Recipe for a pie in a Soviet cast iron turtle mold. Homemade Turtle Cake with Sour Cream

By 08/30/2015

I have known this cake since childhood. Delicious and not ordinary. Looks like a toy or cartoon character. You can make a “Turtle” cake not only for the holidays, but also just to pamper your household.

Flour - 2 cups
Egg - 6 pieces
Sugar - 2 and a half cups
Vanillin - 1 sachet
Baking soda + vinegar - 1 teaspoon
Butter - 25 g
Sour cream - 900 g
Kiwi - 1 piece
Milk chocolate - 1 bar
Other fruits or nuts - to taste

Step-by-step cooking process at home

First, let's prepare the necessary ingredients.
We start preparing the cake, of course, with the dough. The dough should be airy, tender and sweet. Take 6 eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. We also need a blender or mixer and 2 cups of sugar.

Beat the yolks separately with one glass of sugar and the whites in the same way. You should get a foamy, homogeneous mass. Then you need to mix the resulting creamy masses with each other. For a better effect, the mixture can be whisked again. The more bubbles you get when beating, the more airy the dough will be.

The next and final step in preparing the dough is flour. It is necessary to carefully sift 2 cups of flour into the resulting mass. We will fight lumps using slaked soda and vinegar. Take a level teaspoon of soda and a couple of drops of 9% table vinegar and mix. Add the resulting sizzling liquid to the dough. We also add a packet of vanillin. It also prevents the formation of lumps, and also gives a fantastic vanilla aroma. Mix thoroughly. The dough should be a little thicker than for pancakes.

To ensure that the dough does not stick to the baking sheet, grease it with butter, carefully going to the edges. Butter is also good because it gives a milky flavor to future cakes. Good for baking, non-stick baking tray. This simplifies the task for the housewife.

The baking tray comes in different sizes, depending on the volume of the oven. If they are small, then you will have to bake in two or even three batches.

There are two options for baking cakes for the “Turtle” cake. You can carefully use a spoon to form ovals on the sheet, in the form of cakes. This option takes quite a long time, and the cakes will all be of different shapes and sizes. It is much easier and more productive to bake a regular cake the size of a baking sheet. And then, using a glass or mug, squeeze out neat and even circles or ovals from it. Pour the dough into a small layer onto a baking sheet and level the surface with a spoon. It should be even and smooth.

We send our future cake to the oven, preheated at 180 degrees. The cakes bake quickly. As soon as the biscuit is browned, it can be removed from the oven.

The biscuit is ready. Now we need to cut out circles from it that will serve as the shell for our turtle. Any glass or mug will do for this. But there is no need to rush. The biscuit should cool slightly. Otherwise it will stick and tear.

You get even circles and the remains of the sponge cake on the sheet, which will also be used in the cake.

It's time to prepare the cream. Mix sour cream with half a glass of sugar. You don't need a lot of sugar in the cream, it should be slightly sour. Otherwise, the cake will turn out very sugary, because the sponge cake is quite sweet.

There is no need to whip the cream; stir with a spoon until the sugar is almost completely dissolved. You can add chopped walnuts to the cream.

Now comes the fun part. We need to assemble the cake. This is where the biscuit scraps come in handy. We place them in the first layer on a cake plate. Externally, a small mound of biscuit should form, press it down in places so that it is smoother and the excess does not stick out.

Pour cream generously over the slide. There is no point in saving cream here, otherwise the middle of the cake will be dry. Then we decorate the cake with flat cakes. Lay out the turtle's shell. It is very important to soak the cakes in cream after each layer.

Decorate the cake to your liking. You can cut out the head and legs of a turtle from a kiwi. Decorate the shell with banana slices. Sprinkle with coconut, nuts or chocolate chips. Fantasy, in this matter, is limitless.

The finished cake needs to be thoroughly soaked. It's best to leave it in the refrigerator overnight. As a result, we get a cake weighing approximately 2 kg, which is enough for about 10-15 servings. Bon appetit!

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Here is a version of the “Turtle” cake with sour cream, which hid its head and paws under its shell. I prepared it for my grandmother’s birthday, she turned 88 years old.

For the Turtle cake you need: a lot of sour cream, as well as flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, cocoa and something to decorate the cake:

For the dough, first beat the eggs with sugar.

Then add flour with baking powder and mix. The dough turns out runny.

On baking paper

silicone mat

or onto a greased baking sheet, pour 1 teaspoon of dough at a distance of about three cm from each other.

Bake at 180 degrees until browned, about five minutes. Makes 3-4 baking sheets (depending on the size of the baking sheets). Place the pieces all together and cover with a towel to prevent them from drying out.

For the cream, mix sour cream with sugar and cocoa. Dip the pieces into the cream and place on a flat dish.

Make several layers.

For the glaze, mix sour cream, sugar and cocoa.

Heat this mixture, stirring, until it boils. You will get a chocolate glossy glaze.

Cover the Turtle cake with sour cream with glaze and decorate it, so to speak, in the style of a turtle. For example, pieces of walnuts, as in the photo.

The “Turtle” cake soaks quickly and is ready to serve almost immediately. Store it in the refrigerator.

My cake was delivered to the birthday girl for a pleasant tea party!

Homemade Turtle Cake is a delicate and soft dessert that is difficult to refuse. This delicacy is very popular. It can be seen on the shelves of confectionery shops and culinary shops; it is found on the menu of many cafes, and especially coffee shops. The cake consists of many airy sponge cakes soaked in sour cream. The dessert got its name due to its characteristic appearance: miniature cakes are laid out in a semicircle, in the form of a slide, reminiscent of a turtle shell. So, there are three components to the success of a cake: original appearance, impeccable taste and ease of preparation. What else do you need to lift your spirits? Perhaps the company of your closest and dearest people who will make you a pleasant company for tea!

Recipe information

Cooking method: in the oven .

Total cooking time: 1 hour

Number of servings: 1 cake for 10 persons.

Ingredients

for test:

eggs - 6 pcs.
sugar – 6 pcs.
flour -1 cup

for cream:

sour cream 20% - 750 g
sugar – 1 glass
milk - 5 tbsp. l.

for chocolate glaze:

sugar 5 tbsp. l.
butter -100 g
cocoa powder – 5 tsp.

For decoration:

halves of walnuts.

Recipe:

First of all, let's take care of the sour cream. To make the cream thick and not liquid, about three hours before preparing the cream for the cake, put all the sour cream (750 g) in a thick linen bag and hang it so that excess moisture is removed from the sour cream. By the way, making sour cream from very rich village sour cream is not an option. When whipped, such sour cream turns into oil and liquid is released from it. Country sour cream will not make cream, don’t even try.
To separate excess liquid from sour cream, I proceed as follows. I line the bottom of the bowl with a cloth and pour in the sour cream.
Then I tie the fabric in a knot and hang this knot over the sink, tying it to the tap for three hours.
While the sour cream is being prepared, we have plenty of time to bake the cakes. The cake will require a lot of small sponge cakes. To make a light biscuit dough, beat the whites and yolks separately. Moreover, it is better to add the bulk of the sugar to the yolks rather than to the whites. Separate the yolks (6 pcs.) from the whites.
First of all, it is better to beat the whites, not the yolks. The fact is that whites are very demanding on the dryness of the container in which they are whipped. The container should not only be dry, it should not have a drop of fat on the walls. With yolks everything is simpler; they can be beaten after the whites in the same container. So, collect all six whites in a mixer container.
Beat the whites into a strong foam with six tablespoons of sugar, adding them gradually one at a time.
Transfer the whipped whites to another large bowl in which you will knead the biscuit dough, and place the yolks in the mixer container where you just beat the whites.
Now beat the yolks with the remaining sugar, adding it gradually.
Begin to carefully knead the dough, gradually adding flour to the beaten yolks...
Those are whipped whites.
The dough will be fluffy and quite liquid.
Place the dough on a baking sheet using a tablespoon, the dough will immediately spread, this is not scary, but the cakes will turn out thin and soft.
Bake them at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
You will get quite a lot of small cakes; you will have to bake them on two baking sheets. Cool the cakes to room temperature.
Beat the thickened sour cream, filtered through a linen bag or simply through a cloth, with a mixer and a glass of sugar. The result was a rather thick sour cream.
To assemble the Turtle Cake, prepare a large flat-bottomed dish. Place the first layer of sponge cakes.
Grease it thickly with sour cream.
Next, lay the cakes one by one in the form of a turtle shell, in a heap; before placing, dip each cake in sour cream.
The cake is ready, but it still needs to be covered with chocolate glaze. To cook it, mix 5 tbsp. l. milk, 5 tbsp. l. sugar and 100 g butter.
When the mixture boils, add 5 tsp. cocoa, break up the lumps by stirring with a whisk.
Cook the glaze over low heat for exactly 5 minutes until it begins to thicken.
Here is a detailed one, a little different, but also suitable for this cake.
When the glaze has cooled well, pour it over the cake and decorate it with walnut halves.
Don’t rush to try the prepared delicacy right away. It will be better if you let it soak for at least a couple of hours.

Note to the owner:

When assembling the cake, you can leave 3-4 cake layers, which you can then use to make the legs and head of the turtle. Make the head from a whole round cake, and the legs and tail from halves. The paws, tail and head of the turtle should also be greased with cream and poured with chocolate glaze.
By decorating the surface of the cake with kiwi slices, you will get an equally original Emerald Turtle cake.

Here you will find an excellent selection of recipes for the most beautiful Turtle Cake. Photographs will help you decide on the design, and learned secrets will make the taste of a standard dessert unforgettable.

Turtle cake is one of the most convenient to prepare. For its funny appearance, it was loved by both children and adults. Therefore, there is not a single reason not to make this confectionery masterpiece a permanent decoration of the family table.

Classic Turtle cake with sour cream: step-by-step recipe, photo

To create this beautiful and fairly safe cake you will need:

2 tbsp. wheat flour, well sifted
3.5 tbsp. white sugar
1 tsp. good baking powder
6 chicken eggs
600 ml fat sour cream
6 tbsp. l. quality cocoa powder
300-320 g real butter
baking soda + vinegar
vanillin

A piece of “Turtle” cake with sour cream

Step 1. Separate quickly whites from yolks. We put the whites in the refrigerator.

Separate the whites from the yolks to prepare the sour cream “Turtle” cake

Step 2. Grind the yolks with 1 tbsp. Sahara. If possible, use a mixer (blender) at low and medium speed.

For the “Turtle” cake with sour cream, grind the yolks with sugar

Step 3. Nicely chilled beat the whites with two pinches of salt with gradual addition of 1 tbsp. Sahara until it becomes a stable foam.

The recipe for “Turtle” cake with sour cream involves beating egg whites with sugar

Step 4. We join whites to yolks and at the lowest speed add flour first, then baking powder and soda slaked with vinegar.

We finish preparing the dough for the classic “Turtle” cake

Step 5. We collect the resulting test mass into a prepared pastry bag.. If this is not available, take a thick plastic bag and cut off a corner of it. This simple device will save effort on laying out the correct forms and washing dishes.

Cake “Turtle”: recipe for making cakes for the base

Step 6.

Grease the decor (baking tray) a small piece of butter or cover with parchment according to size.
Squeezing it out of the sleeve same/different portions of dough. It depends on what format of cake you plan to see in the end.
Attentively make sure there is at least 5 cm free space between the sides and all the poured rounds, since the dough expands well during baking.

Cake “Turtle” step by step: rules for baking cakes

Step 7

Place the baking sheet in the oven, already preheated to 200 °C. We bake our cakes for 5-7 minutes, holding until browning.
We get it, put on a dish and let cool completely.
It should be noted that a standard roasting sheet is rarely enough for the entire recipe load, so for faster preparation of this cake It's better to use both at the same time.

The cake layers for a simple Turtle cake are ready!

Step 8

Make 100-120 g liquid butter. On fire or in the microwave it's melting in 3-4 minutes. Add 1 tbsp. sugar, and another 500 g of sour cream plus vanillin.
Mix the mixture with a mixer until the sugar is completely dissolved.
The resulting cream you can add a few spoons of your favorite topping (syrup) from a well-known manufacturer.

Delicious cream for Turtle cake

Step 9

Set aside a dozen cakes for decoration and forming the body of a turtle from the remaining ones, soaked in cream.
The classic Turtle cake with sour cream is quite moist, so we don’t regret the composition preserved after dipping to moisturize layers.
Necessarily leave a little mixture for coating the outer layer, lined with dry cakes.

How to lay out the perfect Turtle cake?

Coating layers of homemade Turtle cake

How to make a Turtle cake perfectly beautiful?

Step 10

Preparing aromatic chocolate glaze by mixing and digesting 0.5 tbsp. sugar and a pinch of salt, 100 g sour cream and 100 g butter, 5 tbsp. l. cocoa.
We endure mixture until sugar is completely dissolved plus 1-2 minutes of boiling.
We cover urgently with it the already formed base of cakes, because the ganache hardens quickly.

Decorating a Turtle cake at home

Step 11

The following step-by-step recipe suggests creating the paws and head of a turtle. Let's use all our imagination for a fun decoration.
We use: nuts, whipped cream, caramel, meringue, ready-made cookies or rolls, fruit. To achieve maximum contrast, you can use ready-made confectionery mastic or sprinkles.

The preparation of the charming “Turtle” cake is finished!

Emerald turtle cake in a frying pan, recipe

This cake differs from other “turtle” options, first of all, in the size of the cake layers. Here they are big. For the entire size of a pre-selected frying pan.

First we do some magic on the dough.

Take a can of decent condensed milk and add one whole egg. Knead the sticky mass at low speed with a mixer.
We extinguish the soda with vinegar and send it immediately pop into the resulting mixture. Add little by little 450 g flour.
Already non-liquid and tight dough knead with your hands. Divide into 8 parts and roll it out to fit the bottom of the pan.
If necessary cut to size suitable plate or lid.

The Emerald Turtle cake is incredibly delicious!

Then we bake the base.

Heating up In a frying pan over medium heat, place the already rolled out cakes on it one at a time.
We endure on each side for 1-2 minutes.
Cool down and again if necessary align the shape according to the “pattern”.

An elegant solution for a holiday - the “Emerald Turtle” cake

Let's move on to creating delicious impregnation.

Whisk 2 chicken eggs with 500 g of milk. Continuing to foam, add 1 tbsp. sugar and 3 tbsp. l. flour. Plus vanilla.
Pour the mixture into a cooking vessel and we languish over low heat until thickened, stirring continuously.
When the required consistency appears, add another pack of real butter. We are waiting for it to melt. Keep it on the stove for a minute. All. The cream is ready.

Forming and decorating the cake.

Preparing kiwi fruits: clean, cut into whole slices for decoration and small cubes for filling.
We shift cakes with pieces of fruit and lubricate hot (warm) cream.
If you create cakes of different radii, then you can achieve a cake shape very similar to the appearance of a real turtle shell.
Glue onto the already cooled cream kiwi petals.
Forming paws and head.
Leave for a couple of hours and we treat everyone who wants it.

Emerald turtle cake in a frying pan is a fairly economical and low-fuss solution for both festive and everyday tables. The recipe requires no modifications. It can be used to prepare mega-format confectionery delicacies designed for a large number of guests.

How to make a Turtle cake without baking from gingerbread or cookies?

The main and only need (the catch) of the recipe is to find cookies or gingerbread cookies with a biscuit consistency in the store. Because shortcrust pastry specimens turn into an unflattering, falling apart mess when wet.

When approaching the idea for the first time, pick up at the store a dozen types of baked goods that are more or less suitable for the base. Use everything you buy. In the finished product, all the shortcomings or advantages of the purchased blanks will be immediately visible.

A simple recipe for “Turtle” cake at home using gingerbread and cookies

Before actually forming the cake, we make all the elements relatively thin. Cut tall pieces lengthwise into several pieces.. Be sure to dip each resulting cake into the impregnation and only then place it in a layer. With or without adding filling, it is still necessary to coat the layers with cream.

Delicious “Turtle” cake made from cookies and gingerbread under egg meringue

How to make a Turtle cake without baking from gingerbread or cookies? You need to stock up on everything you need in the store and show a little imagination. To decorate the product with chocolate glaze or caramel, you should wait until it is well soaked and cooled.

Turtle cake with fruits, bananas, kiwi: recipe

Buy:

6oo g each of bananas and kiwi
100 g canned or fresh pitted cherries
5 ready-made sponge rolls with filling
400 g sour cottage cheese
300 g medium fat sour cream
1 tbsp. Sahara
350 g milk
2 bars of your favorite chocolate without filling

Let's try to make a “Turtle” cake using a recipe with kiwi

Fruits cut into pieces that will not interfere with cutting the cake. And the rolls are cut into slices that will not fall apart.
Mix sugar, cottage cheese, milk and sour cream in a blender.
Prepare a big one deep bowl, mold. Line it with cling film.
Lay in dense layers from rolls and fruits, evenly filling everything with the resulting curd cream. But don't overdo it!
Set the clock to 6 in the refrigerator.
Then take it out and Turn the contents out onto a large plate and remove the film.
Decorate the dessert at your discretion: melted or crumbled, grated chocolate.

The delicious Turtle cake with fruits, bananas and kiwi is ready. The recipe is incredibly simple. Instead of cherries, you can use any sweet and sour jam with a rich texture.

The “Turtle” cake with banana is beyond all praise!

Recipe for Turtle Cake with Custard

As a basis We use our favorite cookies or homemade cakes.

Prepare the custard in a vessel of suitable depth.

Let's take it: 150-200 g sugar, 500-600 g milk, 50-80 g flour, yolks of 4 chicken eggs, vanillin.
Yolks rub using all the prepared sugar and vanillin.
Add here the flour and slowly enter milk.
Bring the mixture to a boil without stopping stirring.
We adjust the thickness by boiling time. Usually 6-10 minutes are enough.

Cake “Turtle” from Tatyana Litvinova

The standard recipe for Turtle Cake with Custard includes: presence of peanut crumbs between layers and decoration toffee, whipped cream. You can ignore these ingredients and find your own, something more original.

How to cook Turtle cake with custard?

How to make Turtle cake with frosting?

All processes for creating bases and impregnations are carried out by analogy with those presented above, but we choose the most convenient variation of coating.

How to decorate a Turtle cake with icing?

Option 1. Mirror glaze. Consists of: 150 g granulated sugar, 150 g milk chocolate, 150 g flower honey, 150 mg condensed milk, 80 ml purified water plus 1 tbsp. l. gelatin. Add the ingredients one by one during the cooking process: water, sugar, honey, condensed milk, swollen gelatin, ground chocolate.

Mirror chocolate ganache

Option 2. Classic glaze. It is prepared from a mixture of equal volumes of butter, cocoa powder and condensed milk. If the thickness becomes too thick, you can add milk or plain water during boiling.

Classic chocolate ganache

Option 3: Coconut glaze. It is created with the obligatory use of half a glass of milk and coconut flakes. Grind 100 g of flakes to dust in a coffee grinder. Boil with: milk, 4 tbsp. l. cocoa, 100 g sugar, 100 g butter and vanilla.

Coconut chocolate ganache

Option 4. Eclair glaze. Made from: 400 g of delicious milk chocolate, 240 g of whey and 25 g of gelatin. Do not bring to a boil. Just heat well and mix thoroughly.

Eclair chocolate ganache

How to make Turtle cake with frosting? Bake springy sponge cakes and moisten them. Use soft curd cream with added fruit topping for soaking. Cover the formed mound with the glaze you like best.

Turtle cake with condensed milk, recipe, photo

Beat thick pancake batter in a mixer from:

6 pcs. eggs
2 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. sugar, ground into powder
soda slaked with vinegar

Baking flatbreads at 200 °C for 5-8 minutes so that they brown. We do it as in the photo.

Preparing impregnating cream by beating:

1 b. condensed milk
100 g melted butter
300 g sour cream

The recipe involves pre-bathing the flatbreads in cream. We form a beautiful turtle, adding the remaining cream into the spaces between the pancakes.

Turtle cake with condensed milk is usually covered with chocolate glaze.

“Turtle” cake with sour cream and condensed milk is almost ready!

Chocolate Turtle Cake: Recipe

Ingredients for impregnation cream:

1 liter sour cream
100-150 g butter
150-200 g cocoa
3 tbsp. white sugar

Children really like Turtle chocolate cake

Ingredients for the dough base:

50-100 g cocoa
200 g broken milk chocolate and vanilla
3-4 tbsp. white sugar
soda slaked with vinegar
8 chicken eggs
3-4 tbsp. sifted flour

By analogy, mix everything with a blender.

We prepare the cream by boiling sugar with cocoa and butter. Add a few spoons of sour cream. And after removing from the heat and the rest of the volume of sour cream.
The recipe involves rapid cooling of the resulting mass.
Bake cakes of the same size at 180°C for 7-12 minutes.
Lay out and coat them with cream.

Chocolate Turtle cake is decorated as standard with caramel or whipped cream on a ganache top.

You don't need a lot of ingredients to make a Turtle cake with cocoa.

Recipe for Turtle cake with honey

For the test we use:

1 tbsp. instant oatmeal
5 tbsp. l. sifted flour
5 tbsp. l. honey
0.5 tbsp. Sahara
2 chicken eggs
50-100 g butter
soda slaked with vinegar

A good homemade Turtle Cake recipe must contain honey.

Mix everything in a water bath. Add the flakes towards the end of the process and let them swell. We add flour last to form the desired consistency. Bake the bread on parchment at 180°C for 8-12 minutes.

The cream is formed from:

200 g almond crumbs
100 g raisins
600 g full fat milk
50 g butter
6 tbsp. l. Sahara
2-3 tbsp. l. flour

Honey cake “Turtle”: step-by-step recipe, convenient and simple

Step by step:

Mix sugar with flour and a glass of milk.
Pour it out pour the resulting mixture into the boiled milky residue.
Cooking over low heat until thickened.
Be sure to stir.
After cooling add raisins and nuts.

The recipe for Turtle Cake with Honey does not imply decoration with specific products. We shape and decorate at our discretion.

How to make a “Turtle” cake with honey and not overwork?

How to lay out and decorate a Turtle cake?

Smaller flatbreads make tall cakes well. Of the large ones - wide and low. To create the paws and head, you can use not only the base cakes, but also pieces of fruit that are suitable in size and shape.

Now about how to lay out and decorate a Turtle cake, we know almost everything. Happy culinary experiments!