The experienced hostess is not enough to serve a tasty cake , the delicacy must also be beautiful, especially if its serving is planned for any festive occasion. There are a lot of ways to decorate cakes, here you will come to the aid of sugar icing with a sprinkling, and chocolate painting, and cream, and mastic . The latter provides ready-made cake for the most neat and spectacular appearance. From mastic it is possible to form all kinds of figures, but flowers are the most popular. We will describe the creation of colors from mastics below, accompanied by all instructions with accessible illustrations.
Flowers from mastic - a master class for beginners
The most convenient option for beginners is to buy together with the packaging of mastic some molds for creating a contour of flowers. By collecting a lot of thin, figuratively cut layers of mastic, you can form bulk peonies or carnations together.
Before making flowers from mastic, prepare three molds of different diameters. Thinly roll out the mastic and cut out the desired number of curly colors from it, this amount is determined by the required volume and size of the flower. Each of the flowers slightly roll out to give the petals a natural waviness.
Using a brush moistened in water, fasten the flowers among themselves, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest. A lot of water should not be used, otherwise the mastic can not dry out properly and the flower will disintegrate.
While the mastic is still soft, gently push into the center of the flower to collect the petals together.
Flowers from mastic without special tools
If you do not want to spend money on felling for flowers, then you can mold beautiful decor from mastic without their help. Just select a few round objects of different diameters and proceed.
Roll out a thin layer of mastic and cut it into several circles. Take a brush or pen and use it to walk around the edges, lightly pressing the handle to form light waves. Put a few such circles on each other, fastening with drops of water, and then gather and blind the ground together with your fingers. Give the flowers to freeze and decorate them with a cake.
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Simple flowers from mastic
If you have at your disposal a basic toolkit for working with mastic, then it will not be difficult to recreate flowers by that technology.
Roll out the mastic of the desired color in a layer of medium thickness and cut out of it 2-3 circles of equal diameter. Using a stick for the mastic with a ball-shaped tip, make a few pits along the contour of each circle, simulating the bends of the petals. Make one hole in the center in order to hold each of the layers together.
Using a brush moistened in water, apply a small amount of water to each "tier" of the flower and fasten them together. In the center put a few colored beads-stamens, and with special cutting cut out leaves from the layer of green mastic. Flowers from sugar mastic must freeze before placing on a dessert.
How to make flowers from mastic?
If you are not tired of molding flowers from sugar mastic, then such a master class will have to your liking.
With the help of a special cutting, divide the layer of mastic into petals. In addition, cut out the circle on which each of the petals will be attached.
Lubricate the wide part of the drop-shaped petal with a slightly moistened brush and connect its halves together.
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Spread the petals on the wetted base with tiers.
In the center, put a small flower or a few sugar beads.
Following the simplest techniques of creating colors from mastic, described in this article, you can collect wonderful compositions, decorating homemade desserts.
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