Decoration of New Year's themed cakes. An idea for experienced confectioners and more

The original appearance of the cake will lift the mood of guests and transform regular dessert into a small New Year's miracle. Home cake will allow the hostess to demonstrate her culinary skills and ability to beautifully decorate a dish.

Various figurines, chocolate and mastic products, cakes unusual shape– any baked goods can become a masterpiece.

Features and rules for decorating cakes for the New Year

Preparing dessert for New Year differs from ordinary cooking - because on this day, in addition to sweets, you need to prepare a large number of salads, appetizers and hot dishes. Lack of experience also takes its toll - after all, New Year-themed cakes only have to be prepared once a year.

Cake Decorating Features:

There is no need to make the decorations on the cake too fat - on festive table and without this there are enough foods that are difficult for the stomach;
You need to practice creating jewelry in advance. On December 31, there will be enough worries, and it will be difficult to learn something new in the pre-holiday bustle.

Cake decorating rules:

Do not overuse artificial colors, especially if there are small children among the guests. The product can be given a beautiful color using berry juice;
When decorating a cake, do not overdo it with its design - the product should be stable, and the decorations should stay on it securely;
Don’t set out to make an exact copy of the cake from the picture - often the most beautiful jewelry are created independently when inspiration strikes during the manufacturing process.

In case of unsuccessful decoration attempts, there is no need to panic - the mistake can always be corrected or hidden by adding new decorations to the confectionery product.

How to decorate a cake for the New Year of the Rooster 2017

Design methods finished cake plenty, but we must not forget that the year of the rooster is coming, and he has his own preferences. Favorite treat rooster are seeds, nuts and popcorn. If all this is not planned in decorating the cake, then the cake itself can be cereal or nut.

Cake decoration options:

Marzipan figures.

This year, the figurine of a rooster on the finished product is relevant. The bird can be easily sculpted due to the simple shape of its body.

To sculpt a rooster, you will need marzipan - plastic almond paste (preferably in several colors) and skills in handling plasticine. You can buy ready-made marzipan in the store, choosing the desired colors for your cockerel.

First we form the body in the shape of a droplet, then we make a head from a ball. We create the wings and tail from marzipan cakes, cut through the feathers with a knife. From red marzipan we add a comb, beak and beard to the head. Draw the eyes with black dye.

You can add a hen and several chicks to the rooster.

Chocolate decorations.

For decoration, chocolate is melted and poured into a pastry bag. With this chocolate you can draw openwork snowflakes, Christmas trees, and snow drifts. The figures can be placed vertically in the cake - such a decoration will be very elegant.

When cutting the cake, the figures will be damaged, so it is better to decorate the cake in cut form. Or group decorations so that they do not fall under the cut line. White chocolate will create real “snow”, and dark chocolate will make beautiful spruce trees.

Sugar elements.

This method is suitable for beginners who are not sure that they can make jewelry on their own. IN candy stores a large selection of ready-made sweet figures: shiny beads, snowflakes, stars, leaves. From such a set you can lay out a picture or decorate the edges of the cake.

Fruit decoration.

A fruit decoration will be more useful than a sweet design. You can build a Christmas tree from green kiwi pulp and add toy berries to it. Or cut out different shapes from fruits and lay them on the surface of the cake. Also, bright berries will perfectly decorate a New Year's dessert.

Decoration powdered sugar.

After cutting out stencils of images from paper, you can place them on the cake and thickly sprinkle the rest of the surface with powdered sugar. With its help, you can paint entire pictures on a confectionery product.

Some jewelry options can be combined with each other, others look better without unnecessary elements. Before you start designing the product, you need to decide on a design and stick to it.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic and recipes for its preparation

Mastic is a sweet and very plastic material that can be used to beautifully cover a cake. Various figures are also made from mastic. Dyes will allow you to decorate the mastic and add brightness to the finished product.

Can buy ready mass, but the most delicious sugar paste is made at home.

Marshmallow mastic

Marshmallow mastic is quick to prepare and easy to use: it colors evenly, rolls out easily and takes any shape.

Marshmallow (marshmallow) – 100 g;
Powdered sugar – 1 cup;
Water – 3 tbsp. l;
Butter – 1 tbsp. l.

Cut marshmallows in small pieces, fill with water and place on water bath. When the marshmallows begin to dissolve, add oil to the pan. After the marshmallows become homogeneous mass, it's time to remove it from the stove.

Now you need to add powdered sugar and stir the mass without stopping.

If the spoon starts to get stuck, mix the mixture with your hands.

The mastic should feel like elastic dough, it will be ready when it stops sticking to your hands.

Gelatin based mastic

This mastic is very convenient for sculpting figures and decorations.

To prepare you will need:

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

Gelatin is soaked in water for 20 minutes, and then heated over low heat until completely dissolved. The mixture must be stirred and not allowed to boil.

Pour half of the powdered sugar onto the table and form a mound with a depression. We pour it into it lemon juice with gelatin and mix the mastic, gradually adding the remaining powder. You need to stir until smooth, then wrap the mass cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a while.

Milk mastic

This is a universal mastic - it is convenient to use it to create both decorations and cake coating.

To prepare mastic you will need:

Powdered milk– 180 g;
Condensed milk – 1 can;
Powdered sugar – 180 g;
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.

Powdered sugar is combined with dry milk, lemon juice is added and everything is mixed. Now gradually add condensed milk and stir the mass until thick. If the mastic crumbles, you need to add a little more lemon juice.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic

Covering cakes.

Using mastic, a smooth coating is created on the top of the product and its sides. To cover with mastic, the surface of the cake must be leveled - there should be no bumps or pits.

When preparing the mastic for coating, it needs to be rolled out to a thickness of 5 mm. You need to cover the product with mastic carefully, leveling all the folds and cutting off the excess with a knife. If the mastic is applied not very beautifully, you can hide the imperfections with decoration - figures, glaze or inscriptions with cream will do.

Stucco compositions.

Figures of varying complexity are made from mastic. To make them, you can buy ready-made stamps - mastic is applied to them, and then the figure is squeezed out of the mold. The figures are also sculpted by hand - the consistency of the mastic resembles plasticine, so even children can handle the sculpting.

Rules for working with mastic:

To prevent the mastic from sticking to the table, it must be sprinkled with starch;
The mastic should be stored airtight closed container so that neither air nor water disturbs the consistency of the mass;
Already finished goods from mastic can be greased with a solution of vodka and honey (1:1). The smell of vodka will disappear from the product, and the figures and glaze will acquire a mirror shine;
To obtain from mastic bright color, while preparing the mixture, you can add coloring juice: beetroot, blueberry, cherry;
When adding dyes to the mastic, the mass must be thoroughly mixed to obtain a uniform color.

Ideas for decorating a New Year's cake

In the New Year, magic surrounds us everywhere. You can even create it yourself using an unusual cake.

Original ideas for cake decoration in 2017:

Glowing house.

Making and glazing a biscuit house will take a lot of time, but the effect of such a cake will be considerable. The LED is placed inside the house, and the cake itself is served in a room with dim lighting. Thanks to the light in the windows, the house immediately comes to life, and the cake itself is remembered for a long time.

Volumetric figure.

By using large quantity mastics regular sponge cake can be decorated as a symbol of the New Year 2017 or a large Christmas tree toy.

Waffle delicacy for children.

If a separate one is prepared for children birthday cake, then you can simply and deliciously decorate it with waffle sticks. Children will love it beautiful view crunchy treat.

When serving dessert, you can buy instead of regular candles sparklers- then impressions of the unusual appearance the products will be even stronger.

Conclusion

When decorating a cake, you should pay attention to the following points:

You need to think in advance about the design of the cake and the products needed to make it;
If you have no experience in decorating confectionery products, you should practice and master all the nuances before the new year;
All products must be fresh, use more if possible natural ingredients– fruits, berries, nuts;
When decorating a cake, be sure to stop in time - a large pile of various decorations can look sloppy.

An unusual and beautifully decorated cake will become the best gift for the whole family.

On the eve of the New Year, the VTK Confectioner Supermarket has selected simple and trendy ideas for decorating homemade cakes for you, so that, inspired by them, you can create stylish and unusual sweet dishes for your New Year's table!

We have collected options for decorating a New Year's cake that you can easily implement in your kitchen. After all, for the New Year you want to prepare only the most best dishes! A sweet treat is no exception, and it should not only please taste buds, but also look beautiful on the New Year's table.

Therefore, ideas from VTK for decorating a New Year's homemade cake will come in handy.

For less experienced confectioners, we suggest starting with simple but winning ingredients:

Fresh or frozen berries are a popular decoration for New Year's cakes. They can be combined with each other, and the colors of raspberries, lingonberries, cranberries or cherries will fit perfectly into the New Year and Christmas composition, especially if the background for them is a white base reminiscent of snow. Life hack: green cream will go well with this decor!
Another easy DIY decoration for a New Year's cake is decorating with fruit. The method is also useful for children. By the way, carving skills - the skill of cutting out figures from edible ingredients - will come in handy for fruit decoration. For example, a Christmas tree can be laid out from kiwi slices. To prevent berries and fruits from losing their appearance - from running or wilting, they should be coated with confectionery gel.
A quick look at New Year's cake decorations - ready-made marmalade, dragees or even lollipops: they can become elements of the overall picture along with the cream, depicting Christmas tree decorations or confetti. We recommend a variety of ready-made sprinkles - they are also available for New Year's themes.
Gingerbread is a symbol of Christmas in Europe and America. Decorating with such gingerbread cookies and small crackers is a very current trend in confectionery decor.

Tips like this on how to decorate new year cake at home, will allow you to save time and prepare an impressive design from simple and affordable products.

DIY New Year's cake decoration

The holidays are a source of inspiration for pastry chefs, and some pastry techniques are easy to do at home! Try our New Year cake decorating ideas and you will surely be called a queen ( or king) of the evening!

Figures and patterns made from mastic Many choose to decorate New Year's cake 2018! And it is not necessary to cover everything with mastic at once; it will make good individual three-dimensional animals, Christmas trees, and balls.
Chocolate universal and suitable for different sweets. For example, if you are wondering how to decorate a cake « Napoleon" New Year's style, add a little coarse chocolate chips for every piece of it. Or you can go further - and cast stylish and unusual parts with a pattern printed on them from chocolate and paper for shock transfer printing, because New Year's cakes with chocolate decor always look elegant and luxurious.
Icing- also a universal component for decorating a New Year's cake with your own hands. With the help of stencils, voluminous snowflakes and frosty patterns are made from it, with which a winter dessert will look so beautiful.

Each of these techniques can be used as the main decor for a DIY New Year's cake, and in combination with each other they will help you bake a real work of art.

New Year's cake decor: fashion trends

As in any area of life, confectionery art has its own trends. How to decorate a cake in New Year's style so that it is trendy? Let's give some practical advice:

This season is in fashion « naked" cakes. They look laconic, and the design for them should also be simple: red berries, caramelized fruits or candied fruits in combination with cinnamon sticks will create a strict ensemble.
Another trend is a smooth mirror surface, on which there is little decor and it is located asymmetrically. To decorate a cake in New Year's style, this is what you need, because such specularity resembles ice.
And on the contrary, chocolate velor is also trending: its white or red shade will allow you to get a simple European-style decoration for a New Year’s cake.
Monolithic baking is losing ground: now more and more often cakes are assembled... from individual cupcakes or pastries. This is also very convenient, because you can create an unusual composition using a variety of finishes, filling some with protein, some with butter cream, and some even use whipped cream. When decorating cakes and pastries for the New Year, you can style some cupcakes as mini Christmas trees or round cakes « potatoes” to decorate as deer or snowmen, and even make Santa Clauses out of some of them.

Fashion trends in New Year's decor they give us a lot of cakes original solutions, and with their help your dessert will look trendy.

How to decorate a New Year's cake in the Year of the Dog 2018

According to oriental style, the Year of the Dog will soon come, and this can be successfully used as a life hack on how to decorate a New Year’s cake with your own hands. What can you come up with to decorate a cake for the New Year of the Dog?

A pie in the shape of a puppy or a dog is trendy in 2018. Buy a silicone or metal dog mold: in such containers, by the way, you can not only bake, but also make mousse soufflé cakes or frozen desserts.
Any cake can be covered with drawings of dogs or made into marzipan or mastic booths. Put together a whole composition in which there will be a place for both the dog himself and New Year’s elements - and you are guaranteed success!
Simple new Year decoration cakes per year Dogs - bones made of sugar or chocolate, and it’s a very original way to appease the coming year.

More options for decorating a New Year's cake

How is it generally customary to decorate food for New Year's feast? Let's also mention classic options New Year's cake decorations:

This is far from full list how to decorate a New Year's cake, and your imagination is your faithful assistant in this.

Cake decorations: ready-made solutions

Even if you don’t have the time and skill to bake and decorate a New Year’s themed cake, it doesn’t matter! The modern food industry will help you become a real pro in a matter of moments! Take advantage ready-made solutions cake decorations:

Pictures on sugar paper: Thematic pictures can be used to cover any top of the cake or wrap around its sides. They attach easily and look great!
Sugar lace - easy way give the cake tenderness and winter flavor.
Mastic figurines will complement any masterpiece, and the choice of them now is truly huge: from numbers "2018» to complex designs and cartoon characters.
Pay attention to the toppers - these are stylish themed signs for the cake!

All these food decorations, like necessary equipment, it’s very easy to buy: they are in the assortment of the VTK online store! Muscovites can choose them in our supermarket for the confectioner on Sheremetyevskaya 85/1, and for craftsmen from other cities of Russia delivery by leading postal companies is available.

The supermarket for the pastry chef wishes you a Happy New Year and Christmas! May your baking always be successful!

At every holiday there comes a moment of climax when everyone realizes that the end is near. This is when the birthday cake is served.

A sweet treat should be spectacular. Today we will talk about fashion trends in the art of confectionery: “naked” and “half-naked” cakes, corrugated cake, cake with an ombre effect and a neon version, we will not ignore the traditional design - with the symbols and attributes of the New Year, we will talk about decorations that can be made on your own, let’s get acquainted with the ideas for custom-made masterpiece cakes.

Snow Cake

White, plain and decorated cakes sprinkled with snow are an excellent thematic culinary solution for the New Year. As decoration we use snowflakes and straws from white chocolate, “lace” ornament made of white mastic.

You can make a snow-white cake yourself, decorating it with spruce or thuja branches, pine cones, paper appliqués, berries, ready-made silhouettes and figures, snowflakes made of white and dark chocolate.

Christmas tree cake

The Christmas tree is a bright New Year's attribute. A cake with it a priori promises to be a hit on the table. In this case, the confectionery product can be either horizontal or vertical.

Gift or New Year's toy

Cake in shape New Year's gift or toys for the Christmas tree - perfect solution. It will make for interesting photographs, and it will be no less enjoyable to eat. You can go on a visit with it or give it as a holiday gift.

Cake-Cockerel

The symbol of the coming 2017 according to the Chinese calendar is the Fiery Red Rooster. A cake with a picture of a bright rooster, his family, and chickens will be just in line with this theme. New Year's table. It will especially delight kids.

Complex options made from mastic are available to experienced craftswomen. But also ordinary housewives It is quite possible to make a cockerel cake. For this we use cream, marmalade slices, candied fruits, pieces of fruit.

Snowman Cake

Cute, cheerful, mischievous snowmen will decorate any cake, turning it into a New Year's one. It could be a pair of snowmen in love, an athlete snowman on skis, in the New Year's forest, with gifts. Or a vertical snowman cake. Purchase chocolate snowman figures in advance and decorate the cake with them.

Cake with New Year's animals

Deer, bullfinches, penguins and other “New Year’s” animals will fit perfectly into the holiday theme. We make their silhouettes, figures, prints on the cake and it’s done!

Chocolate cake for New Year

Everyone loves chocolate cakes, and New Year - perfect occasion treat yourself to this dessert.

You can decorate such a cake simply: using a “snowflake”, “herringbone” stencil and a sprinkle of powdered sugar or coconut flakes, decorate with white chocolate, candies, gingerbread houses, cones and spruce branches, chocolate chips and chocolate Christmas trees.

Cake with Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Nutcracker

Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden will definitely attend your meeting New Year's holiday, if you do a themed cake dyeing. You can also go on a visit “with your Santa Claus.” Then it will be not only a sweet treat, but also a gift.

Candy cake

You can combine a cake and a gift by making a cake from candies. This cake can be stored longer than usual, but it is unlikely to succeed.

New Year's "log"

We make an original roll cake in the form of a log with fresh wood cuts, chocolate mushrooms, berries, and a figure of Santa Claus.

Joke cake

Celebrating the New Year with cheerful company, it’s worth preparing a joke cake made with irony. We offer several options for “funny” cakes.

Trendy Cakes

If you decide to move away from the traditional execution of cakes, then you should familiarize yourself with trendy, shocking and extraordinary cakes.

Naked and half naked cake

One day, one of the confectioners simply did not have time to completely cover the cake with cream. So, apparently, the idea was born to present this “disgrace” under a new “sauce”, as a trendy trend. Let us make sure once again that everything ingenious is simple.

And the idea went to the people. “Naked” and “half-naked” cakes began, paradoxically, to decorate more and more holidays.

Well, we also like this idea, because such a cake can be made at home, decorating it with available materials: berries, flowers, fir branches and cones, citrus fruits, cinnamon, powdered sugar and coconut flakes. This will make the cake more New Year’s.

Corrugated cake

A cake with cream ruffles is unconventional, tender and elegant. It is made in the form of multilayer stripes, curls, and flowers. These cakes look very impressive!

neon cake

If you want something very bright and memorable, then you should prepare a neon cake for the New Year. It can have a splashed color effect, resemble a rainbow, or be chaotically bright. The main thing in a neon cake is the use of safe dyes in the production of the masterpiece.

Gradient cake or ombre cake

Decorate cooking masterpiece in the style of a smooth transition of color - very difficult and very fashionable. Delicate pastel tints of shades will not leave anyone indifferent.

Now your New Year's cake will not be banal! What ideas did you want to bring to life?

New Year is a holiday with big amount food and drinks. Everyone is trying to decorate the room and treats, so the question of how to decorate a New Year's cake is a popular and frequently asked question.

The cake is the final stage of the holiday and the impression of the holiday will depend on its taste and design.

Every housewife, if desired, bake sweet dessert, must calculate her abilities and decorate the cake in such a way that it does not take away all her strength.

Types of festive cake decor

Delicious dessert can be decorated different ways You need to focus on the labor intensity of applying the decor, the cost of the products used and the qualifications of the housewife.

Snowman Cake

This dessert is in the shape of a Snowman great idea for the New Year's celebration. Children will love this design, and many adults will also be delighted. There can be several options for this design:

Cake with reindeer and Santa Claus

New Year's desserts can be decorated with New Year's characters. A cake with Santa Claus and reindeer will amaze any guest or household member. The base and cream of the sweet dessert can be anything. Even the top of the cake can be decorated as you wish. Santa and Reindeer figurines can also be purchased ready-made or ordered online. And if you have time, desire and inspiration, you can make them yourself using master classes.

Cake decoration based on the symbol of the year

Cake decorations for the New Year are often made based on the symbol of the coming year.

The symbol of 2018 is the dog, so figurines depicting the animal will look perfect on dessert. Such figures can be made from marzipan. You can make marzipan from almonds yourself, or you can buy it already ready-made pasta, or ready-made almonds.

What do we have to do:

You need to knead the marzipan with your hands. Marzipan is similar in consistency to plasticine, so if you work with plasticine, then there will be no problems with marzipan;
The marzipan needs to be divided into parts from which the body, head, tail, and paws need to be made. To make your work easier, you can look up the technique for making an animal figure on the Internet. The mouth and eyes are painted using food coloring;

Cake in the shape of a New Year's tree

A dessert in the form of a New Year's tree will always look beautiful. Children will love this decoration and will be welcome on any holiday table, even in the company of adults. To make such a cake, the cake layers need to be baked in the shape of a Christmas tree or cut out using a stencil from already baked cake layers. You can decorate such a cake with cream with green dye; you can use other colors to draw toys. In addition to the cream, you can use green coconut flakes.

Decoration with chocolate figures

Chocolate decorations are a classic loved by everyone. Chocolate figures can complement marzipan, mastic, and coconut flakes, and the combination with whipped cream can be considered simply ideal. You can melt chocolate using pastry bag, and then make chocolate Christmas trees on paper. After being applied to paper, the figures are sent to the refrigerator to harden. Afterwards the figures are torn off the paper. If you don’t have confidence in your abilities, or you simply don’t have enough time for such decor, you can buy ready-made chocolate decorations.

Fruit decoration

Fruits are the best ending to any feast. Fruits will not overload the dessert and will make it lighter and brighter. Fruits can be taken both fresh and canned. And the presence of a large number of flowers will make the dessert bright and will not require unnecessary decorations.

The cake can be decorated with whipped cream. Make small snowman heads. You can make hats for snowmen from strawberries.

Another option for decorating a cake for the New Year is to put all the fruits and pour in the jelly. The jelly will give a seductive shine to the fruit and prevent it from becoming stale.

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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. DIY 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, 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 the marshmallows into small pieces, add water and place in a 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 g;
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. White chocolate and marzipan make snowy landscapes (snow, snowflakes, snowmen), and dark chocolate makes 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 figures 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, and make Santa Claus with his assistant Snow Maiden 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.