Have you seen such jewelry that you can simply and with pleasure eat? If not, then you will have this opportunity after reading this article. Those who have creative abilities, we recommend trying to cook something extraordinarily tasty. It will be about culinary creativity and the preparation of an unusual dessert using original decor.
Decorating cakes with mastic has become a peculiar direction of art, but you cannot call it a delightful miracle. For example, how cute the cake looks, which is prepared for the baby’s first birthday in the form of a favorite protective bib. Only it is of unusual pink color with tasty fragrant frills and lovely flowers. In the preparation of such a dessert, cake decoration with mastic is useful to us. It is also called food-grade plasticine, and consists of 80% sugar.
If there is a desire and inspiration, try to do something wonderful, almost weightless and just fantastic for your loved ones or friends' birthday. This may be an original dessert, the main emphasis of which is created by mastic decorations for the cake. They can be of various shapes and colors, and can also display the hobby of the hero of the occasion. For example, you can sculpt a fisherman with a fishing rod surrounded by trees and a small lake, or you can create a wonderful composition of wild berries and mushrooms. Undoubtedly, such a surprise will be the most pleasant moment for the birthday party.
A special inspiration comes when you need to create a wedding cake. Here you can develop your imagination so that the newlyweds will remember this significant event in their life for a very long time, because it is no secret that after the question about the outfit of the bride, they always ask what the cake was.
How to create unique decorations from mastic for a cake, you ask. The answer is: for this, first of all, you need your desire, certain ingredients and some skills. First we need to come up with an idea for a cake. Information about the hobbies of the hero of the occasion will serve as a hint, because you can always beat them profitably. Then, as when sewing, we do a pattern or a small layout, this is mandatory. If you decide to use a ready-made template, then in the manufacturing process you can make small changes.
Decorating cakes with mastic involves the use of familiar products: water, sugar, gelatin and margarine. From these components you will get snow-white classic and elastic sugar mastic. Do not abuse the dyes, otherwise your guests will have a residue from oversaturation with unnatural colors.
Decorating cakes with mastic becomes a particularly interesting activity when you have to fashion tender angels, decorative trees or bouquets of flowers, animals and birds. The cake itself can be made in an unusual, thematic form: in the form of a motorcycle, airplane or builder's helmet. Your imagination is not limited to anything!
Decorating cakes from mastic allows you to make very funny patterns and figures. This, of course, is both entertainment and a prelude to the holiday. To sculpt, creating amazing things, and then to surprise and feed the guests' fill, than not pleasure! How to cook sugar mastic? In fact, everything is very simple! We will need such simple products as:
- water - 80 ml;
- gelatin - 7 g;
- glucose (we will buy it at the pharmacy) - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- soft margarine - only 1 tbsp. the spoon;
- powdered sugar - 1 kg.
We start with gelatin, which we fill with water for 40 minutes, so that it swells. We heat it exclusively in a water bath until completely dissolved, add margarine and glucose to it, mix thoroughly. Then pour into another bowl and let cool, and then add a little powdered sugar to this composition. We mix, adding sugar in small portions. We do this until the mass becomes consistent, like dough. On a cutting table, pour a hill of powdered sugar, and in the center we make a small funnel, where we will send the mastic. Then we proceed, as with the test: roll out, cut, etc.
Decorations of mastic cakes can be different each time, so a cake prepared according to the same recipe will always be perceived differently. This can turn into a real hobby that is no different from traditional hobbies.