The Best Holiday Cake Ideas That Everyone Will Love

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

All holidays deserve to be properly celebrated. Along with the rich table, dessert is the perfect end to the evening. Even if you haven't made it to dinner, sweet temptations can always embarrass you.

There are very few people who can resist a piece of cake covered with fruit, chocolate or cream. We all know what this paradise is for the palate and stomach. According to your preferences, you can make a cake on floors with round or square tops, with or without decoration.

Even if you are not an expert in confectionery, you can always surprise your loved ones with freshly prepared holiday cake. The taste you will offer beats everything in the store, because the secret ingredient in you is a pinch of LOVE. Never forget it if you want to impress your guests.

Here are some of the most famous suggestions for a delicious holiday cake.

1. Sacher cake

dark chocolate - 225 g

butter - 175 g

brown sugar - 175 g

eggs - 5 pcs. to break

flour - 125 g self-swelling

cocoa - 3 tbsp.

rum - 4 tbsp.

Ganash

dark chocolate - 175 g

butter - 75 g

cream - 4 tbsp. warmed

Preparing this chocolate temptation - Sacher cake, is not difficult. Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Beat the butter with the sugar, add the eggs and gradually add the flour and cocoa. Add the melted chocolate and 2 tbsp. of rum. Stir. Grease a baking dish and pour the mixture. Bake in a preheated 190 degree oven for 30 minutes, cover with foil and bake for another 15 minutes. Cool for half an hour and sprinkle with the remaining rum. Melt the chocolate for the ganasha. Add the butter and cream, stir and pour over the cake.

2. Cheesecake

biscuits - 300 g, plain with butter

butter - 110 grams melted

cream cheese - 600 g

cottage cheese - 520 grams

sugar - 300 g

vanilla - 1 tbsp.

eggs - 6 pcs.

sour cream - 400 g

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees and prepare a form with detachable sides with a diameter of about 26 cm.

Grind the biscuits into crumbs and mix them with the melted butter. Spread this biscuit mixture on the bottom of the form and press well. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the cottage cheese, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla very well. Then add the eggs one by one, stirring thoroughly after each one.

Finally add the cream and stir until smooth. Stirring should be done relatively quickly, but not too much.

Spread the mixture prepared in this way and smooth it on the biscuit base. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes in a low oven. The finished cheesecake should be toasted, but have a slightly creamy texture.

Allow the American cheesecake to cool and put it in the refrigerator for 4 hours. Slide the knife along the edge of the tray to free the cheesecake from the walls. Cut it into pieces and serve with a garnish of fresh fruit, jam or whipped cream.

3. Tiramisu

Photo: Chris Chernikova

mascarpone - 400 g

cookies - 1 package

coffee - 250 ml can Espresso

eggs - 4 pcs. separated yolks and whites

cognac - 2 tbsp. language and Amareto or Rum

as - 2 art.

powdered sugar - 100 g

For this one Celebration cake, first, beat the yolks with the powdered sugar until they increase 3-4 times in size. Add the mascarpone and mix gently.

The egg whites are broken into hard snow. Then add them to the mascarpone carefully and mix.

Cognac or rum is added to the prepared espresso. Dip the cookies one by one in the coffee mixture and arrange them side by side in the pan.

A row of cream is placed over each row of cookies. Top with the dipped cookies again and cream again. The top layer should be cream.

The made Tiramisu is placed in the refrigerator to stand overnight. Before serving, sprinkle with cocoa and a little powdered sugar.

4. Garash

Photo: Siya Ribagina

proteins - 10 pcs. for the marshes

sugar - 400 g for the marshmallows

ground walnuts - 300 g for marshmallows

sugar - 150 g for cream

chocolate - 100 g or 2 tbsp. cocoa

yolks - 5 pcs.

oil - 250 - 300 g

sugar - 75 g per crocan

water - 2 tbsp.

For the marshes: The egg whites are smashed in the snow for your Garash cake. Gradually add the sugar and continue to beat until thickened. Add the walnuts. Mix everything well and divide the mixture into 4 parts, which are baked separately in a larger cake form, at the bottom of which is placed with baking paper greased with butter and sprinkled with flour. Bake in a moderate oven.

For the cream: The sugar is boiled in a thick syrup with 1/2 cup of water and chocolate, stirring constantly so as not to form lumps. While the syrup is still warm, add the yolks. Mix everything well and leave to cool. Beat the butter very well and add a little of the cooled mixture to it. A fluffy cream is obtained.

For the crocan: Sugar mixed with 2 tbsp. water is caramelized and poured into a greased pan. Once cooled, the crocan is hammered into small pieces.

The tops are glued with cream, and a little of the crocan is sprinkled on the cream. Spread cream on top and decorate as desired - with coconut shavings, green or chocolate bars.

The festive cake can be done without crocan.

5. Biscuit cake

biscuits - ordinary 2 packages (of the thinner ones)

pudding - 1 pc. vanilla

pudding - 1 pc. cocoa

fresh milk - 1 and 1/2 liters.

sugar - to taste

The pudding for the biscuit cake is prepared as described on the packet. If you took a pudding without cooking, mix the contents of the packet with cold sweetened milk and stir. If it is boiling, pour in the hot sweetened milk and stir. I recommend the first option.

Melt the biscuits in the cold milk and arrange in a tray. Arrange a row of biscuits - cocoa pudding, a row of biscuits - vanilla pudding, then another row of biscuits and vanilla pudding. The last row is pudding, the amount remaining 1/2 part of both cocoa and vanilla.

The last layer is placed on 1/2 of both and with a knife or fork, until it has cooled, make lines in both directions to blend the colors.

It is left to mature and consumed.