How to decorate a chocolate cake for the New Year. Cake decorations: ready-made solutions

Holiday dishes I want to cook something that is not only tasty, but also beautiful. Special attention We focus on desserts and cakes, trying to create a real confectionery masterpiece. This is relevant in 2019, since the mistress of the year, the Yellow Earth Pig, is an incredible esthete. So, cake decorations: how to decorate in an original way New Year's baking to surprise everyone at the holiday table?

Preparatory stage

There are quite simple decoration options for which you will need: chocolate, nuts, dried fruits, fresh fruits, marmalade, ready-made figures from the store. If you plan to work on the decoration yourself, you will need: sugar, food coloring, confectionery powder, molds for creating figures.

A pastry syringe will be a useful tool if you decide to make inscriptions and patterns using cream. Cream decoration provides for the presence of all necessary components for cooking. Most often it is: milk, chocolate, cream, butter, eggs, condensed milk.

The most beautiful decorations for New Year's cakes

Let's start creative experiments at home with cream jewelry. Only a few types of cream masses are used to decorate cakes:

oil;
creamy;
protein.

Oil cream

Buttercream can be varied by adding cocoa or food coloring. It's very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

oil, fat content not less than 82%;
sugar;
liquid food coloring.

Preparation:

Mix the three components and beat using a blender.
IN butter cream can add boiled condensed milk, which will provide a thick consistency and give a pleasant taste.

Protein cream

Ingredients:

6 spoons of sugar;
3 eggs;
lemon wedge or pinch citric acid;
colorings and flavorings as desired.

Preparation:

We will need ¼ cup of water and sugar to prepare the syrup. Place the liquid on the fire and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring.
Place the egg whites in a bowl and beat with a mixer. To make it thick white foam, add a few drops of lemon juice or throw in a pinch of citric acid.
Continue whisking, gradually adding sugar syrup. Beat for a couple more minutes and at this point you can add coloring and flavorings.
If you are worried about the thickness, during cooking protein cream add agar-agar.

Butter cream

Butter cream is prepared according to the same principle as butter cream.

Ingredients:

cream with a fat content of at least 32%;
powdered sugar;
liquid food coloring;
flavoring

Preparation:

Before whipping the ingredients, experienced chefs recommend cooling the container in which you will make the cream and the cream itself.
Beat all chilled ingredients until thick.
If you are worried about thickness, purchase a special thickener for buttercream in advance. You can also use additives in the form of dyes and flavors.
Apply the cream to the surface of the cake using a syringe.
Using different attachments you can create floral and geometric patterns, as well as fancy lines.

Cakes decorated with fondant are very popular. You can make marshmallow or sugar mastic or buy ready-made decorations V candy store or supermarket. Mastic expands horizons, because it helps to create voluminous, beautiful and, most importantly, edible “objects”.

Video recipe

Sugar mastic

Ingredients:

80 ml water;
20 g butter;
7 g gelatin;
2 tablespoons glucose;
1 kg of powdered sugar.

Preparation:

Brew gelatin warm water and stir until completely dissolved. If necessary, dye is introduced at this stage.
Add glucose and oil to gelatin, mix and cool.
It's time to add powdered sugar and mix thoroughly until it is completely absorbed into the mastic.

Marshmallow mastic

Ingredients:

packaging of chewing marshmallows;
powdered sugar;
butter.

Preparation:

Heat the marshmallows with a piece of butter in the microwave until they double in size. You can use it for heating water bath.
Add the required dye and powder to the marshmallow and knead until it reaches a plasticine consistency.

Marshmallow mastic is not only used to cover cakes, but also to create original figures.

Meringues

Another option for creating culinary decor is meringues. You can buy ready-made ones or make them yourself.

Ingredients:

5 eggs;
food coloring;
250 g sugar.

Preparation:

Cool the eggs, separate the whites and pour into a mixer.
Add sugar or powder in the ratio: 1 part proteins – 2 parts sugar. Add gradually, without ceasing to beat the whites.
After all the sugar has been added, beat for about 8 minutes. It may take longer due to the power of the mixer, so focus on the end result: protein mass should be tight.
If you want colored meringues, color half of the mixture in the desired color.
Place our whipped egg whites into a pastry bag. If there are colored meringues, place the white mixture on one side of the bag and the colored mixture on the other.
Take a baking tray, line it with baking paper, and squeeze the meringues out of the bag. The oven should be preheated to 90 degrees. Bake for about 2 hours.

If you want the symbol of 2019 to be pleasantly surprised by your culinary experiments, create an unusual decor using chocolate icing.

Dark chocolate glaze

Chocolate decorations and chocolates very popular. Pour the finished cake with white or dark chocolate icing, then place a lot of chocolate treats. It could be a chaotic combination of candies different shapes, pieces of chocolate, tubes, dragees and bars.

Decorations made from candied berries - cherries or cranberries - are also appropriate. On white chocolate base berries look especially beautiful and will create New Year's decor. And pink mastic pig figures look great on a dark chocolate base.

Ingredients:

100 g dark chocolate;
75 ml milk.

Preparation:

Melt chocolate in milk.
It is best to do this in a water bath.

White glaze

The cooking principle is the same as in the previous recipe.

Ingredients:

100 g white chocolate;
100 g powdered sugar;
50 ml milk.

Preparation:

Place the container in a water bath and melt white chocolate in milk, add powdered sugar and mix everything thoroughly until homogeneous mass.

If you want to create chocolate figures, stock up on stencils and molds. For beginner cooks, the best option is a mold where you can pour the chocolate mixture and put it in the refrigerator. Molds in the shape of snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowmen and, of course, piglets are very appropriate as decoration for a New Year's cake.

Caramel

Caramel is ideal for decoration holiday baking.

Ingredients:

200 g sugar;
5 drops vinegar essence;
150 ml water.

How to cook:

Mix sugar and water and set on slow fire stirring constantly with a spoon.
You can make caramel figures using a potato cliché. To do this, take half a potato and cut it inside the required form.
Dip the cliche into the still hot caramel and place on the greased vegetable oil plate. The caramel will stick to the surface of the plate, but will retain the required shape.
While the figure is not frozen, modify it.

Step-by-step recipes for New Year's cakes

New Year's celebration means special menu for the holiday. Desserts should also be special. I have made a selection of delicious cakes for the New Year 2019 that you can prepare for your household and guests.

"Berry"

A cake with a juicy name combines the tenderness of puff pastry and the aroma forest berries, so everyone will like it without exception.

Ingredients:

360 g condensed milk;
320 ml cream with 33% fat content;
410 g frozen blueberries;
360 g frozen raspberries;
0.5 kg flour;
400 g butter;
1 egg;
1 spoon of vinegar;
½ table salt;
175 ml cold water.

Step-by-step preparation:

Egg mix with vinegar and salt, add water, mix and put in the refrigerator.
Add frozen grated butter to the flour. Mix, form a slide and make a notch in it.
Take the egg mass out of the refrigerator and add it to the dough. Mix thoroughly. Place the formed dough in a bag and place it in the refrigerator for several hours.
Preheat the oven to 185 degrees.
Take out the dough and divide it into parts for the crusts. Roll out each cake so that its thickness does not exceed 2 mm. You should get 5-6 cakes. Bake each for about 10 minutes.
Whip the cream, gradually add condensed milk.
Place on a dish and coat with cream, lay out a layer of berries. We repeat the action from the beginning: cake-cream-berries.
The berries can be laid out either mixed or alternating layer by layer.
Coat the top cake with cream and put it in the refrigerator.
Before serving, decorate with berries and mint leaves.

"Bright"

We fully justify our name, and there will be ideal option For New Year's table.

Ingredients:

210 g granulated sugar;
110 g strawberries;
3 cups flour;
210 g butter;
8 eggs;
2.5 spoons of cocoa;
350 g cream cheese;
¼ spoon of food coloring;
1 pack of baking powder;
2 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 185 degrees.
Beat the eggs for about 10 minutes.
Add baking powder to the flour.
Place 110 g in a saucepan butter and put on low heat until the butter melts a little.
Pour the oil into the flour, stirring gradually. Add eggs and mix thoroughly.
We divide the dough into three parts: add pink dye to one, cocoa to the second, and the third remains without additives.
Line the baking dish with paper, place the chocolate mixture in it and place in the oven for 15 minutes. Then we bake a pink cake, and then a cake without additives.
Mix 100 g of melted butter with cream cheese and beat for about 10 minutes, add powdered sugar and continue to beat for about 7 minutes. As a result, we should get an air mass.
Place on a plate chocolate cake, grease with cream and cover with pink cake. Again coat thoroughly with cream and lay out the cake without additives.
Grease the top and sides of the cake butter cream and decorate the cake strawberries. It's best to cut them into slices.
Place in the refrigerator for 4 hours. This dessert will decorate any table.

"Megachocolate"

The only thing better than chocolate is the Megachocolate cake, which simultaneously contains the taste of dark, milk and white chocolate combined with Amaretto liqueur and the most delicate cream. I am sure that this cake will be a New Year's hit and will win the hearts of those with a sweet tooth.

For the biscuit:

200 g sugar;
¾ tbsp. flour;
5 eggs;
1 pinch of salt;
¼ tbsp. starch.

For the base:

210 g milk chocolate;
210 g dark chocolate;
210 g white chocolate;
1 gelatin plate;
6 yolks;
65 g butter;
455 g heavy cream;
25 g pine nuts;
25 g walnuts;
25 g cocoa;
1 container of whipped cream;
55 ml Amaretto liqueur.

Preparation:

Separate the yolks from the whites. Place the whites in the refrigerator and grind the yolks with sugar until smooth.
Add flour and starch to the yolks, knead quickly to avoid lumps.
Salt the cooled whites, beat until high foam, add the mixture into the dough gradually.
We line the mold with parchment and coat it with oil. Preheat the oven to 185 degrees. Place the dough in the pan, level the top and bake for 40 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn off the oven and leave the biscuit in it. You can use the sponge cake for the cake only 3 hours after baking.
Grind the cake, roll the nuts with a rolling pin, mix the biscuit and nut mixture in a bowl, add liqueur and cocoa to it.
Grease the mold with oil, line the parchment, and lay out the biscuit-nut mixture.
Divide the gelatin plate into 3 parts and soak for 10 minutes.
Crush dark chocolate, 2 tsp. leave for sprinkling, put the rest in a water bath, add 2 yolks, ⅓ part of the butter, ⅓ gelatin. Once the mass reaches homogeneity, let it cool slightly.
Whip the cream and pour into the chocolate mixture.
Repeat the previous procedure for milk and white chocolate, allowing the pieces to cool slightly.
We post it on biscuit base milk chocolate mixture and place in the refrigerator for 25 minutes. After this, spread the white chocolate mixture and put it back in the refrigerator for 25 minutes. We do the same with dark chocolate.

Before serving, decorate with whipped cream and chocolate chips.

Video recipe

No-bake cake “New Year’s mood”

IN new year holidays you want something special, so try a few new recipes. No-bake cakes remain popular for several years. I guess I'll start with them.

Ingredients:

1 biscuit;
400 g yogurt;
12 g gelatin;
1 orange;
2 tangerines;
50 g canned pineapple;
1 banana.

Preparation:

We take a ready-made sponge cake or bake it in advance for our cake. Cut into cubes.
Pour gelatin into 3 spoons warm water, mix yogurt with powdered sugar.
Cut the orange and banana into slices, cut the pineapple into slices, and divide the tangerine into slices.
Split form cover with film, lay out the biscuit and fruit beautifully, but leave some of these components for the second layer. We recommend placing orange circles on the sides of the molds.
Pour gelatin into yogurt, mix thoroughly; pour half the mixture into the mold. Place another layer of fruit and biscuit cubes and top with the remaining yogurt.
Place in the refrigerator until the cake hardens.
Turn over to flat dish, remove the film and decorate with chocolate Christmas trees. You can use other New Year's decorations for this delicious cake.

It will be appropriate on the New Year's table, since its taste and appearance are entirely consistent with the winter celebration.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of cottage cheese;
1 can of condensed milk;
10 g gelatin;
⅔ glass of milk or ordinary water;
250 g of cookies (it is better to take shortbread);
100 g butter;
100 g currant or cherry jam with whole berries.

Preparation:

Grind the cookies into crumbs, add melted butter, mix.
We cover the bottom of the mold with paper, put our base for the future cake into it, and compact it tightly.
Dilute gelatin in 2/3 cup of warm water and leave for 10 minutes. Stir until the gelatin becomes homogeneous and without lumps.
Mix the cottage cheese with condensed milk, add gelatin, and beat.
Curd mass Place in a mold, cover with cling film and place in the refrigerator for several hours.
Before serving, divide into portions, pour jam over each piece and garnish with a mint leaf.

Quick chocolate cake with cream and cherries

For the crust:

4 spoons of cocoa;
2 tbsp. flour;
2 eggs;
1 glass of milk;
1 cup of sugar;
1 tsp. baking powder;
1 tbsp. l. vinegar;
1 tsp. soda;
vanilla.

For cream:

400 ml cream;
⅔ Art. Sahara;
2 tbsp. pitted cherries.

Preparation:

Mix cocoa, soda, flour and baking powder in a large container.
In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat until smooth.
Add vinegar to the milk, which will allow it to ferment.
It's time to mix all three preparations in one bowl. Mix thoroughly and beat with a mixer. So we get chocolate dough. Pour it into the baking pan. First, cover the bottom of the mold with parchment paper and grease the sides with oil.
We send the future cake to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. We check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick in the thickest place: if the dough does not stick and does not stretch, you can turn it off.
Meanwhile, prepare the cream: pit the cherries, beat the cream with powdered sugar for 3 minutes at low speed.
Ready cake Divide into two parts, coat each with cream and sprinkle with berries. Cover the bottom cake with cream more thoroughly.
You can decorate the cake with grated chocolate.

If you want to surprise your guests not only taste qualities cake, but also its appearance, you can use the latest trends in cake decorating.

"Rustic" or "naked" cake. The point is not to cover the sides and top with cream. Instead, decorate your baked goods with what nature has provided: berries and fruits, leaves and fresh flowers.
Rainbow. All cakes must be different colors. The top can be decorated with white cream or continue the trend rainbow design. To do this, use multi-colored mastic or dragee.
Color transitions. You can choose 1-2 colors, using all kinds of shades. As a result, you will get a confectionery ombre.
Decoration using quilling. This technique has been transferred from handicrafts to cooking, only in this case patterns made from mastic are used. These cakes look simply mesmerizing.

On the eve of the New Year, every housewife thinks through various treats for the table. Baking is no exception. But not every housewife knows how to decorate a New Year's cake so that a festive mood is created and the treat looks appetizing, because sometimes there is simply not enough experience.

Tips for choosing a topic

Many people like it when decoration New Year's cake fits the winter theme. If we touch on our traditions, then, as a rule, this is the Snow Maiden with Grandfather Frost and a team of reindeer, as well as snowmen, Christmas trees and other New Year's symbols.

But it should be noted that according to ancient customs, which originated a very long time ago, every year has its own patron, who must take over the reign on December 31st. In this regard, 2017 is marked as the year Fire Cockerel.

Many experts in their practice share their advice, as well as tell the secrets and nuances of this skill. For example, in their opinion, you should not copy store-bought New Year's cakes that are found on the shelves. It’s better to do everything your own way and show your own imagination.

In order to understand how to decorate a cake for the New Year, you need to understand that this process should not be made too labor-intensive. That is, you can come up with something very simple and place it in the middle of the treat.

How to decorate a New Year's cake so as not to spoil it, but on the contrary, so that the work looks at the highest level, interests many people. Therefore, first you need to practice in advance with blanks or selected jewelry. If you have no experience working with food dyes, don’t be upset; replace them with natural products, for example, nuts, candied marmalade, chocolate, and so on.

Mastic and its products

Decorations made from mastic are often used, which can be made in advance. Even beginners in the confectionery business can handle this design. After all, this material is universal and will help every housewife to decorate her cake attractively and appetizingly.

The process of making various figures and elements from mastic is reminiscent of modeling from plasticine. This mass is pleasant to the hands and is easy to correct if something goes wrong. New Year cake decorations are often made from marzipan. This mixture consists of ground (floured) almonds, powdered sugar and syrup. It is easy to make figurines, animals and other decorative details from such material.

Chocolate and decorations made from it

Today, many are tempted by such a product as chocolate. Jewelry from of this product are one of the most popular and beloved. For work, they mainly use parchment, foil and chocolate. Moreover, you can take this product in different colors and shades, and then select it according to your taste and disposition.

Many housewives love various inscriptions on cakes. Therefore, decorative glaze is just the right material for this job. Such ideas will always be relevant. For convenience, pastry bags or syringes are usually used. When making an inscription, you should take into account the contrast in color paints. Then the product will look much more attractive and appetizing. After all, it is known that first a person evaluates everything with his eyes, and then with his taste.

Ready-made cake decorations

If you really don’t have enough time or you can’t do something yourself, ready-made jewelry will always come to the rescue. They can be made of sugar, wafer, mastic and other materials food production. A wide range of beads, balls, roses, leaves and other figures will satisfy everyone's taste, because at the moment they exist huge variety. When decorating a cake, it is better to choose one decoration technique. As a rule, such treats look much more attractive.

An idea for experienced confectioners and more

For those with little experience confectionery production You can offer several of the simplest cake design options. To begin with, you can prepare the mastic, especially since you can do this in advance and put it in the refrigerator in a plastic bag so that it does not dry out.

After this, you can prepare some chocolate decor. To begin, prepare a sheet of parchment paper and a pastry bag, or better yet, a syringe. The fact is that the chocolate will be poured hot and sometimes you can burn your hands when using a pastry bag. Therefore, a syringe is better.

Next, melt the chocolate in a deep container in a water bath, pour it into a pastry syringe and parchment paper you can draw openwork patterns of various origins. Of course, those who draw well can draw a team of reindeer led by Grandfather Frost. For those people who find it difficult to depict such drawings, you can limit yourself to simple Christmas trees, snowflakes (preferably white chocolate), as well as other elements of New Year's decor.

After this, the patterns freeze on parchment paper. They are carefully removed and decorated with New Year's cake. You can also use this chocolate to make mushroom caps. Make the legs from mastic, they will be white and the caps will be brown.

For those who cannot handle such a process, they can limit themselves to the most simple option. For example, decoration made only from mastic. To do this, the cake prepared for decoration is covered with a sheet of rolled out mastic. They trim off the excess along the edges, thereby giving it a shape, and then proceed to design.

Regular mastic is white, but it can be colored well with food coloring. To avoid buying a lot of paint, buy at least red. Then paint some of the fondant red. Roll out a thin layer and cut out two wide strips, which you place on the cake crosswise. After this, in the place where these stripes intersect, you will need to form a bow. Work as if you had the fabric at hand. Do it next to it first, if it doesn’t work, practice, since this is one of the easiest elements, even beginners can make such a decoration. Once the bow is complete, place it at the intersection of the red ribbons and additionally decorate with golden sugar beads.

If you have pre-poured Christmas trees and mushroom caps frozen out of chocolate, you can make a New Year's forest clearing. To do this, the cake is covered with a sheet of thinly rolled white mastic. Christmas trees of different sizes are attached to the edges of the sides, and mushrooms of two or three pieces are attached in the middle. After this, the cake can be decorated with silver beads, like snow.

The cake looks very beautifully decorated with multi-colored snowflakes. On a white background made of mastic, you need to attach red, white and silver snowflakes diagonally, which are sprinkled with multi-colored glaze beads. Along the bottom contour of the side you need to stretch a red ribbon made of colored glaze. This is done for contrast. This New Year's cake will definitely decorate your holiday table.

Let's do it with children

Decorating cakes is always fun, but you can also involve children in this task. After making the mastic, you can apply various templates made from paper. Children love this process. And you don't have to make the background of the cake white. You can fill the base with chocolate glaze and after it hardens, put on top, for example, a team of reindeer led by Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden.

You can decorate cakes different ways, using a lot of ideas that will embody your creative process a real pleasure. Moreover, it is not necessary to resort to a labor-intensive registration process. Sometimes the most simple ideas can portray a real masterpiece. Happy New Year!

How to decorate a cake for the New Year? This question arises for almost every housewife on the eve of the holiday. Any dessert that is baked on an ordinary day can become New Year's if you use ingenuity and familiar ingredients. Mastic, cream, icing, fruit - the list is almost endless. Original decoration New Year's cake at home is a great way to make your holiday table truly creative, bright and memorable. Moreover, all the recipes are quite feasible and can be done even by novice cooks.

How can you decorate a New Year's cake?

Depending on the idea, the New Year's cake can be decorated:

cream, cream, chocolate, glaze - use them to make a drawing corresponding to the holiday;
chocolate figures - melt the chocolate, pour it into a pastry bag, draw a figure on parchment paper, put it in the refrigerator for an hour, and then carefully remove the finished product;
fruits and berries - you can cut out various shapes from them;
mastic - it resembles plasticine, which makes it possible to sculpt all kinds of shapes;
coke shavings, sweets and other things.

Decorating a cake for the New Year has its own characteristics:

do not use too fatty foods, since the festive feast already requires great amount various dishes, hard on the stomach;
to make it work beautiful decoration, it’s better to practice in advance a few days before the celebration;
do not use a lot of artificial dyes, as they are harmful to the human body, it is better to use natural products for dyeing;
do not clutter the surface of the product with a large number of structures; they must be held stably.

Type of dish: baked goods

Subtype of dish: cake decoration

Number of servings out: 10-20 servings.

Weight ready-made dish: 300-500 g.

Cooking time: .

National cuisine, which the dish belongs to: Russian.

Energy or the nutritional value dishes:
400 kcal

How to decorate a cake for the New Year: dial

Ingredients

chocolates – 13 pcs.;
whipped cream – 100 g.

Instructions

The simplest decoration option delicious pie or a New Year's cake - draw a dial on it. This method is suitable for those who have no experience in this matter, but have a great desire to create. Despite the simplicity of the idea, pastry It will turn out unusual and will be worthy of praise.

First prepare the surface - level the cream. This will improve the appearance and create a good background for decoration.

You can buy ready-made cream or whip it yourself.

Place 12 candies around the edge so that they are visually at the same distance (you can use regular round ones or heart-shaped ones, as in the photo). Place the last candy in the center.

On each candy located along the edge, use a small diameter pastry syringe to write numbers from 1 to 12. Draw arrows coming from the center. Make a beautiful border.

If desired, you can outline the contours of each candy with cream and put dots on the “dial”. Such a spectacular decoration for a New Year's cake is relevant regardless of the year and its “patron”.

On a note! To draw a clock, you don't have to use cream. For these purposes, melted chocolate or any other product is suitable - whatever your imagination allows.

How to decorate a New Year's cake: snowman

Ingredients

- coconut flakes – 150 g;

- carrot – 1 pc.;

- mastic - a small piece;

- caramels and marmalade – 3 pcs.;

small chocolates – 2 pcs.

Instructions

To decorate a cake for the New Year 2019, you can not only come up with an original design, but also create a shape. For example, a snowman. This unusual approach will appeal to guests and loved ones, and will also make the confectionery product doubly tastier. This is another universal New Year's decoration cakes

To make a snowman, you will need two New Year's cakes ( sponge cakes, meringue – it doesn’t matter). The first is the head, the second is the torso. Place them side by side.

Sprinkle the surface and sides generously coconut flakes. Using it, you can add volume so that parts of the snowman’s body visually acquire a spherical shape.

Make eyes using small chocolates.

Instead of a spout, insert real carrots. True, in this case it will serve solely as a decoration. You can make it sweet by using a certain shape of marmalade or mastic.

Make a scarf out of mastic for a snowman and make a mouth.

Place the caramels in the form of buttons, and place a marmalade (smaller) on top of each.

You can use mastic for your hands or come up with something else.

New Year's cake decoration: fruits

Ingredients

- kiwi – 3 pcs.;

cherry – 10 pcs.

Instructions

How else can you decorate a New Year's cake? With the help of fruits you can successfully decorate a New Year's cake. Its appearance will certainly raise not only your mood, but also your appetite, and will also transform your regular dessert into a small miracle. Show off your culinary talent and skill in preparing dishes.

For this design, the cake should be in the shape of a Christmas tree. Peel the kiwi and cut into thin half rings.

Remove the pits from the cherries and divide them into halves.

Place the kiwi in a semicircle downwards so that it covers the entire surface of the cake. Make the legs.

Place the cherries scattered on the kiwi. These will be balls on the Christmas tree.

On a note! Other fruits can be cut New Year's figures, decorating the confectionery product at your own discretion.

New Year Cake Decoration: Santa Claus

Ingredients

For mastic:

- powdered sugar – 120 g;

- gelatin – 0.5 tbsp. l.;

- water – 30 ml;

- starch – 60 g;

- honey – 1 tsp;

citric acid – 0.5 tsp.

For registration:

- whipped cream – 100 g;

candies in the form of plates – 6 pcs. (2 different diameters).

Instructions

The first thing that comes to mind when choosing a decoration for a New Year's cake is Santa Claus. It's not difficult to make. Experienced cooks are able to create real masterpieces, and novice housewives can use a simple option.

The cake should be in the shape of a heart. Make the mastic that is used to cover the New Year's cake. To do this, pour gelatin cold water and let it swell (half an hour). Mix starch and powdered sugar, add gelatin. Melt honey and citric acid in a water bath, mix with the remaining ingredients, divide the resulting mass into two equal parts. Add brown dye to one, red dye to the other. You should get mastic of two colors. Roll both parts into thin layers and cover the cake. Red is Santa Claus's hat (bottom of the heart), brown is his face.

Use cream to draw the fur on the hat, bubo, and beard.

Use candy to make eyes (as in the photo).

You can leave a small lump of brown mastic and make a nose.

In the shape of Santa Claus's head, you can make a chocolate cake like the one in the photo above.

Cake decoration for the New Year: edible snowflakes, snowballs and icicles

Ingredients

cream white– 500 g;
coconut flakes – 200 g;
transparent isomalt – 50 g;
edible gel glitter – 50 g.

On a note! Isomalt is a food substitute for sugar, and white cream could be anything. Mascarpone, sour cream, cream and vanilla versions are suitable here.

Instructions

How can you decorate a New Year's cake? With the help of homemade icicles, snowflakes and snowballs! This option for decorating a New Year's cake is quite complicated, but incredibly interesting, since the result is a real confectionery miracle. Every housewife can be proud of the result, because such a cake can hardly be distinguished from a store-bought one.

You need to generously cover the cake itself with white icing. Most of the fill should be left at the top.

Using a spoon, carefully make dimples on the top of the product where the “snow lumps” will be located.

Sprinkle generous amounts of coconut flakes over the entire cake. This is an imitation of snow.

Now we need to form the “snowballs” themselves, which will complement the snowflakes. To create them, you need to take the excess that remains from the cake layers. They will need to be crushed in any convenient way. You need to add a little glaze to the resulting crumbs so that the mass begins to resemble dough in consistency.

You will need to roll several balls from the resulting mixture and put them in the refrigerator so that the mass “sets” well.

Afterwards, the balls should be poured with glaze and thoroughly rolled in coconut flakes.

When the “snowballs” for the New Year’s cake are ready, you can start creating decorative icicles. To do this, the baking sheet should be covered with a special silicone mat or food parchment. One of the edges should be raised by placing something under it.

Using a silicone spatula, take a little of the resulting mass and place it on a baking sheet. The isomalt should be laid out along the raised edge so that the mass flows down, forming an imitation of icicles.

On a note! The top of the workpiece should be lightly sprinkled with coke flakes.

All that remains is to make snowflakes. They need to be drawn on parchment using edible gel. To make the figures beautiful and even, you should first make templates. Don't be afraid to make fairly thick outlines. This will keep the snowflakes intact. It is also recommended to sprinkle these products with a little coconut flakes.

Now you need to lay out the snowballs on the cake and place the icicles. Don't forget about snowflakes.

New Year's cake decoration options

To turn the process of decorating a cake into real magical creativity, you can use ready-made ideas. Each of the options can be interpreted in its own way.

The days are flying by quickly and the long-awaited joyful holiday - New Year - is getting closer. Every family is captivated by the atmosphere of the upcoming celebration. Homes are being decorated, New Year's outfits are being prepared, housewives are busy preparing the New Year's menu.

One important attribute of the New Year's table, and for children, probably the most important, of course after gifts, is the New Year's cake. Since the cake is the final dish New Year's feast, they try to prepare it not only tasty, but also decorate it beautifully. As a rule, the decoration of this dessert corresponds to the New Year's theme.

A beautifully decorated cake is the highlight of not only New Year's, but also any other holiday.

Recently, it has become very popular to decorate New Year's cakes with fondant. This is an excellent elastic product, you can buy it or make it yourself at home. By adding various food colors to the mastic, you can create simply artistic masterpieces. People call mastic sweet plasticine.

From it you can easily make various figures symbolizing the attributes of the holiday. These are Christmas trees, snowmen, a symbol of the coming year, Santa Clauses, snowflakes, different patterns, etc. It’s easier and faster to do this using special plungers.

It turns out very beautifully if you completely wrap the cake in fondant and then apply various patterns and decorate with figures made from the same colored fondant or chocolate. Below we give several recipes for making various mastics at home.

Another popular way to decorate New Year's cakes is decorating with chocolate. Using melted chocolate with a culinary syringe, you can depict snowflakes, houses, Christmas trees and other decorations. You can draw them on any convenient surface, then place them in the refrigerator. After hardening, you will receive a wonderful chocolate decor for your New Year's cake. Ready-made chocolate figures can be placed either horizontally or vertically by sticking them into the surface of the cake.

To decorate a New Year's cake, patterns and ornaments that can be made from jelly, marmalade, powder, edible beads or nuts are perfect. You can cook it and then use it to decorate the cake.

Another way of decorating, which is suitable for beginners and for people who do not have enough time, is to decorate birthday cake already ready sugar figurines. You can buy them in a confectionery store or department. Especially before the New Year, their diversity is simply impressive. With the help of sugar snowflakes, Christmas trees, beads, leaves, you can create real culinary masterpieces.

And of course, one of the traditional ones is the cream method of decorating cakes, using culinary syringes or a bag. Having certain skills and a little imagination, you can simply and very beautifully decorate a New Year's cake.

A cake decorated with fruit will not only look great on the holiday table, but also be very useful. You can also make interesting decor from fruits by cutting out various flowers, leaves, and figures.

— When decorating a cake, try to use less artificial colors. You can color cream or mastic using the juice of various berries. Use more natural products.

- Do not try to completely copy the cake from the picture. As a rule, a cake with its own twist looks more beautiful and interesting.

— Always use only fresh products for decoration.

— When registering, you always need to stop on time. A large pile of jewelry can simply look sloppy.

How to make marshmallow mastic at home

Mastic made from marshmallows is very convenient to use, it colors easily and evenly, and it simply rolls out. Any shape can be made from it.

To prepare the mastic, take:

100 grams marshmallow marshmallow;
One glass of powdered sugar;
Half a cup of potato starch;
1 teaspoon butter.

If you are making mastic for future use, add one teaspoon of lemon juice or citric acid to the ingredients on the tip of a knife.
The mastic should be stored in the refrigerator, wrapped in cling film. It can be stored for up to a month in the refrigerator and up to 2-4 months in the freezer.

If using immediately, add a tablespoon of milk instead of lemon juice.

First you need to melt in microwave oven or marshmallows in a water bath. If you heat it in the microwave, then at maximum power, the process will take 20-25 seconds. Check every 10 seconds to make sure nothing is burning or running away.

Melted marshmallows, add a teaspoon of butter. Add a tablespoon of milk if not using lemon juice. Stir.

Add powdered sugar little by little, sift it so that there are no lumps. Mix the mastic first with a spoon. We also add some starch little by little.

As soon as the mixture thickens, knead it with your hands on a silicone mat. If you don't have a silicone mat, you can use a regular cutting board wrapped in cling film.

Gradually add powdered sugar and starch, knead until the mastic becomes plastic and stops sticking to your hands.

If the mastic starts to crumble, it means you have added too much powdered sugar. Be sure to sift the starch and powder to avoid any lumps and add in small portions. The mastic should be smooth, even and beautiful. At this stage you can add food coloring. It is advisable to use gel food coloring.

How to cover a cake with fondant

You need to roll out the mastic on a special silicone mat and using a special rolling pin. If you don’t have such a mat, just wrap the cutting board in cling film. And then on this cling film you will transfer the mastic to the cake. Instead of a rolling pin, use a regular roll of cling film.

Roll out the mastic into a thin layer.

If the mastic sticks to the surface when rolling, sprinkle it with starch.

Transfer the rolled out layer with the mat to the surface of the cake. You need to cover the cake with a large margin.

Remove the mat and gently press the fondant onto the cake on all sides using your hands.

Cut off excess fondant with a roller knife along the contour of the cake. Use the remaining mastic for decoration.

You can make several ropes from the remaining mastic, intertwine them and decorate the bottom at the base of the cake. If the mastic does not stick, lubricate the parts that need to stick together with water.

You can make various figures, patterns from mastic and decorate yours.

Mastic made from gelatin and powdered sugar

To prepare, take:

10 grams of gelatin;
500 grams of powdered sugar;
50 grams of water;
A tablespoon of lemon juice.

Dilute the gelatin in water and leave for 15 minutes to swell.

Melt the gelatin in a water bath.

Sift the powdered sugar through a sieve.

Add powdered sugar to the melted gelatin in small portions.

Add to the thickened mixture lemon juice. Mix well. Continuing to add powdered sugar, knead the mastic. The mastic for decoration is ready. You can store this mastic in cling film in the refrigerator.

This mastic is suitable for both sculpting figures and covering cakes. This mastic is very elastic and does not crack. Its only drawback is that it turns out yellowish.

If you want to cover the cake with snow-white fondant, then you need to paint it white with food coloring.

To prepare, take:

180 grams of milk powder;
One can of condensed milk;
180 grams of powdered sugar;
1 tablespoon lemon juice.

In a deep bowl, mix powdered sugar and powdered milk. Add lemon juice to the resulting dry mixture. Gradually add condensed milk and knead the mastic. First mix with a spoon, then knead with your hands on a surface sprinkled with powdered sugar. To prevent the mastic from sticking to your hands, you can lubricate your hands with coconut oil.

Roll the finished mastic into a ball, wrap it in cling film and leave for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, the mastic can be colored using food coloring. Mash a piece of mastic a little, form a small cake. Add a few drops of gel dye of the desired color to the center of the cake. Mix the mastic until the color is uniform.

When rolling out the mastic, sprinkle the surface with starch.

— Sugar mastic Roll out onto a surface sprinkled with powdered sugar or starch. It is also very convenient to roll out between two sheets of polyethylene greased with vegetable oil.

— To give a cake covered with mastic a shine, coat it with a solution of honey and vodka in a 1:1 ratio. The vodka will quickly evaporate and the cake will become shiny.

— Before covering the cake, it is best to level it with butter cream, or boiled condensed milk cream, or ganache. Before you start covering the cake with fondant, put the cake in the refrigerator so that the creamy surface hardens.

— To glue the mastic, moisten the gluing areas with water. It is more convenient to do this with a small brush.

— A cake covered with fondant is very sensitive to humidity. It is better to store it in an airtight box or in a plastic bag. For the same reason, do not over-soak the cake with syrup or liqueur.

— It is better to store mastic in wrapped cling film. It can be stored for 1-2 weeks in the refrigerator and 1-2 months in the freezer.

— When exposed to air for a long time, the mastic dries out. Therefore, make figures for decorating the cake in advance to allow them to dry thoroughly.

Today it has become very fashionable to treat guests and pamper yourself with a beautiful designer cake for any occasion. Today we will present ideas on how to decorate a New Year's cake with your own hands.

Every housewife has her own favorite and time-tested cake recipes, but you can experiment with decoration. Using various options cake decor, you can turn this sweetness into a work of art.

Let's look at some of the most interesting options how to decorate a cake for the New Year.

Today, cakes decorated with fondant are very popular. These can be confectionery structures of various shapes:

Multi-story cakes.
Cakes with three-dimensional figures and flowers.
Cakes in the shape of various heroes or objects.

Such works culinary arts require skill and accuracy, knowledge of recipes and algorithm of actions. Of course, mastic today can be bought in many stores or ordered online. But made with your own hands will be tastier and more natural.

Let's look at a few recipes for mastic, this culinary “device” that helps create miracles. And then, we’ll look at some options for how to decorate for the New Year with your own hands using mastic, using it to cover the cake and create figures.

Mastic recipe No. 1

First we need to prepare everything we need in our work:

Powdered milk – 180 g
Condensed milk – 1 can
Powdered sugar – 180 g
Lemon juice – 1 tablespoon.

When everything is prepared, we begin to make the mastic itself:

It is necessary to combine the dry ingredients: milk powder with powdered sugar.
Then add condensed milk and mix everything thoroughly and knead.
Then add a little lemon juice so that the mastic is elastic and does not crumble.

This is a universal version of mastic - it is good for covering a cake and for sculpting decorations.

Any mastic can be divided into pieces and given color. To do this, you need to mix any food coloring into the mastic pieces. You can also use natural, natural dyes, such as:

– to create a reddish tint;
carrot decoction - to create an orange tint;
decoction of onion peel– to create a brown tint;
Broccoli broth - to create a greenish tint.

Mastic recipe No. 2

Let's prepare for the culinary process:

Gelatin – 10 g
Powdered sugar – 500 g
Water – 2 tablespoons
Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon.

Now let's start mixing the mastic:

Prepare gelatin by soaking it in water for 20 minutes and then heating it over a fire, but do not boil.
Now we need to mix gelatin and lemon juice into the powdered sugar. To do this, pour the powder onto the table in a heap and pour lemon juice and gelatin into the middle, mix everything thoroughly, adding powder if necessary.

This mastic is good for complex figures.

Mastic recipe No. 3

This mastic will be based on marshmallows. It's great for covering a cake.

For it you need:

Marshmallow – 100 g
Powdered sugar – 1 cup
Butter – 1 tablespoon
Water – 3 tablespoons.

Let's start creating mastic:

Melt the marshmallows in a water bath and add butter to it.
Afterwards, you need to remove from the water bath and add powdered sugar.
All that remains is to interfere. The mastic must be kneaded until it stops sticking to your hands and becomes elastic. You can add a little more powder or starch during the process for hardness.

To cover the cake, roll out the fondant evenly with a rolling pin, but do not make it too thin, as it may tear when smoothing it onto the cake.

Important! Never put fondant on a cake that is topped with cream containing butter. This may cause the mastic to melt. If you used butter cream, then make an intermediate layer on top of fruit or other cream (for example, based on condensed milk), or from dry cake.

Let's look at a few photos of how you can decorate a New Year's cake with homemade fondant.

Decoration option with fruits

Cover the cake with white fondant. Roll out a green and red sheet. Cut out figures of Christmas trees and New Year's poinsettia leaves with berries. Attach the Christmas trees to the surface of the cake, and the leaves with berries along the sides.

You can attach the elements to thick sugar syrup. To do this, boil some water with sugar. Add more sugar to make the syrup thick and sticky. Using a brush, coat flat figures with syrup and attach them to the cake.

White mastic

Decor with Christmas trees

Cover the cake with white fondant, and use green fondant to make three-dimensional Christmas trees. Place them on the cake. You can add snowdrifts and snowflakes from white or light blue mastic.

Box with decorations

Here the work will be more difficult - we will try to make a box with New Year's decorations.

To do this, you need to make halves of New Year's balls and a bell from the dough, according to the recipe for the cake. They need to be covered with mastic and decorated with confectionery contours and beads.

Afterwards, you need to cover the surface of the cake with mastic, but without smoothing it, but laying it like fabric in a box with folds and folds. Place decoration figures on top. Decorate the side with mastic of a different color. You can add a pattern along the edges.

Cake in the form of a gift box

Can you make the cake itself in the shape of a large one? New Year's ball. Please note that the cake must be stable. Make it flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, like it's in a box. Afterwards all that remains is to cover our sweet ball with mastic and add a fastening element and a rope made of mastic. You can decorate liquid cream or chocolate from a syringe, beads or mastic elements: stars, petals, lace.

Now let's look at several options for how to decorate a New Year's cake with your own hands without mastic.

Chocolate fairy tale

You can use chocolate icing to decorate the cake. We will make it from dark and white chocolate.

The glaze is very easy to make. To do this, you need to melt the chocolate in a water bath, you can add a little water so that it does not harden quickly.

Chocolate glaze

Now let’s look at several decor options with chocolate.

Snow

The cake itself can be sprinkled with chocolate chips or covered with dark chocolate glaze. From the white chocolate glaze you will need to use a pastry syringe to squeeze out snowflakes on baking paper and let them dry. They dry quickly. These snowflakes can be placed on the cake, brushed sugar syrup for fastening.

Christmas tree cake

Make a cake in the shape of a Christmas tree. Cover it with white chocolate frosting. Place balls of M&Ms randomly.

Cover the cake generously with chocolate chips. Make Christmas trees using white and dark chocolate icing. When the Christmas trees are dry, place them vertically on the cake. This way you will get a sweet New Year's forest. You can sprinkle golden confectionery powder on top.

Chocolate version with stencils

For this we need stencils. They can be cut from any thick paper. Stencils can be anything: stars, Christmas trees, bells, and so on. Covering the cake dark glaze. Place the stencil on the surface after the glaze has dried. Instead of glaze, you can simply use grated dark chocolate.

Sprinkle grated white chocolate or powdered sugar onto the stencil. Sprinkle generously. We remove the stencil and get a winter fairy tale.

Now let’s look at vitamin-rich options for decorating a New Year’s cake with fruit.

Vitamin decor

Very interesting design cakes are made using fruits and berries. In addition, such a cake will be tasty, healthy, and lighter.

Let's look at several options for how to decorate a New Year's cake with your own hands at home with fruits and berries.

Strawberry and mint

For it we will need strawberries and mint leaves.

The cake should be thickly covered with cream. Cut the strawberries in half and make gnomes out of them. Place the bottom part of the strawberry on the cake, then squeeze out a layer of cream and place a cap of the second part of the strawberry on top. Add a drop of cream on top in the form of a pompom. Using chocolate from a syringe we draw a nose and a smile. We make several of these gnomes and then decorate them with mint leaves.

Kiwi, cranberry and blueberry

For it we need kiwi and cranberries and/or blueberries. Cover the cake with any white cream. Cut the kiwi into circles, then cut each circle in half. We lay out the Christmas tree from kiwi slices. Decorate the Christmas tree with blueberries and cranberries.