For every children's holiday, I want to come up with something interesting. A great way to diversify the table is to serve an unusual cake. Such an attribute will not only appeal to children, but will also be remembered for a long time.
Not so long ago, cakes decorated with mastic came into fashion. With the help of delicious material, you can create culinary masterpieces without even having the skill.
Pony Cake
This cake is just one of the products created especially for children. Its convenience is that the base can be absolutely any: biscuit, sand or puff. What really matters is the elements that will cover the surface of the sweet dessert.
It is interesting that even if the base does not differ in attractiveness or taste, thanks to decorations, it will be transformed into a highlight of any holiday. Children's ponies "Pony" will please any kid.
Mastic is a dense mass, in its consistency similar to plasticine. To process it, you may need toothpicks and stacks, so making molds from it can also be an excellent developing activity for the child.
Cooking mastic
It does not include harmful components, especially if you cook the product at home. To prepare it, we need soft marshmallows (50 grams), which you can buy in the store, food colors of several colors, butter (100 grams), powdered sugar and lemon juice.
First of all, you need to mix the marshmallows and butter, warm them up (you can do this in the microwave, placing the ingredients in it for 25-30 minutes) and mix again. Then you need to warm up the mass again and add icing sugar and lemon juice (to taste). Dividing the dough into several parts, you can add colorful dyes. Cake made from Pony mastic should turn out to be rainbow, so lemon, blue, pink and other bright colors are best suited.
Making Pony Figures
Despite the fact that the whole process looks complicated, in fact, everyone comes out the winner. Pony cake (a master class on its creation consists of the same steps: making mastic and creating figures) is easy to learn to decorate yourself. Creating figures from mastic really resembles modeling from clay. To make a pony, you first need to start with the torso and create a thick sausage for the body and a small bun for the head. We attach the head and body, bending it so that the neck turns out, and then we remove the seams. To get this out without any trace, you need to wet your hands with water.
Stretch your legs from the body. This can be done more conveniently by first stretching the front and rear legs in the center and cutting them into two parts. So the figure will gain resistance and will not fall. If the material loses its plasticity, you can slightly warm the figure in the microwave.
On the head you need to draw a mouth, nostrils and make small indentations for the eyes. To make eyes, it is necessary to smear three small pieces of mastic of white, blue and black color and stick them sequentially on each other. From the dough of the same color as the body of the pony, we sculpt the ears, helping ourselves with a stack or a toothpick, and attach them to the head. Small strings of black color will serve as cilia.
There comes the most crucial part, namely the preparation of the mane and tail. As you know, in the popular cartoon My Little Pony there are a variety of horses. If you want to create one of these images, then manes will become an important aspect of the whole picture. Walking through the hair with a toothpick, you can make them the most realistic.
Prepare the basis of the cake
Lonely ponies standing in the middle of a biscuit field do not look very beautiful, so it would be better to prepare small decorations for small horses. The main thing is to connect the imagination, or maybe the imagination of the child: you can cover the “Pony” cake with white icing and “plant flowers”, or you can use the same mastic and create a night sky. In any case, the picture with the landscape always looks prettier.
It should be noted here that it is easier to apply mastic on a biscuit cake, although this depends on individual preferences. The base should be generously greased with oil cream and covered with a thin layer of our dough. With the help of water, even a child will make mastic obedient.
Finally, you can install ponies, also creating interesting scenes and fixing the exposure with water. Despite the fact that it is easier for masters and experienced cooks to prepare such a dish, everyone can try themselves and become a professional. The uniqueness of the cake allows you to use a variety of ingredients in its preparation, which is very convenient when the supply in the kitchen is limited.
The cake is ready!
Now the dish can be served on the table. Among the additional decorations that complement such a cake, there are inscriptions, edible stars, grated chocolate, nuts. In general, during cooking, the kitchen turns into a pantry of fairy tales and adventures. Pony cake can be a wonderful gift for a child, the main thing is not to make him feel sorry for such beauty.
By the same principle, other works of culinary art are created. In fact, even if only imagination and some ingredients are in stock, you can turn a dining and holiday table into a fairy tale.