Square cake: how to decorate with cream and mastic?

With the fact that the store muffins, gingerbread, cookies and cakes do not go with any comparison with homemade cakes, any will agree. Delicacy cooked at home, it turns out and tastier, and, we can say, "more soulful". And the process of making a sweet treat reminds one of a ritual action. Particularly fascinating is the final stage, when a beautiful and mouth-watering dessert is born from non-representative semi-finished products.

That's only with the decoration of home-made cake sometimes there are problems. Not everyone succeeds in decorating properly prepared delicious pastries. Especially often beginning homemade confectioners ask a question: how to decorate a square cake? Many choose this particular form for baking delicacies. But, making out the appearance of the treat, the masters face difficulties.

In this article, we will reflect on what kind of decorations for cakes are, how to decorate a square cake so that there are no unevenness and flaws on it, we will share recipes for delicious desserts.

Types of jewelry

The design of the cake is perhaps the most important moment in the process of self-preparation of dessert. To beautifully arrange a festive treat, it is not necessary to be a professional confectioner. This, perhaps, is under the power of everyone who has a great desire and is ready to learn and show care and patience. Decorate the cake in the home kitchen with:

• Cream;
• Meringues;
• Mastics;
• Aysing;
• jelly.

The most popular are decorations of confectionery products with the help of cream and mastic.

We decorate cake with cream

Cream decoration in the confectionery business is considered a classic. Many experts believe that it will never go out of fashion. The cream is suitable for making all kinds of desserts, and a square cake is no exception. It will turn out appetizing and attractive, if in its design it is used oil cream. This product is stable, it is able to keep the shape perfectly, does not spread and does not settle. Such cream can be prepared from condensed milk and butter heated to room temperature.

How to make a cream?

The butter is thoroughly beaten with a mixer until a lush mass is formed. Then, without fail, whisking, it gradually introduces condensed milk. The cream should be prepared based on: for 100 g butter cream - 5 tbsp. L. Condensed milk (can be used and boiled).

How to decorate a cake?

After the preparation of the cream, you can immediately begin to decorate our cake. To do this, stock up a special syringe or confectionery bag with detachable nozzles.

If you do not have neither one nor the other at hand, you should not get upset. You can take a regular sheet of paper in A4, fold it into a bag and cut the resulting point at an even angle. The resulting cornea should be firmly held in hands so that it does not turn around. In the middle of the cornea put the cream and begin to slightly press. The contents come out of the hole with a thin trickle. Depending on the imagination of the master with the help of this device on the surface of the cake, you can bring out various cream decorations: patterns, stripes, zigzags, flowers, circles, etc. Cream is easy to decorate cakes of any shape, including square ones. Align the cream on the surface of the product with a special spatula or an ordinary knife.

Square cakes from cream

Housewives are generously divided in the Web with recipes for preparing various cakes. Among them, attention is drawn to the enticing recipe and the original name for describing desserts, which are preferably baked in a square form: "Bird's Milk", "White Biscuit", "For Pavlik", "Lotus Flower", "Strawberry in Chocolate" etc.

Square cake

Dessert with this name is one of the popular treats, and, according to the authors of the reviews, it is quite simple to prepare. A soft, bright and delicious cake is the perfect dessert for an evening tea party. To prepare food, you need baking skills, perseverance and patience.

The square cake (photo in the article represents its appearance) is made from 6 chicken proteins, 80 g of sugar, 90 g of flour, 10 g of vanilla sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 100 g of butter, 1 tbsp. Spoons of cocoa, 2 yolks, 2 tbsp. Spoons of poppy seeds, 100 g of cherry jelly, 400 g of vanilla cottage cheese curd, packing of jelly (kiwi, raspberry, cherry or lemon).

First, sugar and vanilla, flour, baking powder and melted butter are added to the whipped protein. The mixture is stirred and divided into four parts. In the first you should add 2 yolks, 1 tbsp. A spoonful of flour and stir until smooth. In the second add cherry jelly, in the third - cocoa, in the fourth - poppy and also stir. Prepare a baking dish. Gently pour into it alternately each type of test for 2 tbsp. Spoons. Then quickly mix the dough clockwise with the spoon. Bake should be made within 45 minutes, using a temperature of 180 degrees.

The cooled biscuit is cut into two parts, one of them is put in a mold. Then the souffle is prepared. A packet of cherry jelly is dissolved in a glass of boiled water and poured into a bowl with whipped sweet curds. The prepared soufflé should be smeared over the surface of the cake. A second piece of biscuit is placed on top of it. The surface of the cake can be decorated with butter cream and berries. The product should be kept in the refrigerator for 6 hours.

How to make mastic?

An excellent alternative to cream decorations is confectionery mastic. Consistency of mastic is similar to plasticine, you can fashion any jewelry from it; Leaves, flowers, figurines, etc. Confectionery mastic can be purchased at the store, but it is not difficult to cook it yourself.

This will require condensed and dried milk, as well as powdered sugar. These ingredients are combined in equal proportions, after which, like a test, they masticate the mastic, from which you can then sculpt everything you want. It should be remembered that this material can dry up and harden quite quickly. Therefore, experts recommend that in the process of working, cover the mastic with food film. In addition, it should not cover the entire surface of the product.

It should also be remembered that excessively bulky decorations have the ability to crack. Color the mastic in the same way as the oil cream, and roll it on a food film sprinkled with powdered sugar.

We decorate cake with mastic

This material can decorate the surface of any cake, no matter what shape it is. A square cake made of mastic is easy to make. The fruit cake should first be covered with marzipan. Biscuit can be covered with a sweet immediately, but you must first lubricate its surface with cream or glaze. Stages:

• The surface of the fruit marzipan covered cake is moistened with cold water or strong alcohol (you can use gin or vodka). Biscuit cake should be coated with glaze or covered with cream.
• Then you need to mash the fondant to soften it and increase the plasticity. On the smooth, smooth surface of the cake you can lay the mastic.
• The surface of the top of the cake and the height of the sides should be measured, add a gap of about 2.5 cm. Sweet sheet to roll up to the desired size. The thickness of the sheet should be 5 mm. To ensure that it does not stick to the working table, it must be constantly turned over and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
• Sheet of mastic should be polished with the palm of your hand to remove from it all irregularities and adhering sugar. It must be ensured that there is no air bubbles inside the fudge.
• Using a rolling-pin, follow the sheet of mastic, raise it with the edge to the edge of the cake, and then turn to the opposite edge of the cake through its upper surface.
• The top part of the cake should be smoothed palm from the center to the edges. This is necessary to prevent the appearance of air bubbles between the mastic coating and the surface of the cake.
• Then go to the sides of the product and gently smoothen the mastic on them. When folds appear, you must gently lift the mastic cover and again gently press it to the sides of the cake.
• From top to bottom it is necessary to smooth the mastic, achieving a smooth and smooth surface. You can use this with a special shovel.
• Then knife should be cut off excess mastic at the base of the product, giving it the correct square shape.

Conclusion

It is also quite easy to decorate a cake with meringue, aysing, jelly, etc. The presence of an original, bright cake design is especially important if it is intended for a children's holiday. But we must not forget that in any case, first of all, taste is appreciated in taste.