For any boy who is fascinated by transformers, a cake with his beloved heroes will be a wonderful gift for the holiday. Bright colors and unusual images open up wide scope for the creativity of the confectioner. Treat your birthday boy with an unusual treat!
At first glance, the task may seem overwhelming. But in reality it is not so difficult to implement. Of course, if you don’t feel that you can handle the design, you can simply order the Transformers cake from the mastic in the confectionery, but there are many ways to make it yourself.
Cake mold
What shape should be a birthday cake? Round or square, made in the form of numbers or in the form of a favorite character - it all depends on you. If your pastry experience is enough to realize the most daring idea - go for it! But even a regular cake decorated by the heroes of the Transformers saga will look very impressive.
In addition, there are many suitable molds for cast cakes on sale. Using one of them, you can quickly prepare a cake of the desired shape and not mess with the collection of multi-tiered designs. Just fill the dough into a mold and bake a cake, and decorating it will not be difficult at all.
Figurines for decoration
Perhaps, only the lazy mistress has not yet discovered mastic. Its recipe has long been known: Marshmallow melted marshmallows are mixed in powdered sugar, as in flour. This mass is plastic and perfectly painted in any color. Even a child can handle modeling.
From mastic, you can sculpt figures of your favorite characters. But if the result does not suit you, transformers can help you. You can decorate the cake with plastic figures, which the birthday person will be able to present to friends during the feast as a keepsake of the holiday.
Style decoration
Use a pattern - this will greatly facilitate your work. On it you can cut out the details of the "face" of the character from the mastic rolled into a layer or use it as a stencil for painting with cream.
Just cut out the windows in the printed image, attach to the cake and apply color cream with a pastry syringe.
Ready-made confectionery pictures
Many shops that offer goods for confectioners have wonderful helpers in their arsenal. Transformers cake, the photo of which you see below, is decorated with one of them.
We are talking about ready-made pictures printed with edible inks on thin wafer cakes. You can decorate the most ordinary cake with such a picture by sticking it on a light cream and filling it with colored ones around the perimeter.
What to make a children's cake from?
If you want pastries to be not only beautiful, but also healthy and tasty, consider what will happen in the middle. For children's cakes biscuit and sand cakes, souffle “Bird's milk” are excellent. Children like jelly layers very much.
Try to avoid too oily creams. Oily is not the best choice for small eaters. But custard, sour cream and protein are quite suitable for the children's menu. A delicious cream can be made from whipped fruit yogurt, in which gelatin is added. One liter of yogurt will require from 15 to 30 grams of dissolved gelatin. Sugar is added as desired. In such a cream, you can add a little cottage cheese whipped with a blender, it will turn out even thicker and tastier.
The first place in the list of children's favorite sweets, of course, replaces chocolate. It can help not only improve the taste, but also smooth the surface before applying the decor. On a background of melted white chocolate, the colors go very well.
The tips in this article will help you realize the dream of your beloved child. "Transformers" - a cake that will surely delight the little birthday boy.