How to decorate a cake at home?

There are several options for how to decorate a pie: you can use fruits and berries - and then you will get a wonderful summer treat. You can make jewelry from dough to make a real loaf. You can even try to use mastic or glaze as on the cake - only you need to know the measure.

Decorate not only sweet pies and desserts. In America, for Thanksgiving, the hostess thinks about how to decorate a cake with a pumpkin or meat - a traditional dish on the table. Often baked pies with cabbage - pies, and so their edges or incision in the middle is also decorated with modeling.

Fruit decoration

This option is good for a dessert with apples or plums stuffing, custard or cheese. You need to take bananas, apples or oranges and cut into slices. Prepare also diluted gelatin with fruit filling (it is easier to buy raspberry or strawberry jelly in the store and dilute it in specified proportions). Before you decorate the cake, pick a beautiful ornament of fruits: they can be laid out in layers, densely placing the rings to each other. Top with little berries - cut in half strawberries and raspberries, cranberries and currants. Fill it all with jellies so that the mass does not go beyond the previously dipped edges of the dough. Put the cake in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. You can sprinkle sugar powder on top.

Decoration with dried fruits

Actually, thinking how to decorate a pie, many housewives all the same try to do with improvised means: suddenly kiwi or oranges are not bought - but poppy or sugar powder should somewhere to lie around. To help come cut out in advance from cardboard or bought stencils. Using them, powder or poppy can be painted on the cream. For pies always sour cream, less often - oil and based on condensed milk. You can also make a glaze made of whipped with sugar and citric acid protein.

Dough decoration (mesh)

Probably, such decoration of pies from thin strips of dough was invented in order to prevent "leaving" the filling when baking. It turns out a beautiful fruit basket.

In advance, roll the dough. Divide it into two layers - bigger and smaller. The most part we start on the pie - let it be something like a "dish" with sides, inside which we put fruit and cream. Short or short ginger dough is suitable.

The part that is smaller, cut into thin long strips, preferably with a knife-sawto make beautiful jagged edges. Lay parallel strips on the pie, and on top - perpendicular to them exactly the same layer of strips. The trick is to lift the lower ones and "weave" them with a grid on the pie. By the way, under the stripes you can put instead of fruits - nuts and M & M's. Such decorations of pies and capkakes are very popular in America.

As for the edges of the cake - they need to be topped up and apply patterns with a fork or knife. And you can still work a little and braid with thin slivers of dough pie pigtail along the rim. The main thing - before you send it to the oven, grease it with butter, to get a characteristic blush and a crispy crust.