Light and delicious cake for the new year. Cake "Coconut Paradise"

Today it has become very fashionable to treat guests and treat yourself to a beautiful designer cake for any occasion. Today we will present ideas on how to decorate a cake for the New Year with your own hands.

Each housewife has her favorite and time-tested cake recipes, but you can experiment with decoration. Using various cake decor options, you can turn this sweetness into a work of art.

Let's look at some of the most interesting options for decorating a cake for the New Year.

Today, cakes decorated with mastic are very popular. It can be confectionery facilities of various shapes:

Multilayer cakes.
Cakes with three-dimensional figures, flowers.
Cakes in the form of various characters or objects.

Such works of culinary art require skill and accuracy, knowledge of recipes and an algorithm of actions. Of course, mastic today can be bought in many stores or ordered via the Internet. But made with your own hands will be tastier and more natural.

Let's look at a few recipes for mastic, this culinary "device" that helps create miracles. And then, let's look at some options on how to decorate for the New Year with your own hands with mastic, using it to cover the cake and create figurines.

Mastic recipe number 1

First you need to prepare everything that we need in the work:

Powdered milk - 180 g
Condensed milk - 1 can
Powdered sugar - 180 g
Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon.

When everything is prepared, we begin to make the mastic itself:

It is necessary to combine the dry ingredients: milk powder with powdered sugar.
After adding condensed milk and mix everything thoroughly, knead.
Then add a little lemon juice so that the mastic is elastic and does not crumble.

This is a versatile version of mastic - it is good for covering the cake and for sculpting decorations.

Any mastic can be divided into pieces and give them color. To do this, mix any food coloring into pieces of mastic. You can also use natural, natural dyes, such as:

- to create a reddish tint;
a decoction of carrots - to create an orange tint;
decoction of onion peel - to create a brown tint;
a decoction of broccoli - to create a greenish tint.

Mastic recipe number 2

Let's get ready for the culinary process:

Gelatin - 10 g
Powdered sugar - 500 g
Water - 2 tablespoons
Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.

And now we begin to mix the mastic:

Prepare the gelatin by soaking it in water for 20 minutes and then heating it over a fire, but do not boil it.
Now we need to stir the gelatin and lemon juice into the powdered sugar. To do this, pour the powder on the table in a slide and pour lemon juice and gelatin into its middle, mix everything thoroughly, adding powder if necessary.

This mastic is good for complex figures.

Mastic recipe number 3

This mastic will be based on marshmallow marshmallows. It's great for wrapping a cake.

For her you need:

Marshmallow - 100 g
Powdered sugar - 1 cup
Butter - 1 tablespoon
Water - 3 tablespoons.

Let's start creating the mask:

Melt marshmallows in a water bath and add oil to it.
After, you need to remove from the water bath and add powdered sugar.
It remains only to interfere. The mastic must be kneaded until it stops sticking to your hands and becomes elastic. You can add a little more powder or starch in the process for hardness.

To cover the cake, roll out the fondant evenly with a rolling pin, but don't make it too thin as it may tear when smoothed on the cake.

Important! Never cover a cake with buttercream on top with fondant. From this, the mastic may melt. If you used butter cream, then make an intermediate layer on top of fruit or another cream (for example, based on condensed milk), or from a dry cake.

Let's look at a few photos of how you can decorate a cake for the New Year with mastic prepared by yourself.

Decor option with fruit

Cover the cake with white fondant. Roll out a sheet of green and red. Cut out the figures of Christmas trees and leaves of New Year's poinsettia with berries. Attach Christmas trees to the surface of the cake, and leaves with berries along the sides.

You can attach the elements to a thick sugar syrup. To do this, boil some water with sugar. Add more sugar to make the syrup thick and sticky. Smear the syrup with a brush flat figures and attach them to the cake.

White mastic

Decor with Christmas trees

Cover the cake with white mastic, and make voluminous Christmas trees from green mastic. Install them on the cake. You can add snowdrifts and snowflakes from white or light blue mastic.

Jewelry box

Here the work will be more difficult - we will try to make a box with Christmas decorations.

To do this, you need to make halves of Christmas balls and a bell from the dough, according to the recipe for the cake. They need to be covered with mastic and decorated with confectionery contours and beads.

After, you need to cover the surface of the cake with mastic, but not smoothing it, but laying it like a fabric in a box with folds and folds. Place decoration pieces on top. Decorate the side with mastic of a different color. You can add a pattern around the edges.

Cake in the form of a gift box

And you can make the cake itself in the form of a large New Year's ball. Please note that the cake must be stable. Make it flat at the bottom and round at the top, like it's in a box. After that, it remains only to cover our sweet ball with mastic and add a fastener, and a mastic rope. You can decorate with liquid cream or chocolate from a syringe, beads or mastic elements: stars, petals, lace.

Now let's look at several options for how to decorate a cake for the New Year with your own hands without mastic.

Chocolate fairy tale

Chocolate icing can be used to decorate the cake. We will make it from dark and white chocolate.

Glaze is very easy to make. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath, you can add a little water so that it does not harden quickly.

Chocolate glaze

And now we will analyze several options for decorating with chocolate.

Snow

The cake itself can be sprinkled with chocolate chips or covered with dark chocolate icing. From white chocolate icing, you will need to use a confectionery syringe to squeeze snowflakes on baking paper and let them dry. They dry quickly. These snowflakes can be laid out on a cake, smeared with sugar syrup for fastening.

Christmas tree cake

Make a Christmas tree cake. Cover it with white chocolate icing. Lay randomly balls of M&Ms candies.

Cover the cake generously with chocolate chips. Make Christmas trees from white and dark chocolate icing. When the Christmas trees are dry, place them upright on the cake. So you get a sweet New Year's forest. You can sprinkle golden confectionery powder on top.

Chocolate version with stencils

For him, we need stencils. They can be cut from any thick paper. Stencils can be anything: stars, Christmas trees, bells and so on. We cover the cake with dark icing. We lay the stencil on the surface after the glaze dries. Instead of icing, you can use just grated dark chocolate.

Sprinkle the stencil with grated white chocolate or powdered sugar. Sprinkle generously. We remove the stencil and get a winter fairy tale.

And now let's look at vitamin options for decorating a cake for the New Year with fruits.

Vitamin decor

A very interesting cake design is obtained using fruits and berries. In addition, such a cake will be both tasty and healthy, easier.

Let's look at several options for how to decorate a cake for the New Year with your own hands at home with fruits and berries.

Strawberry and mint

For him, we will need strawberries and mint leaves.

The cake must be thickly covered with cream of cream. Cut strawberries in half and make gnomes out of it. We put the lower part of the strawberries on the cake, then squeeze out a layer of cream and put a cap from the second part of the strawberries on top. On top, add a drop of cream in the form of a pompon. Draw a nose and a smile with chocolate from a syringe. We make several of these gnomes, and then decorate with mint leaves.

Kiwi, cranberry and blueberry

For him, we need kiwi and cranberries and / or blueberries. We cover the cake with any white cream. Cut the kiwi into slices, then cut each slice in half. We lay out a Christmas tree from kiwi slices. We decorate the Christmas tree with blueberries and cranberries.

How to decorate a cake for the New Year? This question arises in almost every hostess on the eve of the holiday. Any dessert that is baked on an ordinary day can become New Year's Eve if you use your ingenuity and familiar ingredients. Mastic, cream, icing, fruit - the list is almost endless. The original decoration of the New Year's cake at home is a great way to make your holiday table truly creative, bright and memorable. At the same time, all recipes are quite feasible and doable even by novice cooks.

How can you decorate a New Year's cake?

Depending on the idea, the cake for the New Year can be decorated:

cream, cream, chocolate, icing - with the help of them, make a drawing corresponding to the holiday;
chocolate figurines - melt chocolate, pour into a pastry bag, draw a figure on parchment paper, put it in the refrigerator for an hour, and then carefully unfasten the finished product;
fruits and berries - various shapes can be cut out of them;
mastics - it resembles plasticine, which makes it possible to sculpt all kinds of figures;
coke shavings, sweets and other things.

Cake decoration for the New Year has its own characteristics:

do not use too fatty foods, since the festive feast already provides for a huge number of different dishes that are difficult for the stomach;
to get a beautiful decoration, it is better to practice in advance a few days before the celebration;
do not use a lot of artificial dyes, as they are harmful to the human body, it is better to use natural products for dyeing;
do not clutter up the surface of the product with a large number of structures, they must be firmly held.

Type of dish: pastry

Dish subtype: cake decoration

Number of servings per outlet: 10-20 servings.

Weight of the finished dish: 300-500 g.

Cooking time: .

National cuisine to which the dish belongs: Russian.

Energy or nutritional value of the dish:
400 kcal

How to decorate a cake for the New Year: dial

Ingredients

chocolates - 13 pcs.;
whipped cream - 100 g.

Instruction

The easiest way to decorate a delicious pie or New Year's cake is to draw a dial on it. This method is suitable for those who have no experience in such a matter, but have a great desire to create. Despite the simplicity of the idea, the confectionery will turn out to be unusual and worthy of praise.

First prepare the surface - level the cream. So the appearance will improve and a good background for decoration will be created.

Cream can be bought ready-made or whip them yourself.

Put 12 candies around the edge so that they are visually at the same distance (you can use regular round or heart-shaped ones, as in the photo). Place the last candy in the center.

On each candy located along the edge, using a small diameter pastry syringe, write the numbers from 1 to 12. Draw arrows coming from the center. Make a pretty border.

If desired, you can circle the contours of each candy with cream, put dots on the “dial”. Such a spectacular decoration of the New Year's cake is relevant regardless of the year and its "patron".

On a note! To draw a clock, it is not necessary to use cream. For these purposes, melted chocolate or any other product is suitable - which is enough for imagination.

How to decorate a cake for the New Year: a snowman

Ingredients

- coconut flakes - 150 g;

- carrot - 1 pc.;

- mastic - a small piece;

- caramel and marmalade - 3 pcs.;

small chocolates - 2 pcs.

Instruction

To decorate a cake for the New Year 2019, you can not only come up with an original drawing, but also create a shape. For example, a snowman. Such an unusual approach will appeal to guests and loved ones, and will also make the confectionery product doubly tastier. This is another universal New Year's decoration of cakes.

To make a snowman, you will need two New Year's cakes (biscuit cakes, meringue - it doesn't matter). The first is the head, the second is the body. Put them side by side.

Sprinkle the top and sides generously with flaked coconut. With it, you can add volume so that parts of the snowman's body visually acquire a spherical shape.

Make eyes with small chocolates.

Insert a real carrot instead of a spout. True, in this case, it will serve solely as an ornament. You can make it sweet using a certain shape of marmalade or mastic.

From the mastic, make a scarf for the snowman, make a mouth.

Place the caramels in the form of buttons, put a marmalade (smaller) on top of each.

For hands, you can use mastic or come up with something else.

Cake decoration for the New Year: fruits

Ingredients

- kiwi - 3 pcs.;

cherry - 10 pcs.

Instruction

How can you decorate a New Year's cake? With the help of fruits, you can successfully decorate the cake for the New Year. Its appearance will certainly cheer up not only your mood, but also your appetite, and also turn an ordinary dessert into a small miracle. Show your culinary talent and skill in the design of dishes.

For this design, the cake should be in the shape of a Christmas tree. Peel the kiwi and cut into thin half rings.

Remove pits from cherries and cut them in half.

Lay the kiwi in a semi-circle down so as to cover the entire surface of the cake. Make legs.

Place the cherries randomly on the kiwi. These will be balls on the Christmas tree.

On a note! Other New Year's figurines can be cut out of fruits, decorating the confectionery at your own discretion.

Cake decoration for the New Year: Santa Claus

Ingredients

For mastic:

- powdered sugar - 120 g;

- gelatin - 0.5 tbsp. l.;

- water - 30 ml;

- starch - 60 g;

- honey - 1 tsp;

citric acid - 0.5 tsp.

For registration:

- whipped cream - 100 g;

sweets in the form of plates - 6 pcs. (2 different diameters).

Instruction

The first thing that comes to mind when choosing a decoration for a cake for the New Year is Santa Claus. Make it easy. Experienced cooks are able to create real masterpieces, and novice housewives can use a simple option.

The cake must be in the shape of a heart. Make the fondant that is used to cover the New Year's cake. To do this, pour gelatin with cold water and let it swell (half an hour). Mix starch and powdered sugar, add gelatin. Melt honey and citric acid in a water bath, mix with the rest of the ingredients, divide the resulting mass into two equal parts. Add brown dye to one and red to the other. You should get two colors of mastic. Roll out both parts into layers of small thickness and cover the cake. Red - Santa Claus hat (lower part of the heart), brown - face.

Draw the fur on the hat, bubo, beard with cream.

Make eyes with the help of sweets (as in the photo).

You can leave a small lump of brown mastic and make a spout.

In the shape of the head of Santa Claus, you can make such chocolate cakes, as in the photo above.

Cake decoration for the New Year: edible snowflakes, snowballs and icicles

Ingredients

white cream - 500 g;
coconut flakes - 200 g;
transparent isomalt - 50 g;
edible gel glitter - 50 g.

On a note! Isomalt is a food sugar substitute, and white cream can be anything. Mascarpone, sour cream, cream and vanilla versions are suitable here.

Instruction

How can you decorate a cake in a New Year's way? With the help of homemade icicles, snowflakes and snowballs! This option for decorating a New Year's cake is quite complicated, but incredibly interesting, because the output is a real confectionery miracle. Each hostess will be able to be proud of the result, because such a cake can hardly be distinguished from a store-bought one.

White icing should generously cover the cake itself. Most of the fill should be left at the top.

Gently with a spoon, you will need to make dimples on the top of the product, where the “snowballs” will be located.

Sprinkle generously with coconut flakes all over the cake. This is an imitation of snow.

Now we need to form the "snowballs" themselves, which will complement the snowflakes. To create them, you need to take the excess left over from the cake layers. They will need to be crushed in any convenient way. In the resulting crumb, you need to add a little glaze so that the mass begins to resemble dough in consistency.

From the resulting mixture, you will need to roll a few balls and put them in the refrigerator so that the mass “grabs” well.

After the balls must be poured with glaze and thoroughly rolled in coconut flakes.

When the "snowballs" for the New Year's cake are ready, you can start creating decorative icicles. To do this, the baking sheet should be covered with a special silicone mat or food parchment. One of the edges should be lifted by placing something under it.

Using a silicone spatula, you need to take a little of the resulting mass and put it on a baking sheet. Isomalt should be laid out along a raised edge so that the mass flows down, forming an imitation of icicles.

On a note! Sprinkle lightly with coke flakes on top of the workpiece.

It remains to make snowflakes. On parchment, they must be drawn with edible gel. To make the figures beautiful and even, you should first make templates. Don't be afraid to make fairly thick outlines. This will keep the snowflakes intact. These products are also recommended to be sprinkled with a little coconut flakes.

Now you need to lay out the “snowballs” on the cake and place the icicles. Don't forget the snowflakes too.

New Year's Cake Decorating Options

To make the process of decorating a cake turn into real magical creativity, you can use ready-made ideas. Each of the options can be interpreted in its own way.

Looking for biscuit cake? Then here it is, a cute pig made of cakes and cream. For cooking, you will need colors, so buy pink dye in advance at the store.

5 raw eggs;
honey - 3 tablespoons;
granulated sugar - 200-250 g;
tsp soda;
1-1.5 cups of flour.
condensed milk -350-400 ml;
150-200 g butter;
1.5 glasses of water;
5 tbsp Sahara;

For custard:

3 raw eggs;
200 g of sugar;
water - 1/2 cup.

How to cook:

Take the eggs and grind with sugar, add flour. Melt the honey a little, pour it into the eggs. Pour in soda, stir the mass with a spoon. Place the resulting mixture into the mold. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes.

When the cake has cooled down a bit, cut it into large pieces. Make a syrup of water and sugar and soak the pieces with it. Remove the butter from the freezer, it should melt a little. Stir the condensed milk into the oil. Beat the cream mixture with a mixer for 5-6 minutes.

Take a deep bowl and line the bottom with plastic wrap. Fold the cakes on the bottom, and then cover them with cream. Put oppression on the cakes so that they are better saturated: take a jar of water or put a small saucepan. The cakes will soak for a couple of hours.

Heat water in a saucepan. When it boils, put sugar in it and cook for 3-4 minutes, then turn off the heat. The mixture will start to thicken little by little. Whisk the egg whites in another bowl to stiff white peaks. Gently fold the egg whites into the hot sugar syrup with a spoon and stir. Beat the custard for another 3-5 minutes until it becomes fluffy and thick.

Set aside a little white cream in a separate cup, you will need it for further decoration. Mix the rest with pink dye. Take a pastry bag with a star tip and transfer the cream into it.

Turn the bowl of cakes onto a flat plate to make a slide. Decorate the slide with cream to make a muzzle. Decorate the piglet's ears, piglet. Make eyes out of white cream, and instead of pupils there will be dark chocolate.

Put the creation in the center of the table, the guests will appreciate your culinary skills and enjoy tasting such an attractive dessert. Separately, a photo recipe can be viewed.

On a note!

Condensed milk for the cake can be taken both boiled and plain, it turns out delicious in both cases.

"Herringbone"

On the New Year's table, there must be a symbol of the holiday - spruce. We offer to make an edible Christmas tree, it will appeal to children and adults.

butter - 200 g;
granulated sugar - a glass;
3-4 tbsp powdered sugar;
flour - 1.5 cups;
baking powder, a pinch;
90-100 g of white chocolate;
100 g coconut flakes;
starch - 1/2 tsp;
2 yolks;
½ cup sour cream;
1/2 cup cream 25%.

How to cook:

Combine the yolks with sugar, rub well. Add sour cream, then add flour little by little. Defrost the butter until it becomes soft and add to the egg mass. Pour in the baking powder. The dough should become thick, but not sticky. Transfer the mass to a bowl or bag and put it in a cool place for 40-50 minutes.

From paper, make stars of different sizes, from large to small. Roll out the dough, and then cut out the stars according to the sketches. Bake the biscuits for 10-15 minutes.

Melt the chocolate, add cream with starch, powdered sugar to it. Grind the coconut flakes in a blender and pour into the melted chocolate.

Assemble the Christmas tree: place the largest cake on the bottom, grease it with a creamy mass, and press it down with a smaller cake on top. Thus, the smallest cake should be on top of the Christmas tree. Decorate the top with candied fruits by gluing them to the cream. Let the tree harden for 1-2 hours. By the same principle, you can cook chocolate Christmas tree.

On a note!

Rustic sour cream is great for cream, it is fatter and whips up much better than a store-bought product.

"New Year's boot"

In other countries, there is a tradition of cooking sweets in the shape of a boot for the New Year holidays. It is believed that such a delicacy will bring good luck to those who try it. We propose to make a cake in the form of a boot for the New Year. Households will be pleasantly surprised by the surprise and will immediately want to try a piece.

350-400 g of sugar;
350-400 g flour;
10 eggs.
boiled condensed milk - 300 g;
200 g butter.

For impregnation of cakes:

200 g of granulated sugar;
200 g strawberry jam;
1.5 cups of boiled water.

For decoration:

8 egg whites;
tsp citric acid;
red food coloring;
a glass of sugar;
glass of water.

How to cook:

Mix chilled eggs with granulated sugar with a whisk. Using a wooden spatula or spoon, add the flour to the egg mixture. You can pour flour into the egg mixture directly through a sieve, but stir constantly.

Take a rectangular mold, cover with parchment and pour the dough into it. Put the mold in the oven for 40-50 minutes. You can bake cakes 2-3 times in a row, you can make one large cake, and then cut it into 3 parts.

Cut the butter into pieces, leave in a cup for 1-2 hours in the kitchen to soften. Beat the butter with a mixer, then add the condensed milk with a spoon. Beat the cream for at least 5 minutes to make it fluffy. In a saucepan, make syrup for soaking. Heat water, add sugar to it and bring to a boil. Simmer the mixture for 3-4 minutes until thickened. Then turn off the heat.

Soak the rectangular cooled cakes with syrup for a couple of hours. Then smear them with a thin layer (jam), and put cream impregnation on top. Stack the biscuits on top of each other. Cut out a boot from the cake: cut a semicircle from the long side, and cut off the bottom of the cake a little obliquely. Put the rest of the cake on top.

Now you need to make a creamy mass for decoration. Take egg whites, beat them with sugar (150 g) until white thick foam. Set a glass of water to heat up, after boiling, dissolve the remaining sugar, cook for 3-4 minutes, then remove from heat. Carefully pour the hot syrup into the protein foam. To prevent it from settling, mix the proteins in one direction, add a lemon.

Divide the custard mixture into 3 equal parts. Set aside one part, and add the dye to the rest and place in a pastry bag. Decorate the cake with red cream, and then draw patterns from the remnants of white or make a frill at the boot. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, then treat guests.

On a note!

If you like nuts, you can use them for the filling. Put the nuts with cream between the cakes.

"Raffaello"

If you don’t have time, or you don’t want to bother with cooking cakes, then you will definitely like the Raffaello recipe. Buy a ready-made cake in the store, then soak with cream and decorate. Delicious dessert will be ready to serve in a few minutes.

biscuit cake - 1 pc.;
2 cups cream with a fat content of 30%;
thickener - 2 sachets;
a box of Raffaello chocolates;
white chocolate bar;
3 tbsp coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Remove the cream from the refrigerator so that it is at room temperature. Whip cream with a thickener with a mixer for 3-5 minutes.

Set aside 7-8 sweets from the box, put the rest of the sweets into a mixer cup and grind until smooth. Pour the candy mixture into the whipped cream. It should be a thick cream.

Divide the biscuit into 2 equal parts. Lubricate each part with a creamy mass. Lay the pieces on top of each other.

Rub the chocolate on a fine grater, sprinkle the cake with crumbs. Sprinkle sides and top with additional coconut flakes. Put sweets on top of the cake and put the kettle on. You can try the delicacy right away, but the cake will be especially tasty when it has been soaked for 2-3 hours.

You can increase the number of cake layers on the cake, just remember to make more cream. Complete recipe with step by step photos.

Cake "Santa Claus"

A delicious and light cake can be prepared if there are 3-4 biscuit cakes in your kitchen. You can use store-bought or bake your own if time permits. It takes less than half an hour to make the cake.

4 biscuit cakes;
1.5 cups of sour cream;
3 tbsp powdered sugar;
100 g canned pineapples;
4 egg whites;
1/2 cup granulated sugar;
For decoration:
tsp red dye;
a handful of grapes.

How to cook:

Put sour cream in a bowl and beat it well with a mixer. Then gradually pour in the powdered sugar and continue beating for another 4-5 minutes. Drain the juice from the pineapples. If you bought whole fruits in syrup, then cut them into small pieces.

Now you can start assembling. Take a flat plate and put a little cream on its center, so the cake will not slip. Put the cake, grease with cream, put another one on it, grease again. Do not grease the top of the cake with cream, we will decorate it differently.

Take a saucepan and pour 50-60 ml of water into it. Put it on fire. When the water boils, add 1 tbsp. sugar and cook for 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat and cover the syrup with a lid to cool slowly. Beat the egg whites with sugar until stiff peaks form, slowly pour the syrup into the egg white, stirring constantly. Divide the custard into 3 parts, add coloring to one part and set aside for now. Fill a pastry bag with white cream and start creating. Make the beard first, then the face. Insert grapes for eyes. Next, make the nose, mouth and cap with red cream. Place the cake in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Happy tea!

Cake "Snowman"

Take note of the recipe for a New Year's dessert with a winter name Snowman. The cake turns out to be autumn tender, the biscuit is well saturated with cream. Coconut flakes or white grated chocolate are suitable for decoration. It takes about 1.5 hours to prepare.

4 chicken eggs;
1/2 cup flour;
a glass of granulated sugar;
2 tbsp starch;
100-150 g butter;
a bag of vanilla sugar - 10-15 g;
a pinch of salt.

To prepare the cream:

300 g of rustic cottage cheese;
400 g of heavy cream;
st.l. gelatin;
100 g sugar.
for decor:
a couple of grapes;
a piece of carrot;
100 g coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Take the eggs out of the fridge ahead of time so they come to room temperature. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, gradually adding it to the mass. Add sifted flour, softened butter and baking powder. Sprinkle vanilla sugar and salt into the dough. You need to bake 4 shortcakes: 2 with a larger diameter, 2 with a smaller one. You can take the same shape for baking, just cut the baked cakes on a plate with a smaller diameter. Remove the finished cakes from the mold and cool.

Mix cream and cottage cheese in one cup so that there are no lumps in the mixture, take a blender or mixer. Add sugar to the mass and gelatin.

Put 2 shortcakes of different diameters on a large dish, grease with creamy mass. Then put the remaining cakes in accordance with the size of the previous ones and go over the cream again. Sprinkle the snowman with shavings. Insert grapes and carrots instead of eyes and nose, a smile can also be made from carrots. It takes from 2 to 3 hours to soak the cakes, but it is better to remove the dessert for the night in a cool place, then it will soak even better.

Replace cottage cheese for making cream with cream cheese, then sourness will not be felt.

Snowman biscuit cake recipe - master class

Cake "Snowman" I suggest you cook for the New Year. It turns out it is very funny, the design is not complicated, so you can safely start cooking with me.

To taste, the cake comes out soft, since the cakes are biscuit, and the cream is made from sour cream. If for some reason you can’t have sour cream, then replace it with confectionery cream. Also, you can safely add your favorite fruits to the cake: kiwi, pineapples, bananas, strawberries and other berries.

Ingredients needed to make the dough:

eggs - 5 pieces;
sugar - 150 grams;
flour - 1 cup;
cocoa - 2-3 tablespoons.

Necessary ingredients for the preparation of the cream:

sour cream - 1 pack (weight - 450 grams, fat content - 20-25%);
sugar - 150 grams.

Crack the indicated number of eggs into the mixing bowl. It is not necessary to separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the egg mass for 3 minutes. During this time, it will become lush and slightly increase in volume. Pour sugar over beaten eggs. Mixer, if you have it stationary, do not turn it off. Beat everything for 3-5 minutes.

Now add flour and immediately cocoa. Stir the dough.

Pour the batter into a round metal baking dish lined with parchment paper. Send the form to the oven for 30 minutes. Remove the finished biscuit chocolate cake from the mold.

Pour the sour cream into a mixing bowl. Add sugar immediately. Turn on the mixer and beat the cream with it for at least 5 minutes. During this time, the sour cream will become much thicker, and it will be convenient to lubricate the cakes with the resulting cream.

Cut the finished chocolate cake into three parts. Let them cool completely, otherwise the cream will "melt" and drain from them.

Lubricate all the cakes (the top one too) with sour cream.

Now you can color the remaining cream in the desired colors (using helium dyes) and draw the eyes, cheeks, mouth and nose on the snowman. I used ready-made eyes and cheeks from mastic. The nose and mouth were cut out of carrots. Here is such a beautiful and festive cake "Snowman" turned out!

Agree, you can’t imagine a better treat on New Year’s Eve!

Happy New Year!

"Snowflake"

If you are still thinking about a New Year's dessert, we advise you to cook an airy cake. Especially it will appeal to those who love buttercream and coconut flakes.

a glass of flour;
1/2 cup granulated sugar;
2 chicken eggs;
a small piece of butter weighing 30-50 g;
tsp baking powder;
1.5 cups of cream;
a glass of fat sour cream;
4 tbsp powdered sugar;
white chocolate bar;
100 g coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Grind the eggs with sugar into a homogeneous mass. Sift flour into it and add baking powder. Add the melted butter to the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Divide the dough into 6 parts, make a cake from each part and bake in the oven for no more than 10 minutes.

Mix sour cream with cream, beat the mixture with a mixer for at least 5 minutes. According to st.l. add powdered sugar. Melt the white chocolate in a water bath and add to the cream.

Lubricate the shortcakes with creamy mass, connect. On the top cake and on the sides of the cake, apply the rest of the creamy mass, sprinkle the cake with coconut flakes. Leave the Snowflake in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours, then you can try the cake with tea.

"Zebra"

An unusual treat is easy to prepare according to this recipe. It is simple, so even an inexperienced hostess can handle it. So stock up on food and start cooking without any delay.

To prepare the dough:

150 g of granulated sugar;
150 g butter;
4 eggs;
300 g of sour cream with a fat content of at least 20%;
1.5 cups flour;
2 tsp baking powder;
30 g cocoa.

For cream:

1.5 cups of sour cream 20%;
150 g of granulated sugar;
tsp vanilla extract.

For glaze:

100 g butter;
50 ml of milk;
100 g of granulated sugar;
powdered sugar - 3 tbsp
50 g cocoa.

How to cook:

Remove the butter from the refrigerator and wait until it melts. Combine soft butter with sugar and rub until white. Add eggs, baking powder, mix. Put sour cream, and at the very end sprinkle flour. The dough should be liquid. Divide it into 2 parts. Add cocoa to one part.

Pour a ladle of white dough into the center of the baking dish, and pour the dough with cocoa into its center. You should get a combination of 2 colors, you can take a needle and draw lines straight across the dough from the center to the edges, it will also be beautiful. Thus, you need to bake 2 cakes.

Beat sour cream with granulated sugar to make a thick white cream. Add vanilla, stir. Lubricate the cooled cakes with sour cream and sugar. The top cake does not need to be lubricated, we will make glaze for it.

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Pour granulated sugar with cocoa into the butter and add milk. Boil the glaze until it thickens noticeably. Pour frosting over cake. Place in a cool place for 2-3 hours to harden the icing.

Cut out stencils from paper - zebra stripes. Lay the stencils on top of the cake and dust with powder. Then carefully remove the paper. The cake is ready, have a nice tea party!

On a note!

Put some coffee with cocoa, then the aroma of baking will be more pronounced.

"Pancho"

All family members will no doubt like the Pancho cake. It has walnuts and canned pineapples, which makes the dessert taste unusual. Try to make your own cake, it's not difficult.

1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
6 chicken eggs;
1.5 cups flour;
5 tsp baking powder;
800 g sour cream with a fat content of at least 25%
200 g canned pineapple;
1.5 cups of powdered sugar;
a glass of walnuts (chopped).

How to cook:

Break the eggs into a bowl and grind with granulated sugar until a white homogeneous mixture is obtained. Mix flour and baking powder, sift and spoon over eggs. stir.

Pour a third of the total dough volume into a greased mold. Bake at 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Add cocoa to the rest of the dough, mix again and bake the cake for half an hour.

Transfer the sour cream to a deep bowl and mix with powdered sugar. Separate about ¼ of the total amount, set it aside in a separate bowl. In the remaining cream, add pineapple pieces with nuts.

Put a light cake on a flat plate, soak it with pineapple juice. Cut the baked chocolate cake into small pieces, mix with the cream. Put the soaked pieces on a white biscuit cake, give them the shape of a slide. Garnish with sour cream. If you have a dark chocolate bar, rub it down and sprinkle over the cake.

By the way, Pancho cake with cherries is very tasty.

Red Velvet Cake

In cafes and restaurants, you can often find a dessert called Red Velvet on the menu. It is not necessary to buy a dessert, because it is easy to prepare even at home. The cake just melts in your mouth, and its taste is very delicate due to the airy cream.

1.5 cups flour;
1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
100 ml of vegetable oil;
1/2 pack of butter;
3 eggs;
1.5 cups of kefir;
2 tsp red helium dye;
tsp dough baking powder;
a pinch of vanilla sugar.

For cream:

a glass of powdered sugar;
a pack of butter;
800-900 g Mascarpone.

How to cook:

Start cooking by beating eggs. Beat the egg mixture until foamy, then gradually add the flour sifted through a sieve. Add softened butter to the mass, stirring constantly, add kefir. Add a pinch of vanilla sugar to the dough and add the baking powder. Stir the dough so that there are no lumps, you can use a mixer or blender. Add color to the dough. Pour the mass into a baking dish and bake the cake for 1 hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

When the cake has cooled, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Then the biscuit will be soft.

For cream, grind the softened butter with powdered sugar. The color of the mass should turn white. Then add in the Mascarpone cheese. Stir the cream mixture constantly so that it is homogeneous.

Take the biscuit out of the refrigerator. Using a thread or a knife, cut it into 2 or 3 pieces. Put the crumbs that remain from cutting on a plate, they will be needed for sprinkling. Lubricate each part with cream, and then lay the cakes on top of each other. Brush the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the cream, and then sprinkle with crumbs. Leave the dessert to soak in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and preferably overnight. Happy tea!

On a note!

Instead of Mascarpone cheese, other cream cheese or homemade cottage cheese will do.

Cooking Ideas

A New Year's cake on the festive table will come in handy, because desserts must be included in the menu for the New Year. Even if you have never cooked, but want to try it, go ahead, you will definitely succeed, and our easy recipes will help you. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

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The original appearance of the cake will cheer up guests and turn an ordinary dessert into a small New Year's miracle. A homemade cake will allow the hostess to demonstrate her culinary skills and the ability to decorate the dish beautifully.

Various figurines, chocolate and mastic products, unusually shaped cakes - any pastry can become a masterpiece.

Features and rules for decorating cakes for the New Year

Preparing a dessert for the New Year is different from ordinary cooking - after all, on this day, in addition to sweets, you need to cook a large number of salads, snacks and hot dishes. Lack of experience also affects - after all, cakes with a New Year theme have to be prepared only once a year.

Cake decoration features:

There is no need to make the decorations on the cake too greasy - on the festive table, and without this, there are enough foods that are heavy for the stomach;
You need to practice in advance in creating jewelry. On December 31, there will be enough worries, and it will be hard to learn something new in the pre-holiday turmoil.

Cake decorating rules:

Do not abuse artificial dyes, especially if there are small children among the guests. A beautiful color can be given to the product with the help of berry juice;
When decorating a cake, do not overdo it with its design - the product must be stable, and the decorations must hold securely on it;
Don't aim to make an exact copy of the cake from the picture - often the most beautiful decorations are created on their own, when inspiration strikes during the manufacturing process.

In case of unsuccessful design attempts, there is no need to panic - the error can always be corrected or hidden by adding new decorations to the confectionery.

How to decorate a cake for the New 2017 Year of the Rooster

There are plenty of ways to decorate the finished cake, but we must not forget that the year of the rooster is coming, and he has his own preferences. Rooster's favorite delicacy is seeds, nuts and popcorn. If all this is not planned in decorating the cake, then the cake itself can be cereal or nutty.

Cake decorating options:

Marzipan figurines.

This year, the figurine of a rooster on the finished product is relevant. The bird can be easily sculpted due to the simple shape of its body.

To sculpt a rooster, you will need marzipan - plastic almond paste (preferably several colors) and plasticine handling skills. Ready-made marzipan can be bought at the store by choosing the right colors for your cockerel.

First, we form the body in the form of a droplet, then we make the head out of the ball. We create wings and tail from marzipan cakes, cut feathers with a knife. From red marzipan, add a scallop, beak and beard to the head. Draw the eyes with black dye.

You can add a hen and several chickens to the rooster.

Chocolate decorations.

Chocolate for decoration is melted and poured into a pastry bag. With such chocolate, you can draw openwork snowflakes, Christmas trees, snow drifts. Figurines can be placed vertically in the cake - such decoration will be very elegant.

When cutting the cake, the figures will be damaged, so it is better to decorate the cake in cut form. Or group jewelry so that they do not fall under the cut line. White chocolate will create real “snow”, and dark chocolate will make beautiful spruces.

Sugar elements.

This method is suitable for beginners who are not sure that they can make jewelry on their own. Confectionery stores have a large selection of ready-made sweet figurines: these are shiny beads, snowflakes, stars, leaves. From this set, you can lay out a picture or decorate the edges of the cake.

Fruit decor.

A fruit decoration will be more useful than a sweet design. You can build a Christmas tree from green kiwi pulp and add toy berries to it. Or cut different shapes from fruits and lay them on the surface of the cake. Also, bright berries will perfectly decorate the New Year's dessert.

Decoration with powdered sugar.

Having cut out stencils of images from paper, you can put them on the cake and sprinkle the rest of the surface thickly with powdered sugar. With its help, you can draw whole pictures on a confectionery product.

Some jewelry options can be combined with each other, others look better without unnecessary elements. Before you start designing a product, you need to decide on the design and stick to it.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic and recipes for its preparation

Mastic is a sweet and very plastic material that can beautifully cover the cake. Various figurines are also made from mastic. Dyes will allow you to decorate the mastic and add brightness to the finished product.

You can buy a ready-made mass, but the most delicious sugar paste is obtained by home-made.

Marshmallow mastic

Marshmallow mastic is quickly prepared and easy to use: it is evenly colored, easily rolled out and takes any shape.

Marshmallow (marshmallow) - 100 g;
Powdered sugar - 1 cup;
Water - 3 tbsp. l;
Butter - 1 tbsp. l.

Marshmallow cut into small pieces, fill with water and put in a water bath. When the marshmallows begin to dissolve, you need to add oil to the pan. After the marshmallow becomes a homogeneous mass, it's time to remove it from the stove.

Now you need to add powdered sugar and mix the mass without stopping.

If the spoon starts to get stuck, stir the mass with your hands.

The mastic should feel like elastic dough to the touch, it will be ready when it stops sticking to your hands.

Gelatin-based mastic

It is very convenient to sculpt figurines and decorations from this mastic.

For cooking you will need:

Gelatin - 10 g;
Water - 2 tbsp. l.;
Lemon juice - 1 tsp;
Powdered sugar - 500 g.

Gelatin is soaked in water for 20 minutes, and then heated over low heat until completely dissolved. The mass must be stirred and not allowed to boil.

Pour half of the powdered sugar on the table and form a hill with a recess from it. Pour lemon juice with gelatin into it and knead the mastic, gradually adding the remaining powder. You need to stir until smooth, then wrap the mass with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a short while.

Milk mastic

This is a universal mastic - it is convenient to create both decorations and a cake coating from it.

To prepare the mastic you will need:

Powdered milk - 180 g;
Condensed milk - 1 can;
Powdered sugar - 180 g;
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.

Powdered sugar is combined with milk powder, lemon juice is added and everything is mixed. Now gradually add condensed milk and stir the mass until a dense state. If the mastic crumbles, you need to add a little more lemon juice.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic

Covering cakes.

With the help of mastic, a smooth coating of the top of the product and its sides is created. To cover with mastic, the surface of the cake must be leveled - there should be no bumps or pits.

When preparing the mastic for coating, it must be rolled out to a thickness of 5 mm. Cover the product with mastic carefully, smoothing out all the folds and cutting off the excess with a knife. If the mastic is not applied very beautifully, you can hide the flaws by decorating - figurines, icing or cream inscriptions will do

Stucco compositions.

Figures of varying complexity are made from mastic. For their manufacture, you can buy ready-made stamps - mastic is applied to them, and then the figure is squeezed out of the mold. The figurines are also molded by hand - the consistency of the mastic resembles plasticine, so even children can cope with modeling.

Rules for working with mastic:

So that the mastic does not stick to the table, it must be sprinkled with starch;
It is necessary to store the mastic in a hermetically sealed container so that neither air nor water violates the consistency of the mass;
Already finished mastic products can be lubricated with a solution of vodka and honey (1: 1). The smell of vodka from the product will disappear, and the figures and glaze will acquire a mirror shine;
To get a bright color from the mastic, during the preparation of the mixture, you can add coloring juice: beetroot, blueberry, cherry;
When adding dyes to the mastic, the mass must be thoroughly mixed to obtain a uniform color.

Ideas for decorating a New Year's cake

In the new year, magic surrounds us everywhere. You can even create it yourself using an unusual cake.

Original ideas for decorating a cake in 2017:

Glowing house.

Making and glazing a biscuit house will take a lot of time, but the effect of such a cake will be considerable. The LED is placed inside the house, and the cake itself is served in a room with subdued lighting. Thanks to the light in the windows, the house immediately comes to life, and the cake itself is remembered for a long time.

Volumetric figure.

With the help of a large amount of mastic, an ordinary biscuit can be decorated as a symbol of the new year 2017 or a large Christmas tree toy.

Waffle treat for kids.

If a separate holiday cake is being prepared for children, then it can be simply and tasty decorated with waffle sticks. Kids will love the beautiful look of the crunchy treat.

When serving dessert, you can buy sparklers instead of ordinary candles - then the impressions of the unusual appearance of the product will be even stronger.

Conclusion

When decorating a cake, you should pay attention to the following points:

It is necessary to think in advance about the design of the cake and the products necessary for its manufacture;
In the absence of experience in decorating confectionery, you should practice and master all the nuances before the new year;
All products should be fresh, if possible, use more natural ingredients - fruits, berries, nuts;
When decorating a cake, manage to stop in time - a large pile of various decorations can look sloppy.

Unusual and beautifully decorated cake will be the best gift for the whole family.

At every holiday there comes a moment of culmination, when everyone understands that the end is near. That's when the birthday cake is served.

A sweet treat should be spectacular. Today we will talk about fashion trends in confectionery art: “naked” and “half-naked” cakes, corrugated cake, cake with an ombre effect and a neon version, we will not bypass the traditional design - with the symbols and attributes of the New Year, we will talk about decorations that can be made independently, we will get acquainted with the ideas of cakes-masterpieces to order.

snow cake

White, plain and with decorations, cakes sprinkled with snow are an excellent thematic culinary solution for the New Year. As a decoration, we use snowflakes and white chocolate tubes, a “lace” ornament made of white mastic.

You can make a snow-white cake yourself by decorating it with sprigs of spruce or arborvitae, cones, paper applications, berries, ready-made silhouettes and figurines, white and dark chocolate snowflakes.

Christmas tree cake

The Christmas tree is a bright New Year's attribute. A cake with her a priori promises to be a hit on the table. In this case, the confectionery product can be both horizontal and vertical.

Gift or Christmas toy

A cake in the form of a New Year's gift or a Christmas tree toy is a great solution. It will make interesting photos, and it will be no less pleasant to eat it. With it you can go to visit or give for the holiday.

Cockerel Cake

The symbol of the upcoming 2017 according to the Chinese calendar is the Fiery Red Rooster. A cake with the image of a bright cockerel, his family, chickens will be just in time for this New Year's table. He will especially delight the little ones.

Complex mastic options are available to experienced craftswomen. But it’s quite possible for simple housewives to make a cockerel cake. To do this, we use cream, marmalade slices, candied fruits, pieces of fruit.

snowman cake

Cute, funny, mischievous snowmen will decorate any cake, turning it into a New Year's one. It can be a couple of snowmen in love, an athlete snowman on skis, in the New Year's forest, with gifts. Or a vertical snowman cake. Get chocolate snowman figurines in advance and decorate the cake with them.

Cake with Christmas animals

Deer, bullfinches, penguins and other "New Year's" animals will perfectly fit into the theme of the holiday. We carry out their silhouettes, figurines, imprints on the cake and it's all in the bag!

Chocolate cake for the New Year

Everyone loves chocolate cakes, and the New Year is the perfect occasion to indulge in this dessert.

You can decorate such a cake in an elementary way: using a “snowflake”, “herringbone” stencil and a sprinkle of powdered sugar or coconut flakes, decorate with white chocolate, sweets, gingerbread houses, cones and spruce branches, chocolate chips and chocolate Christmas trees.

Cake with Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Nutcracker

Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden will definitely visit your meeting of the New Year holiday if you make thematic cake coloring. Also, "with your Santa Claus" you can go to visit. Then it will be not only a sweet treat, but also a gift.

candy cake

You can combine a cake and a gift by making a cake from sweets. Such a cake can be stored longer than usual, but it is unlikely to succeed.

New Year's "log"

We make an original roll cake in the form of a log with fresh wood slices, chocolate mushrooms, berries, and a figure of Santa Claus.

joke cake

When celebrating the New Year with a cheerful company, it is worth preparing an anecdote cake made with irony. We offer several options for "funny" cakes.

trendy cakes

If you decide to move away from the traditional performance of cakes, then you should familiarize yourself with trendy, outrageous and extraordinary cakes.

Naked and half-naked cake

Once, one of the confectioners simply did not have time to completely cover the cake with cream. So, apparently, the idea was born to present this "disgrace" under the new "sauce", as a trendy trend. Once again we will make sure that everything ingenious is simple.

And the idea went to the people. “Naked” and “half-naked” cakes, paradoxically, began to decorate more and more holidays.

Well, we also like this idea, because such a cake can be made at home, decorating it with improvised materials: berries, flowers, fir branches and cones, citrus fruits, cinnamon, powdered sugar and coconut flakes. So the cake will become more New Year's.

corrugated cake

Cake with cream ruffles is non-standard, delicate and exquisite. It is performed in the form of multilayer stripes, curls, flowers. These cakes look very impressive!

neon cake

If you want something very bright and memorable, then you should prepare a neon cake for the New Year. It can be with the effect of splashed paints, resemble a rainbow or be chaotically bright. The main thing in a neon cake is the use of safe dyes in the production of a masterpiece.

Gradient cake or ombre cake

Decorating a culinary masterpiece in the style of a smooth color transition is very difficult and very fashionable. Gentle pastel overflows of shades will not leave anyone indifferent.