Napoleon cake decoration: culinary ideas

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

"Napoleon" is a traditional French and Italian dessert made with numerous layers of puff pastry and fragrant vanilla cream. To date, there are dozens of recipes that use custard, and protein, and butter cream, and even made on the basis of fatty confectionery cream. However, preparing such a dessert is half the trouble. After all, it still needs to be properly formatted. Let's find out how to decorate a Napoleon cake at home.

Two in one: both tasty and he althy

How to decorate a Napoleon cake if there are no pastry tools at hand, and culinary skills leave much to be desired? Fresh berries will come to the rescue, which will not only look beautiful and fabulous on dessert, but also make it tasty and he althy. To decorate a puff cake, it is necessary to select the most ripe, but not soft and not loose fruits. Otherwise, they will give juice and become shriveled within a few hours, which will make the dessert lose its flavor.appetizing.

This is a cake decoration for beginners. After all, all that is required is to beautifully and accurately spread strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or currants on the surface, then sprinkle everything with powdered sugar. Use a sieve to coat the berries evenly, like frost. Don't forget to add green color by using mint leaves. Decorating the Napoleon cake with berries will be appreciated by both adults and children.

Chocolate Paradise

It doesn't matter what cream you use in your dessert. In any case, the final step is that you apply it on top of the cakes and cover with crushed puff pastry chips. And let's change the usual look of the Napoleon cake? The decoration will be pure chocolate products that we will prepare ourselves.

What you need:

• Dark chocolate bar.
• Pot of water.
• Heat-resistant bowl, which is slightly larger in diameter than the width of the pan (stewpan).
• Wooden spatula.
• Baking paper (parchment).

Chocolate break into pieces and pour into a bowl. Then we put it in a saucepan and place it on the stove. When the water begins to boil, it will create a bath effect and the chocolate will slowly melt. To get a homogeneous mass, it is necessary to stir it constantly. When the chocolate is completely melted, proceed to the manufacture of parts. To do this, using a wooden spatula, we will create droplets, patterns and even inscriptions, notforgetting to put the melted chocolate on the parchment. In the worst case, you will not be able to carefully separate the pattern from the surface without breaking the fragile part. You can put the chocolate product in the freezer for several hours until it completely hardens.

With a thin knife, we separate the finished drawings and drops from the paper, and then transfer them to the surface of the confectionery product to make an original pattern. This Napoleon cake decoration will look like the dessert was made by a professional pastry chef.

Confetti Rain

All girls are sweets. They love bright outfits, sweet cakes and all the colors of the rainbow. Their cheerfulness, and sometimes naivete, pleases and inspires. Therefore, we will tell you about a possible option for decorating a cake for a girl for 10 years. And for this we will use colorful confetti.

As a rule, you can find them in any supermarket, looking in the department of spices, seasonings and spices for baking. However, you can also look into the pastry shop, where you will be offered confetti of absolutely different sizes and shades. To make our cake for a 10 year old girl colorful, we will also use whipped cream mixed with food coloring.

To prepare the cream, pour a small amount of heavy cream and beat with a mixer until stable peaks form. In the finished cream, you need to add a little vanilla and red dye and knead until a homogeneous mass is obtained. ViaWith a pastry syringe or a regular spatula, you need to apply the cream on the surface of the Napoleon, and then richly sprinkle the dessert with colorful confetti. And do not be afraid that the cake will turn out too sweet - a bright scattering, although edible, is almost tasteless.

Handy tools

"Napoleon" with chocolate balls is another cake decorating idea that will definitely please both the hero of the occasion and all the guests. All you need to decorate the dessert is corn balls covered with chocolate icing, waffle round cookies or thin chocolate chips. Of course, you can admire such a cake for hours. However, its appearance will give everyone an unforgettable visual pleasure.

For cooking, you need to select cookies of the same length, and also stock up on chocolate balls in advance. This is a great cake decorating idea. After all, even the most inexperienced culinary specialist will cope with its implementation. Carefully stick one wafer to the cream so that they form a fence. Don't press too hard or you will break the fragile cookies. Tie the cake with ribbon so that none of the wafers fall off during the transfer. Gently place the chocolate balls in the middle or pour more than enough to cover all the creamy gaps. Such a decoration of the Napoleon cake with sweets will delight all household inhabitants.

Oh, those boys

How to decorate a birthday cake for a boy at home? To do this, you need to show creativity and a little diligence. After all, ifin most cases, little ladies will be delighted with pink flowers, then boys are more serious and strict critics. They want to see their favorite superheroes and the latest cars. It takes effort to surprise a little boy.

There is a great idea to decorate a boy's birthday cake - use fondant.

Truly, this is a unique confectionery product that allows you to mold any shape from an edible material that resembles clay or plasticine. The mastic rolls out easily and the colors can be adjusted with food coloring. For example, try recreating a soccer field if your child is into an active lifestyle and is a fan of the sport.

First, let's take a cake and a white stable cream. Add green dye to it, and then using a pastry syringe, smoothly apply feathers to get an imitation of grass.

And what is a football field without a ball? Using mastic, you need to roll a uniform ball and place it in cream grass. We are sure that such a dessert will impress even the pickiest boy.

Icing patterns

It's not uncommon for Viennese desserts like almond pie or strudel to be double glazed to create a unique pattern. This does not require special confectionery syringes to decorate the cake, but you still have to spend 30 minutes preparing the chocolate coating.

Important note! We will use white and dark chocolate glaze,to create a contrast pattern. In no case should you mix dark and light tiles, so you must first prepare fondants in different (separate) containers.

What you need:

• A bar of dark or milk chocolate.
• Butter (small piece).
• Pot of water or stewpan.
• Deep heat-resistant bowl, for creating a water bath.
• Stirring spatula.
• Drip tray and metal grate.

Melt the chocolate in a water bath and add the butter. If the icing is too liquid, then you can add a little sifted flour, remembering to stir the mass regularly. We do the same procedure with white chocolate, then place the cake on the wire rack. Don't forget to put a tray under it - this is necessary if you don't want to stain the table and floor with liquid glaze.

Gently pour dark fondant, evenly distributing it over the entire surface of the cake, touching the sides as well. Let cool a little, and then draw neat circles with white icing. Using a toothpick, draw a line over the fondant to create a pattern. When decorating the cake, pay attention to the photo below.

Simple decor

What could be easier than decorating a finished dessert with lush cream? This is a versatile way to decorate a cake in a matter of minutes, and it doesn't require a long period of whipping cream or boiling egg yolks. All you need is a confectionery set for decorating cakes, which consists of a spatula (scapula),pastry bag (syringe), specialized nozzle and dye.

Design Tips:

• You will definitely surprise your guests with "Napoleon", which is hidden under the thickness of fragrant vanilla cream. That is why do not be afraid to decorate the cake completely, affecting both the sides and the top.
• The best option for decoration would be whipped cream, which is sold in cans in any supermarket. You can make the cream yourself by buying a full-fat dairy product from the store and whipping it with a mixer until stable peaks. For variety, you can add food coloring or make it from natural ingredients. For example, use freshly squeezed strawberry, cherry or currant juice.

What cream to cook

Introducing some of the most popular cake decorating creams.

1. Custard. For cooking, you will need milk, sugar, eggs, flour (starch), butter, vanillin or vanilla extract. The ingredients are mixed together, and then simmered over low heat, where flour is gradually introduced, until a homogeneous thick mass is formed. Such a recipe is sometimes called custard. The main feature of custard is that you can not add flour, gelatin or starch to thicken it. Often, ready-made custard is poured into a gravy boat and served on the table for dessert. Guests only need to break off a piece of cake and dip it in the most delicate liquid cream.
2. From sour cream. It is best to use fat sour cream, which is whippedusing a mixer along with powdered sugar. It is not recommended to add sugar, as it does not completely dissolve in the cream, and subsequently it will completely creak on the teeth. You can add some crushed nuts, cocoa and chocolate chips to give our "Napoleon" nobility.
3. Protein. For cooking, you need egg whites, which are beaten together with powdered sugar until white stable peaks appear. Such a cream is applied with a spatula, and for those who want to decorate the cake a few hours before the guests arrive, gelatin will come to the rescue.
4. Oiled. Use only butter, not margarine or spread. With a mixer, beat it together with sugar or powder until you get a fluffy white cream - stable.

Cake decorating molds

Silicone molds - a unique way to decorate "Napoleon" beautifully and in an original way. The name itself speaks for itself. After all, a mold is a form where edible mastic is placed to obtain a 3D figure. To date, there are dozens of different silicone models that allow you to create inscriptions, faces, and anthropomorphic figures. It all depends on desire and imagination.

Helpful tip: making mastic at home is easy. It is enough to use powdered sugar, dry and condensed milk. All ingredients are kneaded until a homogeneous doughy mass is obtained. Using an ordinary rolling pin and a sharp knife, you can make creative icing, create incredibleshapes.

The main feature of mastic is that it is like plasticine, only edible and absolutely safe. If desired, you can cut out flowers, create voluminous inscriptions and depict even small animals. And for those who are not ready to prepare the mastic on their own, a pastry shop comes to the rescue, where a pasty mass of different colors is sold.

Choice of confectionery tools

Tired of a simple cream and want to decorate a dessert in an original way? Then give preference to confectionery tools that will allow you to decorate the cake, as if you are a real ambassador of your business!

Types of instruments:

• Bags and specialized nozzles. Confectionery bags are both disposable and reusable. The second type can be washed repeatedly, they dry easily and do not require special treatment. The main feature of the bags is that you can use nozzles with them, which allow you to create patterns from the cream in 3D format. For example, you can decorate a dessert with simple drops or, on the contrary, make a huge rose with a bud and petals.



• Shovels and spatulas. If the first tool is used to mix the creams and apply them to the surface, then the spatulas allow you to evenly distribute them over the cake.
• Plates and molds for chocolate. Silicone heat-resistant plates that allow you to create a unique chocolate pattern. The operation of this tool is easy. It is enough just to melt the cocoa product, pour it into the mold and let it cool completely.hardening.

"Napoleon" is a favorite and popular dessert around the world. It is possible that in many restaurants the taste of the cake may be similar, but the appearance will be remembered for a lifetime. That is why it is important to decorate the dessert, even if berries and powdered sugar are used for this.