A bright, unusually appetizing and beautiful cake is the main decoration of any holiday - wedding, anniversary, children's birthday. As soon as the culinary specialists do not contrive to amaze the imagination of households and guests. Moreover, it is not fashionable to buy food now, home-baked sweetness is more appreciated. How to decorate a cake for New Years, name days or for a theme party?
Cakes in our time are real culinary masterpieces, almost works of art, especially among the chefs. Even inexperienced housewives prefer to suffer, work hard on decorating homemade pastries, rather than buying them in the store. Moreover, there is a great variety of jewelry now, for every taste, color and even smell. How and what can you decorate a cake with at home?
Here are some of the most popular ways to decorate cakes coated with cream or covered with mastic, cream, nut crumbs, chocolate:
- edible mastic figurines;
- melted chocolate lace and nets;
- chocolate balls, cubes, figurines;
- jelly decorations or marmalade sweets;
- candies like M & M's, dragees;
- waffles, cookies;
- fresh or canned berries;
- slices of sweet fruits.
How to decorate a marshmallow cake
White, pink, blue or yellow marshmallows are a type of soft candy that resembles marshmallows, familiar to many in texture and taste, and sometimes marshmallows. They are dense to the touch, elastic, but not tough, they smell good, they are perfectly molded on the cake. That is why chefs often choose marshmallows as a cake decoration at home. After all, from elastic cubes it is great to mold any figure, number, flower or letter.
If you get confused, you can even make plastic mastic from marshmallows, but it is much easier to sprinkle an inexpensive treat on the top, sides of the cake, lay out multi-colored patterns from them.
How to decorate a cake with whipped cream
Delicate fluffy cream is the fastest and most economical option for decorating a cake at home. It is easy to buy a can of sweet cream at any grocery store, choosing from several flavors and shades of delicacies.
If you wish, you can whip the heavy cream even at home using a mixer or blender. An important condition is that you need to make out creamy patterns and peaks just before serving, since the delicate mass can flow, lose its shape. You can decorate the top of the cream cake with chocolate chips, berries, chocolate wedges, fruit slices.
How to decorate a cake with M & M's peas
Bright red, yellow, green, blue and orange dragees are ideal for decorating cakes, especially chocolate or nutty ones. Such treats are more often served on a children's birthday or on a teenager's birthday. You can buy sweets in any store: either in packaging or by weight.
The easiest way is to surround the sponge cake with wafer rolls or chocolates like "Kitiket", and cover the top with M & M's dragee - either in one layer or in a slide. You can use sweet peas of the same color or lay them out in a spiral with multi-colored rainbow patterns. The only drawback of this decor is that sweets can stain the glaze, forming ugly streaks. Therefore, it is advisable to pour them on the cream.
How to decorate a cake with fruits and berries
Decorating a cake at home with fruit pieces and fresh berries is gaining popularity among culinary experts. This method is much tastier and healthier than using viscous mastic. Fruits are natural, low in calories, unlike butter cream and chocolate.
One- and two-, three-tiered cakes with fruits and berries are brought to the table not only at anniversaries, but also at weddings, parties, special events with a buffet table. Here are some guidelines for sweet décor:
- combine berries and fruit slices with yoghurt, protein cream;
- leave the fruits whole or cut into halves, quarters, the same applies to strawberries;
- you can sprinkle the slices and berries with powdered sugar, chopped nuts;
- complement the decor with drips of chocolate, inscriptions and figurines.
How to decorate a cake with chocolate
For a sweet decoration, you can use hard chocolate in slices and in the form of figurines, a grid, and melted or icing. Chocolate icing is poured over either the entire top or the edges of the cake, creating spectacular drips. Also, chocolate melted in a water bath is poured into a pastry syringe, lace, mesh, flowers, butterflies are drawn on parchment, and they are waiting for solidification. Then a sweet treat is decorated with blanks.
Another idea is to decorate the top of the biscuit with slices and whole tiles, halves of kinder eggs, Oreo cookies or chocolate chips. The cake will look solid, very appetizing and attractive for both children and adults.
If there is no time, you can simply sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with confectionery colored sprinkles or ground nuts. The cakes look gorgeous, not just coated with cream, but covered with various patterns: roses, waves, oil spirals. Many culinary experts use beautifully shaped cookies and small chocolates, caramel, marshmallows, meringues, and pieces of waffles. It all depends on the imagination and preferences of the household.
