Original cakes with a positive meaning always delight the eye. The thematic cake "Soccer ball" turns out to be unusual and very tasty. You can reduce calorie content due to a lighter curd cream or coat the layers with a greasy, but so tasty butter-condensed cream. In any case, the treat will be excellent.
Soccer ball cake - general principles of preparation
The basis of the "Soccer Ball" cake is a sponge cake. Each hostess bakes it in his 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 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 the way it is needed is the ability to "draw" with a trickle 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. The temperature of the oven is from 180 to 190 ° (focus on the features of the stove). After the biscuit is baked, it is cooled, not removed from the mold.
The round shape of the ball is given to biscuit cakes with the help of round-shaped dishes. It can be a vase, colander, bowl, etc.
You need to decorate the finished cake by imitating the pentagons and hexagons of a real soccer ball. Cake is most often decorated with mastic. It is flexible and gives the cake an aesthetic appearance. Cakes decorated with cream or fruit are made more simply.
Soccer ball cake with curd cream
The incomparably beautiful cake is a real quest for the hostess. However, its convenient passage guarantees enthusiastic feedback from guests. In this version of the Soccer Ball cake, two types of cream are used. Be sure to try to cook this amazing treat.
Ingredients:
• five eggs;
• a glass of flour;
• a glass of sugar;
• bag of vanillin;
• three tablespoons of cocoa powder (optional);
• a teaspoon of any oil to lubricate 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 can of peaches in syrup (can be replaced with any fruit and berry preservation);
• half a glass of apricot or peach jam;
• six purchased meringues (you can do it yourself);
• half a glass of peeled walnuts;
For mastic:
• packaging of marshmallows;
• a tablespoon of water;
• a tablespoon of butter;
• a tablespoon of powdered sugar;
• food coloring (green, yellow, and blue).
Cooking method:
From eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla, make a biscuit dough according to the basic recipe described above.
Bake two biscuits and let them cool completely.
Cut peaches into thin slices.
Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve.
For cottage cheese cream, combine sour cream, icing sugar and cottage cheese.
Cut nuts with a knife or crush with a rolling pin.
Cut meringues into pieces.
Each biscuit is cut in half.
Cover the bowl in which the hemisphere will be formed with a plastic wrap.
Lay the first cake.
Soak it in syrup.
Lubricate with curd cream and cover with nut crumbs.
Lay the pieces of meringue with an even, not very thin layer.
Pour jam.
Lay the cake. Repeat layers: syrup, curd cream.
Spread peach slices instead of nuts.
Cover with the following cake, repeat the layers: syrup, curd cream, nuts.
Cover with the last cake and send to the refrigerator for three hours.
Prepare a cream by whipping condensed milk with melted butter.
Remove the cake from the refrigerator and turn it onto a plate with a film.
Remove the film and coat the cake with butter cream.
Send the cake to the fridge again.
At this time, prepare the mastic: put marshmallows and butter in the dishes, pour in the water and melt in the microwave or in a water bath. Gradually inject the powder until the mass becomes dense but elastic.
Add dyes to the mastic part (mixing three colors will turn black).
Ready mastic sent for an hour in the refrigerator.
Then sprinkle the table with icing sugar, spread out the mastic and cut into polygons of the desired shape.
The very first to put a black pentagon on the “crown” of the “Soccer ball” cake.
Gradually lay out all the shapes.
Keep the cake in the refrigerator until serving.
Soccer ball cake with cream and chocolate cream
Two types of cream in the cake - always something special. Preparing a treat 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.
In creams:
• 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:
Make a biscuit dough.
Divide it into two parts, add cocoa in one part.
Bake 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 a film, spread the cakes sequentially, soaking them with syrup and spreading with butter cream.
Send for several hours in the refrigerator.
Prepare chocolate cream from chocolate melted in a water bath, melted butter and the remaining amount of powdered sugar.
Turn the workpiece onto the dish, brush with the remaining white cream.
Divide the cake with a thin shovel or spoon into sections simulating the pattern of a soccer ball.
Using a pastry bag, fill the “black” sectors with chocolate cream. Apply the rest of the white cream to the “white” sectors.
Hold the cake in the refrigerator and serve.
Soccer ball cake with chocolate layer
Another version of the popular soccer ball cake is baked from biscuit cakes. Wonderfully delicious chocolate layer is sure to appeal to children.
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of flour;
• six eggs;
• two hundred grams of granulated sugar;
• fifty grams of cocoa powder;
• a bag of vanilla sugar;
• one hundred grams of butter;
In the glaze:
• a glass of sugar;
• half a pack of butter;
• three tablespoons of milk;
• four tablespoons of cocoa.
For registration:
• black mastic;
• white mastic.
Cooking method:
Bake two biscuits by combining flour, sugar, eggs, cocoa, butter and vanilla sugar in a basic recipe.
Make thick chocolate icing. To do this, combine cocoa with warm milk and sugar, mix thoroughly, breaking all the lumps.
Add oil to the mixture and heat over heat until thickened. This usually takes 15 minutes.
Remove the finished glaze from the stove and cool.
From the cooled cakes, cut off the side parts so that a hemisphere is obtained.
Form the contour of the ball, laying cakes on top of each other and smearing them with icing.
Coat the top of the cake with the rest of the glaze.
From mastic, cut hexagons using a stencil with a side of 4 cm.
Lay out the mastic.
Send the cake to the fridge.
Fast cake "Soccer ball" without baking
It is not necessary to bake the cakes themselves. You can buy them ready-made in the store, significantly speeding up the process of making the Soccer Ball cake.
Ingredients:
• packaging of finished biscuits;
• a pound of sour cream;
• a glass of prunes;
• a glass of sugar;
• a can of canned pineapple rings;
• a tablespoon of gelatin.
Cooking method:
Prune cut into small pieces. If dried fruits are hard, they need to be steamed for twenty minutes.
Pour gelatin with cold water and allow to swell.
Mix sour cream and sugar, put prunes and whisk light cream with a whisk.
Dissolve the gelatin in a water bath, cool.
Pour gelatin into the cream, mix and send for twenty minutes in the refrigerator.
To cover a large bowl with round walls with a film.
Cut one cake in a circle so that the diameter matches the diameter of the bowl.
Break the remaining cakes into pieces.
Put pineapples in whole rings on the walls and bottom of the bowl.
Put a layer of cream.
Put biscuit slices on top.
Alternate layers of cream and biscuit.
Lay a round cake on top.
Hold the cake in the refrigerator for one and a half to two hours.
Turn the cake onto a dish, remove the film and serve.
Soccer Ball Cake with Chocolate Cream
The chocolate version of the cake will surely appeal to both adults and children. It is prepared simply and clearly.
Ingredients:
• five eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• a glass of flour.
For cream:
• can 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 oil to taste.
Mix a small amount of condensed milk with water and strong alcohol for impregnation.
From cakes, cutting off the side parts with a knife or erasing with a grater, form a ball.
Soak each layer first with syrup, then spread with cream.
Grease the top of the cake with cream and send for an hour in the refrigerator.
Don’t throw away cake crumbs.
Paint the remaining cream in different colors.
Get a cake, with a knife, outline the hexagons that resemble a drawing of a ball.
Fill the polygons with brown cream.
From the green cream on the bottom of the dish, make an imitation of grass.
From the remaining crumbs and white cream, make a soft mass, form "ladybugs" from it, arrange red wings and "plant" on the cake.
Soccer ball cake with marzipan
Almond crumbs will bring a spicy flavor to this version of the Soccer Ball cake. Preparing a treat is also very simple. The cake is big - enough for the family and for the guests.
Ingredients:
• seven eggs;
• four hundred grams of flour;
• two packs of butter (80 grams per cream, the rest into 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 small sugar.
Drive eggs one at a time.
Add flour, milk, mix and bake a biscuit in a round heat-resistant form.
Cook marzipan. To do this, scald the almonds with boiling water, peel, dry and fry in a dry pan.
Grind or grind the nuts into flour.
Boil regular syrup from sugar and water, throw almond powder in it and simmer for four minutes, constantly stirring the mass.
Remove from heat, repel, grind again.
Separate the third part of the mass, mix with melted chocolate.
Wrap sugar white and chocolate brown marzipan in a film.
In cocoa add two tablespoons of boiling water.
Beat butter for cream, add icing sugar and diluted cocoa.
Peach thinly chopped.
Cut the biscuit in half.
Smear the bottom of the irrigation cocoa cream, spread the peaches.
Cover the cake with the upper hemisphere of the cake, brush 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 as not to dry the marzipan layer, keep in the refrigerator.
Soccer Ball Cake - Tricks and Tricks
You can align 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. Having missed the contours with this sweet mass, you can make the sphere perfectly even.
To even out the cream, which is smeared with a sphere on top, you need to put on a glove made of a thin plastic film on your hand, heat it under running hot water, dry it with a clean towel and smooth the cream.
