Homemade recipe Cake Basket with cakes [Solnechnogorsk] Recipe No. 1

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass with a smooth glossy surface, well retaining its shape.
Manual: Whipped butter, peeled and cut into pieces. Then, gradually, in several steps, add chilled milk-sugar syrup. At the end of whipping, add vanilla powder, cognac, wine. Duration of whipping is 20-30 min.

Manual: Milk is poured into the boiler, granulated sugar is added. The mixture is thoroughly mixed and boiled for 3-5 minutes to a temperature of 104-105 ℃ (test per thin thread). Milk-sugar syrup is filtered through a sieve with a mesh size of 1.5 mm and cooled.

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: Prepare a semi-finished product in the same way as air No. 23, add citric acid at the end of whipping.

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.