Homemade recipe №166 Cake "Zenith" No. 166

Description: The layers of the custard are connected with Charlotte cream. The surface is covered with the same cream and decorated with "Charlotte" chocolate cream. The side surfaces are sprinkled with custard semi-finished product crumbs.
The shape is oblong.

Manual: Prepare a cream like "Charlotte" No. 59, but with the addition of milk-agar mass. Agar, previously washed with running water, is heated with a small amount of milk and boiled until it is completely dissolved. The hot milk-agar mass is poured into Charlotte syrup heated to 56–60 ℃ and brought to a boil with constant stirring.

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product. ** The shape is cylindrical, oval, etc. The crust is light brown. Small but not penetrating cracks on the surface. The inside of the semi-finished product is hollow.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Cut butter, salt and water into pieces, heat to a boil. In the boiling mass, stirring thoroughly with a spatula, gradually add flour and boil for 5 minutes until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The moisture content of the brewed mass is 38–39%. The resulting mass is cooled to 60–70 ℃, after which, with continuous stirring or whipping at low speed, gradually add melange and knead the dough for 15–20 minutes.
The finished dough should be evenly mixed, without lumps. The moisture content of the dough is 52–56%.
** Shaping. ** The dough is deposited on lightly greased sheets.
When making cakes, the dough is placed on a sheet with a pre-laid metal stencil frame, which is removed before baking.
To obtain cakes in the form of tubes, the dough is deposited from a pastry bag with a round tube with a diameter of 18 mm, for small cakes 5–6 mm. The dough is deposited in the form of sticks 5 to 12 cm long, depending on the weight of the cake, 15 mm wide at intervals of 3-4 cm. The length of sticks for small cakes is 3.5–4.0 cm.
For cakes in the form of "Shu" buns, the dough is deposited in the form of round cakes through a round tube 10 mm in diameter.
For the custard "grid" the dough is deposited in the form of one row of flagella, on top of which the second row is deposited. Flagella are placed parallel to the edges of the sheet for a straight "grid" and diagonally for an oblique one.
** Baking. ** Baking duration 35-40 minutes at 180-200 ℃.

Manual: Charlotte syrup is prepared in two ways.
** First method. ** Granulated sugar, eggs and milk are thoroughly mixed and brought to a boil with constant stirring. The syrup is boiled for 4-5 minutes to a temperature of 104-105 ℃. The prepared syrup is filtered and cooled in the summer to a temperature of 20-22 ℃, in the winter - up to 28-30 ℃.
** Second way. **
a) Preparation of milk sugar syrup. Granulated sugar and milk, provided by the recipe, are mixed and boiled for 60–90 minutes to a temperature of 104–105 ℃ (test per thin thread). The moisture content of the milk sugar syrup is 27%.
b) Preparation of Charlotte syrup. Beat the eggs in a whisk machine for 5-7 minutes and gradually pour in hot milk-sugar syrup in a 1: 1 ratio. The brewed mass is mixed with the rest of the milk-sugar syrup and kept for 5 minutes at a temperature of 95 ℃. The finished syrup is filtered and cooled.