Cake from mastic for New year will become the real decoration of a table. It really the work of art - individual and in subject of a holiday. It is possible to make such also the hands.
Cake with mastic – is today one of the most popular options in cookery. By means of such sweet material it is possible to make an original and interesting dessert. Any, even classical cake gets special sounding with such decor. Especially many options of ornament can be thought up for New year. Ordinary cake for a festive feast – it is boring, and decorated with mastic is practically a masterpiece. And to master knowledge of decoration of pastries in such a way not especially difficult.
What has to be cake
The recipe of cake a baking plate mastic can be various – light. Heavy, with several quantity of cake layers, with a combination of various layers. But, however, there is a number of nuances which should be considered not to spoil a house dessert. So, experienced culinary specialists recommend to follow the following rules:
- It is possible to apply any cake layers to cake – a biscuit, shortcake dough, wafers and even souffle; cream can also be various – sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, berries, condensed milk. But at the same time from above cake shouldn't be soaked with them since mastic can thaw from contact with them. Directly under mastic it is possible to grease cake with oil cream, ganashy, marzipan or boiled condensed milk. Having greased cake, surely leave it before full hardening
- The top layer should be leveled that mastic laid down exactly
- It is necessary to choose subject and it is possible to start ornament
Recipe of cake
It is possible to prepare different options of a dessert. But classical nevertheless it is considered biscuit – they has high caloric content, and it should be considered that who keeps to a diet. Plus such option is that preparation of a tasty biscuit doesn't require any special products. So, it is enough to take:
- Egg – 8 pieces
- Sugar in the form of sand – 220 grams
- Wheat flour – 250 grams
- Desi – 80 grams
The step-by-step recipe looks as follows. At first break in suitable deep ware of egg, pour sugar there and actively shake up them together the mixer – weight has to increase noticeably. Wheat flour should be sifted previously – it will give it the chance to be saturated with oxygen and to be more air, pastries with such flour turn out more magnificent and porous.
Flour should be added to egg and sugar mix and to mix properly to uniformity. Further line for oil – it should be kindled and added to the test then once again properly to mix everything.
It is necessary only to divide into parts and it is possible to bake. The oven has to be warmed moderately – about 180 degrees. Pastries time – about 30 minutes. It is possible to check readiness of a biscuit, having pierced it a toothpick or a match. If on it there is no test trace left then, the biscuit is ready also. It is necessary to get it from an oven and to cool. It is necessary to pick cake further and to prepare it for ornament mastic.
Recipes of mastic
It is simple to prepare mastic in house conditions. The stage-by-stage recipe is on the Internet in large numbers. It is possible to use different options – many of them enough lungs. So, for example, the recipe of mastic from a marshmallow is popular. In the ware intended for use in the microwave oven it is necessary to lay out marshmallows, to water them with juice or water and to add a little desi.
In the microwave it is necessary to heat mix on a power maximum until until marshmallows increase in sizes and will begin to melt slightly. As the option, marshmallows can be heated also on a water bath.
It is possible to add any food color to the melted marshmallows and to stir everything properly. In mix it is necessary to pour icing sugar further and again to stir everything. When it becomes heavy to mix a spoon, it is necessary to lay out mix on a table and to continue a batch by means of icing sugar until dough ceases to stick to hands. The recipe clear and simple, many even call it to good options since the minimum of ingredients is required.
It is also possible to make mastic of condensed milk. From such good modelled elements turn out. For such mastic will be required:
- Powdered milk – 200 grams
- Condensed milk – 1 bank
- Icing sugar – 200 grams
- Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon.
Powder should be mixed with powdered milk, lemon juice, and then to pour to them in condensed milk and properly to mix everything. Look at the turned-out weight. If it strongly dry is also scattered, then to add lemon juice still.
How to work with mastic
It is necessary to pick cake further. After its preparation it is possible to start ornament. Time cake goes by New year, and color scale and also options of a decor have to approach this holiday. Respectively, such dyes as blue, green, silvery, white, red will be required.
At first it is necessary to roll the main layer of mastic which will wrap up all cake. It will become the platform for further ornament. Think over that you will do on cake as to decorate it, follows in advance – it will help to choose the correct dye for a basis. The cake which is wrapped up with mastic becomes equal and smooth if it is correct to apply it. It is necessary to roll mastic layer so that it was generally one and a half-two times more than a pastries surface – only this way it can be distributed accurately and precisely.
Smoothing of mastic on cake requires the special mastic iron – with it it is easily possible to level all composition. It is possible to start a molding of figures from mastic and to creation of a decor further – snowflakes, ribbons, branches, etc. Everything depends on abilities and taste of the confectioner.
Options of a New Year's decor
For decoration of cake it is possible not to limit in anything itself. So, it is possible to issue cake in the form of the New Year's gift wrapped in packing and decorated with ribbons. It is possible to make special New Year's composition, for example, a landscape with a fir-tree. All this will give an atmosfernost and typicalness.
Figures should be fastened among themselves podetalno with the help baking plates (it has to be warmed up) or the kindled mastic. They fasten also to cake.
Accurately and yuvelirno it is possible to cut out from snowflake mastic. For this purpose special stacks by means of which it is possible to work with weight for a molding will be required. That there was it easier to make, at first it is necessary to cut out preparation from plastic, and then to press down it on mastic. Further accurately everything will need only to be cut out.
New Year's cakes from mastic can look in various way – to represent Santa Claus or Father Frost, to be in the form of a bag with gifts, the gift, etc.
As additional jewelry it is possible to apply different options - the real small bottle of champagne, almond petals, a chocolate confectioner and many other things that the imagination only allows. Here the main thing is not to be afraid to experiment. Then everything will turn out ideally.