Decorations for cakes with your own hands recipes. DIY Easter cake decoration

Everyone knows about the Easter holiday - the largest in the Orthodox world. For this day, all families prepare holiday cakes and paint eggs. And, if the recipe for the dough is used approximately the same, then there are many options for decorating Easter cakes. Some are classic, others are original.

Icing sugar

This method is common, moreover, it does not take much time. To perform this option, you only need powdered sugar, which is evenly applied to the top of the holiday baking. This saves both time and money.

To give the cake originality, it is also sprinkled with special sprinkles. These jewelry are sold in different shapes and sizes. And it is possible to get an interesting pattern using a stencil or napkin. To do this, you need to attach the selected stencil to the top of the cake and shake the icing sugar on top. The result is an interesting and neat pattern.

Decorating Easter cake with protein glaze - recipe

This option is equated to the classic one, because it is popular and used by most housewives. This type of decoration is easy to perform, and the result will definitely please.

1. Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
2. Put the proteins in the refrigerator for a short time to cool.
3. After removing the proteins from the refrigerator, beat together with lemon juice.
4. Pour sugar to the resulting mass and beat further. You should get a thick consistency.
5. In the end, it remains only to water the tops of the cakes abundantly.

The streaks on the sides will look interesting. To give the product more colors, use special dressing. Which will look harmonious on the white top.

Painting cakes with protein glaze

This idea is interesting and original.

• protein glaze prepared according to the recipe above;
• food colorings.

1. First, prepare the protein glaze.
2. Decide which drawings will be performed (churches, flowers, Easter eggs, etc.).
3. Distribute the glaze in containers and use dyes to make it in different colors.
4. To create the pattern, first the tops are covered with white, and then the colored elements are drawn with a brush.

This option will appeal to those who love and know how to draw. However, everyone can draw simple elements.

Lenten frosting

This is one of the variations for decorating Easter cakes. It is no more difficult to make than ordinary frosting, but there are no eggs among the ingredients, which is why it is considered lean.

1. Pour the ingredients into a deep container.
2. Stir the ingredients thoroughly with a fork or whisk until smooth.
3. Pour the fondant icing on the cakes.

Fruit or berry glaze

Those who like to try out new ideas and experiment can be replaced lemon juice to another fruit or berry. In this case, you will get an original glaze with an interesting color and taste.

For cooking, you need the following ingredients:

• fruit or berry juice - 6 tbsp. l .;
• powdered sugar - 1 glass.

1. First put the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Stir the ingredients so that the mass is homogeneous and without lumps.
3. Pour the tops of the cakes with thickened glaze.

Through the use of powdered sugar, fruit glaze turns out in delicate shades.

Chocolate glaze

Who doesn't love chocolate? Probably, there are practically no such people. Therefore, one of the options for decorating Easter cakes will be the preparation of chocolate icing.

This will require the following components:

1. First, let the butter melt.
2. Then add the rest of the ingredients to it, stir and put on low heat. Stir the mixture constantly to prevent it from burning. Bring the consistency to thickening, then remove from heat.
3. Pour the cakes with a slightly cooled mass.
4. For beauty, you can sprinkle on top with special sprinkles, nuts, marmalade, dragee candies, etc.

Decorating with mastic

Among modern housewives, there are probably mastic lovers. With it, you can turn any baked goods into a real work of art. Mastic is a great DIY way to decorate Easter baked goods.

For cooking you will need:

• marshmallows - 200-250 g;
• food coloring;
• water - 1/4 cup;
• icing sugar - 400 g.

The cooking algorithm is as follows:

1. Put the marshmallows in a container and put on water bath... When chewing marshmallow will begin to increase, and when touched - sticky - add a little powdered sugar, while constantly stirring.
2. In order for the mastic figures to be colored, add a little water and dye.
3. Sculpt figures yourself or using molds.

There are other options for making mastic, for example, using simple marshmallows.

In this case, the following ingredients are required:

• icing sugar - 400 g;
• marshmallow - 200 g;
• butter- 100 g.;
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.

1. Put the marshmallow in a bowl and add lemon juice to it. Put in a water bath and wait until the marshmallow melts, stir.
2. Add butter to the contents of the bowl and mix with the marshmallow mass.
3. Add the icing sugar little by little, stirring constantly.
4. The resulting mass should be soft and not sticky to your hands. When she is ready, you can start sculpting the figures.

Decorating with edible elements

Classically decorated holiday products can be supplemented with various elements. There are a lot of them. Here are the main ones:

• Special sprinkling: colorful balls, sticks, flowers, stars and the like.
• Jelly fruits or balls look original and sophisticated, moreover, they are combined with other decorative elements.
• Pieces of fruit will be appropriate both at the top of the product and in the dough.
• Marmalade and candied fruits will be original and tasty addition for festive pastries.
• Sugar pencil. With the help of such a device, real masterpieces are created on baking. Different colors are sold in pastry shops, so it becomes possible to create an interesting Easter-themed pattern.
• Sugar pearls. This edible decoration will look original in combination with other decorative elements, for example, such as mastic.
• Wafer figurines - also interesting way decorations. Waffle flowers will look bright on the white top of the festive baked goods.

When preparing for the Easter holiday, turn on your imagination when choosing a way to decorate the main attribute - Easter cake. The listed recipes will help to determine this. It's up to you which one to choose: classic or more difficult. Everyone can choose suitable recipe to suit tastes, moods and budgets.

Decorating Easter cakes can be very diverse. They can be coated with protein glaze and colored sprinkles. Also, the top of the cakes can be decorated with figurines of dough, lined with patterns of nuts and candies. You can also make mastic and sculpt flowers, figurines, tiny testicles and crosses from it. Often, instead of glaze, the cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.

Painted Easter cakes

It all depends on your talent - you can create whole pictures, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley branches, apple flowers, simple patterns.

Flower cakes

Now there are a lot of ready-made flower decorations on sale, waffle, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.

Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.

Easter cakes with domes

Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.

Easter cakes with berries

Baby cakes

Children will definitely like small cakes, and it is also convenient to give them to friends and family for Easter.

Attention to detail

Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!

There are several more options for decorating the Easter cake.

Preparing the powder yourself

In addition to the confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, a multi-colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a cool dry place, the excess can remain until the next year. Preparing the powder yourself is also not difficult. This will require food grade paint and base. At home, semolina is best, but of course, sugar powder will be tastier.

Egg dye gives bright and saturated colors. You need very little of it, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar has been added to the paint, it will not work for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed in cold paint for a few seconds and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.

Usually the colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in separate colors. You can decorate the cake in an original way if you apply the powder in strips or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with XB letters and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.

Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "ХВ". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Used for inscriptions and candied fruits (usually flat and multi-colored). And the letters "ХВ" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkling (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.

Glaze. Decorating cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. A glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until thick foam.

Icing for cake

Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.

Preparation
The protein should be refrigerated. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at the first speed, gradually increase it. To understand that whipping is enough, you can turn the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not pour out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, in a teaspoon, add powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finish with lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional "strength" to the glaze is to put the cakes for a minute in the oven heated to 100-120 ° C.

Glaze is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can lay out the letters "XB" from the fruit. And you can just write these letters with glaze. There are many options. Kulich is a holiday treat, so get creative! Often, yolk is applied to the finished cake to give it an appetizing shine and sprinkle with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. A symbol of faith - a cross - is sculpted from the dough and glazed. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, waffle flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.

Sugar Pastry for Flowers and Other Decorations

Ingredients:
250 g icing sugar
2 tsp powder gelatin,
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.

Preparation
Sift the icing sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve, stirring gently. Immediately after dissolving the gelatin, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the icing sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife, chopping movements. Then place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature... After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.

Here's how to mold roses from mastic, for example. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Place the colored mastic pieces in a plastic bag to keep them soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.

From a small piece of mass, mold a "carrot" and place it on a table or board. After that, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusted with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal. Make the petal thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the "carrot", thereby making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, mold the next petal. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the "seam" of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.

Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an extra mass of glaze has formed on the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.

Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. Form "carrots" from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). With two thumbs, press down the middle of the carrot and shape it into a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and then obliquely, apply veins. You can give the leaf any shape and bend it the way you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach from 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.

The Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out the kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, chopped orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place a cake decorated in the same style: fresh fruit over the glaze.

Easter glaze and decorative dusting

But they came up with modern way decorating Easter cakes, although in fact Easter glaze is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in powder form and beat with a mixer, whisk quickly and hardens better than just proteins with sugar.

Apply the icing to the tops of the cakes with a brush or spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkling immediately, it will get wet and melt.

And in a few minutes, when the icing on the cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the sprinkling will simply crumble from the frozen glaze!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkling to children - they really like this business! True, some of the sprinkling is eaten :)

But look at how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes using ordinary glaze and natural dyes!

Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines

You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, therefore it is better not to give them to small children.

Pasches decorated with sugar mastic figurines also look very original and beautiful - for example, such cute chickens. But, to be honest, you can't chew these figures ...

And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not recommend taking them for decoration! They are good only to look at, but the taste is very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for babies. So we'd better take ...

Sugar pencils!

An ingenious invention !!! Well done, the pastry chef who invented them! The process of decorating baked goods - cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint the paste like a paint! The set includes three pencils in different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint cakes with them with the whole family! Give the kids one cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!

Dough decoration

Two types of dough decorations

Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking or glued to an already baked cake with raw protein. Decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are made of dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.

If the cake is baked with decorations, grease the top with a beaten egg or vegetable oil... But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be poured with sugar syrup and even a fine powder can be applied over the syrup. Cover the gaps between the decorations with glaze, glue the nuts and candied fruits with squirrel.

For jewelry from butter dough:

• 150 g flour,
• 30 gr. margarine,
• 1 tbsp. l. sour cream,
• 20 gr. Sahara,
• 1 egg.

Perhaps you will be quite satisfied that the jewelry will have a crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then the decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on board one more decoration tip, which can be made from yeast, but not pastry. Gently, the prepared decorations are laid out on the already dispersed dough, smeared with an egg suspension, and the cake is sent for baking.

Of course, there is no comrade in taste and color. I like working with a special dough more, then the decorations are more airy and graceful. Ready-made decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they turn out to be very thin in comparison with jewelry made of yeast dough, then the decor attached to the Easter cake is enough to place in a hot oven for a few minutes to fix and create a light shade.

Simple dough- Flour, salt and water, knead dough and make decorations.

Cut out different flowers and leaves on the rolled dough:


For roses, you can use special recesses and collect them according to the type of mastic:


These are the blanks you can make while the cake fits:

Plungers with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, it doesn't matter. A variety of things can be done with scissors. Below is a photo of a lump unleavened dough... It is kneaded in water with the addition of vegetable oil for elasticity.

These are the decorations I got using plungers.

In this photo, in addition to roses, I came up with bunch of grapes... I just formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.

The dough that was laid out in the mold was spaced and fit well. Be sure to grease the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on the imagination and put the finished decorations on the dough. Now grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf, I made two bunches of grapes.

Yes, the yolk and white give a contrast to the base and decorations. When baked, the yolk gives Brown color and the protein remains light.

Decorated and in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

I hope you will choose a piece of jewelry you like. To make your Easter cake attractive and tasty!

Kulich is one of the important symbols of Easter, a good tradition that marks the onset of the main Christian holiday. You can buy it anywhere, but it is much more interesting (and there is nothing complicated in this) to bake it yourself. And you can also decorate the cake yourself - it is in this matter that you can give free rein to your culinary and aesthetic imagination.

10 best options Easter cake decorations at home are described in detail below.

Perhaps the easiest way to decorate Easter cakes. As a decoration, only powdered sugar is used - finely crushed sugar. The sprinkling contrasts beautifully against the background of the ruddy dough and cheers up.

Protein glaze

Another option for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands is to use protein glaze. It only needs 2 proteins and a glass of powdered sugar. Beat the whites and then gradually add the powder, without ceasing to beat. Then this mass is poured onto a cooled (but not cold) cake. Of course, you can additionally decorate the top with sprinkles.

ADVICE

If you add berry juice to this mixture (for example, based on raspberry jam), it will turn out to be more beautiful and tastier.

Confectionery sprinkles

Of course, the sprinkling itself is also a great way to decorate the cake with your own hands. In this case, it is better to purchase different options for decorative dressing so that you can get creative with this matter. And the technology is very simple: whipped proteins are added to the sprinkling (2 is enough). Then the mixture is applied with a spoon or brush.

Chocolate (glaze)

Of course, you can also decorate the cake with chocolate. It contrasts perfectly against a white background and also gives festive baked goods a pleasant flavor... And one more plus - you can make all sorts of drawings or inscriptions from melted chocolate, for example "ХВ", "Christ is risen" or "Easter 2018".

The recipe for decorating Easter cakes with chocolate glaze is very simple. We take an ordinary bar of chocolate (milk, bitter or white - this is already to taste), a couple of glasses of milk and half a glass of powdered sugar. Prepare a pot of boiling water, chop the chocolate into a container and melt it in a water bath. Therefore, we add milk and powder, mix and apply to the cake.

ADVICE

Chocolate can be used to decorate not only the baking surface, but also its edges - for example, in the form of curls or a net. You will get a kind of chocolate "packaging".

NOTE

The glaze is applied only to the cooled surface. Otherwise, it will melt and spread.

Dried fruits and candied fruits

Candied fruits are pieces of fruit or berries that are boiled in a concentrated sugar syrup... Thanks to this technology, delicious, beautiful and healthy sweets are obtained. Of course, they can also be used as decoration for homemade Easter cake. They are sprinkled on a protein glaze, which is essentially the basis of the decoration. You can also use mastic figures - for example, chickens or in the form of flowers.

NOTE

Candied fruits are usually large and fairly firm - it is better not to give them to very small children.

Nuts and seeds

This is original version jewelry - after all, it is not so common, but it looks modest and at the same time beautiful. It's no secret that flavor combination nuts and chocolate - one of the best in confectionery... Therefore, such a sprinkling on a bead can be used in combination with chocolate icing.

ADVICE

On chocolate glaze, along with seeds and nuts, you can also use powdered sugar with whipped proteins. With its help, they make various curls, serpentines and other patterns.

Fresh berries and fruits

And here is the original and at the same time useful way how to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands. Pieces of fresh fruits and berries look very beautiful and also create an excellent flavor combination. You can use a variety of fruits - raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, cranberries. At any time of the year, these berries are available at at least frozen.

And among the fruits you can take fresh slices peaches or apricots - thanks to their warm orange and red tones, they will literally "light up" the overall picture and create a festive mood. Pieces of fruit and berries can be sprinkled on both chocolate and protein-sugar icing - in any case, it will turn out very beautifully.

ADVICE

It will be great to decorate the top of the cake with a mint leaf or strawberry.

Sugar pencils

It's modern, original way Easter cake decorations. Sugar sticks are special syringes that contain a mixture of sugar and natural dyes... Of course, you can paint with them any surface - sugar or chocolate. This method is perhaps the most creative one. After all, creating an Easter drawing with your own hands will be interesting for everyone - both adults and children. And it is also very pleasant to give such pastries to relatives and friends.

Airy marshmallow

And this decorating method will surprise all guests, but above all - you. In any store you can buy airy marshmallows, which children love very much. Then the cake is smeared with a mixture of proteins and powder (or you can pour it with chocolate icing). Airy marshmallows decorate not only the surface, but also the baking walls. At first glance, perhaps no one will guess what kind of pastry they were served with tea.

Natural flowers

And this decoration option is for real romantics, connoisseurs of the art of serving. The edible component will, as always, be sugar-protein or chocolate icing. And as the decoration itself, you can take the petals of small roses, chamomile, petunia, thyme, oregano, cornflower and others.

Of course, all of these methods can be used in a wide variety of combinations. The decorating methods discussed are, rather, just ideas that are sure to lead you to more original thoughts.

Bon Appetit!

It is customary for believers to prepare for the coming of the Easter holiday in advance, having undergone the physical and spiritual cleansing of Great Lent. According to church tradition, on Holy Week, all household matters are to be completed - by the Bright Resurrection of Christ, each dwelling should sparkle with cleanliness. In addition, on Maundy Thursday, hostesses begin to bake Easter cakes and paint eggs, which are considered the main symbols of Easter. So, even at the New Testament Last Supper, Jesus Christ divided the bread into parts and distributed it to the disciples - as His Body and the remembrance of Him. Today Easter cake means the joy brought from God into our earthly life. Therefore, baking cakes should be started with pure thoughts and sincere prayers - this is the only way to make the festive baking tasty. However ready sweet bread need to be beautifully decorated by preparing a luxurious festive "outfit" from the simplest ingredients. How to decorate Easter cake with your own hands? In addition to the traditional white glaze, colored or chocolate fondant, mastic, decorative inscriptions and figurines from sweet dough can be prepared as decoration for Easter cakes. We bring to your attention step-by-step master classes with photos and videos on the creation of classic and "fashionable" unusual decorations for Easter cakes. With the help of our interesting ideas, you can decorate Easter cakes in an original way for the upcoming wonderful Easter holiday. We are sure that households and guests will appreciate your abilities and culinary talents!

How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands - a simple master class with step by step photos

Easter cake is a special sweet bread that is baked only once a year. It has long been stocked up for cake in advance the best flour, homemade eggs and other top quality ingredients. And now the ruddy fragrant Easter cakes are removed from the oven and cool down - it's time to start the festive decor! How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands? Today we will turn to the "classics" and master a simple master class on making protein-sugar glaze. Fill the cake with sweet icing, sprinkle it with confectionery colored sprinkles on top - an excellent Easter composition! With help step by step photos and detailed instructions even a novice cook can handle the master class.

Ingredients for the Easter cake decorating workshop:

• the protein of one egg
• icing sugar - 250 gr.
• lemon juice - 1 tsp

A step-by-step description of the DIY Easter cake decorating master class, with a photo:

How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands - a step-by-step master class

For many, baking Easter cakes is a good tradition. So, there are many recipes for delicious homemade cakes - with traditional simple ingredients and modern culinary "novelties". As a decoration for Easter cake, it is customary to use white or chocolate icing, candied fruits, dried fruits. Here, the imagination of the hostesses is truly limitless - especially since today in the store you can buy a variety of ready-made sets of "edible" decorations in the form of flowers, chickens or stars. How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands? We bring to your attention a step-by-step master class on decorating Easter cakes with delicious chocolate icing, which will add sweetness and an "elegant" festive look to any pastry product.

List of ingredients for decorating Easter cake:

• chocolate (milk, bitter or white) - 100 gr.
• icing sugar - 150 gr.
• butter - 50 gr.
• potato starch - 1 tsp
• milk - 6 - 7 tbsp. l.

How to decorate an Easter cake, step-by-step instructions for the master class:

1. Pour icing sugar into an enamel bowl or saucepan and pour milk into the same place. Stir and put on low heat.
2. When the milk boils, add the butter and chocolate pieces. We continue to cook and stir constantly the contents of the saucepan.
3. After the chocolate is completely dissolved, add the starch sifted through a sieve and mix thoroughly again. Perhaps the mixture will turn out to be a little liquid - in this case, you need to add a little starch.
4. Remove the container from the stove and wait for the sweet mass to cool slightly. Then, using a brush, apply the glaze to the cake and distribute it evenly over the surface. To decorate, sprinkle with grated chocolate or nuts on top - you get a beautiful Easter cake.

How to decorate Easter cake - an interesting decor master class

Decorating Easter cakes is an interesting and exciting activity in which children and other household members will take part with pleasure. After all, a cake decorated with colored or white glaze retains its taste qualities and also looks more festive and appetizing. How to decorate an Easter cake in an unusual way? On the eve of the Bright holiday of Easter, we have prepared an interesting master class on decorating a cake with milk fondant. Unlike a shiny, dense glaze, fondant is more liquid in consistency and does not always dry out to a solid state. Indeed, in addition to sugar, fondants are used to make additional ingredients and liquid components - water, milk. At our today's master class, we will prepare a delicate and aromatic fondant from milk, and then we will decorate the cake with this sweet mass. The finished fondant is simply poured onto the cooled cake and after a short time it freezes a little - just enough to preserve beautiful shape and taste.

Required ingredients for Easter cake decorating workshop:

• icing sugar - 1 glass
• milk - 2 tbsp. l.

The procedure for preparing milk fudge as an Easter cake decoration:

1. First, sift the icing sugar through a sieve into an enamel bowl or other convenient container for mixing the mass.
2. Milk for making fondant should be warmed up to 60 - 70 ° С - this should be done just before cooking.
3. In the sifted powder, we begin to introduce milk in portions, about 0.5 tablespoons at a time. While adding milk, do not stop grinding the sweet mixture - until you get a thick, smooth and homogeneous mass... When the fudge acquires these qualities, as well as fluidity, stop adding milk.
4. The finished milk fudge must be quickly applied to the cake. To do this, simply pour the mass from above - everything will spread over the top of the cake in the best way. If necessary, you can touch up the sweet "beauty" with a spoon or brush. When the milk fudge hardens, you will get an excellent "hat" for Easter cake - making such a decoration with your own hands is as easy as shelling pears!

How to decorate Easter cakes with mastic flowers - an interesting master class

Culinary mastic is a viscous plastic material for making "edible" decorative elements. So, mastic jewelry perfectly takes the desired shape and quickly hardens after processing by hand. As a result, real works of art are obtained - take at least the mastic cakes that are popular today, decorated with beautiful flowers, animal figurines and even characters of children's cartoons. Of course, you can buy ready-made pastry mastic at any grocery store. However, to decorate Easter cakes, it is better to cook mastic with your own hands - let the warmth of your hands remain in the product! We have selected an interesting master class on how to decorate Easter cakes with mastic flowers - beautiful and delicious roses. With the help of our tutorial, you will easily learn how to make stunning decorations for Easter cakes and other pastries.

We stock up on ingredients for a master class on decorating Easter cakes with mastic:

• powdered sugar - 250 gr.
• gelatin powder - 2 tsp.
• water - 6 tsp.
• glucose - 1 tsp.
• food colors of different colors

A step-by-step description of the master class on how to decorate an Easter cake with mastic:

1. Sift the icing sugar through a sieve into an enamel bowl. In another small container, set the gelatin to swell for 2 - 3 minutes, after adding water.
2. We place the container with the swollen gelatin in a water bath and stir gently, waiting for complete dissolution. Pour glucose into the gelatin - as a result, the liquid acquires some transparency.
3. In the sifted powder, we make a depression and pour the gelatin-glucose mixture there. Stir and place the mastic in a polyethylene bag, and then in an airtight container. After 3 - 4 hours, different decorations can be made from the mastic.
4. To make mastic roses, you need to tint some of the main material in different colors - red, green, pink, yellow. Do not forget to leave some white mastic, which we will need for the master class. It is better to store colored mastic in a plastic bag, taking out small portions for work - this way the material will remain soft and plastic for a long time.
5. We take a piece of mastic and sculpt a "carrot", which we put on the work surface. Then we "pinch off" portions of the colored mass and make identical balls - future rose petals. Sprinkle the table a little with powdered sugar and, with the help of a teaspoon, begin to knead the ball, giving it the shape of a petal. In this case, we make one end of the petal thinner and wider (top) than the other (bottom). Then the bottom of the petal should be moistened with water and wrapped around the "carrot" -base, forming the middle of the flower.
6. By a similar principle, we make the second petal, which we attach to the base in such a way as to hide the junction of the first petal. In total, you need to make and attach 5 - 6 petals to the "carrot", slightly bending back their upper parts - we imitate the "opened bud".
7. Leave the finished mastic rose to dry for 5 - 6 hours. Then we roll balls from the green mastic and use our fingers to give each a leaf shape. To apply "streaks" we make shallow cuts with a knife and also leave to dry.
8. We collect petals and leaves into bouquets of roses, and then decorate the Easter cake - in the form of mouth-watering flower arrangements made of mastic.

How to decorate Easter cakes in an unusual way - photos, ideas, video

Decorating Easter cakes allows you to show your culinary skills and creative fantasies. Here we will be happy to share with you interesting ideas with photos and videos of decorations for Easter cakes. We are sure that each of our options will make your Easter cakes even tastier and more beautiful!

Decorating Easter cakes with dried fruits

It is known that nuts, dried berries and fruits are a real storehouse of vitamins and microelements. You can decorate not only the surface of the cake with such useful natural “goodies”, but also add them to the dough. A great idea for decorating Easter cake!

We decorate Easter cakes with drawings and letters

For a cake with a glazed "cap", you can add as decorations different drawings and figures from confectionery sprinkles, marmalade, cream. Traditionally, Easter cakes are decorated with crosses, which are the main symbol of Christianity, as well as images of angels, apostles, churches and temples with domes. Many housewives put the letters "ХВ" on Easter cakes, which means "Christ is Risen".

Sugar pencils - a fashionable "novelty" for decorating Easter cakes

This option for decorating Easter cakes appeared relatively recently, but has already gained popularity - especially among children. Indeed, with the help of sugar pencils, you can draw on a kulich or a cupcake whatever your fantasy tells you. The set of this confectionery "miracle" contains pencils in three colors: red, green and yellow. Children and adults will be happy to paint with such pencils not only colored eggs, but also Easter cakes. Drawn flowers, lines, patterns or figures of your favorite cartoon characters - such images will decorate your Easter cakes in a matter of minutes.

Easter cake dough decorations

As a rule, for the manufacture of such decorations, you will need a part of the dough from which the cake was made. Braids, flowers, letters, crosses - such decorations are sculpted by hand and laid out on the cake just before baking. Then the finished cake must be greased with a beaten egg or vegetable oil. If Easter bread is decorated baked, decorative elements from the dough can be attached using raw egg white.

We decorate the cake with fresh berries and fruits

Of course, in spring fresh cherries and peaches are not affordable for everyone, but they can be successfully replaced with "artificial" ones - from gelatin. Try using molds to make gelatinous berries and fruits, and then decorate the Easter cake with them. Such a creative approach to decorating Easter cakes will not go unnoticed by your family and guests.

How to decorate Easter cake? We tried to collect on our pages the most interesting master classes with photos on decorating Easter cakes with our own hands: protein-sugar and chocolate icing, milk fondant, colored mastic. Take advantage of our original ideas and videos for making traditional and trendy Easter cake decorations - and the results will exceed your expectations. Delicious Easter cakes and joyful Easter!

Like everything on the Easter table, the frosting on the coulis has its own meaning. It symbolizes the pure thoughts of people who break bread together, renewal and purification. Sergey Knyazev, owner and general producer of the Knyazev holiday holding, said that in the Greek tradition, the cake decorates the cross as a symbol of Christ's victory over death. Among the Slavs, the glaze carries the semantic load - symbolizing the beginning of a new life.

Nowadays, not everyone remembers the sacred meaning of the components of the traditional Easter table. Eggs are dyed not only in red, cakes are decorated not only with white glaze. Various color options are used, chocolate, confectionery sprinkles are popular.

Yana Khurumova, producer of the ARFASOUND art project, said that its participants prepare cakes for every Easter, decorated with images of musical instruments painted with caramel.

How to make frosting

The most popular and easy to prepare protein glaze. It is made with protein, powdered sugar, a drop of lemon and a pinch of vanilla. Sergei Knyazev notes that consistency is important in its preparation: “You don’t need to throw all the ingredients into the mixer at once: first, beat the whites to a strong foam, then add powdered sugar or sugar, and at the very end - citric acid and vanillin. In this case, the icing will not be so liquid, since the sugar firmly grabs the proteins, and it will be more convenient to grease the cake with it. If you do not have a special brush for applying glaze, you can simply dip the top of the cake into freshly made cream, then let it drain for a couple of seconds and leave to dry. "

When to decorate Easter cake

You need to decorate the cake immediately after you have baked it and it has cooled down. By the way, you need to cool it very carefully. And slowly. Good way- wrap ready-made cakes in something and leave for three to four hours. After they have cooled, they can be decorated and stored until the holiday in a saucepan or wrapped in plastic wrap.

Decoration options

In the matter of decorating cakes, you are limited only by your imagination. You can go to the store and in the confectionery department to find a variety of colored sprinkles in the form of balls, shavings, pearls, and finally, multi-colored powder.

You can use raisins, candied fruits, nuts. Sergei Knyazev recommends decorating cakes with children. You can buy sugar mastic at a candy store and mold, like from plasticine, various figures from it. Or you can buy multicolored sugar pencils and paint white icing on the coulische.

Yana Khurumova suggests making decorative figurines from marzipan, for example, chickens look good. They will also look original on a kulich meringue.

Diet cake

Yana Khurumova's recipe, producer of the ARFASOUND art project

• 300 g oatmeal or buckwheat flour,
• 1 a glass of sugar,
• ½-1 glass of raisins, candied fruits and nuts,
• 3 eggs,
• 1 yolk,
• 200 ml of warm milk
• vanillin,
• 1 tsp baking powder,
• salt.

• 2 squirrels,
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice.

Step 1. Steam the raisins. Heat the milk. Chop the nuts.

Step 2. Grind eggs with sugar. Add flour, salt, baking powder to them.

Step 3. Add milk to the mixture, stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps.

Step 4. Add nuts, raisins and candied fruits to the dough. Mix.

Step 5. Cover the muffin molds with paper, pour 1/3 of the dough into them.

Step 6. Put the molds in the oven, heated to 200 degrees, and immediately reduce the temperature to 170.

Step 7. Bake until tender for about half an hour, when the dough sets, brush it with yolk.

Step 8. Turn off the oven and open the door. But do not take out the cakes, but let them stand for 10 minutes.

Step 9. Mix proteins, sugar and lemon juice. Beat everything in a water bath. This will make the cream lush and thick.

Step 10. When the cream is whipped into a thick foam, refrigerate for half an hour. To make it thicken.