How to make an inscription on the cake at home?

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

Many housewives - both beginners and experienced ones - probably thought about how original and at the same time easy to do at home to make an inscription on the cake. There are a lot of reasons to please relatives and friends throughout life - an upcoming birthday, wedding anniversary, graduation and many other events.

The inscription on the cake is quite within the power of any hostess to do on their own. To make the goal seem simpler, difficulties can be overcome by dividing them into two types: those related to the text of the inscription and the practical method of its implementation. The most important rule is that the inscription on the cake is applied first, that is, before other decor elements and decorations. It's good to think over and have a sketch handy so you know exactly where and what should be.

Inscription content

The most common mistake that novice confectioners make is when there are a lot of feelings and emotions, you want to say a lot, and the space for creativity is usually limited in size. Let's agree - whatever you want to say, let it be inpostcard, and the inscription on the cake should be short. Many words are not needed, two or three are enough, but it is better to avoid the official style, such as “Masha from Lena”. This leads to not very pleasant analogies.

For the inscription on the cake, you need to choose short, simple and understandable words that can easily fit on the proposed area of \u200b\u200ba sweet treat. The address "Directorate of the Department of Education and Science" is more suitable for an official letter than a cake.

One more thing worth mentioning: tautology is bad form. Write "To the hero of the day on the anniversary", "Mommy on Mother's Day" will mean the same thing as saying hello twice. It is unacceptable to make mistakes in the congratulatory inscription. If in doubt about the spelling of a word, it is better to replace it with another one.

Technique for writing on the cake

For the inscription to be clearly visible and easy to read, its color should be different from the main background. The contrasting inscription can be easily read by everyone, including the hero of the occasion himself, but isn’t that what we were striving for?

Think about how and where the inscription on the cake will be located. What decorations will it coexist with. Depending on this, the words can be placed in a straight line, diagonally, in a circle. Letters should be written on a flat surface, as letters printed on top of patterns and cream flowers risk changing beyond recognition.

To make the inscription look neat, try to draw lines on the surface of the cake. To do this, you can use a toothpick. Letters of different sizes will leave an impression of negligence. Calculate their number and the place that will fall on each of them, carefully avoiding word wrapping. After all, a cake is not a blackboard.

Look for a suitable font, letters can be printed or written, practice writing it first on paper, make a sample for yourself, and just "get your hand." Do not neglect the opportunity to “rehearse” the writing, because if you write like a chicken paw in life, then how can you get elegance when writing on the cake, where it is even more inconvenient?

When thinking about the inscription and decorations on the cake, remember: the inscription and numbers should take center stage. If there are numbers in the decoration, then they are more important than the inscription, we write them first. The remaining space is filled with flowers and any figures.

What to do

There are several ways to write on the cake at home without using a special pastry syringe. The most common method is to roll up a bag of parchment or any other thick paper, cut off a corner so that the fudge or confectionery mass comes out freely. If you increase the cut height, you can adjust the thickness of the letters. The second way is a plastic bag with a hole made in it. Don't forget to check it for integrity - fill it with air and see if it comes out. Then you should tightly stuff one of the corners of the package with mass, tie the remaining edges in a knot,so that the mass does not fall out back and carefully cut off the edge.

Usually enough to cut one or two millimeters. Even an ordinary medical syringe without a needle will do. In any case, you need to practice a little on any flat surface in order to get used to and understand how fast to drive a bag or a bag so that the resulting lines come out unbroken and with the same thickness.

Composition for sweet inscriptions

Recipes for "sweet ink" invented a great many. There are many ways to make an inscription on a cake. To do this, use mastic, icing, protein or oil cream, fudge. It is permissible to make an inscription on the cake with chocolate, having melted it first. Use the chocolate mass like a regular cream. You can also grate chocolate, sprinkle it on the cake through a stencil, with pre-prepared slots for letters.

Preparing the cream

For the simplest cream for writing on the cake you will need:

• one stick of butter;
• can of condensed milk.

Butter must first be softened. Add condensed milk in small portions to the softened butter, mixing the resulting mass thoroughly. Make sure it doesn't become watery. In such a cream, you can add any food coloring to get the inscription of the desired color.

Fudge

To make fudge, mix milk and sugar in a ratio of 1:2, keep over high heat until boiling, and then boil over low heatuntil a thick mass is obtained. The condition of the fondant can be monitored by dripping a small amount onto paper or a plate. If the mass spreads, it is not ready. The fondant of the desired consistency should not spread. It must be cooled down before use. Dyes, vanilla or chocolate are added to the mass.

Chocolate mass

To prepare it, you will need 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Powdered sugar can be added if desired. It is better to sift cocoa powder and powder so that there are no lumps. The consistency should be quite thick. Such letters are easy to form, they will not spread in a puddle.

The mass is placed in a bag, which can be made independently from parchment or other thick paper, cut off the tip with scissors. At home, you can even use a milk carton. They are durable and roomy. First, try not writing on the cake, increasing the angle as needed.

It is more convenient to hold the bag with both hands, one squeezing out the letters, and the other holding the leading hand, ensuring smooth movements and preventing trembling and jerking.

The easiest way to get a chocolate inscription is to simply melt a chocolate bar in a microwave oven or in a water bath until completely softened, transfer it to a bag and write the desired text. Such a mass quickly hardens, so you need to write quickly. Of course, you can re-melt the chocolate and continue to apply the inscription. There is another way to get beautiful and even letters -prepare a life-size stencil for the inscription, place something clean and transparent on top, for example, a document file, draw letters on it, tracing all the lines along the stencil. After waiting for the letters to harden, carefully remove them and transfer them to the cake.

Correction of an unsuccessful inscription

Immediately it will be difficult to achieve the ideal result, any letter or its element will differ from the intended one. Do not try to erase everything at once - it will only smear more. The cake, together with the failed inscription, must be put in the refrigerator for a while and the inscription should be allowed to harden. A hard letter is much easier to remove. A groove may remain in this place, but it will become invisible when writing a new letter.

If it suddenly happened that the whole word, and not just one letter, was damaged, it can be removed with a knife or fork by freezing it. Level the field under it, and write the word again.

If the whole inscription came out ugly, it should be written again on the second half of the cake, and decorate the side with the ugly inscription with flowers or patterns, sprinkle with confectionery decorations, nuts, hide in some other way.