Homemade recipe №201 Cake "Spark" No. 201

Description: Two layers of biscuit and one layer of shortbread semi-finished products are connected with fruit filling. The surface is covered with jelly and decorated with a flower pattern and the inscription "Spark" from butter cream.
The shape is square or round.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Rectangular, round or oval shape. The thickness of the biscuit is 30–40mm. The upper crust is smooth, thin, light brown in color. The crumb is porous, elastic, yellow.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Melange with granulated sugar without heating or (to speed up the whipping) with preheating to 30 ивают is whipped in a beating machine, first at low, then at a high speed for 30-40 minutes until the volume increases by 2 , 5–3 times. Before the end of whipping, add flour mixed with potato starch, essence and mix for no more than 15 seconds. Flour should be introduced in 2-3 doses.
The finished dough should be fluffy, well-saturated with air, evenly mixed, without lumps and have a creamy color. The moisture content of the dough is 36–38%.
** Shaping. ** The biscuit dough is immediately poured into baking trays or molds, which are pre-greased or covered with paper. Baking trays and molds are filled to 3/4 of the height so that the dough does not fall over the sides when lifting.
** Baking. ** Baking time 50–55 min at 195–200 ℃ or 40–45 min at 205–225 ℃. The baked sponge cake is cooled for 20-30 minutes, removed from baking trays or molds and left to stand for 8-10 hours at a temperature of 15-20 ℃. After that, the paper is removed, the biscuit is cleaned.

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. ** Shiny, translucent, gelatinous mass.
Manual: Agar, previously soaked in running water, is added to the water and heated over low heat with stirring until it is completely dissolved. Then add granulated sugar, molasses and boil for 5-7 minutes until sugar dissolves. The syrup is filtered through a sieve with a mesh size of 1–1.5 mm, cooled to a temperature of 40–50 ℃, and essence, acid and dye are added.
When preparing jelly for finishing, the hot mass is poured into baking sheets 10–30 mm high and cooled. The resulting jelly is cut into pieces of a certain shape.

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product. ** Transparent viscous syrup with the smell of essence, wine or cognac.
Manual: Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 1: 1.1 are boiled with constant stirring, removing the foam that appears during boiling. The syrup is boiled down to a density of 1.22–1.25 (medium syrup), cooled to 20 ℃, filtered and rum essence and cognac or dessert wine are added.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass with a glossy surface that retains its shape well.
Manual: Peeled and cut butter, whip in a beater at low speed for 5-7 minutes. Add cooled milk-sugar syrup, vanilla powder, cognac or dessert wine to the whipped mass and beat until smooth.
** Preparation of milk sugar syrup. ** Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 3: 1 are brought to a boil in an open cauldron, then the cauldron is closed with a lid and the syrup is boiled down to a temperature of 107–108 ℃ (sample for an average thread). The resulting syrup is filtered through a sieve with a mesh size of 1.5 mm, cooled to a temperature of 20 ℃ and combined with condensed milk.

Manual: A crumb of biscuit semi-finished product No. 1 is fried at a temperature of 220-230 ℃ until brown.