Homemade cake can be decorated with cream, glaze, mastic or topping, decorated with fruit or jelly. The decor should not only look spectacular, but also in harmony with the taste of the cake, as well as approach the situation. An ordinary cake for a family tea party can look very simple, and a holiday cake should be decorated as spectacularly as possible.
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Chocolate motifs
A very popular variant of decoration is chocolate icing. It can be boiled from milk, butter, sugar and cocoa powder. It’s even easier to use ready-made chocolate in tiles, slices or tablets. You can decorate a cake with bitter, milk, white or colored flavored chocolate. A coating of pink strawberry, green mint or orange and orange chocolate looks very nice.
To prepare the coating, melt the chocolate with a couple of tablespoons of cream in a water bath. Hot glaze fill the surface of the cake and smooth it with a wide knife. Glaze can cover the sides of the product. Let the chocolate congeal. On top of the cake you can decorate with cream inscriptions or strokes made of chocolate of a different color. Put the melted chocolate in a plastic bag, cut off the tip and apply strokes and zigzags to the surface covered with frozen glaze.
Chocolate leaves also look very nice. Make them very simple. Cover with melted natural chocolate the leaves of laurel or rose, let the coating harden, and then carefully peel off the stencil. After making the right amount of decorations, lay them on the surface of the cake in the form of a wreath or garland.
Cream decor
Sponge cake and shortbread cakes can be decorated with butter or butter cream. If desired, tint the white mass with food colors. Cover the surface of the cake with cream and smooth it. Then apply the decor using a pastry syringe or bag. The type of jewelry depends on the chosen nozzle. You can depict star-shaped flowers of different sizes, the wedge attachment creates beautiful leaves, and the thin and round one is intended for inscriptions.
A very simple decoration for cream cakes is fresh berries. Choose large beautiful raspberries or strawberries. Apply a layer of cream on the product, lay the berries on top. Trim the edges of the cake with a border in the form of small stars sprinkled with a syringe.