Cookies in the form of a stars will become excellent addition to a New Year's or Christmas table. A stars from marzipan will decorate festive cake. It is the best of all to cut out them on a pattern. But on a holiday table of a star not necessarily will be five-pointed. The quantity of beams can be any, as well as their length.
It is required to you
- - paper;
- - drawing tools;
- - dough;
- - marzipan weight;
- - icing sugar;
- - food colors;
- - rolling pin;
- - sharp knife;
- - aluminum jar.
Instruction
1. Make a pattern. It is better to take paper more densely, especially if you are going to cut out many stars. For a five-pointed star draw a circle and carry out 1 radius from the center. Divide the central corner by means of a protractor into 5 equal parts and carry out 4 more radiuses. It will also be beam length.
2. Halve each corner between the next radiuses. Draw lines through these points and postpone for them from the center equal pieces. Connect the received points to places of crossing of radiuses with a circle. Cut out a star. As at pastries the form of an asterisk will a little change, big accuracy in this case isn't obligatory. It is possible to divide in general corners by eye.
3. Sprinkle a table with flour. Roll dough that flat cake about 0.5 cm thick turned out. Impose a pattern and a sharp knife cut out a stars. It is better to take a knife with a thin edge. After that you will need only to lay out ready figures on a baking tray and to bake cookies in an oven.
4. It is possible to make also a reusable mold, and in the form of any figure. Make a pattern of cardboard on the described way.
5. From an aluminum jar cut off a cover and a bottom. Thin aluminum is scissored very easily even by usual. Separate or cut off a seam and straighten a side surface.
6. Cut off a strip about 2 cm wide from the turned-out leaf. Bend it in a pattern form. Connect the ends to the help of a metal paper clip the ordinary office stapler. If there isn't enough length, cut off still a strip and attach it to the first. By means of such self-made mold it is possible to cut some stars.
7. Stars from marzipan are cut out approximately the same as from the test. Mix marzipan weight with icing sugar in the ratio about 4:3. Divide the received "plasticine" into parts and add food colors.
8. Roll flat cakes. It is more convenient to cut out from marzipan a mold though it is possible also a sharp knife. If you want to decorate a surface of self-made cake with a big star, cut out it on a pattern. In this case the surface of the top cake layer can be greased, for example, with jam or jam, and from above to put a star.