Cooking Owl cake in several ways

Prepare a cake with an owl is much easier than it might seem at first glance. If desired, it can be decorated with cream or mastic. And in the first, and in the second case, biscuit cakes with different impregnations will serve as a basis.

Basis for a cake

To prepare a sponge cake, we need to break 2 chicken eggs, preferably chilled, in a deep bowl. Add to them 150 gr. Sugar and beat well with a mixer until the foam forms. In the process of whipping, gradually add 150 gr. Flour and 10 gr. Citric acid. Add vanilla to taste. Beat until smooth, so that there are no lumps. Pour the mixture into a round shape, pre-lubricated with butter. Form put in the oven. The oven must be heated up to 180 degrees. On average, the cakes are baked for about 40 minutes, but it is possible and more.

After you get the cake out of the oven, it needs to be cooled. While the cake will be cooled, we proceed to prepare the cream.

If desired, you can prepare a curd or sour cream. As an impregnation we use milk.

After the cake has cooled, cut it into three parts. All the cakes are soaked and evenly smeared with cream. The smeared cakes are sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. We begin to decorate the cake with an owl. If desired, you can decorate with cream or mastic. Let's consider both variants.

Cake "Owl" from cream

To decorate this cake will need to prepare two types of cream:
- chocolate-creamy;
- creamy.
Also we will need chocolate sweets with glaze and round chocolate or ordinary cookies.

For the preparation of the first type of cream we take 100 gr. Black chocolate and melt it in a water bath. In a separate saucepan bring to a boil 110 ml of cream, adding to them two tablespoons of powdered sugar. Then pour hot cream into the melted chocolate, leaving it to cool for 3 minutes at room temperature. Add 35 gr. Butter. Now the cream can be mixed and sent to the refrigerator.

The second cream is prepared from 100 ml of milk, 250 g. Butter, 200 gr. Sugar powder and one packet of vanilla sugar. Mix all the ingredients with a mixer until smooth and send it to the refrigerator.

Now proceed to the stage of decorating the cake with an owl. We get skimmed biscuit cakes and on them with the help of a confectionery bag we begin to draw an owl. Cover the top layer with cream cream. The trunk of the owl is laid out with biscuits. After that, using a pastry bag, we begin to draw the remaining elements of the owl with chocolate creamy cream, alternating it with creamy. In place of the eyes you need to lay out half the cookies. They need to put chocolate candies on top.

Cake "Owl" made of mastic

An owl made of mastic can be made in several ways. Best of all, of course, use home made mastic. To do this, take one packing marshmallow and put it in a deep dish. Add one tablespoon of butter and a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Send it to the microwave for a few seconds, so that the marshmallow begins to melt. Now you need to add a glass of powdered sugar and half a glass of starch. As a result, a thick, homogeneous mass must be released, which is wrapped in a food film and placed in a refrigerator for a day. In order for the mastic to be of different colors, you can buy food additives and pour them together with the sugar powder. Before forming the owl on the cakes, the entire cake should be covered with one layer of brown mastic, as in the photo below.

Everything, the cake with the owl is ready. Taking into account all the technological processes for its preparation will take a little more than a day.