Children love not only tasty, but also beautiful delicacies, that's why preparing cake for children's birthday should pay special attention to the decor. It is more convenient and easiest to decorate cakes with mastic, which allows you to easily realize the figures of any colors and sizes. Below we will discuss several examples of decorating a cake made from mastic for a girl.
Cake from mastic for a girl own hands
When we imagine a really girlish cake, all the shades of pink come to our eyes. We will not hit the palette of the same color, but we will prepare one gentle and pink girl's cake.
The top of our cake will be decorated with mastic pads, which are incredibly easy to mold. Tint the mastic with a pink or red food color, knead well, and then roll into balls of different diameters.
In the center of each ball, make a small notch.
Split the sides of the pumpkin into segments, slightly passing through them with a round pizza knife.
From the gray mastic roll up small blocks that will become tails on the pumpkin. Place them in the previously made recess.
Using special cutting, cut out the leaves from the mastic.
The cake itself is covered with white mastic. From the mastic of pink and gray colors, cut the strips.
Fix the stripes on the cake with a little water, and put the pumpkins on the top of our children's cake out of the mastic for the girl.
Cake made of mastic for a girl - a master class
Another version of the decor, reminiscent of scales on the tail of the little mermaid, can be realized even without having an experience with mastic in the past.
Roll out the mastic boards of turquoise, blue and white flowers, cut out the ovals from each of them.
From each of the ovals, cut off the tip to get a piece of mastic reminiscent of fish scales in shape.
Each scales, if desired, can be covered with edible spangles, which are easy to find in specialized confectionery shops.
Tighten the cake with white mastic and alternately fix on the surface colored scales overlapping each other, lubricating the tips of each of them with a small amount of water.
Cover all sides with scales from the mastic and let it dry.
How to decorate a cake for a girl with mastic?
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Bake a few biscuits or cut one biscuit into layers and brush each of them with cream.
Having combined the cakes together, put a cake template on their surface and cut off all the excess.
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Our cake will have a rounded shape, because, apart from the contour, we cut off excess biscuit from the surface.
To pick up any crumbs and promote a better adhesion of the mastic to the surface, line the crusts with oil cream or ganache.
After, tighten the surface of the cake with a layer of white mastic, trim the surpluses and maximally level the surface with a spatula or a dry cloth.
With the help of cutting down or knife using a pattern, cut out a bow from the rolled pink mastic.
From the black mastic, roll the mustache, placing a piece of mastic on the skewer. When the desired length and shape is reached, carefully remove the whiskers from the scoop and trim.
From the remnants of black mastic, cut out two black ovals and one yellow, they will be the nose and eyes on the cake.
Now gently attach all the details to the surface of the cake with a brush and a small amount of water.
When everything is fixed, allow the mastic to dry before cutting.
