New Year's cake figures made from mastic. Ideas on how to decorate a cake for the New Year with your own hands: photo

New Year's cake is something new; previously, tangerines, sweets and cakes were served for sweets, but not whole cake. Traditions are gradually changing, new things are added, old things are removed. True, the people’s love for Olivier will not go away, but New Year’s cakes made from mastic have appeared. Those who are not too familiar with the art of baking buy ready-made New Year, others try to make it at home, rightly believing that it tastes better homemade baked goods there is nothing. You can make it for the New Year.

What is important to know about cake decorating

Do you want to serve something special for the New Year? True, housewives usually don’t have enough energy for dessert, because how many salads and appetizers need to be prepared, and even hot! There are a thousand and one recipes for a new salad spinning in my head, a desire to surprise and please family, to move away from boring traditions... and few even from experienced housewives knows how to bake a mastic cake. Most will even hear the word “mastic” for the first time.

What factors determine a delicious and desirable cake? That's right, the filling and the appearance. True, homemade sweet cakes most often look quite simple. The shape can even be a little lopsided, the cakes are uneven, the decorations on the outside are very simple. Of course, this does not affect the appearance in any way and the family will happily gobble it all up, especially when they taste the filling. But trying new recipe for a New Year's cake, why not expand your knowledge in this matter? Start with decoration. If your cakes already turn out delicious, then you need to work harder on their aesthetic appearance.

Don’t make the figures or patterns too bold - after all, your goal is to ensure that the cake is completely eaten, like everything else on the table except it. However, in addition to sweets, the table is full of fatty, heavy food flavored with mayonnaise. And decorations are usually eaten separately from the piece itself, they are not eaten by the crust. Therefore, there is no need to be overzealous with mastic or fatty cream.

To make your jewelry beautiful and meaningful, practice in advance. December 31st will be a day full of hassle and running around; there will definitely not be time to master new technology.

Basic rules for decoration

When expecting small children or elderly people to visit, do not get carried away with artificial colors. There are already enough of them in store-bought juices and other store-bought products. Use natural ways to add color. For example, berry juice.

When learning a new or tested recipe, keep an eye on the shape of the finished product. It should stand firmly on the plate, not wobble when worn, and the decoration should hold securely. To avoid getting caught during transportation or cutting sweets.

Once you've chosen an image for inspiration, don't try to recreate it exactly. The best decorations are created only according to their own thoughts. And most of the pictures are made from models made using professional equipment by high-class chefs.

Don't be too upset when you get some kind of design error. You can always hide it with new parts or by turning it into a different shape.

Cake decoration options

Any cook knows several ways to decorate his home, but remember that the coming 2017 will be the year of the Rooster; the symbol has its own preferences. Like any bird, the rooster loves seeds with nuts and popcorn. If there is nothing like this inside or outside the cake, then the product itself can be made in the desired shape.

Option 1 – marzipan splendor

To respect the rooster and remind your family whose year is coming, you can make a bird figurine from marzipan. She has simple form, which does not require special talents of a sculptor. Marzipan itself is a plastic almond paste that comes in several colors. Working with it is reminiscent of modeling plasticine. Ready-made marzipan is sold in stores. Buy the colors you need for decoration. Cockerels come in brown, pink, red, and blue.

On New Year's Day it is customary to remember family values. Therefore, depict the cockerel surrounded by family, if the space on the cake allows. A teardrop-shaped body, then we sculpt a head from a ball. Marzipan cakes go on the tail with wings, and the tip of a knife can be used to cut through small details. Like feathers or a comb added from the red shade.

Both the beak and beard will be red. The eyes are made from dye. We sculpt a chicken in the same way, only it does not have a beard, and the comb has a different shape. The colors of the chickens are also calmer, maybe even the whole body is the same color. And the chicks are generally made up of nothing but round animals with small wings.

Option 2 – chocolate

For the New Year, chocolate decorations can be relevant. To make the cake different from the usual ones purchased for birthdays, make chocolate figures associated specifically with winter motifs. You will need a pastry bag, these are sold in stores and several tiles regular chocolate, better even than bitter. Let it create a contrast with sweet filling cake. First melt the chocolate in a small saucepan until liquid, making sure there are no lumps left.

Then, using the bag, you can draw various openwork Christmas trees or snowflakes, drifts of snow or houses. After the chocolate hardens, the figures harden and can stand on their own.

To preserve the figures, decorate the cake already cut. You only need to decorate anyway ready product. White chocolate will create the image of real “snow”, and dark chocolate will create beautiful spruce trees.

Option 3 – sugar elements

A good option for beginners who have recently mastered their first recipe complex cake and are just trying their hand. After all, everyone wants something special. Confectionery shops offer not only ready-made pastries or cakes. Here you can buy equipment for home experiments - pastry bags, molds, but also ready-made figures that you can eat.

Most are made from sugar. These are beads or snowflakes, leaves and stars. Choose a few pieces and draw the plot yourself. There is nothing wrong with it, because you made the cake yourself. You can then post it with a photo on your social network page as a memory of a successful experiment. The cake will turn out beautiful, just like from the store. And delicious, home-style.

Option 4 - fruit variety

There is more than one recipe for light, fruity cakes with... dietary filling. They are useful not only for those losing weight, but also for children. When the dessert has a fruit filling, you can also make the decoration from pieces of fruit. If you want to preserve the New Year's motif, lay out kiwi figures of fir trees, the berries will become toys. Or strawberry snowmen against a background of snow caps made of light cream. Tasty, beautiful and most importantly – healthy. This cake immediately invites him to eat it!

Option 5 – powdered sugar

Suitable for those who do not want to pile up the top of the product with various sweets. Let the cake retain its uniform integrity of shape, and let there be some kind of decoration on top, just not voluminous. Powdered sugar suits everyone:

• It’s easy to get – any cook preparing to bake a cake will have powdered sugar in their arsenal. If not, it's easy to buy;
• it is easy to use - such decorations are accessible to absolutely everyone, even child helpers;
• it is sweet, crumbly, and does not create voluminous decorations.

First, select a few interesting figures, just be guided by their silhouette, so that from the outside you can immediately see what they are. Use winter motifs - tree, Christmas tree, house. Then, cut out a figure from a piece of thick cardboard and attach it to the surface of the finished cake.

Now all that remains is to sprinkle the product with powder and... remove the stencil. All! Underneath there will be a clean area with a beautiful and mysterious outline of the figure. In this way, you can not just decorate one place, but draw entire scenes.

Option 6 – mastering mastic

Mastic is a sweet material with a plastic consistency that easily lends itself to effort. The mastic cake amazes with its variety and intricacy of shapes. Dyes give the mastic the desired shade and degree of brightness. Can be purchased ready-made mastic in the near future candy store, or do it yourself.

Mastic recipe - if you make it on a marshmallow base, it will be easy to work with, quickly prepared, painted evenly and easily takes any desired shape. Perfect option for beginners who also want to learn how to make mastic.

What you will need:

Marshmallow Marshmallow (special) – 100 g;
cup powdered sugar;
plain water– 3 tablespoons;
butter-1 tbsp.

Preparation:

Cut marshmallows into small pieces, then fill with water and leave in a water bath. Gradually the marshmallow will dissolve. After waiting for some time, add oil there. Wait until the marshmallows turn into a homogeneous, medium-liquid mass, remove the saucepan from the heat. Now you need to add powdered sugar and mix thoroughly without stopping. When the spoon gets stuck, mix with your hands.
The finished mastic resembles an elastic, tight dough and will indicate readiness when it stops sticking to the hands stirring it.

Now you can sculpt various decorations, figurines. The main color is white, perfect for winter New Year's motifs. Dyes will help dilute it, giving it brightness. But if you are not a fan of artificial, take natural sources bright colors– fruit juices, for example, or berries.

Gelatin mastic

What you will need:

Gelatin (easily purchased in the store) – 10 g (one pack);
water - 2 tablespoons;
lemon juice– 1 m spoon;
powdered sugar - approximately 500 g.

Preparation:

First, pour the gelatin into a small bowl, add water, and let it sit for 20 minutes. Then heat, stirring, without increasing the heat, until it is all dissolved. Stir the mixture so as not to miss the boiling point.

Pour 250 g (half) of powdered sugar directly onto the table or flat plate, form a mound and a small depression in it. Pour lemon juice into the latter, then the dissolved gelatin and knead the mastic, adding the remaining amount of powder gradually.

Stir slowly until the mixture reaches homogeneity. Then wrap it in film and let it stand in the cold in the refrigerator. It is easier to make different figures and other decorations from gelatin.

Milk mastic

A universal option. Suitable for covering, creating three-dimensional figures, flat decorations.

What you will need:

Milk, dry only – 180 g;
regular condensed milk – a whole jar;
powdered sugar – up to 180 g;
lemon juice - 1 m spoon

Preparation:

First, combine powdered sugar with milk powder, then add juice and mix. Then gradually add condensed milk there, stirring regularly so that the mass does not become homogeneous. Watch the consistency. If the mastic crumbles, add more juice and stir.

If there is a catastrophic lack of time for production homemade mastic, get some from the store. In addition to ready-made pastries and pies, large confectionery shops also sell various items related to making homemade cakes. It is convenient and such mastic is not much inferior to homemade, especially for inexperienced housewives.

First master the technique of decorating your cake, then expand your knowledge. A homemade cake will give a head start to any store-bought one, because it has soul and homemade ingredients. And if there are cute figures on top of it, then you definitely won’t be left indifferent, especially children. They love to start dessert by eating the figurines.

New Year's holidays are not complete without sweet treats. Enjoy delicious dessert no one is away. The main thing is that the cake is not greasy, and leaves a pleasant impression not only of taste, but also of appearance. New Year's cakes made from mastic are always welcome decorations on the New Year's table.

How to work with mastic

Many housewives are afraid to work with mastic and doubt their abilities, and when a holiday comes they want to try making this wonderful decoration with their own hands, or, as a last resort, buy a ready-made one. For the New Year, you should try your hand at covering the cake with fondant. At the initial stage, you need to watch master classes several times, follow the recipe and rules, and then success will be guaranteed.

You need to bake a New Year's cake according to your wishes. You can choose absolutely any shape, you can also choose the cakes at your discretion.

The dessert is assembled according to plan, leveled and placed under something heavy in the refrigerator. This is necessary so that it does not sag at the moment when the mastic is already applied;

After this, you need to check the cake for any irregularities and, if possible, correct them.

The next step is to cook the cream for the mastic. The recipe for this cream is incredibly easy to make. Two hundred grams of high fat oil and best quality Beat thoroughly with a mixer until creamy, then add half a can of boiled condensed milk to the butter. This cream will allow the mastic to lie evenly on a DIY cake;

The cake is put back into the refrigerator to harden;

Heat the spatula for applying the cream over the fire and begin to smooth the cream on the cake. A hot spatula will allow the butter to melt and fill any uneven areas;

Place the cake in the refrigerator again for about one hour;

You need to level the cake until it becomes perfectly even;

It's time to cover your New Year's cake with fondant;

Mastic recipe: 200 grams of chewing marshmallows, two tablespoons of water and powdered sugar, as much as the mastic will take. Melt marshmallows in any convenient way for thirty seconds.

It is necessary to take into account that marshmallows greatly increase in size, so you need to take deep dishes. You need to add water, coloring to the melted chewing marshmallows and start adding powdered sugar. First you need to stir with a spoon, then knead with your hands until the mastic sticks to your hands. In consistency it should resemble plasticine, but at the same time not be very rough, but it still needs to be rolled out thinly;


The rolled mastic to a thickness of 1.5 mm must be smoothed well so that it is smooth, without tubercles and of the same thickness;

After rolling out, the fondant is transferred to the cake and cut around the edge of the cake with a pizza cutter;


For a perfectly flat surface, you can use a double mastic iron, which is very convenient to work with;


The mastic cake is ready.

Sponge cake as a base for mastic

They love biscuit a large number of people, and baking a cake with mastic for the New Year is a great idea.


For those who don't know the recipe classic sponge cake it is given below with a photo:

• 4 eggs;
• A glass of flour;
• A glass of sugar;
• Vanilla on the tip of a knife;
• Baking powder (optional) half a teaspoon.

Cooking method:

Beat the whites in a completely dry and clean bowl with a mixer with the addition of a pinch of salt. Beat the whites for five to ten minutes using a mixer. After the formation of white thick foam you need to start adding sugar gradually. It is necessary to stop beating the whites when, when turning the bowl over for whipping, the whites will not flow out of it, and if you run a spoon over them, a mark will remain;


The next step is to beat the yolks. You need to beat them until they begin to change color and become fluffy. About three or four minutes. Combine the whites with the yolks very carefully, stirring with a spatula from top to bottom. This is necessary so that the whites do not settle and lose their splendor;


The next step is to add sifted flour with baking powder and vanillin. You need to add it gradually, also mixing from top to bottom;


The finished dough is sent to an oven preheated to 180 degrees. The form must be covered parchment paper and its bottom must be lubricated with oil. The biscuit is baked for 30 minutes. At the same time, you cannot open the oven; you also cannot knock or shake the floor, as the dough may fall. The finished biscuit is cooled until completely cool.

For the New Year, such a cake can be covered with special mastic.

Recipe for this mastic:

• 400 grams of powdered sugar;
• Two tablespoons of honey;
• Two tablespoons of high-fat butter;
• A packet of gelatin;
• 6 tablespoons of water.

Cooking method:

Dissolve gelatin in water;

We wait until the gelatin cools to room temperature;

Add honey mixed with butter. We quickly bring all this to a homogeneous state, add dye if desired;

Add powdered sugar in parts without ceasing to knead;

Knead until firm but elastic.

The mastic is rolled out thinly and transferred to the prepared cake, previously greased with cream.

You can make beautiful New Year figures from the leftover mastic. It can be:

• Christmas trees;
• Snowflakes;
• New Year's toys;
• Fairy tale characters;
• Animals;
• Present;
• And so on.

Cake in the shape of a New Year's toy

Decorating with toys for the New Year is very popular and always looks beautiful. This beauty can be repeated for the New Year by making a mastic cake in the form of a festive toy.

Cake recipe:

• A can of condensed whole milk;
• Three glasses of flour;
• One egg;
• Half a teaspoon of soda quenched with vinegar.

Cooking method:

Condensed milk must be mixed with slaked soda and vinegar. Beat in the egg, mix well. Start adding sifted flour, stirring constantly. Place the dough on the table and start kneading it. From ready dough form eight cake layers.

Roll out the cakes quite thin. Cakes must have round shape. The cakes must be baked in the oven or in a frying pan or on the stove. Bake until done, 4-5 minutes. The cakes bake faster in a frying pan, and they need to be baked on both sides.

Immediately after the cake is removed, it must be cut according to required form. This is necessary because the dough could grow during baking. Ready-made cakes you need to soak it in syrup (water with sugar) and grease it with cream. Perfect for this cake cream will do from condensed milk and butter (200 grams of butter per 500 grams of condensed milk). The cream must be thoroughly whipped. You need to start whipping with butter, gradually adding condensed milk.


The cake must be perfectly leveled and held under pressure so that it does not sag before covering with mastic. It is also necessary to apply cream under the mastic, so the sides and top of the cake must be perfectly and evenly greased. The finished honey mastic needs to be applied beautifully. From the remains of the mastic you need to make a toy hook. The top of the cake can be decorated with various patterns, ornaments, or pictures.
Cake in the form New Year's toys ready.

Cake with fondant decorated with snowflakes

Cake made from sponge or honey cakes it is necessary to collect, grease with cream prepared at your discretion and prepare for applying mastic. Preparation consists of leveling the cake, giving it an even shape. The cake is smeared chocolate butter. This is important because it determines how evenly the mastic will cover the entire surface of the cake. The mastic should be painted blue and decorated with snowflakes made from sugar on top. Such decorative elements can be bought in confectionery stores.

Cake in the shape of a glowing house

This cake will take a long time, but the effect will be great. The house can be made two-tiered. With windows, a roof covered in snow and a garland around the perimeter of the house. LEDs will act as a garland. You will need to bring such a cake into the room with the lights off so that everyone can see it. wonderful cake and appreciate the efforts of the hostess who prepared it. You can decorate a glowing house with a Christmas tree and a snowman near the yard, a beautiful fence and paintings on glowing windows. LEDs make your home feel warm, cozy and real. It will be a pity, there is such a miracle, because the owner tried a lot and spent a lot of effort on such a masterpiece.


If the mastic does not lay down smoothly enough and the appearance is not what was expected, you can correct the situation by applying mastic decor. You can decorate the cake:

• Christmas toys,
• characters of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden;
• Miniature Christmas trees;
• Snowflakes;
• Frosty pattern;

Ready-made stamps are used to make mastic. The mastic is filled into the stamp and a finished figurine, or stucco, is obtained. To ensure that the figures and stucco have a mirror shine, they are lubricated with vodka and honey diluted one to one. This coating will protect the product from drying out and significantly improve its appearance.

If you don’t want to use food coloring, you can get by with natural juices: beetroot, carrot, cherry. The mastic must be thoroughly mixed so that the color is distributed throughout the entire mass.

Conclusion

Whatever decor, color and decoration option you choose, a homemade cake is always tastier, better quality and more attractive than a store-bought one. And the efforts of the hostess will always be appreciated.

The New Year has long been unimaginable without bright and colorful decorations. Everything is decorated - from the walls and the New Year tree to holiday dishes and desserts. Eg, new year cake very easy to decorate with colorful fondant.

In fact, mastic is a thick colored cream that is used to cover confectionery products. It hardens quickly, so you can sculpt various figures from it. Want to make your cake unique? Then check out our cake decorating ideas and learn how to work with fondant. By the way, to prepare it you need simple products, which are available in any supermarket!

Mastic recipe

1. In dishes for microwave oven Lay out marshmallows, pour over juice or water, add butter.
2. In the microwave, the resulting mixture is heated at maximum power. The marshmallows should expand in volume and melt slightly. If you don’t have a microwave, you can heat the marshmallows in the oven or in a water bath.
3. If desired, dye of the desired color is added to the melted marshmallow. The resulting mixture is gradually sprinkled with powdered sugar and stirred.
4. When it becomes difficult to stir with a spoon, the mass is laid out on the table and kneaded with your hands, but at the same time sprinkled with powder all the time. The mastic will be ready when the mass stops sticking to your hands.

How to work with mastic?

Mastic provides ample opportunities for modeling decorations and coverings, including New Year's ones. Firstly, you can completely “wrap” the cake with mastic, giving its surface a glossy smoothness. To do this, you need to roll out the mastic well so that its area is 1.5-2 times larger than the surface of the cake.

After this, you need to transfer the mastic layer onto the cake using a rolling pin. Now carefully smooth the top and sides with a special mastic iron or improvised means (for example, a spatula), giving the coating a glossy finish. Usually the excess mastic is cut off. Alternatively, you can form a pleated “skirt” at the edge of the cake, and then cut off the desired length.

Another culinary secret– openwork patterns are cut out of plastic (for example, the same snowflakes). These patterns are used to slightly press the surface of the mastic, creating an openwork weave on its surface. Decorating a cake requires a flight of fancy, so just give yourself over to the New Year's mood and create your own culinary masterpieces! Perhaps ours will help you with this New Year photo ideas:

8 Reviews

I agree with Svetlana, it really looks very unusual and festive! Ideal for decorating both New Year's cakes and pastries, and for similar baked goods for birthdays, name days, and so on.
There are quite a lot of recipes on the Internet for making mastic; I tried a lot, but none of the recipes worked. I should also try this recipe above...
The cakes in the pictures are simply gorgeous! So different, unusual, just super! I need to try doing something like this. And how many cake ideas are there on the Internet!
Snowflakes and gift wrappers with bows are just like life! Something incredible!

Svetlana

The fondant on the cakes looks wonderful! Has anyone already tried this? I have doubts that the marshmallows will melt and not look like plastic... Maybe there is a recipe from natural products?

• Anastasia

  Oh, they write a lot of things now, especially for the holidays there are always a lot of recipes. Search the Internet and you will find a suitable mastic. I made it from marshmallows and just powdered milk. I liked the second option more in terms of taste and how well it fits on either a cake or a cookie. We take powdered milk, powdered sugar in the same quantity and condensed milk for viscosity. Then we knead all this goodness, and we get a cool milk mastic. If you need color, then a drop of food coloring, sometimes even juice from vegetables such as beets or carrots is suitable. Figures are also molded from it, do not spread and dry quickly. Marmalade has a different taste, depending on the manufacturer.

  Mariska

  I tried to make mastic at home, but I did everything completely myself, starting with marshmallows (i.e. I also made marshmallows myself), but I couldn’t find the dye, so I had a big one white cake, decorated with flowers. When my husband came home from work, he was stunned, in honor of what holiday, I bought a cake, and it was an ordinary honey cake, on which I decided to practice. Therefore, you can safely decorate cakes at home yourself, and it will turn out no worse than in the store, even much better, if you try a little! Good luck everyone holiday decorations cakes and pies, the main thing in this matter is great imagination!

  Christina

  I made mastic according to this recipe. At first I was also surprised that marshmallows were used to create it, but when I got this edible plasticine, all doubts disappeared. I make a very ordinary sponge cake, coat it with condensed milk cream and butter, and then cover it with an even layer of mastic. I make the remaining mastic colored using food coloring and make decorations for the cake - flowers, leaves, etc. depending on the holiday. It turns out very stylish and modern. It's easier, more interesting and cheaper than buying ready-made mastic in a store. And if you cook with children, it’s practically modeling from plasticine – double the benefits!

  Tatiana

  Great. I didn't know such a recipe. Thank you for introducing me. I have a little granddaughter who will be very interested in having such a wonderful confectionery product on the table. And the Christmas tree is so relevant. A cake house with an open door is something. I have to try, but I'm afraid I won't succeed. Although, in any case, it’s not a house, so I’ll build something simpler. The main thing is to learn how to make the mastic itself and create from it, and gradually experience will come. Then, maybe I’ll make cakes no worse than yours presented here, and make my granddaughter happy. And enjoy your works yourself.

  Anna

  Great decoration for birthday cake, truly a fabulous, original splendor, which will certainly not leave anyone indifferent to the New Year's mouth-watering masterpiece! This work looks very sophisticated, elegant and at the same time very bright, solemn, for sure, to make such extraordinary beauty, you need to make a lot of effort and be patient! Well, you certainly can’t do without creative imagination! The idea is simply wonderful and has not yet been tried for me! I will definitely try to reproduce this miracle, because the holidays are ahead of us!

The long-awaited family holiday - New Year - is approaching. People are busy decorating the interior of houses and apartments, buying gifts and beautiful holiday clothes. Preparations for the holiday are in full swing, it’s time to think and draw up New Year's menu. Special attention should be devoted to desserts and baked goods. I want to please and surprise my loved ones and friends unusual performance sweet dishes (cakes, cookies). All ordinary cakes with light hand housewives turn into New Year's ones. Homemade cakes are decorated with New Year's symbols using different ingredients And different ways (sour cream or cream from a mixture of butter and condensed milk, elements with mastic, pieces of chocolate and fruit) or made into shapes - in the shape of a Christmas tree, a snowman, Santa Claus or an attribute of the coming year (in 2017 it is a rooster). You need to try to decorate New Year's mastic cakes using simple but quality products.

Mastic confectionery

Marzipan is another name for it.

Marzipan figures
Snowmen (suitable for decorating cakes, pastries, cupcakes).

To make it you need:

Mastic
Food dyes
Sharp knife for decorating snowman parts
Special food glue.




Take mastic white, roll balls of different sizes, make a stable base for the largest ball (flatten it a little). Rolls sausages for the snowman's hands. We take black mastic, make small balls to decorate the mouth, and use orange mastic for the carrot nose. Then, using edible glue, we connect the body elements. We decorate the snowman's head with eyes, a mouth made of black mastic, and a carrot nose made of orange. We make flagella from mastic of different colors, then intertwine them with each other - we get a scarf, glue it to the snowman. You can make funny headphones: we make two flat cakes and one flagellum from blue mastic and attach them to the head. The mastic snowman-music lover is ready!




The symbol of the coming year is the rooster, so its figurines are popular, or you can make a whole family. For production, we also take ready-made mastic, food coloring and glue, and a cutter for decorating parts. First, we sculpt the body in the shape of a drop, then roll a ball for the head. We make wings with a tail from flat cakes (roll a ball, flatten it), and use a cutter to make cuts on the wings, shaping the feathers. We make a comb with a beard from red mastic, a beak from black marzipan. We connect all the details, draw the eyes with black dye. By analogy we make chicken and chicks.

Cake framing




Using mastic, you get an even coating on the top of the cake and its side surfaces. Before you start decorating the New Year's cake with mastic, you need to get rid of any unevenness, if any. Before applying the mastic, it is rolled out to 5 mm. You need to make the mastic coating with care, trying to avoid the formation of folds, and cut off the excess. The presence of flaws can be disguised with molded figures.

Mastic paste recipes




1. Marshmallow mastic It does not take much time to prepare and is easy to handle: it takes on color evenly and is easy to sculpt. The recipe is:

Marshmallow – 150 gr;
Powdered sugar – 200 gr;
Water – 5 tbsp;
Butter - 1 tbsp.

Cut marshmallows into small pieces, add water and place on water bath. When we see that the marshmallows begin to melt, add butter. When the marshmallows become homogeneous, remove from the heat. Pour in the powder and constantly stir the resulting mass. The consistency of the mastic should be like elastic dough, its readiness can be judged by the fact that it stops sticking to your hands.




2. Gelatin-based mastic. It is convenient to form shaped decorations from this type of mastic. The recipe is not complicated.

You will need:

Gelatin – 10-15 g;
Water – 2 tbsp. l.;
Lemon juice – 1 tsp;
Powdered sugar – 500 gr.

Soak the gelatin, then heat over low heat until completely dissolved. The mixture must be stirred constantly, not allowing it to boil. Pour half the amount of powder onto the table, form a mound, pour in lemon juice and diluted gelatin, knead, add the rest of the powder. Knead the mixture until smooth, wrap in film and refrigerate.

3. Milk mastic



This universal recipe, it makes equally good cake coverings and molding elements. To prepare you need:
Powdered milk– 200 gr;
Condensed milk – 1 can;
Powdered sugar – 200 gr;
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.

Mix the powder with dry milk, lemon juice, everything is mixed. Add condensed milk and stir. If the mixture crumbles, add more lemon juice.

4. Honey mastic mass




The recipe is suitable for those who like it healthy treats. To prepare you will need:

Powdered sugar - 400 gr.;
Honey - 2 tbsp;
Butter – 2 tbsp;
Gelatin – 1 pack;
Water – 7 tbsp.

Dissolve gelatin in water and cool. Then add butter and honey, stir until smooth. Add half the powder, mix again, add the second half, mix the mass again. The mastic with honey should be firm and elastic.

Rules for handling mastic



To prevent the sweet mass from sticking to the table, we use starch.
Storage of mastic is allowed in sealed packaging so that the uniformity of the composition is not compromised.
Decorative elements made from mastic can be coated with a honey-vodka mixture in a 1:1 ratio. The smell of alcohol will disappear, and the elements from it will acquire a glossy shine.
To make mastic of different colors, instead of food coloring, you can use natural juice: blueberry, cherry strawberry
If we add dyes, we must mix the mixture thoroughly so that the color is uniform.

Mixed cake decoration




To decorate cakes, you can use a combined style: icing is combined with mastic figures, or the top is decorated with cream and pieces of fruit.

Chocolate decorations








We inherited this recipe from our grandmothers. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and pour it into a special bag with a hole. Thus, we decorate the mastic cake with openwork elements: snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowdrifts. Chocolate or mastic figures can be placed vertically; this composition of the New Year’s cake will look elegant. From white chocolate and marzipan make snowy landscapes (snow, snowflakes, snowmen), and dark ones make Christmas trees or houses. Another option: roll out the mastic, cover the cake, trim off the excess, sculpt figures of Santa Claus and snowmen. Using glaze we will make the inscription “Happy New Year!” When cutting the cake, the shapes may be damaged, so you need to try to position the decorations so that the cutting line does not pass through them.

Sugar decor







This option for decorating cakes for the New Year will be the initial stage for novice confectioners. The stores have a wide range of ready-made decorative elements (snowflakes, stars). You can come up with and create a composition from these elements, or decorate the edges of the pie.

Decoration with fruits







Of course, such decor is healthier than sweets. For example, you can form a Christmas tree from kiwi and add “toys” (raspberries, currants). You can cut out shapes from fresh fruit (a bell, snowflakes, a bag of gifts) and place them on the surface of the cake for the New Year.

Decoration with powdered sugar







This method is also one of the simplest. It can be used by beginners. We cut out New Year's stencils from napkins (a sleigh with Santa Claus, snowflakes, bells), put it on the cake, and sprinkle it thickly with powder. This way you can draw real landscapes.

5. Cakes in the shape of New Year's figures






Cakes and pastries for the New Year can not only be decorated decorative elements, but formed in the form of a certain figure.






Let's take it silicone mold or form with non-stick coating in the form of a Christmas tree. For baking we take any of traditional recipes biscuits (curd, chocolate or lemon cupcakes). When baking New Year's pastries and cakes, the dough is usually seasoned with spices (cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg) to add a holiday flavor. You can apply patterns with protein or sour cream (draw twigs, snow). A Christmas decorations we make it from mastic or use dragee candies. You can come up with the following plot: sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar, add coconut flakes, we sculpt Father Frost and his assistant Snegurochka from mastic. Another option: we lay out hazelnuts along the contour of the Christmas tree, we form pine needles using coconut shavings, and Christmas tree decorations are made from multi-colored candied fruits.

Snowman Cake









We bake three cakes, if possible, of different sizes, or make two smaller ones from large ones. You can cover it with mastic and decorate it with decorative elements (eyes, carrot nose, mouth, buttons). Either cover it with glaze, and make the elements that form the image of a snowman using a pastry bag and cream, or form the details of a snowman from pieces of fruit or berries.




Many decoration options can be combined with each other, but some cakes look better with a minimum of decoration. Before you start registration confectionery product you need to choose a design (recipes with photos can be found on the Internet) and try to reproduce it. A mastic cake for the New Year will be original and delicious decoration your table, and you will surprise and treat your family and friends.




In order to decide exactly how you will decorate your dessert, you need to study several options and choose the most suitable one for you. Don't be afraid to come up with your own original version decor, undoubtedly, cakes with the decoration you have come up with will be a hit on your New Year's menu.

In this short article we will discuss in detail the main ways to prepare delicious cakes for the New Year with different types mastics. Very delicious mastic for a cake at home - far from a myth!

Are you ready to try yourself as a chef at the best pastry shop in the city? Then let's begin!

Mastic cakes

Such dishes are becoming increasingly popular and are a favorite treat for most people with a sweet tooth. not only very tasty - they can be considered an undeniable decoration of any holiday table.

For any holiday, you can order the main dish from those who bake them at home, or buy them in a store. But if you yourself have culinary talents, you can easily make a cake from

Of course, this will require some ingredients, but they will be cheaper than the store-bought desserts themselves.

New Year Cake

New Year is considered one of the most beloved holidays by many, and everyone tries to celebrate it with a rich table with all kinds of dishes and drinks, snacks, desserts and fruits. That is, so that it is unforgettable, bright and elegant in all respects.

A mastic cake for the New Year will be a stunning decoration for your table, and you will delight your family and friends with it.

So, what recipes do exist and how to prepare the dish at home? To do this, consider several different options to choose the one that you like best.

Invent original ideas to cook from mastic, and let them become a real decoration of your table and a symbol of the holiday!

Bring homemade sweet mastic dishes to life in a variety of forms. It will be roses, animals, nature, soccer balls, dolls or butterflies - it all depends only on your imagination and skill.

Mastic cake for the New Year is a delicious treat for the whole family!

Materials for work

In general, you will need standard materials for baking, the same as when preparing other desserts. That is, this is a mixer with attachments (if you want to decorate the dessert with cream).

The only thing that distinguishes mastic desserts from other cakes is the preparation of the mastic itself. There are simpler and more complex recipes preparations that require a sufficient amount of time and effort. But as a result, you will receive a wonderful gift - a mastic cake for the New Year!

These are unique and attractive desserts for the real sweet tooth with an attractive vanilla aroma. If you've been dreaming of trying this cake, then now is the time to prepare it. New Year's table with your own hands!

At home, you can overcome even the most difficult obstacles relatively unusual shapes and volumes, because the main thing is to study some aspects of the cooking process and master them in practice.

However, preparing the mastic itself will require a certain amount of time and effort. It is important that it is made beautifully and placed on the cake in the same way. Choose one of the proposed options and decorate yours festive table such an interesting dish as a mastic cake for the New Year! Please your family and friends with them!

In fact, mastic will be the main part of the entire process of creating a dessert, so you need to start cooking with it.

We present to your attention the basic ideas and recipes for mastic.

Ingredients for cooking

We will need:

About 150 grams of marshmallows. It is sold in bags in any store. Therefore, first of all, you will need to acquire this component.

About a tablespoon of butter.

A bag of powdered sugar (100 g), with an extra supply just in case.

For preparing colored mastic.

You don’t have to use marshmallows in this recipe, you can make do with the rest of the ingredients. The main thing is that there is powdered sugar and the consistency during the cooking process is homogeneous.

Cooking process

To prepare the mastic, prepare a deep bowl. First you need to pour 100 grams of marshmallows into it. Then add butter there, mix until smooth and put in the microwave.

You need to keep this whole mass in the oven for no more than 20 seconds so that it softens slightly.

In addition, the mass should increase in volume. Take it out of the microwave, add powdered sugar (100 grams) and mix until smooth.

Gradually add powdered sugar and mix the mixture again until smooth.

All that remains is to divide the mastic into parts and add dyes to each part.

So, that's all you need to make mastic cream at home. Another thing you shouldn’t forget about is inspiration and care during the cooking process, so as not to make mistakes and not spoil anything.

Preparation

So, our mastic cream is ready. Now we are faced with the main task: prepare the cake and decorate it.

In addition to mastic, you can use custard. He will complement her well. But under no circumstances should you experiment with protein. IN in this case in structure and taste qualities it won't quite fit.

You can make dessert from any dough you want. But custard and puff pastry are not quite suitable.

But the best option everything will be that way sponge cake. The prepared mastic for decoration can first be rolled out into thin layers, then placed between the layers of the dessert and coated with it on the top and sides.

Additionally, you can cut out any figures using special molds, which can also be purchased in the store.

As you can see, this is a simple recipe for making mastic at home. But there are even more complex ways, for example, the same dish made from gelatin. This recipe is radically different from the first. Not only that gelatin needs to be added to the cream, glycerin is also added.

Ingredients for making gelatin mastic

You will need:

• 1.5 teaspoons of gelatin;
• 1.5 tbsp. spoons of glucose;
• 2 teaspoons glycerin;
• about half a kilogram of powdered sugar;
• a couple of tablespoons of water.

To cook this interesting dish, like homemade gelatin cake mastic, you need to be more careful.

Preparation

So, the first thing to do is add water to the gelatin and put it in the microwave, but only for no more than ten seconds. You should not allow the gelatin to boil; you just need to warm it up a little.

Add glycerin and glucose to the gelatin before it cools.

The result should be homogeneous mass, after which we gradually add powdered sugar into it and continue mixing until smooth.

If, as in the previous option, you plan to use dyes, then the finished mastic should also be divided into several parts, pour the desired dye into each and stir so that the color is saturated.

There is another option - honey is ideal for those who love cakes with this ingredient.

Honey mastic for cake, step by step recipe

To prepare this cake mastic you will need:

• approximately 400 grams of powdered sugar;
• a couple of tablespoons of honey;
• the same amount of butter (you can use margarine instead);
• a pack of gelatin;
• six tablespoons of water.

This recipe is perhaps one of the most complex of those presented in this article.

Preparation

In order to prepare honey mastic, you should first dissolve gelatin in water.

After the gelatin has dissolved, let it cool to room temperature.

Then honey and butter (or margarine) are added and everything is quickly mixed until smooth.

Add half of the existing powdered sugar, mix again and, pouring in the remaining half, also thoroughly knead the mass.

Mastic with honey will turn out very tasty, but we must not forget that the consistency of the mass should be firm and elastic.

At the end of preparing the dough, divide the resulting mass into several parts in the same way and roll out into thin layers (to place it on the cake itself) or create figures on the cake from mastic.

This great option dessert for the New Year, and you can make honey cake"New Year's monkey" with figures of these animals. You will definitely love this dish!

By the way, you can make cake figures from mastic either with your own hands or using special molds purchased in a store.

To make the holiday fabulous and unforgettable, make mastic cakes for the New Year - believe me, this is the best solution!

Decorate any celebration with these wonderful dishes, because they not only look quite original, but are also considered very tasty. Just don’t forget to soak the cakes with liqueur or cognac, but only in small quantities, because mastic does not favor moisture too much.

Before preparing the main dish of this article, consider the options for master classes (MK). Mastic cakes will make your holiday unforgettable.

Summarize

Ready to cook? Then feel free to start creating delicious delicacy, which will appeal not only to children, but also to adults.

Homemade mastic cakes - amazing dessert which is definitely worth a try. Everyone will love this dish!

New Year's cakes made from mastic - best gifts for the holiday for both children and adults!