Decoration of cakes, or How to create a sweet masterpiece?

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

Any holiday, whether it's a birthday, a wedding or just a family celebration, can not do without sweets. Whether you buy a sweet masterpiece or make your own, cake decorating should wow guests.

Perhaps, to begin with, it is worth saying that any cake should taste excellent, so that later the chic appearance is not spoiled by an unsightly filling. Decorating cakes can be done in completely different ways. The easiest way is to sprinkle with cocoa powder, powdered sugar, grated or melted chocolate, nuts, or simply grated extra cake crust. These methods of decorating in a hurry, and you can’t call them “appetizing”. So, you need to find some other option.

You need to choose the design depending on who the cake is intended for. If this is the head of a prestigious company, then the design should be in a businesslike, strict style. If this is a girl, then it is appropriate to include flowers in the design, but for children's cakes, you can use any fantasy idea. Cakes, decoration, photos of the final result can be found on the pages of any confectionerywebsite.

Ways to decorate cakes

1. Cream decoration is a rather simple, but at the same time very beautiful way to decorate a cake. To do this, prepare the cream. Divide into several parts, and color them with different food colors. Then, using a syringe, decorate the cake with roses, leaves, various curls and waves.
2. Any cake can be beautifully decorated with fruits. Moreover, not just scattering them on top, but turning them into works of art, cutting them into slices, cutting out balls from them, making ladders and baskets.
3. You can beautifully decorate cakes with flowers, both real and made from icing or marzipan.
4. Hand-painted cakes will look good. To do this, prepare a sketch of the drawing on tracing paper, and then transfer it to the icing covering the cake and paint it with confectionery gels. For simplicity, you can use a stencil, as well as curly stamps, which can be of any shape, even in the form of animals. Such stencils are very convenient for creating children's cakes.

Decorating cakes with mastic

Separately, it is worth highlighting the design of cakes with mastic - this is aerobatics. There are several types of mastic: sugar, condensed milk, marshmallow. These types can be prepared with your own hands. Professional mastic can only be purchased at a specialized store. Cakes are decorated with mastic, most often biscuits, which are first invented, and then cut out on paper and made a pattern. You can take cardboard and make a cake model out of it. This is necessary in order to calculate the correct dimensions of the mastic. The design of cakes must begin with their preparation so that the mastic does not “run away” from them. Most often, for this, the cake is covered with butter cream and sent to the refrigerator so that the cream freezes, and then polished, giving a perfectly flat surface using a dry hot knife. After that, the table is sprinkled with starch and the mastic is rolled out on it into a layer 0.5 cm thick, and of such a diameter that the cake is completely covered with it. Lay the mastic on the culinary product and gently level it with your hands covered with starch. Excess mastic is cut off with a knife at a distance of 2 cm from the cake, and the tail is wrapped under the cake. It remains only to decorate the masterpiece on top as desired.