Rat Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   First prepare the carrots and nuts for the biscuit. Peel the raw carrots, rinse and grate on a medium grater. Chop the walnuts a little with a sharp knife. It is not necessary to grind into flour, they should be felt in the finished biscuit. Add the orange zest to the carrots.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a whipping bowl, combine the eggs and sugar. Whisk them into a fluffy mass.

3. Step 3:

   

   Then mix flour with baking soda, vegetable oil and cinnamon into the egg mass. Do this manually, using a whisk, so that the splendor of the dough remains.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add grated carrots with zest and chopped nuts to the dough. Mix the dough until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour the finished dough into a baking dish and put it in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 40-50 minutes. The baked biscuit springs perfectly when pressed.

6. Step 6:

   

   Remove the finished biscuit from the oven and free it from the mold. Cool completely. Then wrap it with cling film and put it in the refrigerator. Ya. usually, it's business for the night. During this time, it will lie down and it can easily be cut into 2 cakes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Before assembling the cake, soak the cakes with syrup. I use thick, caramel syrup. But you can also soak it with syrup from canned pineapples.

8. Step 8:

   

   For the cream, whisk the cream, 33-35% fat content, with powdered sugar. Mix cottage cheese into the cream, at room temperature.

10. Step 9:

    

    Brush the sponge cake with the resulting cream and put the chopped canned pineapples.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cover with a second cake and coat the top and sides of the cake with cream. Put the assembled cake in the refrigerator for a few hours so that it is well soaked and frozen.

12. Step 11:

    

    For the final decoration of the cake, whisk the cream with powdered sugar until stable peaks. Set aside a little white cream for the ears. Paint the rest in gray with a gray food coloring.

13. Step 12:

    

    At the frozen cake, cut off the sides and the top for the ears to form a mouse muzzle. In the area of the ears, smear with white cream.

14. Step 13:

    

    Then, using a pastry bag filled with cream, highlight the ears.

15. Step 14:

    

    Decorate the cake from all sides with gray cream.

16. Step 15:

    

    Use the melted chocolate to draw the eyes and mustache. The spout can be made of pink chocolate or pink cream (then you will need a drop of pink dye). The rats are ready for the 2020 meeting! Happy New Year!

17. Step 16:

    

    Who needs a nose? Help yourself! Have a nice tea party!