How to make bento cake – Korean mini cream cakes for special occasions

Prepare
60 Minutes Processing
180 minutes For
2 – 3 people

Korean mini cake, also known as bento cake, is a type of cake that many people love because of its beautiful and cute design. Let’s learn how to make bento cake – Korean mini cream cakes for special occasions!

Ingredients for making bento cake

Sponge cake

• 60g flour
• 12g cocoa powder
• 130g eggs
• 20g egg yolk
• 122g unsalted butter (12g melted unsalted butter)
• 72g sugar
• 18g honey
• 18g fresh milk without sugar

Cake ice cream

• 300g cream cheese
• 90g sugar
• 300g whipping cream

Decorate

• Food coloring of your choice (green, blue, yellow, pink, red, …)
• Tools for making: Oven, ice cream bag, ice cream knife, stencils, 9cm cake cutter,…

Good tip:
– To choose the best eggs, you need to hold the egg to feel, if the eggshell is rough, it is fresh eggs and you should choose those eggs, if the eggshell is smooth and smooth. those are eggs that have been left for a long time.
– Cream cheese you can find at stores selling baking ingredients, large supermarkets or on e-commerce sites.
– Ice cream bag, ice cream knife, 9cm cake cutter, … you can buy at the store selling baking ingredients or on e-commerce sites.

Ingredients for making bento cake

How to make bento cake

Step 1Process materials

You put 3 eggs and 1 egg yolk in a bowl and beat them well. Next, add 72 grams of sugar and 18 grams of honey to the eggs and continue to beat.

Next , you put the egg bowl in a pot of hot water (about 37 – 40 degrees Celsius) to beat the water until the eggs are foamy, then take the bowl out.

You put 18g of unsweetened fresh milk and 12g of unsalted butter in a small bowl, then put it in a pot of hot water to melt the butter.

Process materials

Step 2Mix cake batter

You beat the eggs on medium speed for 3-4 minutes, until the eggs are white, reduce the speed and continue beating for 1 minute.

Next, you add the flour and cocoa powder that have passed through the sieve until smooth into the egg bowl, each time you only add ⅓ of the flour and then use a whisk to gently stir from the bottom up. Continue doing this until all the dry powder is gone.

After mixing the flour, take a little of the flour mixture into the bowl of melted unsalted butter, then pour it back into the flour bowl and continue to use a spatula to mix well.

Mix cake batter

Step 3Bake and cut cakes

You preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius before baking for 10-15 minutes

You pour the dough into a baking tray lined with parchment paper and use a knife to smooth the dough on the tray, then gently tap the tray to break the air bubbles.

Next, you put the cake tray in the oven for 12 – 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees C. After the cake is cooked, take the cake out to cool down and then proceed to cut the cake.

You cut the cake with a round mold with a radius of 9cm. The remaining cake you cut into half a circle.

Bake and cut cakes

Step 4Make cake ice cream

300g cream cheese to soften, use an electric mixer to beat at medium level. Next, you add 90g of sugar and continue to beat on medium for 2-3 minutes for the sugar to blend with the cream cheese.

You put 300g of whipping cream in a bowl, then put it on a bowl of ice cold water and whip the whipping cream for 7-10 minutes on medium.

When whipping cream is fluffy and soft peaks form, then add whipping cream to cream cheese and continue to beat with an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes.

You take out ⅕ part of the cake cream to spread the cream on the cake. The rest you keep in the fridge.

Make cake ice cream

Step 5Mix the cream and cover the cake

You brush the cake with a layer of sugar water or diluted syrup. Next, you put the cream on the cake and use a knife to rub the cream to spread the cream all over the cake.

After brushing 1 layer of cake cream, you continue to put another layer of cake on and continue to perform the same steps of brushing sugar and cream.

On the 3rd layer of cake, you spread the cream all around the edge of the cake to make the cake look more beautiful.

You do the same with the remaining pieces of cake. After that, you put the cake in the refrigerator until it is time to mix the decorative cream colors.

Mix the cream and cover the cake

Step 6Mix cream color

You cut the top of the ice cream bag a small part, then put the tip of the ice cream into the bag.

Next, you put the cream mixture in a bowl and start mixing colors according to your preference. After mixing the colors, you put a little color in the bag to catch the cream and proceed to decorate.

Mix cream color

Step 7Cherry shaped cake decoration

First, rub the blue icing all over the cake.

Next, you use green cream to draw cherry branches on and use red cream to shape small circles on the cake.

Finally, use the tail to catch the scallop-shaped cream around the edge of the cake to complete.

Cherry shaped cake decoration

Step 8Letter shaped cake decoration

Rub the yellow icing all over the cake.

Then, use white cream to write the words on the cake and use red cream to write over it to make the text stand out.

Finally, you use the serrated icing tail to go around the cake and decorate with green leaves and you’re done.

Letter shaped cake decoration

Step 9Overlay cake decoration

You use white cream to rub all the cake.

Then, brush a light line with pink cream on top of the cake, then brush with another layer of white cream, and so on until the cake runs out.

Then, use white cream to write the text and overlap it with pink cream to make the text stand out.

Overlay cake decoration

Step 10Finished product

Delicious, attractive bento cake with beautiful shapes. The bento cake is a great combination between the soft, moist inside, the cocoa taste is easy to eat, and the bento cream is moderately sweet and soft.

Delicious and beautiful bento cake

Enjoy

Bento cake is not only eye-catching with cute and beautiful cake shape, but also attractive because of the delicious, soft and moist cake inside. The outer layer of ice cream is juicy, moderately fatty. On special occasions that give your loved ones bento cakes, they will surely be very happy!

Attractive and eye-catching bento cake with beautiful design

Above is how to make bento cake – Korean mini cream cake for special occasions that Bach Hoa GREEN sent to you. Hope you will successfully make bento cake!

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