Cake "Christmas tree"

1/2 glass butter
Which oil to choose? we'll show

3/4 glass sugar (better use light brown)

1 large egg

1 glass flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 glass sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

700 g low-fat cream cheese in blocks, softened, room temperature

3 large eggs

220 g low-fat sour cream

1.5 glass lemon drops, finely chopped

green for "sweet":

450 g low-fat sour cream

1/3 glass sugar

green food coloring

To decorate the top of the cake:

colored candy (for example, M&M's)

jelly bean

miniature cookies in the shape of stars

cookie Twix (for tree trunk image)

and colorfully wrapped with foil or candies (bags)

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

Cake-base: Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add sugar; stir for 1 minute or until the surface of the body until bubbles appear. Remove from the heat and allowed to cool at room temperature for 20 minutes. Add the egg oil, flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and place an even layer in the prepared baking dish.

In the meantime, until the dough for the cake cools, prepare for a lot of soft layer (layer): Mix sugar and cornstarch in a large bowl. Add cream cheese; Beat with a mixer on medium speed until smooth. Switch to the lowest speed, drive the eggs one at a time and gently whisk mass mixer to the eggs evenly dispersed in the test. Add sour cream, chopped candy and mix the dough by hand. Lollipops can be ground using a coffee grinder or placing them in a durable zipper bag, break hammer.

Pour the resulting mass dough for the cake. Bake 30 - 45 minutes, until the top browns cheesecake not. Willingness cheesecake is defined by its center - at its center forms shake shaking, the cake looks like raw, but it is not so! In fact, the cake is ready. Now you need to turn off the oven and leave the cake for a few minutes with the door closed, which prevents falling off the center of the cake. After cooling, the center will not be trembling and on the cake will not be terrible cracks which indicate that cheesecake was overexposed.

To prepare the "sweet", stir sour cream or heavy cream with the sugar in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved. Food color tint weight to obtain a pleasant green color. Not removing the cake from the mold, spread weight on top of the baked cake.

Put in the oven for 10 minutes to fudge good locks on the cake. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Then place the cake in the freezer for at least 6 hours.

Grasp the edges of the foil and remove the cake from the mold. Then gently peel off the foil from the sides of the cake, but not from the bottom, placing it on the work surface. Place the template on top of the waxed paper and cut it to the shape of Christmas tree. Now you can fully release the cake from the foil and by two broad long blades to shift the cake on a serving dish.

It's time for the most fascinating process - decoration. He can be to attract and children. Candy and cookies make for a Christmas tree garlands, balloons, decorate the top of the star. Cookies Twix lay at the base of the cake tree trunk. Under the tree wrapped in colored foil scatter candy, they will simulate the boxes with gifts.

Cooking this cake, cheesecake it will take about one and a half hours plus 6:00 cooling in the refrigerator. But despite the fact that the cake takes time and planned approach, it is a snap with him handle even a novice cook pastry. This cake will look great on a festive table and it can be a good gift to friends, family, and how well he will delight children! Our New Year's cake is ready! Happy New Year!