Cake is the king of all desserts!
Any festive event always ends with a luxurious cake. Cakes decorated with fondant are always a success and get the admiring glances of guests. In this article, the news portal “Vtemu.by” decided to share with you some options for decorating a homemade cake with mastic. After you look at the detailed photo master classes on decorating cakes with fondant, you will dispel the prevailing myth that this activity is exclusively for professionals, experienced confectioners and chefs of the most exquisite restaurants in the world.
In fact, decorating a cake with fondant is like attending a craft class, where you can sculpt from plasticine on a free theme. Mastic is such a flexible material that you can easily create the most incredible masterpieces, outlandish patterns and compositions on holiday homemade cakes.
Marshmallow mastic
So, you’ve learned how to make the basic material for decorating homemade cakes! Now is the time to start the actual decoration.
First of all, you need to wrap the finished homemade cake with a layer of mastic, which will become a kind of sweet background. To do this, you need to thinly roll out the mastic with a rolling pin. Then place a layer of rolled out fondant on the cake, and carefully trim off the excess protruding edges with a sharp knife.
Shuttlecocks
Preparatory stage:
- A glass is best for cutting out flounces for decoration. Use it to cut out circles.
- To prevent the mastic from drying out, and it dries very quickly. Place all the circles that you cut out in a pile, then they will not have time to dry out.
Fold the remaining mastic into a ball and put it in the refrigerator. Mastic can be stored in the refrigerator for one month.
Modeling shuttlecocks from mastic consists of the following steps:
- Take one circle, cut it using a glass, you should get a “crescent”.
- Then take a pastry stick. If you don’t have one, then take a stick with a diameter of 1 cm.
- Using a knife, cut out a cone. And we roll the mastic with such a cone; you should press the cone quite hard. The result should be a wavy line, a “ruche”.
- In order to give the flounces more volume, they need to be glued to each other.
- To do this, lubricate the edge of the shuttlecock with water, and place the next one on it, pressing it. Let's do this process again. It turns out that one consists of three.
- Lightly brush the edges of the cake with water and glue the flounces with the wavy edges down.
- Using a stick, secure the edges of the flounces to the cake, making holes. This will make the mastic shuttlecocks more airy.
DIY snow-white cake with mastic
As you can see, to decorate this cake, mastic of the same color is used - white with mother-of-pearl. Elongated triangles are cut out of mastic to cover the cake. You can place edible pearls made from mastic in the center of the cake or decorate the cake with edible beads.
What is mastic and is it difficult to work with?
Mastic
Mastic is a very thick mass, like plasticine. But you can still eat it. It is also important to note that mastic comes in different types.
The most famous at the moment are:
- Honey . This is the softest mass of all and is easy to sculpt from.
- Gelatinous . Characterized by rapid hardening and hardening
- Dairy _ It is used more often than others due to its low cost. Its main component is condensed milk. It can be used as a base coating for cakes and for sculpting small figures.
- Marzipan . It is usually used to cover cakes. Figures cannot be made from it because the mass is very soft
- Universal . This type is sold in candy stores. It is used for both modeling and coating. The taste is not even different from what you can cook yourself
- Floral . This mastic makes excellent jewelry, especially small details.
Each of the presented mastics is good in its own way, but in order to choose the most suitable one for yourself, you should try each of them and learn how to work with it.
DIY cake with a fluffy pink fondant skirt
This cake will be an excellent dessert for a children's birthday, wedding celebration or romantic dinner.
The finished cake is covered with a thinly rolled layer of white mastic, and a sweet fringe is made from different shades of pink.
Making a Birthday Cake
Most pastry chefs do not understand this game at all, so ordering a cake from a pastry shop will not only be expensive, but also quite difficult. If you really want to please your baby, then try to decorate the cake yourself.
To do this you will need dyes for mastic and the ability to create tones.
By the way, the main cost of the cake will depend most on the quantity and cost of paint.
How to create a playing field, or rather the main layer of mastic for covering the cakes?
Look at the image of the game on your baby's screen - gray, green and brown tones predominate there.
Choose a basic background, then use dyes to create several different color shades.
Roll out the flagella and go over them with a rolling pin, and then you will need to make even stripes.
Roll out the mastic sheet to the required size, and then lay out the blanks crosswise.
You should end up with even squares. You can use a ruler or a centimeter to create it correctly.
When the entire field looks like an incomprehensible color of madness, but the squares on it are even, you need to once again roll out the resulting tight material and cover the cake with it. What happens next will depend on your skill, since the figures are also like cubes, it won’t be very difficult to fashion them from scraps of dough in butter cream. Even the trees look like cubes, so you just need to take a good look at the characters of the birthday boy.
Now we need to understand how and where to place the figures - the good characters should stand next to the image of the baby’s game character, and the monsters should be placed on the other side of the cake.
Absolutely all animals and monsters, as well as friends, look like sets of small cubes, so making figures will not be very difficult.
If you do not want to spoil the teeth of your offspring, then it would be better not to sculpt character figures from a single piece of mastic, but to cover parts made from scraps of dough with it.
Now you place the figures on the surface, make a festive inscription and present the cake to the birthday person.
Any child, of course, will retell all the intricacies in his favorite cartoons, and will retell the series about Batman in full, but you will surprise him with a gift in the form of his favorite toy much more than creating decorations in the form of all sorts of luntiks and fixies.
Also, this cake can be presented even to an adult and he will not be offended, since most young people are happy to build cities, dismantle stones and make furniture.
So decorating a cake in the shape of your favorite computer game will be an ideal gift for the player.
DIY zebra skin cake made from fondant
When rolling out a base of white mastic, scraps of black mastic are added, which seem to be rolled into the main layer. Thus, you can make not only zebra skin, but also leopard, tiger or giraffe skin - the main thing is to choose the right shades of food coloring.
How to paint mastic
You need to paint the mastic very carefully. The best dyes for coloring mastic are water-soluble gel dyes. You should not use liquid or paste dyes, as they can ruin the texture of the mastic.
To color the mastic, just add a couple of drops to the required amount of mastic, then knead it well until a uniform color is obtained.
If you feel that the mastic is becoming soft or starting to stick to your hands, powder it with powdered sugar or starch.
And, in order not to make a mistake with coloring mastic, be sure to read this article. Here you will find all the information and recommendations on dyes.
DIY mastic cakes for children
Children love everything bright and interesting.
Therefore, be sure to please your child with a sweet surprise in the form of a cake decorated with mastic compositions. You can sculpt your favorite cartoon characters from fondant and create fun inscriptions. How to decorate a cake? How to decorate a cake at home?
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Sugar mastic for sculpting figures at home: description, step-by-step recipe
Sugar mastic
Homemade mastic is very easy to make and we offer you one of the simplest recipes:
Mastic composition
Cooking method:
- Take a wide bowl and sift powdered sugar into it and add dry milk. Mix the ingredients and add condensed milk.
- Next we mix the future mastic like a regular dough. While you stir, gradually add lemon juice, cognac and coloring. As a result, you will get a pleasant thick mass that will feel pleasant on your hands and you can sculpt good figures from it.
Mastic has a huge advantage because it allows you to create beautiful figures of any size. In particular, it can be useful when you want to decorate a cake or pastries for a holiday.
Which mastic should a novice master choose?
Modeling decorations from mastic with your own hands can be quite a difficult task for novice craftsmen. Therefore, at first, to improve your skills more easily and quickly, you should opt for purchased rather than homemade mastic. The first one is more expensive. But to create flowers and figures you need to gain a certain skill, which is much easier to do with purchased mastic. In stores you can find a wide variety of manufacturing companies, and the price of the product will vary from this. Russian brands can be found for 250 rubles/kg, imported ones (Italy, Sweden) – 500 rubles/kg. For a novice master, I would like to recommend mastic for modeling. It is universal, suitable for covering a cake, and for creating figures and not very complex colors.
How to crumble the sides of a cake
So, we have made the biscuit crumbs, now we need to sprinkle the cake with crumbs. It is better to work with gloves.
First of all, assemble the cake so that it is perfectly even. To ensure that the biscuit crumbs “stick” to the cake, we cover it with a thin layer of cream; if there are any unevenness, we also hide them with cream.
You can start by covering the cake with biscuit crumbs from the sides of the cake, from bottom to top. Press the crumbs well into the cake. Then we cover the top of the cake, trying to preserve all the edges.
How to make emendam base
The MMs theme is a great idea for decorating a children's birthday cake. If you are expecting a lot of guests, you can order a two-tier dessert at any pastry shop or bake it yourself according to your own recipe.
Start making fun figures by making the base. Need to:
- Melt the marshmallows. To do this, use a microwave or water bath. Well-heated sugar marshmallows become soft and chewy.
- Add puffed rice or wheat to the melted mass. Mix the mass well, it should turn out quite thick and viscous.
- Make blank figures. Red emendams are round in shape, yellow ones are oval. The rest of the figures are oval in shape, except for the orange character.
- Remove irregularities. Some subscribers ask whether the workpieces need to be lubricated with cream to remove unevenness. No, for smoothness it is enough to cover them in several layers with mastic of the appropriate color.
After the basics of future decorations are ready, you can begin sculpting the “face” and details of the figures.
Decorating the cake with coconut
Decorating a cake with coconut shavings is rare for me. You always want to use coconut flakes to decorate an “unusual” exotic cake.
Here the cake is completely sprinkled with coconut, but you can sprinkle only the bottom of the cake or use it as a sprinkle on top of the berries.
The game that captivated millions
To make it easier for you to understand all the intricacies and create a cake decoration in accordance with your favorite game, you should learn some of its features.
The first thing that catches your eye is the playing field itself and the characters, since it has a cubic appearance. The entire game world consists of 3D cubes, the animals also look a little strange. Yes, however, everything looks very original.
There are a lot of game situations and developments.
For example, 5 game modes that allow you to either build your own objects or observe those around you. There are a lot of animals and monsters, many different items and other possibilities.
Not a single child will refuse if you ask him to tell you about the game and what character he is, as well as ask for permission to observe the progress of the gameplay. If you succeed, then look carefully at the baby’s character himself and what animals he interacts with, what monsters he fights.
When creating a cake based on the game for a child’s birthday, a similar lesson will be very useful. It will be possible to make figurines of characters with whom your child is friends, and it will not be difficult to repeat the figurine of the player himself.
Ingredients and tools you will need
In order to make a cake decoration in the form of a MMdems figurine from mastic, you need a set of the following ingredients and tools.
For the base of the figure:
- Puffed rice or puffed wheat. The amount of the ingredient depends on the size of the mastic figure.
- Marshmallow. Both the classic white marshmallow and multi-colored marshmallows are suitable.
For sculpting the figure:
- Mastic. You can prepare it yourself - here you will find many detailed step-by-step recipes for mastic and master classes for confectioners. But you can also use ready-made mass. For decorations you will need red, yellow, black, white and pink fondant.
The color of the mastic depends on the chosen character. For the classic version, red and yellow ememdams are made, but you can add figures in orange, brown, green and blue.
- Toothpick. You can use any other tool that is convenient for performing small operations of pressing and cutting out parts of a figurine, for example a knitting needle or a sharpened match.
- Knife. Preferably with a thin and sharp tip, with which it is convenient to cut mastic and cut through various parts of the product.
- Emma's candies. Any candy will do; their quantity depends on the size of the cake and the figures made, but not less than 130 grams.
