Any mother can decorate a cake for the birthday of a son or daughter beautifully. You shouldn't try to compete with professional pastry chefs. Show your imagination - simple, but neatly made decor will look very impressive and children will surely like it.
It is necessary
- - cream injector;
- - paper cornets;
- - marzipan;
- - food colorings;
- - sugar beads;
- - ready-made chocolate coating;
- - colored dragees, marmalade, chocolate chips.
Instructions
Step 1
Give the cake an unconventional shape. Let it not be the usual round or square - it's so boring! Serve a cake in the shape of an elephant, a toy car, a nesting doll or a boat on the children's table. You can use ready-made forms from the store. If there are no suitable forms, do otherwise. Bake round cakes, coat them with any cream and assemble the cake. Let it soak a little, do not apply the cream on top yet. Make a simple cake stencil out of paper. It is better if it is a simple figure - a matryoshka, a bell, a boat, the silhouette of an elephant. Place the stencil on the cake and use a sharp knife to cut out the outline.
Step 2
Cover the finished cake with food coloring cream. The boat can be made blue, the bell yellow, the elephant pink. Apply patterns on top using a pastry syringe. Children will also be happy to decorate such a cake. Give them colored pills, chocolate chips, sugar beads, small marmalade and give them free rein.
Step 3
Children are very fond of edible cake figures. It is important that they are not only beautiful, but also delicious. Therefore, oil roses and tough sugar mastic jewelry will not work. Better to sculpt funny marzipan figures. Choose simple shapes. For example, on a cake covered with light green butter or custard, you can seat a whole company of Smesharikov. They are easy to mold from marzipan dyed with multi-colored food dyes. To make the cake complete, decorate it with a cream border, and write congratulations to the birthday person on the cake itself. It is convenient to make the inscriptions with chocolate icing, placed in a paper cornet.
Step 4
An interesting idea for older children is a surprise cake. Bake a round, multi-layer sponge cake. Layer them with a light protein or custard cream. Apply a generous amount of whipped cream on top, covering the sides of the cake as well. Take Waffle Ice Cream Cones. Using a pastry syringe, fill them with cream of different flavors (chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, pistachio) mixed with pieces of fruit, nuts and biscuit crumbs. Decorate each cone on top with a tall "cap" of cream. Attach the ice cream cones to the sides of the cake by pressing them into the cream to hold well. The number of cones must be equal to the number of guests. Sprinkle the finished cake with silver sugar beads.
