Original gifts and interesting treats will remain in your memory for a long time. These include a mastic holiday cake. Dessert will effectively decorate any celebration. And if an event is planned for a boy or a man, a Soccer Ball cake is a good choice.

Soccer ball cake made of mastic

How to make such a beautiful treat? One of the best options is a delicate sponge cake soaked in cream and decorated with mastic. Below is a step-by-step recipe for a soccer ball cake.

For the base of the biscuit you need the following composition:

  • 5 medium eggs;
  • a glass of flour;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • a bag of vanillin;
  • 2-3 tablespoons of art. cocoa powder;
  • 50 g butter;
  • syrup for impregnation (in hot form).

For cream based on cottage cheese:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese of high fat content;
  • 400 g sour cream (ideally rustic);
  • 150-200 g of powdered sugar.

For butter based cream:

  • 5-6 tablespoons of Art. condensed milk;
  • 200 g unsalted butter.

For fruit toppings:

  • a can of peaches;
  • 200 ml of 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 tablespoon milk or water;
  • 1 tablespoon powdered sugar;
  • food colors at your discretion.

That is, it is easy to make a cake with your own hands.

Initially, you should do baking basics.

  1. To make the dough, beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.
  2. Gently add vanillin and flour, constantly mixing everything with a mixer. The mass should be made very magnificent.
  3. Then pour the dough into a greased baking dish. If you make both cakes at once, divide the prepared dough into two parts and add cocoa to one of them.
  4. Bake a biscuit in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 35-45 minutes.

For this purpose, you can use a slow cooker. 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.

While the cakes are cooled, it is necessary to prepare the filler of canned peaches and sour cream.

  1. To do this, in a spacious bowl, whip the cottage cheese with sour cream (manually or at a low speed with a mixer) and slowly add powdered sugar into the mass.
  2. When the mixture is airy, the cream is ready.
  3. Take peaches and cut into slices, crumble walnuts.
  4. Chop the meringues.

Once the biscuit has cooled, you can collect dessert.

  1. If you baked one cake, divide it into 4 parts, if two, cut each of them in half. Put a clean bag or film layer in a deep bowl so that the cake can be easily reached.
  2. Fold the biscuit fragments in turn, soaking the first two with syrup and spreading with sour cream and curd cream, the second with jam and sprinkling with crumbled meringues and nuts, on top of which to cut the fruit. Place biscuit cake on top.
  3. Refrigerate for approximately three hours.

While the biscuit cakes are cooling and soaking, prepare the cream. Soften the oil and mix with condensed milk. As soon as the dessert is cooled, remove from the bowl with a film and brush with prepared cream on all sides. If the shape is not perfect, cut off its edges. You should get smooth contours. Put the cream cake in the refrigerator.

Cook the mastic at this time.

To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Put the marshmallows in a deep container, heat in the microwave until melted, mixing with water or milk and butter.
  2. Gradually add powdered sugar to the mass, stirring it. It should be sticky and elastic mastic.
  3. Divide into portions and add the corresponding dye to each of them. In the basic version, you need any color that creates a contrast with white, as well as green.

How to collect this delicacy finally?

It is done like this.

  1. Sprinkle icing sugar on the table.
  2. Roll mastic on it with equal thickness layers and cut them.
  3. Remove the frozen cream dessert from the refrigerator and begin to cover it with mastic.
  4. Make a drawing with dots of the selected color on a ball from a biscuit, below is a green layer imitating grass on a football field.
  5. After that, place the dessert from the mastic to cool again in the refrigerator.
  6. Before serving, grease it with water or vodka to ensure a delicious shine.

Cooking from cream

A cake in the shape of a soccer ball can be made without mastic.

To do this, you will need the following components:

  • 2 ready-made biscuit cakes;
  • butter cream;
  • food coloring of any color;
  • syrup for impregnation.

This is done like this.

  1. Make a cream of butter and condensed milk according to the previous recipe.
  2. Soak the biscuit cakes with syrup, put them one on one and use a knife to make a semicircular shape.
  3. Lubricate the product with cream, correct its shape with cream and biscuit crumbs.
  4. Put the cake in the refrigerator to freeze the cream.
  5. Mix part of the cream with food coloring, place it in a confectionery syringe or a bag with a cut corner.
  6. Place the remaining unpainted cream in a similar syringe or prepared bag.
  7. Take a knife and draw lines and segments on the surface of the dessert, like on a soccer ball.
  8. Apply colored cream to some of them, then fill the remaining segments with white.
  9. Soak the dessert in the refrigerator.

Children's treat in the form of a football field

What if the hero of the occasion wants to get a dessert in the form of a football field? In fact, making such a cake is even easier than in the form of a ball.

For this original treat you will need:

  • 2 rectangular biscuit cakes;
  • butter cream with condensed milk;
  • syrup for impregnation of biscuit;
  • pastry mastic;
  • green food coloring.

A treat in the form of a football field is prepared in several stages:

  1. Soak sponge cake with syrup, spread cream and lay on top of each other.
  2. With a sharp knife, trim the edges so that the workpiece has an even rectangular shape.
  3. Coat the product with cream on all sides in an even layer, cool.
  4. Add green dye to the mastic and roll it into a thin large layer.
  5. As soon as the cream hardens, remove the cake from the refrigerator and carefully place rolled mastic on its surface, gently squeeze over the entire surface, cut off the excess.
  6. Put the rest of the cream in the cooking syringe.
  7. Draw on top of the mastic the outlines of the football field and goal.
  8. Let the cream harden.

Soccer ball cake

In addition to all of the above, you can show originality and combine both ideas for decorating a holiday cake by making it in the form of a soccer ball on the field.

To do this, take:

  • 3 biscuit cakes;
  • chocolate or fruit syrup;
  • cream based on condensed milk and oil;
  • several shades of food coloring.

Follow these steps:

  1. Take two cakes, cut them to a regular rectangular shape.
  2. Soak in syrup and lay on top of each other.
  3. Lubricate on all sides with cream, set to solidify.
  4. At this time, add green dye to the part of the mastic, roll it into a thin layer.
  5. Apply to a solidified rectangular workpiece, gently pressing across the entire surface.
  6. Take the remaining biscuit, cut across.
  7. Soak both halves with syrup and glue them together with syrup and cream.
  8. With a sharp knife, cut the shape of a semicircle.
  9. Using the cream, attach the above blank to a green mastic surface.
  10. Coat the top biscuit with cream, smoothing its surface and making it rounder with cut crumbs.
  11. Place in the refrigerator to set.
  12. Divide the remaining mastic into two parts, in one of which add any dark dye or cocoa.
  13. Roll it into layers, cut even segments to cover in the form of a ball.
  14. Attach them to the upper semicircular part of the cake, alternating in color.
  15. Once everything hardens, dessert can be served.

A cake in the shape of a soccer ball does not require much culinary experience, and having learned how to make simple figures, over time you can master real masterpieces of cookery art.

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