A cake is not only a dessert, but also a wonderful gift. Especially if it is made with loving hands. A sweet delicacy can be safely presented to a person dear to the heart, you just need not to miscalculate with the recipe. What do men like with us?
Birthday cake for a man - general principles of preparation
Men's cakes are most often prepared with alcoholic beverages, for example, brandy is added. It may be present in cream or in syrup. You can use pickled cherries in cognac for the filling. Often bitter chocolate and cocoa are put in the cake, making the dessert taste more expressive and strong.
Men's cakes do not require a large number of decorations. It is enough to sprinkle the dessert on top with chocolate, nuts, pour over the icing. Berries or fruits are allowed. A popular way to decorate cakes is to use sugar mastic. It allows you to cook a real thematic masterpiece. Working with her is not so difficult. It is only necessary to think over the design in advance and not to sway the first time at something very complex.
Birthday cake for a man in the form of a gift
The easiest way to decorate a cake with mastic is to simulate a gift box. You can buy mastic in the store or prepare it yourself, choose the color of your choice. The cake can be made in a round shape or made rectangular. Used chocolate biscuit in boiling water.
Ingredients
• 3.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 1 tsp cultivator;
• a glass of milk;
• a glass of boiling water;
• 0.5 tbsp. oils;
• 2 eggs;
• 5 tablespoons of cocoa.
For cream 1 b. condensed milk and 300 g of oil. Mastic for decoration.
Cooking
1. Pour cocoa powder into a bowl, followed by flour and a cultivator, add sugar and soda. Stir the loose mixture.
2. In another bowl, beat two eggs with a glass of warm milk until smooth. Next we introduce half a glass of vegetable oil.
3. Now combine the liquid mixture with the dry one, stir.
4. A glass of water is boiling. Pour into the dough, quickly stir.
5. Pour the dough into a round or rectangular shape, depending on the desired shape of the gift. Bake chocolate cake at 180 degrees until tender.
6. Cool, cut with a long knife into three layers.
7. For the cream, beat the butter, introduce the condensed milk.
8. Lubricate the cake, do not need to impregnate it with anything, but if desired, you can lightly sprinkle with syrup with the addition of cognac.
9. We roll out the layer from the mastic, transfer it to the cake, straighten and cut off all the excess.
10. From ribbons we sculpt a bow, we decorate a gift.
Cake for a man on his birthday "Book of Life"
An interesting idea for a simple but very symbolic cake. It can be presented to a man of any age. For the book, you can use an arbitrary color of mastic. The dessert is based on an ordinary sour cream.
Ingredients
• a glass of sour cream (250 g);
• 240 g of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• 10 g of ripper.
Cream:
• 300 g of oil;
• mastic for decoration (2 colors);
• a can of boiled condensed milk.
Cooking
1. For the sour cream, beat the eggs, add the sour cream and sugar, stir. Introducing flour with a cultivator, you can take soda. Stir, pour into a rectangular baking sheet. Baking. Temperature 180, check the match for readiness.
2. Mix boiled condensed milk and softened butter.
3. Cut the cake into cakes, lay on top of each other, cut off all the excess. The book should be rectangular.
4. We coat all the cakes, treat the cake with cream on top. We put in the refrigerator for three hours.
5. Roll out a piece of mastic, contrasting color with the future cover. We spread in a circle, these will be the pages of the book.
6. Roll out the cover. Spread on top so that it protrudes slightly over the edge.
7. We decorate the book. You can use food colors, write the date of birth, age, name and surname of the birthday person. Or roll thin flagella from mastic of contrasting color and lay out the inscription with them.
Birthday cake for a man on his birthday with cognac
A recipe for a very fragrant birthday cake for a man. It is advisable to use high-quality cognac, this will affect the taste.
Ingredients
• 5 eggs;
• 5 yolks (for cream);
• 3 tbsp. Sahara;
• a glass of flour;
• 5 proteins for meringues;
• 20 ml of cognac;
• pack of oil;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 50 g of chocolate.
Cooking
1. Mesim sponge cake. To do this, break five eggs in a bowl, pour a glass of sugar to them, beat well with a mixer for at least ten minutes. The dough should turn out magnificent, voluminous. Add a glass of flour. Stir, pour into the mold. We bake at 180, check the readiness of the biscuit cake with a stick.
2. For a layer of meringue, beat the whites to a steaming foam with an incomplete glass of sugar, spread the cake on the parchment in the form of a cake equal to the size of the cake. We bake at 110 until ready.
3. Mix milk with the remaining sugar and yolks, put on a plate and cook the cream. Cooling down. Beat the butter, add cognac and brewed cream to it. Whip together.
4. Cut the baked cake biscuit into two parts. Lubricate the bottom with brandy cream, lay a layer of meringue, also lubricate it. Cover with a biscuit, coat the cake on all sides.
5. Grate chocolate, sprinkle brandy cake on top. Done!
Cake for the man for birthday "Napoleon"
Dessert with an expressive name and no less strong taste. This cake will be a wonderful birthday present for a man.
Ingredients
• 500 g flour;
• two eggs;
• salt;
• 230 g of oil;
• 0.5 l of vinegar;
• 120 g of water.
Custard Cream:
• 8 yolks;
• 100 g flour;
• 1 liter of milk;
• 50 g of sugar;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Knead the dough. To do this, salt the water, add vinegar to it, and chop it well. Rub oil, mix with flour until crumbs, make a recess in the center.
2. Pour water with vinegar, then beat eggs until smooth, knead the dough. Divide into 10 pieces, send for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
3. While we prepare the cream. Rub the yolks with a small portion of milk and flour. Dilute with the remaining milk, send to the stove. Cook until it thickens. Cool down. Beat softened butter, mix with cream, add vanilla. We put in the refrigerator.
4. We take one piece of dough, roll it thinly, you can attach the lid from the pan and immediately cut a flat cake. Oven cakes impaled with fork on a sheet of parchment. Temperature 190, time 8-10 minutes. Similarly, bake all the other cakes.
5. Dough pieces are also laid out on a baking sheet, baked, then cooled. Grind until crumbs.
6. We coat the cooled cakes with cream. Sprinkle crumbs on top of the cake, also process the sides. We leave Napoleon in the refrigerator for impregnation for 6-8 hours.
Birthday cake for men with cherries and cognac
Another version of brandy cake for men. It can be presented for a birthday or for any other holiday.
Ingredients
• 6 eggs;
• 3 l. cognac;
• 200 g of cherries;
• 300 g of sugar;
• 120 g flour;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 150 g of oil;
• 3 tbsp. l sour cream;
• 30 g of chocolate.
Cooking
1. Boil 100 g of sugar and 100 ml of water in a saucepan, cool, add 2 tablespoons of brandy. Stir, add pitted cherries, set aside for now. Let the berries marinate.
2. Break four eggs, immediately pour 100 g of sugar to them. Immerse the whisk of the mixer, beat to fluffy foam with a mixer for at least 10 minutes. Add flour. You can pour a little baking powder for safety. Stir. We send the dough into the form, bake the cake until ready.
3. Cooking the cream. Beat one egg with sugar and milk, cook over low heat until thickened, cool. We drive sour cream, followed by softened butter. Beat with a mixer and in the process add the last spoonful of brandy that remains.
4. Cut the cake that has been baked. The biscuit should cool well. Drain the cherry syrup. Soak half the bottom cake, grease with cream and spread the berries.
5. Cover the cherry with the second cake, soak it in cognac syrup, coat with the rest of the cream.
6. Rub the chocolate, sprinkle the cake. You can use ordinary bitter cocoa powder for sprinkling. Let the dessert soak.
Cake for a man on his birthday "Anthill" with cognac
Another version of the cake with alcohol, which is ideal for a man’s birthday. Instead of brandy, you can use another drink, but only strong.
Ingredients
• 3.5 tbsp. flour;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• pack of oil (standard 200 g);
• a can of boiled condensed milk;
• 4 tablespoons of cognac;
• 0.2 tsp soda.
Cooking
1. Mix sour cream with sugar, add softened butter. You can use a mixer to quickly beat the mass until smooth.
2. Throw the flour and add a small pinch of ode or ripper. You can cook the dough without them. Knead a cool lump, put in a bag, and then in the refrigerator. We stand an hour.
3. We take out the dough and pass in small pieces through a meat grinder to get a straw. Lay out on a baking sheet.
4. Put the resulting cookies in the oven, bake until rosy in 180. Cool.
5. Beat the butter, introduce cognac and gradually add the condensed milk.
6. We knead the cooled cookies with a rolling pin until crumbs, but not very finely. Sufficiently large pieces should remain.
7. Add to the base cream with cognac, stir.
8. We spread the cooked mass in the form of an anthill, that is, a slide. Sprinkle with nuts and chocolate on top. We put in the refrigerator for eight hours, preferably all night.
Birthday cake for a man - useful tips and tricks
• If the cake is intended as a gift, then you should take care of the dishes in advance. You can purchase an inexpensive plastic tray or dish so that the birthday person does not return it.
• To keep the cake firmly on the substrate, a little cream is applied to the surface before placing the cake.
