New Year's cakes - decoration ideas and lots of recipes. Cake “Christmas trees made of cream” for the New Year

Did you know that the main difference Kyiv cake from other airy nut cakes is that Kiev cake is made on fermented proteins, which gives Kyiv cakes a special tenderness.

Kyiv cake recipe

Icing Royal Icing- protein drawing mass, it is not used as a cream, but only for making voluminous jewelry. Templates are made, patterns are drawn, the resulting lace is sweet and edible, then dried and stored in candy boxes or plastic ones in a dry place. Icing is afraid of moisture and cannot be stored in the refrigerator. It also doesn’t go well with sour cream, butter cream. Such decorations can only be planted on protein cream.

Basic recipe
3 squirrels
450 - 675g powdered sugar
3 tsp. lemon juice
1−1.5 tsp. glycerin is added to soften the glaze

Place the whites in a fat-free bowl and beat with a wooden spoon (an electric mixer can only be used at the initial stage of beating, since the mixer makes a very airy mass, and in in this case this should be avoided). Add lemon juice, glycerin and half the powdered sugar. Beat until white. Gradually add the remaining powder and beat until soft, stable peaks form. Cover the bowl tightly with cling film and leave to rest for an hour or more to remove any air bubbles that have formed during beating.

Icing Recipe
1 egg white
250 g of powdered sugar. Be sure to sift the powder. Sometimes more powder is needed, depending on the size of the protein
lemon juice about 0.5 tsp. or dry lemon - on the tip of a knife, you can add more if you want it more sour.

Recipe with dry protein.
Beat dry egg whites for 6-7 minutes, raw egg whites for 3-4 minutes is enough...
Dry protein is replaced with regular raw protein, and cream of tartar is replaced with citric acid.

If you are now thinking about decorating your New Year's dessert, the original cake " Christmas tree” is just what you need for your holiday treat idea. New Year's cake decoration should correspond to the theme of the holiday. And here the following would be appropriate: imitation snow, Christmas trees decorated with garlands and balls, lush snowdrifts and other ideas. All this is embodied in one single cake “Christmas tree made of cream”. Don’t look for other cake recipes, make a beautiful Christmas tree dessert with your own hands and please your loved ones on New Year’s Eve.

The composition of a cake decorated with cream is the simplest chocolate cake with nuts, whipped cream with sugar. The main emphasis in decorating a New Year's cake is on Christmas trees made of cream. There will be as many as 9 of them here, and the Christmas trees will stand as if on snow, which in this case is imitated by white coconut shavings.

We will bake cake layers for New Year's cakes from the following products:

• 250 milliliters of sour cream;
• 4 eggs;
• 250 grams of flour;
• 250 milliliters of any odorless vegetable oil (can be replaced with melted margarine/butter in the same proportion);
• 4 tablespoons cocoa powder;
• 1 cup white flour;
• 250 grams of sugar;
• 200 grams of crushed and toasted nuts (you can use any nuts, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, etc.)
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar;
• 1 packet of baking powder for dough.

Since we will layer the product with cream, prepare the following ingredients for it:

• 400 milliliters of the most heavy cream(optimally 33-38%);
• 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar or regular sugar;
• green food coloring.

For registration finished product prepare colorful sugar confectionery sprinkles(for Christmas balls), 200-300 grams of white coconut flakes, red or other colored food coloring to create garlands.

The main New Year's theme in this cake is beautiful edible Christmas trees based on green custard protein cream; such ideas are often found in New Year's desserts. Prepare for him:

• 4 eggs;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 1 packet of vanillin;
• a quarter teaspoon of citric acid.

Such butter cake It’s easy to prepare a Christmas tree at home using original ideas decorations.

Cooking method

Enough easy preparation— the “one-cup” pie bakes very quickly, the cream consists of only two components, the main expenditure of time will be on preparing the protein custard for Christmas trees.

Let's start creating birthday cake with cream and cream. First we make the base:

1. Pour into a deep bowl 4 chicken eggs, beat them a little with a whisk to mix the white and yolk.
2. Add sour cream; it is best to take it out of the refrigerator in advance so that it is at room temperature.
3. Peel the nuts from membranes and shells, dry them in a dry frying pan or on a baking sheet in the oven until golden brown, then chop them with a rolling pin or chop them not very finely with a knife. Add nuts to eggs.
4. Mix a portion of sugar with cocoa powder and add to the main mixture. You can use more or less cocoa as you wish. Maximum – 1 glass without a slide of cocoa powder. Use special baking powder.
5. Sift the flour directly into the dough through a sieve. Pour in vegetable oil, refined, odorless. You can use regular sunflower or corn, olive, or any other.
6. Add 2 packets of vanilla. Add baking powder; if you don’t have it, use baking soda slaked with vinegar (1 tsp baking soda + 1 tbsp vinegar).
7. Stir the mixture with a spoon until homogeneous consistency. The mass should be quite liquid, so you will need springform. Cover the bottom with parchment and spread a small piece of margarine on top of the paper. Pour the dough into the mold and place in the oven preheated to 190 degrees. Depending on the diameter of the dough pan, it will bake for 20-25 minutes. When ready, it turns out very dark, quite dry and porous.

Remove the finished cake from the mold, cut into 2 halves and let cool completely before decorating the cake in New Year's style. While the dough is cooling, prepare the buttercream:

1. Cool the cream very much, pour into a container without traces of fat, beat first at the minimum speed of the mixer, then gradually increase it to maximum.
2. When the foam becomes fluffy, gradually add powdered sugar. Additionally, you can add any flavorings to the mixture, including vanillin or vanilla essence.

This cream is not colored; we will use it to layer the cakes. We make the cream for decorating the cake as follows:

1. Protein custard is prepared using chicken proteins and sugar. The main condition is that the protein foam is brewed in a water bath, which makes it very dense, fluffy, holds its shape well and does not settle.
2. Place a larger diameter pan with water on the stove - this will be a water bath.
3. In a smaller saucepan, beat the chilled egg whites, gradually add sugar, citric acid and vanilla. You should get a fairly thick foam.
4. Then place the pan with the whites on water bath and beat with a mixer for at least 10 minutes at high speed.
5. When the cream becomes thick and shiny, remove it from the water bath and continue whisking until it cools.

Now divide the cream into 3 parts. The largest part should be painted in green color, from it we will form Christmas trees on the surface of the cake. Color just a little of the protein cream red, leave the rest snow-white.

The final stage is to assemble and decorate the New Year's cake:

1. Gently level the surface of the cake with either butter or egg white cream. Rub both the surface and the sides.
2. Now generously sprinkle the cake on all sides with white coconut flakes. It is advisable that there are no gaps in the cream and dough.
3. On the surface of the cake, use a knife to mark the places where the future Christmas trees will be located. It is desirable that they are at the same distance from each other. Eight points will be along the diameter of the cake, and one will be located in the center.
4. Place the green cream in a pastry bag and put on a star-shaped tip. Using long vertical presses, make several applications of the cream, each subsequent portion should be placed on top of the previous one. Thus form a cone-shaped Christmas tree. Do the same around the rim of the cake. In total you should have 8 Christmas trees in diameter and one in the center.
5. Place the red cream in the smallest piping bag with the narrowest tip possible, or in a regular bag with the tip cut off. Use it to make a garland in a spiral around the Christmas tree.
6. Use colorful sugar balls to place decorations on the Christmas trees.
7. On a free area of ​​the surface, lay out drifts of unpainted white protein cream.
8. The remaining green cream can be used to decorate the sides of the cake.

You can come up with your own version and ideas for decorating cakes using multi-colored sprinkles, different shades of coconut flakes, ready-made sugar or mastic decorations, mother-of-pearl balls, ready-made snowflakes, stars and much more.

Cake to New Year's table must be special. Delicious - that goes without saying, but it also definitely needs to be decorated!

Especially for those who are looking for options for decorating a cake for the New Year, we have prepared 15 ideas and tips. Study them carefully and choose what you like!

1. The easiest way to decorate the cake is with berries and pieces of fruit. It is clear that at the end of December only frozen berries are available, and after defrosting they may not look very appetizing. Therefore, it is wiser to use canned berries (from jam or compote), but you just need to drain the syrup in advance and dry future decorations. Ripe grapes can be a good addition to the berry decoration of the cake (you need to choose dark and light seedless varieties). As for fruits, the choice is much richer. In addition to canned peaches and pineapples, you can use: tangerine and orange slices, slices of fresh fruit, peeled kiwi fruits, pomegranate seeds and even ordinary apples - using a special figured knife, skilled confectioners cut out wonderful flowers from them! Why don't you try it too?

2. One of the options is New Year's decoration can become candlesticks made from fruits. They are cut out with a special figured knife.

3. Bright candied fruits are another opportunity to decorate a New Year’s cake beautifully and inexpensively. It is recommended to complement the candied splendor with candied orange or lemon zest.

4. Ready-made confectionery products can be a wonderful decoration for a New Year’s cake: marmalade, (multi-colored and chocolate), candies.

5. Soft chocolate ice cream or ready-made chocolate paste- an excellent material for drawing fancy patterns on the snow-white surface of the cake. You can also make them from buttercream.

6. For cream jewelry You will need a pastry syringe. The simplest recipe for such decoration: mix whipped cream with powdered sugar and apply any desired design to the surface of the cake. To make the drawing colorful, you can add a drop of any food coloring or juice (carrot, orange, cherry).

7. Quite often, cakes are decorated with protein cream. It turns out very elegant and festive, but you should remember that for such a cream the eggs must be very fresh. When beating egg whites, it is recommended to add a few drops of lemon juice. Protein cream You can also paint it with something.

8. Small cakes: eclairs or meringues can also be used as decoration for the New Year’s cake. The main thing here is the size, because the smaller the cakes, the more elegant the pattern laid out from them will look. You can complement this decoration with almond flakes or nut topping.

9. Jelly for cake is a separate topic. Separate elements for decoration are made from jelly (for example, stripes, and sweets, berries, candied fruits are placed between them) or filling. Elegant cakes with jelly tops look great and are perfect for any occasion.

10. You can decorate the cake chocolate icing– for example, draw a dark grid on a white cream background. Or cover completely chocolate cake white glaze, and draw lace on the surface with dark glaze.

11. Grated chocolate is not only sprinkled on the cake, but also all kinds of patterns are drawn. It will take several different varieties(black, extra black, milky and white) and stencils.

12. It is very convenient to decorate cakes with a plastic mass (homemade mastic) made from marshmallow candies. For 100 g of sweets, take 1 tbsp. lemon juice, one and a half cups of powdered sugar and 1 tbsp. potato starch. Candy with lemon juice melt into microwave oven, then mixed with powdered sugar and starch. From the resulting mass you can make any decorative elements for decorating cakes and creating entire compositions!

13. Don’t forget about marzipan – it has been used for decoration for many years confectionery. Using special marzipan molds, various figures are cut out and beautifully distributed on the surface of the cake.

14. Cute figures and edible decorations can be made from regular chocolate. It is enough to melt it in a water bath and pour it into molds lined with cling film. Jelly figures are made in the same way (only the amount of gelatin needs to be doubled compared to regular jelly).

15. Classic confectionery - multi-colored sugar mastic. With the help of various devices (they, like ready-made mastic, can be purchased in specialized stores), New Year's cakes are turned into real works of art.

Of course, these are not all the possibilities that modern housewives have. Show some imagination and make sure you have ideas for holiday decoration There are many more cakes than we described. Good luck!