Looking for ideas for an original dessert to be offered instead of the more traditional ones? Here are three easy and fun recipes to involve children too
In each Christmas menu respectful, whether for lunch or dinner, must remain a bit 'of space for the sweet. Panettone, pandoro, themed cookies, the delicious stub: in short, the choice is really wide. And there are not many ideas for a beauty Christmas cake instead of the more traditional desserts. Here then some suggestions to satisfy the tastes of all the friends and relatives.
Christmas cake: with chocolate, you're not mistaken
For a Christmas cake made from chocolate, you need to get 150 grams of chocolate melting and 60 of milk chocolate. It breaks all the chocolate and puts it in a saucepan with 150 grams of butter, leaving on the fire until it melts. In the meantime, they beat four eggs in a bowl with 150 of sugar and incorporate 150 grams of sifted flour with a spoon of vanilla yeast. It joins the melted chocolate, mixes and then arranges the dough in a mold already greased, perhaps shaped Christmas tree or comet star to stay on topic. You leave in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, it is cooled and, finally, after having mounted 80 dl of cream with sugar, it is decorated at will. This chocolate Christmas cake will please both adults and children and, to make it even more colorful, you can also add a little bit of candied.
All the softness of the sponge cake
The simplest things are very often also the best, like a soft one Christmas cake with a sponge cake base. First of all there are five eggs with 120 grams of sugar, adding 150 grams of flour. When the consistency of the mixture becomes homogeneous, a little bit of it is added grated peel of medium lemon. The dough is placed in a cake tin properly greased and lightly floured – again in this case, ample space for fantasy regarding the form – and leave it in the oven at 160 degrees for at least 45 minutes. Halfway through cooking, with one toothpick you can check that everything goes well. After baking the Christmas cake with sponge cake you just have to decorate it with a little ' whipped cream or cream. To make it more fragrant, in addition, you can also add a small glass of wine during the preparation liquor. Cointreau is Grand Marnier they are the most suitable.
When the cake has the face of Santa Claus
THE children they will go crazy. To prepare a very nice Christmas cake with Santa's face we start by joining in a four bowl eggs and four yolks together with 150 grams of sugar. Heat everything in a bain-marie for a few minutes and then add the mixture. 150 grams of flour, 50 grams of butter melted and a handful of grated orange peel. After mixing, arrange the dough in a buttered and floured round mold and leave in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. When the cake has cooled, i draw moustache and above all the beard of Santa Claus with 200 grams of cream, mounted with 70 grams of dark chocolate. For the hat he eyeson the other hand, it is very good colored almond paste. Preparing a Christmas cake has never been so fun.
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