Mastic decorations on New Year's baking, photo: tantekiki.blogspot.com
It is customary to add spices to New Year's baking (cinnamon, vanilla sugar, pepper, ginger, nutmeg), a little cognac, so that the cake exudes the aromas of a holiday and sweet warm joy.
How to decorate a Christmas tree cake
The simplest thing is to draw patterns with cream: coniferous twigs, Christmas decorations, garlands, snowmen ... Cream for drawing on a pie can be taken or.
A Christmas decorations cut out of orange peel, candied fruit, take fresh berries or small multi-colored dragee candies. Or make decorations from .
A ready-made Christmas tree cupcake can be decorated with protein icing (icing) and confectionery decorations - sweet Christmas tree decorations. Or take a regular cream and draw needles and garlands. Photo: livemycity.gr
Christmas tree made from confectionery powder, snow made from powdered sugar (you can add coconut flakes), a skier made from mastic. A simple cake turned into a New Year's cake! Photo: mageirikesdiadromes.gr
Or you can just draw a Christmas tree using confectionery decorations on a regular cupcake or pie and add mastic figures to it .. also very elegant! And you can lay out the contours of the Christmas tree with nuts, make needles from tinted coconut flakes, and Christmas decorations from pieces of candied fruits.
This is Napoleon with a Christmas tree made of coconut and nuts.
New Year's cakes
Girls. I found such cool cakes that look either like reindeer from Santa Claus's team, or like Smeshariki!
Making them is elementary simple, and the children will have a lot of joy!
For such horned New Year's deer cakes, rolled into balls are required. And for decoration: on the horns - snacks broken into halves (twisted small cookies), for the nose and eyes - chocolate dragee or pieces of candied fruit ... in general, any edible sweet little things that you have at hand.
Terrible deer. I really liked the idea.
Also you can do Christmas tree cakes from some confectionery mass, which usually goes to cakes or pastries.
This is how easy it is to decorate regular cake protein glaze - draw a clock or a Christmas tree .. or a snowman. The icing pattern can be applied even on purchased cake covered with chocolate. Photo: xandraxxx.deviantart.com
Or, as an option, draw a New Year's picture on the cake if you don't want to bake the cake.
Christmas cake decorated with white icing. Photo: Fotis Chrysanthidis
You can also draw a New Year's picture on the icing of the cake.
Snowman from 2 cakes
Here is such an easy option - how to make a Snowman cake. Take 2 or 3 cakes (larger and smaller in diameter), make into a snowman, sprinkle the top cream coconut flakes or fill with white icing (as an option, you can sprinkle the snowman pie with powdered sugar). And then decorate with details - a scarf, insert a nose, eyes, lips, twig hands and buttons.
Cake Snowman of 2 cakes. Photo: Cookbook
Snowman cake, decoration option,
Cake decoration with fruits and berries
Another way to decorate cakes, cupcakes, pies and pastries for the New Year and Christmas is to make them dressy and joyful. Let your pastries have a traditional taste under the decoration, but you will please your loved ones with a festive look of sweets. The first photo is New Year's.
This is a simple walnut tart that is decorated with fruits and nuts for the New Year. Photo: mycookingbookblog.com
A beautiful cake for the New Year. Any hostess can do such a cake decoration, just choose the available fruits and berries. Here: strawberries. kiwi, blueberries and carambola (yellow stars from it). Photo: happyhealthyliving.wordpress.com
And here are Greek Christmas cakes from Kostas Papadopoulos. Lots of chocolate, red (the color of joy) and sugar figurines Santa Claus, his deer, Christmas trees. So you can decorate any homemade cake.
Beautiful New Year's cake,
But really New Year's variant, scarlet strawberries create a festive mood!
Cake on New Year with strawberry snowmen. Photo: Marian Bachev
Simple New Year's gifts from cookies
For those who do not want to mess with baking, I offer a version of the New Year's constructor. From simple cookies(Anniversary, Nut, Strawberry, Baked milk and the like), confectionery and, which I have repeatedly mentioned above, you can make a simple and edible New Year's toy - a small house of cookies.
For each New Year's house, you need 3 rectangular cookies, the joints of which are smeared and glued with cream. One cookie down, 2 on the side, and then close over the third. By the principle of the cake.
You can glue cookies and condensed sugar syrup- caramel. Decorations are also glued to the cream glaze.
Here is such a funny gift you can prepare close to the New Year. You only need cream, the rest of the details are bought in the store. Photo: gefsieleftherias.blogspot.com
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We will talk about how to make New Year's cakes from mastic in this material. As a rule, the filling of the cake can be any, then mastic is made according to a separate recipe, and then various culinary tricks that will help make your decor special.Cake for the holiday, of course, you can buy in the store. But to truly surprise and delight, it is better to cook it at home. Moreover, the creation of jewelry from mastic is a unique creative process to which you can safely connect children. Mastic is essentially a plastic material that is made on the basis of powdered sugar. With the help of mastic, you can create any New Year's plot on the cake, and you can also eat it safely.
From the history of mastic
For the New Year, like other holidays, mastic cakes are extremely popular today. Despite such a high demand, this way of creating decorations for dessert appeared with us relatively recently. Although in Europe confectioners know about mastic and have been actively using it for several centuries. True, at first it was simply called “glaze”, regardless of its type, composition and color.
Making a mastic cake with your own hands is not so difficult, because this material is plastic and it is stored for a long time, keeps its shape perfectly, and does not spread over the surface of the dessert. Previously, this icing was used exclusively for sweets, but then it was realized that it could also decorate large cakes, creating a wide variety of plots on them.
Today there are different recipes mastics, the most popular of them will be presented in the second part of this material. But it all started with the utmost simple composition- sugar and juice of fresh lemon with the addition of rose water, sugar paste and egg whites. The mastic turned out to be liquid, it was not cooled, but immersed directly into it ready dessert and then let the frosting dry. This technology of decorating cakes around the world became extremely popular in the middle of the last century and the popularity is still not decreasing.
About the features of making mastic for a cake for the New Year:
1. You can cover with mastic only those desserts that keep their shape well and can endure a fairly dense layer of mastic without loss.
2. Powdered sugar for the preparation of high-quality glaze must be taken very fine.
3. In no case can the mastic be applied to a damp surface, because it will simply melt, lose its color and will not keep its shape.Recipe with a photo of the cake "Visiting Santa Claus"
Such a dessert looks effective and stylish, but you should not immediately think that its preparation will take too much time. First, immediately put the oven to warm up to 180 degrees Celsius. Mix in a bowl two tablespoons of flour and the same amount of sugar, add vanilla, six tablespoons of cocoa. Then add a glass of milk, two eggs and a quarter to the mixture. vegetable oil. Mix the dough until smooth.
Pour a glass of boiling water into the dough and immediately pour it into a mold with high sides, send it to the oven for an hour. Test readiness to determine the classic way, using a wooden stick. Allow the cake to cool and carefully remove it from the mold. Miscellaneous different variants, .
This turns out to be the basis of the cake, but we will consider how to make mastic and which decoration to choose next. The thing is that there are different versions of mastic using ingredients that need to be bought and mixed separately, carefully.
So, the cake needs to be divided with a thread into several cakes and soaked berry syrup, chocolate, oil cream. Put the cakes in the refrigerator for several hours so that the impregnation is absorbed. Now you can start making mastic and in this recipe we will prepare marshmallow-based mastic.
What you need for mastic:
* 100 grams of marshemallows.
* One and a half tablespoons of fine powdered sugar.
* A tablespoon of fresh lemon juice (can be replaced with water).Pour the candies with water and send them to the microwave so that they increase slightly in size and soften. Now mix the sweets, introducing into the mastic powdered sugar in small portions. If you want to change the color of the mastic, then add food coloring to this mass at your discretion.
The finished mastic needs to be rolled out and transferred to the cake, cutting off the excess at the base. From the remaining mastic, make a figure of Santa Claus, the Snow Maiden and a snowman, and other New Year's characters at your discretion. With the help of chocolate on mastic, you can make various holiday inscriptions.
How to properly cover your New Year's cake with mastic:
1. Level the surface of the cake so that there are no bumps or bumps on it. Additionally, smear the cake with cream so that there are no crumbs left on it and it is recommended to walk on the surface of the dessert with a hot knife so that it is already perfectly smooth.
2. So that the mastic does not leak during the decoration, the cream should be as oily as possible, but it is better to avoid compositions with sour cream or yogurt, cream.
3. Mastic is easily rolled out, this can be done according to the principle regular test. The thickness of the sheet should be half a centimeter and cover the entire cake with such a layer, including its sides. To dust the surface, you need to use not flour, but starch.
4. Gently level the surface of the covered dessert, cut off the excess. Surplus mastic can be used to create additional figurines and other decor for the New Year. DIY options.
On milk
To prepare such a mastic, you need to take 150 grams of powdered milk and powdered sugar, 100 grams of condensed milk and a large spoonful of lemon juice. This amount of products is enough to decorate one cake; this decor looks stylish and sophisticated.First, add powdered sugar and milk powder to a bowl. Add lemon juice and condensed milk, mix everything. Mastic can be prepared in advance, and then in cling film it will be perfectly stored in the refrigerator for up to ten days. By adding various food colorings you can change the color.
On gelatin
This mastic is not very suitable for covering the entire cake, because it is not elastic. But for the manufacture of figurines on the cake, the material is perfect due to its pliability and the ability to quickly harden. For cooking, you need a small spoonful of gelatin and lemon juice, half a teaspoon of vegetable oil, three tablespoons of water and two dozen tablespoons of powdered sugar.A mastic cake for the New Year will definitely be a delicious and beautiful treat. Prepare your favorite dessert, but to decorate it, choose any mastic option given in this material. With the right work with sweet decor, you will be able to enjoy the uniqueness and uniqueness of the dessert for the New Year.
A delicious and unusually beautiful New Year's mastic cake is an opportunity to enjoy yourself and surprise everyone at the table. Such a dessert turns out to be simply enchanting: bright, luxurious, extraordinary. At the same time, you can make the most different figurines, which definitely will not work out of cream or icing sugar. Thanks to this solution, even the most ordinary can be decorated in an original way. birthday cake, and admiring exclamations, coupled with praise, are provided to you! The preparation of this non-trivial decor option is done according to various recipes. Below are a few common interpretations that will not be difficult to do with your own hands.
New Year's cake with mastic snowflakes
The original bright cake with mastic snowflakes will become a real hit on the New Year's table. It turns out it is so beautiful that it is a pity to eat it.
Cooking time - 7 hours.
The number of servings is 10.
Ingredients
To make such a cake you will need the following products:
- cake - 3 pcs.;
- sour cream curd cream - 15 tbsp. l.;
- sugar syrup - 9 tbsp. l.;
- peeled nuts - 150 g;
- dried apricots - 50 g;
- prunes - 50 g;
- butter cream with condensed milk - 5 tbsp. l.;
- mastic.
Cooking method
It is quite possible to prepare such a mastic cake for the New Year on your own. The main thing is to follow the step by step instructions.
- First you need to prepare the main ingredients.
- A split ring is installed to form the cake.
- The bottom layer is laid out one of the cakes.
- It will need to be soaked in sugar syrup. 3 large spoons of sweets will be sufficient - it must be poured evenly.
- From above it is necessary to sprinkle abundantly the biscuit cake with nuts, which were previously peeled and crushed into crumbs.
- The next layer is generously laid out sour cream curd cream. You can put 4 large spoons. They should be distributed evenly.
- Put dried apricots and prunes together on the cream. But keep in mind that beforehand, the fruits should be thoroughly washed and soaked with water several times. Dried fruits are cut into thin strips.
- They will need to lay out another 1-1.5 tablespoons sour cream curd cream. He, too, must be leveled.
- A second cake is laid out on it. The same thing is repeated with him - impregnation with syrup, sprinkling with nuts, laying out cream and dried fruits.
- It is necessary to lay out the final, third cake from biscuit dough. Now the workpiece is sent to the refrigerator for 5 hours. This will allow the layers to thoroughly soak, which will make the finished New Year's cake more tender.
- When the cake is removed from the refrigerator, you will need to remove the detachable ring from it. In this case, you need to be careful not to damage the delicacy. Before removing the form, it is worth going carefully along the sides with a sharp knife.
- Now you need to coat the cake with mastic cream on all sides. The optimal solution is a composition of whipped butter with boiled condensed milk. The layer must be even. Moreover, it is worth smearing dessert with such a cream in two passes. After applying the first layer, the delicacy must be sent to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours so that the mass “takes”.
- Then the cake is smeared with cream of condensed milk and butter again. It is very important to do this as smoothly and accurately as possible, without unnecessary waves.
- Next, you need to prepare the mastic. You can do this according to the recipe below. Mastic is needed in blue. This is the base of the decoration. It rolls out into a thin layer.
- The resulting blank is covered with a cake.
- Additionally, it is worth making two wavy strips of mastic. They are fixed along the bottom edge of the dessert.
On a note! All elements from mastic in this case It is recommended to mount on a special food glue.
- Then you need to roll it into a thin layer white mastic. From her special device snowflakes cut out.
- There should be a lot of snowflakes to decorate the cake. It is worth making them in various sizes and shades: white, blue, blue.
- They are also fixed on the cake.
In addition, our New Year's confectionery miracle it is worth decorating with small mastic balls that imitate snowballs and sprinkle with coconut flakes. She looks like snow. You can also make a snowman out of mastic and put it on top of the cake. It will be very effective.
Cake with a snowman from mastic
very nice on New Year's table a cake with a mastic snowman will look. The preparation of such a dessert does not take much time, but it turns out excellent. By the way, you can choose any base: honey biscuit, shortbread dough or another option you like.
Cooking time -1 hour.
The number of servings is 1.
Ingredients
To prepare and decorate this cake you will need:
- food coloring - as needed;
- stick - 1 pc.;
- mastic;
- food glue.
Cooking method
The essence of creating such a New Year's treat is quite simple.
- From the finished mastic you need to roll two balls. Their sizes should be different - this is the basis of the future snowman. The largest lump is placed on the dish. A stick is inserted into it. You can take a large and strong skewer.
- The second ball is fixed on top. The wand just holds them together better.
- Now you need to start working with black mastic. It must be rolled out and cut out fragments that imitate buttons. Details should be attached to a large ball.
- Small circles of black mastic should also be glued to a small lump, trying to form details that look like eyes.
- Then you should roll out another circle of black mastic.
- It is attached to the top of the snowman. The result should be a beret. Don't forget the details. You need to attach a “tail” or pompom to the snowman’s headdress.
- Also, from black mastic, you need to cut out a part that will play the role of a mouth. It also needs to be put in its place.
- Next is to do orange mastic. From it it is necessary to form a carrot, which is glued with food glue where the nose of the snowman should be located.
- Then it is worth forming several thin strips of mastic. From them we will make a scarf for a snowman.
- It remains only to fix the snowman himself on the birthday cake, which is recommended to be completely tightened with mastic of a certain shade, against which the snowman will look bright and catchy.
Agree, the snowman turned out to be cheerful and positive in a festive way!
Cake with penguins from mastic
As a decoration for a New Year's cake, you can make penguins from mastic. They look cute and funny. Such an original decoration will appeal to both children and adults.
Cooking time -2 hours.
The number of servings is 1.
Ingredients
To make a decoration for a New Year's cake in the form of a charming penguin, the following components are needed:
- food glue;
- cutter;
- rolling pin;
- mastic;
- black and orange food coloring.
Cooking method
The process of making a small and funny penguin, which fits perfectly into the theme of winter celebrations, can be done even by novice cooks. There are no particular difficulties here.
- The first step is to paint part of the mastic black. From the material obtained, it will be necessary to form the body of our penguin.
- Next, a small piece of white is taken and thoroughly rolled out with a rolling pin. A small oval fragment should be cut out of the resulting mastic layer. This is the future belly of the penguin.
- The resulting part is fixed to the base with food glue.
- Next, you need to go back to black mastic. From it you will need to cut 2 small circles. You also need to make 2 similar elements from white mastic, but smaller. On the black circles should put the details of white. Get eyes.
- Eyes should be glued to the upper body, parallel to each other.
- Now it's time to start working with orange mastic. The material is first rolled into a layer. A small rhombus is cut out of it.
- The resulting workpiece is neatly folded. It turns out a beak. It also needs to be glued to the appropriate area.
- Next, from the orange mastic, you will need to cut out two oval-shaped figures. These are future blanks for the legs of the penguin.
- These parts are glued with food glue to the lower part of the torso of the figurine.
- Using a toothpick or skewer, you need to apply a pattern on the paws that resembles the webs on the paws of penguins.
- Two ovals should also be cut out of black mastic. These are future wings.
- They are fixed to the body on the sides.
That's all! It turns out a charming and funny penguin that will become worthy decoration New Year's cake. It is best to make a couple of penguins. In tandem, they will look more impressive.
Mastic recipe for decorating a New Year's cake
Making mastic with your own hands, with which you can luxuriously decorate any New Year's cake, is quite easy. There are several options for preparing such material at home. But one of the easiest solutions is to use marshmallows as the base.
Ingredients
To prepare the mastic, you will need to use the following products:
- lemon juice- 2 tbsp. l.;
- marshmallow - 220 g;
- powdered sugar - 500 g;
- food gel coloring - as needed.
Cooking method
Making marshmallow mastic with your own hands is easy if you use the suggested recommendation.
- Marshmallow is laid out in a container and poured with lemon juice. Here you need to pour a spoonful of plain clean drinking water.
- For 15 seconds, the mass is sent to the microwave for heating.
- Heating will allow marshmallows to increase in size. The mass must be kneaded with a spoon. This is done gradually. Moreover, at the same time, powdered sugar must be poured into the composition in portions. You don't need to add all the sweetness at once. Proceed gradually, kneading each portion well.
- It turns out the dough for mastic, which you still need to thoroughly knead with your hands.
On a note! If you need mastic of different shades to decorate the New Year's cake, then divide the resulting “dough” into several parts. Each batch is dyed in the desired colors by adding gel-type food coloring.
Options for decorating New Year's cakes with mastic: a selection of photos
If you decide to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic decoration, but you can't decide on the decor, the proposed selection is especially for you. You can decorate your holiday dessert with various thematic figures: Santa Claus, hares, Snow Maiden, penguins, bullfinches, Christmas balls. You can form the green beauty itself or gift boxes. In a word, everything that you have enough creative fuse for.
Video recipes
If you have never decorated a New Year's cake with mastic, then the proposed master classes in video format will help you perfectly cope with the task:
I think before new year holidays a master class on modeling delicious marshmallow figurines that will decorate your New Year's cake will be very appropriate. Moreover, they are made quite simply.
So, let's start with sculpting a small Christmas tree. To create it, we need a small piece of mastic Green colour. I usually use marshmallow-based mastic, I like it the most in taste, and it is convenient to work with it.
Having kneaded the mastic well, we roll it into a ball, form a cone from it, the height of which corresponds to the height of the future Christmas tree. It often happens that when the cone is placed in a vertical position, the mastic begins to settle under the weight, so I usually send it to the refrigerator for a few minutes, where it hardens a little and begins to hold its shape.
Now we take manicure scissors and make cuts on the surface of the cone, we cut each new row in a checkerboard pattern. I have separate nail scissors for these purposes, especially for use in cooking, I bought the cheapest ones, they will do just fine.
The result is such a pretty Christmas tree, it remains to revive it a little and decorate it with New Year's toys.
Using food coloring diluted in a small amount some water, we go through the Christmas tree with a brush. I dip the brush into the dye, then squeeze it a little on the napkin, and only then on the Christmas tree. For toys, I used ordinary children's sweets, which are sold in every store. I glued sweets under the branches, when you lift them, the mastic inside is sticky and sweets stick to it without much difficulty. That's all the Christmas tree for the cake is ready.
Now you can start building a snowman. We will need a piece of white mastic and a piece of mastic of a different color, I had it pink.
Let's start sculpting a snowman from the torso. Let's make a small cone, only the top of it does not need to be made sharp. Having rolled up small balls, we make legs for a snowman.
We make handles from mastic rolled into a sausage (a very small piece). We flatten the sausage a little, and on the edge we will make a mitten by simply making an incision and correcting it a little.
We glue the handles to the body, smearing the edge with water.
Let's start shaping the head. We mark the ball of mastic under the eyes and nose.
We make a nose from a tiny piece of red mastic. We just give it the shape of a carrot, make small cuts and the carrot nose is ready.
Having made a recess on the head under the spout, lubricate it with some water and simply insert our spout into place. The eyes are simply painted over with black paint. And we form the mouth with a toothpick, making the snowman smile.
The head is connected to the body with a toothpick.
Now we will make a scarf and a hat for our snowman. I wanted the scarf to be striped, so on a rolled out piece of pink mastic, I apply flagella of white mastic and roll it a little more with a rolling pin.
