How to decorate a cake?
Homemade cakes are tasty and quality. You can use only the freshest ingredients for them and not worry about the quality of the finished product and your health. However, most housewives are faced with the problem of decorating homemade cakes.
Currently, there are many ways to decorate a cake yourself. Let's consider some of them.
Home Decoration Fruit Cake
The fastest and most effortless way -cake decoration with fruits and berries. For this method of decorating a cake, it is important to choose fresh fruit. The peculiarity of this method is that you can choose fruits and berries for every taste. The variety of their colors will make your baking more vivid and appetizing, and most importantly, useful.
The most common way is to lay outfruits and berries on the surface of the cake (it is desirable that the surface was flat). Also, fruits can be put between layers of cakes and even add to the cream. For example, a banana will give the cream a sweetish, rich taste and make it more viscous.
Another way is to fill the jelly fruit,chocolate or decorate with whipped cream. The main thing in the way of decorating a fruit cake is your imagination, because the cake will look more original if you come up with an interesting drawing.
More details on the method of decorating with fruits can be found in the article How to decorate a fruit cake.
How to decorate cake with cream
The next no less popular way is to decorate the baking cream. There are three types of cream:
- brewed
- albuminous
- creamy
The peculiarity of this decoration is thatHere, you too can give scope to your imagination, coming up with different patterns. Confectionery syringes or special nozzles will help you in this. You can also do with a normal thick syringe or make a nozzle yourself. To do this, you will need thick A4 paper, which will need to be rolled up as a cone.
As we mentioned above, for the cream in turnyou can use fruits, adding them to the composition and thereby giving a more flavorful taste, or food colors, thereby giving different bright shades. Another fruit can be put on top of the cream or decorate the cream with chocolate or coconut shavings, a bright confectionery powder.
About this method of decoration read in the article How to decorate the cake with cream.
Mastic
The following method of decorating a cake is an ornament withusing mastic. This method involves more effort, time and patience. With the help of mastic, you can create incredible masterpieces. Currently, this kind of decoration is very popular and in demand. There was a large number of housewives and firms offering their services for baking cakes using mastic. But in spite of the fact that this method requires more professional skills, it is still possible to apply it in the home. To do this, you will definitely need food coloring, as the whole essence of this decoration is in a variety of colors, and chewing marshmallows. You can fill the entire cake with mastic, and you can make individual figures from it.
The peculiarity is that the figures of mastic,which are attached to the cake, are made in advance, as they need to dry well. Make these figures will help you guide on making jewelry from mastic (you can replace the instructions for modeling of plasticine). If you do not have great creativity, do not worry: there are many figures that are not so difficult to do, for example, roses or voluminous letters.
To learn about the tricks of decorating in this way, you can in the article How to decorate with mastic.
Photo on the cake
The next type of decoration - photo on the cake (exceptphoto, it can be just any pictures). In this way, you can decorate birthday cake, memorable dates or events. I note that such pictures are edible, harmless and very popular with children.
For this method of decoration you will need:
- food printer
- food colors
- food paper
- digital photo
Using our article How to make a photo on a cake you can learn how to make such drawings yourself.
If you really want to make a cake with a picture, butdo not know where to get the necessary equipment, do not worry: now there is a sufficient variety of so-called wafer pictures on sale. Your photo, of course, you will not get, but various animated pictures or drawings are available in a sufficient assortment.
By the way, as for the photo on the cake, its alsocan be ordered from a company specializing in the production of confectionery products. They have such a printer in operation, and you do not have to search for or buy one at a time.
Choosing how to decorate a homemade cake, you canWatch the video, where the whole process is considered step by step. You will also be helped by another article of ours. How to make a decoration for a cake that combines the methods listed above.
Confectionery companies and their analogues
- If you do not have time yourselfto bake and decorate the cake, you can contact a special confectionery company. Such firms will offer you a catalog of products with photos or you can buy something from the availability or request a manufacturing on your own model. The price will vary. So, to choose what is available will cost less than the cake to order.
- An alternative to choosing a cake in a pastry shop isorder through the Internet. There are on-line services where you can order products, also choosing from the catalog or offering your own wishes. And this method will cost you less, because the company saves on many factors.
- Also you can order a cake, for example, not atfirm, and at the mistress who is engaged in a batch at home. It will come to you even cheaper and, most likely, tastier and more useful, as the hostess uses the same natural products as in home baking, and does not abuse preservatives. Plus, you can put your products, and this will also affect the price. Many of these hostesses advertise themselves in ads, on acquaintances and through groups of "Vkontakte" or in other social networks. You can get acquainted with their catalog or suggest your own layout.
- Well, the final way for the most lazy -it's to choose a ready-made cake in a store or supermarket. Now their huge variety both in composition and in decoration. The price will also be less expensive, but the choice will be limited.
Now you know all the ways of decorating cakes from the simplest and least expensive to the most sophisticated and requiring painstakingness. Good luck in your work and good appetite!
