If you love baking cakes, then this article is especially for you! In this article we will look at a wide variety of ways to decorate cakes with your own hands at home. You can transform an ordinary cake with mastic, marzipan, icing, waffles, chocolate, glaze, cream, cream, meringue, fruit, jelly, sweets, marmalade and sprinkles. We will look at each ingredient of the decoration separately, get acquainted with the recipe for making it, and, of course, be inspired by a huge number of ideas.
For some cake decorating options, you will need special materials such as: a pastry syringe with nozzles, parchment paper, a sharp thin knife, spatulas of different thicknesses.
Decorating cakes with fondant
Mastic is a special dough for decorating a cake. You can roll it out and cover the top of the cake, you can also create various animal figures, letters, numbers, flowers, leaves, openwork patterns and whatever your imagination desires.
The basic rule for working with mastic is that you have to work with it very quickly, since it hardens instantly. But there is a way out! When you form the decoration, pinch off the desired piece and wrap the rest of the mastic in film. Large figures may crack when drying.
Mastic recipe No. 1
Ingredients: condensed milk, powdered milk or cream, powdered sugar, food coloring (optional). The amount of ingredients directly depends on the size of the cake.
Preparation process: take a deep bowl and mix milk powder or cream with powdered sugar. Gradually add condensed milk and mix well. You should get an elastic dough that does not stick to your hands. Add food coloring drop by drop and mix into the dough. After cooking, immediately wrap the mastic in film.
Mastic recipe No. 2
Ingredients: water, lemon juice or citric acid, butter, powdered sugar, starch, marshmallows (white chewy marshmallows), food coloring (optional).
Preparation process: melt the marshmallows for a couple, add drops of food coloring if desired. Then add water and just a little lemon juice or citric acid. Mix the mixture well and then add 50 grams of butter. Separately mix powdered sugar and starch in a ratio of 1:3. Gradually add the powdered starch mixture to the marshmallow mixture and knead the dough well for about 10 minutes. After cooking, immediately wrap the mastic in film.
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Undeniable advantages
Such delicious aromatic bouquets also do not last long and are quickly consumed for their intended purpose. An unusual gift will decorate the event, brightly decorating the festive table.
If you are aware of a person’s taste preferences and habits, this is a win-win option for congratulations.
The components appear:
- Meat,
- Rybnaya,
- Cheese products,
- Vegetables and fruits,
- Seafood
- Sweets.
The following are used as decorative details:
- Live, paper, dry flowers;
- Artificial greenery
- Bunches of parsley, dill, mint;
- Lettuce leaves;
- Cones and pine needles;
- Bunches of rowan berries,
- Physalis.
For the male sex, rolls of rolled up banknotes, tobacco products, perfumes, and alcohol are added. For ladies, lace, champagne or liqueur, toys, cosmetics, and jewelry are suitable.
Children will be delighted with edible bouquets of sweets with marshmallows, lollipops, marshmallows, and waffles.
In this regard, nothing restrains the flight of the creator’s imagination. A popular variation for tea and coffee lovers is tea, coffee and honey infusions.
Decorating cakes with marzipan
Marzipan is a nut mass that consists of almond flour and sugar paste. Its advantages are that it holds its shape perfectly, is quite elastic and has an amazing delicate taste. It is convenient to create all decoration elements from it - small figures, cake covering and voluminous decorations.
Marzipan recipe
Ingredients: 200 grams of sugar, a quarter glass of water, 1 glass of lightly roasted almonds, butter.
Preparation process: peel the almonds and finely chop them in a blender or on a grater. Make syrup from sugar and water. The consistency of the syrup should be thick. Pour the ground almonds into the syrup, stir and cook for 3 minutes. Take a bowl and grease it well with butter. Pour the marzipan into a bowl. Cool the marzipan and pass through a meat grinder. Marzipan is ready! If it turns out liquid, add powdered sugar. If the marzipan is very thick, add a little boiled water.
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Marzipan - Grandma Emma's Recipe
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Decorating cakes with icing
Icing is an ice pattern that looks like a winter pattern on a window and tastes like crispy ice. The advantages of icing are that it is quite durable, does not spread, and adheres well to the surface of the confectionery product. It can be applied on top of hard chocolate glaze, mastic, fondant. It is worth noting that the surface on which icing can be applied should not spread or be sticky. The icing is applied with a pastry syringe, then the finished product is placed in the refrigerator for further hardening. Lace, inscriptions and patterns turn out very beautiful.
Icing recipe
Ingredients: 3 eggs, 500-600 grams of powdered sugar, 15 grams of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of glycerin.
Manufacturing process: cool all ingredients, degrease the dishes and wipe them dry. Take the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the egg whites, add glycerin, lemon juice and powdered sugar. Beat the mixture well with a whisk until it turns white. Cover the mixture with film and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour to burst the air bubbles. The icing is ready, you can safely decorate the cake!
I recommend watching 2 amazing master classes! The first shows in detail how to paint a cake with icing. The second tells in detail how to make gorgeous roses from icing.
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