Cake "Tank"

For the dough:

6 eggs

150 g sugar

150 g flour

2 Art. l. Hot water

salt

For the cream:

300 g butter

100 g powdered sugar

200-250 g dark chocolate

6 h. l. soluble coffee

50 ml Hot water

salt

In addition:

pinch of green food coloring

15-20 pcs. biscuits

1 Confectionery syringe

1 waffle rolls + 2 spare

24-26 round silicone bakeware, diameter cm or parchment paper

Put butter cream in a warm place so that it starts melting at room temperature.

For the cakes: Separate the yolks from the whites. Most of the sugar (about 120 g) beat with hot water and egg yolks. Add flour to them. Knead the dough well. It is desirable to whip it into a food processor, it is quick and less time-consuming.

Separately, beat whites, remaining sugar and salt. Then mix the resulting white foam test.

Preheat oven to 200 � C, grease with butter (otschipnite piece of butter cream) in the form of silicone bottom and half an inch collar (thin cake would be).

If you use parchment paper: draw on the reverse side of the paper circle with a diameter of 24 or 26 cm, the contours will shine and help shape the cake correct form.

For the same purpose can be used bumpers from the split mold of a suitable size, as soon as the circle drawn - zhelezochku can be removed, the cake does not spread.

The front of the parchment sheet impregnated with oil and smear a few spoonfuls of the dough with a thin layer within certain limits.

The smaller the diameter of the cakes, the more they get, but the tank will be higher and short. With a diameter of 26 cm, leaves 5 cakes.

In turn bake for 5-6 minutes each cake on the top shelves of the oven.

If the bottom of the cake already very flushed, and the top - until the little white, it is better not to wait for charring, remove and cool the hot cakes on the grill or on parchment (laid out on a flat surface). They - soft and flexible, as will form, in such form and zastynut.

If transporting the cake cracked - it does not matter, it can be placed in the middle of a cake, cream firmly stick together all the layers and it does not affect the quality of the final product.

While cakes cool and harden, to prepare the cream.

For him to put in fireproof dish chopped chocolate into small pieces and put it in the still warm oven (it melts at 25 - 33 degrees).

After cool down to room temperature. And yet - to brew coffee a little hot water.

Combine melted butter with powdered sugar and salt, add the coffee. Beat the products into a thick homogeneous mass, 5-8 tablespoons of which put a separate bowl (you will need it for decoration).

On a sheet of parchment with a wooden spatula spread a little melted chocolate, a layer of about 2 mm, even freezes. Subsequently, it will be required for decorative confectionery facilities.

For the main part of the cream add the melted chocolate, whip.

If you think a creamy mass of watery - not terrible, and butter, and chocolate melted now, and they are out in the cold again zastynut restoring the need for a strong structure.

Lubricate cream cakes and form a regular round cake. Cover it with foil and allowed to cool until solidification of a cream (more than 1 hour).

Chocolate cream will he need in the construction of sweet tank.

To create a tank further, we need to give the main part (the body of the tank), a rectangular shape.

To do this, separate the cake from 4 parts:

1.dve, larger, laterally (in this case, the length of the cutting line defines a rectangle

2. Two small pieces front and back (line section forms a width of a rectangle).

Long cut slices to turn up, smeared with cream party to the body of the tank. This - the prototype chassis (track and wheels).

You may have noticed that it is higher than in the normal tank and rounded part parts were cast down, not quite stable. Therefore, a couple of centimeters is cut off at the bottom. The basis of this part firmly stand on a platter and bring our tank in outline to real combat vehicles.

These trim + parts from the backside and before the war machine (see. P. 2) will go to the formation of its towers. Small can be laid flat, and two larger ones - leaning against each other (as it were, doubling the number of cakes in this lunate details) and put the resulting shape perpendicular to the surface of the tank. Be sure to insert strelyatelnuyu of the war machine - gun to secure it with a cream and clamped between the parts of the tower. I used a long stick wafer. In addition, for the cannon can be used bread sticks, roll it from sugar mastic (wrap pencil, moistened with water, and place of the cementing it. Then - dry and remove with a pencil). Creative imagination. Go shopping, surely see what is useful to you.

If during the construction of the tower revealed excess protruding parts, cut off all unnecessary. In addition, the smooth shape will deftly applied layer of cream.

Once the tank is formed silhouette, apply camouflage. For him to share the coffee cream into 2 parts, one to mix green food coloring.

Lubricate Chassis tank cream of the same color. Glue wheel (Cookies), and hatch in the tower.

The back of a spoon or a small coffee stack to put on camouflage military machine broad strokes.

Previously smeared chocolate on paper to separate from the paper, cut into small pieces, leaving the entire small plate (2x2 cm), sprinkle with crushed tank armor armor-chocolate.

Fill the syringe cream (choose the color contrast with the color of the chassis), draw a caterpillar and other details and inscriptions that you need.

How to make a star? Can be cut from sugar pastes, jellies.

After prolonged use over a cake on a plate (dish on which the tank) will inevitably remain traces of sweet and crumbs, they need to carefully remove and shake the cloth.

Top dish can sprinkle with powdered sugar or coconut. After February 23 we still lying snow.

At the end of confectionery works, cover the tank tent of foil and place in a cold tank full pour cream.

This sculpture is made confectionery based on a conventional cake, which consists of 5-8 cakes and cream frosting tightly. That is, after cooling, is supposed to be a homogeneous product, retains its shape when cut into parts. Details Designer form silhouette war machine, and the cream holds them together, smoothing the contours of the tank.

As a basis for military-cake using a variant of the Hungarian cake recipe "Dobos� (�Dobos torta� or "Magyar").

Be happy and enjoy your meal!