It is no secret that a women’s handbag is an integral attribute of the style and image of any modern fashionista. Therefore, when the question arises of what kind of cake should be prepared for a birthday or other celebration for an adult lady, a young girl or a little girl, many experienced confectioners recommend making a cake in the form of a bag. This sweet and elegant gift can be decorated with cream or made from mastic - it all depends on the work skills, imagination and preferences of the author. Cake "Handbag" looks very original and appetizing. The photos presented below demonstrate this clearly. In our article we will share some recipes.
How to make dessert in the form of a bag from mastic: a master class
According to this recipe, the “Handbag” cake is made of mastic in a relatively small size. But if desired, the number of ingredients can always be increased. In the process of making a sweet gift, they use a special set of ingredients and special devices.
What will be needed to create a dessert
You need to purchase such devices and ingredients (some of them can be prepared independently):
- Cake sponge cake round.
- Cream (creamy or buttery) for the layer of cakes and coating the surface.
- Mastic.
- Dyes (food) - black, pink, gray.
- Beads (sugar) - pink and white.
- Corn starch (can be replaced with powdered sugar).
- Rolling pin.
- Stacks.
- Shovel.
- The substrate for the cake.
The process of making the cake "Handbag" will take a lot of time. This should be taken into account for those who decided in this way to pleasantly surprise the birthday girl.
Process description
Cake "Handbag" from mastic is not so simple to make. It will take a lot of patience, as well as the use of remarkable imagination and skills of the hostess.
First, a cake (round) is baked with a diameter of about 24 cm. It is layered with a cream, which also covers the side parts and the entire surface, smooths it well and cleaned for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
After 2 hours, the product is removed from the refrigerator, approximately 1/5 of the base will be cut out. The remaining piece is set by slice on the substrate.
We tighten the “handbag” with mastic
Most of the mastic, which will be covered with a “handbag”, is painted in light pink color (food coloring is used). A layer is rolled out, a piece of a rectangular shape is cut from it, the length of which is equal to the width of the side of the cake (now it is at the top of the "handbag"). Apply mastic to it, level it, releasing air.
Next, a layer of pink mastic is rolled out. Its size should allow to completely cover the cake. This layer is laid on top of the side part, which is already covered with mastic, gently release air (you can use a special iron), cut off the excess with a knife.
Then, using a special film on the surface of the "Handbag" cake, they make an even line of a diamond-shaped shape. It is applied first to the sides of the cake (inside the bulges), ironed with an iron. Then the procedure is repeated with the top of the product. Using a special long ruler-triangle, you can make the relief more visible by pushing it along the outlined contours.
Making the lightning
A sharp stack in the center of the upper part makes an incision (70% of the length), without bringing it to the very bottom. A 1 cm wide tape is cut from a piece of gray (small) mastic. The length of the tape and the notch must match. The cut out part also gives a relief imitating a zipper. The “fastener” is carefully placed inside the notch, the excess mastic is cut off, the edges are folded inward using the stack, and a line is created along the edges of the zipper.
On the one hand make a tongue of lightning. To do this, a blank in the form of a droplet is molded from gray mastic, a larger droplet with a hole in the center is glued to it.
Decorate the surface of the cake
Next, from the black mastic, they make the "handbag" border. Elements are drawn in the form of flagella (d = 3 mm). The tourniquet is attached at the side seams and at the base of the “bag” (gel or any other food-grade adhesive is used).
Then, in all places where the line intersects, pearl beads made of sugar are attached (they are slightly lubricated with a decorative gel and pressed into the surface of the product).
Then a rectangle imitating a fastener is rolled out from black mastic. It should be laid so that it freely entered half the barrels of the "handbag". A rectangle of black mastic of the same length, but narrower, is placed on top.
We create handles for the Handbag cake
After finishing decorating, two fairly wide sausages are rolled from pink mastic, which are plucked with fingers along the entire length, creating an imitation of a line. Surpluses are cut with a round knife, using a ruler, give a relief. The handles are bent and glued with a special adhesive (food grade).
The clasp of the “handbag” is decorated with an elegant brooch, which is made from a regular mug mug (light pink or white), on which there are colored sugar beads in a circle.
Master class cake "Handbag" cream
A wonderful sweet present can be made from cream. Such a cake “Handbag” for a girl, a young girl or a lady can be made by one’s own hands, created from a delicate biscuit, coated on the outside with airy cream cream, originally decorated with elegant lush flowers or other elegant decoration elements.
What will be needed for work
To make a cream cake, you will need the following ingredients:
- Oval cake (biscuit).
- Cream (butter), which layered cakes and wipe the surface of the cake.
- Cream (creamy) for decoration.
- Mastic.
- Food color silver.
- Corn starch.
- Pastry bag with gear nozzle (used for the manufacture of decorative elements).
- Wide shoulder blade.
- Mat for mastic.
- Rolling pin.
- Knife.
- Brush
Technology Description
In the process of making a cake, the author can fantasize and make his own additions to the design of the product. First, an oval biscuit cake is baked and cut into 3-4 layers, which are coated with an oil cream. Using a wide spatula, the outer and inner surfaces of the cake are leveled, after which the base is placed in the refrigerator for three to four hours.
Cooking cream and decorating the cake with roses
Next, prepare a cream. If desired, it can be made choux or add gelatin to it. You can leave the cream white or multi-colored.
The cake is turned over by placing it vertically on one of the side surfaces. Excess crop, rounded corners.
The cream is transferred to a pastry bag, put on a nozzle with long teeth. Further, the entire surface of the base is decorated with flowers. In this case, rounded movements should be made with the bag. The result should be on the side surfaces of the product 2 rows of cream "roses" and one row on top.
The final stage is the pen
It is made of gray mastic. The product can be dyed by kneading or gray dye applied to finished parts. The handle in this "handbag" is made in the form of a latch. Roll out a strip of mastic 2.5 cm wide. The thickness of the segment should be about 1 cm. The edges of the workpiece are obliquely cut off. Next, the part is installed vertically and a longitudinal recess is made from above. Then roll up 2 balls. All parts are coated with pearl paint or decorgel (for shine). Next, the resulting elements are connected - a longitudinal-shaped blank is laid on the surface of the bag, balls of mastic are attached from above (adhesive is used).
Dessert in the form of a bag with a shoe
To make the dough for this masterpiece of culinary art, you will need:
- Soda - 1 tbsp. l (quenched with vinegar).
- Two eggs.
- Flour - two glasses.
- Brown sugar - one glass.
- Sour cream - one glass.
- Condensed milk - half a can.
For the cream you will need the ingredients:
- Cognac - one table. the spoon.
- Three yolks.
- 300 grams of oil (soft).
- A quarter cup of water.
- 50 grams of chocolate.
- Half a can of condensed milk.
The cake is made with mastic (500 g).
Cooking
The dough is prepared very simply: all the ingredients are mixed and whipped until smooth. Then they act like this:
- The resulting mass is poured onto a baking sheet, which must be covered with baking paper. Bake for 15 minutes. in the oven, heated to a temperature of 170 degrees, cool.
- Beat condensed milk with water and yolks, put on a small fire and let stand until thickened, then add chocolate (crushed) and cool. Beat the butter, gradually add to the cream, constantly whipping with a mixer. At the end add brandy.
- Collect the cake: a circle is cut out of the biscuit (d = 16 cm), cut in half, impregnated with syrup (any). Smeared with cream on all sides, sent to the refrigerator for one hour.
- The mastic is rolled out, strips of 2 cm thick and 16 cm long are cut out of it. Flowers are made of them, ruffles are formed, folded. The cake is set in an upright position, covered with mastic, flowers are attached. Add a handle made of mastic, decorate with edible beads, set the cake on a stand. For effect, the “handbag” is decorated with a mastic “shoe”.
Sweet elegant “handbag” will bring joy and pleasantly decorate the holiday for any woman, girl or girl, regardless of age.