Homemade recipe Alina cake [Wedge] Recipe No. 1

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** A thick, fluffy mass of white color, well retaining its shape.
Manual: Hot sugar-agar syrup is introduced in a thin stream into the egg whites, beaten for 15–20 minutes, and beating is continued until a fluffy mass is obtained.
At the end of whipping, add a prepared homogeneous mixture of softened butter, condensed milk, citrus essence and stop whipping immediately.

Manual: Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 4: 1 are boiled to a temperature of 120 ℃, agar is added, previously soaked in running water for 3-4 hours, heated over low heat with stirring until the agar is completely dissolved and molasses is added, after which the syrup is heated to 118 ℃.

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. ** 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.