African Chamomile Cake: ingredients, recipe

It is no coincidence that the “African Chamomile” cake received such an original name. Firstly, its top layer is actually designed in the shape of the petals and core of a popular summer flower. Secondly, the cake is made with cocoa powder, has a beautiful chocolate color, and is additionally topped with brown glaze. Therefore, a comparison with an African in this case would be just appropriate. In our article we will tell you how to prepare a cake with an original name. A detailed, step-by-step recipe will help you create a delicious dessert in just a couple of hours.

Ingredients for African Chamomile Cake

The basis of this delicious dessert with an original name is chocolate cakes, between which there is a wide layer of delicate sour cream soufflé with fresh fruit. The cake turns out quite moist and does not require additional soaking. The dessert, without exaggeration, literally leaves you in your mouth.

The cake is prepared from simple and affordable ingredients:

• 6 eggs;
• 200 g sugar;
• kefir 200 ml;
• cocoa powder 100 g;
• 350 g flour;
• soda 1 teaspoon.

The dough for the cakes is mixed from the products presented above. For sour cream soufflé you will need the following ingredients:

• sour cream with a fat content of 20% and above - 500 ml;
• sugar - 200 g;
• 100 ml milk of any fat content;
• poppy seed - 100 g;
• powdered gelatin - 20 g;
• kiwi;
• banana;
• orange.

Chocolate icing for the cake is prepared using cocoa powder. To make it, you will need the following ingredients:

• butter - 50 g;
• sugar - 120 g;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• cocoa - 3 tbsp. spoons.

Required:

for biscuit:

• eggs - 5 pcs.
• sugar - 200 gr.
• flour - 1 cup
• vanillin - 1 gr.
• baking powder - 1 tsp.
• starch - 1 tbsp.

for cream-based cream:

• cream - 2500 ml. (at least 33%)
• powdered sugar - 7 tbsp.

for Ganache cream:

• bitter chocolate - 180 gr.
• butter - 180 gr.

for filling and soaking:

• oranges
• kiwi
• sugar syrup or any fruit syrup

for mastic:

• marshmallow candies - 90 gr. (preferably white)
• butter - 1 tbsp.
• powdered sugar - about 900 gr.
• food dyes - green, red and yellow.

How to make African Chamomile Cake with Cream?

Not all people like the taste of sour cream in cream. In confectionery, they try to replace this ingredient with other products, such as cream or cream cheese. Step by step, this cream is prepared in the following sequence:

1. Powdered gelatin (20 g) is poured into a bowl and poured with cold drinking cream with a fat content of 10% (200 ml).
2. While the gelatin is swelling, you can make the cream. To do this, beat cream cheese (500 g) with sugar (200 g) using a mixer.
3. Heat gelatin and cream over low heat.
4. In a thin stream, without stopping whisking, pour the gelatin into the creamy mixture. The cream is ready. Now it needs to be combined with sliced ​​cakes and pieces of fruit. Instead of bananas, kiwi and orange, you can use canned pineapple.

The step-by-step description of the African Chamomile cake will remain unchanged. The only difference will be in the preparation of the cream.

How to make a homemade cake and decorate it with fondant:

When starting to prepare a cake, you need to clearly know what fillings you will use to prepare it. What fruits or berries should you use for the filling? Will your cake include nuts? This is very important, because guests will evaluate the cake not only at first glance, but also by taste.

Ekaterina advises us today to combine oranges and kiwi for the fruit filling, and layer the cakes with cream made with heavy cream. As a cream for the mastic, she decided to use delicious Ganache cream - this is a delicate French cream prepared on the basis of chocolate. It was very tasty. Again, decide for yourself how to decorate the top of the cake. Katyushka loves to work with mastic and almost always her cakes are decorated with mastic. But mastic can also be different, you may decide to use the recipe for chocolate mastic, which I talked about in the “Wallet” cake recipe for men. You may want to decorate the top of the cake with cream.

Bake a sponge cake with starch:

To do this, we need to separate the whites from the yolks and beat them separately into fluffy masses with the addition of sugar (powdered sugar).

Add vanillin, starch and baking powder to the flour and sift to saturate the flour mass with oxygen. Carefully combine the beaten yolks and whites so that the mass remains fluffy and gradually add the sifted flour.

Pour the finished biscuit dough into a multicooker bowl greased with vegetable or butter and bake on the BAKE mode for 1 hour 10 minutes (for a multicooker with a power of 670-700 W). For multicookers with higher power, the cooking time for the biscuit will be shorter, so we adjust it depending on your multicooker.

When the biscuit is ready, you should not immediately remove it from the multicooker bowl; let it stand with the lid closed for 10-15 minutes, and then take it out onto a board or wire rack and let it cool completely.

You can also bake the biscuit in the oven, in any suitable form at 180 degrees for 45-60 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden skewer.

Ekaterina usually bakes the sponge cake in advance, about 1 day before assembling the cake. Mastic can also be prepared in advance and then stored in the freezer.

Making mastic:

Place the sweet candies in a deep plate with the addition of butter and place in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.

so that the mass increases and begins to foam slightly. Take out the candy mass and start mixing with a spoon. Gradually add powdered sugar and knead the mastic. When it becomes difficult to knead with a spoon, you can do it on a work surface sprinkled with powdered sugar.

You can immediately divide the mastic into unequal parts, which will need to be painted in different colors. For example, we will need white color to make chamomile flowers, cover the top layer of the cake and for the sign. We paint most of the mastic green, from which we will make leaves and cover the edges of the cake with imaginary “stems.” A very small part of the mastic needs to be painted red from which we will sculpt ladybugs. And we will need the same small amount of yellow mastic to make the middle of the chamomile. The finished mastic sticks slightly to your hands, but should roll out well and lie on the surface of the cake.

I would like to note that if you have some small amount of mastic left from making homemade cakes, do not rush to throw it away, but pack it in plastic bags and simply put it in the freezer. After all, sometimes a very small amount of mastic of one color or another is required, and we heat the frozen mastic slightly in the microwave and can use it.

Prepare cream with cream:

Whip the cream into a thick foam, then add one spoon of powder at a time, whipping the mass. All is ready

Preparing Ganache cream

Beat the chilled butter until white and increase in volume, and then add the melted cooled chocolate. The cream turns out thick. This is how we elegantly whip up the cream using Ekaterina’s new food processor. You don't even have to exert any effort.

Assembling the cake:

Cut the biscuit into cake layers. We will have 3 of them. We soak each cake with sweet syrup. which is not difficult to prepare from water and sugar or using any fruit syrup. Sometimes, if you are using peaches or pineapples in syrup for the cake layer, use ready-made sweet syrup to soak the cake.

Place the cake on a tray lined with white paper or baking paper. Then we will simply remove the paper from under the cake, and the tray will remain clean. Soak well and coat with whipped cream. Place kiwi slices on top.

Place banana slices on top of the kiwi. Again, this is all done to your taste. Perhaps your combination of fruits will be different.

Cover the first cake with the second cake soaked in syrup. Layer with cream again and place orange slices on top of the cream.

Cover the top of the cake with the third cake layer and coat the surface of the cake with prepared chocolate Ganache cream.

This cream will go under mastic. Therefore, we need to use all the cream only on the top and sides of the cake.

Now we send the cake to cool in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. And then we will start covering the cake with fondant. But you need and can prepare for this in advance. After all, we will use chamomile flowers to decorate the cake. We can prepare them in advance. We cut out the flowers themselves from white mastic, and the core of the flower from yellow mastic.

You can also prepare ladybugs in advance for decorating the cake, which we make from red mastic and color a little using a special pastry felt-tip pen.

Before covering the cake with mastic, smooth out the frozen cream using “hot hands”, wearing gloves and heating them under hot water and wiping them dry with a towel. You can also level the surface of the cake using a hot, large knife. Whichever is more convenient for you, choose for yourself.

Place thinly rolled white mastic on top of the leveled cake, which can be cut out using a larger diameter plate so that the mastic hangs slightly from the edges of the cake.

Now you need to roll out “stalks” of daisies from green mastic and cut them to the same height, which should be equal to the height of the cake.

Now we begin to install the stems from our daisies on the sides of the cake. In sequence. The work is painstaking and long, but the result is worth it.

When all the stems are exposed, all that remains is to decorate the top of the cake with daisies, leaves and don’t forget about ladybugs, which we can install on the cake using wire. We just stick one end of the wire into the ladybug, and the other end into the cake. It looks like we have insects hovering above the flowers.

Now we send the cake back to the refrigerator or directly to the festive table. My sister prepared this wonderful cake, as I already said, for our mother’s birthday. And you can probably imagine how surprised we were all at such a beautiful cake.

And when we cut it, it turned out that it was incredibly tasty and tender. A delicious cake made with your own hands - what could be tastier and more enjoyable?

Svetlana and my home kulinarochka2013.ru wish you all a bon appetit!

How to make a homemade cake for your mother or grandmother in the form of a bouquet of flowers - you will find in the step-by-step recipe with photos

Cooking secrets

The African Chamomile cake is easy to make even for a novice pastry chef. The main thing is to follow the step-by-step description and take into account the following cooking recommendations:

1. Be sure to divide the dough into two parts and bake the cakes separately. Otherwise, they may not bake and the cake will not turn out.
2. For the cream, you can use not only sour cream, but also cream cheese or cream. This will not change the step-by-step preparation of the soufflé.
3. Sour cream or butter cream tastes well not only with bananas, kiwi and oranges. An equally tasty soufflé is obtained with the addition of pieces of fresh or canned pineapples, strawberries, raspberries and other berries, as well as nuts and dried fruits. This will only improve the taste of the cake.

Necessary products for gelatin filling

The African Chamomile chocolate treat (cake) requires the following filling ingredients:

• store-bought sour cream 20% fat – approximately 500 ml;
• white granulated sugar - about 200 g;
• low-fat fresh milk – approximately 100 ml;
• poppy seeds – no more than 100 g;
• instant gelatin – 35 g;
• large sweet orange - 2 pcs.;
• large ripe banana - 2 pcs.;
• soft kiwi - 2 pcs.

Colored icing for filling cakes

Category: Desserts>Icing

7 ingredients 15 minutes

Melt 100 g of white chocolate in a water bath (break into pieces), add 70 g of condensed milk, 30 g of butter, 30 g of cream, mix everything until smooth and remove from heat. Add melted gelatin and stir.

Add a drop of food coloring and bring to a uniform color.

Now we need to reach the “working” temperature, the glaze should drain from the lo...

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Cooking steps

Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer for 7-10 minutes, add milk and vegetable oil to the beaten eggs. Mix gently with a spoon, then add vanilla sugar, flour, baking soda and cocoa powder. At the very end, add 1 cup of boiling water (straight from the stove) and stir. The dough turns out very liquid, don't be alarmed. Immediately pour the resulting dough into a greased mold. Bake the sponge cake in a preheated oven or slow cooker (check readiness with a wooden skewer). Cool the finished cake, cut into several parts and soak the cakes in cream (I prepared cream from sour cream + sugar). You can add cherries.

Variety of fillings

We offer a rich palette of flavors, including twenty-eight original solutions. Fans of classic desserts can pay attention to fillings such as cheesecake, tiramisu, cream and honey. A fragrant souffle of raspberries, black currants, apricots, mangoes and other fruits will give you a summer mood. And unusual rainbow pastries will be a real surprise for guests.

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Making a tasty and colorful filling

“African Chamomile” is a cake of incredible beauty. This property is given to it by the filling with fruits and poppy seeds. To prepare it, sweet orange, ripe banana and soft kiwi are washed well and then peeled. After this, all the fruits are cut into cubes (1.5 by 1.5 centimeters). Two of the four chocolate cakes are crushed in exactly the same way.

After processing the ingredients, pour instant gelatin into warm milk and leave it aside to swell (for about half an hour). Meanwhile, fresh sour cream of 20% fat content is strongly beaten with a mixer, gradually adding white granulated sugar to it.

After the gelatin swells, the milk is placed on low heat and heated slowly. Having received a homogeneous liquid mass, it is removed from the stove and mixed together with sweet sour cream. Also add ripe banana, soft kiwi, orange and chocolate cake cubes to the milk mixture. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed and also flavored with poppy seeds.

Step-by-step cooking recipe

1. Sift the flour. Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.

2. Beat the yolks. Combine them with oil.

3. Heat cherry juice and dilute cocoa in it. Cool and add to the yolks and butter. Mix. Combine the bulk mixture with the chocolate-butter mass. Mix well.

4. Beat the whites with 2 tbsp. spoons of sugar until stable peaks form.

5. Gradually introduce the whites into the chocolate mass and mix with a spatula from bottom to top using the folding method.

6. Pour the biscuit mixture into the mold and bake in a preheated oven at 160 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Check with a wooden toothpick, it should be dry.

Nutritional and energy value:

Calorie content of foods possible in the dish

• Condensed milk 7.5% fat – 140 kcal/100g
• Milk 1.5% fat – 47 kcal/100g
• Milk 2.5% fat – 54 kcal/100g
• Milk 3.2% fat – 60 kcal/100g
• Milk 3.5% fat – 64 kcal/100g
• Whole cow's milk – 68 kcal/100g
• Sour cream – 210 kcal/100g
• Sour cream 10% fat content – ​​115 kcal/100g
• Sour cream 20% fat content – ​​210 kcal/100g
• Sour cream 25% fat content – ​​284 kcal/100g
• Sour cream 30% fat content – ​​340 kcal/100g
• Bananas – 89 kcal/100g
• Flour – 325 kcal/100g
• Fortified whole durum wheat flour – 333 kcal/100g
• All-purpose whole durum wheat flour – 364 kcal/100g
• Cereal flour – 348 kcal/100g
• Kiwi – 48 kcal/100g
• Sugar – 398 kcal/100g
• Granulated sugar – 398 kcal/100g
• Kefir 1% fat – 38 kcal/100g
• Kefir 2.5% fat – 53 kcal/100g
• Kefir “Doctor Beefy” 1.8% – fat content – ​​45 kcal/100g
• Full-fat kefir – 62 kcal/100g
• Low-fat kefir – 30 kcal/100g
• Peaches – 46 kcal/100g
• Canned peaches – 68 kcal/100g
• Poppy – 556 kcal/100g
• Poppy (seed) – 556 kcal/100g
• Cocoa powder – 374 kcal/100g
• Gelatin – 355 kcal/100g
• Baking soda – 0 kcal/100g
• Chicken egg – 80 kcal/100g

Calorie content of foods: Chicken eggs, Sugar, Kefir, Flour, Baking soda, Cocoa powder, Sour cream, Milk, Bananas, Kiwi, Peaches, Poppy seeds, Gelatin

Recipe for “Daisies Cake”:

1. Prepare biscuits. Beat eggs and sugar (75 g) with a mixer for 4-5 minutes.

Add flour and mix (if you have ready-made biscuits, take 2-3 packs in reserve).

Place the resulting mass in small circles on a baking sheet lined with tracing paper. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 6-8 minutes until golden brown.

2. Make the cream. Dissolve the coffee in a small amount of hot water (so that the cream is not too liquid), mix with the remaining sugar, sour cream, yogurt, cocoa powder. Select jars of sour cream and yogurt according to the thickness of the resulting cream. If it is very liquid, add a little viscous sour cream or yogurt. I usually take 2 small yoghurts and 1 small sour cream.

3. Peel and crush the bananas. Three apples on a fine grater.

4. Lay out several layers in the following order: biscuits, cream, a mixture of bananas and apples (variations with fruits and berries are possible). 5. Leave for 8 hours (preferably overnight) in the refrigerator so that the biscuits are soaked. 6. Enjoy the light, delicious “Daisies” cake. Bon appetit!

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How to properly present homemade dessert to the holiday table?

Now you know a simple and quick way to prepare a cake under the interesting name “African Chamomile”. After it has completely hardened in the refrigerator, it is taken out and served. After allowing your invited guests to admire the delicacy you have prepared, you can safely cut it into portions. It is recommended to do this in accordance with the arrangement of the petals.

Having laid out the pieces of cake on saucers, you will be surprised how beautiful it is when cut. Multi-colored fruits and milky poppy seed filling will definitely remind you of bright summer days.