Many are interested in how to make beautiful cake decorations with your own hands. Creating a bright rainbow dessert does not require much time, and it looks just amazing. If you are interested in how to cook a delicious cake and how to decorate it with mastic, read this instruction. You can use the cake cake mix or your own favorite cake recipes and just follow the simple steps to make an unusual dessert.
You will need the following ingredients:
- 3 boxes of cake mix prefabricated (or make your own pastry using your favorite recipe);
- vanilla glaze (semi-finished or home-made);
- sugar mastic (you can make it yourself from marshmallows or buy it already ready);
- pink, purple, blue, green, and yellow food colors;
- corn starch;
- your favorite cream (or boiled condensed milk, jam, etc. - to your liking).
Step 1: make a cake
You need to bake 5 separate cakes for different layers, if you have only 1 or 2 baking dishes, you can use them one at a time.
Prepare the dough according to your recipe or according to the instructions on the package (if you are using a semi-finished product) and divide it into 5 even parts. Add 1/4 teaspoon of pink food coloring to the first bowl and mix until smooth, uniform in color. These self-made cake decorations are very simple and do not require any special skills.
Repeat this process for the remaining four parts of the test, adding violet, light green, yellow light blue dyes to each part. Pour each mixture into a separate baking dish and bake in the oven, following the instructions on the packaging of the cake mix. You can check the readiness of the cake by inserting a toothpick into it. Before baking, keep the rest of the dough in the refrigerator (if you bake everything in one form one at a time).
After each cake is cooked, remove it from the oven. Leave it in shape for 5 minutes and then lay on the wire rack for cooling.
2nd step
Trim the top and bottom edges from each layer to make the cakes flat, and remove the thin brownish peels.
Take the yellow cake and put a thin layer of cream (or other filler) on it, put a green layer of cake on top and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes to cool.
Similarly, lay the remaining cakes on top of each other, smearing them with cream. The pink cake should be on top.
Apply a thin layer of glaze along the edges and top of the cake, make it as smooth as possible. Cool the product so that the glaze can freeze.
Then, to make decorations for the cake with your own hands, take a sheet of paper and mark on it where each individual layer ends.
3rd step
Measure the size of your dessert, and also determine the height of each layer.
You will need to roll out a piece of mastic, which can be cut into a rectangle of exactly the size that you marked. Divide it into 5 parts and mix each of them with the same dyes that you used for the test. Then add corn starch to the mastic and mix thoroughly to make an elastic dough.
How to make cake decorating - details
Roll out the mixture mixed with pink dye on a table sprinkled with a small amount of corn starch. Turn and lift it to make sure that it does not stick, and try to roll out a rectangular shape.
After the mastic layer is large enough, you need to trim it along the top edge to get a straight line. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and place it on the side to wrap the cut strip around the cake. Then remove it and remove excess at the bottom.
Do the same with mastic of other colors.
Step 4: how to make ruffles
So, we continue the master class - decorating cakes with mastic in the form of a rainbow. Using the pointed edge of a toothpick or skewer for sandwiches, make frills out of the strips by pressing and slightly stretching them around the edges.
5th step
Continuing to make decorations for the cake with your own hands, begin to attach frills from its upper part and follow further down. Use a very small amount of water to attach strips to the glaze.
Now you can cut the cake and enjoy not only its taste, but also its appearance.