Bright, extraordinary tasty and beautiful cake - the main decoration of any holiday - a wedding, anniversary, a children's birthday. As soon as culinary specialists don't shift to blow the mind of members of household and guests. And it isn't fashionable to buy a treat now, the sweet baked in house conditions is more appreciated. How to decorate cake for New year, a name-day or for a thematic party?
Cakes presently are the real culinary masterpieces, nearly works of art, especially at chefs. Even inexperienced hostesses prefer to suffer, work at decoration of home-made pastries, but not to buy it in shop. Especially jewelry there is great variety now, for every taste, color and even began to smell. As well as with what it is possible to decorate cake in house conditions?
Here some of the most popular ways of a decor of the cake layers covered with cream or covered with mastic, cream, a nut crumb, chocolate:
- edible figures from mastic;
- lace and grids from the kindled chocolate;
- chocolate balls, cubes, figures;
- jelly jewelry or sweeties from fruit jelly;
- candies of the M&M's type, dragee;
- wafers, cookies;
- fresh or tinned berries;
- segments of sweet fruit.
How to decorate marshmallow cake
White, pink, blue or yellow marshmallows are a type of the soft sweets reminding texture and taste marshmallows habitual to much, sometimes - a fruit candy. To the touch they dense, elastic, but not rigid, pleasantly smell, are perfectly molded on cake. For this reason culinary specialists quite often choose a marshmallow as decoration of cake in house conditions. From elastic cubes perfectly it turns out to stick together any figure, figure, a flower or a letter.
If to bother, it is possible even to prepare plastic mastic from a marshmallow, but to sprinkle with an inexpensive treat top, cake sides much more simply, to lay out from them multi-colored patterns.
How to decorate cake with whipped cream
Gentle fluffy cream — the fastest and economic option how to decorate cake in house conditions. It is easy to buy a cylinder of sweet cream in any grocery store, having chosen from several tastes and shades of delicacy.
If desired it is possible to shake up dense cream even at home, using the mixer or the blender. An important condition - it is necessary to make out creamy patterns and pikes just before giving as gentle weight can begin to flow, get out of a shape. The cake top with cream can be decorated with a chocolate crumb, berries, chocolate segments, fruit slices.
How to decorate cake with M&M's peas
Bright dragees of red, yellow, green, blue and orange color are ideal for decoration of cakes, especially chocolate or nut. Such meals are served more often for children's birthday or on the teenager's name-day. It is possible to buy candies in any shop: though in packing, though by weight.
The easiest to surround a biscuit with a wafer rolls or chocolates like Kitiket, and top to fill up the M&M's dragee - either one layer, or the hill. It is possible to use sweet peas of one color or to spread them on a spiral multi-colored iridescent patterns. The only lack of such decor - candies can paint glaze, having formed ugly drips. Therefore it is desirable to fill them on cream.
How to decorate cake with fruit and berries
Decoration of cake in house conditions pieces of fruit and fresh berries gains popularity at culinary specialists. Such way is much more tasty and more useful, than use of viscous mastic. Fruit differ in naturalness, low caloric content, unlike oil cream and chocolate.
One - and two, three-storied cakes with fruit and berries take out to a table not only on anniversaries, but also at weddings, parties, celebrations with a buffet reception. Here several recommendations about a sweet decor:
- combine berries and fruit segments with yogurt, proteinaceous cream;
- leave fruits intact or cut on halves, quarters, the same treats also strawberry berries;
- you can strew slices and berries with icing sugar, the crushed nuts;
- supplement a decor with chocolate drips, inscriptions and figures.
How to decorate cake with chocolate
For a sweet decor it is possible to use as firm chocolate slices and in the form of figures, a grid, and kindled or glaze. Water with a chocolate cover either all top, or edges of cake, creating effective drips. The chocolate which is also kindled on a water bath is poured in the confectionery syringe, drawn on lace parchment, a network, flowers, butterflies, wait for hardening. Then decorate with preparations sweet delicacy.
One more idea - to decorate biscuit top pieces and the whole tiles, halves the kinder eggs, the Oreo cookies or chocolate shaving. The cake will have a solid look, very appetizing and attractive both for children, and for adults.
If there is no time, it is possible just to strew top and sides of a cake with confectionery multi-colored topping or ground nuts. Smartly the cake layers which aren't simply covered with cream, and covered with various patterns look: leg-base crabmeats, waves, oil spirals. At many culinary specialists are used a beautiful form of cookies and small chocolates, caramel, marshmallows, meringue, pieces of wafers. Everything depends on imagination and preferences of members of household.