Chocolate cake with lion

Cake is a wonderful occasion to please loved ones andrelatives. Especially if it is cooked with love with their own hands. A wonderful homemade cake can be made with a lion made of mastic. A gentle masterpiece that will please both children and adults. Cake with a lion will be a wonderful gift for a birthday or other significant event.

Grocery list

3 kg of cake will need the following ingredients.

For filling:

• 1 kg sour cream;
• 500 g of fresh strawberries.

For biscuit (for three cakes):

• 30 pieces of eggs;
• 2 tablespoons of soda;
• 900 grams of flour of the highest quality;
• 1 kilogram of sugar;
• 20 grams of starch;
• 40 grams of cocoa powder;
• 12 grams of vanilla or 25 grams of vanilla sugar.

Stages of preparation

1. Divide the eggs into squirrels and yolks. Beat with a whisk with two glasses of granulated sugar to an airy consistency.
2. Beat the remaining sugar with yolks. Mix the starch, soda and vanilla sugar, add to the flour.
3. Beat the yolk, mix and mix with the starch mix and beat for seven minutes.
4. In portions, add the whipped protein to the mass without stopping to mix.
5. Dough to be divided into three equal parts.
6. Bake each cake for 50 minutes on a round pan at 180 ⁰FROM.
7. After baking let the cakes cool. Lubricate the first cake with sour cream and distribute the sliced ​​strawberries on it.
8. Do the previous procedure with all the cakes.
9. Sour cream spread throughout the surface of the cake and cool in the refrigerator.

Cake decoration with lion

You will need the following:

• 200 g of milk chocolate (by weight);
• 200 g of yellow mastic;
• 100 g of orange;
• 20 g chocolate mastic.

Orange mastic for the mane of the lion can be replaced with chocolate, then the figure will be the same as in the photo of the cake with the lion, located above.

Algorithm of actions

1. Milk chocolate should be melt in the microwave. Allow to cool slightly.
2. Evenly distribute the chocolate mass over the whole surface of the cake and cool it in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
3. From orange mastic to fashion the body of a lion in the form of an oval.
4. The bases of the hind legs are made of flattenedballs. We attach them to the trunk. From two small cones we make the feet themselves, we punch the toothpicks of the marigold and attach them to the bottom of the base.
5. The front paws are made using the same technology, only slightly longer than the rear ones. We attach them to the trunk.
6. From a yellow mastic we roll a ball - it will be the head of a lion. A muzzle, eyes and a lion's nose are made of chocolate mastic.
7. For the ears, you need to form small cakes and insert in the center smaller circles of white mastic. Attach the ears to the head.
8. From orange mastic with thin sausages make a mane of a lion.
9. Attach the head of the lion to the body and place it neatly in the center of the cake.

Cake with a lion from mastic is ready! Bon Appetit!