It's been almost ten years since the cake ceased to be just a delicious dessert that is served on the sweet and is the logical conclusion of the holiday. Now, different decor options with the help of mastic allow you to create a culinary masterpiece. There is an opinion that such clearance is only possible for masters who have learned the secrets of culinary art. To create such culinary work independently under the power of each hostess, this will require minimum skills in baking, knowledge of the basics of working with mastic. Recipes for delicious cakes, mastic creams see below.
Which cake is suitable for
mastic In order to get a beautiful mouth-watering cake decorated with mastic, it is necessary to follow several rules when choosing a recipe for baking, cream and design options. From all these factors, the appearance of the product and the taste qualities of the dessert depend on the complex. Experienced cooks, who have not one dozen cooked original cakes decorated with mastic, are advised to adhere to the following rules when creating a masterpiece:
- Any cakes, for example, biscuit, honey, sand or even souffle can be used for the cake.
- Cream between the cakes can be completely different from sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese or condensed milk. But under mastic, these options can not be used, because it can melt, lose its appearance.
- As a basis for mastic, this cream can be used: oil, ganache, with marzipan or condensed milk. However, before embarking on the decor, the cake should be cooled until the top layer hardens completely.
- Before decorating, it is necessary to carefully level the top layer so that the product looks as neat as possible, beautifully.
- The theme of the design of the finished product depends on who it is intended for: for the child - the characters of fairy tales or cartoons;for the boy - machines, superheroes;girls will get a cake with a Barbie doll;women will be glad to dessert with flowers - roses, daisies;and men will approach the decor in the form of a barrel of honey, on the topic of fishing, cars.
Step-by-step master classes for cake mastic making
There are many recipes for cakes that can be decorated with mastic and are able to please not only taste qualities, but also to give a true aesthetic pleasure. Different options for cakes, creams, decorations provide an opportunity for every hostess to create a culinary masterpiece to your liking. Below is a selection of delicious and simple baking recipes for mastic, with which even beginners can easily cope.
Sponge cake
The classic basis of any cake are sponge cakes, for the preparation of which the most affordable and simple products are used. At the heart of the recipe is a large number of eggs, which makes it possible without the use of baking powder, soda to get lush, beautiful cakes. Any mass can be used as a cream. Depending on individual preferences. Ingredients for biscuit:
- Eight eggs.
- 220 gr.of granulated sugar.
- Wheat flour - 250 grams.
- 80 gr. Butter.
Instructions for preparing a biscuit:
- In a deep bowl, break the eggs, pour in the sugar and beat with a mixer until a significant increase in weight is obtained.
- Sift the wheat flour, add to the egg mixture, mix well.
- Butter butter to melt, add to the test - stir well.
- Dough, divided into two parts, bake in the oven.
- Collect the cake, smeared with the selected cream, and cover it with mastic and decorate it with figures from it.
Recipe for a chocolate cake
The taste of a chocolate cake will be remembered for everyone for a long time, and a pleasant aftertaste of chocolate will still remind you of the most delicious dessert that you have had a chance to taste. Such pastries can be supplemented with frosting and cream with chocolate or any other variant of the filling can be used for this purpose, and mastic and various figures, edible decorative elements from it, can be used as decoration.
Food for preparation:
- Cocoa - 30 grams.
- One and a half cups of flour.
- Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- One and a half cups of sugar.
- Butter - 225 grams.
Preparation of chocolate biscuit:
- Combine flour, baking powder and cocoa in one container, mix well.
- Add to the dry ingredients butter, eggs and carefully mix everything.
- Pour two tablespoons of hot water, stir until all ingredients are fully combined.
- Divide the dough into several pieces, bake the cakes in the oven.
- To smear chocolate biscuits with cream to your taste, let it freeze, after which you can proceed to design the culinary masterpiece with mastic.
Cake with soufflé for mastic
For cake decorating, cakes without baking, where one or several layers occupy a souffle, will do. Preparation of such dessert has several rules, which should be adhered to: the top and bottom of the jelly layer should be a biscuit, so that the culinary masterpiece keeps its shape;Do not allow the souffle and mastic to come in contact, otherwise the latter will flow. There are many recipes for a delicious layer of souffle, with fruit, cottage cheese or a classic version - "Bird's Milk".Consider one of the options for cooking.
Ingredients for biscuit:
- Two hundred grams of wheat flour.
- Sugar - 160 grams.
- Chicken eggs - 5 pieces.
- Vanillin.
For souffle:
- Gelatin - 20 grams. Fruit yoghurt - 400 ml.
- Cream - 20 ml.
- Fruit( peach, fresh pineapple or canned).
How to step-by-step make cake with soufflé for mastic:
- To prepare a sponge cake you need to beat the eggs with the addition of vanillin and granulated sugar until white peaks form.
- Add the wheat flour, gently mix the spoon from bottom to top to keep air bubbles - this will give a biscuit splendor.
- Put parchment paper on the bottom of the mold, grease the container with oil and lay out the dough. Biscuit oven at a temperature of 175-180 degrees for half an hour. Allow the workpiece to cool, then cut it in half.
- To make a souffle it is necessary: soak gelatin for swelling. In the yogurt add sugar, add gelatin and stir well.
- Grind berries, whip the cream into a foam.
- In the cooled yogurt, add cream, mix well, add crushed fruit.
- Put a biscuit on the bottom of the mold, then pour it and put another cake on top. Allow the cake to freeze completely.
- Align the cake with oil cream, cover with mastic.
Recipe for the cake "Medovik"
The recipe for the cake "Medovik" is known to many and is passed on to the family from one generation to another. In the standard version, the culinary product is decorated with crumb from cakes, but modern masters began decorating the dessert with mastic, which makes it possible to decorate your favorite cake with an amazing taste in an original way, guided by your imagination or the client's wishes.
The following ingredients are required for the preparation of the cakes:
- Fresh honey, liquid - 2 table spoons.
- Two eggs.
- Sugar - 1 teaspoon spoon.
- Two teaspoons of salt.
- Margarine - one hundred grams.
- Flour - 3 cups.
Ingredients of sour cream for "Medovika":
- Sour cream fat - 800 grams.
- One glass of sugar sand.
- Oil - 250-350 grams( the amount depends on the fat content of sour cream).
Step-by-step preparation of the cream:
- Wipe the butter with a fork, add a portion of sugar and mix thoroughly. Pour gradually the remaining sugar, carefully kneading it until the two components are completely connected.
- When the oil with sugar is fully connected, gradually add 1-2 tablespoons of sour cream, mixing all the ingredients well.
- Sour cream for smearing cakes is ready.
Step-by-step curing:
- In a small container put honey and melt on a small fire. After boiling, add soda, mix thoroughly. Brew until the appearance of caramel color.
- Mixer Mix two eggs with a glass of sugar and pour into a container of caramelized honey. In the resulting mixture add margarine, it is good to beat everything with a mixer.
- Put saucepan on fire again, add 1/3 of flour, whisk with a mixer. When the dough begins to thicken, heat, remove the container from the fire and continue the gradual introduction of flour, without stopping stirring.
- Cool the dough in a refrigerator or cool room, for example, on a balcony. Divide everything into several parts, roll out and bake in the oven for five minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
- When all cakes are baked, it is necessary to give them a little cool and smudge with sour cream( if an oil layer is used, the cakes must be soaked with sugar syrup).
- The cake for decorating with mastic is ready, the variant of design of the culinary specialist chooses himself and everything depends on personal wishes.
Simple recipe for cake "Smetannik"
The recipe for "Smetannika" is known to many housewives, and everyone remembers its taste from childhood, when the deficit of products stimulated women to invent delicious desserts on the basis of what was available. This cake is well suited for mastic, most importantly, do not forget about the intermediate layer - a special cream, thanks to which the mastic exactly and beautifully covers the culinary masterpiece.
Cooking products:
- Eggs - 3 pieces. Kefir, sour cream - 1,5 glasses.
- One and a half cups of sugar.
- Flour - 1,5 tbsp.
- Soda, vinegar for quenching.
- Vanillin.
- For cream, you need sour cream and sugar.
Step-by-step cake preparation:
- Combine all dough products in a deep container and mix well.
- The resulting liquid dough is divided into 3 parts, one of which is poured with cocoa to give chocolate color and taste( 2 tablespoons).
- With oven temperature of 200 degrees, bake cakes.
- For a cream it is good to whip cream or fat sour cream with granulated sugar.
- After cooling the cakes cut in half, grease with cream, let it brew.
Recipe for the "Milk Girl" cake
Beautiful lightweight name, the air cake was obtained thanks to the condensed milk from Germany "Milchmdchen".Simplicity in preparation, exquisite taste and the ability to use various creams for cakes - all this became the main reasons that dessert was liked by many housewives. In modern culinary art, the recipe for the "Milk Girl" cake is used to make a dessert decorated with mastic.
Cake recipe and the necessary ingredients:
- Bank of condensed milk.
- Two chicken eggs.
- A glass of flour.
- Baking table spoon.
For cream:
- Sugar powder - 0.5 cup.
- Cream - 400 ml.
Cooking:
- In a deep container, put the condensed milk and break the eggs. Beat up the ingredients until a uniform consistency is obtained.
- Gradually introduce baking powder, wheat flour - mix everything well.
- On the parchment draw the shape of the desired cake and pour a little dough. Bake in the oven, heated to 180 degrees - 5 minutes. Bake all the cakes, allow them to cool slightly.
- Whip the cream with sugar for the cream and smear them with the cakes.
- The top of the culinary masterpiece is covered with oil cream, so that the mastic is evenly covered and well kept.
Cake "Pancho"
Many sweet tooth are familiar with the amazing taste of the original "Pancho" cake, and in the cookbook of almost every hostess there is a recipe for this dessert. Delicate taste, unusual design and the ability to make some adjustments to create new variations of the product."Pancho" is ideal for making a cake for mastic, for example, creating a dress for a Barbie doll.
Ingredients for the cake:
- Chicken eggs - five pieces.
- Sugar is one and a half cups.
- Cocoa - 4 table spoons.
- Baking Powder - 1h.l.
- Flour - 1.5 cups.
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
For cream:
- Sour cream or cream - 3 cups.
- Sugar is one glass.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Whisk the whites until a firm white foam.
- Yolks combine and grind with sugar and whip, add protein, mix well, add flour and lemon juice.
- Add the remaining proteins, stir thoroughly until all the connections are complete.
- Finish the dough into several pieces, add cocoa to one of them. To lay out on two capacities and to bake cakes in an oven.
- To make cream, whip the sour cream with sugar until thick.
- One cake lay on the bottom of the plate, the rest cut into small cubes, which are layered, carefully pouring cream until a small slide.
- To set the cream to put the dessert in the fridge, then decorate with mastic.
The best recipes of a cream-basis for a cake for mastic
At creation of a tasty cake the important role is played by a correct choice of a cream. First, it should ideally be combined with cakes, complement them and create a harmonious taste tandem;secondly, it is necessary that he should fit the mastic, do not spread out and keep the shape well. To prepare a delicious dessert, a cream for cake with mastic based on butter, condensed milk or marzipan is suitable. See the recipes below.
Cream of boiled condensed milk
A simple but insanely tasty cream can be made from butter and boiled condensed milk. Despite the minimum number of ingredients and ease of preparation, the mass has an amazing taste and is ideal for a cake that will later be decorated with mastic. To make the cream, you need a condensed milk( 1 jar) and 30 grams of butter with a high percentage of fat.
Step by step cooking:
- Softened butter until smooth.
- Add boiled condensed milk to the container and beat at a low speed with a mixer. Do not overdo it, it is necessary that the components are well connected.
- Place the mass in the refrigerator for cooling and thickening.
- Cover the cake with cream, decorate with mastic - an amazing dessert is ready.
Oily cream on proteins
According to many culinary experts, the ideal option is to use an oil cream for mastic cake. This is due to some factors: it keeps the shape well, fits any cakes for the interlayer or can participate in decorating the product, does not allow the mastic to spread, prevents mixing of colors. Prepare a cream of oil on a protein basis is possible at home on your own.
Ingredients for preparation:
- Protein - 4 pieces.
- Oil - 300 grams.
- Salt.
- Sugar powder( sand) - 200 grams.
Step-by-step preparation of the cream:
- Squirrels are separated from the yolks and placed in a deep container.
- In the protein add sugar, heat until dissolved in a water bath, then remove from heat, allow to cool.
- Shake the oil before lush foam.
- Clean the whites with pure dry whisks, after adding a pinch of salt. Beat until a shiny foam is formed, after which gradually introduce oil, without stopping the work of the mixer.
- The cream is ready, it can be used for smearing cakes or used as a base for mastic.
Cream "Ganash"
Lovers of chocolate necessarily have to taste cream "ganache".An amazing cream-based dish can be used to prepare a variety of desserts, grease cakes when baking a cake or decor of ready-made culinary products. In addition, ganache is perfect for mastic, it helps to create a culinary masterpiece with an amazing taste.
The recipe for making ganache cream includes such ingredients:
- Chocolate black with a high percentage of cocoa content - 200 grams.
- Cream fat - 125-200 ml( the exact amount is affected by what consistency you need to get).
- Sugar powder - 2 tbsp.l.
- Butter - 50 grams.
Step-by-step cooking of "ganasha":
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces.
- Pour the cream into a deep container and put on a small fire. Constantly stirring it is necessary to bring practically to a boil.
- In hot cream, put the broken chocolate and allow to melt for five minutes.
- Add powder or sugar if you want to get a sweet cream.
- Stir all products thoroughly until all components are fully bonded.
- Allow the mass to cool slightly and gradually add oil, stirring constantly.
- Stir the cream until smooth, use it to form a cake after cooling.
Fruit yoghurt cream
Cake with yoghurt and fruit cream is ideal for creating a light dessert. To prepare, you need a minimum of ingredients, time and effort, and the finished result will win the hearts of every lover of sweet. The advantage of this cream is the possibility of using it in cakes for mastic, the main thing is to keep it in a cool place.
A prescription for the preparation of the cream will require the following ingredients:
- Fruit yoghurt - 500 grams. Whipped sour cream or cream - 200 gr.
- Gelatin - 15 grams( can be used agar-agar).
- Cold water - 50 ml.
- Fruit liquor - 20 grams.
- Fresh fruit - to taste.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Soak gelatin in water until it swells completely.
- In the cream, add sugar and whip.
- Whisk yogurt at low speed with a mixer or whisk.
- Combine the cream with yogurt, thoroughly mix the ingredients until they are fully bonded. Add the sliced fruit( peaches, bananas, strawberries - if desired) and gelatin, mix thoroughly.
- Cover the cake with cream, and after full hardening of the filling, you should start assembling the dessert.
How to align cake with mastic
In order for the cake decorated with mastic to look neat, appetizing and beautiful it is necessary to align the cream before applying the final layer. Simple actions help from classical baking to create a delicious work of art. It will win the heart not only of the originator of the celebration for which the product was prepared, but of all who will see and taste dessert. For the leveling procedure you need: a knife with a wide blade or a special culinary spatula, a small towel or paper napkins, hot water.
Cake leveling under mastic:
- Ready cake, covered with cream mastic, put in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
- Remove the cooled dessert, knife or spatula with damp in hot water, then wipe it dry, so that not a single drop of water remains, but the temperature of the instrument is preserved.
- Knife on the cream. Under the influence of a warm instrument, the cream will begin to melt and take shape, which is necessary for the cook.
- After several manipulations put the product back in a cool place and let the cream cool. Repeat the procedure until the surface is perfectly even without bumps, dimples and uneven corners or transitions. Having received the desired result, proceed to decorating the cake with mastic.
Video: how to bake a cake with mastic at home
On your birthday, you want to especially please the birthday, dear ones, surprise guests not only with a delicious dessert, but also with its original design. To prepare a culinary masterpiece, several ingredients are required: chocolate sponge cake, cream based on whipped cream with addition of curd dessert, berries for interlayer, mastic and figurines from it for decoration. The decoration, decoration of the dessert depends on the individual preferences of the birthday man, the inspiration and abilities of the master. An example of a step-by-step cake preparation and its decoration with mastic look at the video: