Thin sand cakes for the Number cake and any other open cake
Now open cakes are gaining great popularity. They are also often referred to as open-shell cakes or naked cakes. Cakes for such desserts are made from different types of dough. Today I will share a proven recipe and tell you how to cook thin sand cakes for the Number cake. If you decide to make an open cake of a different shape, then you can safely use this shortcrust cake recipe. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will help you cope with this task.
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Cooking thin sand cakes for the Number cake. The recipe is suitable for any other open cake.
Ingredients
For thin shortcrust pastry, we need
- 180 g butter 82% (can be replaced with cream margarine 82%)
- 50 gr sour cream 26%
- ¼ tsp fine salt
- 2 pcs eggs (D-1)
- 150 gr vanilla powdered sugar
- 430-450 gr wheat flour extra or premium
instructions
How to make shortcrust cakes for an open-crust cake
- We start cooking by melting the butter in a heat-resistant bowl and cooling it to a warm state (25-27 ° C). In the meantime, mix eggs with salt in a bowl and begin to beat with a whisk until the whites and yolks are completely combined. Then, pour in the oil, add sour cream and change the whisk to a spatula.
- At medium speed, mix the contents of the bowl and pour in the sifted flour in parts. At the end of the kneading, we switch to a low speed so that the kneaded dough gathers into a lump.
- We shift the resulting dough on cling film and wrap it. We place the finished dough in the cold for 35-40 minutes. While it is cooling, preheat the oven to 180°C.
- After cooling, the proposed shortbread cakes for the Digit cake are easily cut into the required number of pieces. It perfectly holds its shape and does not spread.
- On Teflon paper, roll out shortbread cakes of the size and shape you need. Their thickness should be 3-4 mm, but not more than 5 mm. Otherwise, the finished cake may turn out uneven. We put a stencil in the form of a number or any other figure you need on the rolled out dough, cut it out and remove the rest of the dough.
- We transfer or even drag the parchment with the dough piece onto a baking sheet, place it in the oven on the middle level and bake for 5-6 minutes. The main thing - do not overdry the baked dough. As soon as the cake began to blush around the edges, we take it out, drag it and cool it on a flat surface. Similarly, we bake any number of cakes you need.
notes
I want to note that I use the type of shortcrust pastry proposed in the recipe not only to bake shortbread cakes for the Number cake or other naked cakes. The proposed dough is also great for gingerbread blanks for icing painting.
Therefore, from the remnants of the dough that remained after I baked the shortbread cakes for the Number cake, I cut out and baked blanks for gingerbread, so that I could paint them later. They are not hard and are great for painting and this type of baking.
Therefore, from the remnants of the dough that remained after I baked the shortbread cakes for the Number cake, I cut out and baked blanks for gingerbread, so that I could paint them later. They are not hard and are great for painting and this type of baking. 
