Homemade recipe №205 Cake "Sakta" No. 205

Description: Layers of biscuit and shortbread semi-finished products are sequentially connected with rum filling (on a layer of biscuit) and fruit filling. The upper surface is finished with patterned chocolate. The side surfaces are finished with biscuit crumbs.

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 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, plastic, glossy white mass.
Manual: Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 3: 1 are brought to a boil in an open kettle with stirring, removing the resulting foam. Then close the cauldron with a lid, boil the syrup to a temperature of 108 ℃ and add molasses heated to 50 ℃, then boil it down to a temperature of 115-117 ℃ (test for a weak ball). At the end of cooking, add the essence.
Hot syrup is poured in a layer of 20–30 mm on a table with marble chips and cooled to 35–45 ℃ for 40–45 minutes. Chilled syrup is whipped on a beater for 15-20 minutes or manually on the table using a spatula.

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