How to decorate cakes at home, if you teach them to the oven and want to show off their talent and even a decorator?It is much easier than it seems at first glance.Decorate the cake with your hands as you can with mastic and a much more simple and familiar tools - chocolate chips, candy industrial production, nuts and fruit, figures from the cream.Let's look at the basic principles of this interesting skill.
How to decorate cakes at home?Start with the basics: the preparation of cakes, alignment
Perhaps looking at masterpieces hired by confectioners of mastic, you get excited, but absolutely no idea how to approach the development of such skills.Firstly, the most important - is to prepare the ground.That is to bake cakes, and lay them gently fluff cream.The perfect alignment of the cake - the key to success.Do not think that a coating of mastic will hide all the flaws and pits.It is, on the contrary, reveal them.Decide on the amount of cream - what it is, the more difficult to resolve the issue of how to decorate cakes at home.The base must be either biscuit or from honey cakes - they are very flexible and fit well under the mastic.If you do not want to use oil, and some more delicate cream cake in a circle, it is necessary to use so-called dam of a stronger cream (the American base).Then missed the cake sent to the freezer.And then coat with the desired cream inside the dam.If you want to have your cake had a complex structure, it is best to bake a cake and oil, when it is already almost completely cooled, put it, wrapped in foil, in the freezer.This framework does not crumble.Frozen cake much easier to shape than a freshly baked scrap and flexible.Just pay attention to sealed packaging - because the cakes are very well absorb odors in the refrigerator and can lose its flavor, rested next to strong-smelling foods (fish, greens).When you remove the cake from the freezer, cut the knife to climb the top of the baking.The remaining cake is divided into two or three parts.Assemble the cake with butter cream anyone.Then, already missed, it should be placed for another hour in the freezer.Now you can give any form of cake, first making sure that it is perfectly aligned along the circumference.To do this, take the most sharp knife, put it upright and move to gradually cut the roughness itself.After this procedure the cream cakes necessarily placed back in the freezer.
How to decorate a cake with chocolate?
to need good ganache cream.As well as high-quality chocolate with a cocoa content of not less than fifty-five percent.Heat the cream in a ratio of one to two on a water bath under constant agitation.The resulting mass of smooth and glossy little whisk and put on top of the cake.Then, without waiting for drying, line the sides and top.Better make a double layer.It will take about three stogrammovyh chocolates.Now again freeze your product.Now you have done all that is needed before decorating cakes at home.On the prepared base can be applied to jewelry made of cream, marzipan, jelly.All of them are excellent stay.And just cake, chocolate-covered, very beautiful and elegant.
