Homemade recipe №149 Cake "Minsk" No. 149

Description: Layers of sandy semi-finished product are connected with fruit podvarka. The surface is covered with protein cream and trimmed with nuts and fungi from protein cream and round biscuit.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Shape rectangular, round, etc. Thickness no more than 8mm. The crumb is well-porous, crumbly, light brown, and light yellow for the Sandy Biscuit with Apples cake and Krakowski pastries.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Put butter into the kneading machine, add granulated sugar, melange, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, salt, essence and mix for 20-30 minutes until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then add flour and continue kneading the dough for no more than 1–2 minutes. Shortcrust pastry should have a smooth surface without lumps and traces of impurities, color from light yellow to yellow, pleasant smell and light aroma of essence. The moisture content of the dough is 18.5–19.5%.
** Shaping. ** The dough is cut into 3-4 kg pieces and rolled into layers on a table dusty with flour. Then the layers are cut and transferred to the pastry sheets using a rolling pin. The excess dough at the edges of the sheet is cut off. Before baking, the surface of the dough is pricked in several places to prevent swelling. The shortcrust pastry sheets are not greased.
The dough for cakes and sliced pastries is rolled out to a thickness of 3-4 mm. For round cakes, the rolled dough is formed with a round metal recess, for square cakes, cut with a knife.
The ring dough is rolled out to a thickness of 6–7 mm. The rolled dough is formed with a metal recess.
The dough for cakes "Krakowski" is rolled out to a thickness of 5–6 mm, the dough for baskets is rolled out to a thickness of 7–8 mm, placed on corrugated molds and the bottom and walls are lined with dough; molds with dough are baked on sheets.
** Baking. ** Duration of baking layer at a temperature of 200-225 ℃ 10-15 minutes, baskets and rings - 10-13 minutes. Sand layers for the Sandy Biscuit with Apples cake and the Krakowski pastries are baked until half cooked.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** White, homogeneous, fluffy, slightly viscous mass with a glossy surface, good shape retention.
Manual: Pre-chilled egg whites are whipped in a beater, first at low, then at high speed for 7-10 minutes. Add 15–20% granulated sugar to the beaten mass, as provided by the recipe, and beat the mixture for another 10 minutes. Without stopping whipping, hot sugar syrup, vanilla powder are introduced in a thin stream and beat for 3–7 minutes.
To prepare sugar syrup, granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 4: 1 are boiled down to a temperature of 118–120 ℃ (test for a weak ball).

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product. ** Round shape. Light brown thin crust. The crumb is porous, dense, yellow.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Pre-cooled egg whites are beaten in a whisk machine for 20-30 minutes, first at low, then at a high number of revolutions until the volume of the mass increases by 6-7 times. At the end of the beat, add citric acid. Beat egg yolks with granulated sugar separately for 30-40 minutes, add essence, flour and beat the mass for another 5-8 seconds, then carefully add the whipped whites and mix until a homogeneous dough is obtained. The finished dough should be fluffy, well-saturated with air, evenly mixed, without lumps, creamy color and thick consistency. The moisture content of the dough is 44–46%.
** Shaping. ** The biscuit dough is immediately deposited on pastry sheets covered with paper. When depositing round cakes for "Boucher" pastries, tubes with round holes are used.
** Baking. ** Baking duration 15-30 minutes at a temperature of 190-200 10 ℃. The baked flat cakes are cooled and allowed to stand for 8 hours at a temperature of 15–20 ℃. After that, they are removed from the paper, the biscuit is cleaned.