How beautiful to decorate a cake at home. Chocolate flowers, hearts, bows
"Chocolate board of truffles"
A dessert chessboard is made up of black and white truffles.
You will need:
- a sheet of aluminum foil (parchment paper, polyethylene film)
- culinary bag or syringe
- nozzle for a bag or syringe
Products for 64 truffles:
- 500 gr. chocolate
- 100 gr. butter
- 200 ml heavy cream (sour cream)
- 70 gr. powdered sugar
- dark chocolate in the form of powder and powdered sugar
Melt the chocolate along with the cream and powdered sugar in a water bath. While stirring, add butter. Refrigerate, stirring from time to time.
- On aluminum foil (plastic film, parchment paper), use a culinary bag or syringe to deposit small balls from the resulting mass.
- Put the balls in the refrigerator.
Roll half of them in crushed dark chocolate, and the rest in powdered sugar. Put the balls in a cool place.
- On a plate or cake, assemble a “chessboard” by alternating black and white truffle balls.
"Openwork decorations"
Openwork chocolate figures decorate cakes, ice cream and other dessert dishes. Such decorations are made from black, white or colored chocolate, as well as butter. The thinner the lines of chocolate, the more fragile the figures are (to make the lines thicker, cut off the cone of the culinary bag more).
You will need:
- aluminum foil (parchment paper, polyethylene film, plastic sheet)
- culinary bag
- scapula
Products:
- black or white chocolate
Melt the chocolate in a water bath and fill it with a culinary bag made of parchment paper.
- Draw tracery figures with chocolate on aluminum foil, parchment paper, plastic wrap or a clean sheet of plastic.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Carefully separate the figures with a spatula and decorate the dessert with them just before serving.
"Lattice"
The lattice is a very fragile decoration. It can also be made from white chocolate, but it does not look as impressive and requires more careful handling.
1. Break the chocolate bar into pieces and melt in a water bath.
2. Using a culinary bag, draw figures on a sheet of parchment.
3. When the chocolate hardens, carefully remove the figures from the sheet with a spatula.
"Flower"
Make the layer of chocolate at the base of the flower thicker so that everything is more stable.
"Leaf"
Try to draw the contours of the leaf well, make the central veins thicker and, most importantly, flat.
"Palm"
Make this decoration using a paper bag with a hole that is not too small, otherwise the palm will break when removed from the leaf.
"Butterfly"
This fragile decoration can be used to decorate mousses, ice cream ... The butterfly's body should be slightly thicker than the wings.
"Decoration for glasses»
The pattern of melted chocolate is applied directly to the inside of the glass. Until the glasses are filled with dessert, they are stored in the refrigerator.
Helpful advice
How to repair broken jewelry
Take one of the two parts of the broken decoration, dip it in melted chocolate and attach it to the other half. Place in refrigerator to harden.
Store-bought confectionery can not be compared with delicious fragrant homemade cakes. In the preparation of a festive cake, one of the main stages is its design. Only here, not everyone knows how to decorate a cake at home beautifully. In fact, for this it is not at all necessary to have the skills of an experienced confectioner. A homemade cake, decorated sincerely and with love, can in many ways surpass any purchased one! Just try not to copy the design options that you saw in the store, but come up with your own unique design. So, let's find out what products and skills you may need to do your own beauty on your cakes!
Cream decorations have not lost their popularity among housewives and confectioners for many years. Roses, leaves, cream borders are an unsurpassed classic that allows you to beautifully decorate a cake. However, before getting down to business, you need to decide which cream should be preferred and what devices you need to stock up on.
The choice of cream for decoration
The cream must be non-fluid and not settling.
Therefore, the most suitable and often used are butter and meringue, which keep their shape perfectly. And you can cook them in the following ways.
Decorate the cake with buttercream
Beat 100 gr. softened butter with a mixer until fluffy. Then gently enter 5 tbsp. l. condensed milk (can be boiled), without stopping whisking. The cream should be smooth and fluffy.
Options for decorating cakes with butter cream:
Meringue preparation and decorating examples
Beat 5 egg whites with a mixer in a strong foam. Continuing to beat, add 250 gr. Sahara. This should be done gradually, 1-2 tablespoons. Set the mixer to medium speed and beat for at least 10-12 minutes until a thick, dense, lush mass is obtained.
Preheat oven to 100 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and brush with a little oil. Using a spoon or pastry syringe, put the finished mass on a baking sheet and send it to the oven. The time after which the meringue will be completely ready is determined depending on its size and shape. On average, it may take about 1.5 hours.
A few examples of decorating cakes with delicious meringues:
Cakes with such a decoration look truly solemn, only they need to be stored exclusively in the refrigerator. And they have a very short shelf life due to the use of butter and eggs.
What tools, molds and nozzles will be needed
The tools for decorating cakes with cream are quite simple - these are confectionery syringes (or bags) with nozzles of various shapes. Thanks to the nozzles, it turns out to draw such beautiful curly curls, flowers, leaves and stems.
It does not matter if your kitchen arsenal does not have such devices. Thanks to the usual paper cornet, it will be quite possible to do without them.
To make it, you only need a blank landscape sheet. It must be rolled up and cut off the tip (evenly or at an angle). The cornet must be held firmly in your hands, preventing it from turning around. Fill the cornet with cream, wrap the top and, squeezing it, decorate the cake as you wish.
Principles and interesting ideas
Depending on the shape of the cut of the cornet or the shape of the nozzle of the confectionery syringe, you can draw on the cake both even stripes and all sorts of flower leaves. If you move your hand quickly, quickly back and forth, then the strip of cream will turn out to be wavy, resembling ruffles.
It’s not boring to decorate the cake with cream if you use dyes. It can be either ready-made food coloring or natural:
- saffron diluted in warm water will give a yellow color;
- freshly squeezed beet, cherry or cranberry juice - red;
- carrot juice or orange juice - orange color;
- spinach juice - green;
- cocoa powder or freeze-dried coffee - chocolate color.
Learning how to beautifully decorate a cake with mastic
Pastry mastic can be an excellent alternative to cream decorations. Its consistency is very similar to plasticine. Therefore, if you know how to sculpt beautifully, you can recreate anything from it: from the same various flowers to animal figures and various objects.
The main difference between mastic and cream is that it can be wrapped with cling film and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
How to make mastic with your own hands
Mastic can be bought ready-made in a specialized store, or you can cook it yourself, which will be even better. There are several ways to prepare it:
Milk mastic
Do you want something interesting?
You will need to take in equal amounts:
- powdered milk;
- condensed milk;
- powdered sugar.
Mix all the ingredients and knead them into an elastic dough.
Everything, the mass is ready for modeling! You can start creating. If you want to make the mastic multi-colored, all the same food colors as for the cream are suitable for this.
Marshmallow mastic
For its preparation, white chewing marshmallow is used. The color of the finished mastic can be left as is, white, or dyed.
Melt a handful of marshmallows in the microwave or in a water bath. Add some food coloring (optional) and some water with citric acid (or milk). To make the finished mastic more plastic, add a piece of butter. In the resulting mass, add in small portions the sifted icing sugar and potato starch (in a ratio of 1: 3). Stir thoroughly before adding more powder and starch.
When the mastic becomes viscous and will easily peel off the walls of the dish, transfer it to a table strewn with powder. Knead similarly to the dough, adding powdered sugar, but do not overdo it with its amount. After 10 minutes, the mastic will become very plastic and stop sticking to your hands. Everything, you can consider it ready for modeling decorations for your cake.
Rules for working with this material
Mastic is a somewhat whimsical material for creativity. In the air, it dries quickly and hardens. Therefore, do not forget to wrap it in a plastic bag during work. You also need to roll out the mastic on cling film, while sprinkling it with powdered sugar.
To decorate the cake with mastic, do not sculpt too voluminous elements - they can simply crack. Flower arrangements with leaves, frills and ruffles, small figurines of animals or people, and other items that you can only blind will look much better.
Here are some interesting decoration options for inspiration:
Original cake decoration with fruits
Decorating a cake with fruits and berries is perhaps the most inexpensive, simple and beautiful way that many hostesses have long been using to pamper their household aesthetically. Both fresh and frozen fruits can be used.
Simple fruit and berry combinations
You can use one type of berries (for example, raspberries or strawberries) in combination with fresh mint leaves, or make a fruit and berry mix of colorful fruits (kiwi, bananas, strawberries, cherries, etc.).
The cream is perfectly combined with strawberries and chocolate icing.
The exotic fruit design looks amazing. Put them on the finished chilled cake, creating a beautiful arrangement. Dilute purchased jelly or regular gelatin in water (there should be much less water than indicated in the instructions). Gently apply the mixture to the fruit with a wide brush and send the cake to the refrigerator. After half an hour, repeat the procedure. So the fruit will look juicier, and the design will not fall apart.
Fancy fruit crafts
For those who are ready for more sophisticated ways to decorate a cake, we suggest mastering apple roses. Of course, to create them you will need free time and skill, but we are sure that you will be able to do it!
So let's start with the sugar syrup. To do this, you need to take 1 tbsp. sugar for 1 tbsp. water and boil well. If you want to give roses a certain color, add a little food coloring to the syrup. Then cut the apple into thin semicircular petals and boil in syrup over low heat until plastic.
Take the syrup off the heat and start twisting the rose. Roll the first petal into a tube, and wind the rest on top until you get a flower. Wrap the tips of the slices slightly outward to make the rose look blooming.
Chocolate cake decoration
A special delicacy is to decorate a chocolate cake with chocolate. In fact, there are a lot of options for chocolate decoration. All of them are perfect and original in their own way. You choose!
The easiest and fastest way to decorate the cake with chocolate chips. To do this, you just need to grate the chocolate bar on a coarse or fine grater. But there is also a more interesting and unusual way to get shavings: put the chocolate for a while in a warm place, and then cut thin shavings from the bar with a knife. They will immediately start rolling. Arrange these curls on a plate and send them to the refrigerator. Sprinkle them randomly over the cake when they are completely set.
Openwork chocolate is a more sophisticated option for decorating a cake. Such decorations look so chic that it is hard to believe how easy they are to make.
Melt the chocolate bar over low heat, stirring constantly, or use the microwave. You should not heat chocolate in a water bath, otherwise drops of condensate will mix with it, which we absolutely do not need.
While it's melting, draw whatever your heart desires on parchment paper. These can be patterns, hearts, flowers, snowflakes, etc. Then draw some more hot chocolate with a pastry syringe or place it in a plastic bag, in which you will need to cut a tiny hole. Outline your drawings on parchment.
This must be done carefully, but quickly, because the chocolate hardens almost instantly.
The design turns out to be very fragile, so we recommend making several spare patterns. When the work is finished, send your sketches to the refrigerator until completely solidified. After that, very carefully separate the openwork ornaments and transfer them to the cake.
Ready-made templates for openwork chocolate curls that you can simply print and circle with chocolate:
Chocolate leaves on the cake look impressive, and they don’t require much effort in terms of manufacturing. To create them, you will need leaves of any tree (in winter, leaves of indoor plants can help out). They need to be thoroughly washed and dried. Then evenly apply melted chocolate on them with a brush. Chocolate leaves will look more realistic if the chocolate is applied to the back of the leaf - the one with the veins. After hardening, carefully separate the real leaves from the chocolate ones.
As you can see, decorating a cake with chocolate is quick and easy. Creativity and a share of imagination can create incredible things!
Fantasizing over a children's cake
To decorate a children's cake for the upcoming holiday, you will need special sophistication. After all, it should turn out not only beautiful, but certainly childish! The following materials are well suited for decoration:
- bright mastic, from which you can mold cartoon characters or funny figures;
- different fruits;
- sweets;
- jelly or marmalade;
- multi-colored confectionery powder used to decorate Easter cakes.
Remarkably, for children, the appearance of the cake is even more important than its taste.. Therefore, in order for the child to be satisfied, try to decorate the cake, taking into account his preferences and interests. Boys are usually delighted with cakes in the form of a car or a robot, girls are not indifferent to Barbie dolls. And cartoon characters are a mutually favorite topic.
Other simple and interesting ways to decorate
You can decorate the cake with your own hands in other simple, but no less enchanting ways:
- Drizzle the top and sides of the cake with chocolate or colored icing;
- Use ready-made chocolate figurines;
- Walnut kernels or almonds can be arranged in an original way by depicting a border and flowers;
- The combination of chocolate and whipped cream looks unsurpassed;
- So that the fruits do not lose their appearance, first dip them in transparent jelly;
- Another great idea for easy cake decorating: make a unique stencil! To do this, on a piece of paper with a diameter slightly larger than the cake itself, cut out an arbitrary ornament that you like. Hold the stencil over the cake and dust it with icing if the cake is covered with chocolate icing, or cocoa if it is covered with white cream;
- The sides of the cake can be decorated with cream stripes or chocolate chips;
- It looks great around the cake a picket fence of wafer rolls or long cookies;
- You can simply grease the sides with cream and sprinkle them with crumbs from cookies or nuts.
As you can see, decorating cakes gives a lot of imagination. Don't be afraid to create, create unique masterpieces and share your ideas and their implementation in the comments!
To decorate the holiday with a bright cake, it is not at all necessary to go to the store or to the pastry shop for it. You can make it at home if you try hard. We will help you with this.
Cream is such a special mass from which you can cook a lot of different things. Today we will offer you one version of the cream, from which we will prepare excellent decorations in the form of roses.
How long is 40 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 395 calories.
How to cook:
- Place the proteins in a large bowl and add acid, sugar and vanillin to them;
- Put a pan on the stove in which a bowl of proteins will stand;
- Pour water into it and boil;
- Place the whites in a water bath and beat the cream for fifteen minutes;
- When the proteins are already elastic, remove them from the bath and beat for a few more minutes until stable peaks;
- Next, let the cream cool and, if desired, you can add a dye;
- Gently mix the mass with a spatula and put it in a pastry bag, after placing the “star” nozzle in it;
- Decorate the finished, cooled cake with the resulting cream, squeezing roses. To do this, start from the center and rotate two circles with your hand, sharply tearing off the nozzle from the cream so that the tail does not turn out;
- Decorate the whole cake with these roses and let them harden in the refrigerator.
Tip: If the whites are not whipping well, you can add a little more lemon juice.
Mastic is similar to plasticine, both in consistency and appearance. It is colorful, soft and you can do whatever your heart desires from it. Baking decorations included.
What is the calorie content - 34 calories.
How to cook:
- In a large bowl, pass powdered sugar through a sieve;
- Add dry milk and mix well;
- Pour in the condensed milk and knead the elastic mass, working with it as with a regular dough;
- Add lemon juice, cognac for a pleasant aroma and, if necessary, dyes;
- Knead until a uniform texture and color;
- You should get a smooth, matte mass;
- Next, from the resulting mass, we will form a little one as a decoration on the cake. To do this, you need to add a flesh-colored dye to the mastic;
- From a part of the mastic, first mold an oval in the form and size of a small chicken egg;
- Using a toothpick, make a hole just below the middle - the baby's navel;
- Insert a toothpick into this “egg” so that it stands firmly on the cake;
- Take a piece of mastic smaller (but not much) and roll a perfect ball out of it;
- Put it on a toothpick as a head;
- Using another toothpick, make the baby's eyes;
- Stretch a smile (mouth) with the same toothpick and put dots on the corners;
- Make a nose out of a small piece of mastic, flatten it;
- As ears, roll up two balls and put on the sharp end of a pen or pencil (to make indentations), but do not pierce;
- Now take more mastics (a quarter of the amount for the head), roll into a sausage and use a toothpick to make strips at the end (fingers);
- Also make a second hand and attach both hands to the body;
- Lubricate the surface of the cake with water and glue the little one.
Tip: Instead of cognac, you can use a different flavor.
Fruit is the simplest and most affordable decoration for a cake. This decoration, in principle, can be considered ready. After all, fruits and berries need to be washed, dried, and they can immediately go to the cake.
The easiest option is to pour a whole mountain of berries or pieces of fruit right into the center of the cake. You can lay out a "month" from the same ingredients. Both options will turn out very tasty, bright and mouth-watering.
But, if you try a little more, you can still do something from fruits. For example, a hedgehog. To do this, you will need one pack of toothpicks, about two dozen light-colored grapes of the same size, two small black grapes, one large and one pear.
The pear needs to be washed, peeled half of the pear with a vegetable peeler or a knife from the narrow side. Pierce each white grape with a toothpick and insert into the unpeeled part of the pear. The grapes should stick to the pear, and the toothpicks should stick out like hedgehog quills.
Break two toothpicks in half and string small black grapes on two of them, put them in a pear as eyes. On another half, put on a large dark grape and stick it in like a nose. But both the eyes and the nose should be made so that the toothpicks are not visible, unlike the hedgehog's back.
Stick a bamboo stick into the cake and string the hedgehog on it so as not to pierce it through. Decoration is ready!
In addition to filling the cake with icing, you can also prepare chocolate figurines that will decorate your cake just as well.
Option 1
An easy and simple way to decorate a cake with something chocolate is to buy ready-made decorations. For example, you can buy several packages of Kit Kat (not bars, but those that break) and the same amount of M&M's.
“Surround” the finished cake with Kit Kat sticks in a circle and tie them with a beautiful ribbon. And pour the sweets inside, filling the entire space to the very top.
Option 2
The second method is a web of glaze. To do this, you need to cover the cake with white or dark chocolate icing and pour a little light or, conversely, dark icing on top with a cobweb.
Next, use a toothpick or bamboo stick to apply any desired pattern. But you need to do this immediately, until not a single glaze has frozen. Therefore, it will be wise not to cool the cake before that, but also not to water the still warm cake. After "decorating" the cake, immediately put it in the refrigerator.
Instead of a web, you can make a spiral of glaze and run a toothpick over it. So you get a whole spiral of hearts.
Option 3
For this method, you will need chocolate from the products. All you need is parchment.
The chocolate will first need to be melted, but while it is melting in the oven, microwave or on the stove, prepare a strip of parchment and place it on a flat surface (like a cutting board) that can be placed in the refrigerator. Ideally, a marble board that will not even need to be moved in the cold.
So, then, from another piece of parchment, make a small envelope and pour chocolate into it. From this envelope, pour chocolate onto the finished sheet of paper in the form in which you want to see the decoration. It can be a heart, a butterfly, a text with congratulations, and so on. You need to do it with a thin ribbon so that the decoration does not float.
Tip: To make the decorations as tasty as possible, use real high-quality chocolate.
Children most often like bright and beautiful cake decorations and often this is mastic. But, frankly, among the decorations, there may be something more useful than sugar mass. For example, you can decorate a children's cake with curd cream. It's not only healthier, it's also delicious!
How much time - 15 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 327 calories.
How to cook:
- Remove the butter from the refrigerator or freezer beforehand so that it becomes soft and easier to work with;
- Cut it into cubes and place in a bowl;
- Add cottage cheese and vanilla extract to it;
- Beat the ingredients with a mixer or whisk until fluffy, light, airy;
- Spoon add powder in several stages;
- Stir and beat again with a mixer or whisk until smooth;
- Beat the mass for three minutes.
For the first and second options, the cream must be divided into two parts. In the first case, add white dye to one part, and black to the second. In the second case, add black and red. Next, place both creams in different bags with the desired nozzles and get the prepared, cooled cake. Start decorating the cake by squeezing small but sharp peaks all over the cake.
To help yourself, you can first draw a drawing of the back of a ladybug or a soccer ball using the same colored cream. Next, apply the cream, then put it in the refrigerator for at least two hours.
Tip: to make the cream as homogeneous as possible, it is better to first beat the cottage cheese separately with an immersion blender or pass it through a sieve.
Other simple and interesting ways to decorate
Those decorations that we wrote about above are far from all that you can decorate a cake for the holiday. In addition to all that list, there are still a lot of options.
- For example, you can use regular sugar sprinkles. To do this, you need to level the cake with cream and sprinkle with sprinkles so that there is no empty space. Imagine what a bright cake will turn out;
- You can make a cake in the form of honeycombs. To do this, you need to make a soft (!) Cream and place it in a washed and dried bubble wrap (which everyone loves to pop), and then remove it. Do this on all sides of the cake. In this form, cool the cake in the refrigerator, and later enjoy the creation;
- It has also become popular to make a la “drops”. To do this, the cake is covered with cream peaks and smoothed with a spoon to one side. It turns out very beautiful and original, especially if you make a transition from one color to another, you get amber.
We have offered you more than ten options for cake decorations. Which one to do? Now this decision is up to you. Depending on what holiday you are preparing for, you can choose your decor and work out. If not the first time, then the second time it will definitely work. It will be bright and delicious! Good luck!
Showing off their culinary talents to family and friends, every housewife remembers that not only delicious filling is important for a cake, but also a beautiful appearance. And to give a spectacular frame to a dessert is much easier than many imagine.
For example, chocolate is a universal helper in decorating sweets. A minimum of additional funds (they can be purchased at an ordinary supermarket), as well as a little courage and creativity - these are the main conditions necessary for the final touches in the design of the cake presentation. Don't forget to stock up on delicious tiles and start implementing the following ideas.
Here are some ideas on how to decorate a cake with chocolate:
Openwork chocolate cake decoration
At first glance, elegant work is within the power of any woman. For home creativity, you will need the following tools:
- foil
- parchment paper
- scapula
- cling film
Before proceeding to action, think carefully about the future pattern: phased strokes, length, thickness, distance and other details. When you finally decide on a drawing (which can be downloaded on the Internet), apply it schematically with a pencil on a film or foil.
Then melt the chocolate in a steam bath and pour the resulting mass into a bag made of food paper. Cut a small hole in the corner of the bundle. Now you can start the applications, carefully drawing lines according to the intended sketch. When the stencil coating is complete, place the film on a wooden board and send it to the refrigerator to harden.
After an hour, you can take out the pieces. Separating them with a spatula, be prepared for the fact that your first samples may break down: skill is required here, nothing can be done. But even crushed pieces are useful for a cake - why not an abstract design? It’s just worth attaching it to the cakes otherwise, and even a little unsuccessful attempts will not be in vain.
Openwork chocolate pattern can decorate both the top of the cake and the sides of the cake.
You can also make such cake decorations from chocolate as: a chocolate bow, a chocolate butterfly -, or a chocolate flower, you can find out how to do this by watching this video:
So, how to make a chocolate bow
To do this, take chocolate: white, black or different colors and melt it in a water bath. Then cut into strips of the desired size from thick cardboard or file. And apply a thin layer of melted chocolate on the prepared surface. Here you can show your imagination and make various patterns: stripes or blotches. And you can cover it with a relief mesh using a syringe, or a cornet.
After applying the chocolate, we connect the two ends in a semicircle and fasten with a clothespin. 
Let the chocolate harden and you can start decorating the cake with a bow. Curls can come in different sizes, but this will give your cake even more originality.
A simpler addition will come out if you chop the chocolate on a grater. Small strips, separated from the tile, twist into spirals and are perfect for the role of the top layer. Moreover, improvising with colors (black, milky and white), interesting combinations come out, and even whole edible pictures. Before you get to work, place the chocolate bar in a warm place, softening it a little. You can also create curls manually: you need to get used to cutting thin strips with a well-sharpened knife.
And for the sake of perfectly even chips, the technique will have to be corrected. To do this, you need ready-made chocolate icing, which must be applied in separate strokes on a corrugated surface and put in the freezer to harden.
When the mass hardens, carefully scrape off the mass and transfer to the cake. Don't stop the fantasy on a solid background. Works of art are also created from such small particles. It is important to attach the prepared ingredients quickly so that they do not have time to melt on your fingers or stick together.
By experimenting with the number, thickness and arrangement of chocolate decorations, you can achieve unique results. With such zeal, you will present guests with a difficult choice: to treat themselves or admire the culinary product further.
You can decorate not only cakes with chocolate, but also make various chocolate figurines, for example:
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If you can bake delicious cakes, then you should know how to properly decorate a homemade cake so that it can sparkle with bright colors. Cakes are not only served on birthdays today! It turns out that such sweet products can become the main dish of any feast. Therefore, in this article we decorate the cake with our own hands. In doing so, we will use the most original ideas.
What to use for cake decoration
Before offering you interesting ideas, it is worth saying that today it is customary to decorate cakes with a variety of decorations. However, making such jewelry may require patience and skill from you. And you may also need some improvised means. It could be:
- confectionery syringe with various nozzles,
- parchment paper,
- various blades,
- thin and sharp knife
- masking device.
But if you work hard, you will get a result of excellent quality. As a result, you can get a delicious and very beautifully decorated dish that will allow your guests to admire and enjoy its wonderful taste. In this article, we will tell you how to make various ingredients for decorating a cake.
How to make mastic?
Mastic is used quite often to decorate cakes. You can prepare mastic using any of the modern methods. But we will describe the simplest method of making mastic. So, you should prepare milk mastic. It will require:
- dry milk or cream,
- condensed milk,
- powder,
- dyes as desired.
From marshmallows you should prepare:
- marshmallow,
- food coloring,
- water and citric acid (lemon juice),
- butter,
- starch and powdered sugar.
How to cook?
Milk mastic should be prepared as follows:
Marshmallow mastic should be done as follows:
On a note! Use the mastic is as follows. Mastic should be thinly rolled into a circle. She covers the top of the sweet product. It can also be used to cut various products. Such as flowers, leaves and openwork patterns. Remember mastic tends to dry out instantly. It is very fast to work with her. To create a decoration, pinch off a piece from the total mass, and wrap the main part in cellophane.
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How to decorate a marzipan cake?
Marzipan is a delicious nut paste that has long been used to decorate sweet cakes. This paste will consist of almond flour and sugar paste. As a result, the mass will turn out elastic and will keep its shape perfectly. This paste makes beautiful figurines and a perfect cake topper.
In order to prepare the pasta, you should take the following ingredients:
- 200 grams of sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup toasted almonds.
How to cook?
On a note! Marzipan can be runny. Therefore, in this case, powdered sugar can be added to it in order to give it the desired consistency. Too thick paste is sprinkled with boiled water and rolled out. The cake that you designed in this way is put in the refrigerator for 8-10 hours.
How to decorate a cake with icing?
Aising is an ice pattern. This pattern looks great in the design of the cake. This decoration looks like an ice pattern on glass. And the taste of this decoration is like crispy ice cubes. The icing is mainly used to decorate cakes for weddings.
To make such an ornament, you must prepare:
- teaspoon of glycerin.
- Egg white - 3 pieces.
- Powdered sugar about 600 grams, maybe less. It all depends on the size of the eggs.
- Lemon juice in the amount of 15 grams.
How to cook?
Aising, as a rule, is prepared from chilled ingredients.
On a note! When working with icing, a confectionery syringe is used. In this case, it is worth using the narrowest nozzle. After the product is decorated, it is put in the cold to solidify.
Decorate the cake with waffles.
In this article, we list the best ideas to help you decorate your own birthday cake.
Waffles are also a great option for decorating a sweet cake. Moreover, they are very convenient to use at work. They don't crack or break. Quite often, wafers are made from: figures of berries, flowers and three-dimensional letters and numbers. Also in demand are photos and pictures of waffles that are edible.
How to decorate a cake with waffle pictures?
- It is worth saying that the process of decorating a cake with waffle pictures has its own characteristics, which should be discussed in more detail.
- The waffle blank is laid only on a flat surface of the cake.
- As a basis, you can use mastic. Also suitable: thick butter cream, chocolate icing.
- A waffle picture should be laid on a non-frozen surface. However, it is worth doing this if chocolate icing is used.
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Decorate the cake with chocolate.
If you do not know how to decorate a cake with your own hands without mastic, then you need to pay attention to chocolate. Decorating the cake with chocolate is a great option. And all because this ingredient is combined with any dough and creams.
How to make chocolate?
Making chocolate chips is not difficult. For example, on a grater, you can grate the tile and sprinkle the sides and surface of the cake with this chip. You can also use a vegetable peeler. Such a knife will allow you to cut long and thin strips.
In order to decorate the cake with chocolate curls, you need to preheat the tile slightly. After that, you can cut the strips with a sharp knife or vegetable cutter.
You will need skill in order to make openwork patterns. In this case, different patterns are drawn on the parchment. After that, melted chocolate needs to draw patterns. The work must be done quickly, but at the same time carefully. Patterns should freeze on paper in the cold.
To make chocolate leaves, you need to take any leaves from plants and dry them. Of course, before sending the leaves for drying, they must be thoroughly washed, after which chocolate, which has been melted, can be applied to their inner side. Leaves should be put in a cold place. After they harden, you need to carefully remove the dried leaves from the chocolate leaves. Then glaze is applied with a silicone brush.
Decorate the cake with icing.
Glaze can also be very beautiful to decorate the cake for any holiday. Currently, there are many types of glaze. For example, there is a type of glaze that requires freezing in the cold. Another type of glaze can be consumed immediately. Now we will tell you what you need to make chocolate glaze:
- Milk - 1.5 tablespoons.
- Cocoa - 2 teaspoons.
- Sugar - 1.5 tablespoons.
- Butter - 40 grams.
How to cook?
Other cake decorating options at home
In addition to all the methods described above, there are other methods that are used in decorating cakes. And if you are wondering how to decorate a birthday cake with your own hands? Then look at some more interesting ideas.
So, you can use cream to decorate the cake. It is very easy to cook it. And it should be applied to the cake with a confectioner's syringe.
Cream is also a good option for decorating a cake. Meringue is also often used to decorate cakes.
How to decorate a cake with fruits?
Ordinary or exotic fruits and berries are quite often used in decorating cakes. Their popularity is obvious. They have unique flavors and vibrant colors. To make fruit jelly you will need:
- apple juice - 600 milliliters,
- gelatin powder packaging,
- powdered sugar - 1 cup,
- fresh berries and fruits.
How to cook?
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