How to mold out mastic?

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Cakes with mastic are very popular. From this material you can make any decorations: different flowers, figurines of characters from your favorite cartoons, as well as people, birds and animals. These cakes look very nice, bright and they just want to eat them. Today we learn how to mold out mastic.

Instruments

To make mastic you will need different tools:

Skalka - it is required for rolling mastic.
A knife for pizza - it is needed to cut off unnecessary edges of the mastic.
A wide brush - it is needed to remove the remains of sugar from the mastic.
Iron - this tool is needed for perfect alignment of the cake, covered with mastic.
Plastic and metal molds - they are needed for cutting various ornaments from mastic.
Plunger notches - they allow not only to cut out a figure, but also to immediately draw a picture on it.
Special mats for drying products from mastic.
Food colors, food markers, edible beads and strassics.

Mastic can be dairy, gelatin, and also mastic from marshmallow.

Milk mastic

Required:

150 g of milk powder;
150 g of powdered sugar;
200 g of condensed milk.

Preparation:

Mix powder and milk powder.
Add the condensed milk. Mix until homogeneous.
Then you can add food color.

Gelatin mastic

Required:

50 ml of water;
500 g of powdered sugar;
10 g of gelatin.

Preparation:

Gelatin fill with water and leave for forty minutes.
Then bring it to a boil and add half the powder.
Next, remove the mastic from the fire and begin to gradually add the rest of the powder. Well we mix.
Then you can add the dye. To do this, we dip the toothpick into the dye and pierce the mastic in several places. And then we knead it.

Mastic from marshmallow (chewing marshmallow)

Required:

200 g of marshmallow;
400 g of powder;
2 tablespoons butter.

Preparation:

Marshmallow and butter put in a microwave for twenty seconds.
Then gradually add the powder and knead well the mastic.

Read more about preparing mastic in the article How to Make Homemade Mastics.

Now you know how to make different mastic. And now we will learn how to sculpt figurines out of mastic.

Bunny

We prepare the milk mastic. Then proceed to modeling.

First of white mastic we make an elongated oval - this is the head.
Scissors make a large incision on one side of the oval - this is the ears of the hare.
The muzzle of the hare is stretched. Glaze draw the eyes and nose.
Then we sculpt the body - a long oval. And we make paws. Front - this is two sausages, and the rear - two balls. Glue with the help of water head and paws to the body.
Now make a small ball - tail, and also glue it to the body.
It remains to mold carrots from orange mastic and lay it next to the hare.

Bear cub

We make milk mastic. We begin to mold the bear.

First we form from the mastic a long barrel - this is the body.
Then we make a ball - it's a head. A little stretch the ears and make them round.
The muzzle is slightly stretched. Eyes and nose draw glaze.
We make paws - short and thick sausages.
Paws and head glue to the body.