Cake "Christmas boot"

500 g finished dry mixes for cakes (not chocolate)

1 glass low-fat sour cream

2 glass 1? butter, softened
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3 large eggs

2 glass 1? crushed red lollipops

4 droplets of liquid food red dye

4.5 glass confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)

4 glass 3? butter, softened

4 glass 1? skim milk

1 h. l. Vanilla extract

To decorate:

liquid food red dye

300 g marshmallow (miniature marshmallows - for "fur" on boots)

9 on the green and red candy Skittles or M&M's

26 small yellow candies (M&M's)

and other decorative sweets

Preheat the oven to 180C. Baking dish sizes 33h22h5 see Shots foil, taking sides and edges. Drizzle with butter foil. Draw a diagram and increase the boot so as to conform to the size of the form. Cut out the template from the waxed paper.

In large bowl combine with a mixer (low speed) for the semi-finished mixture cake, cream, butter and eggs for 1 minute. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes mass (weight is very thick). Put 2 cups of the resulting dough into a small bowl, add the rest of the dough and crushed candy food coloring. Lollipops can be ground using a coffee grinder or placing them in a durable zipper bag, break hammer. Alternately put in a spoon-shaped tinted dough and spoon uncolored dough. Smooth surface.

Bake 30 - 35 minutes, you can check the readiness of wooden stick: if you insert it in the center of the finished cake, the wand come out of it clean. Cool in the form on the grill for about 15 minutes before removing from pan. Remove foil and refrigerate the cake completely.

Place the pie on the pattern paper and cut it to boot. Use 2 long spatula to move the cake on a serving platter.

Preparation of coating: Beat butter icing sugar, milk and vanilla on low speed at first, then high. Beat a few minutes until pale and fluffy.

Cake decoration: set aside 1? 2 cup glaze in a small bowl, dye it red and reload in a plastic bag, which will serve as a pastry bag. The remaining glaze obmazhte cake. Take floss and mark it on the surface of the glaze pattern of diagonal lines forming at the intersection of squares (using the picture as a hint). Places toe and heel drag a toothpick. Of the package that is stored colored glaze, squeeze the icing on these places in a few lines until you fill them.

Place marshmallow on top of the "bootleg", pressing them into the frosting. Garnish with a few chocolates marked squares. Place the yellow candy at the intersection of diagonal lines. Gently insert the sticks into lollipops "collar" of the pie.

The tradition of decorating the house with Christmas stockings and look at them the gifts from Santa Claus (or Father Frost) came to us from the West. Excellent tradition, because it is so much fun and exciting expectations in both children and adults! Christmas boot with sweets can be cooked in a charming cake that is sure to appeal to all guests, young and old.