Easter cake is not only a long-awaited delicacy for those who fasted, but also the main decoration of the table on this bright holiday, and therefore the decor of Easter baking should be treated as seriously as cooking. On the ideas of how to decorate Easter cake, we will tell you in more detail and with illustrations.
How to decorate the cake with glaze beautifully?
The most popular way to decorate an Easter cake is to cover its top with sugar glaze . Mixture for glaze can be made independently, guided by our recipes, or buy a blank in any market, the main thing is that it is thick enough to not soak into the crumb.
Actually, it's quite hard to make a fuss in the decor with glaze. You can paint it in any desired color with a small amount of food coloring, or use a beautiful sugar powder, which is filled with shelves for almost every store during the Easter holidays. An alternative to sugar powder is sliced candied fruits, nuts or even flower petals. Another interesting method of decoration is painting the icing, within the framework of this technique, the top of the cake is covered with a layer of sugar glaze as usual, and after it dries onto the surface it is possible to plant patterns from the pastry bag.
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How to decorate an Easter cake with chocolate?
Another interesting way to decorate the Easter cake with your own hands is chocolate decor. You can grease the surface of the cake with chocolate glaze or ganache instead of mastic, or you can replace the usual sugar chips with chocolate chips. A small portion of melted chocolate can be mixed with melted chocolate or cocoa, working in the manner of food coloring.
You can also repeat the technique of painting Easter cakes, described above: cover the top with glaze, let it freeze, and on top, using a syringe or a pastry bag, apply a pattern of melted chocolate.
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How to decorate an Easter cake with mastic?
A skilled home confectioner, who has the mastic and the skills to work with it, can try out another way to decorate cakes. With the help of a set of simple molds, you can mold out the contours of flowers, leaves, letters and animals from the mastic, and then gently spread everything onto the drying glaze. Particularly diligent mistresses can put on the top of the cakes the dyed eggs, crosses and other three-dimensional figures, molded from mastic.
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And, if there is a desire, time and some artistic skills, you can create amazing decorations using any suitable technique of decorating home cakes.
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