How to decorate a homemade cake

Several centuries ago in France and Italyconfectioners took themselves apprentices of disciples who could draw well. They were also taught architecture, drawing, modeling, ornamentation, art of drawing. How much did the confectioners have to know? We will not go so far into the jungle of various arts and take on the main rule: Do not try to repeat the decoration of the cake from the pastry shop. It is better to create something individual, unusual and at the same time simple.

To decorate a homemade cake, you should first determine the type of cake. Biscuit cakes it is very good to combine with any kind of creams. Not bad will be a combination of biscuit with alcohol, but in this case, the cakes should be impregnated. Yoghurt and curd cakes very well combined with all kinds of fruits and berries. Combine sand cakes with condensed milk and cream. Chocolate cream gives them dryness, so avoid it. Honey cakes and puff pastry cakes combine well with walnuts and boiled condensed milk. A cakes made from ice cream just universal: boldly decorate them with anything!

Cream decoration Is the most common method. From it you can make a lot of intricate shapes. But the cream has one significant drawback: storage. Cake, decorated with cream can not be stored for very long.

You can decorate a homemade cake with marzipan. To do this, prepare the marzipan mass from 1a glass of almonds (pre-cook nuts, peel them and fry for 15 minutes in a pan constantly stirring), 1 glass of sugar and ¼ cup of water. You can add a few drops of almond essence. Beat the nut mixture in a blender. Sugar pour water and reheat it until it turns into a viscous flexible mixture. Add nutmeg and heat for another 3-4 minutes, then add the almond essence. The resulting mass cool under the film and pass through the meat grinder. As a result, you will get an elastic semi-finished product that can be easily rolled out on a cutting board and given it the desired shape. And in order to make multi-colored ornaments from marzipan, add food colors to it.

Try to decorate your home cake with mastic. You can buy it in the store or make it yourself. To make milk mastic yourself, we need milk powder, condensed milkand powdered sugar. We take all the ingredients in a 1: 1: 1 ratio. Knead the mass to the state of soft plasticine, and the house mastic is ready. Add food colors of different colors to it and get to work. Fix everything that your heart desires. Ready-made jewelry should be dried, and only then decorate them with cake.

Perfect decorations for a homemade cake can be made from chocolate. For this, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Note that the water should not boil. Melted chocolate is poured into a parchment-shaped cornea of ​​small form and with its help is painted with chocolate on parchment paper. Select the pattern in advance and simply trace the pattern along the path. Place the tracing paper with the patterns in the refrigerator so that the chocolate is frozen again. Carefully remove the finished chocolate decoration and transfer it to the cake.

You can decorate your home cake with all sorts of fruits and berries. Wash them beforehand and dry them. It is desirable to cut the strawberries along and put it in a cut down on the cake. Pineapple can be cut into round slices and cut flowers from them using a baking dish. Decorate the cake with fruits of different colors, then it will look very bright and elegant.

Try using stencils for decorating a homemade cake. They can be done by yourself: just cut out on the paper a picture that you like. Sprinkle the cake through the stencil with sugar powder (if chocolate cream) or cocoa powder (if the cream is white). And even this one should not stop. After all, using a colored dye and an airbrush, you can apply a colorful drawing.

There are a lot of ways to decorate cakes at home. The main thing is not to overdo it and do not use too many intricate patterns.