Classic Turtle Cake

Turtle Cake is a simple and delicious dessert made from small sponge cakes that you can bake at home. Once upon a time, biscuits in a “Turtle” shell were coated only with classic sour cream, but these days other cake options have been invented: after all, no one forbids adding condensed milk, yogurt and even cottage cheese to the cream, and decorating the shell not with ordinary chocolate glaze, but, for example, pieces of kiwi (we also have such a recipe). In general, dear cooks, experiment with pleasure! Sweet masterpieces to you!

Classic recipe for Turtle cake with sour cream

The “Turtle” cake will look best at a children’s party, surprising kids with its unusualness. The first recipe in our selection is the classic “Turtle” with sour cream, approved by more than one generation of little sweet tooths!

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   How to make a “Turtle” cake according to the classic recipe? Separate the whites from the yolks over a bowl, pour the whites into a separate container and put them in the cold.
2. 
   Add half a glass of sugar and a little salt to the yolks, and then beat everything together until beautiful foam.
3. 
   Then beat the whites, which should already have cooled, with a pinch of salt and half a glass of sugar until strong peaks form (adjust the amount of sugar in the cake at your discretion).
4. 
   Add the whites, slaked soda to the yolks and carefully combine everything, stirring with a spatula or mixer at very low speed. Add flour in portions and stir everything well each time so that there are no lumps, but so that the beaten eggs do not fall off.
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   Place some or all of the dough into a piping bag.
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   Line a baking tray with paper, grease it a little with any oil and squeeze the cakes out of the baking bag onto a small baking tray, leaving a space between them. If you don't have a baking bag, spoon out the biscuit dough. Bake the shortcakes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for no more than 7 minutes (the first batch can be baked for 10 minutes, as long as the oven is not too hot).
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   The finished flatbreads spring back a little when you press them with your hand and have a pleasant color. Leave the tortillas to cool on the counter.
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   Prepare the cream for the cake by mixing sour cream and sugar; Next, add melted butter and vanillin to the cream.
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   On a flat plate, collect the turtle shell, soaking each layer generously with cream.
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    Place the cake in the cold for an hour until the cream sets. Then cook the glaze from sugar mixed with melted butter and cocoa. Stirring, cook it over low heat, then boil for 1 minute and let it harden a little. Cover the shell with glaze. Lay out the head, tail and legs from clean cakes and decorate your creation with anything: pieces of fruit, candied fruits, etc.
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    Leave the finished cake in the cold for at least 8 hours to soak the cakes and serve.

Bon appetit!

A simple and delicious recipe for Turtle cake with condensed milk

“Turtle” cake with condensed milk seems to be created for beginner cooks. The preparation process is very simple, and the result is excellent and new every time, depending on what ingredients are added to the cream. On top of the cake you can sprinkle crushed nuts, small candied fruits, chopped marmalade, etc.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 4 pcs.
• Sugar – 120 gr.
• Premium wheat flour – 180 gr.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For cream:

• Sour cream – 200 ml.
• Condensed milk – 150 ml.

For the glaze:

• Sugar – 2 tbsp. l
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l
• Butter – 20 gr.
• Chocolate – 50 gr.

Cooking process:

1. In a large bowl, beat eggs with sugar until thick, fluffy foam is obtained.

2. Add slaked soda and flour to them.

3. Spread the dough with a spoon over baking paper, which you need to cover a large baking sheet with. From the dough, form not one large cake, but many small cakes.

4. Heat the oven to 180 degrees, bake the shortcakes until golden brown.

5. For the cream, combine and beat condensed milk with a mixer with sour cream.

6.Dip each shortcake well into the cream, and then form a turtle shell out of them in a mound on a large platter. It is important that all layers of the cake are thickly soaked in cream, otherwise the cake will turn out dry.

7. Small cakes are needed to form the tail, head and legs of the turtle; place them next to the shell, but do not soak them in cream. On the head, then use melted icing to draw the turtle’s mouth and eyes.

8. Prepare the glaze from the above ingredients by mixing everything and bringing to a boil over low heat, stirring continuously. Decorate the top of the cake with frosting.

9. Let the cake soak in the cold for at least 5-6 hours, and then eat it with hot tea.

Bon appetit!

Chocolate cake "Turtle" at home

If you are a big fan of chocolate pastries, then this simple recipe for Turtle cake at home with the addition of cocoa is just for you. And to make the cake especially tasty, you need to spare no cream for it and let the baked goods soak thoroughly in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 6 pcs.
• Cocoa – 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Flour – 150 gr.
• Sugar – 120 gr.
• Baking powder – 5 gr.

For cream:

• Sugar or powder – 100 gr.
• Sour cream – 150 gr.
• Condensed milk – 150 gr.
• Cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.

For the glaze:

• Oil – 50 gr.
• Chocolate – 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. For the dough, beat sugar and eggs until fluffy.

2. Then, in a separate container, combine cocoa with baking powder and flour.

3. Add the dry mixture to the beaten eggs, stir gently with a spatula or whisk.

4. Line a baking tray with baking paper and lightly oil it with vegetable oil.

5. Spoon the dough onto the paper to form individual flatbreads.

6. Bake them in the oven for 5-7 minutes.The oven should already be preheated to 180 degrees.

7. Remove the hot cakes from the paper, otherwise they will stick.

8. While the cakes are cooling, make the cream by mixing sour cream and condensed milk with powdered sugar or sugar. To make the cream more fluffy, you can beat it with a mixer.

9. Place chocolate cakes on a flat dish, lightly greased with cream. Make a tall turtle shell by dipping the cakes in the cream.

10. Make a head, tail and paws from separate small cakes; there is no need to grease them with cream.

11. Decorate the top of the cake with chocolate, melted in a water bath and mixed with butter, waiting until the cream hardens a little, otherwise the chocolate will spread.

12. Soak the cake layers in the refrigerator for at least 5-6 hours.

Bon appetit!

Cake “Emerald Turtle” with kiwi

This cake is good because it is baked in a frying pan and then simply coated with cream. Agree, it’s simple and convenient, and most importantly, it’s suitable for those cooks who are just learning the basics of the simplest baking. And the unusual emerald color of this “Turtle” was “inherited” by the kiwi, with which it is decorated on top.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Flour – 400-450 gr.
• Condensed milk - 1 can.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For the custard:

• Milk – 2 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp. l.
• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 2/3 tbsp. or less.
• Vanilla sugar - on the tip of a knife.
• Butter – 200 gr.
• Kiwi - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Pour condensed milk into a bowl, add a chicken egg, and then slaked soda, stir.

2. Next, add flour in parts, kneading a smooth, lump-free dough.You should end up with a smooth lump of dough that needs to be divided into 10-12 small pieces.

3. Form each small lump into a ball, and roll out the ball with a rolling pin on a flour-dusted surface.

4. The flatbreads are baked in a frying pan without oil; you just need to prick them with a fork in several places so that they do not rise too much. Bake them for a few minutes on each side.

5. For the head, paws and tail, roll out separate small rectangular cakes.

6. When the cakes are baked and cool on the table, prepare custard for them. Pour milk into a bowl, add chicken eggs and whisk everything together with a whisk.

7. Next, add sugar, flour and vanillin to the cream, stir well so that there are no lumps.

8. Cook the cream over low heat, stirring all the time, until it thickens and begins to bubble.

9. Add butter to the cooked cream while it is still hot and stir well.

10. Coat the cakes with custard on both sides, assembling the cake on a flat dish or plate.

11. Spread the remaining cream on top of the cake and place the turtle’s head, tail and legs on the sides. Decorate the top of the cake with kiwi sliced ​​into thin slices.

12. The cake should be well soaked in cream after standing in the cold for at least 4-6 hours, and then it can be served with tea or coffee.

Bon appetit!

Advice: if you like a sour taste, then add kiwi not only on top as a cake decoration, but also place it inside the shell between the cakes.

How to cook Turtle cake in a frying pan?

There are so many “Turtles” that you can come up with, they even manage to bake cakes for this cake in a frying pan! If you like this recipe, then we recommend preparing it in your kitchen, surprising everyone, and you can decorate the cake with kiwi slices, as in the previous recipe.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Condensed milk – 400 gr.
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Flour – 450 gr.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.

For cream:

• Milk – 500 ml.
• Butter – 200 gr.
• Powdered sugar or sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Vanillin - to taste.
• Flour – 2 tbsp. l.
• Kiwi – 6 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. For the cakes, combine condensed milk and eggs in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

2. Suppress the soda with a small amount of vinegar and add it to the egg mass, stir everything again.

3. Sift the flour through a sieve and add it to the dough in portions, stirring each time.

4. Divide the dough into 8-9 parts and roll out thin plates of equal size.

5. Fry the dough plates on both sides in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil.

6. Trim all the cakes along the edges so that you have cakes of different sizes (the smallest will be at the top) for the shell.

7. Crush the crumbs from the cakes finely and do not throw them away, they are needed.

8. For the cream, in a saucepan, stir milk with eggs, vanilla, sugar and flour.

9. Bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil over low heat, stirring all the time.

10. During the cooking process, the cream will thicken, but you let it cool a little, and then coat your cakes well with the cream, forming a cake on a flat dish or tray.

11. Place the largest cake on the bottom and then smaller ones, so that you end up with a shell-shaped cake.

12.Decorate the cake with kiwi circles, covering the entire shell with them, and you can also use kiwi to form the head, legs and tail of a turtle.

13. Sprinkle the crumbs left over from the cakes nearby, so you will get an imitation of sand along which a beautiful green turtle crawls! Let the cake soak in the cream for at least 6 hours in the cold, and then serve.

Bon appetit!

Advice: If desired, the same cake can be decorated not with kiwi, but with chocolate icing, and the head, legs and tail of the turtle can be made from banana pieces or something else.

Delicious “Turtle” cake with bananas

We invite you to make a very original “Turtle” cake: unlike the classic sponge cake, ingredients such as cottage cheese, cookies and bananas are added here, and this cake does not require baking!

Ingredients:

• Milk – 200 ml.
• Cottage cheese or curd paste – 200 ml.
• Cookies – 500 gr.
• Chocolate – 200 gr.

For cream:

• Sour cream – 220 gr.
• Bananas – 1 kg.
• Sugar – 210 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Cottage cheese, it should be soft and even runny, blend with sugar in a blender until the sugar crystals dissolve. You can use powdered sugar instead of sugar.

2. Immediately start assembling the “Turtle” without baking in a large round bowl. It needs to be covered with cling film.

3. Dip each cookie in warm milk and place in one layer on the bottom of the bowl.

4. Spread a layer of cookies with a layer of curd cream and place bananas cut into thin circles on top.

5. Repeat all layers in the same way (cookies - cottage cheese - bananas) until you run out of ingredients. The last layer should be cookies, with a little cream on top.

6. Cover the top of the bowl with cling film and place the cake in the refrigerator overnight or for 4-6 hours.

7.Then you need to remove the cake from the bowl, turning it over and removing the film. This will give you a round turtle shell. Place it on a flat dish, top with melted chocolate and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

8. Using banana pieces, form the turtle’s head, legs and a small tail.

9. Serve the cake with tea or coffee.

Bon appetit!

Step-by-step recipe for making Turtle cake with custard

Custard is an excellent, easy-to-prepare filling for the sponge layers of the Turtle cake. Every young chef can handle making this cake!

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Eggs – 5-6 pcs.
• Flour – 200 gr.
• Sugar – 350 gr.
• Cocoa – 2-3 tbsp. l.
• Soda – 1.5 tsp.
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For cream:

• Egg yolks – 4 pcs.
• Sugar – 250 gr.
• Flour – 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Milk – 250 ml.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Vanillin - on the tip of the knife.

Cooking process:

1. For the cakes, make biscuit dough by beating eggs and sugar with a mixer until stiff foam.

2. Next, add slaked soda, cocoa and flour to this foam, stir gently with a spatula so that the dough does not fall off. If you don't want a chocolate turtle, then don't add cocoa to the dough.

3. Spoon the dough onto a baking tray lined with parchment, leaving space between the cakes.

4. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the shortcakes for about 5 minutes. You can check their readiness with a toothpick - it should be dry if you pierce the finished cake with it.

5. Prepare the custard. To do this, separate the yolks from the whites. You don't need whites, but mash the yolks well with sugar, adding vanillin.

6. Then add flour and stir well so that there are no lumps.

7.Add milk and stir the cream over low heat all the time so that it does not burn. As soon as the cream begins to thicken and bubble, remove it from the heat.

8. Add butter to the finished cream and knead it well again.

9. Dip the shortcakes into the hot cream and form a turtle on a plate, and then place its head, legs and tail on the side (for the tail you will need to bake a small shortcake).

10. Place the finished cake in the cold for an hour so that the cream adheres well to the top of the cake layers. After this, the cake can be poured over chocolate melted in a water bath or sprinkled with chopped candied fruits, nuts or decorated in some other way.

11. Leave the cake until completely soaked for at least 4-6 hours, and then serve.

Bon appetit!

Delicious “Turtle” with yogurt cream at home

With yogurt-based cream, you get another original version of “Turtle”. The taste of the cream will depend entirely on what kind of yogurt you add.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Eggs – 6 pcs.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Baking soda – 1.5 tsp.
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For cream:

• Liquid yoghurt – 1 l.

For the glaze:

• Butter – 150 gr.
• Milk – 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.
• Flour – 1 tsp.
• Sugar – 4 tbsp. l.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare biscuit dough for shortcakes as follows: break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar and beat the eggs with sugar until a thick, stable foam appears.

2. Sift the flour through a sieve and add it to the beaten egg mixture, stirring the dough with a spatula so that the eggs do not fall off.

3. Now add soda or baking powder and gently stir the dough again.

4.Line a baking tray with baking paper, spoon the dough onto it, leaving space between the future cakes so that they do not stick together in the oven.

5. Bake the shortcakes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until ready. Baking time - so that the cakes are baked, but do not become too hard.

6. Remove the hot shortcakes from the paper and place them on the table, allowing them to cool. When cold, the shortcakes will become hard, but the cream will then soften them.

7. Beat the yogurt well with a mixer until it becomes homogeneous, add sugar to taste if desired.

8. On a flat, large plate, form the turtle’s shell, setting aside cakes for the turtle’s legs, tail, and legs. Dip the cakes into yogurt and place them on top of each other in a heap.

9. If, after you have laid out all the cakes, you still have cream left, pour it on top of the turtle and place it in the cold for an hour.

10. During this time, make the glaze by stirring dry flour and cocoa sugar, and adding three to four tablespoons of milk.

11. Next, add the butter, cut into small pieces, and heat the glaze, stirring constantly over low heat until all the sugar and butter have melted.

12. Boil the glaze for one or two minutes, stirring all the time.

13. Let the glaze cool a little and thicken in the container where it was cooked, and then pour it over the top of the cake.

14. Draw eyes on the muzzle.

15. Leave the cake in the cold for another 3-4 hours and serve.

Bon appetit!

A quick and delicious recipe for “Turtle” cake with kefir

Kefir is also great for adding to the cream for the Turtle cake: with this component you will get a slightly more sour impregnation of the cakes.Decorate the top of the cake at your discretion, for example, by applying patterns with white chocolate melted in a water bath.

Ingredients:

• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Eggs – 6 pcs.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 2-2.5 tbsp.
• Soda – 1.5 tsp.
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For cream:

• Sugar - to taste.
• Kefir – 1 tbsp.
• Full-fat yogurt – 0.5-0.7 l.

For the glaze:

• Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
• Butter – 120 gr.
• Cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking process:

1. Using eggs, milk, slaked soda and flour, knead the dough with a whisk or food mixer.

2. Next, you need to bake small pancakes for the turtle in a frying pan.

3. The cream for the cakes is made from yogurt, well mixed with kefir. Yogurt should be sweet, with some aromatic taste. If the cream seems sour rather than sweet, add sugar to it and beat thoroughly with a whisk.

4. Assemble the cake on a large flat dish, brushing the cakes with cream and placing them in a mound like a shell. Don't forget to leave pancakes for the paws, head and tail of your “little animal”.

5. For the glaze, bring the sour cream, already mixed with cocoa and sugar, to a boil, turn off the heat. Add butter to the glaze and stir well.

6. Cover the top of the turtle shell with icing.

7. Eat the cake after 4-6 hours, allowing it to soak well in the refrigerator.

Bon appetit!

A simple step-by-step recipe for “Turtle” in a slow cooker

It is very easy to prepare a “Turtle” cake in such an excellent culinary device as a slow cooker. All you need to do is knead the dough, and then assemble and decorate the cake to your liking.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Eggs – 6-7 pcs.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Baking powder – 10 gr.

For cream:

• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Sour cream – 600-700 ml.

Cooking process:

1.Using a mixer or blender, beat the eggs with sugar until well foamed.

2. Stir the sifted flour with baking powder. Instead of baking powder, use 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda.

3. Gently combine the dry mixture with the beaten eggs using a spatula or whisk to avoid any lumps of flour.

4. To bake the future “Turtle” in a slow cooker, you need to line its bottom with baking paper, and then pour the dough onto the paper one large spoon at a time (there must be space between the future cakes, otherwise they will spread into one large, uneven cake).

5. In the “Baking” mode, bake small cakes for 30 minutes.

6. While they are cooling, make the cream by whisking the sour cream and sugar well. For taste, you can add vanillin, lemon or orange zest, or some other food flavoring to the cream.

7. After all the shortcakes are baked and cooled slightly, dip them in thick cream and place them on a shell-shaped platter.

8. Make a head, tail and paws from six shortbreads.

9. You can use raisins for the eyes.

10. If desired, you can melt a 100 gram chocolate bar and use the melted chocolate to apply patterns on the back of the turtle.

11. Serve the cake when it is well soaked in cream in the refrigerator, preferably after 6-8 hours.

Bon appetit!