What a holiday without guests, gifts and cake? Boring! A holiday for that and a holiday that have fun, chat, dance and pamper yourself with all kinds of sweets! If you know how to bake cakes and make delicious cream- this is already half the success. How can you decorate a cake at home?

You can decorate the cake at home with a cream. For its preparation, you can use condensed milk or powdered sugar.

How to decorate a cake at home?

First of all, you need to figure out what kind of cream is ideal for decorating confectionery. There are not so many of them:

• oil;
• protein;
• creamy.

The base of the butter cream is butter with a fat content of at least 82%. You can also use condensed milk or powdered sugar to make the cream. As for the proportions, when preparing butter cream with condensed milk, it is necessary to take into account the consistency of milk. Very often, experienced confectioners use boiled condensed milk, it is denser and ensures the stability of the cream. To give the decor the desired shade, it is more advisable to use liquid food colorings.

You can also add cocoa powder or chocolate melted in a water bath to the butter cream. This technology is ideal for decoration chocolate biscuits and cupcakes.

Protein cream is one of the capricious ones. Its preparation will require patience and endurance from you. For decorating cakes, custard protein cream is used, the preparation of which takes place in three stages:

• Pour ¼ cups of clean water into a saucepan and add 6 tablespoons of sugar. Put on the fire and cook the syrup for 3-5 minutes after boiling (it is quite easy to check the readiness - dip the spoon in the syrup and raise it so that the finished syrup flows down - if the thread is thick and continuous, your syrup is ready);
• put cold 3 squirrels in a clean and dry dish and beat it with a mixer until a thick white foam (3-4 drops can be added to obtain stable peaks lemon juice or a pinch citric acid);
• continuing to whisk, pour the prepared sugar syrup and beat the resulting mass for another 1-2 minutes. At this stage, you can add the necessary flavors and colors to the cream.

Is applied ready-made cream on the cake also using a pastry syringe and attachments. Note that overcooked or undercooked sugar syrup will cause the flowers and patterns from the cream to lose their shape very quickly. And the overcooked syrup will add bitterness to the cream. Agar-agar can be used to thicken the protein cream (this is a natural product that is safe for children and adults).

To make butter cream, you need fatty pastry cream(at least 32% fat) and powdered sugar. Cream is also a rather capricious ingredient. Before whipping, it is necessary to cool not only them, but also the container in which you will whip the cream, as well as the whisk of the mixer. Observance of the time when whipping cream also plays an important role, a common mistake of novice cooks is whipped cream. The cold cream is whipped with icing sugar until stable peaks are obtained. If you doubt that the cream will not lose its shape within 12-24 hours, you can add a special thickener to it, which is sold in almost any supermarket. Butter cream can also be given any shade, but classic version decorating cakes with cream - white cream.

How to decorate a cake at home using mastic

Today, confectionery decorated with mastic figures is very popular. It is also worth clarifying here that there are two options for making mastic:

• sugar;
• marshmallow.

The first option is more time consuming, but it guarantees the stability and durability of your figures and colors. By the way, almost every one of us has come across such figures and flowers - they are sold as decor for Easter cakes... Sugar and marshmallow mastic are sold ready-made, but you can make them yourself.

To make sugar mastic you will need:

• 80 ml of water;
• 7 g of instant gelatin;
• 15-20 g soft butter;
• 2 tablespoons of glucose (fructose);
• 1 kg of powdered sugar.

How to cook

Prepare gelatin in advance.

To do this, fill it cold water and set aside for 30-40 minutes, then heat the mass until the gelatin is completely dissolved (but do not boil!).

Add butter and glucose to hot gelatin, stir until homogeneous mass and refrigerate.

If you want to give the mastic any shade, then the dye must be added to the hot gelatin.

Powdered sugar is added to the mass only after it has cooled completely. You need to knead the mastic like dough on dumplings (sprinkle the table with powdered sugar and knead the mass until the mastic stops absorbing the powder).

To prepare marshmallow mastic, you will need chewing marshmallows (marshmallows), powdered sugar, and a little butter. The marshmallows must be heated in a microwave or in a water bath until they increase by 1.5-2 times (a piece of butter must be added to the container with marshmallows before heating). Stir the enlarged candies, add dyes and, adding powdered sugar, knead the mass to a consistency similar to plasticine. This mastic is used to cover cakes and create various figurines.

Cake decorating with shavings

Even novice pastry chefs can easily master this option for decorating a cake. To get the shavings, we need to take a bar of milk chocolate and hold it in a warm place for 10-15 minutes.

Working with gloves with a knife, we cut the shavings, which curl in the process. Place the chocolate "curls" in the refrigerator until they solidify, and then put them on the cake in random order. Such decoration looks unusual and appetizing.

Stencils for decorating a cake at home

If an artist lives in your soul, then you can make an excellent cake decoration using your own stencil.

You need to take a sheet of paper with a diameter slightly larger than the cake itself, turn on your imagination and draw any ornament or inscription that you want to see on the confectionery.

Then, with small scissors, carefully cut out the pattern along the contour. The stencil is ready! Now, holding it over the surface of the cake, sprinkle with powder, sifted cocoa or colored sprinkles, making a decoration.

You can decorate the cake with fresh or canned fruits, grated chocolate, coconut.

To delight and truly surprise your family and friends, as well as guests, you don't have to be a sorceress, you just need to master some amazing skills in creating unusual and incredibly beautiful desserts.

In this article, the news portal "site" specially for you has collected the most amazing ways to create really beautiful and extraordinary cakes.

Agree, a dessert such as a cake is a must-see at events such as Birthday, Wedding Day, New Year, Defenders of the Fatherland Day and March 8, and many other equally important events.

Many of us prefer to trust purchased cakes or custom-made cakes, because then the cake will certainly be beautiful, albeit not always really tasty, unlike a homemade self-prepared dessert.

The news portal "site" decided to invite you to try to do really beautiful cake while using your favorite homemade recipe.

So you prepare your signature home cake, and we will help in decorating the cake.

"Zebra" cake

Such a beautiful cake can safely become the main culmination. children's party or a bachelorette party, and at the same time does not require special skills and efforts from you. You just need to add a little cocoa for color to part of the dough and follow the photo master class below.

Leopard cake

Surprise your guests with a leopard print cake. To get such an original pattern in the cut cake, you need to do everything in the same way as in the case of the Zebra cake, just add one more color to the dough. The new color is tenderly carrot. It can be achieved with food coloring or by mixing white dough with cocoa added.

Cake "Multi-colored balls"

This way of decorating a cake will not leave anyone indifferent. And everything is very simple to do.

First, bake colorful little balls (use food coloring). Put the finished multi-colored balls inside the dough for the future cake and bake (see photo).

This cake will be a great decoration for the festive table.

Chessboard cake

This way of decorating a cake causes incredible surprise, because the first thought that comes to mind is "How is this even possible?"

But in fact, everything is outrageously simple. To create a checkerboard inside the cake, you need two colors of cakes: black (cocoa) and white.

Then, using round molds of different diameters, cut out circles from the cake layers and nest them inside each other (see photo).

Such an amazing cake will be a great surprise for a checkers or chess lover.

Heart cake

This cake will be an unforgettable surprise for Valentine's Day, Wedding Day or just a romantic evening with your beloved. Making a heart is not difficult. In the finished cake, cut out the middle in the shape of a cone. Then pour red crumbs made from a previously prepared red crust inside it. In the middle of the red crumbs, make a small indentation, which you fill in with the scraps of the white crust. Cover the creation with another whole crust.

Here are some more techniques for creating hearts inside a cake, pie, or cupcakes.

Cake with sweets inside

Very unusual and impressive, do you agree? Such a cake will be able to surprise and delight anyone. Great option birthday cake or surprise cake.

Making such a miracle is not at all difficult!

V finished cake, in the center you need to cut a recess. Pour multi-colored sweets into the finished recess. Now you can cover the candies with a whole cake, coat it with cream and decorate the cake.

Cake "Rainbow"

Love bright and unusual multicolored patterns? Then you will like this option. Use the most incredible food coloring to make your cake shine like a bright rainbow.

Cake "Leaf"

Using this technique, you can create any designs inside the cake. The main thing is to make a template and use it to cut the necessary shapes from the prepared cakes.

Cake with a name

Cake with stars

Halloween cake

Cake "Flag"

Using this technique, you can create cakes in the form of any flags. These cakes will be very appropriate at international banquets, and will also be a great gift for foreign guests.

Teddy bear cake

If you want to impress your guests, follow the photo instructions and the funny edible bear will smile sweetly from your homemade cake.

Owl cake

Cake "Watermelon + Melon"

If you strive to be always slim and beautiful, but love for all sweet and starchy foods interferes with your plans, then use this recipe.

The cake gets very tasty, and most importantly natural and low-calorie.

The cakes of the cake are cut circles from watermelon and melon, and the cream is vegetable cream.

Light, tasty and surprisingly interesting cake will definitely earn the title of your favorite dessert.

Painting on the cake with chocolate icing at home

Decorating a homemade cake with chocolate chips in 5 minutes

An easy way to decorate a cake at home

Hello dear readers of the culinary blog with a photo step by step! ! This time we will consider how to beautifully decorate a cake at home. For novice pastry chefs, this information will be very useful.

Many of them are wondering how to assemble a beautiful cake to surprise others with their skill. The video recipe will help you with this and detailed description all actions. Let's get down to the main thing.

Components:

1. Classic biscuit (diameter 16 cm) - 2 pieces

2. Cream cheese cream - 500 grams

3. Syrup - for impregnation

4. Dark chocolate - 100 grams

5. Fatty cream - 50 grams

6. Fruit - for decoration

Inventory:

1. Long saw blade

2. Stand for cake

3. Pastry bag

4. Tall glass

5. Confectionery spatula

Cooking method:

1. We take out the biscuits from the refrigerator and find some book or lid equal in thickness to our future cakes. Never cut the biscuit while still warm, let it cool!

2. Now put a knife flat on the lid and start making notches on the biscuit, rotating it in a circle. And then again, with the same rotational movements, cut the biscuit to the end. Cut off the top.

3. We should have smooth biscuits, there will be 4 of them.

Let's prepare the cream:

4. Now let's prepare the cream. To keep the creamy layers even, you need to use a piping bag with a round nozzle. We take a tall glass, put a bag on it and put the cream there. We use cream cheese cream, it keeps its shape well.

Here is his recipe. Take 300 gr. chilled cream cheese, 100 gr. softened butter and 100 gr. icing sugar. Whisk all ingredients thoroughly for 5 minutes. The cream is ready.

5. The next step is to start assembling the cake. We take a dish or a pastry substrate and put a little cream on it, and put the first cake on top. Now we need to soak the biscuit with syrup.

To prepare the syrup:

we take 100 gr. water and 100gr. sugar, mix and bring to a boil. Then we cool the mixture and soak the biscuit with it.

6. Then put the cream on the cake with a pastry bag, the layer will be even. But if there is no bag, then just spoon the cream out with a spoon and carefully align.

You can put the filling on top of the cream if you like. It can be served with chocolate, strawberries, or other fruits.

7. We perform the same manipulations with the rest of the cakes: impregnation, cream, filling as desired. Watch carefully so that the biscuits do not lie crooked. We need a flat cake! Always place an inverted bottom crust on top so that the top of the cake will be perfect.

Now grease the empty space between the cakes with cream. To do this, it is convenient to use a rotating stand, but if it is not there, then just turn the plate over, place the cake on it and rotate it by hand.

8. With a pastry spatula, we need to level the surface, remove excess cream.

After that, we send the dessert to the refrigerator for 30 minutes, so that all layers grab and the cake does not wobble.

9. Next, we place the strips of cream vertically at a distance of 3-4 cm from each other. Rotate the cake counterclockwise and level its sides with cream using a spatula. If there is not enough cream, then add more.

We coat the top in the same way. Remember to clean the edge of the plate with the spatula. We need to achieve the most even surface possible, and this can take a certain amount of time.

We got a "naked" cake, you can leave it like that, decorating with berries. But we will consider several other options. For this, the cake must be cooled.

Decor options:

10. Option "scales". We hold the pastry bag perpendicular to the sides of the cake and place the cream mugs vertically. Then with a teaspoon we need to smear one edge of the circle. We do this with each "pimple", after each do not forget to wipe the spoon. Then we put the next row and so on, until we get a completely "scaly" cake.

11. Option "ombre". To do this, we need to use food coloring to color one part of the cream in a different color, for example, pink. Then we apply it to the cake to the desired height.

12. Then take a spatula, rotate the cake and level its surface. When holes are formed, add the cream and continue to level. This can take a long time if you want the perfect result.

13. The cake can be left even, but if the "ideal" did not work the first time, then make a little trick. Take a teaspoon and draw horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines on the surface of the cream. This will hide irregularities and blemishes.

14. Prepare the chocolate ganache for nice brown streaks. For this we take 100 gr. chocolate and 50 gr. cream. We heat the ingredients in a water bath, mix.

Video recipe for making ganache:

This recipe video was filmed specifically for those who need to see the entire cooking process.

15. Apply to the chilled cake with a teaspoon. The thickness of the ganache can be controlled by heating. On a chilled surface, chocolate cools quickly, forming beautiful streaks.

As for the decoration of the top of the cake, everything here is limited only by your imagination. Nuts, berries, fruits, gingerbread, chocolate chips, etc. Our cake is assembled, we put it in the refrigerator, then we take it out and taste it. I recommend the scenery for viewing, I'm sure you will like it. Bon Appetit!

For cooking delicious dessert you can use not only cream cheese cream. Take your favorite, or my favorite. But for decoration, the cream must be thick and keep its shape well, not spread! Whipped cream, buttercream, etc. will work.

If you don't have a piping bag, just take a food grade plastic bag and carefully cut a corner of it. The hole should not be too large.

For impregnation, instead of syrup, you can use fruit or berry juice, coffee, cocoa, liqueur. There are a lot of options, it all depends on your taste.

You can use whatever your soul desires to decorate the top! The decoration can be with mastic, this is a more complex version. An easier option is fruits, berries, ready-made figurines, chocolate. Do not be afraid to experiment and invent your own "masterpieces"!

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Although they say that a woman loves with her ears, and the way to a man's heart leads through the stomach, guests of both sexes value dishes not only for their taste, but also for appearance... Children are especially partial to food decor. This is used by manufacturers of confectionery products. But often, behind the lush cream roses and marshmallow towers, absolutely fresh cakes, and even dubious freshness, are hidden. Better to bake the cake yourself. This way we can be sure that the product is free from preservatives and the freshest ingredients were used in its manufacture. But how to decorate a cake at home? We will talk about this in the article.

Simple and fast

Agree, making cakes is a long and laborious task. Therefore, there is no longer any strength or special desire to decorate it. If you still have some cream left over from greasing the cakes, simply apply it to the top and sides of your culinary masterpiece. Then head to the store and buy ready-made edible decor. It can be both ordinary coconut flakes of various colors, and wiser decorations: chocolate figurines, marzipan beads, sprinkling of bright mastic. All of these gizmos look stylish and are durable. Other sweets familiar to us will also help to decorate the cake with your own hands. But if before we ate marshmallows or bizet "solo", now we are not afraid to use them as an element of decor. M&M dragees look original in the cake (especially for a children's party). A biscuit cookies"Ladies' sticks" are convenient for decorating the sides of the cake.

Decorating caveats

It is not hard to guess where the hostess turns for advice on how to decorate a homemade cake in an original way. Photos from culinary sites are full of real masterpieces. But it is worth remembering that you will not only look at the cake, but also eat it. Therefore, the entire decor should be exclusively edible, or at least not pose a threat to health. If the cake is baked for an anniversary, special candles should be placed on its surface that do not float. There are only a few exceptions to the use of inedible cake decorations. First: fresh flowers. On March 8, you can decorate the top of the product with mimosa, rose, lily, calendula and lavender petals. These flowers are harmless to the body. Without fear, you can eat mint leaves and physalis. The second exception, the Barbie cake, is for a girl old enough to know not to stick a doll in her mouth. The cake is made like a fluffy hem of a skirt. And a doll is inserted into the middle. Care should be taken not to let her hair touch the cream.

Simple and economical

In the process of baking a cake, each culinary specialist has scraps of cakes, and after they are sandwiched, cream. Do not throw these products away! Roll out the illiquid parts of the baked dough into crumbs with a mortar. Mix them with crushed nuts. Apply the rest of the cream to the sides and top of the product. Sprinkle with a mixture of cookies and nuts. How beautiful to decorate a cake with this simple decor? We use a stencil! We cut out various shapes from paper. Apply to the top of the cake and sprinkle. And to decorate the sides, you can use the usual cereals... Cocoa, powdered sugar, grated chocolate, confectionery confetti are suitable as sprinkles. It is important to correctly combine the colors. Garnish with icing sugar and white buttercream with cocoa powder. Gummies will look good on a jelly coating.

Form as decoration

Let's give free rein to imagination and bake something original instead of boring round cakes. After all, instead of thinking about how to decorate the cake at home, you can already create it. Let's think over a concept: what shape will we give our culinary masterpiece? And it is not at all necessary to build something from the cakes that resembles the Burj Dubai skyscraper. It could be a violin-shaped cake. Then we powder the sides of the cocoa product, and melted chocolate draw the strings. Curly cakes are especially relevant for children's parties. We already mentioned Barbie Pie. But for a boy, you can bake a cake in the form of a car or a boat. In this case, we will only retouch our sculptural image with a cream. And with what pleasure the little ones will eat some of the stern, some of the bow of the ship, taking with them the sailors from the mastic as souvenirs.

This is a classic in cooking, and as you know, it is always in fashion. Butter cream is an unusually plastic product. From it you can create roses, leaves, flowers, ruffles and flounces. The oil retains its shape quite well, does not settle and does not flow. Protein meringue cream is also good for garnishing. However, eggs are perishable. And here custard- not structural, you cannot create flowers from it. The same can be said for whipped cream. Figures created from them turn into blots after a while. So use a cream with condensed milk, sour cream and proteins only for a layer of cakes. But how to decorate a cake at home with butter cream? If you do not have a pastry syringe with special attachments, do not rush to get upset. You can do something like this yourself. Take a sheet of thick paper and roll it into a bag. Let's fill it with cream. Cut the edge of the bag. You can truncate simply - in a straight or oblique line, or with imagination. We will roll the hollow little bag several times along. Cut the narrow tip in the shape of a triangle with the sharp end down. Now, unfold the envelope and fill it with cream. Squeeze out slowly onto the surface of the cake. The edges of the cream come out as if corrugated. Moving your hand back and forth, you can create lush ruffles - the design of the sides. Instead of paper for a pastry bag, you can take a regular cellophane bag.

Playing with color

Normal butter cream can be painted with all shades of the rainbow. For this, there are food colors. If you don't have them, stir in freshly squeezed cherry (beetroot) juice for a red cream, carrot for orange, and spinach for green. The cocoa powder will give the cream a light brown color and instant coffee- dark. Grated lemon zest will make it pale yellow. The same rule of playing with color applies when you are thinking about how to decorate a cake with mastic beautifully. However, it should be remembered that some natural colors (red wine, coffee, fruit juices) can dissolve the powdered sugar.

Decoration with mastic

This is a great alternative to cream. It resembles soft plasticine in its consistency, and if you have certain skills, you can mold anything from it. However, there are difficulties in working with it. Mastic decorations should be planted only on butter cream, since in a liquid medium the figures will immediately float like melted ice cream. Also, do not abuse the mastic - while hardening, it becomes too hard. You can buy ready-made jewelry, but it's much better to make them yourself. We will tell you how to decorate a cake at home with mastic. We take powdered sugar in equal proportions, powdered milk and condensed milk. We mix the first two ingredients on spread cling film. Slowly add the condensed milk. We knead the dough, which can be tinted if desired. We sculpt, as from plasticine, all sorts of figures or their fragments. We glue the individual parts together by moistening the tangent surfaces of the mastic with water. But remember that large sculptures tend to crack.

Icing

This is a drawing mass with which you can apply openwork patterns and inscriptions to the surface of the product. We will tell you how to decorate a cake, describing the stages of making icing step by step. We start work a few days before baking the cake. Separating egg white and set to cool. Sift 200 g of icing sugar through a sieve. Beat the protein. Gradually add the icing sugar and a spoonful of lemon juice. You should get a dense, stable foam. First, draw the desired pattern on paper. You can use at least children's coloring pages. Cover the paper with cling film. Lubricate it with a brush olive oil... Fill the confectionery syringe or bag with icing. We apply it with a thin solid line along the contour of the pattern. We leave to dry. Iceing can also be used to decorate the sides of cakes. But then cling film should be spread not on a flat surface, but on the sides of the cans.

Chocolate lace

Icing, like mastic, does not like a humid environment. Therefore, before decorating a homemade cake with snow-white foam, you should think about whether the openwork patterns on the custard or protein cream... Chocolate can serve as a worthy substitute for icing. It takes less time. Just melt a bar of chocolate in a water bath, fill an envelope with a liquid mass and draw solid thin lines along the contour of the picture. Unlike classic icing, broken fragile lace can be melted again and re-patterned. Using white, black and milk chocolate, you can create multi-colored decorations.

Bright tangerine slices, whole strawberries, cocktail cherries look very presentable on the surface of the cake. The fruit goes well with a variety of creams, whipped cream or chocolate. But the most common way is to lay them on a colored jelly base. To do this, we bake the cakes, soak them with some kind of cream. Prepare jelly separately - preferably a bright, saturated color. As soon as the mass begins to thicken, pour it over the cake. Now we are preparing a transparent jelly. Our cake should be dressed in a bright shell by then. Before decorating the cake with fruits, dip them in transparent jelly. So they will not wrinkle, not wind up and become even brighter. Decorations (flowers, stars) can be cut out of the remains of colored and transparent jelly and transferred to the surface of the cake.

Glaze

This method is good when there is no cream left to decorate the top and sides of the cake (or we used marmalade praline for a layer). Chocolate glaze is a classic of the genre and a great idea of ​​how to decorate a cake. Photos of such culinary masterpieces look very appetizing. We all know the Prague cake, where this particular method of decoration is used. Pour the top cake with chocolate melted in a water bath, diluted milk and butter... We put the black icing to freeze in the refrigerator. And here is the recipe for white coating. Mix one hundred grams of Philadelphia cheese with 200 g of powdered sugar. We dilute with a small amount of milk. You can alternate between white and black glaze.

Decorating the cake yourself with the help of improvised means is not difficult at all. The main thing is to have enough time in stock and to use your imagination. To bring your own ideas to life, it is not at all necessary to have the special knowledge and skills of a professional.

Before you start decorating your dessert, you need to understand the basics of working with this plastic edible material. The consistency of mastic is very similar to plasticine, so you can create different figures from it. In addition, it has a long shelf life - wrapped in plastic, it can stay in the refrigerator for 10 - 12 weeks. Buy ready-made mastic or do it yourself.

In recent years, mastic has become a popular decoration element for cakes.

Ingredients for cooking:

• powdered milk;
• condensed milk;
• powdered sugar.

All components are taken in the same ratio and kneaded. After that, the resulting dough is divided into parts and the necessary dyes are added.

Also mastic is prepared from marshmallows.

Ingredients:

• marshmallow - a handful;
• "lemon" diluted with water - 1 tsp;
• oil - 25 g;
• sweet powder and starch in a ratio of 1 to 3.

Mastic is prepared following this algorithm:

1. Dissolve the marshmallow in a water bath, add a little dye and, if necessary, water and oil for elasticity.
2. Powder with starch is introduced into the liquid and sticky mass in small portions, stirring thoroughly.
3. When the mastic ceases to be sticky, it is transferred to a table, abundantly sprinkled with powdered sugar. The mass is kneaded, periodically adding powder until the base becomes plastic.
4. Do you feel that the mass has stopped sticking to your palms? This means that it is completely ready for use.

It is difficult to sculpt flawless figures without professional equipment and skills, but why not try it. Just prepare at least a minimum of tools - a sharp small knife, toothpicks, paintbrush, rolling pin, roller.

When working with mastic, they adhere to the following rules:

• Do not leave the mass in the air (it dries quickly and becomes hard), but constantly wrap the remainder in a film.
• Rolling is carried out only on a film sprinkled with powdered sugar.
• They prefer small elements, since three-dimensional figures can crack.

You can decorate the cake in different ways, since the mastic gives a wide scope for imagination. As a rule, first, the material is thinly rolled out to completely cover the cake, and then the finished surface is decorated with figures.

Cream decoration

You can decorate a cake with cream in different ways. Roses, leaves, various curls and borders are made from the creamy mass - it looks very elegant and festive. But in order for these delicate products to keep their shape, you need to choose suitable cream, and it is better to give preference to oil.

Decorating cakes with cream is quite a fascinating process.

To prepare butter cream, you need a minimum of products:

• melted butter - 1 pack
• condensed milk - 10 tbsp. l.

The oil must first be removed from the refrigerator so that it melts, and then beat with a mixer until tender splendor. After that, condensed milk should be introduced in small portions and beat until smooth.

If desired, the mass is divided into several portions and various dyes are added to them.

They are bought ready-made or made on their own:

• saffron gives yellow color;
• orange - orange or juicy young carrots;
• scarlet - cherries, beets, cranberries;
• light green - spinach;
• brown - cocoa.

To make the decor from the cream neat and beautiful, you need to use special syringes with different nozzles. If there are no such devices, you can make an imitation of a syringe from a dense sheet by rolling it up in the form of a cone and cutting off a sharp corner. You can do the same with a regular tight bag. Then the resulting workpiece is filled with cream and squeezed out through a small hole. So you can draw straight or wavy stripes, leaves, flowers, ruffles, inscriptions.

Fruit Ideas

Decorating a cake with fruit is very easy. This is one of the fastest and cheapest methods. By creating spectacular compositions from slices of different fruits, you can show your imagination and give free rein to your imagination.

Both decorations from one type of berries and bright, multi-colored fruit and berry mixes look beautiful.

So that the fruit does not lose its original color and the structure does not disintegrate, the whole composition is covered with colorless jelly. The liquid mass is carefully spread over the decor with a brush and placed in the refrigerator. After half an hour, the "gelatinous" treatment is repeated.

If you have time and desire, you can make roses from apples.

1. First, a syrup is prepared (a spoonful of sugar is taken for 200 ml of water), adding a dye at this stage, if necessary.
2. The apples are cut into thin strips and boiled in syrup to make them plastic.
3. Roses are formed from fruit blanks. The inner "petal" is rolled up in a spiral, and the rest are added in a circle, forming a lush flower. Its tips are slightly twisted outward so that the "rose" bud opens.

How to decorate a cake with cream

Whipped cream is an airy and delicate decoration, but you need to work with it quickly.

Whipped cream is a great way to spice up the sweetness.

Ingredients:

• heavy cream - 500 g;
• vanillin - a bag;
• powdered sugar - 150 g;
• gelatin - 1 sachet.

Preparation:

1. Pour the chilled cream into a deep bowl and place in a saucepan of ice water.
2. Dissolve gelatin.
3. Beat the cream with a mixer until a strong foam appears.
4. Add powder, vanillin and mix gently.
5. Introduce gelatin in a thin stream.

The whipped cream is placed in a pastry syringe and the cake is decorated.

Chocolate

Decorating a cake is a delicate matter, since the finished look and aesthetics of the entire product depend on it. Chocolate is one of the favorite pastry chefs for decorating desserts.

Sweet tooths love chocolate for its melting taste and delicate texture.

The easiest way is to chop the chocolate bar and sprinkle the cake with the resulting shavings. You can try a more complex method: for this, the chocolate is left in a warm place on a short time to make it softer. Then, with a sharp knife, thin long shavings are cut from the tile. They immediately begin to curl, and in order to fix their shape, they are placed in a cold place to solidify.

Openwork curls look very elegant:

1. The tile is melted in a small container over minimal heat.
2. On parchment paper pre-draw patterns of curls and patterns in the required quantity.
3. Then hot liquid chocolate is placed in a syringe and all sketches are carefully traced along the contour. This must be done quickly and efficiently, since the mass quickly solidifies. It is advisable to make several spare patterns, since the finished curls are quite brittle and can simply fly to pieces if handled carelessly.
4. Parchment with painted curls is placed in a cold place until completely solidified.
5. Then the openwork products are carefully separated from the paper and laid out on the cake.

It is very easy to make chocolate leaves. To do this, take the foliage from any tree, wash it thoroughly, and then cover it with melted chocolate and place it in a cold place. The most important task is to carefully detach real leaves from edible ones.

With sweets and candies

Even the simplest cake can be decorated with sweets in an original way. The main thing is that the surface of the product is thick and viscous.

There are many design options:

• Line the sides with long, thin waffles, straws or bars and tie them with a bright satin ribbon. Fill the top of the cake with multi-colored dragees.
• Make a beautiful inscription or pattern on the snow-white or beige surface of the cake with small toffee.
• Cut the marmalade into small pieces and arrange in a chaotic manner.
• Put a handful of multi-colored dragees inside. Upon cutting, guests will find that the cake is a surprise.
• Many also use confectionery sprinkles. It comes in a variety of colors and shapes. It is advisable to decorate the cake with sprinkles while its surface is not completely frozen.
• Decorations made from chopped nuts, chocolate and coconut flakes, cookie crumbs.
• Jelly with sprinkles looks very impressive on the surface of the cake, as it resembles an aquarium. To do this, half of the prepared liquid colored jelly is poured onto the cake and placed in a cold place to solidify. Then the solidified mass is sprinkled with coarse dressing and again poured with the remaining liquid.
• To decorate the cake with sprinkles in an unusual way, use stencils. You can make them yourself by cutting out a pattern, letters, drawing or numbers from a piece of paper. The template is easily pressed against the surface of the cake, and the top is densely crushed with the selected powder. Then the stencil is carefully removed, and a beautiful number or pattern remains on the cake.

Using berries

Decorating a cake with berries is a stylish and fashionable solution.

Berries are one of the healthiest garnishing foods. They contain a lot of vitamins, they are juicy, tasty and bright. The easiest way is to evenly spread the berries of the same type (or several, if desired) on the surface of the cake and grease them with colorless jelly.

How to decorate a baby cake

For children, the appearance of a dessert means much more than its taste. Therefore, mothers have to come up with different unusual decorations from sweets, mastic, fruits, jelly and other products.

Every mother dreams of being able to create an unforgettable cake for her baby.

Cake Decorating Options:

• sprinkle it with multi-colored Easter powder;
• cover with glaze;
• arrange fruits in the form of a mysterious pattern;
• decorate with self-sculpted figures;
• whip cream and sprinkle with shavings;
• equip a palisade around the edges of oblong cookies;
• pour jelly.

When decorating a cake for a child, you need to consider who it is intended for. Boys like culinary masterpieces in the form of cars, a ball or superheroes, for girls - in the form of dolls or flowers. But all kids tend to love cartoon-themed cakes.

It must also be remembered that many modern babies are allergic to different products... Therefore, during the manufacturing process, you should not use components that can potentially cause allergic reactions.

Cake decoration for March 8, February 23

Confectionery for these dates can be decorated different ways... As a rule, the decor almost always includes numbers - 8 or 23. They are made from chocolate, mastic and other materials.

Cakes decorated with chocolate, caramel or creamy glaze look very stylish and elegant.

Ingredients for the caramel glaze:

• warm water - ¾ st.;
• granulated sugar - 180 g;
• corn starch - 2 tsp;
• cream with a high percentage of fat content - ¾ st .;
• gelatin in sheets - 5 g.

Preparation:

1. Soak gelatin in water.
2. Stir the cream with the starch.
3. Melt the sugar until it becomes caramelized.
4. Pour cream with starch and sticky sugar into warm water. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly.
5. It remains only to cool the mass and add ready-made gelatin to it.

We decorate the meringue with our own hands

Also, cakes are decorated with meringues.

Meringues are great for decorating cakes!

For such a crisp white decor you will need:

• proteins - 5 pcs.;
• sugar or powder - 250 g.

The algorithm of actions is already known to everyone:

1. Beat the whites into a stable foam, then add the powder in small portions.
2. Beat at medium speed for 10 minutes, until the mass acquires a fluffy and dense consistency.
3. Then preheat the oven to 110 ° C and cover the baking sheet with paper.
4. Put the prepared mass in the form of small cakes with a tablespoon on greased with butter baking paper and put in the oven.

Waffle decoration

Waffles are inexpensive and easy-to-use material. On sale you can find ready-made colorful images on wafer cakes... Their assortment is very large: these are beautiful princesses, and supermen, and characters of your favorite cartoons, and animals. It's almost impossible to make such a decor on your own, so it's easier to buy it ready-made.

The advantage of this decor is that it does not crack, does not melt, unlike cream, and retains its given shape well.

The process of decorating with a waffle picture is as follows:

1. Form a perfectly flat cake surface.
2. Turn the cake over with the bottom side up and brush with liquid honey using a silicone brush. Instead of honey, sometimes syrup or any light-colored jam is used, so as not to spoil the picture when the cake is soaked.
3. Attach the picture to the surface.
4. Press down gently with your hands and smooth with a napkin.
5. Whip the cream and decorate the edges.

Sometimes the cake is decorated not with a whole picture, but with individual waffle figures. They are laid in the same way as the waffle cake.

Knowing how to decorate a cake at home, you can make real masterpieces, delighting yourself and your loved ones. Turn on your imagination and your dessert will outshine even the products of elite confectionery!