Decoration of sweet and savory pastries

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There is just a huge variety of baking designs. And, probably, it is impossible to fit all these creative ideas in one article. Therefore, we will consider the easiest options that will be available for implementation even to inexperienced chefs. And then even a novice hostess will be able to please her family and friends with not only delicious, but also beautiful pastries.

Savory pastries

First, let's talk about the design of baking from savory dough. The dough can be used both puff and yeast. For example, you can make something like manti using dough strips and sausage or ham. You can also make bacon pieces for the filling. How is this beautiful dish made? The dough is cut into small strips 5-6 cm wide. Then bacon or ham, or chopped sausage is laid out there. Thus, we roll up such snails from dough, and we get round semi-finished products that can either be baked in the oven with some kind of gravy, or stewed in a cauldron or in a frying pan on the stove. This looks likethe dish is beautiful and tastes interesting too.

From yeast dough you can make a pie in the form of a sun with almost any filling. We use unsweetened filling, for example, from eggs and onions or minced meat, or maybe some vegetables with herbs. How to work on the design of baking? First, we form a regular closed round cake. It is important to cut it out using some kind of plate or pot lid so that the circle is perfectly even. Then we put a cup or mug in the middle of our cake, and press it so that we get a pressed circle. It will be the sun itself. And from the edges we will cut the rays. To the border of the circle we cut strips of the same width. Just like this, we cut the whole cake in a circle, then we twist these stripes a little. Such a cake will surprise and delight your guests and household members.

We want to offer another option for decorating baking. This is a cheese pie. The dough here can be used both puff and yeast. But it is desirable to roll it very thinly. From the dough we lay out a long strip. Its width will be no more than 15 cm. From the strip we form tubes into which we first pour grated cheese. And just roll it up like a snail shell. Thus, the cake will be in the form of a twisted spiral. This is an elementary simple way to decorate pastries, but despite the fact that it is very simple to do, such a cake looks amazing, you can put it on any holiday table.

Sweet pastries

There is a goodidea for decorating an apple pie. For example, you can make a fish out of apples and puff pastry. To do this, roll out the dough into an oval. You need to lay out the apple slices so that they stand on the "ribs", and do not lie flat. You need to lay them out tightly to each other so that they do not fall apart while we decorate the dough. It will turn out such a column of apples. From above you need to sprinkle our filling with sugar, cinnamon goes well with apples. Next, we cut thin strips obliquely from the dough. And we twist them together, like a braid. In this way, you will get scales formed from gaps in the test in the form of diamonds. From the rest of the dough we sculpt the head and tail and apply them to the ends.

No one has canceled the baking of cookies from figures from dough cut out with molds. If you want something unusual, then there is the idea of decorating cookies in such a way that they look like buttons. To do this, you need to take a cap from a plastic bottle and first make dough rounds with a diameter slightly larger than this cap. Using the lid, press the center and make four holes in the middle so that our cookies resemble buttons. You can also use molds to cut out some artistic pieces of dough such as hearts or stars, from which you can make a delicious and beautiful puff pastry pie.

The filling can be various fruits or berries. You can also take jam, jam, even chocolate. It's up to your taste. But you need to decorate the cake in such a way that from small carved figuresidentical, we lay out the top of our pie. The bottom, of course, is made from a single piece of dough. These pastries look amazing.

Tips for Finishing Items

If you are baking a savory pie or any other savory pastries, then in order for the product to shine, you need to grease it on top with butter before putting it in the oven. And sweet pastries can be smeared with sugar syrup for the same purpose.

Any dough will perform well during baking if the recipe is followed exactly. It is very important that our products rise as needed, do not fall off, so that nothing irreparable happens to their appearance. Also, properly cooked dough will not stick to the sides or bottom of the bowl.

If the dough is prepared with yeast, then it must be kneaded at least twice while it is standing. Thus, the design of baking begins precisely from following the recipe when kneading the dough.

Bon appetit and baking is not only tasty, but also beautiful!