Homemade cake should be not only tasty, but also beautiful. A cake crowned with flowers looks especially impressive - it is appropriate for a modest home holiday, for a children's birthday, and for a magnificent anniversary. The most beautiful flowers - roses - can be made in several ways. A little skill and patience - and your sweet roses will look no worse than in any expensive candy store.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- Oil Cream Roses:
- - 100 g of sweet butter;
- - 4 tablespoons of condensed milk;
- - a pinch of vanillin;
- - A set of ready-made food colors.
- Candied roses:
- - protein of 1 egg;
- - 1 cup of crystalline sugar.
- Marzipan roses:
- - 1 pack of marzipan;
- - A set of ready-made food colors.
Instruction manual
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Before creating jewelry, consider the general appearance and size of the cake. It depends on how many colors you need. Cake with tiers is decorated with roses laid in the form of wreaths. A bouquet of roses will look beautiful on a short cake, and there will be a place for congratulatory inscription on the side. Small roses can be scattered on the surface in an artistic mess. Choose the gamut in which your flowers will be made. For a cake decorated with white cream or mastic, pale pink shades are suitable, a coating of chocolate glaze requires yellow, orange or white roses.
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Now decide what you will make your sweet flowers from. The classic recipe involves butter cream decorations. At a wedding or anniversary, guests will be impressed by a cake decorated with candied roses. Well, delicious marzipan flowers will look great on a cute homemade cake.
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Roses from oil cream First of all, prepare a cream. Rub the butter in a deep bowl to the consistency of sour cream and beat with a whisk or hand mixer, adding condensed milk and vanillin. You get a homogeneous plastic mass of cream color. Before making beets (to get pink) or carrots (the mass will turn light orange). Roll a bag of parchment paper, insert a cardboard plate into the sharp end so that the cut is flat. Cut the tip of the bag - the cut should be straight, about two centimeters long. From the finished biscuit, cut the cone - the basis of the future rose. Mount it on a fork. Take the fork in your left hand, hold the pastry bag with your right and carefully, in smooth movements, apply rounded petals to the base. The size of the flower depends on the number of applied petals. Carefully remove the finished rose from the fork and place on the cake.
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Candied roses For this decoration you will need fresh large flowers without damage, fully opened and not treated with chemicals. Carefully disassemble the rose into petals. Immerse each petal in slightly beaten protein, then in fine crystalline sugar. Set them on a wire rack to dry. Start picking a rose. Put a paper towel in the cup. Using a brush, apply a little protein to the edges of the petals and carefully glue them together in a cup. Start with large petals, lastly form the center of the flower. Leave the finished product overnight to dry. Ready-made flowers are stored in cardboard boxes for up to 3 months.
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Roses from marzipan For the manufacture of such flowers, it is easier to use ready-made marzipan, sold in briquettes. Remove the mass from the package, roll it into a sausage, cut into small slices of different sizes. By pressing a finger, form the petals of a rounded convex-concave shape. Collect the rose starting at the core. Fasten the petals with a light pressure at the base of the future flower. Please note that without sealed packaging, marzipan dries quickly, so you need to work with it quite quickly.
Useful advice
In addition to flowers, from cream or marzipan you can make leaves for roses, staining the mass with green food coloring.
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