Cake number 3

8 servings
3 hours

How to make a Number 3 cake? Start cooking by baking the cakes. How to make dough for cakes? Pour sugar into a saucepan with a thick bottom, add butter and honey there. Place the pan on a small heat. With constant stirring, wait for the oil to melt completely.

Then bring the mass to a boil and remove the pan from the heat. It is not necessary to boil for a long time so that the sugar does not begin to caramelize. Add soda to the hot mass. The mass will begin to foam and increase in size.

Cool the mixture a little. To make it cool faster, transfer it from the pan to another dish.

Add the eggs to the warm (not hot!) And mix well. Be sure to wash your eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

Add half the flour to the resulting mixture. Pre-sift it through a sieve. It is important to sift through the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the pastry will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.

Knead the dough well with a whisk or spoon, then add a second portion of the flour. Knead the dough with your hands. It turns out soft and sticks to your hands a little. There is no need to add more flour, after cooling the dough will become the desired consistency.

Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for at least two hours (you can even go overnight). After time has elapsed, remove it from cling film, divide into two equal parts and roll each into a 4-5mm thick seam directly on the baking paper on which the cake will be baked.

Cut the number stencil out of the paper. Put a paper stencil on top of the rolled dough and cut out the number using a knife.

Remove excess dough. You need this dough later for the third cake. From the remnants of the dough from the third bark, you can cut out the decor in the form of stars, hearts or flowers. Tip the cake with a fork in a few places and send to the oven to bake at 170-180 degrees for 8-10 minutes until golden. Similarly, cook two more cakes.

While the cakes are baking, make the cream. Prepare the products. Cream and cheese should be cold, take them out of the fridge just before cooking. Choose quality, proven condensed milk. Without vegetable fats and dietary supplements. The composition should contain only two ingredients: milk and sugar. The taste and quality of the finished dish will ultimately depend on the quality of the condensed milk.

How to make a cream? Add the condensed milk and icing sugar to the cream.

Whisk together the creamy cream until well foamed, but not to the stiff peaks.

Continue whipping at low speeds, introduce curd cheese into the cream mixture. Whisk it until fluffy, smooth.

Transfer the cream to a pastry bag with a round nozzle (I have an open star nozzle). Place the first cake on the substrate. And deposit the cream over the entire surface of the cake on top. First, contour the numbers, as the cake will be open and the cream will be visible. Then fill the middle with cream.

Put a second cake on top, cream on it again. Then a third cake and cream. You do not need to press hard with your hands. Decorate the top of the cake at will. For decoration, you can use cookies baked from leftover dough, small chocolates, sweets, marshmallows, marshmallow, dragee, berries. Cool the cake for about 2 hours in the fridge, then serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!