Sheep Cake :)

This is a birthday cake I made for my brother last month. I waited till now since the main ingredient were the mini puffs I made for last month's Daring Bakers challenge. I got inspired by a cookbook cover, but I couldn't find the original recipe so I assembled it with what I could come up with. The cake was a big hit :) Thank you Meeta and Tony for choosing this recipe and giving me the idea, my brother was so happy with the cake!

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.

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