This beautiful, bright, storybook children's cake appeared in our country fairly recently — more precisely, with the release of the cartoon of the same name. It's the cartoon's characters that are the main "cast" in the cake's design. What's more, they should look exactly as they do in the show.
The five most commonly used ingredients in Masha and the Bear cake recipes:
The simplest and most accessible way to make such a cake: pick a recipe for any cake, except maybe puff pastry. Bake it. Order or buy a ready-made edible photo print (you can do this at any large confectionery shop). And cover the surface of the cake with it. Then decorate the sides and edges to your taste with any thick buttercream, marshmallows, candies, wafers, nuts, fruit, berries, and so on.
Instead of a photo print, you can buy ready-made figurines of both characters, Masha and the Bear, made of marshmallow, marzipan, or something else. Inedible figurines, badges, and cards that can be set on the cake also work for decoration. The last method is the hardest but also the most fun: to sculpt the characters yourself from any suitable confectionery paste. And if you get the kids involved in the process, it will turn out better and merrier.
As for the filling, there are no rules for it. You can do absolutely anything, including the shape, size, thickness, width, and height. The cake can be multi-tiered, single-tiered, in the form of a roll, shaped, shortbread, sponge, custard, honey, chocolate, or caramel, with meringue. It is also decorated depending on the season, embodying a winter, autumn, summer, or spring theme. Many skilled bakers decorate a cake not just by setting figures on it, but also by acting out a certain scene.
The five lowest-calorie Masha and the Bear cake recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masha and the Bear waffle cake without fondant | 5 h 25 min | 255 | +13 |
| Masha and the Bear gingerbread cake | 12 h 20 min | 276 | +51 |
| Masha and the Bear cream cake with mascarpone | 1 d 8 h | 285 | +34 |
| Masha and the Bear chocolate sponge cake in fondant | 1 d | 290 | +28 |
| Masha and the Bear children's cake | 5 h 45 min | 297 | +25 |
Kids love not only eating such a cake, but also taking part in making it. Give it a try — your little one may truly surprise you with both diligence and imagination!