We decorate Easter cakes for the holiday. How to decorate an Easter cake
Decoration of Easter cakes can be the most diverse. They can be covered with protein glaze and multi-colored sprinkles. Also, the top of Easter cakes can be decorated with dough figures, laid out with patterns of nuts and candies. You can also make mastic and fashion flowers, figures, tiny testicles and crosses from it. Often, instead of icing, Easter cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.
Easter cakes painted
It all depends on your talent - you can create whole paintings, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley twigs, apple flowers, simple patterns.
flower cakes
Now there are a lot of ready-made floral decorations, waffle, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.
Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.
Easter cakes with domes
Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.
Easter cakes with berries
Easter cakes
Children will definitely like small Easter cakes, and they are also convenient to give to friends and relatives for Easter.
Attention to detail
Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!
There are several other options for decorating Easter cake.
Making your own powder
In addition to confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, multi-colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as powder on Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a dry cool place surplus may remain up to next year. Making your own powder is also easy. This will require food coloring and base. At home, semolina is best, but, of course, sugar powder will be tastier.
Bright and saturated colors gives paint for eggs. It needs very little, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar was added to the paint, it is not suitable for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed for a few seconds in cold paint and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.
Usually, colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in a mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in individual colors. You can decorate the Easter cake in an original way if you apply the powder in stripes or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with XB letters and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.
Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "XB". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!". Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Candied fruits (usually flat and multi-colored) are also used for inscriptions. And the letters "XB" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkles (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.
Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful view. Glaze is being prepared egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until a thick foam.
Icing for Easter cake
Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups of powdered sugar,
1 st. a spoonful of lemon juice.
Cooking
Protein must be chilled. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process with the first speed, gradually increase it. You can understand that it is enough to beat by turning the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not spill out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, by a teaspoon, to introduce powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finally, add lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Finished glaze apply on hot Easter cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional “strength” to the glaze is to put the Easter cakes for a minute in the oven, heated to 100-120 ° C.
Glaze - by itself lovely decoration. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads. Again, you can lay out the letters “XB” from fruits. And you can just write these letters with icing. Lots of options. Kulich - holiday treat so get creative! Often, to give it an appetizing shine, the yolk is applied to the finished cake and sprinkled with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. They mold a symbol of faith - a cross - from dough and highlight it with glaze. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, waffle flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.
Sugar culinary mastic for flowers and other decorations
Ingredients:
250 g powdered sugar,
2 tsp gelatin powder,
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.
Cooking 
Sift the powdered sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then put the bowl of gelatin on water bath and dissolve it by gently stirring. Immediately after the gelatin dissolves, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the powdered sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Mix well, you can use a knife, chopping movements. Then place the mask in plastic bag and the package in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.
Here's how you can mold, for example, roses from mastic. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Put the pieces of colored mastic in a plastic bag to keep it soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.
From a small piece mass blind "carrot" and put it on a table or plank. After that, roll up balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusted with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal shape. Make the petals thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the “carrot”, thus making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, blind the next petal. Moisten the bottom again at the base of the petal and wind it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal closes the “seam” of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.
Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. Petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an excess mass of glaze has formed at the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.
Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. From 3-4 green balls (you can different size) form "carrots". With two thumbs, press down on the middle of the "carrot" and give it the shape of a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and after obliquely, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bent as you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.
Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, sliced orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the Easter cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit over glaze.
Easter icing and decorative sprinkles
But they came up with modern way Easter cake decorations, although in fact easter icing- this is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in the form of a powder and beat with a mixer, it whips quickly and freezes better than just whites with sugar.
We apply the glaze on the tops of the Easter cakes with a brush or a spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkles right away, it will get wet and melt.
And after a few minutes, when the icing on the Easter cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the topping will simply crumble with the frozen icing!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - both round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkles to the children - they really like this business! True, part of the topping is eaten :)
But look how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes with the help of plain glaze And natural dyes!
Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines
You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but colorful candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, so it is better not to give them to small children.
Also very original and beautiful look apiaries, decorated with sugar figurines from mastic - for example, with such cute chickens. But these figurines, to be honest, you can’t gnaw through ...
And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not advise you to take them for decoration! They are good only in appearance, but they taste very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for kids. So we'd better take...
Sugar pencils!
Brilliant invention!!! Well done to the confectioner who invented them! The process of decorating baking - Easter cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint a little pasochka like a krashanka! Set includes three pencils different colors- red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint Easter cakes with them for the whole family! Give the kids a Easter cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!
Dough decoration
Two types of dough decorations
Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking or glued onto the already baked cake with the help of raw protein. You can prepare decorations from the same dough from which Easter cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are woven from dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.
If the cake is baked together with decorations, to give a beautiful look, the top is smeared with a beaten egg or vegetable oil. But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be watered sugar syrup and even apply a fine powder on top of the syrup. Cover the gaps between decorations with glaze, glue nuts and candied fruits with protein.
For jewelry from sweet dough:
- 150 gr. flour,
- 30 gr. margarine,
- 1 st. l. sour cream
- 20 gr. Sahara,
- 1 egg.
Perhaps you are quite satisfied that the decorations will be crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then decorations can be made from the same dough from which Easter cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on board one more piece of decoration advice can be made from yeast, but not rich dough. Carefully, on the dough that has already risen, smeared with egg suspension, prepared decorations are laid out and the cake is sent for baking.
Of course, there is no comrade for the taste and color. I prefer to work with special dough, then the decorations are more airy and elegant. Finished decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they are very thin compared to jewelry made of yeast dough, then the decor attached to the Easter cake is enough to be placed in a hot oven for several minutes to fix and create a light shade.
simple dough-Flour,salt and water, knead a stiff dough and make decorations.
On the rolled dough, cut out different flowers and leaves with notches:
For roses, you can use special recesses and collect them according to the type of mastic:
These are the blanks you can make while the cake is coming up:
Plungers with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, no problem. A variety of things can be done with scissors. Bottom photo lump unleavened dough. It is kneaded in water with the addition vegetable oil, for elasticity.
These are the decorations I got using plungers.
In this photo, in addition to roses, I came up with a bunch of grapes. I just formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.
The dough laid out in the form was spaced and came up well. Be sure to grease the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on the fantasy and spread finished jewelry on the dough. Now grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf I made two bunches of grapes.
Yes, the yolk and white give a contrast to the base and decorations. The yolk turns brown when baked, while the white remains light.
Decorated and in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
I hope you choose a decoration to your liking. to make your Easter cake attractive and delicious!
IN Holy holiday Easter cake is the main dish on the table and in the basket, which means it should be beautiful and elegant. If this year you decide to bake Easter cakes at home, take on arms fresh ideas how to decorate them!
chocolate painting
After icing completely harden on your cake, melt in a water bath dark chocolate, pour it into pastry bag and draw any patterns on the cake. This may also be easter bunny, and flowers, and a cross, and the inscription "ХВ" - everything your fantasy desires!
Coconut + pumpkin seeds
Another non-standard, but very useful solution decor will be pumpkin seeds combined with aromatic coconut flakes. To make such a sprinkle look more contrasting, the glaze can be slightly tinted yellow.
confectionery topping
How to decorate a cake for Easter? The easiest way is confectionery topping, which you can find in any store on the eve of the holiday! To make your pasochka look smart, but not like a store-bought one, choose a topping that consists of 2-3 colors. Then it won't be so ugly. You can also sprinkle only the middle on the glaze or decorate the cake in a circle.
Dried fruits + nuts
You can decorate Easter with your own hands at home big pieces dried fruits and nuts. To make this powder look more natural, lay out each dried fruit in turn, filling all the white space of the glaze.
Candied citrus fruits
To make Easter look very homely, you can decorate it natural candied fruits from citrus. If you want more traditional version- choose candied fruit slices of the same color, if brighter and more festive - colorful pieces candied fruit.
Glaze-soufflé + grated chocolate
If you love icing and want to have as much of it as possible, you can decorate the cake with Italian meringue.
You will need:
- 150 g egg white
- 300 g sugar
- 70 ml water
Cooking:
- Mix water with sugar, bring to a boil. Remove the remaining sugar from the sides of the pan and do not stir again.
- Beat the protein until white foam and enter in a thin stream into the boiled syrup. Beat the mixture with a mixer for 15 minutes.
- Spread our soufflé glaze on the cake in a thick layer and sprinkle with grated chocolate on a large grater.
Kulich is an invariable attribute Easter table for a thousand years. According to Russian tradition, they strive to make it special, festive. Housewives take out the recipes of their grandmothers, knead the dough from the most best products and when kind Easter bread get ready, start working on decorating it. So the treat acquires individuality, becomes not just a meal, but a real reflection of the soul.
Easter cake decoration can be incredibly diverse. Which way will you choose? We offer several useful tips and recipes. First you need to decide...
What will we decorate?
Traditionally, the Easter cake is decorated with the upper part. But today there are richly decorated paper forms on sale in which it can be baked. They not only give bread holiday look, but also take on the role of packaging. It is convenient to carry Easter cake in them.
If you bake Easter cake in a colorful paper form, do not decorate the upper part too brightly. A simple white icing is enough, perhaps a little sprinkle. But if you leave the sides without decor, you can create a complex and colorful decoration on the hat that will surprise relatives and friends.
How to decorate Easter cake: 5 ways
1. Powdered sugar
Powdered sugar is the easiest option for those who don't have time to deal with more elaborate decorations. And so that the Easter cake does not look boring, you can tie it up with a beautiful ribbon or wrap it with ready-made paper lace.
2. Glaze: sugar and protein
Sugar or protein glaze can be an independent decoration of Easter cake or become the basis for a more complex decor.
Icing sugar recipe
Required:
- water - 80 g (4 tablespoons)
- vanillin - to taste.
Put the sifted icing sugar into a saucepan, pour in water and put on fire. Heat the mass to 40 degrees, stirring constantly. Water can be added to a mass that is too thick, and powdered sugar can be added to a mass that is too liquid. Remove icing from heat and brush over cake. To make the icing dry faster, put the cake for a few minutes in the oven, heated to 100 degrees.
White sugar icing recipe
Required:
- powdered sugar - 200 grams (1 cup)
- egg whites - 1-2 pcs
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.
Mix chilled egg whites with lemon juice. Beat the mass with a mixer or whisk, gradually adding the sifted powdered sugar. In 30-40 minutes you will get a strong protein mass, which can be applied to Easter cake.
Whatever icing you choose, it should be thick enough to tightly cover the top of the cake, then it will be beautiful in any case.
If you add food coloring, the glaze will become colored. Do not be afraid to experiment - Easter cake with colored icing will look unusual and interesting. And if it’s still scary to deviate from the canon, then you can decorate part of your Easter cakes traditionally, and part creatively.
3. Sprinkle for Easter cakes
Confectionery topping for Easter cakes will become great addition to glaze. It is sold in ready-made, and the variety of colors and mixtures can only be envied: grains, straws, stars, flowers, beads. At the same time, among the colors you can find sprinkles coated with gold and silver.
Usually Easter cake is covered with multi-colored sprinkles, but you can show your imagination and do something more original. For example, fold a pattern from a combination of one-color grains, or use sprinkles in combination with other decorative elements.
You can use walnuts as a topping for cakes, chocolate chips, candied fruits.
4. Easter cakes with painting
Decoration of Easter cakes with painting - ancient tradition. Paints for it can be made on the basis of sugar or protein-sugar glaze. It is enough to add the desired food coloring to the mass. You do not want to search for dyes in stores? Then the color can be achieved by adding fruit and vegetable juices and syrups, cocoa, turmeric, crushed Activated carbon and other coloring products.
You don't have to be a professional artist to make a painting. You can stop at simple drawings(fruits, flowers, XB inscription) or use a stencil. Of course, in the hands of a true master, Easter cake will turn into a real miracle.
Here is another simple one original way painting.
How to decorate Easter cake with a rainbow pattern? It's not difficult at all. Mix three colors of frosting. On an unhardened white hat in the middle or in 3-4 places, drop circles of these three colors on top of each other. Then, using a stick or a thin brush, distribute the tricolor mass with rays from the center or in random order, forming the desired pattern.
5. Sugar mastic
Sugar mastic is a unique confectionery material that allows you to realize the most daring fantasies. With its help, you can create a decoration for Easter cakes that will be remembered by everyone. Mastic resembles pliable dough, from which you can cut out patterns with molds or sculpt figures. You can add color to the mastic using food coloring.
We offer two of the most simple prescription making mastic.
Sugar mastic with marshmallows
It is considered the most convenient in work. It is easy to prepare, does not stick to hands, keeps its shape very well. The only problem is finding white marshmallows in the store.
Required:
- white marshmallows - 100 grams,
- powdered sugar - 1-1.5 cups,
- lemon juice, citric acid solution or water - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Put the sweets in a bowl and add water or lemon juice. Heat the food in the microwave for 20 seconds or in a water bath until it doubles in volume. Then, powdered sugar can be gradually introduced into the melted marshmallow. First, mix the mass with a spatula, and when it thickens strongly, with your hands. Powdered sugar is introduced until the mastic stops sticking to your hands.
Sugar mastic with gelatin
Required:
- powdered sugar - 1 - 1.5 cups,
- gelatin - 2 tsp,
- water - 0.5 cups,
- lemon juice - 1 tsp,
- vanillin.
Soak gelatin in water until swollen (30-60 minutes). Lightly heat it in a water bath until dissolved (do not bring to a boil!). Remove from heat, add lemon juice and vanilla, and then gradually stir in the powdered sugar until a mass is obtained that does not stick to your hands.
The resulting "dough" in both the first and second cases is wrapped in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. After that, decorations can be sculpted and cut out of the mastic. The dye is injected directly into the pieces intended for a particular element.
Watch the making tutorial Easter decorations from sugar mastic:
Bright holiday very soon. We hope that our ideas will help you make Easter cake special and please your loved ones.
After the end of Lent, the long-awaited for all Christians bright holiday of Easter comes. On this day, the central place at the feast is given to Easter cake and colorful eggs. Baking should be made from a large number of eggs, with the addition butter and sugar. It will be obligatory to decorate Easter cakes with fudge, icing, mastic, icing - you can choose suitable option. The above compositions cover the top of the Easter cake, then the decoration continues with colored sweet elements, each of which has a certain meaning.
How to decorate an Easter cake: coating options
At the first stage of decoration, the Easter cake is covered with a white, or colored (as you like) mass, which can be compared with creating a blank sheet for subsequent decor. Let's consider what confectionery commonly used for this purpose.
Glaze. Some housewives buy icing in the form of a powder, which you just need to dilute with water and it is ready for use. But the sweet mass can be made independently from powdered sugar with the addition of lemon juice and water. 
Icing. This favorite decoration Baking is made from egg whites whipped with powdered sugar. The taste is enriched with lemon juice or vanilla, and the color is obtained through the introduction of various dyes. 
Fudge. Some housewives prefer this option. Gelatin mixed with sour cream and sugar allows you to create a stable layer. Easter cakes under such a “cap” retain their freshness and aroma for a long time. 
Mastic. A very popular cover. plastic recipes sweet mass a bunch of. It is distinguished by its ability to keep its shape well, therefore it is indispensable for the realization of extraordinary Easter ideas. 
Butter cream. An option most suitable for muffins and cupcakes, such as these. Ready cream fill cream injector and draw whatever your heart desires on the baking surface. 
White chocolate. This is the case when decorating Easter cakes is not difficult at all. It's easy to melt a bar of your favorite treat and pour it over pasta or muffins. Kids will love this idea. 
Powdered sugar. The easiest option. What could be easier than pouring sweet powder into a strainer and sprinkle over pastries. White color and the texture of the powder goes well with a ruddy cake.
Coating with the listed compositions creates good foundation for subsequent placement on holiday baking of symbols corresponding to the theme. In the old days, millet dyed in different colors was used for these purposes. Modern confectionery production offer in great abundance not only ready-made Easter cakes, but also various decorative elements for them from marzipan mass.
Buy ready-made decor is the easiest way. If you do not have time at all, then you, of course, choose this option. But in this case, you will lose the pleasure creative process when children can be involved in the creation of design elements. 
Original ideas for decorating Easter cakes
Supporters of Orthodoxy place eggs, flowers, crosses, letters: “ХВ” on their Easter cakes. And the Catholic holiday baking decorate with their presence chickens, rabbits and other figurines, which children really like. From what you can do all this, we'll talk further.
Dough. Depending on the recipe for the cake, before placing it in the oven, from raw dough they make the letters "XB", crosses of various configurations, flowers and leaves. Then all this is placed on the product and baked. In this case, a relief surface is obtained. But a real sensation is able to produce ", your beloved child will appreciate your efforts. Perky rabbit ears shortcrust pastry will enchant your guests.
Mastic. Even the simplest plastic mass from marshmallow allows you to make quite intricate compositions. For example: flowers and chickens will impress your family members and guests. And from marzipan mass you can make colorful eggs and place them on .
Cookie. With the help of such an element, you can interestingly decorate holiday pastries. From the rolled out layer of dough, you can cut out any figures and symbols: letters, flowers, leaves, crosses, eggs, birds and bunnies. All this can be covered with colored icing and laid out or arranged on or around the Easter cake. How to do this, you can see. Please note that in order for the cookies to hold better, various tricks are used. And to revive the figurines, use small colored decor: stars, sweet beads and others. 
Raisins, nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits. All these goodies can cover the surface of paska smeared with sweet syrup. Our ancestors richly decorated Easter cakes, the tradition is still relevant today. It is worth taking small nuts and raisins. And dried apricots, dates and the like will have to be carefully cut into pieces. 
Marmalade. Yes, don't be surprised! Color fruit marmalade can also take any shape and take its rightful place on your pastries.
Coconut shavings. An unexpected modern solution looks cute, easy to apply. It doesn't have to be a continuous cover. A variety of patterns and symbols can be laid out with white shavings on a brown background. 
Whatever way you choose to decorate the Easter cake, remember the belief: how beautiful the symbol of the holiday you make, how happy the year will be for your family!
Tomorrow we will celebrate Easter.
And the main dish on this holiday is Easter cake. We told you about. But how to decorate the main dishes of the holiday? Traditionally, Easter cake is decorated with icing and decorative topping. However, in addition to this, there are many interesting ways definitely worth a try! Or add frosting details. Yes, you can decorate not, but also Easter cakes! Involve kids in creativity, because decorating is interesting and fun 🙂
How to decorate Easter cake with painting
If you plunge into history, you will notice that it used to be customary to give Easter cake for Easter and Easter week. And not just Easter cake, but definitely beautiful. What can be depicted? It is best that the plot on the Easter cake is associated with Christian symbols. For example, depict willow branches on it - this will remind you of Palm Sunday - flowers, which are a symbol of spiritual rebirth, or grape clusters, which mean the union of believers with God. You can also apply an arbitrary pattern. Paint Easter cakes food coloring and sugar pencils.
How to decorate Easter cake with berries
Just place the berries on top of the glaze. They can decorate the picture, or you can just put it on Easter cake - it will already be elegant.
How to decorate Easter cake with flowers
You already know what the flowers symbolize. They can not only be drawn on Easter cake, but also made voluminous. Such decorations are sold in pastry shops, and others of the same kind can be found there, well suited for Easter cakes. They are sugar, chocolate, waffle. You can make them with your own hands - from marzipan.
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