Many housewives bake open pies with berries, jam, jam, just laying the filling on top. Such pastries turn out to be sweet, but not too appetizing in appearance. To make the dish look beautiful, decorate the top of the jam with a pattern or wire rack made of yeast dough. We’ll tell you how to decorate the cake with simple solutions, show simple examples of edible decor.
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There are many ideas on how to decorate a yeast dough pie on top with stripes, wire rack, pigtail or ornate patterns. Knives, teaspoons and tablespoons with forks, cookie cutters, and imagination will help the hostess. It is better to start experiments on the decoration of sweet pastries with simple tricks, gradually complicating the elements of weaving.
7 ideas to decorate the cake with beautiful patterns
To make patterns on a sweet filling, you need to leave a little dough for the decor. First spread the jam or lay the berries, then weave, cut the figures.
1. If there is no dough left after the cake is formed, you can decorate its edges by creating many patterns with a teaspoon, fork, and fingers. With a fork, you need to apply strips of teeth with teeth first to one side, then to the other side, forming "crosses." Different-sized spoons "draw" arcs, curves and curls. Fingers form or pinch wavy edges, make dents.
2. Many housewives prefer lattices from rolled strips of dough. You can make such a drawing on pastries in just 5 minutes.
3. A popular decor option is weaving all kinds of braids around the edge, in a spiral, with a grill. Braids can be made from bundles, thin strips or scraps of dough.
4. A simple way to decorate is to use cookie cutters. It will take two parts of the test for the original design. First, roll out the lower layer, form the sides and lay out the berry filling. Then we roll out the second layer with a rolling pin, cut out any figures with molds. We spread the pattern from the edges to the center, bake at the desired temperature.
5. Another idea with molds is the implementation of the original cutouts on the upper layer of the dough, which covers the filling. Taking several shapes, you can make a pattern with stars, flowers or butterflies, placing cutouts anywhere.
7. If at home there are special devices for curly cutting - the matter is small. It remains only to fantasize with fillings and drawings, creating real masterpieces to the envy of all friends.
