Recipe for a New Year's cake with pineapple compote and two types of cream

Treat yourself on New Year's Eve with an exclusive dessert that will amaze you with its multifaceted taste and beauty of design. A spectacular homemade New Year's cake with pineapple compote will decorate your festive feast, bringing a note of freshness and truly secular chic to it. Delicate cream with coffee and chocolate leaves a delicate aftertaste that even sophisticated critics will appreciate. My detailed description of each stage with step-by-step photos taken will help you prepare a beautiful and delicious New Year's dessert.

Ingredients:

For the biscuit:

• 4 pieces of large chicken eggs D-0;
• 200 grams of white granulated sugar;
• ½ tsp vanillin;
• 180 grams of wheat flour (high quality).

Syrup for soaking biscuit:

• 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice;
• 4 teaspoons of sugar;
• 30 ml of water (boiling water).

Pineapple compote:

• 170 grams of fresh pineapple pulp;
• 120 ml of drinking water;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 1 small lemon (or half a large one)
• 12 grams of powdered gelatin + 60 ml of water.

For butter (basic) cream:

• ½ liter of cream 35%;
• 1 can (250g) Mascarpone cream cheese
• 180 grams of vanilla powdered sugar.

For chocolate coffee cream:

• 1/3 of the total volume of buttercream;
• 50 ml of strong brewed natural coffee;
• 170 grams of dark chocolate at least 59%.

For chocolate painting:

• 5 tablespoons of milk 3.6%;
• 100 grams of milk chocolate.

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How to bake a biscuit

In the oven, set the temperature regime: 180 ° and let it warm up.

Crack the chilled eggs into a mixing bowl and beat on high speed. Eggs should mix well and foam.

Mix sugar with vanilla and pour into bowl with eggs and beat until sugar dissolves. We rub a drop of the egg mass between the fingers, grains of sugar should not be felt.

Sift the flour and fold it into the dough with a spatula.

We cover the baking dish (d = 24 cm) with food paper (bottom and sides), grease with butter. Put the dough into a mold.

We place the form with the biscuit dough in the oven and bake it there for approximately 25-30 minutes. Cooking time for sponge cake depends on your oven. Readiness check on a dry stick. The finished biscuit must cool completely. Only then can it be cut into two identical parts.

How to make pineapple compote

First of all, soak the gelatin and leave it to brew.

Peel the pineapple, cut into pieces and dip into boiling water with sugar.

Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice. If the lemon is large, use only half. Pour the zest and pour the juice into the pineapples. We let them boil so that the contents boil down a little and become a little thicker.

Then, remove from heat and immediately pierce with a blender, but so that the particles of zest and pineapple are visible.

Let the pineapple compote cool for a few minutes, add the swollen gelatin and dissolve it.

We fill the bottom of the detachable form with food paper, pour out the compote and send it to freeze.

How to make buttercream with mascarpone

To prepare the main buttercream, the mascarpone cheese must be at room temperature, and the cream fresh from the refrigerator.

Beat the mascarpone with the vanilla sugar until smooth.

In a separate bowl, whip the cream until fluffy and stable.

Using a spatula, fold in the cream into the mascarpone. I usually divide this process into three steps.

We remove the finished main buttercream in the refrigerator.

How to make chocolate coffee cream

Brew coffee and strain it. We only need liquid.

Dip the chocolate chips into the hot coffee so that it melts completely. Stir the chocolate-coffee mass until a homogeneous and smooth texture.

In a separate bowl, set aside 1/3 of the main buttercream with mascarpone. We put the already cooled chocolate-coffee mass into it and mix with a spatula.

How to decorate a New Year's cake

Before assembly, soak the cakes with syrup (sugar + lemon juice + boiling water).

We set the confectionery ring at 26 cm. Put the biscuit cake in the center at the very bottom and cover it with half a portion of the main butter cream and slightly raise the edges along the side, that is, we make a recess, as shown in the photo.

In this recess, we lay out half a serving of chocolate-coffee cream.

We take out the pineapple compote from the freezer, and place it on the chocolate-coffee cream. We press lightly to drown it a little. We close the compote with the second half of the chocolate-coffee cream, put the second biscuit cake and cover the entire cake with the remaining main buttercream.

We level the surface of the cream and remove the cake to freeze for at least 3 hours. This time will be sufficient for the top layer of the cream to freeze and the pastry ring to be easily removed. Now our delicious homemade New Year's cake will keep its shape.

How to decorate a New Year's cake (step by step)

I decided to decorate my homemade New Year's cake with such a beautiful pattern as in the photo - a chocolate snowflake flower.

To do this, dip the pieces of chocolate into hot milk, wait until it melts, mix and let it cool to a warm state. We place such liquid chocolate in a disposable pastry bag, or we make a cornet from food paper ourselves, cut off a small tip.

It's best to draw the first stripes on paper to make sure they don't bleed. If they spread, leave the bag of chocolate to cool a little more.

So, first we draw a mesh on the cake, and put chocolate drops on it according to our “snowflake” drawing.

And on the sides you should decorate the cake with a beautiful pattern. You can use the same as mine, or you can create your own.

At the base of the cake from a confectionery syringe, we simply lay out the chocolate “peas”, with which we complete the painting of the cake.

Hooray! Our delicious sponge cake with pineapple compote and two types of cream is ready!

You need to cut such a homemade New Year's cake with a hot and dry knife. Here is such a wonderful cut of the cake turned out!

Try to bake such a delicious biscuit cake for the New Year and you, please your family and guests.