Many housewives bake open pies with berries, jam, jam, simply laying the filling on top. These pastries are sweet, but not too appetizing in appearance. To make the dish look beautiful, you should decorate the top of the jam with a pattern or a lattice made of yeast dough. We will tell you how to decorate a cake using simple solutions, show simple examples of edible decor.
There are many ideas on how to decorate a yeast dough pie with stripes, a wire rack, a braid, or ornate patterns on top. Knives, teaspoons and tablespoons with forks, cookie cutters, fantasy will come to help the hostess. It is better to start experiments on decorating sweet pastries with simple techniques, gradually complicating the elements of weaving.
7 ideas on how to decorate a cake with beautiful patterns
To make patterns on a sweet filling, you need to leave a little dough for decoration. First, jam is spread or berries are laid out, then weaving and cutting of figures are performed.
1. If there is no dough left after the formation of the cake, you can decorate its edges by creating many patterns with a teaspoon, fork, fingers. With a fork, apply strips with teeth, first in one direction, then in the other direction, forming "crosses". With spoons of different sizes, "draw" arcs, roundings and curls. Fingers form or pinch wavy edges, make dents.
2. Many housewives prefer grates made of rolled dough strips. You can make such a pattern on baking in just 5 minutes.
3. A popular decor option is weaving all kinds of braids along the edge, in a spiral, with a lattice. Braids can be made from strands, thin strips, or dough scraps.
4. An easy way to decorate is to use cookie cutters. It will take two parts of the test for the original design. First, we roll out the bottom layer, form the sides and lay out the berry filling. Then we roll out the second layer with a rolling pin, cut out any figures with molds. We spread the pattern from the edges to the center, bake at the desired temperature.
5. Another idea with molds is to make original cutouts on the top layer of the dough, which is used to cover the filling. With multiple shapes, you can create a pattern with stars, flowers, or butterflies by placing the cutouts anywhere you want.
6. Don't feel like messing around with the decoration? You can simply cut strips from the remnants of the dough, arrange them in a chaotic manner, twisting them in spirals or wavy lines.
7. If at home there are special devices for curly cutting - it's up to the little. It remains only to fantasize with fillings and drawings, creating real masterpieces to the envy of all friends.
Examples of how to decorate a cake with dough
Below are the options for the beautiful design of pies and pies. You can repeat the patterns for a start, and if you have a good imagination, come up with something original yourself.
