Before it became fashionable to decorate cakes with mastic, confectioners demonstrated the wonders of their art, decorating pastries with inscriptions, drawings and voluminous figures made of chocolate, meringue, butter cream, candied fruit, as well as glazed and fresh fruits. In this article we will tell you how to decorate a children's cake without mastic, guided by the best traditions of the past.
What kind of child will not be happy with a cake whose decoration includes his favorite toys? It’s not difficult to make children's cakes without mastic for girls and boys in the form of funny toys, using only biscuit dough and sweet cream. It is enough to bake a biscuit and cut out from it a simplified silhouette of the desired figure - a small animal, a car, a doll, a flower, a mushroom, etc. It is important that all the details are large and simple in shape. Further transformation will occur due to the oil cream, painted with food colors in different colors.
Cake - children's designer
A cake without children's mastic looks very impressive, which consists of rectangular blocks folded in random order, resembling elements of a toy designer. For such a cake, you need to bake several rectangular biscuit cakes and cut them into identical rectangles.
These rectangles are folded into each other in the form of a simple figure - Christmas trees, houses, pyramids. Divide the oil cream into several parts and add the food coloring of red, blue, green and yellow to each. Using a silicone spatula, gently coat each part with your color. Such an elegant and bright cake will become a real decoration of the festive table.
Cake "Hare"
A cake without mastic for children in the shape of a hare will delight any child. It is done very simply. Two identical high round biscuits are baked. The upper convex crusts are cut off with a fishing line or a thin nylon thread. You need to try to maintain the same height of both biscuits. Three figures are cut out of one biscuit - ears and a bow.
The photo above shows how to do this. The second biscuit remains unchanged - it will be a muzzle. Then all four elements - a circle, two ears and a bow - fold very tightly together and are coated with butter cream: the head and ears are white, and the bow is green. Pink islets are made in the center of the ears and muzzle. Eyes, mustache and mouth are drawn with melted chocolate using a pastry syringe.
Biscuit
In order to make the cake sufficiently dense and not crumble when cut, it is best to make a biscuit dough of a dozen eggs, three glasses of sugar and three glasses of flour. Such a biscuit will be very tasty and ideal to create a cake without mastic for children of any shape. If the whole dough is placed in a mold, baked and not cut off the convex upper crust, then using multi-colored food dyes added to the oil cream, you can make a beetle, ladybug, hedgehog and even more complex figure, such as a chicken or baby elephant.
Squirrels are separated from the yolks and put in the freezer. If they freeze, then after thawing they will not lose their properties, but, on the contrary, they will become even better and will whip faster. We grind a piece of 7 yolks with one half a glass of sugar, and beat ten proteins with the other. To beat better, pour sugar in a thin stream, little by little. Now we introduce the proteins and yolks into the flour, which was previously sifted - so it will become easier, and the biscuit will turn out to be magnificent. Stir with gentle movements until smooth. You do not need to add any baking powder to this dough - protein foam will easily raise the sifted flour. The biscuit is baked for quite a while over medium heat. To prevent settling, the oven must not be opened for the first 20 minutes. Readiness is checked with a wooden stud.
Bunk cake
The dessert consisting of several tiers looks unusually solemn and elegant. Two-tier children's cake without mastic is made from the biscuit dough described above. It must be divided into three parts - pour two parts into a round shape of large diameter, and one part into a smaller shape. Baked cakes are convex on top. They must be cut and made flat. Small cake should be put in the middle of the big one. After that, you can proceed to the design.
It is advisable to think in advance how a finished children's cake without mastic will look like. The dough and cream recipes presented in our article will help make it tasty, but design is what should meet the interests of the child for whom it is made.
From a cream with the help of a pastry bag with different nozzles, it is easy to make flowers. Girls will like this option, but the boys will be happy with a more strict design. For them, you can draw a boat with chocolate, and make the sea and waves with blue and white cream. If a child loves nature, then a two-tier cake can be presented in the form of a forest glade with chocolate ants and an ant hill of chocolate chips.
Butter cream
Butter cream for making flowers, leaves and cake coating should be made from the best butter. Margarine or cheap oil containing a large amount of water will nullify all efforts to prepare a festive treat. Sugar can not be used, since its grains will spoil the taste and appearance of the cream. Only icing sugar goes into the cream.
One and a half parts of powdered sugar is taken one and a half parts of softened butter. Everything is whipped at slow speeds with a mixer - at a high speed of rotation of the corollas the oil is separated, and the cream will not work. It’s best to whip manually. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, it must be cooled and only then used in a pastry bag or for coating the cake.
Impregnation
One of the secrets of delicious biscuits is impregnation. Many neglect this, but in vain - children do not like dry biscuit. Usually, the impregnation contains a certain amount of cognac, but a cake without mastic for children should be non-alcoholic. For him, as an impregnating solution, we recommend taking fruit and berry syrup and dilute it with water. For the biscuit presented in our article, you will need one glass of ready-made solution. The most universal impregnation is from rose syrup, violet or elderberry. Berry syrups are also suitable, but they have a specific taste and not everyone likes.
Impregnating a cake without mastic for children should be when it is completely ready. It is difficult for a non-professional to do this, since special dishes are needed, on the bottom of which syrup is poured. We advise you to soak the cakes a bit first, and do the decoration after. The finished cake should be placed on a sheet of dense foil and lowered together with the sheet in a wide and deep flat bowl. Pour the remaining syrup into a bowl. When the biscuit draws in, the cake can be put on a dish. Carefully pull out the foil.