Fruit cake - 8 beautiful and delicious recipes

Simple fruit cake without baking

The simplest no-bake fruit cake is made from:

600 g marshmallows;
450 ml heavy cream for whipping;
half a glass of powdered sugar;
half a kilo or a little more bananas;
a third kilo of kiwi;
the same number of oranges.

Cooking method:

Make a cream from cream and powder by beating the chilled dairy product with a sweetener. Dissolve the marshmallows into thin slices. Peel the fruit and chop bananas into circles, kiwi and citrus fruits into semicircles.
Place a layer of marshmallow slices on a large flat plate, keeping the gaps between them minimal. Coat a layer of marshmallows with cream and place bananas on it. The sequence of the following layers: marshmallows, cream, kiwi, marshmallows, cream, oranges, marshmallows.

"Honey cake" in a hurry

Photo: mykaleidoscope.ru
A real Honey cake requires a lot of effort, but you can prepare an equally delicious dessert in just half an hour!

You will need:
3 tbsp.
l. liquid bee honey and the same amount of sugar, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1.5 tsp. baking soda, 600 ml sour cream and half a glass of powdered sugar. Preparation:

With a fork or whisk, beat honey with eggs and sugar until smooth. Mix with soda and flour. Bake in a round pan until done. Then cut the resulting honey pie into three, or maybe even four thin layers. Mix the sour cream and powdered sugar thoroughly and spread on the cakes without waiting for them to cool.

10 simple recipes for making marmalade at home

With gelatin and sour cream

Summer jelly cake with fruit is easy to create from sour cream jelly, store-bought sponge roll and fresh fruits and berries.

The ratio of products that will be required during the cooking process:

two glasses of sour cream;
half a glass of powdered sugar;
a couple of bags of gelatin;
80 ml drinking water;
300 g ready-made sponge roll;
strawberries, currants, bananas and other fruits and berries to taste.

Cooking recipe step by step:

Leave the gelatin with water for a while so that it becomes saturated with moisture and swells. Meanwhile, beat the sour cream until fluffy, gradually adding powdered sugar.
Wash the fruits, dry them and, if necessary, cut them into small pieces.
Melt the swollen gelatin in a water bath and add it into the whipped sour cream in a thin stream, then add the fruit and mix.
Line a bowl with cling film. Cut the roll into slices 1 - 1.5 cm thick and decorate the bottom and walls of the prepared form with them. Pour sour cream jelly with fruit onto the biscuit, smooth it out and put it in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
Turn the bowl of frozen jelly onto a serving plate and carefully remove the cake by pulling the edges of the cling film. If desired, the dessert can be decorated as your heart desires.

Cake “Air miracle”

Photo: citywomancafe.com
The ingredients for this cake will always be in your refrigerator. Just an hour of free time and the incredibly light and airy dessert is ready!

You will need:
4 eggs, 1 glass of sugar, 4 tbsp.
l. flour, baking powder, cocoa, vanilla 1 tsp each, as well as bananas and a pack of sour cream for cream. Preparation:

Beat eggs with 4 tbsp. l. sugar, add flour, vanilla, baking powder and mix. Bake a sponge cake and cut it lengthwise into three to four thin layers. Beat the sour cream with a mixer with the remaining sugar. Top the cakes with the resulting cream and thin slices of banana.

From sponge cakes

From one package of store-bought sponge cakes, it is very easy and quick to prepare a delicious and light cake with fruit.

This delicacy includes:

3 ready-made sponge cakes;
one and a half cans of condensed milk;
180 g of high-quality butter (from 73%);
2 bananas;
4 kiwis;
250 g canned pineapples;
1 can of whipped cream, chopped nuts and chocolate for decoration.

How to quickly make a cake from ready-made cake layers:

Beat the softened butter, adding condensed milk one tablespoon at a time. When all the butter and condensed milk become one, the cream is ready.
Prepare tropical fruits: peel and chop bananas and kiwi into half rings, drain the juice from pineapples, and cut their pulp into smaller pieces.
Start assembling the cake. Coat the first cake with cream, place a layer of prepared fruit on it and cover with the second sponge cake. Repeat layers of cream, fruit and biscuits. Top the third cake layer with whipped cream, nuts, chocolate and fruit slices.

In order for ready-made store-bought biscuits to be better soaked in cream, you can lightly scratch them with a fork.

The history of the Milk Girl cake

The cake owes its origin and name to the famous German manufacturer of condensed milk “Milch Mädchen”, which literally means “milk girl”.

Local housewives did not rack their brains over what to call the cake, the cake layers of which contain that same condensed milk. Our compatriots picked up the idea of preparing a delicious dessert and also did not think twice about its name.

Curd and fruit cake

To prepare a light cottage cheese and fruit dessert for the base you will need:

75 g butter;
40 g powdered sugar;
1 egg;
50 g sour cream;
2.5 g soda;
2 g salt;
½ orange (zest);
125 g flour.

For a layer of curd cream and fruit you need to take:

a packet of gelatin;
two tablespoons of orange juice;
three tablespoons of water;
a third kilo of fatty cottage cheese;
half a glass of powdered sugar;
200 ml heavy cream (from 35%);
250 g of fruit (fresh or canned).

Sequencing:

Beat the soft butter or simply grind it with powdered sugar until smooth, then stir in the egg and sour cream, combining it with soda in advance. After this, sift the flour, add salt and add finely grated orange zest for flavor.
We insulate the bottom and sides of the springform pan with oiled parchment. Then spread the finished dough along the bottom with a tablespoon, from which we will prepare the base of the future cake in a preheated oven. Let the finished cake cool in the mold.
Soak the gelatin in water and orange juice for the time indicated on the package.
Grind the cottage cheese with powdered sugar using a blender to a homogeneous paste-like state, then gradually introduce the swollen and dissolved gelatin into it.
Whip the cream to stable peaks and fold into the curd mass in several additions.
Wash the fruits, peel if necessary and cut into small slices, then mix with cream.
Spread the mixture of fruit and curd cream evenly over the cooled base and put it in the refrigerator for 6 – 8 hours. After this, carefully remove the dessert from the mold. You can decorate the cake with fruits and chocolate.

Features of preparing the “Milk Girl” cake

There is nothing special in preparing the dessert, because the cake was not invented by great confectioners, but by ordinary German housewives, using simple ingredients. But the result is a cake with amazing taste, very tender and airy.

What products are cake layers made from?

German housewives consider the cake to be a lifesaver, because the cakes are prepared from the most accessible ingredients - eggs, flour, baking powder and condensed milk.

To make the cake truly delicious, it is important to use good quality ingredients. Particular attention should be paid to condensed milk, because this is the basis of the dessert.

If there is no trust in the finished product, condensed milk can be cooked at home from milk and sugar.

Options for cream for the Milk Girl cake

The cake layers are universal, that is, they go well with any cream, so for impregnation you can prepare curd cream, butter, sour cream, protein or custard.

Many housewives prepare a cake with ice cream. It makes the dessert tender and reminiscent of the taste of melted ice cream.

Fruit and yoghurt dessert

A no-bake cake with gelatin and fruit can be prepared not only from various fermented milk products, but also, in a dietary version, from yogurt. It can be either purchased or prepared independently using special starter cultures.

For such a dessert, baked in a mold with a diameter of 20–22 cm, the proportions of ingredients are as follows:

up to 200 g of shortbread cookies;
65 g butter;
450 ml yogurt;
90 – 110 g sugar;
a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice;
2 – 3 sachets of gelatin, 25 g each;
half a glass of water;
fruits and berries to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

Mix crushed cookies with softened butter. Line the bottom of the springform pan with the resulting mixture and freeze on the refrigerator shelf (at least 30 minutes).
Peel the fruits, turn them into cubes with light movements of a knife and simmer for several minutes on the fire along with sugar and lemon juice.
First soak the gelatin in water and then heat it in a microwave oven until it becomes a homogeneous liquid.
Combine prepared fruits, liquid gelatin and yogurt. Spread the resulting mass in an even layer over the shortbread crust and place in the refrigerator until completely set.

Homemade cake “Autumn Sonata”

Photo: savvynana.com
An incredibly tender cake that is also good for health, because it contains the queen of autumn - pumpkin!

You will need:

For the cakes:
260 g of baked pumpkin pulp, 2 eggs, 100 ml of refined vegetable oil, 260 g of flour, 1 cup of sugar, 1 pack of vanilla sugar, 15 g of baking powder, 2 tbsp.
l. citrus juice, one pinch each of salt and ground turmeric. For cream:
1 pack of whipping cream, 6 tbsp.
l. powdered sugar, a few tablespoons of any fruit or berry jam. Preparation:

Mix the pulp of oven-baked pumpkin, whipped in a blender, with turmeric, orange or tangerine juice. Transfer the resulting mass into eggs beaten with sugar, pour in vegetable oil, add flour, baking powder and mix well. Bake two cakes separately, dividing the dough in half. Then cool and cut each cake lengthwise into two halves. Spread each layer with jam and whipped cream and powdered sugar.

With added chocolate

Chocolate goes well with many fruits.

This proven taste combination became the reason for creating a delicious cake, which is prepared from the following list of ingredients:

200 g cookies;
100 g butter;
250 g dark chocolate;
400 g cottage cheese;
400 g fat sour cream;
200 g ground sugar powder;
30 g gelatin;
100 ml water;
40 ml milk;
300 g strawberries.

Preparation:

Mash the cookies until crumbly, melt the butter, and turn 50 g of chocolate into chips. Connect all these components together and compact them in an even layer along the bottom of the springform pan (diameter - 20 - 21 cm).
Pour water into the container with gelatin and set aside for 20 - 30 minutes.
Sprinkle the cottage cheese with powder on top and blend with a blender until all lumps and grains are eliminated.
Melt 150 g of chocolate, combine with milk, and mix with cottage cheese.
Dissolve the gelatin in a water bath and pour into the curd and chocolate mixture, whisking it with a mixer. Then stir in the pre-whipped sour cream into the chocolate cream.
Spread a little cream over the shortbread crust, place washed whole or sliced strawberries on it, spread and smooth the remaining cream on top. Place the treat in the refrigerator.
After hardening, carefully remove the cake from the mold, sprinkle chocolate chips on top from the remaining 50 g of chocolate and decorate with sliced strawberries.

Homemade cake “Bounty with liqueur”

Photo: gazeta-leninsk.ru
Are you expecting dear guests for the holiday? Surprise them with this deliciously delicious homemade cake that is so easy to make!

You will need:
1 cup each of flour and sugar, 4 chicken eggs, 1 packet of baking powder, 3 - 5 tbsp.
l. cocoa powder, 100 g of coconut flakes, a couple of tablespoons of refined vegetable oil, 0.5 cans of high-quality condensed milk. Preparation:

Mix flour, sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder in a bowl. Beat the eggs into the dry mixture, one at a time, and add the oil. Beat the mixture with a mixer. Bake for 45 minutes. Cut into two layers. Cover them with coconut cream mixed with condensed milk.

"Fruit slide"

Simple even for a schoolchild, but a spectacular and unusual fruit cake is made from chocolate sponge cake, light yoghurt cream and fruits (canned and fresh).

Chocolate sponge cake is baked from:

5 eggs;
3 g salt;
180 g sugar;
120 g flour;
25 g starch;
25 - 40 g cocoa powder.

List of ingredients for the cream:

20 – 30 g of gelatin in granules or powder (instant);
half a glass of syrup from canned pineapples or peaches;
300 ml peach or apricot yogurt;
a couple of glasses of heavy cream (from 33%);
150 g sugar, ground into powder;
20 g milk chocolate;
canned pineapples, peaches, bananas and other fruits to taste.

Cooking instructions:

Mix flour, starch and cocoa together and pass through a sieve. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt into a fluffy foam, and the yolks with sugar until light cream;
Next, alternately add the protein foam and dry ingredients into the yolks in two or three additions. Place the dough in the oven so that it becomes one tall and fluffy sponge cake, which, after cooling, should be dissolved into two layers. Chop the least beautiful thin chocolate cake into cubes.
Combine gelatin dissolved in syrup with yogurt. Beat chilled cream with powdered sugar. Combine yogurt with cream and the cream is ready. Leave some of the fruit to decorate the baked goods, and chop the rest as desired.
Cover the inside of a deep salad bowl with cling film and place fruit in beautiful patterns on its bottom and sides. Pour a couple of spoons of cream onto them, then distribute the biscuit cubes mixed with fruit.
Pour cream over the fruit-biscuit layer, fill the entire salad bowl in this way, and cover the entire top with a layer of biscuit.
Refrigerate the cake for 6 to 8 hours or overnight, then invert onto a serving platter and top with chocolate shavings or melted warm chocolate.

Chocolate cheesecake

Photo: ok.ru
One of the most delicious and at the same time the easiest homemade cakes to prepare. It’s not a shame to put such a delicacy on the holiday table!

You will need:

For the sponge cake:
200 ml of warm kefir, 2 eggs, 1 cup each of flour and sugar, 1 tsp.
baking powder, 50 g cocoa, 40 ml vegetable oil, a pinch of salt. For the cream:
350 g soft cottage cheese, 1 pack of sour cream, 180 g sugar, vanilla.
Preparation:

Beat the eggs with a mixer with sugar and a pinch of salt, pour in warm kefir and refined oil. Add flour with baking powder. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Cut the cooled sponge cake into three thin cakes. Assemble the cake, spreading the cakes with cream from the indicated ingredients, thoroughly whipped with a mixer.

From choux pastry

The design of this cake is such that it is difficult to determine whether it is a fruit cake or a fruit cake. The dessert can be made both in summer, using seasonal fruits, and in winter, filling the filling with preparations from the freezer or tropical fruits, which can be bought at any time of the year. A cake made from choux pastry filled with bananas, oranges, kiwis and pineapples is called “Tropicana”.

To make the crust dough and cream you will need:

200 g butter (half for dough and half for cream);
200 ml water;
230 g of flour, 100 g of this amount will go into the cream;
2.5 – 3 g salt;
6 eggs, 2 of them in cream;
400 ml milk;
200 g sugar;
any fruits and berries for filling.

Progress:

Pour water into a small saucepan, add salt and put butter cut into pieces. Bring to a boil and add all the flour to the bubbling mixture.
Brew the dough until it comes together in a lump and does not lag behind the walls, remove it from the heat. Allow the mixture to cool to about 50 degrees. Next, stir in the eggs one at a time.
On a sheet of parchment, draw a rectangle with a pencil with sides of 20 and 25 cm, then draw it into smaller rectangles measuring 4 by 5 cm. Turn the parchment over with the pattern down, grease with vegetable oil and draw a mesh, but using a pastry bag with dough.
Bake the resulting openwork cake until cooked at 210 degrees. In this way, bake 2 - 3 more cakes, alternating a rectangular mesh with a diagonal one.
Add sugar and flour to the milk and beat in the eggs. Mix all these ingredients with a mixer until smooth. Then place over low heat and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Cool to room temperature and beat with soft butter.
Place the first baked lattice on a serving dish, fill the holes in it with fruits and berries, and grease everything on top with cream. Place the next openwork cake on top and repeat all steps again. Grease the top of the dessert with cream and decorate with fruit. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator before serving.

How to beautifully decorate the Milk Girl cake

There are no standards in dessert design, but the best way to level the cake is cream cheese cheese, which can be tinted any color by adding food coloring or berry puree.

You can simply cover the cake completely with grated white chocolate or shredded coconut. You can use chocolate icing for decoration. To do this, pour hot cream over the chocolate pieces and stir until smooth.

Using a pastry bag, pour the glaze over the edge of the dessert in a circle to create beautiful drips, but you can simply fill the last cake layer completely with melted chocolate. Additionally, you can decorate the dessert with nuts, any fruits or berries.

How to learn how to decorate a Pinata cake with sprinkles inside

World Chocolate Day - 4 reasons to treat yourself guilt-free

You will need:

3 cakes
butter cream
food coloring (several colors)
confectionery sprinkles of different colors and shapes
pastry spatula
palette knife
cake leveler
rotating cake stand

Step 1

For such a cake you need to bake several small cakes and cut out the middle of all but the top one.

Step 2

Place the cakes one on top of the other, covering them with butter cream. And pour multi-colored sprinkles inside the resulting chamber. Cover with the top crust and place in the refrigerator to cool.

Step 3

After this, as in the previous lesson, coat the cake with buttercream using a spatula. The recipe for making the cream can also be found in the previous lesson.

Step 4

You can decorate the sides. Apply several multi-colored strokes of cream with a palette knife.

Step 5

When we cut the cake, a funny surprise awaits us - a cascade of colorful splashes will burst out. Wow!

Free black and silver striped champagne cake step by step

You will need:

5 cakes
butter cream
rotating cake stand
putty knife
cake scraper
wide tooth cake comb
2 pastry bags
acetate film for cake
black food coloring
silver powder - dye
marzipan
chocolate malt balls or chocolate candies

Step 1

Let's learn how to make and beautifully decorate this fun yet elegant black and silver striped cake with champagne themed decor.

Place 5 cake layers in a stack and coat them with a very thick layer of buttercream using a spatula. (The cream recipe is in one of the master classes above).

Step 2

Smooth out the sides and top of the cake using a scraper.

Step 3

We perform the same operation again: apply a new layer of cream and level it out.

Now we need a cake comb with wide square teeth. Rotating the stand, we make deep grooves in the cream, constantly removing excess cream from the comb with a napkin. Next, put the cake in the refrigerator.

Step 4

Add black food coloring to some of the cream. Place it in a cooking bag with a round nozzle.

Step 5

Just fill two grooves of the cake with black cream.

Step 6

Fill the remaining grooves with white cream.

Step 7

Now we begin to level the sides with a scraper. At first it will not look very presentable. But as you smooth it out, the black stripes will become clearer. Then put the cake in the refrigerator again for half an hour.

Step 8

We put the black and white cream, which we just scraped from the sides, into two cooking bags. It will be needed for further decoration. One of the bags will require a "large open star" attachment, the other will require a "small open star" attachment.

Step 9

We take the cake out of the refrigerator and tightly wrap the black stripes with two ribbons of acetate film, securing them with tape. To avoid damaging the cream, it must be cold.

Step 10

Now spread a thin layer of cream on the middle of the cake between strips of film so that the surface becomes sticky. Sprinkle it with silver dye powder.

All materials for making and decorating our cakes for beginner confectioners can be purchased in online stores or specialized stores.

Brush - salad for weight loss, recipe

Step 11

Then we peel off the film and - voila - there is a silver stripe in the middle. Sprinkle the top of the cake with silver powder, stepping back a little from the edge.

Step 12

Using a pastry bag with a large nozzle, we plant rosettes along the top edge of the cake: just press down, release and pull up. Using a bag with a small nozzle, we plant flowers along the bottom edge.

Step 13

At the next stage of implementing our idea, you will need marzipan tinted with black dye. We offer one way to prepare it at home.

To prepare marzipan you will need:

3 eggs,
3 yolks,
300 grams of sand,
300 g sugar powders,
600 g almond flour,
10 drops vanilla extract,
3 teaspoon lemon juice.

Pour boiling water over the nuts, after cooling, remove the skins. Let them dry for three days. Grind the kernels in a food processor.

Combine sand, sah. powder and nut flour. In another bowl, pour 3 yolks, 3 eggs, citrus juice and vanilla extract. Combine the contents of both bowls and stir very well.

Place the contents on a silicone mat, previously sprinkled with sugar. powder. Knead thoroughly until the consistency resembles plasticine. Place the marzipan in a container or bag to prevent it from hardening.

Roll out the marzipan into a flat cake 1.5-2 mm thick and cut out the shapes of a champagne bottle and two glasses. You can pre-draw patterns on paper.

Step 14

Thinly roll out a small piece of white marzipan and cut out two champagne labels and glass fillings from it. We coat them with silver paint. Attach the labels and filling by lightly moistening the surfaces of the figures with water. Let's leave our decorations for a few hours to dry and harden.

Step 15

To make the finishing touch, pour silver powder into a bag and put a few malt balls in it (you can buy it in online stores). They can be replaced with any beautifully shaped chocolates. Shake the bag to coat them with paint.

Step 16

Place the balls on top of the cake. Using cream instead of glue, attach the figures to the side of the cake. Add a few white sugar beads to the glasses and to the cake to create a splash of champagne.

That's all! This is another idea on how to decorate a cake simply and beautifully. It took a little fiddling, but it's worth it. A sweet masterpiece perfect for New Year or birthday.

Birthday cake

Everyone probably loves receiving a beautifully decorated birthday cake. To do this, here are a few recommendations that you should pay attention to:

Study the wishes of the birthday person. Congratulation inscriptions will look beautiful.
If the birthday person has a sense of humor, you can use funny decorations.
Women are pleased to receive a cake decorated with flowers. Men prefer strict and discreet tones.