How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands? This question is already worrying those who are going to bake Easter cakes. After all, the holiday is getting closer, and very soon we will be captured by a whirlwind of pre-holiday excitement. Have you noticed how every year, 2-3 weeks before Easter, different Easter-themed products appear on supermarket shelves? But already a week before the holiday, the choice of Easter decor is not at all so great, since thrifty housewives are preparing in advance. And what to do when you didn’t have time to prepare, and the design of Easter cakes is definitely included in your plans? A great way out is to make decorations for Easter cakes with your own hands!
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How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands using edible decor elements
Beautiful Easter cakes are obtained from those who are willing to spend not so much money as time and imagination. In general, the basis of almost all edible Easter decor is sugar and dyes. An exception is the decor of dried fruits, nuts and chocolate. Consider how to decorate Easter cake for Easter using the simplest and most affordable ingredients.
Pastry decoration
Experienced housewives make exquisite decorations from Easter cake dough. For example, my grandmother always decorates Easter cakes with small curly crosses. Such decorations are prepared from the same dough as the Easter cakes themselves. You can make braids, spirals, letters and flowers, leaves and petals. Dyes are also sometimes added to the dough for decorations.
In order for your decorations to look beautiful even after baking, you need to proceed as follows:
- let the cake rise
- cut out decorations and attach them to the top of the cake with protein
- grease the cake already with the decorations with a beaten egg or butter
- pour ready-made and still hot cakes with syrup
You can also bake pastry decor separately from Easter cake, and then attach it to the finished cake. So you can be sure of the result, because in any case, decorations made from yeast dough will rise during baking.
Easter cake decoration with icing
Decorating Easter cakes for Easter is also traditionally done with white icing. It would seem that it could be simpler than a mixture of proteins and sugar. However, not everyone makes a good frosting. You can often see Easter cakes from which the icing is just glass, leaving sloppy drips and excess moisture. This result is obtained if too much moisture is added to the glaze. Also, the icing, which is simply smeared on Easter cake, does not look very nice. This option is usually found on purchased mass-produced Easter cakes.
A plentifully watered Easter cake looks much neater and more appetizing, the icing on which has had time to harden well and not spread too much. The most important thing in preparing the glaze is to keep the proportions of the ingredients in such a way that the glaze must be frozen. I will describe in detail how exactly such a fondant is prepared for Easter cake, and I will also present to your attention several useful recipes.
Sugar icing for Easter cakes
Mix one cup of fine powdered sugar with 4 tablespoons of boiled water, add coloring and flavoring to taste. For example, I really like additives with the aroma of rum and almonds. The mixture must be mixed well and heated to about 40 degrees. The proportions of water and powder are approximate. If it's too thin, add more icing sugar; if it's too thick, add more water. You can also add lemon juice, which will make the glaze taste richer. Apply sugar icing on Easter cakes immediately after preparation.
Sugar-protein glaze for Easter cakes
The recipe for sugar-protein icing for Easter cakes is no less popular. It is only important to make sure the quality of chicken eggs so that the delicacy turns out to be safe for health. To prepare, take 1 protein and beat it with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Then gradually introduce 1 cup of finely ground powdered sugar into the protein. The density of the glaze can be adjusted with the amount of lemon juice and powdered sugar. It is imperative to use such a glaze immediately so that it does not have time to harden.
Fruit glaze for Easter cakes
Fruit glaze is prepared using fruit and berry juices, which makes it possible to play with its color and taste. Egg white (1 pc.) Should be whipped into a strong foam, add about 1 cup of finely ground powdered sugar, and then about 3 tablespoons of fruit or berry juice. The density of such a glaze is also regulated by juice and powdered sugar.
Easter cake decoration with mastic
Decorating Easter cakes with mastic is a more difficult task, but it also opens up more opportunities for creativity. You can treat mastic like plasticine, sculpting and cutting out figures, flowers, leaves, as well as traditional decorations for Easter cakes. Having experimented plenty with a variety of types of mastic, I can recommend you the simplest and most proven recipe. It's easier to just buy ready-made mastic in the store!
Milk mastic
My favorite mastic is made from condensed milk. It has a wonderful milky taste and is very easy to work with. Mix 160 g of powdered milk with 160 g of powdered sugar and sift. Make a well in this dry mixture and gradually add 200 g of condensed milk and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. Knead the mastic until smooth and wrap in a film. It can be painted with gel dyes in any color, and then covered with rolled mastic Easter cake, and also make decorations.
Do-it-yourself traditional decorations for Easter cakes
Decorating Easter cakes for Easter is the stage of preparation for the holiday that children love so much. And if the preparation of glaze or mastic is too complicated and troublesome for a child, then laying out patterns from edible colored sprinkles, marmalade and sweets is perfect for kids. Open the bag of sprinkles, cut the marmalade, spread the cake with icing or honey and show your child how to decorate the Easter cake with their own hands. As a result, all of them will be decorated with touching children's patterns.
The most traditional way to decorate Easter cake is to lay out the letters X and B on its top, which means "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be applied with colored sugar sprinkles, raisins, other dried fruits, nuts, as well as sugar pencils and chocolate. You can also draw any pattern or pattern on white glaze using special food-grade paints.
How to decorate Easter cake with inedible decor elements
When thinking about how to decorate an Easter cake, do not forget about the huge selection of decor options using ribbons, lace, paper and themed figurines. The easiest way is to buy an Easter cake decoration, but you can very easily make an Easter cake decoration with your own hands. The modern decoration of Easter cakes is generally distinguished by a creative approach, as well as the use of the most unexpected combinations and materials. A stylish Easter cake decoration can be made from crumpled paper, ribbons and colored twine.
New ideas for decorating Easter cake
Easter cake is a special holiday product, but still it remains a pastry. But there are a lot of ideas for decorating baking. So you can arm yourself with a variety of ways to decorate pastries and confectionery, and apply all this for Easter cake. So, here are some new ideas for decorating Easter cakes that I will offer you this year:
Meringues. Prepare a strong meringue and dip the still hot cake in it. You can let this snow-white pointed hat dry, or you can bake it or brown it with a burner. Peaks and roses applied with a pastry bag with nozzles will look beautiful. Their edges can also be browned in the oven or with a burner.
Lacy border made of chocolate and voluminous chocolate figurines. After making a small hole in a bag of chocolate, apply lace patterns on a dense film. The width and length of the lace border should be suitable for Easter cake. Make a drawing with chocolate, let it harden a little (the chocolate should remain plastic, but not drain). Coat the cake with honey and wrap it in a film with chocolate lace, lightly pressing the chocolate to the sides of the cake. Let the chocolate lace harden in the refrigerator and carefully remove the film.
Caramel jewelry. Liquid caramel is an excellent material for creating any decorative elements. Draw an Easter-themed drawing (XB, a dove, or a church dome) on parchment, make caramel and trace around the drawing using a simple teaspoon.
Colored coconut. From white coconut flakes with the help of dyes, you can make a sprinkle of any color. Just dissolve the dye in a little water and dampen the shavings, let it dry completely, and decorate Easter cakes on top of the icing.
Walnut goats. From nuts and caramel, you can easily prepare kozinaki, with pieces of which you can beautifully decorate the sides and top of the cake.
Rice balls and nuts in chocolate. In combination with other decorative elements and icing, balls can perfectly decorate Easter cake. Exactly how is creativity.
Candied citrus slices. They are quite beautiful on their own and, in combination with ribbons, chocolate, spices, will decorate your pastries.
Every hostess knows that learning how to bake delicious Easter cakes is not at all easy. There are many nuances that affect not only the taste and color of the finished cake, but also its height, aroma, splendor, etc. It is especially important to decorate the Easter cake beautifully so that not only the taste, but also the appearance of this traditional pastry pleases. As a rule, Easter cakes are decorated with protein glaze and confectionery powder. This option cannot be called original, and often the Easter cakes of different housewives, decorated in this way, are similar to each other like twins. Therefore, if you want your pastries to be not only tasty, but also beautiful and unbanal, then we strongly recommend that you take a closer look at the ideas and master classes with photos from our today's article. From it you will learn how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands in an original way, for example, with mastic or a chocolate net. You will also find simple and interesting ideas with photos and videos for decorating Easter cakes at home.
How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands with powdered sugar and icing, a master class with a photo step by step
Let's start with a simple but effective decor option for Easter baking. To unusually decorate Easter cakes with your own hands in this way, you will need chocolate icing and powdered sugar. More details on how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands with powdered sugar and icing in the next master class with a photo.
Ingredients needed to decorate Easter cake with powder and icing
- sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
- water - 1.5 tbsp. l.
- cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l. with a slide
- powdered sugar for decoration
- large lace
Instructions on how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands with icing and powder
Important! Be sure to use large-knit lace for decoration so that the pattern on the glaze is clear and neat.
How to decorate Easter cake with chocolate and protein icing, a master class with a photo
You can decorate Easter cake in a rather original and beautiful way with the help of traditional protein glaze in tandem with chocolate. All it takes is patience and a little skill. Learn how to decorate Easter cake with chocolate and protein icing in an original way from the following master class with a photo.
Necessary ingredients for decorating Easter cake with chocolate and protein glaze
- squirrels - 3 pcs.
- powdered sugar - 250 gr.
- citric acid on the tip of a knife
- chocolate - 100 gr.
- parchment paper
Instructions on how to decorate Easter cake with protein icing and chocolate
A master class on how to beautifully decorate your own Easter cake with chocolate and nuts
You can decorate Easter cake with your own hands in an original and beautiful way with the help of chocolate and nuts, as in the version from the next master class. In this case, walnuts will be used in tandem with dark chocolate. But for decorating an Easter cake, both milk and white chocolate, as well as peanuts, cashews, almonds or a nut mix, are suitable. Step-by-step photos and the master class itself, how to beautifully decorate Easter cake with chocolate and nuts for Easter with your own hands.
Necessary ingredients for decorating Easter cake with chocolate and nuts
- nuts - 70 gr.
- chocolate - 100 gr.
- cream - 40 ml.
Instructions on how to beautifully decorate Easter cake with chocolate and nuts
How to decorate Easter cakes with mastic for Easter with your own hands, a step-by-step master class with a photo
Mastic cannot be called a traditional material for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands. Many housewives are afraid to use it for decorating Easter baking, worrying that mastic can distort the traditional look of Easter cake. But in fact, with the help of mastic, you can give the Easter cake not only an original appearance, but also emphasize the beauty of this Easter muffin. Read more about how to decorate Easter cakes with mastic with your own hands in a step-by-step master class with a photo below.
Necessary materials to decorate Easter cakes with mastic with your own hands
- white and yellow paste
- sharp knife or scalpel
- food markers
- toothpicks
Instructions on how to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands with mastic
Ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way with a photo
If you want even more ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way, we recommend that you take a closer look at the following selection of photos. In it, we tried to collect quite simple in execution, but at the same time unusual, admirable, decor options. For example, if you like to add nuts or candied fruits when baking Easter cake, then you can safely use them for decoration. Just chop any nuts, dried fruits or candied fruits finely with a knife and sprinkle them on the glazed top of the cake. It is also quite simple to decorate the surface of the Easter cake with the help of colored protein cream and various confectionery nozzles. Another fairly simple way is dough decorations, which give the Easter cake a certain resemblance to a traditional Russian loaf. Such simple ideas as decorating Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way do not require complex instructions and are easy to reproduce at home.
Options for how to beautifully and unusually decorate Easter cake with your own hands
Especially for those housewives who want not only to decorate Easter cakes in an original way, but also to make them unique in their own way, we suggest not being limited to edible decor. For example, using corrugated colored paper, you can make very unusual borders for Easter cakes. Fresh flowers will also be an excellent, albeit short-lived, decoration. You can also achieve an original decor for Easter baking with ordinary sugar. To do this, you just need to color the sugar with food coloring. Such colored sugar looks very cute both on top of protein glaze and on chocolate fudge. You can also decorate Easter cakes with other sweets, such as small meringues, meringue pieces, chocolate dragees or macaroons.
You will find even more ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes at home with your own hands in the video below. We are sure that among the variety of options presented in it, you will definitely find one that you like. And do not forget that the ideas presented can always be supplemented or changed at your discretion. See the options on how to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands in an original way at home in the video below.
Now you know how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands so that your pastries are the most beautiful and original on the holiday. We hope that our master classes with photo and video ideas for decorating Easter cakes will definitely find applications in your kitchen this spring. And remember that no mastic, meringue and even chocolate icing will make a festive cake special if you don’t put a piece of your soul and love for your neighbor into its preparation!
With the approach of the great holiday of Easter, the hostesses begin to think about the recipes for Easter cakes, and, you see, there are a huge number of them - from economical to more expensive products. But no matter what recipe you choose, Easter cake should definitely be tasty, fragrant and beautiful.
I would like to pay special attention to the topic Easter cake decorations. After all, it is important not only to cook a delicious cake, but also to decorate it with dignity and taste. In addition, it is believed that the decoration of the Easter cake symbolizes the pure thoughts of people who break bread together, renewal and purification.
When should you start decorating the Easter cake? Definitely, Easter cake should be decorated only after the horse has cooled down. Please note that the cake should be cooled according to certain rules: slowly and rather thoroughly. It would be correct to wrap only baked Easter cakes in something and leave to cool in this way for 3-4 hours. Only then unfold the Easter cakes, decorate and send for storage until the holiday, for example, in a saucepan.
How are Easter cakes most often decorated? It is easier for someone to buy an Easter cake decoration, but why not decorate the Easter cake in some unusual and unforgettable way? We offer the following options for decorating Easter cakes:
- decorating Easter cakes with powdered sugar
- decoration of Easter cakes from dough
- decoration of Easter cakes with mastic
- icing for Easter cakes
- Lenten frosting made from powdered sugar and lemon juice
- berry glaze for Easter cakes
- chocolate icing for Easter cakes
- chocolate cream icing for Easter cakes
- chocolate icing for Easter cakes
- glaze with rum for Easter cakes
- egg yolk icing for Easter cakes
DECORATION OF EASTER CAKE WITH POWDER SUGAR
The easiest, fastest and least expensive way to decorate an Easter cake is to purchase powdered sugar and use a fine strainer to shake it evenly over the entire surface of the cooled cake. The white color of the powder perfectly sets off the ruddy cake and makes it more beautiful and appetizing.
DECORATION OF EASTER CAKE FROM DOUGH
Why not decorate Easter cakes with dough? Leave a little dough and figure out how you put it on top of the cake. It can be a separate drawing of a cross, flowers or letters, often "XB". Easter cake with dough decoration in the form of braids, petals and leaves, dough spirals looks very nice. When baking Easter cake, you will see how a beautiful and harmonious pattern is formed.
For decoration, you can use the same dough from which you will bake Easter cake, or another. Easter cake decoration can be baked together with Easter cake or separately. If you bake Easter cake with dough decoration, you can grease it with egg yolk or vegetable oil. After baking, such a cake can be poured with syrup or decorated with confectionery powder, nuts, candied fruits. If you are baking Easter cake and dough separately, then attach the decoration to the Easter cake using egg white. Here you can show your imagination and make the dough for decoration colored. Note that the decoration should be made small, as after baking it will increase significantly in size.
For example, let's prepare a dough decoration in the form of the letters “XB”. We use the same dough as for the cake. We take a small piece, roll it into a ball, form a sausage, from which we lay out the letters on top of the Easter cake. Pre-lubricate the letters with egg yolk so that they stick well on the cake. Lubricate the cake itself with the same yolk. After the cake with the letters is baked, you can arrange it to your taste - sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar, and leave the letters intact, or vice versa - sprinkle the letters, but not the cake. Easter cake will also look beautiful if you sprinkle the letters on it with chocolate icing or decorate them with confectionery powder.
Many hostesses have long been familiar with mastic. It can be bought ready-made or. We are used to seeing mastic on cakes, cookies and muffins, but mastic on an Easter cake will look no less colorful and appetizing. The main thing is to get tasty and elastic mastic and you can easily decorate the original cake. To do this, roll out the mastic into a layer, and then cut out the figures. Housewives who do not yet have experience in modeling from mastic can start by cutting out flowers, hearts and other elements using ordinary cookie cutters. People who know how to handle mastic and have extensive experience in this can create real culinary masterpieces. Following the theme, you can create a three-dimensional decor in the form of flowers, birds, Easter eggs.
To make homemade mastic, you will need: 200 g marshmallows (chewing marshmallows), 500 g powdered sugar.
How to make homemade mastic. We send the marshmallows to a small saucepan and bring it to full softness in a water bath (or use a microwave). You will see how the marshmallow visually increases in volume, and when touched it will strongly stick, deform and fall off. We mix soft marshmallows with 300 g of powdered sugar, mix and spread the resulting mass on the table. Gradually add the remaining icing sugar and knead the mass, like a regular dough. The mastic will be ready when it stops sticking to your hands. Then you can start sculpting figures from mastic.
Icing for Easter cakes is quite an affordable pleasure. In this addition, Easter cakes look especially beautiful and tender. In addition, the icing is not only beautiful, but also necessary - thanks to the icing, Easter cakes remain so fresh, soft and tasty longer. Consider several options for glaze.
LENTENING POWDER SUGAR AND LEMON JUICE FANCY
An equally difficult way to decorate an Easter cake is to pour it with fudge glaze made from freshly squeezed lemon juice and powdered sugar. Why is this glaze considered lean? Because it contains no eggs. This is a fairly quick way to decorate Easter cakes.
To make this lean icing sugar and lemon juice fudge, you will need: 1 st. powdered sugar, 5-6 tbsp. lemon juice.
How to make Lean Fudge Icing with Powdered Sugar and Lemon Juice. Everything is quite simple - you just need to combine both ingredients in a deep bowl and slowly but thoroughly mix until a homogeneous thick and viscous mass. Usually 1 lemon is enough for such a portion, but lemons are different, so you need to look at the situation. Lemon juice can also be replaced with other citrus juices. Or why not use grated berries from the freezer in addition or instead of lemon juice. Of course, the color of the fondant glaze will change, but the taste will definitely not worsen.
Glaze will amaze you with its delicate color and pleasant berry flavor.
To make berry icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 1 st. powdered sugar, 4-5 tbsp. natural berry juice.
How to make berry icing for Easter cakes. Pour natural berry juice (homemade, not diluted) into a bowl with powdered sugar. Grind and monitor the consistency. The mass should not turn out lumpy, but resemble thick sour cream. The color of the glaze is pastel, even despite the rich color of the juice used. If you want a brighter frosting color, use food coloring.
Love chocolate? Decorate Easter cakes with chocolate icing. Nothing new or unusual, but it's definitely delicious!
To make chocolate icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 200 g sugar, 4 tbsp. cocoa, 120 ml water, 100 g butter.
How to make chocolate icing for Easter cakes. Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Add cocoa, sugar, mix and pour water. Cook over low heat until slightly thickened and remove from heat. After the glaze has cooled, it will become much thicker. For flavor, you can add a little vanilla or orange juice.
CHOCOLATE AND CREAM GLAZING FOR EASTER CAKE
Amazing icing for Easter cakes - with a certain sourness, not sugary, beautiful texture. It will take a little of your time - and the result will justify itself!
To make this chocolate buttercream icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 1 st. sugar, 4 tbsp. fat cream, 100 g butter, 6 tbsp. cocoa.
How to make chocolate cream frosting for Easter cakes. We send a ladle with butter to a slow fire, melt it, add sugar, cocoa, mix and add sour cream (preferably homemade rustic). Stirring constantly, boil the mass until thickened.
Perhaps this is one of the easiest ways to decorate Easter cakes. Chocolate icing is prepared with just two ingredients and in just a few minutes.
To make chocolate icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 100 g chocolate (black milk or white), 30 ml heavy cream.
How to make chocolate icing for Easter cakes. We send a ladle with cream to a slow fire, break the chocolate there and, stirring constantly, bring the mass to uniformity.
Prepare an amazing fragrant icing for Easter cakes with rum.
To make the rum frosting, you will need: 0.5 st. powdered sugar, 1.5 tbsp. rum, 0.5 tbsp. hot water.
How to make rum frosting. Sift the powdered sugar into a small bowl, pour in the rum and hot water. Thoroughly rub the mass with a spoon. The icing is ready, you can cover it with cooled cakes.
We are all used to hearing about protein icing for Easter cakes, but there is an equally good egg yolk icing recipe.
To make egg yolk frosting, you will need: 5 egg yolks, 1.5 tbsp. powdered sugar, 3-4 tbsp. fresh orange juice.
How to make egg yolk frosting. We send egg yolks into the bowl, pour in freshly squeezed orange juice and beat with a blender until a stable foam forms. Separately, sift the icing sugar and gradually pour it into the egg-orange mass. Mix thoroughly until smooth. We cover the Easter cakes with the resulting glaze and send them to the oven to dry at a temperature of 100 degrees.
TOFFICE GLAZE FOR EASTER CAKE
Do you love iris? Do not eat them all at once, save them for icing for Easter cakes.
To make toffee icing, you will need: 400 g hard toffee, 80 g butter, 0.5 tbsp. milk, 2-4 tbsp. powdered sugar.
How to make toffee frosting. We send a small saucepan with butter to the fire, melt it and pour in the milk. Heat up, then add toffee, pour in powdered sugar. Cook the mass over low heat, stirring constantly, until the candies are completely dissolved. We apply the finished icing on the cake in several layers.
1. Any glaze should be of medium consistency - not liquid and not thick. By consistency, it should resemble sour cream. Then the glaze is well applied to the cake, does not drain, does not take lumps and does not crack. If you followed the recipe but the frosting is too thick, add 1 tsp. hot water, if too rare - a spoonful of powdered sugar.
2. To prepare the glaze, it is better to use the powdered sugar prepared by you, be sure to sift it before adding it to the rest of the ingredients.
3. Lemon juice is often added to the glaze, it should be used freshly squeezed. Lemon juice can be used as a substitute for water or added for flavor. Lemon gives the glaze an incredible aroma and taste.
4. Glaze can be prepared both separately from egg whites and from egg yolks. With squirrels, icing is more often used to cover Easter cakes, and it is also ideal for applying patterns. As for the yolk glaze, it has a pleasant yellowish tint. This glaze must be dried in the oven at a temperature of 100 degrees.
5. You can diversify the glaze and change its color. Many people use food coloring for this purpose. There is nothing wrong with this, of course, but do not forget that you can use natural dyes, for example, use turmeric, beetroot juice, or just add a little raspberry jam to the glaze.
6. It is more convenient to apply liquid glaze on Easter cakes with a culinary brush. The icing for drawing is applied using a confectionery syringe. By the way, who does not have this, you can use the usual disposable syringe.
7. Your cakes will look especially beautiful and original if you apply icing not only on top of the cake, but also on the sides. To do this, put the cooled cake on its side, make patterns, wait until the icing dries, then do the same on the other side of the cake.
8. If you plan to sprinkle with confectionery powder on top of the icing, “seat” finished figures or decorative beads, do this immediately on freshly applied icing, otherwise it will harden and your decorations will not stick to the icing.
9. In addition to icing, Easter cakes can be decorated with chopped nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits, marmalade, chocolate pieces, coconut flakes and more.
10. You can decorate Easter cakes over glaze with patterns and inscriptions using sugar pencils. It is fast and convenient, especially for those people who do not have much free time to decorate Easter cakes.
Nowadays, you can find a lot of ready-made icing for Easter cakes, but why buy them if you now know a lot of options for icing and other types of Easter cake decorations? Let's not turn Easter into a celebration of fast food! We offer you do-it-yourself Easter cake decoration
It is customary for believers to prepare for the onset of Easter by going through the physical and spiritual cleansing of Great Lent. According to church tradition, during Holy Week all household chores are to be completed - by the Bright Sunday of Christ, every dwelling should sparkle with cleanliness. In addition, on Maundy Thursday, housewives bake Easter cakes and paint eggs, which are considered the main symbols of Easter. So, even at the New Testament Last Supper, Jesus Christ divided the bread into parts and distributed it to the disciples - as His Body and the remembrance of Him. Today, Easter cake means joy brought from God to our earthly life. Therefore, baking Easter cakes should be started with pure thoughts and sincere prayers - this is the only way the festive baking will turn out delicious. However, ready-made sweet bread needs to be beautifully decorated by preparing a luxurious festive “outfit” from the simplest ingredients. How to decorate Easter cake with your own hands? In addition to the traditional white icing, as a decoration for Easter cakes, you can prepare colored or chocolate fondant, mastic, decorative inscriptions and figures from sweet dough. We bring to your attention step-by-step master classes with photos and videos on creating classic and “fashionable” unusual decorations for Easter cakes. With the help of our interesting ideas, you can decorate Easter cakes in an original way for the upcoming wonderful Easter holiday. We are sure that households and guests will appreciate your abilities and culinary talents!
How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands - a simple master class with step by step photos
Easter cake is a special sweet bread that is baked only once a year. Since ancient times, the best flour, homemade eggs and other top quality ingredients have been stocked in advance for Easter cake. And now the ruddy fragrant Easter cakes are taken out of the oven and are cooling down - it's time to start the festive decor! How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands? Today we will turn to the "classics" and master a simple master class for making protein-sugar glaze. Pour Easter cake with sweet icing, sprinkle with colored confectionery sprinkles on top - a great Easter composition! With the help of step-by-step photos and detailed instructions, even a novice cook can handle the master class.
Ingredients for the master class on decorating Easter cakes:
- one egg white
- powdered sugar - 250 gr.
- lemon juice - 1 tsp
A step-by-step description of a master class on decorating Easter cake for Easter with your own hands, with a photo:
How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands - a step-by-step master class
For many, baking Easter cakes is a good tradition. So, there are many recipes for delicious homemade Easter cakes - with traditional simple ingredients and modern culinary "novelties". As a decoration for Easter cake, it is customary to use white or chocolate icing, candied fruits, and dried fruits. Here, the imagination of the hostesses is truly limitless - especially since today in the store you can buy a variety of ready-made sets of "edible" decorations in the form of flowers, chickens or stars. How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands? We bring to your attention a step-by-step master class on decorating Easter cake with delicious chocolate icing, which will add sweetness and a “smart” festive look to any sweet product.
List of ingredients for decorating Easter cake:
- chocolate (milk, bitter or white) - 100 gr.
- powdered sugar - 150 gr.
- butter - 50 gr.
- potato starch - 1 tsp
- milk - 6 - 7 tbsp. l.
How to decorate an Easter cake, a step-by-step instruction for a master class:
- Pour powdered sugar into an enameled bowl or saucepan and pour milk into it. Stir and put on low heat.
- When the milk boils, add butter and chocolate pieces. We continue to cook and constantly stir the contents of the saucepan.
- After the chocolate is completely dissolved, we introduce the starch sifted through a sieve and mix thoroughly again. Perhaps the mixture will turn out a little liquid - in this case, you need to add a little starch.
- Remove the container from the stove and wait until the sweet mass cools slightly. Then, using a brush, apply the icing on the cake and evenly distribute it over the surface. To decorate, sprinkle with grated chocolate or nuts on top - you get a beautiful Easter cake.
How to decorate Easter cake for Easter - an interesting decor master class
Decorating Easter cakes is an interesting and exciting activity that children and other households will be happy to take part in. After all, Easter cake, decorated with colored or white icing, retains its taste qualities much longer, and also looks more festive and appetizing. How unusual to decorate an Easter cake? On the eve of the Easter holiday, we have prepared an interesting master class on decorating Easter cake with milk fudge. Unlike a shiny thick glaze, fondant is more liquid in consistency and does not always dry to a solid state. Indeed, in addition to sugar, additional ingredients and liquid components are used to make fudge - water, milk. In our today's master class, we will prepare a delicate and fragrant milk fudge, and then decorate the cake with this sweet mass. The finished fondant is simply poured onto the cooled cake and after a short time it hardens a little - just enough to keep its beautiful shape and taste.
Ingredients needed for Easter cake decorating tutorial:
- powdered sugar - 1 cup
- milk - 2 tbsp. l.
The procedure for preparing milk fudge as decoration for Easter cake:
- First, sift the powdered sugar through a sieve into an enameled bowl or other convenient container for kneading the mass.
- Milk for making fudge should be heated to 60 - 70 ° C - this should be done immediately before cooking.
- In the sifted powder, we begin to introduce milk in portions, about 0.5 tablespoons at a time. While adding milk, do not stop rubbing the sweet mixture - until a thick, smooth and homogeneous mass is obtained. When the fudge acquires these qualities, as well as fluidity, stop adding milk.
- Ready milk fudge should be quickly applied to the cake. To do this, simply pour the mass on top - everything will spread over the top of the cake in the best way. If necessary, you can touch up the sweet "beauty" with a spoon or brush. When the milk fudge hardens, you get an excellent “hat” for Easter cake - making such a decoration with your own hands is as easy as shelling pears!
How to decorate Easter cakes with mastic flowers - an interesting master class
Culinary mastic is a viscous plastic material for the manufacture of "edible" decorative elements. So, mastic decorations perfectly take the desired shape and quickly harden after being processed by hand. As a result, real works of art are obtained - take at least the mastic cakes that are popular today, decorated with beautiful flowers, animal figures and even characters of children's cartoons. Of course, you can buy ready-made confectionery mastic at any grocery store. However, to decorate Easter cakes, it is better to make mastic with your own hands - let the warmth of your hands remain in the product! We have selected an interesting master class on how to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with mastic flowers - beautiful and delicious roses. With the help of our lesson, you will easily learn how to make amazing decorations from mastic for Easter cakes and other confectionery.
We stock up on ingredients for a master class on decorating Easter cakes with mastic for Easter:
- powdered sugar - 250 gr.
- powdered gelatin - 2 tsp.
- water - 6 tsp.
- glucose - 1 tsp.
- food coloring in different colors
A step-by-step description of the master class on how to decorate an Easter cake with mastic:
- Sift the icing sugar through a sieve into an enameled bowl. In another small container, set the gelatin to swell for 2 - 3 minutes, after adding water.
- We place a container with swollen gelatin in a water bath and gently stir, waiting for complete dissolution. We add glucose to the gelatin - as a result, the liquid acquires some transparency.
- We make a well in the sifted powder and pour the gelatin-glucose mixture into it. Stir and place the mastic in a plastic bag, and then in an airtight container. After 3 - 4 hours, various decorations can be made from mastic.
- To make mastic roses, you need to tint part of the base material in different colors - red, green, pink, yellow. Do not forget to leave some white mastic, which we will need for the master class. It is better to store colored mastic in a plastic bag, taking out small portions for work - so the material will remain soft and plastic for a long time.
- We take a piece of mastic and sculpt a "carrot", which we put on the work surface. Then we “pin off” portions of the colored mass and make identical balls - future rose petals. Sprinkle the table a little with powdered sugar and with the help of a teaspoon we begin to knead the ball, giving the shape of a petal. At the same time, we make one end of the petal thinner and wider (top) than the other (bottom). Then, from below, the petal must be moistened with water and wrapped around the "carrot" base, forming the middle of the flower.
- Using a similar principle, we make a second petal, which we attach to the base in such a way as to hide the junction of the first petal. In total, 5-6 petals need to be made and attached to the “carrot”, slightly bending their upper parts - we imitate an “opened bud”.
- We leave the finished mastic rose to dry for 5 to 6 hours. Then we roll the balls from the green mastic and with the help of our fingers we give each the shape of a leaf. To apply the "veins" we make shallow cuts with a knife and also leave to dry.
- We collect the petals and leaves into bouquets of roses, and then decorate the Easter cake - in the form of mouth-watering flower compositions from mastic.
How unusual to decorate Easter cakes - photos, ideas, videos
Decorating Easter cakes allows you to show your culinary skills and creative fantasies. Here we will be happy to share with you interesting ideas with photos and videos of decorations for Easter cakes. We are sure that each of our options will make your cakes even tastier and more beautiful!
Decorate Easter cakes with dried fruits
It is known that nuts, dried berries and fruits are a real storehouse of vitamins and microelements. With such healthy natural "goodies" you can decorate not only the surface of the cake, but also add them to the dough. Great idea for Easter cake decorating!
We decorate Easter cakes with drawings and letters
For Easter cake with a glazed “hat”, you can add various patterns and figures from confectionery sprinkles, marmalade, and cream as decorations. According to tradition, Easter cakes are decorated with crosses, which are the main symbol of Christianity, as well as images of angels, apostles, churches and temples with domes. Many housewives lay out the letters “ХВ” on Easter cakes, which means “Christ is Risen”.
But also decorate it as elegantly as possible. And if earlier the decor of Easter cakes was limited only to sugar or confectionery sprinkles, now there are many more options for how to decorate Easter. Even today you can find a lot.
Decorating Easter cakes is like a special kind of art, the housewives swung so widely in Easter creativity. If you are also thinking about how to decorate Easter in an original way, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the most beautiful options for decorating Easter cakes. And yes, it is not only beautiful, but also insanely delicious!
How to decorate an Easter cake: 10 great decor options
Icing for Easter cake: protein or sugar
Protein or sugar icing is a classic decoration option. It plays an important role, because it is not only the decoration of Easter baking, but also the most delicious part of it.
And white icing is an excellent basis for further decoration of Easter cake. Of course, you can just cover Easter with sweet icing and leave it like that. Or you can decorate the icing itself - the choice is yours.
Easter chocolate decoration
Chocolate icing for Easter cake or chocolate decorations will give the Easter cake an incredible taste and make it look like a cake. It is better to pour the chocolate icing on the cake when it has cooled slightly and leave until the chocolate has completely solidified. Sweet tooth will appreciate!
Candied fruits and nuts to decorate the cake
Candied fruits, nuts and dried fruits are another great option for decorating Easter cakes. First, cover the cake with icing, sugar fondant or syrup, and put dried fruits or nuts on top. So they will stay on the cap of the Easter cake and will not crumble during cutting or transportation.
Confectionery topping for Easter decor
Another well-known way to decorate with your own hands is to sprinkle it with confectionery sprinkles. This decor is not limited to multi-colored sprinkles. Now you can find sugar balls, and confectionery beads, and edible pearls. Kulich, decorated in this way, will become real.
Easter cake decorations from mastic
If you know how to work with mastic or marzipan, you can try decorating Easter with figures from this confectionery material. And you can also involve children in such a process - they will be happy to help fashion figures from sweet "plasticine".
Decorative painting of Easter cakes
You can also use sugar pencils - these are tubes with colored sugar syrup, with which you can draw any patterns on Easter cakes. Thematic drawings or inscriptions on top of the Easter cake for Easter will look very elegant.
Decoration of Easter cakes with fresh flowers, ribbons and lace
An easy, incredibly beautiful and delicate way to decorate Easter cakes is to decorate them on top with fresh flowers and tie them with a ribbon or lace. Looks amazing!
Dough decorations for Easter cakes
Figures baked from dough will also be a good decoration for Easter cake. Such an Easter decor will look very harmonious and holistic. Sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar on top and enjoy the beauty.
Zephyr and meringue for decorating Easter cakes
If you decorate Easter cakes with marshmallows, meringue or meringue flowers, it will be non-standard, but very tasty and festive. This option is for those who are not afraid to experiment and surprise.
Easter decoration with fruits and berries
Fresh or canned fruits and berries are also suitable for Easter decoration. It will turn out insanely tasty, healthy and original!
As you can see, there are a lot of options for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands. Choose the decor method that you liked the most (or even more than one), and bring it to life.
And if you have your own ideas on how to decorate Easter at home, share with us in the comments.
