Broken Glass Cake (Mosaic): Step By Step Recipes With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Amazingly beautiful Broken Glass cake: a cold dessert for hot summer days

A delicious cake has long become a traditional end to almost every festive meal. In addition, such a treat always fits perfectly into a friendly tea party or a romantic dinner, and can also become an original gift for a person who wants to do something nice. Taking into account the fact that the “sweet departments” of stores and stand-alone pastry shops offer a wide range of delicacies, you can always buy a cake. But we all know that a treat prepared with our own hands is always tastier and healthier. One of the striking examples of this is the Broken Glass cake or, as it is also called, Mosaic. Multi-colored pieces of jelly in a snow-white base fascinate the eye, and the taste of such a delicacy is liked by a sweet tooth of all ages.

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• 1 Step-by-step recipes for the Broken Glass cake

  • 1.1 Cake "Broken glass": basic recipe

    1.1.1 Video: easy and quick dessert "Broken glass"

  • 1.2 Cake "Broken glass" with poppy cracker

  • 1.3 Cake "Broken glass" with canned peaches

    1.3.1 Video: Broken glass cake with biscuit, fresh fruit and marmalade

  • 1.4 Cake "Broken glass" with condensed milk

  • 1.5 Cake "Broken glass" with cottage cheese and homemade biscuit

    1.5.1 Video: Broken Glass curd-jelly cake

Step-by-step recipes for the Broken Glass cake

For me, jelly is one of the best desserts in the summer heat. Appetizing, rich colors, cool, with different tastes, and even preparing as easy as shelling pears - there is simply no price for this treat. Therefore, when I first saw the Broken Glass cake in a photograph in one of the women's magazines, I had no doubts that I would make it. The first option, which I tried, was not very successful, but it was my mistake, since I was in a great hurry and did not follow all the steps described by the author. But all the following options gave me and my loved ones the opportunity to enjoy an amazingly delicate, magically beautiful and very tasty dessert, which one cannot help but fall in love with.

Broken glass cake: basic recipe

As with many other recipes, during the cooking process, you can fantasize and make some adjustments to your taste. However, first of all it is worth familiarizing yourself with the principles of creating a "mosaic" dessert. The option described below is the simplest, and everyone can cope with it.

Ingredients:

• 2 ready-made biscuit cakes;
• 500 g sour cream;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• 20 g gelatin;
• 3 packs of jelly of different colors.

Preparation:

1. Stock up on the foods you need.

   

   Prepare all the ingredients

2. Prepare the jelly following the instructions on the manufacturer's packaging, pour it into molds, cool and send to the refrigerator until it solidifies.

   

   Cook the jelly

3. Pour 1/2 tbsp of powdered gelatin. cold water, leave for 30 minutes to swell.

4. Place the container with gelatin on the stove and, while stirring, heat over low heat until all crystals are completely dissolved.

   

   Heat and dissolve gelatin

5. Mix sour cream at room temperature with granulated sugar and a warm gelatin mixture.

   

   Prepare sour cream filling

6. Cut one of the biscuit cakes into small neat pieces.

   

   Grind one sponge cake

7. Remove the jelly from the containers and cut into medium-sized cubes.

   

   Dice the jelly

8. Transfer the sliced sponge cake and jelly into a container with sour cream filling, mix gently.

   

   Mix prepared ingredients

9. Transfer the resulting mass to a mold or any other container of a suitable volume. Lay the second sponge cake on top, lightly press it down.

   

   Cover the workpiece with a base crust

10. Put the workpiece in the refrigerator for 8-10 hours.

11. When the jelly base hardens, immerse the container with the cake in hot water for 20-30 seconds, then cover it with a large plate and turn it over.

    

    Carefully remove the cake from the mold and cut into portions

An alternative version of the simplest cake recipe without adding a biscuit.

Video: easy and quick dessert "Broken glass"

Cake "Broken glass" with poppy cracker

You can add poppy seeds or vanilla crackers to the ingredients list to add flavor to the treat.

Ingredients:

• 500-600 g sour cream 25% fat;
• 30 g of instant gelatin;
• 150 g sugar;
• 350-500 g of crackers;
• 3-4 packs of jelly of different colors.

Preparation:

1. Dissolve gelatin in warm water.
2. Prepare and set the jelly to freeze.
3. Whip sour cream with sugar until the loose ingredient is completely dissolved, add gelatin.

4. Cut the completely frozen jelly into small pieces, transfer to a bowl with a sour cream-sugar mixture.

   

   Place the pieces of jelly in a bowl of sour cream mixture

5. Send poppy crackers there too.

   

   Add cookies

6. Stir the cookie carefully, trying not to break the cookies.

   

   Stir in a mass of jelly, sour cream and crackers

7. Transfer the mixture to a suitable bowl or mold of your choice, refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

   

   Place the sour cream jelly mass in a suitable mold

8. As with the recipe above, remove the cake by slightly heating the cake pan in hot water, then cut into portions.

   

   Serve the cake whole or in portions

Broken glass cake with canned peaches

For an extra touch of freshness and juiciness, add fresh or canned fruits and / or berries to the cake. In this case, peaches in syrup were used.

Ingredients:

• 500 g sour cream;
• 200 g canned peaches;
• 200 g of cookies;
• 100 g sugar;
• 2 bags of jelly of different colors;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 10 g of gelatin.

Preparation:

1. Place the ingredients you need on your work surface.

   

   Prepare food

2. Make jelly.
3. Throw canned peaches in a colander or sieve to drain the syrup.
4. Soak the gelatin in a small amount of cold water, after 10 minutes, heat until dissolved.

5. Cut the peaches into cubes.

   

   Chop canned fruit

6. Break the list into large pieces with your hands.

   

   Break the cookies

7. Chop the finished jelly coarsely.

   

   Prepare the frozen jelly

8. Mix sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, beat well with a mixer or whisk.

9. Without stopping whisking the mixture, pour in the gelatin dissolved in water.

   

   Whisk sour cream with sugar and mix with gelatin

10. Transfer the jelly and peaches to the sour cream mixture, stir.

11. Place the cookie slices on top, with a spoon or other convenient object, slightly "drown" them in the liquid.

    

    Top with pieces of cookies

12. Put the container with the future cake in the refrigerator and wait 4–5 hours.

13. Flip the frozen dessert onto a plate.

    

    It will take 4-5 hours for the delicacy to completely harden.

Video: Broken Glass cake with biscuit, fresh fruit and marmalade

Broken glass cake with condensed milk

While experimenting with making a colorful cake, I often substitute natural yogurt for sour cream. And more recently I was prompted by another option that interested me and conquered my eldest daughter.

Ingredients:

• 400 ml of condensed milk;
• 2 tbsp. water;
• 6 jelly bags of different colors;
• 2 sachets of instant gelatin.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the jelly first.

   

   Prepare the right amount of colorful jelly

2. While the jelly is frozen in the refrigerator, bring 2 tablespoons to a boil. water, dissolve all the gelatin in it and leave the mixture to cool to room temperature.

   

   Dissolve gelatin in boiling water

3. In a thin stream, pour condensed milk into the gelatin mixture, mix everything well and refrigerate for 2 hours.

   

   combine the gelatin mixture and condensed milk

4. Cut the multi-colored jelly into cubes and place in a large dish with high sides.

   

   Crush and transfer to large jelly mold

5. Pour the milk gelatin filling into the mold.

   

   Pour a mixture of condensed milk and gelatin into the mold

6. Let the dessert harden for 4-6 hours.

   

   Let the workpiece harden

7. Cut the treat into small squares or rectangles.

Broken glass cake with cottage cheese and homemade biscuit

For those who are no longer afraid to complicate culinary tasks a little, have enough time and a desire to please loved ones with a tasty and very healthy treat, I offer another version of the "mosaic" cake with the addition of cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

• 5 eggs;
• 1 tbsp. sugar + 4 tbsp. l.
• 5 tbsp. l. flour;
• 3 tbsp. l. starch;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 350 g of cottage cheese;
• 1.5 tbsp. l. gelatin;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 4 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l. lemon zest;
• 2 jelly bags of different colors.

Preparation:

1. While the jelly freezes in the refrigerator, make a biscuit cake and curd filling.
2. Beat eggs with 1 tbsp. sugar for 5 minutes until a fluffy mass is formed.

3. Add flour sifted with baking powder and starch to the sugar-egg mixture.

   

   Sift flour along with baking powder and starch

4. Transfer the dough to a greased form with a little fat and bake at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes.

   

   Pour the dough into a round shape

5. Put the finished biscuit on a wire rack, cover with a kitchen towel and cool completely. Cut the cooled cake lengthwise into 2 pieces of equal size.

   

   Cut the cooled cake into 2 parts

6. Dissolve gelatin in water according to the instructions.
7. Whisk sour cream with the remaining sugar.
8. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with the sour cream-sugar mixture, vanilla sugar and milk.

9. Add lemon zest to the curd mass and add gelatin. Stir everything, cool slightly in the refrigerator (5-10 minutes).

   

   Make a curd cake base

10. Place one sponge cake in a split form, spread the jelly cut into pieces on top, pour in the curd filling (you can leave a little of the mixture to cover the cake).
11. Cover the blank with a second biscuit, lightly press it down with your hands.
12. Spread the remaining curd mixture over the surface of the cake.
13. Let the dessert set in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

14. Carefully open the pan and take out the cake. Garnish with fresh berries, fruits and mint if desired.

    

    The finished cake can be decorated with berries or fruits

Video: Broken Glass curd-jelly cake

Broken Glass cake is a bright, beautiful and eye-catching dessert with an amazing taste. Cooking such a delicacy is a pleasure. If you are also ready to share interesting information about such a dessert, do it in the comments below. Enjoy your tea time with you and your loved ones!