If you love baking cakes, then this article is especially for you! In this article we will look at a wide variety of ways to decorate cakes with your own hands at home. You can transform an ordinary cake with mastic, marzipan, icing, waffles, chocolate, glaze, cream, cream, meringue, fruit, jelly, sweets, marmalade and sprinkles. We will look at each ingredient of the decoration separately, get acquainted with the recipe for making it, and, of course, be inspired by a huge number of ideas.
For some cake decorating options, you will need special materials such as: a pastry syringe with nozzles, parchment paper, a sharp thin knife, spatulas of different thicknesses.
Decorating cakes with fondant
Mastic is a special dough for decorating a cake. You can roll it out and cover the top of the cake, you can also create various animal figures, letters, numbers, flowers, leaves, openwork patterns and whatever your imagination desires.
The basic rule for working with mastic is that you have to work with it very quickly, since it hardens instantly. But there is a way out! When you form the decoration, pinch off the desired piece and wrap the rest of the mastic in film. Large figures may crack when drying.
Mastic recipe No. 1
Ingredients: condensed milk, powdered milk or cream, powdered sugar, food coloring (optional). The amount of ingredients directly depends on the size of the cake.
Preparation process: take a deep bowl and mix milk powder or cream with powdered sugar. Gradually add condensed milk and mix well. You should get an elastic dough that does not stick to your hands. Add food coloring drop by drop and mix into the dough. After cooking, immediately wrap the mastic in film.
Mastic recipe No. 2
Ingredients: water, lemon juice or citric acid, butter, powdered sugar, starch, marshmallows (white chewy marshmallows), food coloring (optional).
Preparation process: melt the marshmallows for a couple, add drops of food coloring if desired. Then add water and just a little lemon juice or citric acid. Mix the mixture well and then add 50 grams of butter. Separately mix powdered sugar and starch in a ratio of 1:3. Gradually add the powdered starch mixture to the marshmallow mixture and knead the dough well for about 10 minutes. After cooking, immediately wrap the mastic in film.
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How to make from ready-made cakes
It is best to take sponge cakes, because... they are soft and absorb any cream or syrup well. While waffle or puff pastries are crispy and dry.
Components:
- packaging of cakes;
- cream - 300 ml;
- powdered sugar – 100 gr.;
- strawberries – 2 cups;
- pear – 1 pc.;
- water – 100 gr.
Step by step steps:
- Prepare syrup for impregnation. To do this, you need to rinse the berries thoroughly, fill them completely with water, add sand and cook. When it boils, cook the berries for 5 minutes, remove from the stove.
- Grind the berries (ceiling).
- Grind through a sieve so that there are no pieces. Leave to cool.
- Whip the cream together with powdered sugar. Shake until fluffy foam is obtained.
- Remove the skin from the pear, cut into several pieces, and grind in a blender.
- Soak the cakes with syrup.
- Divide the cream into 3 parts. The first part will be needed when decorating the cake. Place the pear in the remaining two parts.
- Coat all the cakes with cream and fold them together. Coat the top cake with the reserved first part of the cream. You can decorate with pieces of strawberries, pears, etc.
Decorating cakes with marzipan
Marzipan is a nut mass that consists of almond flour and sugar paste. Its advantages are that it holds its shape perfectly, is quite elastic and has an amazing delicate taste. It is convenient to create all decoration elements from it - small figures, cake covering and voluminous decorations.
Marzipan recipe
Ingredients: 200 grams of sugar, a quarter glass of water, 1 glass of lightly roasted almonds, butter.
Preparation process: peel the almonds and finely chop them in a blender or on a grater. Make syrup from sugar and water. The consistency of the syrup should be thick. Pour the ground almonds into the syrup, stir and cook for 3 minutes. Take a bowl and grease it well with butter. Pour the marzipan into a bowl. Cool the marzipan and pass through a meat grinder. Marzipan is ready! If it turns out liquid, add powdered sugar. If the marzipan is very thick, add a little boiled water.
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With cream
Components:
- eggs – 3 pcs.;
- flour (wheat) – 360 gr.;
- sah. sand – 210 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- sour cream – 200 gr.;
- vanillin – 1 small pinch;
- soda - a quarter tsp;
- any canned fruit.
For the cream take:
- heavy cream (not less than 30%) – 0.5 l.;
- sah. powder (can be replaced with fine sugar) – 130 gr.
Sequencing:
- Beat (foam) eggs with sand and vanilla.
- Pour in sour cream and beat again.
- Add flour sifted with baking powder and soda. Knead the dough.
- Pour the dough into the oiled pan.
- Place the pan with the dough in a heated oven (180 degrees) - 40 minutes.
- Cool the baked cake, divide it lengthwise into 2 halves.
- Whip cream with sand.
- Place the first baked cake on a plate and soak it in syrup from canned fruit.
- Place the cream in a thick layer, spread evenly and place the chopped fruit.
- Brush the fruit with cream and place the 2nd part of the cake on top.
- Soak in syrup as well.
- Cover the entire cake with cream.
- Decorate the cake and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Decorating cakes with icing
Icing is an ice pattern that looks like a winter pattern on a window and tastes like crispy ice. The advantages of icing are that it is quite durable, does not spread, and adheres well to the surface of the confectionery product. It can be applied on top of hard chocolate glaze, mastic, fondant. It is worth noting that the surface on which icing can be applied should not spread or be sticky. The icing is applied with a pastry syringe, then the finished product is placed in the refrigerator for further hardening. Lace, inscriptions and patterns turn out very beautiful.
Icing recipe
Ingredients: 3 eggs, 500-600 grams of powdered sugar, 15 grams of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of glycerin.
Manufacturing process: cool all ingredients, degrease the dishes and wipe them dry. Take the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the egg whites, add glycerin, lemon juice and powdered sugar. Beat the mixture well with a whisk until it turns white. Cover the mixture with film and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour to burst the air bubbles. The icing is ready, you can safely decorate the cake!
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Photos of birthday cakes for a boy
You can decorate a confectionery product for a boy in several ways. Interesting ideas for decorating a 1st birthday cake are shown in the photo:
Decorating cakes with waffles
Waffles are materials for decorating flowers, various figures, and numbers. They are made from crispy waffle dough. Ready-made edible pictures based on waffle crust are also popular. You can purchase this decoration in confectionery stores, supermarkets or on the Internet. You won’t be able to make waffles with an image on your own, as you will need edible ink and special equipment. The advantages of waffles are that they do not crack, keep their shape perfectly and do not melt. However, they can only be used on a light-colored surface of the cake, since when soaked, the picture may become saturated with dark cream.
Waffle design rules
- The surface of the cake should be perfectly flat.
- The base can be thick butter cream, mastic, glaze.
- The picture is applied to the unfrozen surface of the cake.
- Place the picture on the table with the back side up, brush it with a thin layer of liquid honey, light jam or sugar syrup. Carry out the process using a silicone brush.
- Place the image on the cake.
- Press down a little with your hands to let the air out, then smooth with a napkin.
- Hide the edges of the picture using whipped cream tucked into a pastry syringe.
- Decorate the cake with waffle figures in this way: place the figures on the table with the back side up, brush with a thin layer of liquid honey, light jam or sugar syrup and glue to the cake. Or coat only the center and form an open flower or raised butterfly wings.
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How to make figures from mastic
The consistency of mastic is similar to plasticine, so you can make any figures from it.
You can, for example, make a Sovunya from Smeshariki, to do this, roll up a ball of mastic (colored) - this will turn out to be a head, attach triangular-shaped ears. Make circles for the eyes using white mastic. Make a beak and attach it to the head. Attach the pupils to the eyes. Roll out thin sausages and make legs. Attach legs and wings. The owl is ready.
If you make a figurine consisting of a torso and a head, then you need to fasten these parts of the body with a toothpick.
Decorating cakes with chocolate
Decorating with chocolate is considered a classic decoration for cakes. This ingredient goes well with biscuits, souffles, mousse, puff pastry and various creams. The advantages of chocolate are that, once melted, it can be given any possible shape, and when the chocolate hardens, it will not crack or spread. To decorate cakes, you can use any chocolate - black, white, milk, porous.
Methods for decorating cakes with chocolate
- To decorate a cake with chocolate chips, simply grate a chocolate bar and sprinkle it over the cake.
- To decorate the cake with curls, lightly warm the chocolate bar, then take a thin knife, or better yet, a vegetable cutter and cut thin strips, they will immediately begin to curl. You can create gorgeous patterns from them.
- Here is another way to decorate a cake with openwork patterns, inscriptions and drawings. Melt the chocolate bar in a steam bath. Place the chocolate into a pastry syringe. Take parchment paper and draw patterns. Use a pastry syringe to draw patterns onto the parchment paper. Place the parchment in the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to set. Carefully remove the chocolate from the parchment and decorate the cake. If you are not good at drawing, find a beautiful pattern on the Internet, print it out, attach transparent parchment paper to the drawing and simply copy it.
- To decorate the cake with chocolate leaves, you will need real tree leaves or houseplants. Wash and dry the leaves. Melt the chocolate in a steam bath and place it on the inside of the sheet with a silicone brush. Place in the refrigerator, and when it hardens, carefully remove the chocolate from the leaf and decorate the cake.
- Another creative way to decorate a cake is to use cherries and chocolate. Discard the pits, place each cherry in the melted chocolate and decorate the cake.
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Chocolate decors
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Decorating cakes with icing
At the moment there are chocolate, mirror, marmalade, caramel, multi-colored, soft, milk and creamy glazes.
Chocolate frosting recipe
Ingredients: 1.5 tablespoons of milk, 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder, 1.5 tablespoons of sugar, 40 grams of butter.
Preparation process: take a bowl, put cocoa, sugar, pieces of butter, and pour milk. Place on fire, melt and boil for 5-7 minutes. Cover the cake with chocolate glaze using a wide knife and place in the refrigerator to further harden.
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Caramel frosting recipe
Ingredients: 150 grams warm water, 180 grams fine-grained sugar, 2 teaspoons cornstarch, 150 grams heavy cream, 5 grams leaf gelatin.
Preparation process: soak gelatin in water, mix cream with starch, melt sugar in a frying pan until light brown. Add cream with starch and sugar to warm water. Boil until the caramel dissolves. Don't forget to stir the mixture constantly. Then pour it into the cream, stir, cool and add the swollen gelatin. Cover the cake with caramel icing using a wide knife and place in the refrigerator to further harden.
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Marmalade glaze recipe
Ingredients: 200 grams of marmalade of the same color, 50 grams of butter, 2 tablespoons of fat sour cream, 120 grams of sugar.
Preparation process: melt the marmalade in a steam bath or in the microwave, add sour cream, butter and sugar. Mix the mixture well and put on fire. Cook the glaze for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool the glaze slightly. Cover the cake with marmalade icing using a wide knife and refrigerate for 3-4 hours to further harden.
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Children's cake "Hedgehog"
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To create a children's cake in the shape of a hedgehog, you don't need any special molds or tools, just the simplest products, a mixer and a pastry bag.
You will need:
Cake base:
6 eggs, 240 g sugar, 40 g cocoa, 160 g flour.
Impregnation:
50 ml water, 1 tbsp.
l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. confectionery balm. Cake cream:
1 tbsp.
l. cocoa, 100 g soft butter, 100 g condensed milk. Filling:
100 g chopped walnuts, 80 g condensed milk.
Cream for decoration:
3 egg whites, 220 g sugar, 80 ml water, 0.3 tsp.
citric acid. Preparation:
1. For five minutes, beat the eggs with sugar into a fluffy foam, and use a spatula to mix in the remaining ingredients for the dough.
Bake one thin cake on a large baking sheet. Photo: naturlich-restoran.ru
2. Cut out a figure in the form of a slightly elongated drop from thin plastic or thick paper. Place the pattern on the cooled cake and cut out using a sharp knife. Place the resulting dough onto the base on which you will assemble the cake, and tear the remaining dough scraps into small pieces into a separate bowl with your hands.
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3. Beat softened butter into a fluffy foam, add condensed milk and cocoa. Pour the resulting cream into a bowl with pieces of chocolate biscuit, mix with the ingredients for the filling. To make the nut-biscuit mixture softer and more pliable, pour half of the impregnation of water, sugar and balsam into it.
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4. Grease the chocolate sponge cake with the remaining impregnation, and then cover it, forming an even mound, with the nut-biscuit mixture. Place in the refrigerator for an hour.
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5. To decorate the cake, add boiling sugar syrup made from water, sugar and citric acid into the whipped egg whites in a thin stream. Cover the narrow side of the workpiece with white cream, then separate three small parts of the mass and color them yellow, lilac and green. Mix the rest of the cream with cocoa. Using a pastry bag, plant oblong brown needles, lilac flowers, yellow centers on them, and green leaves next to them. Don't forget to draw the hedgehog's eyes and nose.
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Decorating cakes with buttercream
Cream is a universal decoration for cakes. It is very convenient for them to write congratulations, make openwork frames, lush roses. Food coloring is often added to cream.
Buttercream recipe
Ingredients: 100 grams of butter, 5 tablespoons of condensed milk, food coloring.
Preparation process: melt the butter in a steam bath or in the microwave. Whip it until it becomes white and fluffy. Add condensed milk, mix well and divide the cream into portions. Add dye of the desired color to each portion of cream. Place the cream in a pastry syringe and create beauty, then send the cake into the cold so that the cream hardens.
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A selection of interesting videos on the topic
Detailed master classes on making children's cakes can be watched in the video. This will help you make treats quickly and easily.
A child's birthday is always a great occasion for celebration. And one year is generally the most important event. After all, you want to celebrate your baby’s first birthday especially. The key highlight of the event can be the cake. The main thing is that it is made from child-safe products that are acceptable for feeding one-year-old babies. The design can be chosen to suit your taste.
Decorating cakes with whipped cream
Whipped cream is an original airy, voluminous and delicate decoration. Their preparation does not require special products. To beautifully decorate the cake with whipped cream, you will need a pastry syringe. You need to work with cream fairly quickly. Make sure all ingredients and tools are prepared. The surface of the cake should be smooth and not too sticky.
Whipped Cream Recipe
Ingredients: half a liter of high fat cream from 33%, a bag of vanilla, 100-200 grams of powdered sugar, 1 bag of instant gelatin, food coloring (optional).
Preparation process: place the cream in the refrigerator for 12 hours. Pour chilled cream into a deep container. Take another deep container and pour ice water into it. Place the container of cream in a container of ice water. Dissolve gelatin in the manner indicated on the package. Beat the cream with a mixer (do not use a blender, as it will not create foam). Beat them until the foam becomes strong enough. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla, then whisk to combine. Add dissolved gelatin in a thin stream. Place the cream in a syringe and decorate the cake.
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Baby formula treat
Baby formula treats have become very popular due to their ease of preparation and savings.
Here's what you'll need to make a cake based on this product:
- granulated sugar – 1.5 tbsp;
- baby formula – 1.5 tbsp;
- chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
- flour – 1 tbsp.;
- baking powder – 25 g;
- sour cream – 100 g.
Cooking method:
- Beat eggs with a glass of sugar.
- Slowly sift flour, baking powder and a glass of milk mixture into the resulting mass.
- We bake the cakes for half an hour at a temperature of 150 degrees.
- Pour the remaining sugar and milk mixture into the sour cream and get cream.
- Divide the cake into layers, coat with cream and decorate to your taste.
According to many housewives, it is better to choose whipped cream and fruit for decoration.
Meringue cake decoration
Meringue is a snow-white, crispy and very tasty decoration. It is laid out on a layer of chocolate, jam, or cream.
Meringue recipe
Ingredients: a glass of powdered sugar, 5 chilled eggs, a bag of vanilla (optional).
Preparation process: separate the whites from the yolks, pour the whites into a dry, fat-free deep container. Beat the whites until fluffy (10-15 minutes). Gradually add powder (1-2 teaspoons) and immediately dissolve it. Add vanilla and dissolve it well. Preheat the oven to 100 degrees, cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and transfer the protein foam into a pastry syringe. Pipe the egg white mixture onto the baking sheet, creating beautiful balls or other shapes. The meringue is dried, not baked; the time the future meringue stays in the oven depends on the size of the pieces. Approximate drying time is 1.5-2 hours.
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