Cake "Christmas wreath"

Cake "Christmas wreath"

Category: Culinary recipes

Ingredients
Chocolate cake
Black chocolate	135 gr.
Butter	150 gr.
Sugar	160 g
Rum (cognac, liqueur)	30 ml.
Chicken eggs	5 pieces.
Flour	200 gr.
Vanilla sugar	10 gr.
Baking powder	1.5 tsp.
Milk	100 ml.
Impregnation:
Lemon syrup	2 tbsp. l.
Limoncello	2 tbsp. l.
Salted caramel:
Cream 33%	100 g
Sugar	80 gr.
Honey	1 tbsp. l.
Butter	30 gr.
Salt (preferably large)	1/2 coffee spoon
Cream:
Salted caramel
Cream 33%	350 gr.
Cream cheese	250 gr.
Mandarin Kurd:
Tangerine juice (and zest from 3 tangerines)	180 g
Sugar	120 g (can be adjusted to taste)
Chicken eggs	3 pcs. (or six yolks)
Vanilla sugar	10 gr.
Pectin (corn starch)	2 tsp without top
Butter	30-40 gr.

Cooking method

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• Dear ones! I hasten to share, in my opinion, a very festive recipe for a truly Christmas cake: spicy chocolate cakes, a mysterious caramel note and the aroma of cinnamon and tangerine - this is how I read this bright holiday and this is how it smelled in my house on Christmas Eve :) Do you want? Let's get started ...
• I propose to break the process of making a cake for two days. The first one is dedicated to baking cakes, we cook caramel and Kurd, and in the second one we collect and decorate the cake.
• Cakes:
• We turn on the oven and heat up to 180 degrees.
• We cover the bottom of two forms with a diameter of 21 cm with parchment paper (if there are no two, take one, but increase the baking time).
• We heat 100 ml almost to a boil. milk, turn it off, place the chocolate broken into pieces in the milk, leave for 3 minutes, and then mix very well until a smooth shiny mass. Cool to room temperature.
• We divide the eggs into whites and yolks.
• Whisk the whites with 80 gr. sugar until it falls out of the bowl.
• In another bowl (mine is in a mixer), beat the butter at room temperature with sugar, then add the yolks one at a time, beat well and add the chocolate melted in milk, and then the alcohol (you can skip this step if you wish).
• Alternatively, if you wish, you can add dry baking perfume to the dough. My dry perfume (3/4 tbsp. L.) Contained dry ones: mint, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, coriander, nutmeg, cloves.
• Sift flour with baking powder. And then, alternately, in three steps, we introduce flour and proteins into the dough, mixing them manually. A third of the flour, a third of the proteins - mixed, once again a third - mixed and again - and already mixed completely.
• Spread the dough into two prepared tins, smooth with wet hands
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• and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer - it should come out completely dry.
• This is how the cake will turn out
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• While the cakes are baked, cook the caramel.
• Put sugar and honey in a saucepan, melt until golden or light brown (they say, caramel should never be mixed, but I'm faint of heart - I was so afraid to burn it that I mixed it - everything ended well :)). We heat the cream almost to a boil (you can do this in advance if you have only two hands :)) and pour it very carefully into the caramel - at first everything foams in a saucepan, we get scared, but actively stir and boil after boiling for about 2 minutes.
• Next, remove from heat, add oil, salt, mix well, cover with foil in contact, cool and put in the refrigerator.
• Next, we proceed to the tangerine Kurd. Here, girls, you will have to be patient, because squeezing juice from tangerines is not the most pleasant experience, at least for me - then I had to unscheduled cleaning the kitchen and take water procedures: it seemed to me that in my tiny apartment there was simply no there is still a place where tangerine juice would not have got, including my eyes, ears and the like of a hair style :))) But ... we're not looking for easy ways, are we? This means that we remove the zest from three tangerines, squeeze the juice out of six and get 180-200 grams.
• Put juice, zest, eggs (or yolks), sugar mixed with pectin and vanilla sugar in a saucepan and put on low heat. Girls, pectin can be replaced with cornstarch, or you can not put either one or the other at all. I also added anise stars for the scent. Stir constantly, cook until thickened - it took me about six minutes.
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• We remove from heat, filter through a sieve (at the family council it was decided to remove the zest),
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• add oil, mix well, cover with foil in contact, cool and put in the refrigerator.
• The next day we prepare the cream.
• In one bowl, at a low mixer speed, mix cream cheese (this time I had a classic President - a yellow box) and caramel, which I took out of the refrigerator an hour before making the cream.
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• In another, chilled bowl, whip the cream (I didn't add sugar, I added only vanilla).
• Then gradually add cream into the cream cheese with caramel and mix by folding (from bottom to top, not in a circle)
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• That's it - the cream is ready, if desired, it can also be flavored with alcohol.
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• Well, and then we just assemble the cake the way you are used to :) I'm used to wearing a confectionery ring with acetate film. Each cake, if necessary, trim, cut lengthwise into two parts. Next - the cake, soak it, apply the cream, make a side around the perimeter and in the middle - put the Kurd. Like this
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• Then we put the next cake and repeat everything. We send the collected cake to the refrigerator. To my surprise, it turned out to be tall - the film is 10 cm high.
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• The amount of cream indicated in the recipe was enough for me only for a layer of cake. All the leftovers fit into a glass of delicious dessert
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• I used a protein custard for the decoration. If you want to decorate the cake with the same cream that is inside, feel free to make one and a half servings indicated in the recipe.
• We decorated like this
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• And when they tried, they realized that the house is not just a holiday, but real Christmas, and happiness is near :)))
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• Merry Christmas, girls! :))) Peace, happiness, love, kindness and understanding to your families and your warm cozy homes :)))
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The dish is designed for

2.2 kg.

Time for preparing:

Two days for three hours

Cooking program:

Oven, knobs, Love and Peace :)))

Note

You know, girls, Christmas is, of course, one of the brightest, kindest and most tender holidays :))) Many traditions and signs are associated with it. One of the most important Christmas signs says that on Christmas one cannot quarrel with loved ones, because otherwise you can spend the whole year in disagreements ... Well, it's hard not to agree, isn't it? And I’ll tell you this: when the house smells of chocolate, cinnamon, caramel and tangerines - well, it’s simply impossible to quarrel, even if you have a very strong desire for that. So bake this cake, girls, talking about it to eliminate all domestic contradictions and misunderstandings; bake, thinking about how strong your feelings are for people close to you, how sincerely you want them to always and everything would be good; bake - and your loved ones and your loved ones will accept your declaration of love without words and will certainly reciprocate to you.But it seems to me, girls, that you never need to quarrel with loved ones - that's why they are close. You will, of course, tell me that this does not happen, that it is impossible? And I may agree with you, but only partially ... Why? Yes, because I know the great secret of my parents, who lived in love, harmony and respect for forty years, until, unfortunately, our mother became ... But she left her secret to me, only I did not understand it right away ... You know , girls, quarrel, quarrel - strife and quarrel can also be different ... My parents, of course, also had disagreements and, of course, were also periodically unhappy with each other. It happened that the relationship was sorted out ... But during their quarrels, they never categorically became personal and did not seek to offend each other. Well, the goal was not to inflict pain, but to inform about the reasons for dissatisfaction and try to agree on ways and means of eliminating it - something like this ...And dad also had his own secret - as soon as mom flared up and showed only a rudimentary intention to start a get-together, dad urgently organized extremely important and urgent matters: take a walk with the children, with the dog, go for bread, milk, a newspaper, a carrot, for ice cream, to visit an old woman-neighbor, etc., etc. - here his imagination was inexhaustible and he almost never repeated himself, can you imagine, girls? And when he returned - the reason for the conflict, as a rule, was exhausted, and my mother had time to ... get bored That's the whole secret, it is very simple - Respect, boundless Respect for the person who is next to you every day and is ready to share everything - and pain, and happiness, and loss, and good luck :))) To a person who knows you like no one else and is always ready to forgive you everything :) Let's live in love and respect, girls, let's bake this (well, or, completely not this, but even any other cake) for Christmas (well, or even just like that) and we will be very, very happy :)))

another masterpiece
Vika, your parents loved each other very much
happiness, peace and joy to your family

[Ljna]

Ljna, thanks, Zhenechka :) I sincerely hope that the recipe will come in handy

your parents loved each other very much

Yes, Zhenechka, it's true And they taught me a lot ...

Cool cake! : rose: The composition is interesting, I have already choked with saliva

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, you gave us two recipes, not one! Thank you dear !!!

[Vika]

Vika, very tasty told about the cake. Please tell me which cheese cream do you use?

white Roses, white Roses ...

[Irina]

Irina, Love, Natasha, Jeanne, thanks girls :)))

you gave us two recipes, not one! Thank you dear !!!

Lyubasha, what happiness is it when people understand you Thank you!

Please tell me which cheese cream do you use?

Yes, what is in the store - this is what I use :) Here, in the recipe, I wrote:

stir the cream cheese (this time I had Classic President - yellow box)

And I also showed here here , what kind of cream cheese I take - I like them all, there are no particular preferences, I take the one that is on sale (well, except, perhaps, Almetta - I like it least of all, but if there were no other - and I would take it)

Vika, a gorgeous cake and a very WARM story about the relationship of loved ones! Yes ... that's how it should be! Our parents were very wise ...
Thank you very much for the reminder to BE human ... Always ...

Vika, what a smart you are, golden hands! What a cake, you can't take your eyes off! I watch your work, I am subdued !!!! And the words are so correct and necessary! Thank you very much!

[June]

June, oh, I am very grateful that you do not disregard my Notes I am very pleased and very important to be understood

Our parents were very wise ...

Added Sunday 08 Jan 2017 10:41 AM

Albinka75, thank you very much, namesake :))) The beauty of the cake, of course, is still far away, but I am very glad that at least I tried it - before that I had never played up the Christmas theme in cake decorating like this, but now I want more and more And thank you for responding sincerely not only to the recipe, but also to my desire to talk ...

[Vika]

Vika, the cake is gorgeous
If the cake is made high, will it not slip or will it need to be additionally strengthened? Can you use mandarin pulp instead of juice?

[Elena]

Elena, Thank you:)))

If the cake is made high, will it not slip or will it need to be additionally strengthened?

Helen, did not quite understand the question: what does it mean "if you make it high"? How high? For me, 10 cm is already a tall cake, but what height do you mean?

Can you use mandarin pulp instead of juice?

I think it is possible, if it is good to clean the tangerine slices from all the films, and then puree in a blender - why not, of course, you can :)

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika! what a smart girl you are! again a delicious cake.I take your tangerines to bookmarks

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, thanks for the warmth. I take the recipe to the store.

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vikulya, Merry Christmas to you and your family !!! Thank you very much for making us happy on such a beautiful, home holiday with a wonderful cake and such a warm, cozy story !!! What are your wise parents !!! It's great that there is such LOVE in the world !!! I read everything in one breath !!! The cake is beautiful, such a design is good !!! I took it to the piggy bank)

[Vika]

Vika, I want to make a product cake in the form of a Minion for my son's birthday, the height will be about 20-25 cm.

Vikusha, Merry Christmas! Wonderful cake! I really liked the way you decorated the cake with a Christmas wreath.

[kirpochka]

height about 20-25 cm becomes.

Helen, I have no experience of working with 3-D cakes at all, and I have never done such a height of cakes as you will, therefore, I'm sorry, I can't tell you anything here.I can only assume that a cake is for your idea is quite suitable - it kept its shape well with me, but whether it needs to be strengthened and exactly how to do it - I don't know, alas
kirpochka, Natulik, DyadkinaAlla, Allochka, thank you very much for the congratulations and for stopping by Merry Christmas, girls :)))

Vikul, I have already seen your cake and wrote that it is very beautiful, and then there is a recipe)) Class, I also wanted to try tangerine Kurdish or cream, but did not have time, as I made a cake for a visit at 6 and for 7 for my husband's birthday. But I will definitely try your yummy!
Merry Christmas!

[Albina]

Albina, Thank you, Alechka, try it, I'm so wondering if everyone will be as tasty as us

Congratulations on your well-deserved victory in the "Best Recipe of the Week" competition

Vikusya, congratulations! A wonderful recipe and a well-deserved reward!

Congratulations to Vikulya! You deserve this victory!

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, Congratulations! Wonderful cake! I will definitely do this!

[Chef]

Respected Chef! My dear girls! gala10, Check mark, Natalisha, Natulya, julia007, Julia, I am very, very pleased, thank you very much

I will definitely do this!

That will give me another prize I will wait

Vikusya, congratulations! I wish you to continue to create so fruitfully!

[NataliaVoronezh]

NataliaVoronezh, Natasha, thank you very much and for such a wonderful wish in particular :)))

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika with Victory and Myadalka !!!

[Trishka]

Trishka, Ksyusha,

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, very happy for you !!! Congratulations and I wish you inspiration and good luck !!!

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, congratulations !!! I like all your cakes. Looking forward to your next creations!

A well-deserved victory! I am very happy! Wonderful cake!

[thrill]

thrill, Lyubochka,Olga, Olga,Albinka75, Vikulya! Thank you girls for the warmth and support :)

I like all your cakes.

And me! Yesterday I bought nozzles for the cream! I recharge my energy from Vikuli, thank you very much. I do not know what will happen with me. I will timidly try, so I want to create beauty!

Vikulya, congratulations! Wonderful cake!

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vikulya, dear, with a well-deserved victory for you !!! Every cake you have is worthy of a medal !!! We are waiting for new wonderful cakes from you))

[kseniya D]

Yesterday I bought nozzles for the cream!

Oh our man

I do not know what will happen with me

Yes, everything will certainly work out exactly the way you want! Maybe not the first time, so what - the main thing is not to give up and desire, and try and try endlessly ... - and then everything will definitely work out :))
kseniya D, Ksyusha, thanks :))
kirpochka, Natasha, thank you :)) You praised me at all, girls, but if it weren't for your support, not your skills, not your tips, not your generosity and wisdom, there wouldn't be my cakes, you understand that?

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, with a medal you, smart girl !!!

You praised me at all, girls, but if it weren't for your support, not your skills, not your tips, not your generosity and wisdom, there wouldn't be my cakes, do you understand that?

Nah, it's not like that !! If it were not for your hands, the desire to master a new recipe, new technique, new ... new ... and again new ... (new for you), then we simply would have no one to praise and congratulate!
Congratulations, Vika !! Well done!

[Husky]

Husky, Lyudochka, nooo, it's not like that !! All my desires would have died long ago - after the very first failed cake, if not for your support and your constant help Neeeee, girls, if not for you - you certainly would have no one to praise and congratulate Thank you, Lyudochka

[Vikulya,]

Vikulya, with a well-deserved medal, dear! Wonderful cake Thank you for all your creations, for your golden hands and for inspiration: friends: If not for you, I would never have taken up the cakes

[Marusya]

Marusya, yes, I would have taken it, I would certainly have undertaken If THIS person is watching somewhere - a person cannot get away from THIS So you and I were not saved - now we bake tirelessly

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, Congratulations on the medal!
Well done! A wonderful cake!
Inspiration!

Vikulya, with a victory! well done, you deserve it!

[Antonina]

Antonina, Albina, Thank you, my darlings:)))

Congratulations on your medal!

Congratulations !

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vikulya, I have already tasted your Kurd, only I have it orange with pieces of tangerine, it turned out very tasty in the cake, to be honest I did not expect it. I just didn't really like the Kurd by itself, but already in the cake, yes! Moreover, this is my first Kurd so to speak)))
In the next cake, I want to try your salted caramel cream!

[Albinka (Alya)]

Albinka (Alya), I'm glad you liked the Kurdish in the cake :))) I hope that the caramel will not disappoint :)