Homemade cake can be decorated with cream, frosting, mastic or sprinkles, decorated with fruit or jelly. The decor should not only look impressive, but also be in harmony with the taste of the cake, and also be suitable for the situation. An ordinary cake for a family tea party can look quite simple, and a birthday cake should be decorated as effectively as possible.
Chocolate motives
A very popular decoration option is chocolate icing. It can be brewed with milk, butter, sugar and cocoa powder. It is even easier to use ready-made chocolate in bars, chunks or tablets. You can decorate the cake with bitter, milk, white, or colored flavored chocolate. The coating of pink strawberry, green mint or orange orange chocolate looks very nice.
To prepare the coating, melt the chocolate with a couple of tablespoons of cream in a water bath. Pour the hot icing over the surface of the cake and smooth it out with a wide knife. The sides of the product can also be glazed. Let the chocolate harden. On top of the cake, you can decorate with inscriptions made of cream or strokes made of chocolate of a different color. Place the melted chocolate in a plastic bag, cut off the tip and apply strokes and zigzags to the iced surface.
Chocolate leaves also look very beautiful. It is very easy to make them. Cover the laurel or rose leaves with melted natural chocolate, let the coating harden, and then carefully peel off the stencil sheet. After making the right amount of decorations, arrange them on the surface of the cake in the form of a wreath or garland.
Cream decor
Sponge and shortbread cakes can be garnished with butter or butter cream. If desired, tint the white mass with food coloring. Cover the surface of the cake with cream and smooth it out. Then apply the decor using a pastry syringe or bag. The type of jewelry depends on the chosen attachment. Flowers of different sizes can be depicted as a star-shaped one, a wedge nozzle creates beautiful leaves, and a thin and round one is designed for applying inscriptions.
A very simple decoration for cream cakes is fresh berries. Choose large, pretty raspberries or strawberries. Apply a layer of cream to the product, spread the berries on top. Border the edges of the cake in the form of small stars, deposited with a syringe.
Luxurious flowers
Fresh flowers are a very effective decoration for holiday cakes. Use violets, roses, or other buds not sprayed with herbicides. To make them look more beautiful, brush the edges of the petals with egg white, and then sprinkle with fine crystalline sugar or powder. Spread the decorations on top of the icing or cream cake.
Flowers can also be made from sugar paste. Mash the finished mastic with powdered sugar, tint with fruit juice or industrial dye if desired. Blind several round concave petals, and then assemble a rose from them, connecting the petals in a circle. Put the finished flowers on the cake on top of the icing or cream.
