Decoration of cake mastic is the easiest way to decorate a children's cake. For this purpose only mastic and also food colors by means of which it is possible to give to appearance of confectionery bright coloring is required.
Before beginning to decorate cake, it is necessary to prepare mastic. For its preparation 300 grams of icing sugar, 120 grams of ready gelatin of average density and a little citric acid (no more than 1/3 teaspoons) are required. Ingredients need to be mixed and to quickly knead weight to uniformity. Divide its not several parts and paint, having added to each lump on some drops of food color (it is possible to use also natural juices, for example beet, bilberry, etc.).
After mastic is ready, it is possible to start directly decoration of cake. First of all it is necessary to be defined what cake you wish to see finally. Naturally, it is necessary to consider a sex of the child.
Many girls very much love flowers therefore it is possible to decorate confectionery with figures in the form of flowers. For this purpose at first it is necessary to take a piece of mastic of neutral color, to roll it very thinly and to cover with the turned-out layer a cake, having accurately smoothed all roughnesses. Further to roll mastic of brighter color and by means of usual molds for cookies to cut out florets (if there are no such molds at your disposal, then it is possible to cut out from cardboard a figure in the form of a floret, then to impose it on mastic and to cut out flowers on it (that is to use as a curve). After flowers are cut out, them it is necessary to arrange beautifully on the cake.
In general, mastic is quite pliable material, from it it is possible to stick together a set of various figures, for example hares, little mice, cats, etc. The cakes decorated with pretty animals look very interestingly.
If your child is crazy about some cartoon, then cake can be decorated, considering addictions the child. For example, many boys with huge interest watch animated films about the batman and Spider-Man.