Easter is one of the brightest Christian holidays of the year. It is preceded by Great Lent contributing to the spiritual and physical purification of a Christian. The last day of Lent is Holy Saturday. And from midnight of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, Christians can already eat various festive dishes. But before you eat them, you need to cook them. The dishes are festive - they should be not only tasty, but also beautiful. Especially beautiful! "Culinary Eden" has prepared for you material on what and how to cook for Easter, how to decorate Easter dishes. It seems that it will be of interest not only to believers.
kulich
Kulich, Easter, painted chicken eggs- these are, perhaps, the main edible attributes of the holiday of the Holy Resurrection of Christ.
Let's start with the familiar cake. It is rich high cylindrical bread, decorated with symbolic inscriptions, icing, poppy seeds, raisins. You can bake it yourself or buy it. Moreover, in stores they sell both already decorated Easter cakes and simple ones that you can decorate yourself. There are Easter cake recipes on our website, so we will completely focus on decorating them.
There are several options for decorating Easter cake. Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "XB". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!". Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Candied fruits (usually flat and multi-colored) are also used for inscriptions. And the letters "XB" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkles (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.
Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. Glaze is being prepared egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until a thick foam.
Icing for Easter cake
Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups of powdered sugar,
1 st. a spoonful of lemon juice.
Cooking
Protein must be chilled. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process with the first speed, gradually increase it. You can understand that it is enough to beat by turning the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not spill out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, by a teaspoon, to introduce powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finally, add lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot Easter cakes - then it will fit snugly and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional “strength” to the glaze is to put the Easter cakes for a minute in the oven, heated to 100-120 ° C.
The icing is a beautiful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads. Again, you can lay out the letters “XB” from fruits. And you can just write these letters with icing. Lots of options. Kulich is a festive treat, so get creative! Often, to give it an appetizing shine, the yolk is applied to the finished cake and sprinkled with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. They mold a symbol of faith - a cross - from dough and highlight it with glaze. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, waffle flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.
Sugar mastic for flowers and other decorations
Ingredients:
250 g powdered sugar,
2 tsp gelatin powder,
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.
Cooking
Sift the powdered sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then put the bowl of gelatin on water bath and dissolve it by gently stirring. Immediately after the gelatin dissolves, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the powdered sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Mix well, you can use a knife, chopping movements. After that, place the mastic in a plastic bag, and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.
Here's how you can mold, for example, roses from mastic. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Put the pieces of colored mastic in a plastic bag to keep it soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.
From a small piece of mass, mold a “carrot” and place it on a table or plank. After that, roll up balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusted with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal shape. Make the petals thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the “carrot”, thus making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, blind the next petal. Moisten the bottom again at the base of the petal and wind it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal closes the “seam” of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.
Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. Petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an excess mass of glaze has formed at the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.
Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. From 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes) form "carrots". With two thumbs, press down on the middle of the "carrot" and give it the shape of a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and after obliquely, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bent as you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.
Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, sliced orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the Easter cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit over glaze.
One more a traditional dish, which is prepared for the Bright Sunday of Christ - Easter. Easter cake is often called Easter, but this is wrong. The main component of Easter is mashed cottage cheese. Add to it butter, sour cream or cream, eggs and sugar. Curd Easter traditionally made in the form of a quadrangular pyramid, which personified Golgotha - the mountain in Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ was crucified. Nowadays, unfortunately, Easter is prepared much less frequently than, for example, Easter cakes. If you still get together, know that you need to cook Easter on Maundy Thursday.
Easter royal
Ingredients:
1 kg of fresh, well-pressed cottage cheese,
2-3 cups of granulated sugar,
5 eggs
200 g butter,
2 cups sour cream
1 sachet of vanilla
light pitted raisins, almonds to taste.
Cooking
Wipe cottage cheese and butter through a sieve, add sour cream, mix thoroughly, put the dishes on the stove and bring the mass to a boil while stirring continuously with a wooden spatula so that the mass does not burn. Immediately, as soon as it boils, remove from heat and, if possible, cool quickly, also stirring continuously. Add sugar, raisins, almonds, vanillin to the cooled mass, mix everything, put it in a pasochnik (form for Easter, sold in stores), knead the mass tightly, put a saucer on top, a small load and refrigerate for a day.
Easter can also be decorated. Usually it already has a cross and the letters "ХВ" (depending on the form for Easter). So decorate them with candied fruit, pieces of fruit, raisins, nuts, culinary beads, chocolate chips. You can mold figurines from culinary mastic corresponding to the holiday, use waffle flowers for decoration. Easter and Easter cakes can still be decorated with red candles.
Easter eggs
The egg is a symbol of life. For Easter, it is customary to paint chicken, less often goose eggs (waterfowl eggs, due to the danger of salmonellosis, must be boiled for at least 25 minutes). Do not paint eggs in dark gloomy colors. Red color and its shades should prevail. The red-painted egg marks the rebirth of people through the blood of Jesus Christ. Painted eggs - a symbol of the holiday - give a special originality Easter table.
There are several "folk" ways of coloring eggs. For example, in onion skins, in tea, coffee, grape juice, saffron and turmeric. But us in this case more interested in not just a painted, but a decorated egg.
V modern conditions When every minute counts, there are several ways to quickly color eggs. For example, use thermal labels. They are sold in stores. Simply put the label on the already boiled egg and place in a bowl with hot water. An effective pattern is guaranteed! There is an even simpler way - special stickers with an Easter theme. They are also sold on every corner on the eve of the holiday. You can also use special food coloring. However, there is one “but” - such decorations cannot be called original.
If the soul and faith require something more, there are other ways to decorate. Easter eggs. The main thing here is your own imagination. After all, an Easter egg is a gift. They are exchanged, congratulating each other on the Light Christ's Resurrection. So make a gift with soul for relatives and friends!
First of all, the eggs must be boiled. Then cool them, wipe with a cotton cloth. Gouache or acrylic paints are great for coloring eggs. Of course, the most relevant topic is Easter. You can paint eggs with various ornaments, colors, patterns. Write wishes to relatives and friends. We repeat - turn on the fantasy! When painting with gouache or acrylic paint, it is worth remembering that such eggs cannot be stored for a long time, because the dye can penetrate under the shell.
If you are not very good at drawing or just do not like to do it, there are other ways to decorate Easter eggs in an original way. But by the way, even if you are not a great artist, this should not scare you. It seems that close people will appreciate your work and will be happy with such a gift (a painted egg), even if something somewhere is drawn crookedly.
Let's go back to other possibilities. You can use rhinestones, ribbons, even feathers to decorate Easter eggs. In stores, you can find various small details for decor: bows, braid, and more. Of course, in this case, you also can not do without your own imagination.
Another beautiful and easy way coloring Easter eggs, giving them an original look: plant leaves. For example, - decorative room.
Everything is simple. Take eggs. If you will receive the main color using food coloring- then boil them first. If the color base will be obtained through, for example, onion peel, you can not boil it in advance. In any case, you will need a clean nylon stocking to implement your plan. Put an Easter egg in it, and carefully place a leaf of a plant on the egg. Then secure the stocking with a thread so that the sheet cannot move.
Next, place all the other eggs in the stocking in the same way. As a result, you have in your hands a kind of bunch of future Easter eggs. Next, put the stocking with "semi-finished products" in a saucepan where food coloring is pre-diluted or in a saucepan with onion peel. Cook a little. By the way, if you use onion peel for coloring, the decor in this case will turn out to be especially spectacular. It will look very natural, natural, even eco-friendly.
As a rule, many relatives and friends gather for the Easter table. Try to prepare an Easter gift for everyone: a beautiful egg and a small Easter cake. By the way, Easter gifts, except colored eggs and Easter cakes, various chocolate sets on Easter themes, edible figurines of chickens, cockerels, rabbits and bunnies can also serve. Good holiday to you!
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 appearance this traditional pastry pleased. 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
How to decorate Easter cake with chocolate and protein icing, a master class with a photo
Pretty original and nice to decorate Easter cake you can use 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, will be used walnuts 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. 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 cake and 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 How to decorate Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way for Easter does not require complex instructions and is 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.
How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands at home, video
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 holiday cake special, if you do not put a piece of your soul and love for your neighbor into its preparation!
Kulich is one of the important symbols of Easter, a good tradition that marks the onset of the main Christian holiday. You can buy it anywhere, but it is much more interesting (and there is nothing difficult in it) to bake with your own hands. Yes, and you can also decorate Easter cake yourself - it is in this matter that you can give free rein to your culinary and aesthetic imagination.
10 the best options Easter cake decorations at home are described in detail below.
Perhaps the easiest way to decorate Easter cakes. As a decoration, only powdered sugar is used - finely crushed sugar. The topping contrasts beautifully against the background ruddy dough and uplifting.
Protein glaze
Another option on how to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands is to use protein glaze. All you need is 2 squirrels and a glass of powdered sugar. Beat the whites and then gradually add the powder, without ceasing to beat. Then this mass is poured onto a cooled (but not cold) cake. Of course, you can additionally decorate with sprinkles on top.
ADVICE
If you add to this mixture berry juice(for example, based on raspberry jam), it will turn out both more beautiful and tastier.
confectionery topping
Of course, the topping itself is also a great way to decorate Easter cake with your own hands. In this case, it is better to buy different variants decorative topping so that you can get creative with this. And the technology is very simple: whipped proteins are added to the topping (2 is enough). Then apply the mixture with a spoon or brush.
Chocolate (icing)
Of course, you can decorate the cake with chocolate. It contrasts perfectly against a white background and also gives festive pastries a pleasant flavor. And one more plus - all kinds of drawings or inscriptions can be made from melted chocolate, for example, “XV”, “Christ is Risen” or “Easter 2018”.
The recipe for decorating Easter cakes with chocolate icing is very simple. We take an ordinary bar of chocolate (milk, bitter or white - this is already to your taste), a couple of glasses of milk and half a glass of powdered sugar. We prepare a saucepan with boiling water, crumble the chocolate into a container and melt it in a water bath. Therefore, add milk and powder, mix and apply on Easter cake.
ADVICE
Chocolate can decorate not only the surface of the muffin, but also its edges - for example, in the form of curls or mesh. Get a kind of chocolate "package".
NOTE
Glaze is applied only to the cooled surface. Otherwise, it will melt and spread.
Dried fruits and candied fruits
Candied fruits are pieces of fruit or berries that are boiled in concentrated sugar syrup. Thanks to this technology, delicious, beautiful and healthy sweets. Of course, they can also be used as homemade cake decorations. They are sprinkled on a protein glaze, which is essentially the basis of decoration. And you can also use figurines made of mastic - for example, chickens or in the form of flowers.
NOTE
Candied fruits are usually large and quite hard - it is better not to give them to very young children.
Nuts and seeds
This original version decorations - after all, it is not so common, but it looks modest and at the same time beautiful. It's no secret that flavor combination nuts and chocolate - one of the best in the confectionery business. Therefore, such a sprinkle on a pasochka can be used in combination with chocolate icing.
ADVICE
On chocolate icing, along with seeds and nuts, you can also use powdered sugar with whipped proteins. With its help, various curls, serpentines and other patterns are made.
Fresh berries and fruits
But the original and at the same time useful way how to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands. Pieces fresh fruit and berries look very beautiful and also create an excellent flavor combination. You can use a variety of fruits - raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, cranberries. At any time of the year, these berries are available at least frozen.
And among the fruits, you can take fresh pieces of peaches or apricots - thanks to warm orange and red tones, they will literally “ignite” the overall picture and create a festive mood. Pieces of fruits and berries can be sprinkled on both chocolate and protein-sugar icing - in any case, it will turn out very beautifully.
ADVICE
It would be great to decorate the top of the cake with a mint leaf or a strawberry.
sugar pencils
It's modern original way Easter cake decorations. Sugar pencils are special syringes that contain sugar mixture With natural dyes. Of course, you can paint them on any surface - sugar or chocolate. This method is perhaps the most creative. After all, creating an Easter drawing with your own hands will be interesting to everyone - both adults and children. Yes, and give such pastries to family and friends is also very nice.
Air marshmallow
And this method of decorating will surprise all the guests, but above all - you. Can be purchased at any store air marshmallow which children love very much. Then the cake is smeared with a mixture of proteins and powder (or you can fill it with chocolate icing). Air marshmallows decorate not only the surface, but also the walls of the muffin. At first glance, perhaps, no one will guess what kind of pastries they were served with tea.
Natural flowers
And this decoration option is for real romantics, connoisseurs of the art of serving. The edible component will, as always, be sugar-protein or chocolate icing. And as the decoration itself, you can take the petals of small roses, chamomile, petunias, thyme, oregano, cornflower and others.
Of course, all these methods can be used in a variety of combinations. The decoration methods discussed are, rather, just ideas that are sure to lead you to more original thoughts.
Bon Appetit!
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 sweet bread you need to decorate beautifully 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 cook colored or chocolate fudge, mastic, decorative inscriptions and figurines from sweet dough. We bring to your attention step by step master classes with photos and videos on creating classic and "fashionable" unusual jewelry for 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 here are ruddy fragrant Easter cakes removed from the oven and cooling down - it's time to start decorating! 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! Help 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 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, and also looks more festive and appetizing. How unusual to decorate an Easter cake? On the eve of Easter, we have prepared interesting master class for 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, sweets are used to make additional ingredients and liquid components - 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 fudge is simply poured onto the cooled cake and after a short time it hardens a little - just enough to save nice 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 you get a thick, smooth and homogeneous mass. 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 jewelry perfectly accepts desired shape and quickly harden after processing by hands. 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, buy ready-made confectionery mastic available 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. colored mastic best kept in 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 are 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”.
Decorating Easter cakes for Easter is no less important than cooking them. Beautiful Easter cakes needed for going to church for consecration, and for delicious Easter gifts to relatives and friends, and just to create a festive mood for a bright Easter. Of course, for all these purposes, you can buy ready-made Easter cakes, but it is much more pleasant, more interesting to cook and decorate them with your own hands. Children will especially enjoy this activity! website Culinary Eden has collected the brightest, freshest, simplest and most original ideas for decorating Easter cakes - choose!
Protein glaze for Easter cakes
A fluffy snow-white hat on Easter cakes is made from protein glaze. For its beautiful appearance, this thick glaze received the name royal (royal icing). It's easy to make, you just need to find fresh eggs and practice beating egg whites. Royal protein glaze looks stylish both on its own and with multi-colored confectionery topping, with pieces of candied fruits and dried fruits.
Protein Glaze Recipe
Ingredients:
3 squirrels,
1 tsp lemon or orange juice,
300 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking:
In a dry, clean bowl, lightly beat egg whites with juice. Gradually add the icing sugar and continue beating at the highest speed until you get a smooth, fluffy mass that can form firm sharp peaks. Spread frosting over hot cakes and leave to cool overnight. To speed up the curing of the glaze, Easter cakes can be slightly dried in the oven at the lowest heat.
It is easy to fix volumetric decorations in the form of flowers or colored eggs made of marzipan or mastic on the protein glaze.
With the help of tweezers and a firm hand, from candied fruits and dried fruits, you can lay out intricate ornaments or letters ХВ on protein glaze.
An original idea for gifts is to decorate Easter cake with fresh strawberries and chocolate chips.
Marshmallows, marshmallows or colored meringues on Easter cake - why not?
You can move away from the usual canons and decorate Easter cake as if it were a cake: a composition of pasta cakes, almond petals, pine seeds, thinly sliced dried fruits and even flowers, such as lavender and dried roses.
Sugar icing looks simpler than protein icing, but it perfect option for long-term storage and for those who fear raw eggs. icing sugar it is important to make it thick - if it turns out to be too liquid, it will spoil the appearance of the Easter cakes and will not allow decorations to be fixed on them. Icing sugar can be made with milk to thicken the color; on orange or lemon juice to give her pleasant sourness and aroma; or you can paint the glaze in a pale pink or lilac color with the help of juice from thawed berries: cherries, strawberries, blueberries.
Icing sugar recipe
Ingredients:
1 tbsp liquids - water, milk, berry juice,
100 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking:
Mix the sifted icing sugar with the liquid, mix well. Pour glaze over fresh Easter cakes, leave for several hours.
Melted chocolate icing is a relatively new but very popular way to decorate Easter cakes. Chocolate glaze easy to prepare, it holds firmly on the sloping surface of the cake and easily holds decorations in the form of colored sugar sprinkles, candied fruits and dried fruits.
chocolate frosting recipe
The easiest option is to melt the chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave and pour over the cakes. You can do without chocolate, such a glaze will turn out very tender and soft:
Ingredients:
100 g fat sour cream,
50 g butter,
2 tbsp cocoa powder,
2-3 tbsp powdered sugar.
Cooking:
Melt the butter with sour cream in a saucepan, add cocoa and icing sugar through a sieve, mix well and boil over low heat. Drizzle cakes with slightly cooled icing.
By the way, you can completely do without decorating Easter cakes if you sprinkle them on top with pine nuts, almonds or hazelnuts before baking. The nuts will be tightly and beautifully imprinted into the dough, and all that remains is to lightly sprinkle the Easter cakes with powdered sugar or grease apricot jam to shine.
Packing for Easter cakes
Separately, it is worth mentioning the packaging of Easter cakes - it should also be beautiful. For consecration in the church and for decoration holiday table wrap the Easter cakes with a wide lace ribbon. You can wrap Easter cakes from below in thin colored paper, forming it with beautiful folds, and tie it with braid or ribbon in the form of a green branch. If you bake Easter cakes in special paper molds with drawings, that will suffice.
Decorating Easter cakes for Easter is an interesting and exciting activity!
