The mastic orchid is so believable that one does not even believe in its artificial origin. Such a flower will decorate the cake, will look great in a vase and will become an original gift.
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Using mastic, you can create unusual decorations for cakes - fashion figures of the bride and groom on a wedding cake, decorate pastries with flowers. Particularly amazing on the surface of the cake is an orchid of snow-white mastic. The flower is so believable that it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the present. You can attach it to a piece of wire and put it in a vase.
How to make mastic
First you need to cook the mastic itself. To do this, you will need:
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 8-9 teaspoons of water;
- 1 teaspoon of gelatin.
Soak gelatin in water for 30 minutes. Periodically, it must be stirred so that it does not stick together into a single mass. Then the gelatin should be heated on fire, stirring, not boiling. When it melts, remove from the heat and pour in the sifted icing sugar.
The mass should be well mixed with a spoon in a bowl, and then on the table, sprinkling starch or powdered sugar. It should turn into a smooth ball. Mastic is ready!
Cookie cutters or stencil
After that, you can begin to create a sweet masterpiece. For him you will need:
- mastic;
- molds or stencil:
- a ball for thinning the edge;
- molds;
- satin ribbon;
- starch;
- foil;
- sugar syrup.
If the farm has special molds for cutting out the details of this flower, then you can take them. If not, you should first draw the floral parts on a piece of cardboard, and then cut them out. In total - 4 parts.
Two are identical. These will be the petals of a sweet orchid. They are round, have one small rectangle on the bottom side. It is with their help that petals from mastic are connected to each other.
The next part consists of three, symmetrically arranged, oval petals. To make such a stencil, first draw an isosceles triangle on the cardboard, and then a petal at each of its vertices.
The last component is the smallest. This is the middle of the flower - the stamen. She looks like a butterfly with a mustache and not very large wings.