Marzipan is a mix from ground almonds and icing sugar. From this plastic weight mold candies and figures for ornament, do tasty coverings for cakes and cakes of it. To give to all this variety the maximum decorative effect, marzipan can be painted. Use ready dyes in bags or prepare them from vegetables and fruit, arm with brushes and tanks for paint and begin to create.
It is required to you
- - ready marzipan weight;
- - ready food colors;
- - vegetable oil;
- - transparent alcohol (liqueur, grappa or vodka);
- - fresh juices of fruit and vegetables;
- - sugar coating.
Instruction
1. It is the simplest to paint marzipan weight with ready gel dyes. Gain colors which will be necessary for you. If it isn't possible to find any shades, they can be mixed independently. For example, combination red and blue paint will give violet color, having added to yellow dye of a little blue, it is possible to receive green different shades.
2. If you plan to cut out figures molds or to do large one-color jewelry, paint marzipan before molding. Roll the necessary amount of marzipan in a sphere, make in it small deepening and drip dye there. Intensively you knead weight hands. The it will be better вымешан marzipan, the more uniform color will turn out. If the shade seems to you insufficiently saturated, add a little more dye and again vent weight.
3. Make marzipan of different flowers. It is possible to roll and cut out it figures molds for cookies. If you plan to mold figures, using marzipan of different flowers, slightly oil hands vegetable, pinch off small pieces and form details. Let's them dry up slightly and collect a figure, attaching details to each other by means of honey.
4. It is possible to paint already molded figures. This way is convenient when it is necessary to put many small patterns, to draw the person or to make inscriptions. Dissolve ready dyes in several spoons of transparent alcohol – liqueur, grappa or vodka. Add dye on drops, carefully stirring, don't receive the necessary shade yet. Prepare the necessary amount of paints, take a thin brush for drawing and start painting. Leave the painted figure before full drying. From above it can be covered with sugar coating which will add to paints gloss and will keep softness of marzipan.
5. If you don't like the idea of use of chemical dyes, prepare their analogs from natural products. The carrot juice or orange juice which is wrung out together with a dried peel will give to marzipan orange color. The red shade can be received, having wrung out a cranberry or cowberry. The best brown dye gives burned sugar or cocoa powder. It is the most difficult to receive green tone – it is done of the spinach blanched and wiped through a sieve. Preparing natural paints, keep in mind that they give not only color, but also taste even if almost inaudible.