The orchid from mastic turns out so plausible that it isn't even believed in its artificial origin. Such flower will decorate cake, will perfectly look in a vase and will become an original gift.
By means of mastic it is possible to create unusual jewelry for cakes – to mold figures of the groom and the bride on wedding cake, to decorate pastries with flowers. Especially amazingly on a surface of cake the orchid from snow-white mastic looks. The flower turns out so plausible that it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the present. It is possible to attach it to a piece of a wire and to put in a vase.
How to make mastic
At first it is necessary to prepare mastic. For this purpose it is required:
- 250 g of icing sugar; - 8-9 teaspoons of water; - 1 teaspoon of gelatin. Wet gelatin in water for 30 minutes. Periodically it it is necessary to stir slowly that it didn't stick together in uniform weight. Then gelatin should be heated on fire, stirring slowly, not bringing to the boil. When it thaws – to remove from fire and to pour the sifted icing sugar.
Massú needs to vent well a spoon in a bowl, and then – on a table, pouring starch or icing sugar. It has to turn into a smooth sphere. Mastic is ready!
Molds or cliche
After that it is possible to start creation of a sweet masterpiece. For it it is required: - mastic; - molds or cliche: - a ball for thinning of edge; - molds; - satin ribbon; - starch; - foil; - sugar syrup. If in economy there are special molds for cutting details of this flower, then it is possible to take them. If isn't present, then at first it is necessary to draw flower parts on the sheet of cardboard, and then to cut out them. In total – 4 details. Two – are identical. It will be petals of a sweet orchid. They are round, have from a bottom side on one small rectangle. By means of them connect petals from mastic among themselves. The following detail consists of three, the symmetrized, oval petals. To make such cliche, at first on cardboard draw an isosceles triangle, and then in each its top – on a petal. Last component the smallest. It is flower core – a stamen. It is similar to a butterfly with short moustaches and not really big wings.
We do an orchid
It is simple to do a flower. Layer of the sweet test needs to be rolled thinly, thickness it has to be 1-2 mm.
That mastic didn't stick to a rolling pin and hands, they can be powdered with a small amount of starch.
Now it is possible to cut out details on a cliche or by means of molds. That the orchid looked how real, by means of molds give it texture.
That edges of petals were slightly wavy, take the souvenir handle on the edge of which there is a decorative ball or other subject of round shape, and give "waviness" to petals.
Take a leaf of a food foil. Give it the form of a funnel, doing small deepening in the middle. At first put the detail consisting of three petals. Slightly hammer the middle of a detail by means of a finger into a funnel. Miss the mark a detail with a sugar syrup and put on it 2 symmetric petals on the right and at the left. The last paste a stamen. It was necessary to allow a flower to dry up properly, and then to paint it with food paints and to admire graceful creation.