Decorating a cake with mastic is the easiest way to decorate a child's cake. This requires only the mastic itself, as well as food colors, with which you can give the appearance of the confection a bright color.
Before you start decorating the cake, you need to prepare the mastic itself. For its preparation, 300 grams of powdered sugar, 120 grams of ready-made gelatin of medium density and a little citric acid (no more than 1/3 teaspoon) are required. The ingredients must be mixed and quickly knead the mass until smooth. Divide it into several parts and color it by adding a few drops of food coloring to each lump (you can also use natural juices, such as beetroot, blueberry, etc.).
After the mastic is ready, you can proceed directly to decorating the cake. The first step is to decide what kind of cake you want to see in the end. Naturally, the gender of the child must be taken into account.
Many girls are very fond of flowers, so you can decorate the confection with figures in the form of flowers. To do this, first you need to take a piece of neutral-colored mastic, roll it out very thinly and cover the cake with the resulting layer, carefully smoothing out all the irregularities. Next, roll out the mastic of a brighter color and use ordinary cookie cutters to cut flowers (if you do not have such molds at your disposal, you can cut a flower-shaped figure out of cardboard, then apply it to the mastic and cut flowers along it (that is, use it as a template After the flowers are cut, they need to be beautifully arranged on the cake itself.
In general, mastic is a rather malleable material; many different shapes can be molded from it, for example, bunnies, mice, cats, etc. The cakes decorated with cute little animals look very interesting.
If your child is crazy about some cartoon, then the cake can be decorated, taking into account the child's addictions. For example, many boys watch Batman and Spiderman cartoons with great interest.
