These sweets resemble marshmallows or marshmallows. They are usually put in hot chocolate or coffee, but they are also great for preparing various desserts.
We have collected the best recipes for cakes with marshmallows.
General principles for making cakes with marshmallows
For cakes, marshmallows can become a layer or decoration. Also, from these small marshmallows, you can prepare a cream or souffle, for which they are melted, mixed with butter, sour cream, cream or cottage cheese.
In most recipes, the basis of such cakes are biscuit or shortbread dough. There is also an option where the oven is not needed.
Sponge cake with marshmallows
In this recipe, marshmallows will be the basis for a gentle cream. And for the layer you can take any confiture to taste.
Ingredients
For shortcakes:
five eggs;
30 grams of butter;
70 grams of flour and sugar;
a pinch of salt;
10 grams of baking powder and starch.
For cream:
150 grams of marshmallows;
20 grams of butter;
confiture;
half a glass of water.
Cooking method
Divide the eggs into protein and yolk. Proteins should be cold, so it will be easier to beat them. Add a little salt to them, whisk. You need to get a strong foam.
Add sugar to the yolks, grind. We introduce flour, baking powder, starch. Then pour the pre-melted butter. We mix.
Now, in the resulting mass, carefully, in small portions, mix the proteins.
From this test we need to bake three cakes. 40 minutes in the oven, temperature - 180. The first half hour we do not open. Then you can check the readiness with a wooden skewer.
Ready cakes must be completely cooled.
In the meantime, prepare the cream. Marshmallows put in a bowl. Add water. And melt them in the microwave. You can also do this on a stove in a small saucepan.
Add soft butter to the candy mass. We mix. The cream is ready.
We assemble the product. For each cake we apply jam and cream. Coat the sides and the top of the cake with cream. Optionally, you can decorate the top with several marshmallows.
Honey Marshmallow Cake
Sponge cake with a touch of honey and sour cream. Marshmallows will serve for a layer and decoration, you can also take any berries, for example, raspberries.
Ingredients
For two cakes:
12 eggs;
two glasses of sugar (incomplete, minus 2 tablespoons each);
two glasses of flour;
4 tablespoons of honey;
For cream:
700 ml of sour cream;
three quarters of a glass of sugar;
two bags of "thickener for cream and sour cream."
Impregnation for cakes:
a cup (300 ml) of black strong tea;
two to three tablespoons of sugar
Decoration:
200 grams of marshmallows;
chocolate bar;
berries.
Cooking method
We immediately set the oven to 180 degrees.
First, let's do the test. It is better to divide the ingredients into two parts, for each cake to cook them separately, it will be more convenient.
Beat eggs with a mixer. Add sugar and honey. Beat well at high speed, it will take about ten minutes. The mass should become airy, and its volume will increase by 2 times.
Sift flour into the egg mass in portions, carefully mix with a spatula.
For baking, take a split mold. It needs to be greased with butter. Spread parchment. Put the dough into the mold. In the oven, the cake will spend about forty minutes. Then we get out, cool a little. Remove the form.
We do the same for the preparation of the second cake. Both should cool completely. Then we cut each in half lengthwise to make four cakes.
For impregnation we brew strong and very sweet tea. Let it cool down for now.
We are engaged in a cream. Add thickener and sugar to sour cream. Whisk. Thick cream is ready.
It's time to collect the cake. We lay the first cake so that the slice looks up. Soak sweet tea in moderation. Apply cream. Close with a slice of the second cake. Soak again, cream and put a little marshmallows in this layer. In the same manner, we stack the two remaining cakes, soak everything and coat with cream. We cover them with the top and sides of the cake. It's time to send the product to the refrigerator.
Three bars of chocolate through a grater. We get a cake. Decorate it all with chocolate chips. Spread marshmallows and berries on top. To keep the marshmallows well, you can first dip each one into a cream and stick it.
Marshmallow and Lemon Cake
In this recipe, marshmallows will turn into a light souffle. The basis will again be a biscuit, this time a lemon.
Ingredients
For biscuit:
100 grams of flour;
80 grams of butter;
5 grams of baking powder;
100 grams of sugar;
4 eggs;
10 grams of lemon peel;
100 grams of starch.
Impregnation:
Half a lemon;
sugar with vanilla - 4 tablespoons;
90 ml of water.
Souffle:
200 grams of marshmallows;
0.5 liters of fat cream (33%).
Cooking method
Beat eggs firmly with sugar, use a mixer for this. Put the lemon zest in the mass. Then pour the sifted flour, baking powder, starch.
The next step is to melt the butter. Pour it into the rest of the ingredients. The dough is ready. It remains to place it in a greased form and bake a biscuit (40 minutes, 180 degrees). Cooling down.
We make syrup for impregnation. In a small saucepan, bring the water to a boil, add vanilla sugar, stir until dissolved. Turn off. Cooling down. Add lemon juice. Soak the biscuit syrup.
Getting to the souffle. In a saucepan, half the cream is heated on a low flame along with marshmallows, until the marshmallows dissolve. Whip the remaining cream until foam. Pour cream with melted marshmallows to them, whip all together.
The biscuit is placed in a suitable size form. Pour the mixture for souffle on top. Now the cake needs to be frozen in the refrigerator until ready. Jewelry - to your taste.
Cake with marshmallows and cottage cheese
Again a marshmallow souffle, but this time with the addition of cottage cheese. Ready cake can be decorated with whipped cream.
Ingredients
Korzhi:
A glass of flour and sugar;
six eggs;
on a bag of vanilla sugar and baking powder;
salt is a pinch.
Souffle:
A pound of cottage cheese;
200 grams of marshmallows.
Cream:
0.5 liter cream (33%);
150 grams of powdered sugar;
30 grams of gelatin;
a bag of sugar with vanilla.
Cooking method
Beat eggs with sugar, add salt, vanilla sugar. Gradually pour flour, baking powder. Mix.
We bake sponge cake in the same way as in the previous recipes. Cooling down. We cut in half, we get two cakes.
Now the souffle. Grease a suitable bowl with vegetable oil. We spread the marshmallows and soften a little in the microwave, from 30 to 60 seconds, the candies should melt, become soft. Mix them. Add cottage cheese. We mix until a homogeneous mixture.
Cream. Leave the gelatin in warm water for half an hour before swelling. Then cook over low heat until all the lumps are dissolved. Take off. Cooling down. Whip cream with a mixer. Gradually pour powdered sugar, vanilla sugar. Pour in the gelatin. Beat everything well.
Putting the cake together. We put the first cake, on top of the souffle, then the second cake. Coat with cream, put in the refrigerator for several hours. You can decorate and serve.
Marshmallow and Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake, on the surface of which baked marshmallows will create a beautiful pattern resembling specks on the skin of a giraffe. Often this cake is called - "Giraffe".
Ingredients
Two eggs + two yolks;
a bar of milk chocolate;
two bars of dark chocolate;
100 grams of sugar;
three quarters of a glass of milk and cream;
70 grams of butter;
100-150 grams of marshmallows;
60 grams of starch and powdered sugar;
a glass of flour;
cocoa powder - two tablespoons;
half a bag of vanillin;
a quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking method
We combine flour, starch, cocoa powder, baking powder, vanillin.
Beat the butter previously taken out of the refrigerator and softened. Pour powdered sugar. Then one yolk, followed by a second. Constantly whisk. Now add a little flour with the rest of the dry ingredients. Knead the dough, it turns soft. We form a bun from it. Wrap with cling film, put in the refrigerator. Enough about twenty minutes.
Next, we need a detachable shape, diameter - 20 cm. We spread the parchment. We distribute the dough, make the sides of it. Top - foil, pour peas into it (so that the cake does not lose shape). It's time for the oven. About a quarter of an hour, 180 degrees.
Heat the cream with sugar in a saucepan. Do not boil. Then we put the chocolate broken into pieces into the hot cream. And we interfere until it melts. Beat the eggs and slowly pour into the chocolate. We mix.
From the shortbread cake we remove the foil and peas, pour the chocolate mixture on it. Bake another twenty minutes.
It remains to put marshmallows on an almost ready cake and brown for a couple of minutes in the oven. Cool the cake, leave it overnight in the refrigerator.
Marshmallow cake without baking
This recipe is much simpler than the previous ones. The dough here will replace the mixture of butter and cookies, shortbread is best.
Ingredients
¾ packs of butter;
300 grams of cookies;
a pound of cottage cheese;
50 grams of powdered sugar;
400 grams of marshmallows;
tablespoon of lemon juice;
200 grams of sour cream.
Cooking method
Turn cookies into crumbs. You can grind it with a blender. Mix with melted butter. We spread the mass in a form, it is better to take a detachable. We stamp the base and send it for half an hour to the refrigerator to freeze.
Making a souffle. Combine cottage cheese, cracker powder, sour cream. Beat together. Marshmallows are placed in a bowl, softened in the microwave. Time - from 30 seconds to a minute.
It remains to mix the curd, lemon juice and soft marshmallows. Beat until smooth. Souffle mix is ready. Pour it into a mold on a cake, previously lightly smearing the walls with vegetable oil, and overnight in the refrigerator for solidification. It remains only to remove the form and decorate.
Marshmallow Cake - Secrets and Tricks
• To speed up the process of making a cake, biscuit cakes can be baked the night before. Then they will cool well, and there will be no need to spend time on this.
• If the cake with the marshmallow souffle does not fit out well, draw a knife with a thin blade along the sides.
• You can add flavoring notes and colors to the cake by choosing different marshmallows: pink, yellow, green, strawberry, vanilla.
