Many are interested in how to make beautifuldecorations for the cake yourself. Creating a bright rainbow dessert requires not so much time, but it looks amazing. If you are interested in how to make a delicious cake and how to decorate it with mastic, - read this instruction. You can use the semifinished product for a cupcake or your own favorite recipes for cakes and just follow simple steps to make an unusual dessert.
You will need the following ingredients:
- 3 boxes of semi-finished cakes (or prepare your own dough using your favorite recipe);
- vanilla glaze (semi-finished or own preparation);
- sugar mastic (you can cook it yourself from marshmallows or buy it ready-made);
- pink, purple, blue, green and yellow food colorings;
- corn starch;
- your favorite cream (or boiled condensed milk, jam, etc. - according to your taste).
Step 1: Cooking the Cake
You need to bake 5 separate cakes for different layers, if you have only 1 or 2 baking molds, you can use them alternately.
Cook the dough according to your recipe orinstructions on the package (if you are using a cake mix) and divide it into 5 uniform pieces. Add 1/4 teaspoon of pink food coloring to the first bowl and mix until even, even color. Such decorations for the cake, made by hand, are very simple and do not require any special skills.
Repeat this process for the other four.pieces of dough, adding purple, light green, yellow light blue dyes to each part. Pour each mixture into a separate baking dish and bake in the oven, following the directions on the cake mix. You can check the readiness of the cake by inserting a toothpick into it. Before baking, keep the rest of the dough in the fridge (if you bake everything in one shape alternately).
After each cake is prepared, remove it from the oven. Leave in the form for 5 minutes and then lay on the grid for cooling.
Step 2
Cut the top and bottom edges of each layer to make flat cakes and remove thin brownish peels.
Take a yellow cake and put a thin layer of cream (or other filler) on it, put a green layer of cake on top and put it in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to cool.
Similarly, lay the remaining cakes on top of each other, smearing them with cream. Above there should be a pink cake.
Apply a thin layer of glaze around the edges and top of the cake, make it as smooth as possible. Cool the product so that the frosting may frost.
Then, to make decorations for the cake with your own hands, take a piece of paper and mark on it where each separate layer ends.
Step 3
Measure the size of your dessert, and determine the height of each layer.
You will need to roll out a piece of mastic, whichit will be possible to cut into a rectangle of exactly the size that you noted. Divide it into 5 parts and mix each of them with the same dyes that you used for the test. Then add the cornstarch to the paste and mix thoroughly to make the dough elastic.
How to make cake decorations - details
Roll out a lot of mixed with pink dyeon a table dusted with a small amount of cornstarch. Turn and lift it to make sure it does not stick, and try rolling out a rectangular shape.
After the mastic layer is enoughlarge, you need to cut it along the top edge to get a straight line. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and attach it to your side so that you wrap the cut out strip around the cake. Then remove it and remove the excess below.
Do the same with the mastic of other colors.
Step 4: how to make ruffles
So, we continue the master class - decorating cakesmastic in the form of a rainbow. Using the sharpened edge of a toothpick or sandwich skewers, make frill strips by pressing and stretching them slightly along the edges.
Step 5
Continuing to make decorations for your cakewith your hands, start attaching ruffles from the top of it and follow further down. Use a very small amount of water to attach strips to the glaze.
Now you can cut the cake and enjoy not only its taste, but also its appearance.
