The weather here has been a crappy, bad, sad one for over a week now, so I decided to spice up the daily routine a bit by doing something colorful.
The neighbor had a little job and I had to watch her daughter for a bit who is 10 years old. To pass the time with her for a few hours I decided to make a cake. What could be more fun than to get dirty with flour, cream and cream?
The recipe is the same as Black dot cake
Recipe:
3 eggs
9 tablespoons water (if eggs are smaller it is possible to add more water)
6 tablespoons oil or other fat
half a teaspoon of baking soda
half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
vanilla
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
confectioners' sugar
Preparation:
Separate the egg whites from the yolks in 2 separate bowls, beating the whites until they are snow white enough that when the bowl is turned they do not fall. In the other bowl, add the water, oil, both types of soda, sugar and vanilla to the egg yolks and beat until foamy. Then add the flour being careful not to leave any lumps. You can sift the flour to avoid lumps ... I didn't have that kind of time .. I was too tired to stir.
This is roughly what the bowl with the egg yolks looked like before the egg whites were added.
Once the "batter" is ready with the egg yolks, add the beaten egg whites to the egg whites, slowly stirring the whole mixture to keep the egg whites from dropping.
To make our cake more interesting we divided the mixture in 2 and added blue and red paint.
We poured the pink mixture in first, then it was supposed to be like pillars of blue, but it turned out that the blue mixture was more than the pink and the blue spilled all over the pink.
We put in the oven for about 40 minutes at 170-180 degrees.
In the baked state, it didn't show that there were any colors to our marshmallows at all. We cut it into 3 pieces.
Meanwhile, on the stovetop, I made this gal's favorite custard - Dr. Yotker's vanilla custard. We transferred the bottommost marshmallow to a large plate and started syruping it with cherry juice (I had some in stock). After we soaked the layer we spread some of the cream and so on until we ran out of layers.
The little girl enjoyed making the cake, I was mostly a spectator.
While she was spreading the cream, I whipped up some pastry cream and separated into 3 bowls of it. I added to the cream the paint.
We still had about an hour together so I decided to seal it by decorating the cake. We used poche for the decorations.
In order to have some sort of base I spread white whipped cream on the cake to have a canvas to paint on. It didn't turn out perfect, but I've already been scrambled to "paint" it.
As a reward for a job well done, we cut the cake and when her mom came to get it I handed her half a cake.
The pink frosting didn't turn out very well in terms of color but made up for it in taste!
