Preparing for a children's holiday: a cake "Mignon" as a gift

If you went with your baby to the cinema onfunny, kind and fascinating cartoon "The Ugly I", you probably know who the minions are. These tiny good-natured creatures were faithful helpers of the evil Grew. Funny, funny and very nice shorties wearing glasses should have been remembered not only by you, but also by your child. So he, no doubt, will be happy to see on his birthday such a bright smiling geezer in the form of a sweet treat. Cake "Mignon" will conquer the stomachs and hearts of both children and adults who come to congratulate your baby. He will create the right mood! True, it is unlikely to be bought, but it is expensive to order, and it is not known whether this will work out as you intended. Maybe it's worth taking this venture completely into your own hands?

How to cook "Mignon" yourself? After all, this requires not only culinary, but also artistic abilities. Do not worry, the main thing is to approach the process creatively and with love, then everything will necessarily turn out. First you need to decide on the necessary products that will be required for the preparation of the cake "Mignon". Recipe divided into several parts: biscuit, filling, glaze.

To bake a biscuit dough, prepare the following ingredients (the number of ingredients indicated on 1 cake, to make the cake higher, do two or three):

• flour - 150 grams;
• butter - 100 grams;
• eggs - 4 pieces;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• chocolate - 100 grams.

Separate the yolks. Last rub with sugar and whisk whisk. On a water bath, melt the butter and chocolate, cool slightly and combine with the yolk mass. Stirring, add the sifted flour. Proteins cool and whip with a drop of lemon juice or a pinch of salt. Gently enter the protein mass into the chocolate mixture. The form for biscuit (diameter is better to take less) oil, pour the dough into it and put in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for half an hour. When the cake is ready, lightly cool it and cut along two or three parts. So with each serving of the cake. Thus, they should be 4-6 to achieve height. Now it's time to take care of the cream.

Cake "Mignon" does not have any specificprescription cream, because the main thing in it - it's the appearance of a funny geezer in glasses, and the filling is already secondary. Here you can show imagination and rely on your taste, preferences and baby, etc. Well suited to this dessert following creams (choose at its sole discretion)..:

• thick sour cream - sour cream, sugar, protein (all beat up);
• air creamy - cream 33%, sugar, you can slightly any berries, canned peaches or pineapples;
• with condensed milk - boiled or ordinary condensed milk, butter;
• banana - in the sour cream add banana puree.

The most important part is what the "Mignon" cake will be covered with. The coating will be made of mastic. It can be purchased in a store or made from the following components:

• marshmallow - 200 grams;
• water - 2 tbsp. l;
• powdered sugar - as much as the mass absorbs.

First, the marshmallow should be filled with water and put inmicrowave for 40 seconds. Then mix and add the powder until the mass becomes very thick and plastic (the main thing is not to overdo it). Then wrap the "sweet plasticine" in a food film and put it in the freezer for half an hour. Now you can work with it. Divide the whole mass into a number of parts equal to the number of colors used. The main will be 4:

• yellow - the body of the minion;
• blue - suit;
• black - boots and gloves, rim glasses, hair, pupils;
• white - eyes.

Paint them with food colors in the right shades and give them the required shapes, fortunately, they are very simple.

Fold the cakes on top of each other, sandwiching them with cream. Top with mastic - first the body, then the suit, hands and feet, eyes, glasses, hair and cap. The festive cake "Mignon" is ready! Your baby will be delighted with such a sweet surprise!