A cake decorated with mastic for a man is, of course, a test of your confectioner's imagination.
Indeed, for the stronger sex, standard jewelry in the form of roses, sweets, dolls and animals, as well as traditional cream ornaments, are not suitable. A cake from mastic for a man should be designed in a certain style. But in order to be able to show artistic taste and imagination, you first need to master the basics of confectionery craftsmanship. Before
making a cake from mastic for a man, let's learn how to bake a sponge cake for a foundation, select a cream and make finishing materials.
Mastic - what is it?
Recently, not a single cake has been without this powder sugar material. This culinary composition resembles a dough from which you can sculpt figures, as well as roll out layers to cover cake layers with cream. It turns out a real luxurious cake. What cakes are best to take? In principle, any can be. Sand and puff and biscuit will do. Better start on the last practice to make a cake from mastic for a man.
After all, a biscuit has such an important property as dryness. It is necessary so that a
cake made of mastic to a man (the photo shows how bizarre the shape can be given to this product) has an attractive appearance for longer. Biscuits can be made round and square. These simple forms will become the basis for making more complex designs. For example, a bottle, ship or boat, plane, bookshelf. A human figure (which does not need to be baked - blind it completely from multi-colored mastic) can be seated in a chair, this will give it stability. For a chair, you need to cut a square cake into several rectangular parts, put together, coat with cream and cover with mastic. Sometimes a problem arises in order to give the coating a dark color. Black is quite difficult to achieve. But if you add cocoa and blue dye to the mastic, the result will be close enough to black.
Creams and impregnations
A cake made of mastic for a man, in addition to aesthetic properties, should have the same high taste as any festive dessert. Therefore, in its manufacture can not do without a cream. Otherwise, it will not be a cake, but a cake. You can use protein, custard or butter cream. To smear the cakes and the top of the cake, use jam or marmalade, which is applied with a brush. Cream on the last cake is not applied. You can spread it with a ganache and let it stand in the cold before applying mastic. This will prevent bumps that may appear on the surface. It is strictly contraindicated to use a cream of sour cream and soak the cakes with syrups - humidity can ruin the look of the cake.
Cooking Finishing
Mastic (sugar and marzipan) is sold in stores. In the same place as vanillin, spices for baking and yeast. If you buy a finished one, you just have to heat it and knead it, and then roll it out. If you want to make it with your own hands, then get a bag of marshmallows (chewing marshmallows), and then melt it in the microwave and add powdered sugar (how many will take) and dye.