Homemade recipe №211 Cake "Assorted" No. 211

Description: Layers of protein-nut, sand and biscuit semi-finished products are connected with Charlotte cream and Charlotte chocolate cream. Half of the cake surface is covered with white, half - with chocolate cream and decorated with cream flowers. The side surfaces are covered with cream and sprinkled with crumbs of biscuit semi-finished product.
The shape is round.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass of brown color, well retaining its shape.
Manual: Prepare a cream like "Charlotte" No. 59, add cocoa powder at the end of whipping.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass of yellow color, with a smooth glossy surface, well retaining its shape.
Manual: The peeled and cut butter is whipped in a beater at low speed until smooth. Chilled “Charlotte” syrup with the addition of cognac or dessert wine, vanilla powder are gradually poured into the whipped mass and beat at a high number of revolutions until the volume increases by 2.5–3 times. Duration of whipping is 20-30 min.

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.

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. ** Round shape, etc. The structure is porous, airy, lingering, beige.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Chopped roasted nuts are mixed with flour and 80% granulated sugar as prescribed in the recipe.
Egg whites, previously kept for 12-14 hours at a temperature not exceeding 40 ℃, are beaten. At the end of the whisk, add the remaining granulated sugar mixed with vanilla powder. Then the protein mass is gently mixed with a mixture of nuts, flour and sugar.
** Shaping. ** The prepared mass is poured onto sheets pre-covered with paper. To give the semi-finished product a round or other shape, a stencil frame is laid on the sheet.
** Baking. ** Baking time 70 minutes at a temperature of 150-160 ℃. The baked cakes are cooled and allowed to stand for 12-24 hours at a temperature of 15-20 ℃, then removed from the paper.

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.

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