For the sheep, you’ll need:
– one recipe Pierre Hermé’s Chocolate Éclairs without the glaze, make them as a bite-sized mini puffs and save some chocolate pastry cream
– one recipe Plazma cake
– one recipe Turkish delight fondant, you’ll have leftovers, freeze them for some other time
Plazma Cake:
300 g ground Plazma biscuits
250 g margarine
1 egg
150 g powdered sugar
200 ml Fanta orange
200 g pâtes de fruits (fruit jellies)
100 g ground walnuts/almonds/hazelnuts or their mix
100 g dark chocolate
2 handfuls of raisins
Soak raisins in water (use rum if you’re not serving it to the kids). Beat margarine with a mixer , until it’s foamy, add egg and sugar. This is where you finish with the mixer and start kneadind by hands. Now add Plazma, Fanta, nuts, fruit jellies (cut into little cubes size of the raisins) and strained raisins at the end. Incorporate everything with hands and leave in the fridge overnight.
Note: Do not substitute margarine with butter, it won’t hold. Believe it or not some things are better with margarine For example Rafaelo truffles.
Turkish delight fondant:
recipe by roler
250 g Turkish delight
200 g powdered sugar
food colors
This is actually extremely easy recipe. You knead everything by your hands adding sugar gradually until you reach desired consistency. Add food color if necessary.
Assembling the cake: Prepare one day in advance Plazma cake and Chocolate Pastry Cream. The next day shape Plazma cake into sheep, bake mini puffs and fill them with pastry cream, leave a few puffs unfilled. Prepare the fondant. Cover the sheep’s head with it, make ears and eyes. Spread some pastry cream over the body so you can stick puffs later. Line sheep’s body with the puffs to make a fleece. And make sheep’s “fringe” using unfilled puffs. Sprinkle some powdered sugar over the fleece.
More unusual eclairs from my fellow DBs: swans, snake, religieuse, ducklings and sunflower.
And a mouse and a beetle from Big Boys Oven.
44 Comments
OMG! Pa ovo je doslovna najsladja ovcica koju sam videla! STvarno imas maste a i strpljenja. Bravo!
So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved this cake, you’re so creative!
holy cow that’s amazing!! Fabulous job, I’m jealous of your creativity! love it!
Awesomely cute! Speaking of creative minds! ;)
ohmygoodness – what an awesome cake!
wow! the stunning cake with all the cream puffs is lovely! Great job!
this is sooooooo cute
Holy Sheep! Great way to use this month’s challenge.
Looks so cute! Must’ve been a lot of fun to make and eat.
That has got to be the cutest use of a cream puff in history :-)
The sheep is soooooooo beautiful and I bet it tasted amazing. Great job!
joj što je slatka ovčica :))jer mu ono dođe kao testo za princes krofne, samo sa nekim drugim filom, ne ono klasika?
Thanks guys for the lovely comments!Gago, jeste Fil je onaj iz prethodnog posta. Čokoladni.
This is the cutest cake ever :-)
I don’t think I can cut through this cake…the cutest sheep is staring at me…
Marija…that is the most cute little cake I have ever seen! FABULOUS dear girl!!! It’s wonderful !!
Awesome! That is just brilliant! The fondant recipe sounds really interesting too!
so cute….y loved this cake, magnificico de veras me encanto es tan creativo que se sale de todo lo que he visto por ahi…estupendo.Aplausos mil
Wow, you’re extremely creative! So cute!Cheers,Rosa
WOw wow. This ought to win an award for most original use of this month’s challenge!
That is the cutest sheep I’ve seen. I’m in love with its lovely pink face.:)Your DB puffs have turned out well too.
ho ho! That takes the cake! Food with a whimsical twist is so much fun ^_^
That’s pretty amazing. Your name– is it Finnish?
No Natasha, it’s Serbian
That’s the cutest cake ever, I love that idea!
Wow! This is so cute! I love this.
Absolutely adorable!
it looks too cute to eat!
Just saw this via Tastespotting – that is one cute sheep. Good job!-Samantha, http://www.noveleats.com
prekrasno;)
That is SO adorable!!! What a cute idea!
This is the cutest idea! Oh my goodness, it’s gorgeous. What a sweet gift to your brother!
oh my! that is the cutest cake ever!
Oh my! That’s so clever and cute! I wanna eat some “wool” balls right now.
Hi! I just discover your blog: thet’s really nice!!! Congratulations! …and its name reminds me of the summers I spent in Jugoslavia when I was a child… Palachinkas were wonderful!!! :P Silvia
Sweet, soooo sweeeeet:-D
This is too cute and very creative. I am so impressed!
THIS IS AWESOME Marija! AWESOME. I want this for my birthday! I even have Turkish Delight in the cupboard! I guess this is something I will have to make for myself! LOVE THIS!
this is absolutely adorable!! what a creative way to arrange all those puffs!
How could I miss this post???? This is the most beautiful and creative cake I’ve seen on blogosphere so far!!!! MARIJA, YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s amazing! I love it.
I love the sheep cake! My family loves cream puffs but it’s such a pain to travel with them. I have to make one for Easter!
I love your sheep cake! So creative!!! Thanks for the link too :)xo
fantasticno, svaka ti cast na ovome
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