Baking cakes has now become, rather, the art of creating masterpieces. Now desserts decorated with a lot of whipped cream and a fatty butter cream are not interesting. To give the plot and original form, the biscuit base is covered with a layer of almond food mastic. Then it is decorated with decorative elements. Mastic cakes for birthday are made in the shape of a heart, a cartoon character or a flower basket. Desserts with a wide variety of colors decorate wedding tables. With the inscriptions they make cakes from mastic for the birthday.
Description of the main element for decor
And what is mastic? Material from natural food products is a sticky mass, very similar to plasticine. From mastic, you can make individual elements of the decor or cover it with biscuit bases. If there is no way to purchase mastic in the store, you can cook the mass yourself. For example, by mixing condensed milk, powdered sugar and starch. There is also a recipe for making mastic from marshmallows or gelatin. They also make chocolate mastic. It is made from one can of condensed milk, cocoa powder and milk powder. How to make mastic?
Pour cocoa into the condensed milk, then milk powder and knead until a mass that does not stick to your hands and looks like clay or plasticine. This mastic can be used immediately in the work of decorating the cake. It can also be folded into a plastic bag, restrict air access and store in the refrigerator. Use mastic is allowed for 3 months. Then it loses its plastic properties.
Interesting dessert
Many women who are fond of baking try to make mastic cakes in their kitchen. Where to start and which one to bake? The simplest one is the Pillow cake from mastic. Such a dessert can be presented as a birthday present for girls of any age or to decorate the festive table on March 8. Cake "Pillow" looks very natural and at the same time unusual. Such a dessert can be made to present the main gift, for example, put a gold jewelry in the middle.
A beautiful cake decorated with mastic will take the main place on the table during any festive feast. How to make it? We will talk about this later, having examined in detail the master class on manufacturing. After reading, you can create such a dessert yourself.
Pillow Cake. Workshop on manufacturing
It is necessary to bake a biscuit according to any recipe, the main thing is that it be large enough, about 20 x 20 centimeters and high, at least 10 centimeters. If there is no such a large shape, then it is necessary to bake several small square biscuits, and then in the course of work to combine them into one. It is better to make a biscuit 2 days before the preparation of the cake begins. Well-sprinkled biscuit is dense in structure. It does not break when sliced with a knife.
A well-cooled biscuit must be divided into three layers and then reconnected. Smear them with a gentle creamy cream. Cakes should be pressed tightly to each other and cut in an arcuate shape, giving the shape of a pillow. Grind the remaining biscuit and mix with cream. Use this mixture to grout the seams and voids of the cake base. After that, you need to send the biscuit base in the refrigerator for 2 hours. The mistake of beginning cooks is the use of liquid impregnation in the preparation of a cake. The fact is that mastic from moisture becomes soft and melts even at low temperatures. Cream for interlayers is used on the basis of butter, condensed milk, cottage cheese or sour cream. Protein and custard, as well as chocolate, are not suitable.
Mastic preparation
In order to give shape, it is necessary to prepare several pieces of mastic of different colors. Usually it is sold white. Therefore, to add color, it is necessary to add a few drops of food coloring. If there is no liquid, then you can use dry. But at the same time, you need to carefully intervene in the bulk. For the preparation of the Pillow cake, it is best to take pink shades or blue, pale yellow and green.
For design, they take one color in different shades. The main roll out into a thin sheet. Then they are thrown on a biscuit base, carefully pressed to the base. Do not leave air bubbles. The denser the coating is pressed, the more accurately the cake will look. The edges of the mastic are tucked under the base. Mastic of a different color makes a side fringe on the pillow. In order to properly make it, it is necessary to roll part of the mass into a thin layer. Then it’s worth cutting out four strips of equal width and length, then using your hands to make folds on these strips, and only after that ruffles are glued to the base of the cake.
The last step in creating a dessert
A knife or a special device applies a drawing to the surface of the cake. Then it is decorated with small beads, roses and other decorative elements. The resulting dessert should be put in a cool place to solidify the mastic. But do not store the Pillow cake for more than two days, since the mastic quickly loses moisture and becomes very hard and inedible. To give solemnity, you can make a crown from mastic. Then you need to put it in the center of the dessert.
Cake "Pillow" with a crown is very suitable for celebrating the birthday of a young girl or girl. Although, surely, any woman will be delighted with such a gift.
Conclusion
Cake "Pillow" is very attractive, easy to do. But do not dwell only on this dessert model. You can try to make a cake in the form of figures of animals or cars.
Perhaps, after the first production of a cake from mastic, the hostess will not only please her household with an unusual confectionery product, but also decide to start producing cakes for sale. This will already be a type of income that will not only support the love of cooking, but also improve the financial situation of the family. Indeed, it is now in fashion to purchase non-factory-made cakes, namely, the individual works of culinary masters.