Baking mastic is an effective way to decorate your cake the way you want it. It is easy to use, flexible, keeps well and looks great on the cake. Mastic can be used to decorate a wide variety of desserts - from themed cakes to tiered wedding cakes.
Often, when working with mastic, it is required to paint it in any color. This can be done using special food colors of the desired shade. And if the choice in stores does not please and you cannot find the desired shade, these tips can come to the rescue.
· If you cannot find the food coloring you want or are against the use of chemical colors, juices can be used. Light green color will give mastic spinach juice, red - beet juice, orange - carrot juice. For a lighter color, you can defrost the spinach and squeeze the juice out. A more concentrated color is obtained by boiling spinach in a little water and filtering.
· The yellow color can be obtained from turmeric. To do this, boil turmeric with boiling water (1 tablespoon of turmeric, 2 tablespoons of boiling water), let it brew, then strain. The resulting broth can be used as a yellow dye.
· Violet can be obtained from elderberry juice. Another way to get purple dye is to boil chopped red cabbage in a little water.
· It is very difficult to paint the mastic black without black dye. Craftswomen in this case use a mixture of three dyes: one part of red and blue and two parts of blue. The resulting blackness depends on the shades of the dyes used. The color may not be completely black, but slightly greenish with a tinge of purple.
· Another way to get black is to add burnt sugar to the mastic, getting brown. Then correct the color with blue dye.
Use these tips and your desserts will delight you and your guests with bright colors.
