Decorating Easter cakes can be very diverse. They can be coated with protein glaze and colored sprinkles. Also, the top of the cakes can be decorated with figurines made of dough, lined with patterns of nuts and lollipops. You can also make mastic and sculpt flowers, figurines, tiny testicles and crosses from it. Often, instead of glaze, the cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.
Painted Easter cakes
It all depends on your talent - you can create whole pictures, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley branches, apple flowers, simple patterns.
Flower cakes
Now there are a lot of ready-made flower decorations on sale, waffle, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.
Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.
Easter cakes with domes
Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.
Easter cakes with berries
Baby cakes
Children will definitely like small cakes, and it is also convenient to give them to friends and family for Easter.
Attention to detail
Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!
There are several more options for decorating the Easter cake.
Preparing the powder yourself
In addition to the confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as a powder for Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a cool dry place, the excess can remain until the next year. Preparing the powder yourself is also not difficult. This will require food grade paint and base. At home, semolina is best, but of course, sugar powder will be tastier.
Egg dye gives bright and saturated colors. You need very little of it, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar has been added to the paint, it will not work for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed in cold paint for a few seconds and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.
Usually the colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in separate colors. You can decorate the cake in an original way if you apply the powder in strips or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with XB letters and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.
Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "ХВ". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Used for inscriptions and candied fruit (usually flat and multi-colored). And the letters "ХВ" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkling (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.
Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. A glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until a thick foam.
Icing for cake
Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.
Preparation
The protein should be refrigerated. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at the first speed, gradually increase it. To understand that whipping is enough, you can turn the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not pour out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, in a teaspoon, to introduce sifted through a sieve icing sugar... Finish with lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional "strength" to the glaze is to put the cakes for a minute in the oven heated to 100-120 ° C.
Glaze is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can lay out the letters "XB" from the fruit. And you can just write these letters with glaze. There are many options. Easter cake is a holiday treat, so get creative! Often, yolk is applied to the finished cake to give it an appetizing shine and sprinkle with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. A symbol of faith - a cross - is sculpted from the dough and glazed. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, wafer flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.
Sugar Pastry for Flowers and Other Decorations
Ingredients:
250 g icing sugar
2 tsp gelatin powder
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.
Preparation 
Sift the icing sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve, stirring gently. Immediately after dissolving the gelatin, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the icing sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife, chopping movements. Then place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.
Here's how to mold roses from mastic, for example. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Place the colored mastic pieces in a plastic bag to keep them soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.
From a small piece of mass, mold a "carrot" and put it on a table or board. After that, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusty with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal. Make the petal thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the "carrot", thereby making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, mold the next petal. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the "seam" of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.
Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an extra mass of glaze has formed at the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.
Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. Form "carrots" from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). Use two thumbs to press down the middle of the carrot and shape it into a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and then obliquely, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bend it the way you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach from 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.
The cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out the kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, chopped orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit on top of the glaze.
Easter glaze and decorative dusting
But they came up with a modern way of decorating Easter cakes, although in reality Easter glaze is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in powder form and beat with a mixer, beat quickly and hardens better than just proteins with sugar.
Apply the icing to the tops of the cakes with a brush or spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkling at once, it will get wet and melt.
And in a few minutes, when the icing on the cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the sprinkling will simply crumble from the frozen glaze!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkling to children - they really like this business! True, some of the sprinkling is eaten :)
But look at how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes using ordinary glaze and natural dyes!
Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines
You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, therefore it is better not to give them to small children.
Pasches decorated with sugar mastic figurines also look very original and beautiful - for example, such cute chickens. But, to be honest, you can't chew these figures ...
And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not recommend taking them for decoration! They are good only in appearance, but the taste is very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for babies. So we'd better take ...
Sugar pencils!
An ingenious invention !!! Well done, the pastry chef who invented them! The process of decorating baked goods - cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint the paste like a paint! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint cakes with them with the whole family! Give the kids one cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!
Dough decoration
Two types of dough decorations
Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking or glued to an already baked cake with raw protein. Decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are made of dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.
If the cake is baked with decorations, grease the top with a beaten egg or vegetable oil to make it look beautiful. But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be poured with sugar syrup and even a fine powder can be applied over the syrup. Cover the gaps between the decorations with glaze, glue the nuts and candied fruits with squirrel.
For jewelry from butter dough:
- 150 g flour,
- 30 gr. margarine,
- 1 tbsp. l. sour cream,
- 20 gr. Sahara,
- 1 egg.
Perhaps you will be quite satisfied that the jewelry will have a crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then the decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on one more decoration tip, you can make it from yeast, but not butter dough. Gently, the prepared decorations are laid out on the already spaced dough, smeared with an egg suspension, and the cake is sent for baking.
Of course, the taste and color of a friend is not. I like working with a special dough more, then the decorations are more airy and graceful. Ready-made decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they turn out to be very thin in comparison with jewelry made of yeast dough, then the decor attached to the Easter cake is enough to put in a hot oven for a few minutes to fix and create a light shade.
Simple dough- Flour, salt and water, knead the dough and make decorations.
Cut out different flowers and leaves on the rolled dough:
For roses, you can use special grooves and collect them according to the type of mastic:
These are the blanks you can make while the cake fits:
Plungers, with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, it doesn't matter. A variety of things can be done with scissors. Below is a photo of a lump of unleavened dough. It is kneaded in water with the addition vegetable oil, for elasticity.
These are the decorations I got using plungers.
In this photo, in addition to the roses, I came up with a bunch of grapes. I just formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.
The dough that was laid out in the mold was spaced and fit well. Be sure to grease the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on imagination and put the finished decorations on the dough. Now grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf, I made two bunches of grapes.
Yes, the yolk and the white lend a contrast to the base and embellishments. When baked, the yolk turns brown, while the white remains light.
Decorated and in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
I hope you choose a decoration to your liking. To make your Easter cake attractive and delicious!
How and what to decorate Easter cake ideas and master classesThe main dish for Easter is, of course, Easter cake. There are a thousand recipes, and still, each housewife prepares it in her own way.
More of these recipes can only be the number of options for decorating the cake.
Thanks to the large assortment confectionery decorations making Easter cake can turn into an exciting activity for mom and children.
I offer you some ideas for inspiration and master classes on decorating cakes.
Painted Easter cakes
It all depends on your talent - you can create whole pictures, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley branches, apple flowers, simple patterns.
Flower cakes
Now there are a lot of ready-made flower decorations on sale, waffle, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.
Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.
Easter cakes with domes
Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.
Easter cakes with berries
Baby cakes
Children will definitely like small cakes, and it is also convenient to give them to friends and family for Easter.
Attention to detail
Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!
Compound:
For the test:
- Milk - 0.5 l.
- Flour - 1 kg
- Yolks - 5 pcs.
- Draining. oil - 250 gr
- Sugar - 0.5 kg
- Raisins - 150 gr
- Yeast - 50 g (wet)
- Vanillin
For fondant:
- Protein - 2 pieces
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Beet juice
- Carrot juice
- Cocoa
Preparation:
Add yeast and 2 tablespoons to a glass of warm milk. flour. Stir and let the yeast sit. Then add butter and 2 tbsp. l. sugar, mix everything and place.
Add everything according to the recipe, mix well and in a warm place to suit well.
Knead again and place the dough in oiled tins on half of the mold. Let it come up and place in a preheated oven.
Bake at 200-220 degrees until golden brown.
Willingness to check by piercing the cake with a stick. Allow to cool and carefully remove the cake from the mold. Beat the whites and sugar until stiff. For painting, mix small pieces of fondant with beet juice, carrot juice and cocoa. Brush the top of the cake with white fondant.
Then drip colored glaze onto the white fondant.
Draw the stains with a stick.
It is beautiful to decorate from above.
Our Easter "Painted Cakes" are ready!
Good and bright Sunday to you!
More options
Beat the whites and sugar until stiff. Mix small parts of the whipped proteins with cocoa, spinach broth, turmeric.
Lubricate the tops of the cakes with white fondant and drip colored fondants on top.
Use a stick (toothpick) to make beautiful stains.
Here is one of the options we got.
Another option for painting.
On top of the painting, you can decorate with mastic flowers or colored sprinkles.
There are several more options for decorating the Easter cake.
Preparing the powder yourself
In addition to the confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as a powder for Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a cool dry place, the excess can remain until the next year. Preparing the powder yourself is also not difficult. This will require food grade paint and base. At home, semolina is best, but of course, sugar powder will be tastier.
Egg dye gives bright and saturated colors. You need very little of it, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar has been added to the paint, it will not work for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed in cold paint for a few seconds and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.
Usually the colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in separate colors. You can decorate the cake in an original way if you apply the powder in strips or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with XB letters and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.
Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "ХВ". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Used for inscriptions and candied fruit (usually flat and multi-colored). And the letters "ХВ" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkling (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.
Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. A glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until a thick foam.
Icing for cake
Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.
Preparation
The protein should be refrigerated. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at the first speed, gradually increase it. To understand that whipping is enough, you can turn the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not pour out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, in a teaspoon, add powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finish with lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional "strength" to the glaze is to put the cakes for a minute in the oven heated to 100-120 ° C.
Glaze is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can lay out the letters "XB" from the fruit. And you can just write these letters with glaze. There are many options. Easter cake is a holiday treat, so get creative! Often, yolk is applied to the finished kulich to give it an appetizing shine and sprinkle with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. A symbol of faith - a cross - is sculpted from the dough and glazed. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, wafer flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.
Sugar Pastry for Flowers and Other Decorations
Ingredients:
250 g icing sugar
2 tsp gelatin powder
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.
Preparation
Sift the icing sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve, stirring gently. Immediately after dissolving the gelatin, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the icing sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife, chopping movements. Then place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.
Here's how to mold roses from mastic, for example. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Place the colored mastic pieces in a plastic bag to keep them soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.
From a small piece of mass, mold a "carrot" and put it on a table or board. After that, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusty with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal. Make the petal thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the "carrot", thereby making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, mold the next petal. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the "seam" of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.
Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an extra mass of glaze has formed at the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.
Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. Form "carrots" from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). Use two thumbs to press down the middle of the carrot and shape it into a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and then obliquely, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bend it the way you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach from 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.
The Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (nothing will be said about it yet). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out the kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, chopped orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit on top of the glaze.
Easter glaze and decorative dusting
But they came up with a modern way of decorating Easter cakes, although in reality Easter glaze is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in powder form and beat with a mixer, beat quickly and hardens better than just proteins with sugar.
Apply the icing to the tops of the cakes with a brush or spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkling at once, it will get wet and melt.
And in a few minutes, when the icing on the cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the sprinkling will simply crumble from the frozen glaze!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkling to children - they really like this business! True, some of the sprinkling is eaten :)
But look at how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes using ordinary glaze and natural dyes!
Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines
You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, therefore it is better not to give them to small children.
Pasches decorated with sugar mastic figurines also look very original and beautiful - for example, such cute chickens. But, to be honest, you can't chew these figures ...
And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not recommend taking them for decoration! They are good only in appearance, but the taste is very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for babies. So we'd better take ...
Sugar pencils!
An ingenious invention !!! Well done, the pastry chef who invented them! The process of decorating baked goods - cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint the paste like a paint! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint cakes with them with the whole family! Give the kids one cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!
Dough decoration
Two types of dough decorations
Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking or glued to an already baked cake with raw protein. Decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are made of dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.
If the cake is baked with decorations, grease the top with a beaten egg or vegetable oil to make it look beautiful. But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be poured with sugar syrup and even a fine powder can be applied over the syrup. Cover the gaps between the decorations with glaze, glue the nuts and candied fruits with squirrel.
For jewelry from butter dough:
150 g flour,
30 gr. margarine,
1 tbsp. l. sour cream,
20 gr. Sahara,
1 egg.
Perhaps you will be quite satisfied that the jewelry will have a crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then the decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on one more decoration tip, you can make it from yeast, but not butter dough. Gently, the prepared decorations are laid out on the already spaced dough, smeared with an egg suspension, and the cake is sent for baking.
Of course, the taste and color of a friend is not. I like working with a special dough more, then the decorations are more airy and graceful. Ready-made decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they are very thin in comparison with decorations made from yeast dough, it is enough to place the decor attached to the cake in a hot oven for a few minutes to fix it and create a light shade.
Simple dough- Flour, salt and water, knead the dough and make decorations.
Mk roses
These are blanks for spikelets: 
This is how they need to be cut with scissors: 
Cut out different flowers and leaves on the rolled dough:
For roses, you can use special grooves and collect them according to the type of mastic:
These are the blanks you can make while the cake fits:
One of the most traditional ways to decorate Easter cakes is to decorate them with dough. To decorate the cake, you can use the main dough from which the cake is made, or you can use unleavened dough made specifically for decoration.
To decorate with the main dough, when forming cakes, you need to set aside a little ready-made dough, add a little more flour to it, so that you can more easily form decorations. When the cake comes up, before sending it to the oven, carefully put the dough decorations on top, attach them with a wooden stick and grease with milk or an egg mixed with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of water and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil. In the oven, decorations made from such dough will also slightly increase in size and you need to cover the top in time so that the decorations do not burn. After baking, the wooden sticks must be removed from the cake.
To prevent the dough decorations from being suitable in the oven and keeping their shape, you can make a simple dough using flour, water and salt. The dough should be soft so that you can easily make flowers, leaves, birds from it. Flowers and leaves made from such dough do not lose their shape, but they are not as tasty as decorations made from the main dough. Sugar is not added to such a dough so that the decorations do not burn. Decorations are laid out on the oiled top of the cake.
Decorating Easter cakes with protein cream
To decorate homemade cakes, you can simply use protein whipped with sugar (for 1 protein, 50 grams of sugar and beat as for meringues). Decorate hot cakes with meringues on top and send to the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 90-100 ° C.
You can make a full protein wet meringue cream. For this, 2 proteins, a pinch of citric acid and 60 gr. the sugars are whipped into a cream on a steam bath. The cooled Easter cakes can be decorated immediately and left for several hours to dry the cream. Sprinkle the cream on top with store-bought colored sprinkles.
You can decorate the cake with protein cream, and on top decorate with nuts and dried fruits. Easter cake looks original, wrapped in a beautiful napkin or paper with a beautiful ribbon.
Decorating Easter cakes with sugar icing
A very good glaze that hardens well and does not crumble is sugar icing on gelatin. Dilute 1 teaspoon of gelatin in a tablespoon of hot (about 70 ° C) water. 2 tbsp. Mix spoons of water with 100 grams of sugar and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, boil for several minutes to dissolve the sugar. Then remove from heat and mix with diluted gelatin, let cool slightly (5 minutes). Beat with a mixer in a strong snow-white foam. Then we immediately apply it to the cake and immediately decorate it with sprinkles or other decorations, because the glaze hardens quickly.
You can make a simple frosting by mixing 120 g. powdered sugar and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon (orange) juice. Powder with juice must be thoroughly mixed until smooth with a silicone spatula. It is necessary to apply the glaze on slightly warm Easter cakes. The glaze turns white when solidified.
You can also decorate Easter cakes with flowers and mastic patterns, but for this you need to learn how to work with it in advance.
Modern culinary technologies and inexhaustible human imagination allow you to improve the art of decorating Easter cakes all your life.
Kulich is one of the main symbols of the Easter feast. Preparations for the holiday are already in full swing, and every hostess wants her cake to be not only tasty, but also beautiful. We offer you some decor ideas traditional Easter baked goods to help make vAsh cake is unique.
On Easter cakes, a hat made of protein glaze looks very beautiful. Add a little food coloring or berry juice to make it look even more dressy.
For cooking, you will need 2 proteins and 1 cup of powdered sugar. First, beat the whites thoroughly, then add the icing sugar in a thin stream, continuing to beat until firm. When the cake has cooled down a little, gently spread the icing on the cake. If desired, sprinkle on top with multi-colored pastry sprinkles.
Melted chocolate jewelry will not leave anyone indifferent.
To prepare the glaze, take 200 g of chocolate (black or white to taste), 2 tbsp. l. milk and 0.5 cups of powdered sugar. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a bowl in a water bath. Then add milk and icing sugar. Mix everything thoroughly and spread the cooled cake with hot icing. Melted chocolate can be used to make different inscriptions or something more complex and original. It's all a matter of taste!
Dried fruits and candied fruits
On top of the glaze, you can beautifully lay out dried fruits and candied fruits whole or in pieces. From them you can lay out the letters "ХВ" or a cross on the top of the cake.
Nuts and seeds
If you sprinkle the cake with nuts and seeds, it will turn out very original and not beaten.
You can also place berries or pieces of fruit on the coulis.
Natural flowers
Since Easter is a spring holiday, you can decorate the cake with fresh flowers. Violets, daffodils, willow twigs will look great on baked goods. Before using them you only need to wash well.
Airy marshmallow
You will surprise everyone if you decorate your baked goods with marshmallows. To do this, you just need to prepare your favorite cream (protein, butter, whipped cream, etc.) and grease the cake with it. Then lay out the colorful airy marshmallows that are sold at any grocery store. That's what beauty it turns out!
Various sweets
For decoration you can also purchasein the confectionery section of the store, small bars of chocolate, straws, cookies or other delicacies. Frame the cake with them and fix your creativity with a beautiful bow or satin ribbon. You can sprinkle the top of the Easter cake with colored coconut, and top with sugar multicolored dragee in the form of testicles.
Colored eggs
Painted eggs can also be used for decoration. For example, if your cake is of a non-standard shape with a depression inside, then you can put painted quail eggs there.
Food grade mastic for figurines
You can use mastic to show your imagination and make various decorations for the Easter cake.
To prepare it, you will need 0.5 pack of chewing marshmallows and 400 g of powdered sugar. Melt the chewing marshmallows in the microwave. Then mix with icing sugar and knead as usual elastic dough... For multi-colored mastic, add some food coloring diluted with a drop of water and stir well. Then from this mass you can mold flowers, figurines of animals and birds, as well as any other decorations for Easter cake.
Happy Holidays!
Kulich is one of the important symbols of Easter, a good tradition that marks the onset of the main Christian holiday. You can buy it anywhere, but it is much more interesting (and there is nothing complicated in this) to bake it yourself. And you can also decorate the cake yourself - it is in this matter that you can give free rein to your culinary and aesthetic imagination.
The 10 best options for decorating Easter cake at home are described in detail below.
Perhaps the easiest way to decorate Easter cakes. As a decoration, only powdered sugar is used - finely crushed sugar. The sprinkling contrasts beautifully against the background of the ruddy dough and cheers up.
Protein glaze
Another option for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands is to use protein glaze. It only needs 2 proteins and a glass of powdered sugar. Beat the whites and then gradually add the powder, without ceasing to beat. Then this mass is poured onto a cooled (but not cold) cake. Of course, you can additionally decorate the top with sprinkles.
ADVICE
If you add berry juice to this mixture (for example, based on raspberry jam), it will turn out to be both prettier and tastier..
Confectionery sprinkles
Of course, the sprinkling itself is also a great way to decorate the cake with your own hands. In this case, it is better to purchase different options for decorative dressing so that you can get creative with this matter. And the technology is very simple: whipped proteins are added to the sprinkling (2 is enough). Then the mixture is applied with a spoon or brush.
Chocolate (glaze)
Of course, you can also decorate the cake with chocolate. It contrasts perfectly against a white background and also gives festive baked goods a pleasant flavor. And one more plus - you can make all sorts of drawings or inscriptions from melted chocolate, for example "ХВ", "Christ is risen" or "Easter 2018".
The recipe for decorating Easter cakes with chocolate glaze is very simple. We take an ordinary bar of chocolate (milk, bitter or white - this is already to taste), a couple of glasses of milk and half a glass of powdered sugar. Prepare a pot of boiling water, chop the chocolate into a container and melt it in a water bath. Therefore, we add milk and powder, mix and apply to the cake.
ADVICE
Chocolate can be used to decorate not only the baking surface, but also its edges - for example, in the form of curls or a net. The result is a kind of chocolate "packaging".
NOTE
The glaze is applied only to the cooled surface. Otherwise, it will melt and spread.
Dried fruits and candied fruits
Candied fruits are pieces of fruit or berries that are boiled in concentrated sugar syrup. Thanks to this technology, delicious, beautiful and healthy sweets... Of course, they can also be used as decoration for homemade Easter cake. They are sprinkled on a protein glaze, which is essentially the basis of the decoration. You can also use mastic figures - for example, chickens or in the form of flowers.
NOTE
Candied fruits are usually large and fairly firm - it is better not to give them to very young children.
Nuts and seeds
This is an original version of decoration - after all, it is not so common, but looks modest and at the same time beautiful. It is no secret that the flavor combination of nuts and chocolate is one of the best in the confectionery business. Therefore, this sprinkle can be used in combination with chocolate icing.
ADVICE
On chocolate glaze, along with seeds and nuts, you can also use powdered sugar with whipped proteins. With its help, they make various curls, serpentines and other patterns.
Fresh berries and fruits
And here is an original and at the same time useful way to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands. Pieces of fresh fruit and berries look very beautiful and also create an excellent flavor combination. You can use a wide variety of fruits - raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, cranberries. These berries are available at least frozen at any time of the year.
And among the fruits, you can take fresh slices of peaches or apricots - thanks to the warm orange and red tones, they will literally "light up" the overall picture and create a festive mood. Pieces of fruit and berries can be sprinkled on both chocolate and protein-sugar icing - in any case, it will turn out very beautifully.
ADVICE
It will be great to decorate the top of the cake with a mint leaf or strawberry.
Sugar pencils
This is a modern, original way of decorating an Easter cake. Sugar sticks are special syringes that contain a mixture of sugar with natural dyes. Of course, you can paint with them any surface - sugar or chocolate. This method is perhaps the most creative one. After all, creating an Easter drawing with your own hands will be interesting for everyone - both adults and children. And it is also very pleasant to present such pastries to family and friends.
Airy marshmallow
And this decorating method will surprise all guests, but above all - you. In any store you can buy airy marshmallows, which are very fond of children. Then the cake is smeared with a mixture of proteins and powder (or you can pour it with chocolate icing). Airy marshmallows decorate not only the surface, but also the walls of the baking. At first glance, perhaps, no one will guess what kind of pastry they were served with tea.
Natural flowers
And this decoration option is for real romantics, connoisseurs of the art of serving. The edible component will be, as always, sugar-protein or chocolate glaze... And as the decoration itself, you can take the petals of small roses, chamomile, petunia, thyme, oregano, cornflower and others.
Of course, all of these methods can be used in a wide variety of combinations. The decorating methods discussed are rather just ideas that are sure to lead you to more original thoughts.
Bon Appetit!
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