How to decorate a cake for a birthday?

Modern technologies and many recipesdesign of dishes both on the Internet and in cookbooks help to create, in truth, an original and festive cake for any holiday. Cakes, completely covered with multicolored mastic, confectionery beads or cream turn into real works of art.

If you decide to please your ownguests a delicious cake for the holiday, it is important to know how you can decorate the cake for the birthday of the child or the adult birthday, and also how to choose the suitable inscription for the cake. On the errors in the implementation of the inscription, read in the article What to write on the cake.

Decoration from mastic for children's holiday

Mastic is a kind of confectionery clay, from which you can make original figures, flowers and whole subjects from your favorite cartoons and fairy tales for a festive cake.

Mastic can be prepared from the most accessible ingredients available in almost

every nearest store. To prepare the mastic, use marshmallow (chewing marshmallow), powdered sugar, starch, citric acid and butter. To create a mastic of different shades, a gel food color is used.

From the finished mastic, rolling out, carving andmolding various shapes, as from plasticine, you can make a variety of figures and whole floral compositions. Heroes cartoon Winx or Luntika, all kinds of hares and bears, as well as beautiful and delicate roses, orchids or chamomiles so colorful and festive look on the surface of the cake, that the children are just delighted with such sweets.

Cake decoration with fresh fruit

Very often to make a cake for a birthday, a variety of fresh fruits and berries are used. This is one of the simplest ways of colorful decoration of cakes at home.

There are a lot of options for making a fruit cake:

• in the form of a forest clearing, strewn with various strawberry berries, currants, blackberries and raspberries;
• in the form of beautifully laid up segments of oranges, bananas, strawberries, kiwi, etc. Fruit slices are spread out by fan along the perimeter or along the entire perimeter of the cake;
• in the form of flower compositions from orange and apple slices preliminarily dipped in fruit jelly;
• in the form of plots of cut fruit (figurines and letters) cut into slices.

The decoration of the fruit cake can be combined with the use of mastic or oily cream. This cake will look just chic and, undoubtedly, appetizing.

Cakes decorated with no less colorful colorcolored fruit jelly or completely covered with colorful confectionery beads. You can even make a photo on the surface of the cake. How else can you decorate a birthday cake, you will be prompted by an article How to decorate a cake.