Any holiday, whether it’s a birthday, a wedding or just a family celebration, can not do without sweets. Regardless of whether you buy a sweet masterpiece or make it yourself, the decoration of the cakes should amaze the guests.
Perhaps, to begin with, it is worth saying that any cake should be excellent in taste, so that then the chic appearance was not spoiled by unsightly filling. Making cakes can be done using completely different methods. The easiest way is to sprinkle cocoa, powdered sugar, grated or melted chocolate, nuts or just grated extra cake cake. These methods of decorating in a hurry, and you can’t call them “mouth-watering”. So, you need to find some other option.
You need to choose the design depending on who the cake is intended for. If this is the head of a prestigious company, then the design should be in a business, strict style. If this is a girl, then it’s appropriate to include flowers in the design, but you can use any fantasy idea for children's cakes. Cakes, decoration, photos of the final result can be found on the pages of any confectionery site.
Ways to decorate cakes
- Decorating with cream is a rather simple, but at the same time very beautiful way to decorate the cake. To do this, prepare a cream. They are divided into several parts, and stained with different food colors. Then, using a syringe, decorate the cake with roses, leaflets, various curls and waves.
- Any cake can be beautifully decorated with fruit. Moreover, not just scattering them on top, but turning them into works of art, cutting them into slices, cutting balls out of them, making ladders and baskets.
- You can beautifully decorate cakes with flowers, both real and made from glaze or marzipan.
- The decoration of cakes by hand-painted will look good. To do this, prepare a sketch of the drawing on tracing paper, and then transfer it to the icing that covers the cake and paint it with confectionery gels. For simplicity, you can use a stencil, as well as curly stamps, which can be of any shape, even in the form of animals. Such stencils are very convenient for creating children's cakes.
Making cakes using mastic
Separately, it is worth highlighting the design of cakes with mastic - this is aerobatics. There are several types of mastic: sugar, condensed milk, from marshmallows. These types can be prepared with your own hands. Professional mastic can only be purchased at a specialized store. Cakes are decorated with mastic, most often biscuits, which are first invented, and then cut out on paper and made a pattern. You can take cardboard and make a cake out of it. This is necessary in order to calculate the correct size of the mastic. Making cakes should begin with their preparation so that the mastic does not "run away" from them. Most often, for this, the cake is coated with butter cream and sent to the refrigerator to freeze the cream, and then polished, giving a perfectly flat surface using a dry hot knife. After that, the table is sprinkled with starch and mastic is rolled on it into a layer 0.5 cm thick, and of such a diameter that the cake is completely covered with it. Put the mastic on the culinary work and carefully level it with hands covered with starch. Excess mastic is cut with a knife at a distance of 2 cm from the cake, and the tail is wrapped under the cake. It remains only to decorate the masterpiece from above at will.