We all love sweet desserts, especially if they are decorated with beautiful patterns, flowers, petals and the like. Roses made of mastic will be a great addition, for example, to a cake or a cake, as they give the pastries a romantic, sweet touch. Of course, they can be purchased ready-made in the store, but they will turn out much tastier and more interesting if you cook them yourself. Although this is not an easy task, the result will please everyone. Having worked hard, you can get beautiful flowers that will please not only the eye, but also the stomachs of loved ones. It will be especially interesting for children who like to enjoy sweets prepared in an unusual way.
A few words about cake decorations
Today, there are many ways to make a rose out of mastic. It is recommended that you prepare the mastic itself so that it is sufficiently plastic, only in this case you can cut petals of various shapes and sizes from it. Roses can be collected from individual petals, which are held together with water. And you can fold them with a ribbon as flowers are made from fabric. Another way is to assemble a flower of five petals that are attached to a mastic blank on a skewer. Several of these blanks create a whole floral bouquet that will delight everyone.
The edges of the petals are made wavy, and the buds can be either open or closed. The only nuance here is the fact that the roses themselves must be completely dry, and only then can they be laid on a flat surface. They can be stored for several months in a sealed container. Let's look at a few ways to make a rose out of mastic.
Flowers for mastic cake
Ingredients: eight hundred grams of powdered sugar, twenty grams of gelatin, sixty grams of cold water, one hundred seventy grams of corn or invert syrup, one spoon of food glycerin (available at the pharmacy), food coloring.
Inventory: dishes with water, brush, scissors.
Cooking mastic
Before making roses from mastic, you must first soak gelatin in cold water and dissolve it in a microwave or in a water bath. Next, sugar powder is sifted into the dishes, part of it is separately mixed with syrup, glycerin and gelatin, and flavoring is added if desired. Then, the remaining powdered sugar is poured portionwise to this mass and kneaded like dough. In this case, the mastic should not stick to the hands. Using dyes, it is painted in various colors. The finished mass is covered with a towel for a while so that it does not dry.
Rose from mastic step by step
First you need to sprinkle powdered sugar on the work surface. To form a flower, you need to prepare five or six petals. They are molded individually. To do this, a piece the size of a hazelnut is nipped off from the mastic, rolled into a ball and pressed with your fingers so that a flat cake is obtained, the edges of which will need to be made a little thinner. At the same time, the thinner the edges of the cake are, the more tender the flower will be. The diameter of the petal should be about five centimeters. When making roses from mastic with your own hands, do not forget to immerse your fingers in powdered sugar so that the mastic does not stick to them.
So, the first petal is tightly twisted with a tube, the workpiece is fixed to the surface covered with powdered sugar. This blank is the center of the flower. The second petal is connected to the tube so that they are in contact only at the bottom. The top is screwed up in some places, giving the rose a natural look. Using a brush, the joint is lubricated with water.
The next petal is connected to another so that it is slightly tucked inward, one edge should be between the first and second petal, and the other outside. Do the same with all five or six petals. Roses from mastic (we just examined the master class) are ready! Further, the leg of the resulting flower is cut with scissors, since it will turn out to be thick. Ready rose is placed on a dish sprinkled with icing sugar. In this way, they make the right number of flowers to decorate cakes, they can be of different colors and sizes. You can also cut leaves from mastic.
Making leaves for a rose
A piece of green mastic is rolled out with a rolling pin into a layer, after sprinkling powdered sugar on the working surface. Using a knife, blanks in the form of leaves are cut. To give the products bulge, they are dried on another rolling pin, you can also bend them with your hands. The leaves should dry for at least 24 hours in a dry and warm room. This is how you can design a cake of mastic with roses, which everyone will like.
Decorations for mastic cakes: roses with petals
Ingredients: forty grams of soft marshmallows, one hundred grams of butter, one tablespoon of lemon juice, powdered sugar, food coloring.
Cooking mastic
In a microwave oven, marshmallow is melted, oil and lemon juice are added to it. Everything is thoroughly mixed and powdered sugar is added in small portions, kneading like dough. Part of the finished mastic is painted green, and the rest is painted red or pink, depending on the imagination, then it is put off for a while.
Making flowers. Method number 1
We will consider further how to make a rose from mastic step by step. To do this, take the required circle shape, put it on mastic rolled into a layer and cut a round billet. In a circle, incisions are made in such a way as to obtain an imitation of petals. Fingers pass along the edges, making them wavy. Then they take a small amount of mastic, form a ball and put it in the middle of the workpiece. Petals twist their hands, wrapping them in the middle. They are moistened with water so that they are pressed more tightly against the bud. In the same way, another preparation is prepared and applied to the bud. The number of flowers can be different, so you can form a whole bunch of roses from mastic. After it is ready, the edges of the flowers are painted in a different color.
Making flowers. Method number 2
After the mastic is done, it is rolled into a layer, rolled up so that a small tubercle forms. Then the ends of the plate are cut one centimeter apart and cut into strips. The resulting ribbons are twisted into a roll, thus forming flowers. Then the base for which the flower is held is compressed to give it a conical shape. Using a cocktail stick, carefully separate the petals so that the rose has a shape. Petals are cut from green mastic and attached to the bottom of the flower. If you roll a large number of such flowers, you can decorate the cake with them, while a bouquet of roses from mastic will be located on the entire surface of the baking.
Full rose from mastic
First of all, they form a core from the finished mastic. To do this, insert a toothpick into the ball formed from it. From a small piece of mastic make a thin petal so that its tip is pointed and flattened. There are many such petals (up to forty). With the help of a teaspoon they are rounded by pressing the tool in the middle, and then pressed along the edges so that they become thinner than the rest.
Next, roses from mastic are made as follows: the first petal is attached so that its flattened part is located in the center of the base, which was formed earlier. It is gently wrapped around the central part, then another petal is added so that its base is located slightly away from the first leaf. It is also wrapped and transferred to the next petal. So they continue to do so until the rose is fully formed.
Add finishing touches
So, when the roses are made of mastic, they proceed to the formation of the base of the flowers. Then the rose is removed from the toothpicks and stained the ends of the petals with an edible shine or food color of a different color. Having made roses from mastic (a master class has already been held), add a few more leaves or grape leaves, previously dried, and set decorations on the cake.
Some useful tips
If you plan to make a cake from mastic with roses placed on the sides, it is recommended to connect the flowers with green leaves to make an ornament in the form of a flower chain. In order to change the appearance of the rose, it is necessary to cut off the edge of the mastic, which is wrapped, and press it so that two layers of petals are formed. And if you roll the edges, you can get a clove.
Roses-decorations on the cake
To make roses from mastic, first you need to prepare mastic according to one of the recipes above. Then it is rolled out very thinly and painted in the desired color. Then, using a stencil or an ordinary glass, cut out circles and stack them in a pile. The circles can be of different diameters, depending on the desired size of the flower; their number is also used at will. It is recommended to take about eight blanks.
How to make roses from mastic?
Then they take blanks and give the edges a curly shape. To do this, lightly press the spoon on the edges of the circle and, as it were, pull the mastic from the center. Do the same with the rest of the blanks from the stack. Ready petals are folded into a bud: a rod is molded from mastic, on which they are wrapped. So, each petal is strung on a rod so that the edge of one is in the middle of the other, while ordinary water is used instead of glue. The finished flower is cut from below with scissors or a knife and decorated with, for example, a cake.
Finally ...
We figured out how to make a rose from mastic. Although this is not an easy task, it is worth it, since such delicious figures will not leave anyone indifferent. Especially the flowers will please the fairer sex, because there is nothing more romantic than the airy dessert presented, decorated with beautiful delicate roses that you can eat.