Tortoise cake - 10 simple and delicious recipes at home

You can bake the "Turtle" cake from small biscuit cakes at home by choosing one or more of our 10 delicious recipes. Once upon a time, biscuits in the "Turtle" shell were coated only with classic sour cream, but nowadays other options for cakes have been invented: after all, no one forbids adding condensed milk, yogurt and even cottage cheese to the cream, and decorate the shell not with ordinary chocolate icing, but, for example, slices of kiwi (we also have such a recipe). In general, dear chefs, experiment with pleasure! Sweet masterpieces to you!

Classic recipe for "Turtle" cake with sour cream

Cooking time: 1.5 hours + 8 hours for soaking.

Servings: 8

Best of all, the "Turtle" cake will look at a children's party, surprising the little ones with its uniqueness. The first recipe in our selection is the classic "Turtle" with sour cream, approved by more than one generation of little sweet tooth!

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  Separate the whites from the yolks over the bowl, pour the whites into a separate container and put them in the cold.
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  Add half a glass of sugar and a little salt to the yolks, and then beat everything together until a beautiful foam.
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  Then whisk the proteins, which should already be cooled, with a pinch of salt and half a glass of sugar until strong peaks (adjust the amount of sugar in the cake at your discretion).
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  Add whites, slaked soda to the yolks and carefully combine everything, stirring with a spatula or mixer at a 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 in a cooking bag.
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  Line a baking tray with paper, oil it a little with any oil and squeeze the cakes from the bag onto a small baking sheet, leaving a distance between them. If a cooking bag is not available, spoon the biscuit dough out. Bake the biscuits in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for no more than 7 minutes (the first batch can be baked for 10 minutes until the oven is still not too hot).
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  Ready-made cakes-flat cakes spring a little when you press on them with your hand and have a pleasant color. Leave the tortillas to cool on the table.
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  Prepare cake cream by mixing sour cream with sugar; then add melted butter and vanillin to the cream on the tip of a knife.
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  Gather the shell of the turtle on a flat plate, soaking each layer liberally with the cream.
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  Put the cake in the cold for an hour to set the cream. Then make a frosting of sugar mixed with melted butter and cocoa. While stirring, cook it over low heat, then boil it for 1 minute, and let it set a little. Cover the shell with icing. Lay out the head, tail and legs from clean cakes and decorate your creation with anything you want: pieces of fruit, candied fruits, etc.
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  Insist 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 the "Turtle" cake with condensed milk

Cake "Turtle" with condensed milk seems to be created for novice cooks. The cooking process is very simple, and the result is excellent and new every time, depending on what ingredients are added to the cream. Top the cake can be sprinkled with crushed nuts, small candied fruits, chopped marmalade, etc.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Sugar - 120 gr.
• Wheat flour, premium grade - 180 gr.
• Soda - 1 tsp
• Vinegar - for extinguishing soda.

For the cream:

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

For 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 and sugar until thick, fluffy.
2. Add slaked soda and flour to them.
3. Spoon the dough over the baking paper to be placed on a large baking sheet. Form not one large crust out of the dough, but many small biscuits.
4. Heat the oven to 180 degrees, bake the cakes until golden brown.
5. For the cream, combine and beat the condensed milk with a mixer with sour cream.
6. Dip each shortbread cake well in the cream, and then form a turtle shell out of them on a large platter. It is important that all layers of the cake are thickly saturated with cream, otherwise the cake will turn out to be dry.
7. Small cakes are needed to form the tail, head and legs of the turtle, lay them next to the shell, but do not saturate with cream. On the head, then with melted glaze draw the mouth and eyes of the turtle.
8. Cook the glaze from the indicated ingredients, mix everything and bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly. Decorate the top of the cake with icing.
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 baking, then this simple recipe for the "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 well in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

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

For the cream:

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

For glaze:

• Oil - 50 gr.
• Chocolate - 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. For the dough, beat the sugar and eggs until fluffy.
2. Then combine the cocoa with baking powder and flour in a separate container.
3. Add the dry mixture to the beaten eggs, stir gently with a spatula or whisk.
4. Line a baking sheet with baking paper and lightly oil it with vegetable oil.
5. Spoon the dough onto the paper to make individual cakes.
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 a 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. Put the chocolate tortillas on a flat dish, slightly greased with cream. Make a tall tortoise shell by dipping the tortillas in the cream.
10. Make a head, tail and legs from separate small cakes, you do not need to grease them with cream.
11. Decorate the top of the cake with chocolate melted in a water bath and mixed with butter, letting the cream harden a little, otherwise the chocolate will spread.
12. Saturate the cake layers in the refrigerator for at least 5-6 hours.

Bon Appetit!

Cake "Emerald Turtle" with kiwi

Such a cake is good because it is baked in a pan, and then simply smeared with cream. Agree, it's simple and convenient, and most importantly, those cooks who are just learning the basics of the simplest baking can do it.And the unusual emerald color of such a "Turtle" went "by inheritance" to the kiwi, with which it is adorned 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 the condensed milk into a bowl, add the chicken egg there, and then the slaked soda, stir.
2. Then add flour in parts, kneading a smooth, lump-free dough. You should have a smooth lump of dough that needs to be divided into 10-12 small pieces.
3. Blind each small lump into a ball, and roll the ball with a rolling pin on a floured surface.
4. The tortillas are baked in a pan without oil; they only need to be chopped with a fork in several places so that they do not rise too much. Bake them for a few minutes on each side.
5. Roll separate small rectangular cakes for the head, legs and tail.
6. When the tortillas are baked and cool on the table, make a custard for them. Pour milk into a bowl, add chicken eggs into it and beat everything together with a whisk.
7. Then 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 boiled cream while it is still hot and stir well.
10. Spread the custard over the biscuits on both sides, collecting the cake on a flat dish or on a plate.
11. Spread the rest of the cream on top of the cake, lay out the turtle's head, tail and legs on the sides. Decorate the cake with thin slices of kiwi.
12. The cake should be well saturated with cream, 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 put it inside the shell between the biscuits.

How to make a turtle cake in a frying pan?

What kind of "Turtles" have not been invented, even in a frying pan they manage to bake cakes for this cake! If you also 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 the 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 in a bowl, combine and stir well the condensed milk with eggs.
2. We quench the soda with a small amount of vinegar and add to the egg mass, stir everything again.
3. Sift the flour through a sieve and add portions to the dough, stirring each time.
4. Divide the dough into 8-9 parts and roll out thin plates of equal size from it.
5. Fry the dough plates on both sides in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil.
6. Cut all the cakes around the edges so that you get cakes of different sizes (at the top will be the smallest one) for the shell.
7. Pound the crumb from the cakes finely and do not throw it away, you need it.
8. For the cream in a saucepan, stir the milk with eggs, vanilla, sugar and flour.
9. Bring the contents of the saucepan over low heat to a boil, stirring all the time.
10. During the cooking process, the cream thickens, but you let it cool a little, and then spread your cakes well with the cream, forming a cake on a flat dish or on a tray.
11. Put the largest cake on the bottom and then decrease it so that you end up with a cake in the form of a shell.
12. Decorate the cake with kiwi circles, covering the entire shell with it, and you can also form the head, legs and tail of a turtle from kiwi.
13. Sprinkle the crumbs left over from the cakes nearby, so you get an imitation of sand on which a beautiful green turtle is crawling! Let the cake soak in the cream for at least 6 hours in the cold, 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 slices of banana or from something else.

Delicious "Turtle" cake with bananas

We offer you to make a very original "Turtle" cake: unlike the classic biscuit 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 the cream:

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

Cooking process:

1. Cottage cheese, it should be soft and even watery, beat with sugar with a blender until the sugar crystals dissolve. You can use powdered sugar instead of sugar.
2. Start immediately assembling the Turtle without baking in a large round bowl. It must be covered with cling film.
3. Dip each cookie in warm milk and place one layer on the bottom of the bowl.
4. Coat a layer of cookies with a layer of curd cream and top with bananas, cut into thin circles.
5. Repeat all layers in the same way (cookies - cottage cheese - bananas) until you run out of ingredients. The last layer should be biscuits, slightly greased with 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 the cake must be removed from the bowl by turning it over and removing the film. This will create a round turtle shell. Place it on a flat dish, garnish with melted chocolate and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
8. Form the turtle's head, legs and a small tail from the banana slices.
9. Serve cake for tea or coffee.

Bon Appetit!

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

Custard is an excellent, easy-to-make impregnation for tortoise biscuits. Every young culinary specialist will cope with the preparation of 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 the cream:

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

Cooking process:

1. For the cakes, make a biscuit dough by beating eggs and sugar with a mixer until firm foam.
2. Next, add slaked soda, cocoa and flour to this foam, gently stir with a spatula so that the dough does not fall off. If you do not need chocolate "Turtle", then do not add cocoa to the dough.
3. On a baking sheet covered with parchment, you need to put the dough with a spoon, leaving a distance between the biscuits.
4. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cakes for about 5 minutes. You can check their readiness with a toothpick - it should be dry if you pierce the finished biscuit with it.
5. Make a custard. To do this, separate the yolks from the whites. Proteins are not needed, but grind 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. Remove from heat as soon as the cream begins to thicken and bubble.
8. Add butter to the finished cream and knead it well again.
9. Dip the biscuits in hot cream and form a turtle on a platter, and then put its head, legs and tail on the side (for the tail, you will need to bake a small cake).
10. Place the finished cake in the cold for an hour so that the cream grasps well with the cakes on top. After that, the cake can be poured with chocolate melted in a water bath, or sprinkled with chopped candied fruits, nuts, or decorated in some other way.
11. Insist the cake until it is completely soaked for at least 4-6 hours, and then serve.

Bon Appetit!

Delicious "Turtle" with yoghurt cream at home

With a yoghurt-based cream, you get another original version of the "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 the cream:

• Liquid yogurt - 1 l.

For glaze:

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

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the biscuit dough for the cakes as follows: break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar and beat in the eggs with sugar until a thick, stable foam appears.
2. Sift the flour through a sieve and add it to the beaten egg mass, stirring the dough with a spatula so that the eggs do not fall off.
3. Now add baking soda or baking powder, gently stir the dough again.
4. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, spread the dough on it with a spoon, leaving space between the future biscuits so that they do not stick together in the oven.
5. Bake the shortbreads until tender in a preheated oven to 180 degrees. Baking time - so that the biscuits are baked but not too hard.
6. Remove hot cakes from paper and put them on the table, letting them cool down. When cold, the biscuits will become hard, but then they will soften from the cream.
7. Beat the yogurt well with a mixer until it becomes homogeneous, add sugar to taste if desired.
8. Form the shell of the turtle on a flat, large plate, setting aside the cakes for the turtle's legs, tail, and legs. Dip the cakes in yogurt and stack them on top of each other.
9. If after you put all the cakes, you still have some cream, pour it on top of the turtle and place it in the cold for an hour.
10. During this time, make the icing by stirring with dry flour and cocoa sugar, and adding three to four tablespoons of milk there.
11. Next, add butter, cut into small pieces, and heat the frosting, stirring all the time over low heat, so that all the sugar and butter melt.
12. Boil the frosting for one to two minutes, stirring all the time.
13. Let the frosting cool slightly and thicken in the container where it was cooked, and then pour it on top of the cake.
14. Draw eyes on the face.
15. Insist the cake in the cold for another 3-4 hours and serve.

Bon Appetit!

A quick and delicious recipe for the "Turtle" cake with kefir

Kefir is also great for adding to the cream for the Turtle cake: using this component, you get a slightly more acidic impregnation of the cakes. Decorate the top of the cake as you like, 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 the cream:

• Sugar to taste.
• Kefir - 1 tbsp.
• Fatty yogurt - 0.5-0.7 liters.

For glaze:

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

Cooking process:

1. Use a whisk or a food mixer to knead the eggs, milk, slaked soda, and flour.
2. Next, you need to bake small pancakes for the turtle in a pan.
3. The cake cream is made from yogurt mixed well with kefir. The yoghurt should be sweet, with some aromatic flavor. If the cream seems to you not sweet, but sour, add sugar to it and beat well with a whisk.
4. Assemble the cake on a large flat dish, grease the cakes with cream and lay them in a shell-like slide. Do not forget to leave the pancakes for the legs, head and tail of your "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, letting it soak well in the refrigerator.

Bon Appetit!

A simple step-by-step recipe for "Turtles" in a slow cooker

It is very easy to make a Turtle cake in such a wonderful culinary device as a slow cooker. All you need to do is knead the dough, 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 the cream:

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

Cooking process:

1. Beat the eggs with a mixer or blender with sugar until a good foam appears.
2. Stir the sifted flour with baking powder. Instead of baking powder, use 1.5 teaspoons of bite-quenched baking soda.
3. Gently combine the dry mixture with the beaten eggs with a spatula or whisk so that there are no lumps from the flour.
4. To bake the future "Turtle" in a multicooker, cover its bottom with baking paper, and then pour the dough onto the paper one by one large spoon (there should be a place between the future biscuits, otherwise they will spread into one large uneven cake).
5. In Bake mode, bake small cakes for 30 minutes.
6. While they are cooling, make a cream by whisking the sour cream and sugar well. For flavor, you can add vanillin, lemon or orange zest, or some other food flavoring to the cream.
7. After all the biscuits are baked and cool slightly, dip them in the thick cream and place them on a shell-shaped platter.
8. Make the head, tail and paws from six biscuits.
9. For the peephole, you can use raisins.
10. If you wish, you can melt a 100 gram bar of chocolate and apply patterns on the back of the turtle with the melted chocolate.
11. Serve the cake to the table when it is well saturated with cream in the refrigerator, preferably after 6-8 hours.

Bon Appetit!