The cakes they must be good, but their appearance counts and therefore must never be neglected. And do not be discouraged if ours decorations they will not live up to the cakes we admire in the windows of pastry shops. Decorate cakes it is, in fact, a real one art, but we too can do it in our small way. Just know some makeup and the cakes will immediately become beautiful and spectacular. Here then 10 ideas useful.
1. A sprinkling of powdered sugar
Dust with it powdered sugar the method remains the most simple and fast to decorate a cake and, despite new techniques, continues to make its effect. Just arrange on the surface of the cake one stencil of the shape you want to make – for example flowers, stars, hearts or, given the coming holidays, a tree or a Santa Claus – and dust with powdered sugar. Once the stencil is removed, the design will appear on the cake.
2. Draw with the melted chocolate
The melted chocolate, that it is melting, to the milk or White, allows you to easily decorate cakes. Just arm yourself with one sac à poche and then decide whether to give life to the decorations directly on the cake or whether to work first on baking paper, to dry the decorations and then apply them.
3. A delicious cloud of cream
There cream it's a lot versatile and with it you can get different types of decorations. Less expert hands can make simple ones tufts to cover the cake, while those who already have a little 'experience can use the cream to make delicate and refined roses.
4. Fruit, healthy and colored
Healthy and colored: here are two good reasons to use the fruit. You can use many varieties and, once cut in pieces, all that remains is to free the imagination and arrange them as you want, imagining that they are small pieces of a puzzle to be interlocked with each other.
5. His majesty the royal glaze
Sugar, whipped egg whites and snow. From these three simple ingredients comes the Royal icing, also said freezes, a very elegant and refined decoration. There are also the frosting to water and the leaking glazes, including chocolate. The icing can be used white or it can be colored: it will be used to cover the cake and create delicious shapes.
6. A marzipan house
We know it thanks to the story of Hansel and Gretel, of which we remember the famous house. Let's talk about the Marzipan, very used in confectionery and easy to prepare. Give the creations a delicious taste and can be used, for example, to make flowers or butterflies.
7. A rainbow with chocolate sprinkles
If the recipients of the cake are i children, you can decorate the cake using i chocolate confetti, that will make it immediately colored. The easiest thing to do is to arrange them radiating alternating colors.
8. Decorate with the butter cream
There butter cream It is used to cover cakes and is excellent for hide imperfections. Thanks to its consistency and body, it is perfect to create decors of great precision, such as flowers.
9. Have fun with the sugar paste
There sugar paste It is one of the basic ingredients of the cake design and allows you to create original decorations for cakes. It is rather easy to prepare, but now it is easily found even ready. To create the decorations you need special tools that allow you to work the dough easily.
10. 3D objects with marshmallow fondant
Made from the famous candies from which it takes its name, the marshmallow fondant it's a moldable pasta used to decorate cakes. It is flexible and can also be used by the less experienced to create 3D objects.
