Nowadays, cheesecake is one of the most popular types of dessert, which is served in restaurants and cafes, and can also be prepared with your own hands. In our article you will learn a lot about how to cook and decorate cheesecake at home, you will find a detailed description of the decoration process, as well as design tips for beginners. In addition, all the information is seasoned with juicy photos that will help to better understand how the future dessert will look exactly.
What is it and how to cook?
Thinking about decorating a cheesecake at home? Photos from the following sections and a detailed description of the creative process will help you understand this issue in detail. However, for starters, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the recipe for making such a dessert and what this cake is, because not all people fully understand this.
A cheesecake is a dessert made from cream cheese or cottage cheese with the addition of crushed cookies or biscuit dough. This cake is not only very tasty, but also awakens a strong desire to decorate it in some original way. For cooking, you will need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of any crumbly cookies;
- 500 grams of cream cheese of any kind;
- 200 grams of milk cream (35%);
- 100 grams of butter;
- 5 tablespoons of sugar;
- 1 sachet of vanillin;
- 1 lemon (zest);
- powdered sugar.
First you need to grind the cookies to the state of crumbs. After that, melt the butter in a water bath and mix it with cookies. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar and mix thoroughly. As a baking dish, any pan with a diameter of 20 to 22 centimeters is suitable. The dough is placed in the oven, heated to 170 degrees and aged there for 10 minutes.
While our cake will be in the oven, you can do the cooking of cheese mass. To do this, beat four chicken eggs with four tablespoons of sugar, and then add to the mixture fat cream, half a lemon zest and a bag of vanillin. Mix everything thoroughly and add cream cheese there. Mix again until smooth.
Once the cheese mass is ready (it should be quite liquid), pour it onto the base and place the cake for 70-80 minutes in the oven, preheated to 150 degrees. After that, cool the cake and place in the refrigerator for a while. It is best to let it brew in a cool place all night. After that, you can beautifully decorate the cheesecake (photos will be given later) with fruits, chocolate, glaze and other confectionery additives that can be found in your home. In the following sections, you will find more information about this.
Use fresh berries
Have you decided to decorate the cheesecake with berries? Then you should take advantage of the recommendations from our article so that the registration procedure goes without any complications. Although this option is considered one of the simplest, therefore, even a novice chef will be able to decorate the cake with black currants, gooseberries or raspberries. However, only the ripest fruits should be selected, and they must also be thoroughly washed before decorating.
Beginners are recommended to use whole berries, but if you are confident that you can cut kiwi or strawberries into beautiful pieces, then do not be afraid to let your imagination run wild. You can lay out a star from the berries or write some words with them. The most experienced confectioners use several fruits at once to create a flower bud from them. Of course, such an idea will be quite difficult to implement, but all the necessary skills will certainly come with experience.
If you look at the photo a little higher, you will see how simple and original it is possible to decorate a delicious cake with fresh blueberries and raspberries. Just spread the dessert with any cream or whipped cream, and then lay the berries in the shape of a star, as shown in the picture. To fill the remaining space, you can add milk chocolate, having previously melted it in a water bath and placed in a special gun to create beautiful shapes.
Decorate the cake for a dinner with a soulmate
Many ladies are wondering how to decorate a cheesecake on top, although this is not a big deal. For example, if you decide to please your sweetheart with a sweet dessert, then it will be necessary to decorate it so that your fiancée sees that you have invested a piece of your soul in cooking. To do this, you can use our technology or come up with your own original idea, which will stand out from the gray mass of those cakes that can be purchased in stores.
So, to decorate a cheesecake, you will need to take a small spoon (ideally a baby one) and use it to create several recesses in the form of hearts on the surface of the dessert. They can be poured with any syrup (to taste) or jam. Ideally, it is recommended to use a berry or fruit composition in red to make the hearts as realistic as possible. When the decoration is finished, add a sprig of mint or lemon balm on top to give the cake a twist.
By the way, to cover up the ugly side walls, you can use melted chocolate or some delicious cream made by yourself. Experienced confectioners recommend applying several layers so that the sweet composition has time to freeze and not drip down after prolonged standing in the refrigerator. You can even try to write something on the cake on the side, and if all else fails, simply cover the letters with another layer of cream.
Instant coffee for tiramisu lovers
We decided to decorate the cheesecake cake in the original way, but the berries and fruit jam do not cause you sympathy? How about making a cake with instant coffee or cocoa powder. Such an idea will especially appeal to those who adore tiramisu and want to combine its taste with cottage cheese, added to dessert. This cake has a very unusual taste. However, do not add a lot of coffee, otherwise you will ruin the homemade cake with bitterness.
So, to make the dessert more invigorating, you need to take the same form in which you prepared the cake and pour melted bitter chocolate into it, after mixing it with instant coffee. It remains to put the baking sheet in the refrigerator and wait until it completely solidifies. Carefully remove the coffee disk from the mold and place it on the cake, previously greased with whipped cream. After that, it remains only to add some decorative elements so that the dessert does not seem so gloomy. For example, you can use icing, marshmallows or the same whipped cream.
Using chocolate to decorate
To decorate the cheesecake with chocolate, you can use a variety of varieties of the ingredient. Such a dessert will especially appeal to those people who love sweet cakes in combination with the most delicate cottage cheese. Looking at the photo below, you will see that in our case not only chocolate will be used, but also various confectionery elements based on it. As in the previous case, you can decorate the cake according to our instructions or replace some elements with something else, creating a unique dessert.
First you need to melt a few tiles of white chocolate in a water bath, and then anoint the cheesecake with the finished composition. Then you need to melt milk or bitter chocolate in a small amount to draw beautiful patterns on the cake. As soon as the painting is finished, we spread in a circle various goodies: pieces of chocolate, pastry tubes, sweet balls and so on. You can even add a few Raffaello or Ferrero Rocher sweets to make the dessert not only delicious, but also modern.
A little trick for those who want to decorate the cake as beautiful as possible. Do not be afraid to stack confectionery items in a chaotic manner. If you create a certain sequence of chocolate and sweets, then the idealist will like such a dessert. So feel free to put the straws unevenly, and the candies - the plain side. Such a cake will look much nicer.
There are never too many strawberries
We decided to decorate the strawberry cheesecake, but do not know how to properly compose the composition? Then we advise you to look at the photo below and repeat what is depicted in it in life. Believe me, there is nothing complicated in such decoration, and strawberries are incredibly harmoniously combined with the taste of tender cottage cheese and cookies. That is why in restaurants, cafes and shops so often come across desserts decorated with this sweet berry.
To begin, grease the surface of the cheesecake with whipped cream or cream, the amount of sugar in which should depend on the sweetness of strawberries. If you come across too sour berries, add more sugar or condensed milk to the cream to make the cake as tasty as possible. After that, it is necessary to cut several berries into small pieces. It is advisable to do this in a thin saucer so that strawberry juice is not wasted.
As soon as all preparations are completed, evenly pour strawberry juice on the surface of the cheesecake, after which we spread the chopped strawberries on it in a chaotic sequence. The center of the composition can be decorated with a large berry or come up with a more original idea. The edges of the cake are usually decorated with whipped cream or ice cream. After completing the work, you can sprinkle the cake with chocolate chips to make it look more attractive.
Jelly cheesecake
To decorate jelly cheesecake, you do not need to have special pastry and culinary skills. However, such a dessert will undoubtedly look very unusual, especially if you can make various figures from products. For example, you can cut a beautiful bud from yellow jelly or simply cut it into petals, and then lay them on top of the cake.
So, first you need to make a basis for decoration. To do this, take lemon syrup or jelly and add one pack of gelatin to it. The resulting mixture must be mixed well and poured into the form in which you prepared the rest of the cake. After that, it remains only to place the jelly for 4 hours in the refrigerator and wait for its readiness.
As soon as the jelly hardens, take it out of the pan and place it on top of our cheesecake. A beautiful bud is easiest to make with a small vegetable knife or a flat spoon (depending on the shape of the petals). If such a decoration seems too complicated for you, try cutting some shapes out of jelly using special tins (hearts, birds, teddy bears), and then fill the voids with cream or jam.
Fruit Decoration
To decorate cheesecake with fruits, you can use a variety of goodies: oranges, tangerines, kiwi, bananas, pineapple and so on. You can also try decorating your cake as shown in the photo below. A mixture of berries and fruits is never bad. However, if desired, you can replace strawberries with pineapple, and raspberries with bananas. Culinary experts in no case advise using apples, as they quickly lose their appearance, like the whole cake.
First you need to prepare fruits and berries for decoration. Wash them well under running water. After that, oranges or tangerines must be properly peeled - not only from the peel, but also from the film, so that only the flesh remains. Kiwi also needs to be peeled and cut into quarters. If you plan to use berries, then they can be left as they are.
Lubricate the cheesecake with whipped cream first, as the dessert needs to be given more sweetness in combination with plenty of fruit. It is best to start decorating the surface from the middle. To do this, put in the center more densely several sliced or whole strawberries or replace them with pineapple, after cutting it with triangles. Then lay out a layer of tangerines and kiwi, then decorate the cake with raspberries or chopped banana rings.
Chocolate Drunk Cherry
If you have ever tried the Drunken Cherry cake, you probably know what a refined and unique taste it has. You can add similar notes to any pie, if you correctly approach the process of its design. In the photo below you can see how original and unusual your cake will look. It is likely that it will be very difficult to cut into pieces, but your guests will certainly be delighted with such a spectacle.
Ready cheesecake must be spread with a thick cocoa cream. After that, several cherries are laid out on it, previously moistened in a strong liquor. Be sure to buy berries on the branches, because the cake looks so much more beautiful. It remains only to pour chocolate chips on the edges or decorate the cake with whipped cream.
By the way, if you want to cook your own cheesecake, which will be as similar as possible to “Drunk Cherry,” be sure to add a few slices of berries to the curd mass during its preparation. Wetting them with liquor is not necessary at all, since it will still be almost not felt due to the sweetness of the cake, but the cottage cheese from alcohol turns sour much faster.
New Year or Christmas cake
"How to decorate cheesecake for the New Year?" - A similar question is asked by many beginning confectioners who are crazy about such pies. Some people will say that cheesecake is not the kind of cake that should be served at the Christmas table. Do not listen to anyone! If you decorate your dessert correctly, it will look great on the background of champagne, tangerines and salads.
So, to decorate a cheesecake, you will first of all need to wash and cut a couple of kiwi fruits well. We do not stack them too tightly to each other so that the taste of the dessert does not turn out to be too sweet. In the center we leave a small place in order to pour crumbs from a Christmas candy there. If such sweets are not sold in stores in your city, you can replace this item with whipped cream.
As soon as the basis is ready, we proceed to the most difficult stage - the creation of a Christmas bow. It is best to have before your eyes a drawing according to which decorative work will be conducted. First cut the strawberries in a suitable shape, and then lay out our bow from it. Do not be afraid to use large berries in some places, so that the confectionery element turns out to be as similar as possible to a Christmas decoration.
As soon as the work with the bow is completed, thoroughly grease it with strawberry jam to give the dessert more palatability. In the center, you can put blackcurrant or blueberry, which will represent the button. As an alternative, a small whipped cream blot is suitable. It is also recommended to decorate the cake with fresh raspberries, which resembles Christmas tree cones.
Do not be afraid to experiment!
As you can see, making and decorating a cheesecake is not such a difficult task as it seems at first glance. To make the dessert as beautiful and attractive as possible, try to combine the ideas that were presented in our article with your own ideas. Do not be afraid to change some elements to alternative ones to make the cake as unusual as possible. And if you plan to invite several guests to the celebration, then the best option is to make several small cheesecakes instead of one large. To do this, find special molds in the form of squares, stars or hearts and delight your friends and loved ones with a truly unusual dessert. The undoubted advantage of this approach is that each cake can be decorated strictly individually, however, this will require a lot of time.
Video and conclusion
We hope that the detailed information from our article threw you a couple of ideas on how to decorate a cheesecake. Photos of desserts clearly conveyed to you how such cakes should look like. Maybe we helped you decide on the decoration. But if this did not happen, then we recommend watching a short video, the author of which came up with her own way to decorate cheesecake with hearts.A similar method was described in our article. However, the one that the author of the video offers us is much more suitable for beginning confectioners. If you wish, you can thank the owner of the channel with a positive rating for the video or a pleasant comment.
Today, cheesecake is one of the most popular desserts in the whole world. A similar trend was caused due to its unusual taste and relatively low calorie content, which is achieved through the use of cottage cheese, and not a regular test. In addition, this dessert is very simple to decorate at home, so confectioners from all over the world come up with new and new ways of decorating for a sweet cake. It would seem that all the ways have long been invented, but still there are people who create something truly unique and beautiful. Perhaps one day you will become such a person too?