Cake Basket with Flowers

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 8 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's prepare all the necessary ingredients.

2. STEP 2

   

   Separate the yolks from the whites. For convenience, leave the yolks in the shell halves.

3. STEP 3

   

   Beat the whites until thick and, continuing to beat, add sugar in portions.

4. STEP 4

   

   Then add the yolk in the same way and beat.

5. STEP 5

   

   Then beat a little more until it becomes a fluffy white mass.

6. STEP 6

   

   Next, mix flour, baking powder and starch. Mix everything and sift through a sieve 3 times to saturate the mixture with oxygen.

7. STEP 7

   

   Add the chopped lemon zest to the beaten eggs. Add flour in portions.

8. STEP 8

   

   Knead the dough with a spatula from bottom to top.

9. STEP 9

   

   The dough should be fluffy and homogeneous.

10. STEP 10

    

    Pour the dough onto a parchment lined pan.

11. STEP 11

    

    Level the dough and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

12. STEP 12

    

    Let the finished biscuit cool.

13. STEP 13

    

    Once it cools down, cut off the top. Knead and reserve for later use.

14. STEP 14

    

    Cut the biscuit lengthwise into three layers.

15. STEP 15

    

    Let's prepare the syrup - add sugar to water, stir and boil until the sugar is completely dissolved. Let the syrup cool to room temperature and add flavoring.

16. STEP 16

    

    Cut marmalade and kiwi into small cubes.

17. STEP 17

    

    Add water to the gelatin to make it swell.

18. STEP 18

    

    Whip the cream with powdered sugar until thick.

19. STEP 19

    

    Add hot boiled milk to the swollen gelatin with water and mix everything until the gelatin dissolves.

20. STEP 20

    

    Grind the cottage cheese with powdered sugar.

21. STEP 21

    

    Add whipped cream to the cottage cheese and mix well. Add milk and gelatin to this mixture through a strainer.

22. STEP 22

    

    Mix the cream well until smooth. To assemble the cake, all that remains is to cut the bananas into the same cubes as kiwi and marmalade.

23. STEP 23

    

    To assemble, take the mold in which the sponge cake was baked and place the bottom cake layer in it. Soak it well in syrup.

24. STEP 24

    

    Place a layer of cream on top, and then a layer of fruit and marmalade into the cream.

25. STEP 25

    

    We will also cover the top with cream.

26. STEP 26

    

    We assemble the next layer of cake, cream and fruit in the same way.

27. STEP 27

    

    Soak it in syrup and place the last cake layer on top and spread it with cream.

28. STEP 28

    

    Mash the top of the biscuit well and mix with the remaining cream. Place a mound of this mixture on top of the cake. Now the cake needs to be put in the refrigerator to harden. Meanwhile, prepare the protein custard.

29. STEP 29

    

    The cake has frozen and the cream is ready. We start the decor with the basket. Using brown cream, using a star nozzle, apply a vertical line along the entire height to the side of the cake. On top of the line, draw three horizontal lines at a distance from each other in the thickness of the line, i.e. in one.

30. STEP 30

    

    Then there is also a vertical line next to it, and on top of it two horizontal lines in the spaces between the three previous horizontal lines.

31. STEP 31

    

    This is how we decorate the side of the cake in the form of a basket.

32. STEP 32

    

    Apply an ornate line along the top edge in a circular motion with the same brown cream and nozzle.

33. STEP 33

    

    The basket is ready. We prepare multi-colored creams for flowers, kitchen scissors and pastry carnations for creating flowers. Instead of a nail, you can use, for example, a pen.

34. STEP 34

    

    We make the first large rose from the cream and, using scissors, place it in the center of the cake.

35. STEP 35

    

    Roses are very easy to make. For example, if you are using a pen, then you need to apply cream to the petals using the petal nozzle in a cascade, first on the pen, then on each other.

36. STEP 36

    

    This is what it looks like in the process.

37. STEP 37

    

    Transfer the rose of the desired size to the scissors, carefully turning the handle.

38. STEP 38

    

    And use scissors to place the rose on the cake.

39. STEP 39

    

    We make and place the required number of roses of the same color. Then we move on to other colors. For example, white and orange. To do this, place white and orange creams on opposite sides of a pastry bag and squeeze the bag until the desired color comes out.

40. STEP 40

    

    And if you use a special confectionery carnation, then to prepare roses with it you must first apply a base for the flower from white cream on it and then apply flower petals in a cascade around this base, as well as around the handle.

41. STEP 41

    

    Make flowers of the desired size. We also remove them with scissors.

42. STEP 42

    

    And also using scissors we transfer the flower to the cake.

43. STEP 43

    

    Decorate with flowers all the free space on top of the cake.

44. STEP 44

    

    Apply leaves using green cream using the 'leaf' nozzle.

45. STEP 45

    

    We decorate roses with confectionery beads. Once the decor is finished, put the cake in the refrigerator to soak for a couple of hours before serving and harden a little.

46. STEP 46

    

    A delicious fruit cake is decorated, soaked in cream and made tender. And ready to please our loved ones with his tenderness. Serve and enjoy the holiday!

Comments on the recipe

Rat

08.10.2023

4.9

Beautiful cake! I’m also delighted with this cake with roses made from sugar mastic.

Testomania

08.10.2023

4.6

I needed to make a beautiful and delicious cake as a gift. I was interested in the cake basket with flowers not even for its recipe, but solely for its appearance. To begin with, I decided to make a “training” cake for my family. I made a small biscuit and took ingredients based on four eggs. I beat the eggs and sugar well, so no baking powder was needed. I coated the cakes with blackberry confiture and cream cheese cream (I did not use any soaking or fruit). This wasn’t the first time I’ve made protein-custard cream, but I didn’t have too much experience either. At the same time, the basket turned out great the first time, but with the roses everything turned out to be not so simple. Instead, I made flowers using a “tulip bud” attachment, it turned out so-so, but better than roses with inept hands))) Overall, I was pleased with the cake, especially with the simplicity of decorating the sides in the form of a basket. Therefore, I was happy to repeat making it, only instead of flowers I decorated the basket with sweets. The birthday girl really praised my sweet gift, and I believed her, because the day before at home I had eaten exactly the same one))