New Year's cakes - original ideas for decorating desserts in the New Year style!

If in your family, no celebration can do without sweets, then the New Year should not be an exception. New-year cakes differ from others either with a thematic decor, or classic "winter" tastes of spices like ginger, cloves or cinnamon.

New Year's cakes made of mastic

Christmas decoration of cakes can take a lot of time and require a lot of confectionery skills, but it is possible to decorate a delicacy with a mastic and a few special cuttings for it. You can fully cover the dessert with sugar paste or use it for details only.

1. Cut the squares with squares and trim. Apply cream each layer and the cake itself from the outside.
2. Roll out the red mastic and cut out the rectangle from it.
3. Fold the edges of the rectangle to the center and protect it by forming a bow.
4. In the loops, place the napkins so that they retain the shape after drying, and disguise the protective place with a piece of mastic.
5. Cut pieces of mistletoe from pieces of white mastic.
6. From red - roll berries.
7. Fix them on the cake with a cream. Top the bow. The New Year's cake is ready to serve immediately after the decoration.

New Year's Cake "Rooster"

If you see mastic for the first time, New Year's cakes, like the one described above, can be complicated. Try to include a few small pieces of mastic on the creamy delicacy, decorating the dessert in accordance with the symbol of the coming year - the cock.

1. Cover the cake with cream and sprinkle with large flakes of coconut or chips of white chocolate.
li> Roll the ball of red mastic and cut out of it two flowers. One leave untouched.
2. Cut the second in half and fasten one of the halves on a pair of skewers, moistened with water.
3. Cover one half of the second ridge.
4. Roll two halves of cranberries from orange mastic.
5. Leave the top untouched, and the bottom line around the handle.
6. Fasten them together with a drop of water.
7. Before you decorate a New Year's cake, you should let all the details dry.
8. Place the finished parts on the cake, fixing with cream or water.
9. From a pair of chocolates make eyes.

New Year's Cream Cakes

Having a set of basic nozzles for a confectionery bag and several food colors, you can create a very delicate and pleasant festive pattern in the form of a spruce wreath. This New Year's cake looks very stylish and minimalist.

1. The recipe for New Year's cake begins with the lubrication of its surface with cream. Next, mark the contour of the future drawing.
2. From a cream of grayish color do or make weaving from twigs, imposing strips on top of each other.
3. Mark the green needles.
4. And yellow and red - berries and sparkles.
5. The joint of two branches can be covered with a bow of red cream.
6. For more details, "sprinkle with snow" the most convex parts of the picture.

Cake "New Year's tree"

Children's New Year's cake is always nicer to decorate in the company of a small helper, so you should choose simple techniques that give a bright result. Bake the cake-tree in the appropriate silicone form, and then simply and quickly add all the colored cream and candies.

1. Distribute the green cream on the surface, using a spatula and creating a careless relief of spiny twigs. On this, the decoration of the New Year's cake with cream is completed.
2. Lay white mastic tapes.
3. Cut out balls or asterisks from colored sugar paste.
4. From the broken wafers make a brown tree trunk.
5. Dilute the design with colored sweets, marmalade, candy.

New Year's cake without baking

New-year cakes can be fast, especially if you take as a basis the recipe for classic English trifle and remake it in winter fashion, supplemented with purchased or homemade gingerbread, custard with cinnamon and cream.

1. Gingerbread squares. Prepare the custard according to your favorite recipe, with a pinch of cinnamon. Whip the cream.
2. Lay the gingerbread on the bottom of a transparent dish, cover with a layer of boiled condensed milk.
3. Repeat the layer of gingerbread, filling them with cream and cream.
4. Then again on the new, until you fill out the form and do not spend the components.
5. Lay the last layer of cream on top and sprinkle with sugar.

New Year's cake "House"

Gingerbread houses are easy to assemble together, but for a long time to cook, so it's better to buy a set with a baked frame and glaze, and then decorate it to your own taste. Decorating a New Year's cake is a painstaking process, but it's fun, so it's better to bring a family and friends to it.

1. A board or a cardboard support grease with icing around the perimeter of the future house.
2. Fix all four walls on the "cement", the joints between the walls also glaze with glaze. Support the walls with glasses until completely dry.
3. Dry joints can be decorated with "wooden masonry" made from sweet straw.
4. By analogy with the walls, fix the roof.
5. After it dries up, it remains to paint the details, you can do it to your taste, or guided by the photo below.

New Year's Mousse Cake

This New Year's cake with a base of mousse and biscuit, although not decorated thematically, but it has all the main New Year's tastes at the heart - chocolate and spices, and most importantly, having bought ready-made biscuits, you can not bother with the oven, because it is cooked without baking .

Ingredients:

• warm water - 55 ml;
• gelatin - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• yolks - 9 pieces;
• sugar - 150 g;
• cream - 180 ml;
• bitter chocolate - 100 g;
• proteins - 8 pcs.

Preparation

1. Before you cook a New Year's cake, melt the chocolate and whisk it in a water bath with the yolks.
2. Gelatin is diluted in warm water and mixed with chocolate.
3. Sugar melt and gradually pour into the whipping squirrels. Continue beating until you get a meringue.
4. Mix merengu with chocolate and proceed to the decor.
5. In the center of the ring, pour the mousse ladle and put the biscuit cake.
6. Repeat the layers until you fill out the form.
7. Send mousse to the refrigerator for 8 hours. Carefully remove and fill with chocolate ganache.

Ideas for decorating New Year's cakes

The easiest way to make cakes with New Year's themes is a rustic style, in which cakes are roughly coated with cream and decorated with fresh fir branches, cones and berries.

For a more "clear" design, you can use ginger people, striped candies, sugar snowflakes and asterisks.

Beautiful designs are obtained from the mastic, because if you know how to work with it, then it's easy to place a full-fledged Christmas tree, a snowman or a mistletoe from the mistletoe at the top of your treat.