Cake Clock for New Year

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Let's start making a cake with a sponge cake. We will prepare the products.

2. Step 2:

   

   Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder. Mix well.

3. Step 3:

   

   Beat the egg with sugar with a mixer until it turns white and increases the volume twice.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the egg into the flour mixture and mix with careful movements. The dough does not turn out much, but we do not need a big cake either.

5. Step 5:

   

   Take a baking dish 18 cm in diameter. The bottom is lined with baking paper. Pour the dough into the mold, level it.

6. Step 6:

   

   Bake the sponge cake in the oven at 180 ° C for about 18 minutes. Then cool it.

7. Step 7:

   

   Next, prepare the cherry layer. I will immediately advise you to increase the amount of sugar, cherries are often very sour.

8. Step 8:

   

   Thawed cherries together with juice are punched with an immersion blender, add water.

9. Step 9:

   

   Put sugar and starch to the cherry puree, mix thoroughly. We put it to cook on medium heat. Bring to a boil, boil for a minute. During cooking, mix the mass so that it does not burn. It is better to take a saucepan with a thick bottom.

10. Step 10:

    

    Remove the pan from the heat and immediately add the cherry jelly powder, mix.

11. Step 11:

    

    Cover with plastic wrap butt-to-butt, leave to cool.

13. Step 12:

    

    Whisk the heavy cream until fluffy. Add to the cooled cherry puree, mix.

14. Step 13:

    

    The walls of the sponge cake mold are covered with cling film. Pour the cherry mass onto the biscuit. We put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Preparing a creamy layer.

16. Step 15:

    

    Fill gelatin with water, leave to swell for 30 minutes.

17. Step 16:

    

    Put the swollen gelatin on a small fire. We heat it until it completely dissolves, but in no case boil it, otherwise it will lose its gelling properties. Cool it down.

18. Step 17:

    

    Whisk cream with sugar to strong peaks.

19. Step 18:

    

    Add gelatin to the cream. Mix well.

20. Step 19:

    

    Pour the creamy mass onto the frozen cherry layer. We put it in the refrigerator until it freezes completely.

21. Step 20:

    

    To decorate the cake, melt the chocolate in any way. You can use a water bath, you can use a microwave. I just put the chocolate in a bag and dipped it in hot water. Using a pastry bag or bag, as in my case, we draw the dial with chocolate. Make a drawing on paper beforehand. Cover the paper with plastic wrap on top, and you need to draw on it. The finished drawing is cooled, and it is better to freeze.

22. Step 21:

    

    We release the finished cake from the mold. Carefully transfer the chocolate numbers and arrows to the top of the cake. We decorate the edges at will.