If you are looking for an original cake for a children’s party or for tea drinking, cake “School of Fish” will be a hit. Children they will love him not only for their bright, non-trivial appearance, but also for безупречный вкус, ведь от горсти драже M&M’s ни один ребёнок неwill refuse! The treat is designed just for a big company and made in the form of the main cake – teacher’s fish surrounded by cupcakes with exactly the same composition – fish-pupils. BUT cooking it is a pleasure. Be sure to connect to the process. своих маленьких домочадцев. 
Time: 2 час. 30 min. Difficulty: medium Servings: 18 Measured containers are used in recipes volume: 1 cup (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cups (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (Art.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Cupcakes
- 220 gr butter at room temperature + optional for greasing molds
- 2 and 2/3 Art. premium wheat flour + optional for dusting forms
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp fine salt
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp. whole milk
Butter cream
- 330 gr butter, room temperature
- 6 tbsp. powdered sugar
- A pinch of fine salt
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- 1/4 Art. whole milk
- Blue food coloring for glaze
Decor
- By 1/3 Art. (по 45 гр.) драже M&M’s шести цветов: голубой,blue, light green, green, pink, lilac, purple or color sea wave
- 12 decorative sugar eyes
- 24 small red cinnamon dragees such as Red Hots
- 7 large white marmalade gumdrops (domed)
- 1 чёрное или коричневое драже M&M
- 1 large red gumdrop (domed) forms)
Recipes with similar ingredients: butter, flour varieties, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, milk, powdered sugar, chocolates, marmalade
Recipe preparation:
- Cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Lay out the blue paper cupcake molds in a cupcake mold with 12 cells. Lubricate with butter and sprinkle flour on a round cake pan 20 cm in diameter. Cover its bottom with a circle cut from parchment paper.
- In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl beat the butter with a mixer at a moderate-high speed until homogeneous consistency, 1 minute. Add sugar and beat until state of light cream, about 3 minutes. Stir eggs one at a time at a time, and then – vanilla.
- Mix at low speed in 3 sets of flour, alternating with two servings of milk, then increase the speed to a moderately high and that’s it mix.
- Pour half the dough into the cake pan and the remaining dough distribute evenly on the cupcake tins. Bake until the cake on top will not be springy, and the tester inserted in the middle sponge cake, will not come out clean, 20 – 25 minutes for cupcakes and 30 – 35 minutes for cake. Cool for 5 minutes in the molds and then transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling.
- Butter cream: In a bowl, whisk the butter with a mixer. at a moderately high speed to a pale mass, about 1 minute. Add icing sugar, vanilla and salt and beat on low speed to mix the ingredients and then increase the speed to moderately high and whisk until light creamy consistency, about 3 minutes. Stir in 1 tbsp. l milk to make pasty icing. Add 1 drop of food coloring, to get the blue-blue color of the cream.
- Cover the cupcakes with approximately half the butter cream. Cut top in half a large cake. In the middle of the flat side of one half a cake, make a V-neck to make a fish tail. Cover both halves of the cake with butter cream.
- Декорирование: Разложите драже M&Ms на однойhalf of each cupcake, giving the appearance of a fish scale (you enough dragees to make 2 cupcakes of the same color, and more will remain a little on the decoration of the tail). Insert each fish eyes, from 2 dragees with cinnamon make a mouth with the opposite of the scales side. Cut in half 6 white marmalades, and then cut these halves sideways in half to make fins semicircular shape. Insert the fins at the top and bottom the surface of each cupcake.
- Glue the white marmalade on the top of the head of a large fish, to make an eye. Сверху положите чёрное драже M&M, слегкаsmeared with cream so that it sticks.
- Cut the red marmalade in half on top. Then one cut half in half on the side to get 2 half circles, and glue the fish on the rounded side of the cake. Lay your head on tray on the left side. Place cupcakes behind your head so that it turned out the body of the fish. At the end, install the fish tail. Lay out on хвосте оставшиеся драже M&M’s разноцветными полосками, чтобыit turned out scales.
