If you do not know how to handle mastic and have not mastered the technique of setting a cream, then the easiest way to turn an ordinary cake into something unusual is the use of berries and fruits in the decor. Color and flavor variety can make any dessert unique. More details on how to decorate a fruit cake at home, we will describe the examples below.
How to beautifully decorate a homemade fruit cake?
If you cook a dish in which fruits are present in the composition of the cream and / or biscuit, then use them in the decor. For example, if you have a citrus biscuit, then cook light caramel from the circles of the citrus used, pour the top of the dessert and carefully place the pieces of the fruit.
But nothing prevents diversify the taste and color composition with a wide variety of fruit and berry additives. Since the trend is minimalistic cakes, the brightness of their appearance will not hurt. In the design you can use both the fruits themselves, and their mixture with nuts and flowers, meringue or marshmallow.
If you do not know how to beautifully decorate the top of the cake with fruits, then the design rule is very simple: the more diverse the fruits you use, the better, with folding them chaotically, fruit patterns covered with gelatin or carved in the form of flowers have long been out of fashion.
How to decorate chocolate and fruit cake?
Do not forget about the main partner fruit - chocolate, which can be used not only in the decor of chocolate cakes, but also with berry and vanilla desserts.
The easiest way is to decorate ready-made sweets: pills, sweets and bars, lined up mixed with fruit.
Having shown a little more imagination, you can write anything with chocolate or draw any figure on a sheet of oiled parchment, and after solidification transfer to the top of the cake.
Actual and simple careless pouring of the surface of the cake with ganache or melted chocolate. The whole cake is not glazed, one top is covered, and the smudges calmly dry out on the sides. When the chocolate grips, fruit compositions are laid out on it.
How to decorate a child's fruit cake?
Cakes for children are at times more joyful, if they are beautifully decorated. If you are preparing a single-tiered treat, then lay out the berries and fruit forms of animals or favorite cartoon characters.
Many-tiered cakes decorate with fruit slices on skewers.
And if the cake is beautiful and bright in a cut, then fruits can complement the appearance, if they are put in a layer of cream.
