Tool for mastic6 create sweet masterpieces!

Cakes from mastic have been at the peak of popularity for several years now. They are suitable for both home tea drinking and celebrating various celebrations: anniversaries, weddings, children's parties and so on. We suggest you to find out what confectioners use a mastic tool and whether it can be used at home.

What is mastic?

Mastic is a decorative material based on powdered sugar. It has unique properties, which confectioners appreciate so much: plasticity and ability to keep the necessary shape. Thanks to this, you can create any products and decorations for cakes, pastries and cakes. Ready-made crafts do not fall off and do not change their shape during transportation and while waiting for the sweet. In skillful hands of mastic, such decorations for desserts as flowers, butterflies, various figures of people, animals and fairy-tale characters are created. Also with the help of this material, you can turn ordinary biscuit into a work of art, just by forming a typewriter, a bear or other object from it.

Confectionery tools

There are a lot of tools for working with mastic. This includes rolls (it is convenient to roll pancake), figured knives and cutters (help make beautiful edges), ironing (allows to smooth the ball of mastic).

The tool for mastic, which occupies almost the main place in the list, is a set of stacks with figured tips. As a rule, it includes the following modeling sticks:

• Tool for mastic in the form of a ball. Helps make leaves and petals, allows you to bend the details into the desired shape and thin the edges. Also with its help it is easy to create waves, to determine the place of the eye cavities (if it is a figure of a man, an animal or a fairy-tale hero) and other rounded forms.
• Stack-bone. Performs the same functions as the previous tool. But it is necessary during the creation of smaller details.
• Dresden's tool for mastic. Has flat ends that help to draw veins, lines, emphasize individual details. The stack can also be used during the smoothing of the small parts of the figure.
• Stack with a tip in the form of a cone. Ideal tool for creating deep and narrow holes. For example, the heart of flowers.
• Stack in the form of an asterisk. Used when creating flowers and applying patterns.
• Tool for mastic - groove. It has the shape of a scapula with notches. They are comfortable drawing smiles or applying hatching.
• Shell. With its help you can make shells and apply patterns.
• Stack-wheel. Used when cutting very small parts.
• Stack the needle. Suitable for drawing fine lines, making deep grooves and so on.

Cuttings

Work with mastic is almost impossible without tools such as cutting down. They resemble shapes to create curly cookies, but they work a little differently. With their help, you can press on the sheet of mastic flowers, figurines, leaves and so on. There are a lot of forms. Therefore, you can easily find yourself suitable. The standard is to cut down roses, chamomiles, gerberas, ivy leaves and roses, butterflies, hearts. Also there are forms for ruche.