Very beautiful and sunny is the cake "Sunflower". You can use such a confectionery product for children's, thematic and adult holidays. You can cook such a masterpiece using several different techniques. The only drawback of such a confectionery is that it is very difficult to transport. But the taste and look simply amaze with its beauty.
Color Options
The principle of designing a ready-made cake can be completely different, since the confectionery art has in its stock many tricks and techniques. The most affordable options for non-professional pastry chefs are the following options for decorating a cake in the form of a sunflower:
- You can recreate the flower thanks to multi-colored mastic.
- Thick cream and a pastry syringe are the simplest tools for working on a masterpiece.
- Curly baking of dough will make the cake more like a loaf, but will decorate the appearance of the confectionery.
- You can use ready-made sweets. Chocolate drops are suitable for the middle, and the petals are easy to make from candy.
Cake "Sunflower" can be made in the process of using several techniques and materials. Often combine cream and mastic.
A method of preparing a cream for decorating a cake with a sunflower
To diversify the taste of the cake when decorating with cream, you need to use various interpretations and techniques for making a sweet decor. The original option is to prepare two creams to recreate the middle and sunflower petals.
For the cream from which the petals will be formed, you will need these products:
- A glass of sugar.
- 5 eggs.
- 3-4 oranges.
- A pack of butter.
- 4 tablespoons of starch.
- Yellow food coloring.
For the cream, from which the middle and leaves will be made, slightly different ingredients will be needed:
- A glass of sugar.
- Salt and citric acid in equal amounts.
- Half a glass of water.
- 5 egg proteins.
- Dyes.
- Vanillin.
Cream "Sunflower" cake, which will be prepared from a different set of ingredients, will have a bright taste and original appearance.
Mastic cake sunflower
Usually photos of the “Sunflower” cake made of mastic are so realistic that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a confectionery from real flowers. Of course, such a technique can be achieved as a result of long work with mastic, but even at home you can make no less spectacular decoration with a sweet “plasticine”.
First you need to cook the mastic. The easiest option is to make plastic material from special marshmallows marshmallows, powdered sugar and lemon juice. It is necessary to grind the marshmallows as much as possible, pour a small amount of lemon juice. Knead the mass by adding powdered sugar. Divide the mastic into parts, and add a dye to each.
Roll brown mastic and cover prepared cakes. From yellow and green mastic cut petals and leaves. To add special effects, you can add a little texture. On a brown mastic, use a special tool to make a mesh pattern. Petals bend a little.
Preliminary preparation and decoration of the cake
Variations regarding how the finished confectionery product will look may be mass. Usually, the “Sunflower” cake is decorated in a standard way in the form of a sunny flower. Cut out circles from cakes or immediately bake round ones. They impregnate and smear the preparations with cream. Further, a flower is formed from the cake itself using creams or mastics.
You can use more custom design types. Present the cake itself in the form of a basket. To do this, cover the sides of the cake with brown cream, sprinkle with crumbs. And at the top you can already draw a few sunflowers with a cream.
You can make the design this way: on ordinary cake layers that are already saturated and smeared with cream, form several colors. To do this, it is enough to cut circles from the last cake. Then decorate the circles. So get volumetric sunflowers.
Unexpected decoration options
If you need to prepare a cake “Sunflower”, and there is no pastry skills at all, or just a little time, then you can use non-standard decoration options. To do this, just select the appropriate cake and decorations in the store.
Purchased cake must be properly prepared. If it is decorated with mastic, then you need to remove the excess decor. Cream confectionery can be prepared by smoothing the cream with a spatula.
The blank can be decorated with live sunflowers. If not the season, then artificial flowers will come to the rescue. Adhering to environmental friendliness, often use sunflowers, which are made using the origami or quilling technique. These decoration options will be ideal for decorating holiday cakes for a wedding or birthday.
The recipe for cake layers "Sunflower"
The classic version of preparing the base for a cake in the form of a sunflower is a simple recipe. Although any option for shortcakes can be used.
The recipe for the cake "Sunflower" requires the following products:
- A glass of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 0.5 kg of flour.
- Salt.
- Half a glass of honey.
- Soda.
- A piece of butter.
The photo of the “Sunflower” cake and the recipe are presented in this section:
- Mix eggs, honey, butter, sugar and soda. Mix the ingredients lightly and set in a warm water bath.
- When the mass increases several times, you need to pour 1/2 part of the flour, and then the rest.
- Next, knead the dough. Divide into parts. Roll out and bake each part in the oven at 180 degrees.
Then the cake is assembled: cakes are smeared and soaked, the top of the cake is decorated. To do this, you can use any cream you like.