If you want to surprise and delight the birthday person or the hero of the day, present him with a cake made by yourself with a dedicatory inscription.
Believe me, no expensive, but universally faceless masterpiece can be compared with a product made especially for a certain person, taking into account the characteristics of his character and taste preferences, and even with a specially created text for him.
The inscription on the cake should be informative, but not too long. So the text "Anniversary 55" looks much more advantageous than, say, "Congratulations on your fifty-fifth birthday!" A capacious inscription "ENTER" will say more than "To the staff of the IT department from grateful employees of the accounting department", and it is easier to place a short text than an ornate phrase.
It is advisable to indicate in the text the name of the person to whom the cake is intended, it is always very pleasant and memorable.
Since the cake is designed to create a festive and festive mood, the main emphasis should still fall not on the text, but on decorative elements: flowers, figurines, vignettes. But all the same, at first it is advisable to draw up the field with an inscription, and then place the decor: frame it with curls, lay out flowers and other elements.
The inscription should not merge with the main tone, it is advisable to use contrasting colors. As a rule, the hero of the occasion is always photographed against the background of such a magnificent sweet gift and the text of the congratulation should be easily readable in the photo.
For the text, always prepare a piece of clean and even "field" for writing, there should not be any dents or bulges in this place, otherwise the inscription will definitely turn out to be uneven.
Important! Always, before writing the text, always draw thin lines on the "field" with a toothpick, within which the text will be written, otherwise it is very difficult to maintain a constant height and slope of the font. With a toothpick, you can also lightly outline the locations of the letters.
Beforehand, do not be lazy on paper and create a sketch of the signature, so you can understand whether the word you have conceived will enter the right place. Never hyphenate the syllables on the cake! It looks sloppy and rude.
"Ink" for writing can be done in several ways:
1.. Mix 2 tbsp. l. butter with 2 tbsp. l. sifted cocoa so that the butter is completely mixed with the cocoa and forms a soft paste.
2. Melt a bar of black or white chocolate.
3. Roll "sausages" or cut "ribbons" from colored mastic.
4. Boil a cream or protein cream and add food coloring to it.
5. Grate the chocolate and make an inscription from it through a stencil.
Colored "ink" can be applied directly to the cake (using a continuous line or the dotted method), or it can be applied to a sheet of polyethylene, under which a text drawn in pencil on paper is placed. This blank is put into the refrigerator and then the frozen letters are carefully transferred to the cake, smearing them with melted chocolate from below.
If you make a mistake while writing, do not remove the piece of the letter right away, put the cake in the cold, then remove the frozen "mistake" and replace it with the newly written letter.
