Agree that no festive table, and especially a bright Christmas holiday, can not do without a delicious and original delicacy. You can buy it in advance at the store, but we offer you several recipes for preparing a Christmas cake at home .
The recipe for the Christmas cake
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 0.25;
- potato starch - 0.25;
- granulated sugar - 6 tbsp. spoons;
- egg - 4 pcs.
For filling:
- cognac - 2 teaspoons;
- chocolate - 250 g;
- egg yolk - 4 pieces;
- sugar - 150 g;
- butter - 150 g;
- brewed black coffee - 2 tsp.
Cream for decoration:
- egg yolk - 2 pieces;
- butter - 100 g;
- sugar - 75 g;
- rum - 2 tsp;
- black coffee - 2 tsp.
Preparation
To prepare a French Christmas cake, knead first the dough for biscuit. Eggs are neatly broken into a bowl and we separate the proteins from the yolks. Then beat the first mixer in a large foam and gradually introduce half a serving of sugar. Whisk yolks with the remaining sand white and lay out the squirrels. In the resulting mass sift flour and potato starch. Slightly mix everything, add the remaining whipped proteins and gently mix and spread the dough on a baking tray, distributing it in the form of a rectangle. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.
Without losing time, we prepare the filling: in egg yolks, pour sugar and whisk together with a mixer. Chocolate melt, throw strong black coffee and introduce whipped egg yolks. Next, put a piece of butter and add cognac. Whisk the mass until smooth and clean in the refrigerator.
We put the finished biscuit on the towel, turn it into a roll, cover with a towel and leave it to cool. To make a cream, mix black coffee with rum. Yolks rub with sugar and gently pour out the coffee mixture. Then add soft butter and whisk until smooth cream is obtained.
After that, proceed to the assembly of the cake: biscuit unfold, lay out the filling on it and evenly distribute it. Again turn off, cover with coffee cream and a fork, we apply grooves that resemble a tree bark. We remove the treat in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
How to decorate a Christmas cake? Cut the roll obliquely from both ends. We shift the log into a dish, and cut the cut pieces from above, forming knots. Sprinkle with wood chopped nuts and serve the "Christmas log" cake to the table.
Christmas Cake Cake
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- shortbread cookies - 20 pieces;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- raisins, dried apricots, nuts - to taste;
- chocolate - 100 g;
- milk - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- kiwi fruit - 2 pcs .;
- orange peel;
- powdered sugar;
- cream - for decoration.
Preparation
Cottage cheese mix with sugar and divide it into two parts. In a smaller portion, we throw cocoa and mix. Dried fruits and soak, nuts chop, and grind orange peel on a grater. We combine all this with most of the cottage cheese. We soak the biscuits for a few seconds in warm milk.
We put a food film on the cutting board. Now we put 4 cookies on top and carefully distribute a portion of the cottage cheese mixed with dried fruits and nuts. On each side we form the walls of a house made from the same cookie. Kiwis my, wipe, cut the peel and cut into circles. We spread them on top of cottage cheese and cover with 4 cookies. Then we smear them with cottage cheese with cocoa, forming a mass of gorochkoy, and cover the remaining cookies. Fill the finished house with chocolate icing. For this, melt the chocolate and add a little milk.
Now it remains only to decorate our creation: from the orange crusts we make the windows, and we put the whipped cream on the roof, imitating the snow. Before serving, sprinkle cake with powdered sugar.