Year of the Dog Cake

A beautiful cake for the New Year of the Dog — prepare and rejoice. It turned out to be a very interesting cake. It was not difficult to do and very interesting. This was my first time doing this, so don’t judge too harshly. I think the kids will love this one!
cook time: 25h 40 min
Nora Vaughn
Year of the Dog Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

261
Calories
7g
Fat
41g
Carbs
5g
Protein

Ingredients (12 portions)

Biscuit:

Sugar 270 g
Wheat flour 240 g
Corn starch 90 g
Eggs 9 pc

Cream:

Powdered sugar 100 g
Cream 300 ml
Vanilla sugar 15 g
Cottage cheese 350 g

Protein custard:

Sugar 400 g
Water 100 ml
Egg whites 150 g
Lemon acid 0.5 tsp

Impregnation:

Sugar 3 tbsp
Water 100 ml

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Letʼs make a sponge cake. Beat the whites to peaks with 120g of sugar. Next, beat the yolks with 150g of sugar until white. Letʼs demolish everything together. And add flour and starch in three additions. Be sure to sift the flour. Mix everything with a spatula until smooth. Pour into a 28cm mold. Bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. The finished biscuit should rest. I leave it in the refrigerator overnight.

Step 2

Step 2
Cut it into 4 parts. Soak 3 cake layers. For impregnation, mix boiling water with sugar. letʼs cool.

Step 3

Step 3
Making cream. Whip the cream. Add curd cheese. I have Philadelphia with pineapple flavor. Add powdered sugar to taste. Vanilla sugar. Mix everything well.

Step 4

Step 4
Coat the cakes with cream.

Step 5

Step 5
Wrap the cake in film and put it in the refrigerator to soak overnight.

Step 6

Step 6
The next day we make the cake. Cut out two triangles.

Step 7

Step 7
Next, cut out two more, like this.

Step 8

Step 8
We will remove one layer of cake, where our front paws will be.

Step 9

Step 9
We lay out the dogʼs head from the scraps.

Step 10

Step 10
We also form the back of the dog. I made the eyes and nose from chocolate. We put the eyes on right away. We also make ears.

Step 11

Step 11
Making protein cream. Pour water into a ladle and add sugar. We put it on fire. When the water boils, turn on the egg whites. Reduce sugar by half and cook syrup to 122g. When the desired temperature is reached, pour the syrup into the whites in a thin stream, without stopping whisking them. And beat for another 2 minutes. But this is if you have a powerful mixer. If not, then wait about 12 minutes. Let the finished cream cool.

Step 12

Step 12
Lightly coat the cake with cream.

Step 13

Step 13
Letʼs take this attachment.

Step 14

Step 14
We paint part of the cream pink. Take a bag with a nozzle and apply white cream and pink.

Step 15

Step 15
We begin to deposit the cream at the bottom first.

Step 16

Step 16
And we do this all over the cake. We leave the ears white in front. We apply the nose later. This is the cake I got. Bon appetit.