Do-it-yourself mastic cake is not just a beautiful and delicious dessert. It will help to express your feelings for loved ones, as well as to reveal hidden culinary talents.

How to make mastic for a cake

Cakes and pastries decorated with mastic are often on sale. They immediately attract attention: a lined surface with various decorations looks stylish and interesting. There are multi-colored and monophonic options, products concise and with lots of decorations, sweet dishes with a children's design. Birth of a baby, professional holiday, anniversary, women's day on March 8, New Year ... You can pick up a cake for any significant date.

Mastic is a plasticine-like adhesive. It is very convenient to use it for decorating desserts and making figures. It has a pleasant taste, and with proper preparation it holds its shape well.

Make a special mastic dessert for anyone who wants it. You just need to get to know this kind of cake decorating. After that, it remains only to choose the suitable option for yourself and create an exclusive culinary masterpiece.

Marshmallow Mastic

“Marshmallow” mastic for cake at home is easy to prepare and suitable for universal use. It is very popular, because it is used to cover the dessert, and to make a variety of figures.

 

You will need:

  • air marshmallow based on marshmallow pastilles - 100 g;
  • lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • icing sugar - 100 g;
  • butter (if necessary) - 1 tbsp. l

Cooking.

  1. Place the marshmallows in a suitable container and sprinkle with lemon juice.
  2. Put the container in the microwave and warm the marshmallows to increase the mass. This usually takes less than a minute. The heating process can be suspended a couple of times to mix marshmallows.
  3. Remove the mixture and knead well with a fork.
  4. Knead until smooth, adding a little powdered sugar. If you plan to use mastic to cover the cake, then add a spoonful of butter.
  5. Cool the mixture for about 1 to 2 hours.

When mastic is needed for sculpting figures, then after cooling it is added a little more powder. Sweet powder is sieved before work. If the powder particles are large, then they are crushed. Then the quality of the finished product will be at its best and the coating will not tear. Instead of white, you can take multi-colored marshmallows with additives to give the finished product a specific taste and a certain shade.

Gelatin based

It is an ideal material for the manufacture of edible flowers and leaflets, numbers, letters, figures of animals, bridges, trees and other products. It dries quickly, so wrapping them a cake is unlikely to succeed.

 

You will need:

  • gelatin - 1 tsp;
  • cold water - about 45 g;
  • lemon juice - ½ tsp;
  • icing sugar - about 100 g;
  • dye - optional.

Cooking.

  1. Put gelatin to swell in water. The term is determined according to the instructions on the package. It may take from 10 minutes to 1 hour.
  2. Heat the swollen mass (do not allow boiling).
  3. Pour lemon juice into warm gelatin and, if necessary, dye. Mix.
  4. Gradually introduce powdered sugar. It may need less than normal.
  5. Watch the appearance of future mastic. The mass should be soft, not stick to the hands and stretch well. From excess powder, it can harden too much.

Mastic prepared according to this recipe is white. It remains to wrap it in cling film and let it lie down a couple of hours before use.

Do-it-yourself color cake mastic

 

To realize your fantasies, you may need mastic of various shades. Make it easy with food colors in two ways.

  1. Add paint while mixing the marshmallow or gelatin mass.
  2. First cover the cake with a white look and allow the surface to dry. After that, stain.

The first option is more suitable in order to give an even gentle tone to a white piece of mastic of the desired size. With the second type of staining, the color is brighter. It is used to combine shades on complex figures.

Mastic cake on March 8

The biscuit is best for desserts that plan to decorate with mastic. You can use shortbread dough, honey cakes, soufflé or other types of pastries inside. But it is desirable that the top of the cake and its open sides were made of biscuit. Otherwise, there is a risk that the mastic will lose shape and flow.

 

Due to the sensitivity of "edible plasticine" to moisture, it is not recommended to fit wet cakes that are too saturated with various syrups.

The set of products for a classic biscuit is minimal. It will be required for the test:

  • egg - 4 pcs.;
  • flour and sugar - 1 glass each.

For butter cream: beat 120 g of butter and a can of condensed milk.

Cooking.

  1. Preheat the oven.
  2. Beat egg whites and sugar for about 20 minutes until a dense white foam is obtained.
  3. Add flour and yolks. Continue whipping until smooth.
  4. Lightly grease the baking sheet with butter.
  5. Pour the dough into the container.
  6. Bake for half an hour or a little more at 180 degrees. Do not open the oven during cooking.
  7. Get the finished biscuit and decorate it.

Women love flowers, therefore, as the main decoration of the cake, you can use daisies made of white mastic. The yellow mastic core of the field beauty and a few green leaves will complement the delicate picture. The cake is covered with white mastic. On the rim of the upper crust make a wreath of daisies. Feminine dessert for lovely ladies is ready.

Preparing a gift for a man on February 23

At the heart of the dessert we will use chocolate biscuit.

It will be required for the test:

  • egg - 6 pcs.;
  • flour - a glass;
  • sugar - one and a half glasses;
  • cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons.

For cream: beat a half glass of sugar and half a liter of sour cream.

Cooking.

  1. First combine and beat the sugar with the eggs.
  2. Add flour and cocoa to the mixture.
  3. Mix everything well and bake in a preheated oven until cooked.

It remains to decorate the "male" dessert.

How to decorate a cake with mastic will tell the character of a man, his age, tastes, work and favorite activities.

  • You can fashion mastic figures. For example, a tank, a screwdriver or a hammer, an airplane or a car.
  • If there is no confidence in your artistic talent, then simpler options will do. For example, the inscription "February 23" or a red star made of mastic cut using a stencil.
  • Please dear defender and cake with a simple design. For example, made in black and white. Or a dessert decorated with mastic in the form of a men's shirt.

Original children's dessert

To make your own cake with mastic "Chicken" use an ordinary biscuit. The cream is also made natural. You can apply sour cream or cream.

 

The biscuit is baked in a round shape of a small size with a rounded bottom. Make two cakes. You need to put them on top of each other to get the shape of an egg - this is the body of the future chicken. The surface of the cake is covered with yellow mastic. They make additional details: two white eyes, orange paws and beak, yellow tail, forelock and wings. Tasty and bright dessert is ready.

Birthday Mastic Cake

A delicious honey cake will not please a birthday boy in only one case if he is allergic to honey.

It will be required for the test:

  • honey - 130 g;
  • butter - 60 g;
  • egg - 3 pcs.;
  • sugar - 100 g;
  • flour - 350 g;
  • soda - a teaspoon;
  • a pinch of salt.

For cream:

  • fat sour cream - 400 g;
  • honey - 130 g.

For mastic:

  • marshmallows - 100 g;
  • icing sugar - about 300 g.

 

Cooking.

  1. Melt butter with sugar and honey in a steam bath, mix until smooth.
  2. Beat eggs.
  3. Pour the egg mixture into a slightly cooled honey mass with a thin stream, do not stop stirring.
  4. Add soda and reheat in a steam bath.
  5. After the appearance of foam on the surface of the liquid, add flour and a little salt in small portions.
  6. Knead the dough, cover and put in the refrigerator.
  7. When it cools, get and roll the cakes.
  8. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Shortcakes are baked very quickly, literally five minutes.
  9. Beat the ingredients thoroughly for the cream. Grind cakes. Remove the cake in the cold.
  10. Make mastic from marshmallows.

It's time to decorate your creation. It is possible to arrange numbers of a different color with a date of birth on a white surface from mastic. Or add some symbol of friendship. For example, 2 people made of mastic who hold hands. Or a heart. Or the inscription "best friend." You can create a whole thematic composition taking into account the tastes of the birthday man. The main thing is to connect imagination.

Sponge cake with fruit

You will need:

  • biscuit dough prepared according to the classic recipe;
  • white marshmallow mastic;
  • oil cream;
  • chocolate glaze for smudges (per 100 g of chocolate - about 70 g of butter);
  • fruits to your taste.

 

Cooking.

  1. Cream the prepared biscuit cakes with cream and put in a cold place for several hours.
  2. Get dessert and cover with white mastic.
  3. When it dries a little, top with chocolate icing. For its preparation, the butter is melted in a steam bath with chocolate.
  4. When the chocolate mass hardens, decorate the dessert with fruit, but preferably not too juicy - excess moisture can spoil the coating of mastic. Bananas, oranges, kiwi, apples are good.

How to creatively decorate a cake with mastic

 

Options for a simple but effective decoration of mastic cakes:

  1. Coat the product with mastic.Cut small elements of contrasting color with cookie cutters and decorate the surface with them. Snowflakes, small carved leaves, flowers, geometric shapes will look good.
  2. Make a mastic for the cake, roll out the pieces in the form of triangles. Place them on the cake, slightly layering on top of each other. As an additional decoration, use beads, sprinkles or other confectionery decor.
  3. Cut plain or multi-colored strips from mastic. Place them in the form of assemblies that come out of the central part of the cake and flow down the sides. You can complement the image with mastic bows.

Large figures, such as animals or voluminous flowers, are made in advance and dried. Then cleaned in the refrigerator. Take out just before decorating the dessert.

They absorb moisture, so it is best not to keep items in the air. Ready mastic can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two weeks, and in the freezer - up to 2 months. The hardened mass should be slightly warmed up in the microwave before use.

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