Decoration of Easter cakes can be the most diverse. They can be covered with protein glaze and multi-colored sprinkles. Also, the top of Easter cakes can be decorated with dough figures, laid out with patterns of nuts and candies. You can also make mastic and fashion flowers, figures, tiny testicles and crosses from it. Often, instead of icing, Easter cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.
Easter cakes painted
It all depends on your talent - you can create whole paintings, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley twigs, apple flowers, simple patterns.
flower cakes
Now there are a lot of ready-made flower decorations on sale, wafer, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.
Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.
Easter cakes with domes
Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.
Easter cakes with berries
Easter cakes
Children will definitely like small Easter cakes, and they are also convenient to give to friends and relatives for Easter.
Attention to detail
Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!
There are several other options for decorating Easter cake.
Making your own powder
In addition to confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, multi-colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as powder on Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a dry, cool place, excess can remain until next year. Making your own powder is also easy. This will require food coloring and a base. At home, semolina is best, but, of course, sugar powder will be tastier.
Egg paint gives bright and saturated colors. It needs very little, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar was added to the paint, it is not suitable for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed for a few seconds in cold paint and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.
Usually, colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in a mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in individual colors. You can decorate the Easter cake in an original way if you apply the powder in stripes or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with XB letters and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.
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. The icing is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly beaten 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. Then place the mask in plastic bag and the package 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.
Easter icing and decorative sprinkles
But they came up with modern way Easter cake decorations, although in fact easter icing- this is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). To the glaze in the form of a powder, you need to add egg white and beat with a mixer, beats quickly and freezes better than just whites with sugar.
We apply the glaze on the tops of the Easter cakes with a brush or a spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkles right away, it will get wet and melt.
And after a few minutes, when the icing on the Easter cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the topping will simply crumble with the frozen icing!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - both round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkles to the children - they really like this business! True, part of the topping is eaten :)
But look how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes with the help of plain glaze and natural dyes!
Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines
You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, so it is better not to give them to small children.
Also very original and beautiful look apiaries, decorated with sugar figurines from mastic - for example, with such cute chickens. But these figurines, to be honest, you can’t gnaw through ...
And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not advise you to take them for decoration! They are good only in appearance, but they taste very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for kids. So we'd better take...
Sugar pencils!
Brilliant invention!!! Well done to the confectioner who invented them! The process of decorating baking - Easter cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint a little pasochka like a krashanka! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint Easter cakes with them for the whole family! Give the kids a Easter cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!
Dough decoration
Two types of dough decorations
Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking or glued onto the already baked cake with the help of raw protein. You can prepare decorations from the same dough from which Easter cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are woven from dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.
If the cake is baked together with decorations, to give a beautiful look, the top is smeared with a beaten egg or vegetable oil. But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be watered sugar syrup and even apply a fine powder on top of the syrup. Cover the gaps between decorations with glaze, glue nuts and candied fruits with protein.
For jewelry from sweet dough:
- 150 gr. flour,
- 30 gr. margarine,
- 1 st. l. sour cream
- 20 gr. Sahara,
- 1 egg.
Perhaps you are quite satisfied that the decorations will be crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then decorations can be made from the same dough from which Easter cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on board one more piece of decoration advice can be made from yeast, but not rich dough. Carefully, on the dough that has already risen, smeared with egg suspension, prepared decorations are laid out and the cake is sent for baking.
Of course, there is no comrade for the taste and color. I prefer to work with special dough, then the decorations are more airy and elegant. Finished decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they are very thin compared to jewelry made of yeast dough, then the decor attached to the Easter cake is enough to be placed in a hot oven for several minutes to fix and create a light shade.
simple dough-Flour,salt and water, knead a stiff dough and make decorations.
On the rolled dough, cut out different flowers and leaves with notches:
For roses, you can use special recesses and collect them according to the type of mastic:
These are the blanks you can make while the cake is coming up:
Plungers with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, no problem. A variety of things can be done with scissors. Bottom photo lump unleavened dough. It is kneaded in water with the addition of vegetable oil, for elasticity.
These are the decorations I got using plungers.
In this photo, in addition to roses, I came up with a bunch of grapes. I just formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.
The dough laid out in the form was spaced and came up well. Be sure to grease the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on the fantasy and lay out the finished decorations on the dough. Now grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf I made two bunches of grapes.
Yes, the yolk and white give a contrast to the base and decorations. The yolk turns brown when baked, while the white remains light.
Decorated and in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
I hope you choose a decoration to your liking to make your Easter cake attractive and delicious!
Easter cake - the main symbol of the Easter holiday and a true decoration Easter table. We have collected all the famous and most interesting options how to decorate Easter cake to make it even tastier and more beautiful.
Kulich is a symbol of the main spring holiday, and therefore every housewife tries not only to bake the most magnificent and fragrant Easter, but also to decorate it as elegantly as possible. And if before the decor Easter cakes was limited to sugar or protein glaze and confectionery topping, now there are many more options on how to decorate Easter. Even today you can find a lot of icing recipes for Easter cakes.
Decorating Easter cakes is like special kind art, the hostesses 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 cake decor. And yes, it is not only beautiful, but also insanely delicious!
Icing for Easter cake: protein or sugar
Protein or icing – classic version Easter cake decorations. It plays an important role, because it is not only decoration Easter baking but also the tastiest part of it.
And also white icing- this 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 Easter cake decorations. 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 Easter cake 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. Easter cake decorated in this way will become a real decoration of the Easter table.
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
Do you have time, inspiration and desire to do something unusual? Stock up on icing or melted chocolate, a pastry bag or brushes, and food natural dyes.
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.
Easter is coming soon, all of us, hostesses, will bake Easter cakes, tasty and fragrant, and of course we all want our Easter cakes to turn out beautiful too!
And to decorate Easter cake, so many interesting things have been invented! Let's see…
1. Powdered sugar
The simplest and fast way. We used to do that before. Well, what could be easier than generously shaking the cake through a strainer with sweet powdered sugar? The white color of the powder beautifully sets off the ruddy cake.
2. Whipped egg whites
in the photo - finished Easter icing
The way of our grandmothers is also simple and economical. No need to buy additional products for decoration - because in Easter dough only the yolks go, and the whites remain! Here we beat them with sugar (not all, of course, 1-2 pieces are enough, for 1 protein - 0.5 cups of sugar). Beat as for a biscuit, until a thick foam, and apply this foam to the tops of the Easter cakes. Can be dried in the oven.
3. Easter icing and decorative topping
But they came up with a modern way to decorate Easter cakes, although in fact Easter icing is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in the form of a powder and beat with a mixer, it whips quickly and freezes better than just whites with sugar.
We apply the glaze on the tops of the Easter cakes with a brush or a spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkles right away, it will get wet and melt.
And after a few minutes, when the icing on the Easter cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the topping will simply crumble with the frozen icing!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - both round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkles to the children - they really like this business! True, part of the topping is eaten :)
Or you can make lemon icing from powdered sugar and lemon juice. For 100 g of powder (0.5 cups) - about 1.5-2 tablespoons of juice. Can be orange or tangerine. Stir, bring the icing to the desired consistency with the addition of a dry or liquid ingredient, and apply to the tops of the apiaries. At first, the lemon icing is almost transparent, but when it hardens, it becomes matte. lemon glaze not sweet, unlike other types, but sour = sweet, and it is especially tasty.
But look how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes with the help of ordinary icing and natural dyes!
4. Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines
You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, so it is better not to give them to small children.
Also, pastries decorated with mastic sugar figurines look very original and beautiful - for example, with such cute chickens. 🙂 But these figurines, to be honest, you can’t gnaw through ...
And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not advise taking them for decoration! They are good only in appearance, but they taste very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for kids. So we'd better take...
5. Sugar pencils!
Brilliant invention!!! Well done to the confectioner who invented them! The process of decorating pastries - Easter cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint a little beanie like a krashanka! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint Easter cakes with them for the whole family! Give the kids a Easter cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!
How do you decorate cookies? Please write in the comments, or you can send a photo!
With the approach of the great feast of the Lord's Pascha, the hostesses begin to think about the recipes for Easter cakes, and, you see, they great amount– from economical to more costly 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 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
- frosting from egg yolks 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, using a fine sieve, 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 can be easily done 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 microwave oven). 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, as plain 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 FOUNTAIN
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 prepare berry glaze for Easter cakes, you will need: 1 st. powdered sugar, 4-5 tbsp. natural juice berries.
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. Once the frosting has cooled, it will thicken considerably. 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 prepare chocolate cream frosting for Easter cakes, you will need: 1 st. sugar, 4 tbsp. heavy cream, 100 g butter, 6 tbsp. cocoa.
How to make chocolate cream frosting for Easter cakes. Send to slow fire ladle with butter, 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 most simple ways Easter cake decorations. 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 glaze for Easter cakes, but there is no less good recipe egg yolk glaze.
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 to the bowl, pour freshly squeezed Orange juice and beat with a blender until a stable foam is formed. 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 glaze turned out too thick glaze, 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 You can either replace water or add for flavor. Lemon gives the glaze an incredible aroma and taste.
4. Glaze can be prepared 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 some raspberry jam to the glaze.
6. Apply liquid glaze on Easter cakes it is more convenient 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 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 not only.
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 decoration? Let's not turn Easter into a celebration of fast food! We offer you do-it-yourself Easter cake decoration
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: 11 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, which are used to 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 become good decoration 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, useful and original.
Marmalade for decorating Easter cakes
Easter cake decorated with marmalade is an unusual and bright solution for your Easter design. Please your loved ones with an original and delicious baking decor.
Now you know the many options for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands. Choose the decor method that you like the most 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.
