A rare holiday does without sweets. Someone likes simple delicacies, for example chocolate, jujube, fruit. To others, submit complex desserts: cakes, cakes, but not simple, but elegantly designed, such that there are some that are pathetic. Of course, the easiest way to buy a dessert in a store or a specialized confectionery store, but many prefer homemade cakes. They are tastier than shopping, they do not contain any unpleasant supplements, and the fact that the treat is prepared with love and specially for someone - it also means a lot. Unfortunately, it often happens that an incredibly delicious homemade cake loses store in the decoration. The output is simple: you can make mastic for a cake, it's easy and at home.
A few words about mastic
Before you tell how to make mastic for a cake yourself, we will clarify: we are talking about a special confectionery mass, which can cover the surface of dessert, hide flaws, gloriously decorate sweets. Mastic in consistence similar to a very plastic plasticine: it can be manually sculpted figurines or cut with a special mold, it can be rolled into a layer and cut the workpieces to the surface of a cake or cakes. In general, this is a great way to show imagination, have fun in the kitchen and improve the taste of dessert.
Prepare a simple mastic
First, we'll tell you how to make mastic for cake yourself. Simple mastics are mostly made up of small figures: flowers, leaves, cartoon characters or little animals. The mass is painted after cooking, so that by separating small lumps and staining them in the right colors (you can use simple food colors for this), you will be able to create any masterpiece.
Ingredients:
- cream dry - 1 cup;
- sugar, ground in powder - 1 glass + 150-170 g;
- Milk condensed (according to GOST) - about 170 ml;
- food coloring natural - at will;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Preparation
We masticate the mastic in a glass or enameled container. Pour the cream (you can buy it in the supermarket), add powder. To begin with, we take equal proportions, then pour the powder into as needed. We pour in 2 hours spoons of lemon juice and condensed milk. From its density depends the consistency of the mastic and how much powder will go into the kneading. Mesim until the mass becomes plastic and stops sticking to the surface. We roll it into a ball, wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Now the question arises, how to make colored mastic for a cake. Food colors or syrups of bright colors (orange, raspberry, cherry, blueberry) are added to the lumps of our mass and well mixed. Then we boldly create.
Zephyr Mastic
A much more plastic mass is prepared in a different way from the masticatory masticatory marshmallow. Tell you how to make a marshmallow paste for a cake. It also does not contain harmful ingredients, and it turns out even easier than the first option.
Ingredients:
- chewing marshmallow ( marshmallow ) - 3 packs of 100 g;
- powdered sugar - about 0.5 kg;
- fresh lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- oil "Peasant" - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- food coloring - on request.
Preparation
In the microwave oven we put marshmallows (it should be the same color), add lemon juice and butter. We set for warm-up and hold our marshmallow until they strongly increase in volume