cream can be found and).
Instruction:
Place the cake on the turntable with the “dome” up, draw a circle with a knife along which you will cut this “dome”.
Use the saw blade. It is also called a bread knife or a serrated knife. Along this circle, begin to carefully cut off the “dome”, moving the knife back and forth move a couple of centimeters towards the center, and so on throughout the circle, moving closer to the middle with each turn. Make sure that the knife is strictly horizontal. If you start to cut a little obliquely, it's okay, just adjust the knife.
When you cut through the cake, remove the dome and set aside. Surely you will find something to do with it.
Next, put your hand on the cake and lightly press it, make a circle with a knife in the middle of the height of the cake and carefully cut it along in the same way. If you have a very tall cake and want thinner layers, you can cut it into 3 or 4 pieces. If you do not trust your eye, use a ruler. Everything will come with experience, believe me, on your 10th cake you will easily cut your biscuit into even layers!
When an even stack of biscuit cakes has formed in front of you, let's start layering them with cream. We place a non-slip mat on the turntable, on it a substrate for the cake. We put a little cream on the substrate, lay the first cake on top and lightly press down. The cream will additionally keep our cake from moving out.
Take an ice cream scoop and put a certain amount of cream in the middle of the cake, exactly the same amount of cream will later need to be put on the rest of the cakes!
Spread the cream with a spatula from the center to the edges.
Advice: If you don't have an ice cream scoop, you can use a pastry bag. Fill it with cream and spread the cream evenly over the entire surface of the cake, it is better to do this around the circumference. If you plan to use additional fillers (jam, confiture, boiled condensed milk, Kurd, etc.), pour the cream around the circumference of the surface of the cake, without reaching the center. Fill the center free from cream with filler.
If you need to remove the spatula from the cake, do not immediately lift it up, you can tear the cake, run the spatula from one end of the cake to the other, and remove the spatula at the edge.
Try to distribute the cream as evenly as possible over the surface of the cake. Then put the next cake on top, and distribute the next portion of the cream in the same way.
When all the cakes are spread, it's time to put the final cake. This should be the bottom layer., i.e. one of its sides is not cut along. Put the cake uncut side up, firstly, you will get a perfectly even top of the cake, and secondly, there will be no crumbs that can get into the cream and spoil its appearance.
Stand the spatula vertically against the cakes, and make sure that all the cakes are stacked exactly on top of each other.
Advice: If you use jams, whipped cream, boiled condensed milk or some other soft fillers when assembling the cake, insert a long one vertically into the center of the cake. wooden skewer, its end should extend beyond the cake, so that it would be easier to remove it later.
Now you can remove the cake in the cold so that the cream freezes, and when the cake is covered with cream, the cakes do not move relative to each other. Before frosting the cake, remove the wooden skewer if you used one.
I make balls in two versions: from cake layers with layers and according to the recipe " curly pinscher"(when the cake is cut into pieces and mixed with cream and various additives). Here is the first option - from cakes.
1. The ball is formed from two hemispheres, so let's look in our bins for vases, or bowls, or cups that resemble the correct hemisphere. It is better, of course, if we have 2 identical vases
2. We bake cakes (in my case, a chocolate biscuit) on a baking sheet and cut out 2 identical cakes of 3 different diameters: the bottom one is slightly larger than the bottom of our vase, the top one is equal to the diameter of the upper edge and the middle one is approximately in the middle of the vase. we line the vases with cellophane and put the cakes there, soak, coat with cream and as a result we get 2 filled vases
3. We put the vases in the freezer for 2-3 hours, take them out, pull the hemispheres from the vases over the edges of the polyethylene, remove the polyethylene, and connect the hemispheres. We make crumbs from the scraps of the cake and mix with the cream, and with this crumb we build up the top of the ball a little and cover all the cracks, and also model the ball a little with the crumbs to give it a finished round shape.
5. We prepare white and black mastic, draw patterns of 5 and 6 squares in advance, and now all that remains is to cut and paste the polygons. If there is no black mastic, you can use chocolate mastic with the addition of a few drops of blue dye to it - it turns out an excellent black color with the effect of leather or rubber - this option looks even more profitable. It is necessary to roll out the shokomastika through the film.
Below are the dimensions for the ball in life size and for a ball about 15cm in diameter.
I apologize for the interference, but, in the calculations of a pentahedron with a side of 4 cm, an error crept in, the distance between the corners is not 6 but 6.5 cm. Your moderator Geda
If the shape of the ball and the size of the polygons are chosen correctly, then everything is assembled without problems, if there are small inconsistencies, then in the process you have to stretch a little, then cut the polygons a little - this is a matter of technique.
6. As a result, we get such a ball 
now it remains to cover the black polygons with black kandurin, the white ones with silver glitter and, after drying, cover the entire ball with a neutral decor gel for shine. In the absence of kandurins, we simply cover with vodka.
Well, in the context of the ball looks like this
Many thanks to Olga-Nesmeyana for help in the calculations.
the calculation of the sizes of polygons is done as follows: You need 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. Their sides are equal. And the length of the side is equal to the circumference divided by 15. And the circumference, in turn, is 3.14 * diameter.
Cakes « Soccer ball"- beautiful and original dish for a boy or a man of any age on his birthday, February 23 or other holidays associated with men or sports.
Such a cake can be given to the winning team in sports competitions or even made into a sweet prize, especially for kids.
According to the principle of creating “Soccer ball” cakes, you can also prepare other spherical cakes: in the form of a tennis or volleyball ball, smeshariki, a bun, a planet, etc.
Soccer Ball Cake Recipes
Cake “A soccer ball can have several design options: a sphere is a whole round ball, a hemisphere is a half of a ball and a regular round cake with a pattern imitating a soccer ball. Another option is a small ball (or several balls) on a football field, that is, on a cake base. In this case, the ball is most often decorative and is made of whole piece any product (chocolate, confectionery mastic etc.)
Of the large Soccer Ball cakes, the simplest are, of course, flat ones. For them, ordinary round cakes smeared with cream are used.
The top of such a cake can be covered with confectionery mastic in two colors, plates of dark and white chocolate, dispense the corresponding “football” pattern with a confectionery syringe with a thin nozzle, sprinkle with grated chocolate and coconut flakes, use marshmallows, marmalade, soufflé and other products of suitable color and texture.
Do not forget that the ball can be not only black and white, but also other color combinations. Men, of course, will prefer the classics, but the kid will be delighted with a brighter ball.
The second option is a hemisphere. There are two options for creating a shape: a special baking dish or cutting cakes from large to small diameter.
With the form, everything is simple - the cake will resemble a half of the ball. You just have to cut it, smear it with cream and put it back together. Just consider the thickness of the cream layers so that your sphere does not stretch upwards, taking on the shape of an egg.
For another option, it’s easier to immediately bake several cakes of different diameters. They can then be cut into thin layers and formed into a cake.
Before coating, the cake should be “polished” - cut the protruding cakes at an angle to smooth out the relief. If this is not done, then either a lot of cream will go to cover the cake, or you will not be able to make the cake neat and evenly please the pieces of the “plating”.
Such a cake can be made without baking - by placing a mass of cookies or crumbled biscuit and cream in a mold. You can also make a cake like a cheesecake, arranging the ingredients in layers, then pour over the gelled liquid cream or soufflé mass.
A full sphere can be made from two hemispheres, but here it is important that the halves stick together well and do not fall apart.
For a sphere cake, use lighter cakes and creams so that the cake keeps its shape well and deforms under its own weight.
Make the bottom of the spherical ball flat so that it moves with careless movement.
If you still need to leave the ball completely round, then cut out a biscuit ring and place the ball on it. The ring can be decorated with a mastic ribbon, masked with cream grass, or decorated in another way.
If your man is an ardent football fan or player, then you can decorate the Football Ball cake with the logo of his favorite team with a scarf or ribbon of the appropriate colors. Just take an interest in all these subtleties in advance so as not to get into a mess.
Sneakers, cups, medals - all this will also complement the mastic cake well.
For a children's cake, you can choose a cartoon design by making a perky face on the ball, attaching handle legs and whatever your imagination tells you.
If you decide to make a cake in the form football field and put a small ball on it, then the composition can be supplemented with football players and football goals.
All this can be fashioned from confectionery mastic. Gates can also be made from icing or chocolate, having previously applied the details to parchment, and after hardening, assemble the structure.
To make a neat marking of the field, first mark the lines according to the template, and already lay cream or mastic on them.
Choose and think over your own cake design so that it becomes unique and remains in the memory of your guests and household for a long time.
Original cakes with a positive meaning are always pleasing to the eye. The themed cake "Soccer ball" turns out to be unusual and very tasty. You can reduce calories by more light cottage cheese cream or coat the layers with a fat, but such a delicious butter-condensed cream. In any case, the delicacy will be excellent.
Soccer Ball Cake - General Cooking Principles
The basis of the "Soccer ball" cake is a biscuit cake. Each housewife bakes it in her own way. There is a very simple basic soviet recipe, according to which the biscuit turns out high and tasty. You need to take 4 medium eggs, 120 grams of sifted flour and the same amount of sugar, 20 grams of starch. Beat the eggs first at low, then at high speed until a dense elastic mass is obtained.
Sugar is added in the process of whipping in portions. A sign that the mass turned out exactly as it should be is the ability to “draw” with a stream of beaten eggs on the surface. It remains to mix the flour sifted with starch into the sweet egg base, and the dough is ready. When kneading, you need to move the spatula (preferably wooden) from top to bottom so that the dough does not collapse.
Baking a biscuit is simple: preheat the oven, cover the bottom of the mold with baking paper, do not open the cabinet door during baking. Temperature oven- from 180 to 190 ° (be guided by the features of the stove). After the biscuit is baked, it is cooled without removing it from the mold.
The round shape of the ball is given to biscuit cakes using rounded dishes. It can be a vase, colander, bowl, etc.
finished cake you need to decorate by imitating the five- and hexagons of a real soccer ball. Decorate the cake most often with mastic. It is elastic and gives the cake an aesthetic look. More simply, cakes decorated with cream or fruit are made.
Cake "Soccer ball" with curd cream
incomparably beautiful cake- a real quest for the hostess. However, its convenient passage guarantees enthusiastic responses from guests. In this version of the Football Ball cake, two types of cream are used. Be sure to try this amazing delicacy.
Ingredients:
five eggs;
A glass of flour;
A glass of sugar;
Vanillin sachet;
3 tablespoons cocoa powder (optional)
A teaspoon of any oil for greasing the mold;
Three hundred grams of cottage cheese;
Three hundred grams of sour cream;
Two hundred grams of powdered sugar;
Good, real butter (standard pack);
A can of good condensed milk;
A jar of peaches in syrup (can be replaced with any fruit and berry preservation);
Half cup apricot or peach jam;
Six purchased meringues (you can make it yourself);
Half a cup of peeled walnuts;
For mastic:
marshmallow packaging;
a tablespoon of water;
Tablespoon butter;
A tablespoon of powdered sugar;
Food colorings(green, yellow and blue).
Cooking method:
From eggs, flour, sugar, vanillin to make biscuit dough on basic recipe described above.
Bake two biscuits and let them cool completely.
canned peaches cut into thin slices.
Rub cottage cheese through a sieve.
For curd cream, combine sour cream, powdered sugar and cottage cheese.
Chop nuts with a knife or crush with a rolling pin.
Cut into meringue pieces.
Cut each biscuit in half.
Line the bowl in which the hemisphere will be formed with plastic wrap.
Lay the first cake.
Soak it in syrup.
Lubricate with cottage cheese cream and cover with nut crumbs.
Lay the pieces of meringue in an even, not very thin layer.
Fill with jam.
Lay the cake. Repeat layers: syrup, curd cream.
Arrange peach slices instead of nuts.
Cover with the next cake, repeat the layers: syrup, curd cream, nuts.
Cover with the last cake and refrigerate for three hours.
Prepare cream by whipping condensed milk with melted butter.
Take the cake out of the fridge and invert onto a plate with foil.
Remove the film and coat the cake oil cream.
Send the cake back to the refrigerator.
At this time, prepare the mastic: put marshmallows and butter in a bowl, pour in water and melt in microwave oven or in a water bath. Gradually introduce the powder until the mass becomes dense, but elastic.
Add dyes to part of the mastic (when mixing three colors, you get black).
Send the finished mastic for an hour in the refrigerator.
Then sprinkle the table with powdered sugar, spread the mastic and cut into polygons desired shape.
The very first to put a black pentagon on the "top" of the "Soccer Ball" cake.
Gradually lay out all the figures.
Keep the cake in the refrigerator until serving.
Football ball cake with cream and chocolate cream
Two types of cream in a cake are always something special. Preparing a delicacy is simple, no special ingredients are needed.
Ingredients:
Six chicken eggs;
A glass of white flour;
a tablespoon of cocoa powder;
A glass of fine sugar;
Any syrup from berry-fruit preservation.
Half a liter of cream;
Half a can of condensed milk;
A glass of powdered sugar;
One egg;
A pack of butter;
Chocolate bar.
Cooking method:
Prepare biscuit dough.
Divide it into two parts, add cocoa to one part.
Bake the cakes, cool and cut each in half.
Prepare a white cream: mix cream, condensed milk and two tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Cover the bowl with foil, lay out the cakes in sequence, soaking them with syrup and smearing butter cream.
Send for several hours in the refrigerator.
Prepare chocolate cream from melted chocolate in a water bath, melted butter and the remaining amount of powdered sugar.
Turn the workpiece on a dish, coat with the remaining white cream.
Divide the cake into sections imitating the pattern of a soccer ball with a thin spatula or spoon.
Use a pastry bag to fill in the "black" sectors chocolate cream. Remains white cream apply to the "white" sectors.
Keep the cake in the refrigerator and serve.
Cake "Soccer ball" with a chocolate layer
Another version of the popular Football Ball cake is baked from biscuit cakes. Wonderfully delicious chocolate layer will surely appeal to children.
Ingredients:
Two hundred grams of flour;
Six eggs;
Two hundred grams of granulated sugar;
Fifty grams of cocoa powder;
sachet vanilla sugar;
One hundred grams of butter;
For frosting:
A glass of sugar;
Half a pack of butter;
Three tablespoons of milk;
Four tablespoons of cocoa.
For registration:
Black mastic;
Cooking method:
Bake two biscuits by combining flour, sugar, eggs, cocoa, butter and vanilla sugar.
Cook thick chocolate icing. To do this, combine cocoa with warm milk and sugar, mix thoroughly, breaking up all the lumps.
Add oil to the mixture and heat over heat until thickened. Typically, this takes 15 minutes.
Remove the finished glaze from the stove and cool.
From the cooled cakes, cut off the side parts so that you get a hemisphere.
Form the contour of the ball by laying the cakes on top of each other and smearing them with glaze.
Spread the rest of the icing over the top of the cake.
Cut the mastic into hexagons using a stencil with a side of 4 cm.
Lay out the mask.
Send the cake to the refrigerator.
Quick no-bake soccer ball cake
It is not necessary to bake the cakes yourself. They can be bought ready-made in the store, significantly speeding up the process of making the Soccer Ball Cake.
Ingredients:
Package ready-made biscuits;
Half a kilo of sour cream;
A glass of prunes;
A glass of sugar;
Jar canned pineapple rings;
Tablespoon of gelatin.
Cooking method:
Cut prunes small pieces. If dried fruits are hard, they need to be steamed for about twenty minutes.
Pour gelatin cold water and let it swell.
Mix sour cream and sugar, put prunes and beat with a whisk light cream.
Dissolve gelatin in a water bath, cool.
Pour the gelatin into the cream, mix and refrigerate for twenty minutes.
Line a large bowl with round walls with cling film.
Cut one cake in a circle so that the diameter matches the diameter of the bowl.
Break the rest of the cakes into pieces.
Arrange the pineapples in whole rings along the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Put a layer of cream.
Place biscuit slices on top.
Alternate layers of cream and biscuit.
Lay a round cake on top.
Keep the cake in the refrigerator for one and a half to two hours.
Invert the cake onto a serving platter, peel off the foil and serve.
Cake "Soccer ball" with chocolate cream
The chocolate version of the cake is sure to please both adults and children. Prepared simply and clearly.
Ingredients:
five eggs;
A glass of sugar;
A glass of flour.
For cream:
Bank of condensed milk;
A pack of butter;
A tablespoon of vodka, cognac or rum (if the cake is for an adult table);
Dyes (green, brown, red).
Cooking method:
Bake the cake, cool, cut into 2 parts.
Mix condensed milk with butter to taste.
A small amount of condensed milk mixed with water strong alcohol for impregnation.
From the cakes, cutting off the side parts with a knife or washing with a grater, form a ball.
Soak each layer first with syrup, then coat with cream.
Grease the top of the cake with cream and refrigerate for an hour.
Do not throw away the crumb from the cake.
Color the remaining cream in different colors.
Take out the cake, use a knife to mark hexagons resembling a ball pattern.
Fill the polygons with brown cream.
Make an imitation of grass from the green cream along the bottom of the dish.
From the remaining crumbs and white cream, make a soft mass, form from it " ladybugs”, arrange red wings and “plant” on the cake.
Cake "Soccer ball" with marzipan
Almond crumb will come spicy taste this version of the Soccer Ball Cake. Preparing a delicacy is also very simple. The cake turns out to be big - enough for the family and guests.
Ingredients:
seven eggs;
Four hundred grams of flour;
Two packs of butter (80 grams in cream, the rest in the dough);
Three hundred grams of sugar;
Two tablespoons of cocoa;
One hundred grams of almonds;
Chocolate bar;
A quarter cup of milk (50 ml);
A glass of powdered sugar;
Three peaches.
Cooking method:
Beat butter and fine sugar.
Crack in the eggs one at a time.
Add flour, milk, mix and bake a biscuit in a round heat-resistant form.
Prepare marzipan. To do this, scald the almonds with boiling water, remove the skin, dry and fry in a dry frying pan.
Grind nuts or grind into flour.
Boil ordinary syrup from sugar and water, throw in almond powder and melt for about four minutes, constantly stirring the mass.
Remove from heat, drain, chop again.
Separate the third part of the mass, mix with melted chocolate.
Wrap sugar white and chocolate brown marzipan in cling film.
Add two tablespoons of boiling water to cocoa.
Beat cream butter, add powdered sugar and diluted cocoa.
Finely chop the peaches.
Cut the biscuit in half.
Smear the lower part with a glaze of cocoa cream, spread the peaches.
Cover the cake with the upper hemisphere of the cake, coat with the rest of the cream.
Cut their white and black marzipan into hexagons, spread them on the surface of the cake, imitating a ball.
Cover the cake before serving with a damp towel so that the marzipan layer does not dry out, keep in the refrigerator.
You can even out the spherical shape of the "Soccer Ball" cake with biscuit crumbs. It must be mixed with cream so that the mass resembles a potato cake. By smearing the contours with this sweet mass, you can make the sphere perfectly even.
To even out the cream with which the sphere is smeared on top, you need to put on a thin glove on your hand. polyethylene film, heat it up under running water hot water, dry with a clean towel and smooth the cream.
Original gifts and interesting treats remain in the memory for a long time. These include birthday cake from mastic. Dessert will effectively decorate any celebration. And if an event is planned for a boy or a man, good choice there will be a soccer ball cake.
Cake "Soccer ball" from mastic
How to make such a beautiful treat? One of the best options is tender biscuit, impregnated with cream and decorated with mastic. Below is step by step recipe soccer ball cake
For the biscuit base, you need the following composition:
- 5 medium eggs;
- a glass of flour;
- a glass of sugar;
- a sachet of vanillin;
- 2-3 spoons of Art. cocoa powder;
- 50 g butter;
- syrup for impregnation (hot).
For cottage cheese cream:
- 300 g of high-fat cottage cheese;
- 400 g sour cream (ideally rustic);
- 150-200 g of powdered sugar.
For oil based cream:
- 5-6 spoons of Art. condensed milk;
- 200 g unsalted butter.
For the fruit filling:
- a can of canned peaches;
- 200 ml peach or apricot jam;
- 5-6 homemade or purchased meringue cookies;
- 150 g walnuts.
For mastic:
- standard pack of marshmallows;
- 180 g unsalted butter;
- 1 spoon st. milk or water;
- 1 spoon st. powdered sugar;
- food coloring of your choice.
That is, it is easy to make a cake with your own hands.
Initially, you should start baking the base.
- To make the dough, beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.
- Carefully add vanilla and flour, constantly mixing everything with a mixer. The mass should be made very lush.
- Then pour the dough into a baking dish, greased with oil. If you are making both cakes at once, divide the prepared dough into two parts and add cocoa to one of them.
- Bake the biscuit in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 35-45 minutes.
For this purpose, you can use a multicooker. In this case, you will have to set the kitchen device to the “Baking” mode and cook the biscuit for 65-75 minutes, then leave it for another 15-20 minutes in the heating mode.
For this original treat you will need:
- 2 biscuit cake rectangular shape;
- butter cream and condensed milk;
- syrup for biscuit impregnation;
- confectionery mastic;
- green food coloring.
A delicacy in the form of a football field is prepared in several stages:
- Soak the biscuit with syrup, spread with cream and place on top of each other.
- Trim the edges with a sharp knife so that the workpiece has an even rectangular shape.
- Coat the product with cream on all sides in an even layer, refrigerate.
- Add green dye to the mastic and roll it into a thin large layer.
- As soon as the cream hardens, remove the cake from the refrigerator and carefully place the rolled mastic on its surface, gently press it over the entire surface, cut off the excess.
- Put the rest of the cream into a piping syringe.
- Apply over the mastic the outlines of the football field and the goal.
- Let the cream dry.
A soccer ball-shaped cake does not require much culinary experience, and by learning how to make simple figures, you can eventually master real masterpieces of culinary art.
