Winter cake decoration. New Year's cakes made from mastic. Marshmallow mastic

After the Christmas tree, Santa Claus and tangerines, one of the essential attributes of the New Year's table is, of course, cake. And not just a simple cake, but a New Year’s cake. Decorated thematically, it can become a real highlight of the holiday table, a symbol of the coming year, and delight both children and adults with its appearance. Therefore, decorating a New Year's cake is one of the main concerns of every housewife before the holiday. And there are a lot of options for such decoration!

How to decorate a New Year's cake with your own hands?

There are many different options for how to decorate a New Year's cake. For this you can use:

multi-colored cream;
mastic and figures made from it;
mastic applications;
chocolate icing;
fruits and berries;
icing;
powdered sugar;
ready-made confectionery beads, snowflakes and much more.

Of course, one of the first ideas that comes to mind is to decorate a cake for the New Year 2018 in the form of a sign of the coming year. 2018 is the year of the yellow earthen dog, and the easiest option for decorating a New Year’s cake in this case is to make a figurine of a cheerful dog from mastic. You can make the cake itself in the shape of a person’s furry friend or, for example, a kennel or doghouse. Another decoration option is to decorate the treat in the colors of the coming year (yellow, brown, ocher, sand and other shades).

Chocolate lace jewelry

This is a very popular option for decorating a New Year's cake with your own hands. It is done simply: you need to melt the chocolate, pour it into a culinary syringe and then draw Christmas trees, houses, snowflakes, simply abstract ornaments and any other decorations on a flat surface. Then they need to be placed in the refrigerator and allowed to harden. The finished figures can be either laid out horizontally on the surface of the cake or stuck vertically - you get a whole “forest” of Christmas trees. Additionally, the finished cake can be sprinkled with chocolate chips.

Decorating a New Year's cake with icing

Icing is essentially an analogue of chocolate glaze, only white. We have already written about how to make icing in this article. From it you can make the most complex figures, snowflakes, houses, even balls that will perfectly retain their shape. And of course, icing is not only beautiful, but also very tasty!

Decorating a New Year's cake with cream

Of course, any good housewife knows how to decorate a New Year's cake with pastry cream. To make the pattern natural, you need to add food coloring to the cream:

for Santa Claus's hat and fur coat - bright red;
for the Snow Maiden's clothes - blue or light blue;
for Christmas tree branches - green;
for cones - brown;
for holiday balloons - any color;
snow, if you don’t want to leave it just white, you can also paint it light blue.

Then the sweet mass is placed in a pastry syringe or bag and a pattern is squeezed out onto the surface of the cake. Additionally, the cake can be decorated with ready-made sugar beads, snowflakes and other miniature figures, which are sold in the confectionery department.

Use fruits and berries to decorate your New Year's cake

Winter is not a reason to give up vitamins hidden in the gifts of nature! Fruits and berries can also become an organic part of the composition if you decorate a New Year's cake at home. Strawberries can become hats of cheerful gnomes, and kiwi slices can be used to make a Christmas tree. Well, tangerines in any form have long become a symbol of the New Year for us!

The main rule that should be followed when decorating a New Year's cake with fruits or berries: they must be fresh and hard enough to wait in the wings, not lose their shape and not spoil the appearance of the treat.

Decoration with powdered sugar

This is perhaps one of the easiest ways. All you have to do is make or find a stencil with a New Year's theme and pour powder over it onto a cake with a flat, uniform surface.

Decorating a New Year's cake from mastic

Mastic has recently become increasingly popular in decorating confectionery products. No wonder: this elastic product perfectly retains its shape, with the help of food coloring it can be painted in almost any color, and any figures can be sculpted from it, which will last for a long time. For this purpose, special plungers are used.

A very beautiful option for decorating a New Year’s cake is to completely wrap it in fondant and then place themed figures on top. You can make the following figures from mastic, symbolizing the holiday:

Father Frost and Snow Maiden;
snowmen;
deer;
Christmas trees;
snowflakes;
balls and bells, gift boxes and much more.

Rules for decorating a New Year's cake:

To ensure that the holiday is truly a success, and that the handmade cake pleases everyone and does not blur the bright impression, follow a few tips:

Do not use fatty cream - there will be enough heavy foods on the New Year's table without it.
Practice making jewelry in advance. In the pre-holiday bustle, there will already be a lot of problems, and complex decorations that you are making for the first time may simply not work out.
If you are expecting little ones to visit, it is better to do without a large number of artificial colors and tint the cream with berry juices.
Do not weigh down the decorations: the structure should be stable and the figures should hold up well. It will be a shame if the Christmas tree or Santa Claus falls at the most crucial moment.

If you find a beautiful photo on the Internet, do not try to create an exact copy: as a rule, the most beautiful jewelry is created not by copying, but by inspiration.
You shouldn’t try to make a lot of decorations at once; it’s better to add a few, but elegant and harmonious ones.
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How to make mastic at home

One of the most popular ways to decorate a cake is with mastic, mainly because it provides almost limitless scope for imagination. It’s easy to work with, easy to roll out and paint, it takes and holds any shape, and most importantly, it’s easy to make with your own hands.

Necessary ingredients for making mastic jewelry at home:

marshmallows - 100 grams;
powdered sugar - 1 cup;
potato starch - 0.5 cups;
butter - 1 teaspoon.

If you do not plan to use the mastic immediately, then also add citric acid on the tip of a knife or a teaspoon of lemon juice. Then you need to wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for up to 1 month, and in the freezer for 2-4 months. If you are decorating the cake right now, replace the lemon juice with a tablespoon of milk.

So, melt the marshmallows in the microwave or in a water bath. In the microwave, 20-25 seconds at maximum power is enough. Every 10 seconds you need to check to make sure nothing is burning.

Add a teaspoon of butter to the melted marshmallows and, depending on the planned time of use of the product, milk or lemon juice. Mix everything thoroughly.

Then, sifting little by little to avoid the appearance of lumps, add powdered sugar and starch, kneading the mastic little by little - first with a spoon, then with your hands on a silicone mat. If it is not there, a cutting board wrapped in cling film can successfully replace it.

When the mastic stops sticking to your hands and becomes plastic, it is ready. If it crumbles, it means there is a lot of powdered sugar in it.

At this stage, you can add food coloring of the desired colors.

How to cover a cake with fondant?

The first thing you need to do for this is to roll it out evenly. We do this on the same silicone mat or cutting board with cling film. Then we will transfer the mastic from them onto the cake. If it sticks during the process, lightly sprinkle with starch.

Then we place the rolled out layer of mastic on top of the surface of the cake, this should be done with a large margin around the edges. We remove the mat and carefully, with our hands, fit the mastic to the cake quite tightly on all sides, then carefully cut it along the contour with a roller knife.

You can make a decoration from the leftover mastic. For example, roll it into two thin sausages, intertwine them and place the cake along the bottom edge, or sculpt figures and other decorations. If it does not stick, lubricate the parts that should stick together with water.

Now a little imagination - and you can make a unique cake decoration for the New Year that only you will have!

Watch also a video about how you can decorate a cake in a New Year's style:

The original appearance of the cake will cheer up your guests and turn an ordinary dessert into a small New Year's miracle. A homemade cake will allow the hostess to demonstrate her culinary skills and ability to beautifully decorate a dish.

Various figurines, chocolate and mastic products, unusually shaped cakes - any pastry can become a masterpiece.

Features and rules for decorating cakes for the New Year

Preparing dessert for the New Year differs from regular cooking - because on this day, in addition to sweets, you need to prepare a large number of salads, appetizers and main dishes. Lack of experience also takes its toll - after all, New Year-themed cakes only have to be prepared once a year.

Cake Decorating Features:

There is no need to make the decorations on the cake too fatty - there are already enough foods that are heavy on the stomach on the holiday table;
You need to practice creating jewelry in advance. On December 31, there will be enough worries, and it will be difficult to learn something new in the pre-holiday bustle.

Cake decorating rules:

Do not overuse artificial colors, especially if there are small children among the guests. The product can be given a beautiful color using berry juice;
When decorating a cake, do not overdo it with its design - the product should be stable, and the decorations should stay on it securely;
Don’t set out to make an exact copy of the cake in the picture – often the most beautiful decorations are created on your own when inspiration strikes during the making process.

In case of unsuccessful decoration attempts, there is no need to panic - the mistake can always be corrected or hidden by adding new decorations to the confectionery product.

How to decorate a cake for the New Year of the Rooster 2017

There are plenty of ways to decorate the finished cake, but we must not forget that the year of the rooster is coming, and he has his own preferences. The rooster's favorite delicacy is seeds, nuts and puffed corn. If all this is not planned in decorating the cake, then the cake itself can be cereal or nut.

Cake decoration options:

Marzipan figures.

This year, the figurine of a rooster on the finished product is relevant. The bird can be easily sculpted due to the simple shape of its body.

To sculpt a rooster, you will need marzipan - plastic almond paste (preferably in several colors) and skills in handling plasticine. You can buy ready-made marzipan in the store, choosing the desired colors for your cockerel.

First we form the body in the shape of a droplet, then we make a head from a ball. We create the wings and tail from marzipan cakes, cut through the feathers with a knife. From red marzipan we add a comb, beak and beard to the head. Draw the eyes with black dye.

You can add a hen and several chicks to the rooster.

Chocolate decorations.

For decoration, chocolate is melted and poured into a pastry bag. With this chocolate you can draw openwork snowflakes, Christmas trees, and snow drifts. The figures can be placed vertically in the cake - such a decoration will be very elegant.

When cutting the cake, the figures will be damaged, so it is better to decorate the cake in cut form. Or group decorations so that they do not fall under the cut line. White chocolate will create real “snow”, and dark chocolate will make beautiful spruce trees.

Sugar elements.

This method is suitable for beginners who are not sure that they can make jewelry on their own. Confectionery stores have a large selection of ready-made sweet figures: shiny beads, snowflakes, stars, leaves. From such a set you can lay out a picture or decorate the edges of the cake.

Fruit decoration.

A fruit decoration will be more useful than a sweet design. You can build a Christmas tree from green kiwi pulp and add toy berries to it. Or cut out different shapes from fruits and lay them on the surface of the cake. Also, bright berries will perfectly decorate a New Year's dessert.

Decoration with powdered sugar.

After cutting out stencils of images from paper, you can place them on the cake and thickly sprinkle the rest of the surface with powdered sugar. With its help, you can paint entire pictures on a confectionery product.

Some jewelry options can be combined with each other, others look better without unnecessary elements. Before you start designing the product, you need to decide on a design and stick to it.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic and recipes for its preparation

Mastic is a sweet and very plastic material that can be used to beautifully cover a cake. Various figures are also made from mastic. Dyes will allow you to decorate the mastic and add brightness to the finished product.

You can buy ready-made sugar paste, but the most delicious sugar paste is made at home.

Marshmallow mastic

Marshmallow mastic is quick to prepare and easy to use: it colors evenly, rolls out easily and takes any shape.

Marshmallow (marshmallow) – 100 g;
Powdered sugar – 1 cup;
Water – 3 tbsp. l;
Butter – 1 tbsp. l.

Cut the marshmallow into small pieces, add water and place in a water bath. When the marshmallows begin to dissolve, add oil to the pan. Once the marshmallows become a homogeneous mass, it’s time to remove them from the stove.

Now you need to add powdered sugar and stir the mass without stopping.

If the spoon starts to get stuck, mix the mixture with your hands.

The mastic should feel like elastic dough to the touch; it will be ready when it stops sticking to your hands.

Gelatin based mastic

This mastic is very convenient for sculpting figures and decorations.

To prepare you will need:

Gelatin – 10 g;
Water – 2 tbsp. l.;
Lemon juice – 1 tsp;
Powdered sugar – 500 g.

Gelatin is soaked in water for 20 minutes, and then heated over low heat until completely dissolved. The mixture must be stirred and not allowed to boil.

Pour half of the powdered sugar onto the table and form a mound with a depression. Pour lemon juice and gelatin into it and mix the mastic, gradually adding the remaining powder. You need to stir until smooth, then wrap the mass in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a while.

Milk mastic

This is a universal mastic - it is convenient to use it to create both decorations and cake coating.

To prepare mastic you will need:

Powdered milk – 180 g;
Condensed milk – 1 can;
Powdered sugar – 180 g;
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.

Powdered sugar is combined with dry milk, lemon juice is added and everything is mixed. Now gradually add condensed milk and stir the mass until thick. If the mastic crumbles, you need to add a little more lemon juice.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic

Covering cakes.

Using mastic, a smooth coating is created on the top of the product and its sides. To cover with mastic, the surface of the cake must be leveled - there should be no bumps or pits.

When preparing the mastic for coating, it needs to be rolled out to a thickness of 5 mm. You need to cover the product with mastic carefully, leveling all the folds and cutting off the excess with a knife. If the mastic is applied not very beautifully, you can hide the imperfections with decoration - figures, glaze or inscriptions with cream will do.

Stucco compositions.

Figures of varying complexity are made from mastic. To make them, you can buy ready-made stamps - mastic is applied to them, and then the figure is squeezed out of the mold. The figures are also sculpted by hand - the consistency of the mastic resembles plasticine, so even children can handle the sculpting.

Rules for working with mastic:

To prevent the mastic from sticking to the table, it must be sprinkled with starch;
The mastic should be stored in a hermetically sealed container so that neither air nor water disturbs the consistency of the mass;
Ready-made mastic products can be lubricated with a solution of vodka and honey (1:1). The smell of vodka will disappear from the product, and the figures and glaze will acquire a mirror shine;
To obtain a bright color from the mastic, during the preparation of the mixture you can add coloring juice: beetroot, blueberry, cherry;
When adding dyes to the mastic, the mass must be thoroughly mixed to obtain a uniform color.

Ideas for decorating a New Year's cake

In the New Year, magic surrounds us everywhere. You can even create it yourself using an unusual cake.

Original ideas for cake decoration in 2017:

Glowing house.

Making and glazing a biscuit house will take a lot of time, but the effect of such a cake will be considerable. The LED is placed inside the house, and the cake itself is served in a room with dim lighting. Thanks to the light in the windows, the house immediately comes to life, and the cake itself is remembered for a long time.

Volumetric figure.

Using a large amount of mastic, an ordinary biscuit can be decorated as a symbol of the New Year 2017 or a large Christmas tree decoration.

Waffle delicacy for children.

If a separate holiday pie is being prepared for children, then it can be simply and deliciously decorated with waffle sticks. Children will love the beautiful appearance of the crunchy treat.

When serving dessert, you can buy sparklers instead of ordinary candles - then the impression of the unusual appearance of the product will be even stronger.

Conclusion

When decorating a cake, you should pay attention to the following points:

You need to think in advance about the design of the cake and the products needed to make it;
If you have no experience in decorating confectionery products, you should practice and master all the nuances before the new year;
All products should be fresh, if possible, use more natural ingredients - fruits, berries, nuts;
When decorating a cake, be sure to stop in time - a large pile of various decorations can look sloppy.

An unusual and beautifully decorated cake will be the best gift for the whole family.

In this short article we will discuss in detail the main ways to prepare delicious New Year cakes with different types of mastic. Delicious homemade cake mastic is far from a myth!

Are you ready to try yourself as a chef at the best pastry shop in the city? Then let's begin!

Mastic cakes

Such dishes are becoming increasingly popular and are a favorite treat for most people with a sweet tooth. not only very tasty - they can be considered an undeniable decoration of any holiday table.

For any holiday, you can order the main dish from those who bake them at home, or buy them in a store. But if you yourself have culinary talents, you can easily make a cake from

Of course, this will require some ingredients, but they will be cheaper than the store-bought desserts themselves.

New Year Cake

New Year is considered one of the most beloved holidays by many, and everyone tries to celebrate it with a rich table with all kinds of dishes and drinks, snacks, desserts and fruits. That is, so that it is unforgettable, bright and elegant in all respects.

A mastic cake for the New Year will be a stunning decoration for your table, and you will delight your family and friends with it.

So, what recipes do exist and how to prepare the dish at home? To do this, you should consider several different options to choose the one that you like best.

Come up with original ideas for cooking with mastic, and let them become a real decoration for your table and a symbol of the holiday!

Bring homemade sweet mastic dishes to life in a variety of forms. Will it be roses, animals, nature, soccer balls, dolls or butterflies - it all depends only on your imagination and skill.

Mastic cake for the New Year is a delicious treat for the whole family!

Materials for work

In general, you will need standard materials for baking, the same as when preparing other desserts. That is, this is a mixer with attachments (if you want to decorate the dessert with cream).

The only thing that distinguishes mastic desserts from other cakes is the preparation of the mastic itself. There are simpler and more complex cooking recipes that require a sufficient amount of time and effort. But as a result, you will receive a wonderful gift - a mastic cake for the New Year!

These are unique and attractive desserts for the real sweet tooth with an attractive vanilla aroma. If you have dreamed of trying such a cake, then it’s time to prepare it for the New Year’s table with your own hands!

At home, you can overcome even the most difficult obstacles of relatively unusual shapes and volumes, because the main thing is to study some aspects of the cooking process and master them in practice.

However, preparing the mastic itself will require a certain amount of time and effort. It is important that it is made beautifully and placed on the cake in the same way. Choose one of the proposed options and decorate your holiday table with such an interesting dish as a mastic cake for the New Year! Please your family and friends with them!

In fact, mastic will be the main part of the entire process of creating a dessert, so you need to start cooking with it.

We present to your attention the basic ideas and recipes for mastic.

Ingredients for cooking

We will need:

About 150 grams of marshmallows. It is sold in bags in any store. Therefore, first of all, you will need to acquire this component.

About a tablespoon of butter.

A bag of powdered sugar (100 g), with an extra supply just in case.

For preparing colored mastic.

You don’t have to use marshmallows in this recipe, you can make do with the rest of the ingredients. The main thing is that there is powdered sugar and the consistency during the cooking process is homogeneous.

Cooking process

To prepare the mastic, prepare a deep bowl. First you need to pour 100 grams of marshmallows into it. Then add butter there, mix until smooth and put in the microwave.

You need to keep this whole mass in the oven for no more than 20 seconds so that it softens slightly.

In addition, the mass should increase in volume. Take it out of the microwave, add powdered sugar (100 grams) and mix until smooth.

Gradually add powdered sugar and mix the mixture again until smooth.

All that remains is to divide the mastic into parts and add dyes to each part.

So, that's all you need to make mastic cream at home. Another thing you shouldn’t forget about is inspiration and care during the cooking process, so as not to make mistakes and not spoil anything.

Preparation

So, our mastic cream is ready. Now we are faced with the main task: prepare the cake and decorate it.

In addition to mastic, you can use custard. He will complement her well. But under no circumstances should you experiment with protein. In this case, it is not quite suitable in terms of structure and taste.

You can make dessert from any dough you want. But custard and puff pastry are not quite suitable.

But the best option would still be a sponge cake. The prepared mastic for decoration can first be rolled out into thin layers, then placed between the layers of the dessert and coated with it on the top and sides.

Additionally, you can cut out any figures using special molds, which can also be purchased in the store.

As you can see, this is a simple recipe for making mastic at home. But there are even more complex methods, for example, the same dish made from gelatin. This recipe is radically different from the first. Not only that gelatin needs to be added to the cream, glycerin is also added.

Ingredients for making gelatin mastic

You will need:

1.5 teaspoons of gelatin;
1.5 tbsp. spoons of glucose;
2 teaspoons glycerin;
about half a kilogram of powdered sugar;
a couple of tablespoons of water.

To prepare such an interesting dish as mastic for a cake at home from gelatin, you need to be more careful.

Preparation

So, the first thing to do is add water to the gelatin and put it in the microwave, but only for no more than ten seconds. You should not allow the gelatin to boil; you just need to warm it up a little.

Add glycerin and glucose to the gelatin before it cools.

The result should be a homogeneous mass, after which we gradually add powdered sugar into it and continue mixing until smooth.

If, as in the previous option, you plan to use dyes, then the finished mastic should also be divided into several parts, pour the desired dye into each and stir so that the color is saturated.

There is another option - honey is ideal for those who love cakes with this ingredient.

Honey mastic for cake, step by step recipe

To prepare this cake mastic you will need:

approximately 400 grams of powdered sugar;
a couple of tablespoons of honey;
the same amount of butter (you can use margarine instead);
a pack of gelatin;
six tablespoons of water.

This recipe is perhaps one of the most complex of those presented in this article.

Preparation

In order to prepare honey mastic, you should first dissolve gelatin in water.

After the gelatin has dissolved, let it cool to room temperature.

Then honey and butter (or margarine) are added and everything is quickly mixed until smooth.

Add half of the existing powdered sugar, mix again and, pouring in the remaining half, also thoroughly knead the mass.

Mastic with honey will turn out very tasty, but we must not forget that the consistency of the mass should be firm and elastic.

At the end of preparing the dough, divide the resulting mass into several parts in the same way and roll out into thin layers (to place it on the cake itself) or create figures on the cake from mastic.

This is a great dessert option for the New Year, and you can make a New Year's Monkey honey cake with figures of these animals. You will definitely love this dish!

By the way, you can make mastic cake figures either with your own hands or using special molds purchased in the store.

To make the holiday fabulous and unforgettable, make mastic cakes for the New Year - believe me, this is the best solution!

Decorate any celebration with these wonderful dishes, because they not only look quite original, but are also considered very tasty. Just don’t forget to soak the cakes with liqueur or cognac, but only in small quantities, because mastic does not favor moisture too much.

Before preparing the main dish of this article, consider the options for master classes (MK). Mastic cakes will make your holiday unforgettable.

Summarize

Ready to cook? Then feel free to start creating a delicious delicacy that will appeal not only to children, but also to adults.

Homemade mastic cakes are an amazing dessert that is definitely worth trying. Everyone will love this dish!

New Year's cakes made from mastic are the best holiday gifts for both children and adults!

Hi all! Today we are preparing delicious treats and cakes for the New Year 2019. The note promises to be interesting and unforgettable. We will prepare real and magnificent culinary masterpieces at home, get ready it will be hot.

This is a selection of the top 10 best and coolest recipes, choose any creation and decorate your festive table with it on New Year's Eve. Light candles, shout hurray, and let off fireworks. In general, have fun until the morning. By the way, if you don’t yet know what you will cook, what kind, and most importantly, then don’t worry. You can find thousands of ideas and gifts on my blog.

It seems to me that a cake is such a work of art that not everyone can do it, but again, among the various options, you can always find simple and not complicated recipes that even novice cooks and housewives can handle. For example, such a fragrant pie as Charlotte in sour cream sauce, decorated with nuts, if presented charmingly, will also certainly please everyone; on this site http://bitbat.ru/pyshnaya-sharlotka.html you will find its recipe.

As I already said, it is not always necessary to have supernatural abilities to create something beautiful and expressive. The first option will be simple and quite fast, absolutely anyone can do it, and this miracle looks no worse than other sophisticated culinary creations.

Therefore, if you are preparing a cake for the first time, then start with this option, it will be with oranges, just what you need, the New Year's atmosphere will be ensured. And you will definitely succeed!

But, I would also like to remind you that I have a cool selection, in general all the ingredients are taken ready-made, these can be corn sticks, cookies, gingerbread, in general, I advise you to look.

Or here’s another idea, for novice housewives, you can make it, because it also looks divine, if you know how beautifully it can be decorated, it’s easier than such a cake, as if nothing could happen.

We will need:

Egg – 2 pcs.
Sugar – 4 tbsp
Cocoa – 2 tbsp
Flour – 6 tbsp
Starch (potato) – 2 tbsp
Baking powder – 2 tsp
Milk – 10 tbsp
Vegetable oil – 6 tbsp
Vanillin – 0.5 g
Salt – 1/3 tsp

Sour cream (fat content 20%) – 250 ml
Powdered sugar – 2-3 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients, this is 6 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp starch, 3 tsp baking powder, vanillin and cocoa. Mix.

2. Break two eggs into a bowl and add 4 tablespoons of sugar, whisk with a whisk until the sugar dissolves a little. Add salt and 10 tbsp milk. Add all dry mixed ingredients and stir. The consistency will be liquid.

3. Now add vegetable oil to the prepared dough and stir with a whisk.

4. Take a microwave-safe glass mold, grease it with vegetable oil and pour out all the dough.

5. Place the dish in the microwave and cook at 750 W for 8-9 minutes. The biscuit will rise three times and will not fall.

6. Remove from the mold and cut it into 2-3 cakes.

7. While the shortcakes are resting, make the cream, mix the sour cream with powder and beat. Assemble the cake, coat each layer with cream. Also sprinkle with chocolate or coconut shavings and scatter the berries. The cake is ready, enjoy your tea.

New Year's cake recipe for the festive table

This option will be more complicated than the previous one, but the note is so large that I think from the whole variety of recipes you will still find something you can handle.

Therefore, look and choose for yourself, because the main thing is to start doing something and, of course, if you follow all the instructions, you will succeed!

We will need:

Shortbread dough:

yolk - 1 pc.
butter - 60 g
flour - 90 g
baking powder - 1/3 tsp

Biscuit dough:

flour - 150 g
egg - 3 pcs.
protein - 3 pcs.
sugar - 75 g
butter - 30 g

orange juice – 230 g
yolk - 2 pcs.
corn starch - 20 g
sugar - 30 g
zest of half an orange
chocolate - 60 g
butter - 120 g
orange pulp - 100 g

Cooking method:

1. First, make the custard and while it cools, prepare the dough. So, put sugar and starch in a saucepan, add 2 yolks and gradually start pouring in the juice from the oranges, mix with a whisk. Place on the stove and add the orange zest, stirring over low heat, bring the mixture to a boil, and then heat for half a minute.

Then turn it off and add white chocolate to the hot cream, which you have previously chopped into pieces. Wait a couple of minutes for it to warm up in the mixture, and then stir until it melts. Cool the cream by pushing it aside. Cover it with cling film to prevent it from drying out.

2. Now make the dough, to do this, add baking powder and a pinch of salt to the flour, mix. In another bowl, beat the softened butter with a mixer, then add the yolk and beat further.

Then add the flour mixture and mix a few turns of the mixer.

You will get a pretty good crumb, gather everything into a lump with your hands.

3. Place parchment paper and a square mold with a diameter of 16 cm on the table. Gently spread the dough with your hands. Then pierce it with a fork all over the surface and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

4. Now make biscuit shortcakes; there should be three of them. Melt the butter in a container. In another bowl, beat the whites with a pinch of salt, and after the foam becomes white and fluffy, add one spoon of sugar. Beat very thoroughly.

Beat three eggs with the remaining sugar, beat until stiff peaks form so that you can see a pattern on the surface. After this, add flour and stir.

Combine the protein mass with the dough, and at the very end add melted butter. Stir. Pour the dough into a special mold or baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees until ready for 10 minutes. The biscuit is ready. You need to get three biscuit shortcakes, you need to bake either one 16x16 biscuit, and then cut it into three parts, or bake it separately.

Now remove the shortbread base from the refrigerator and bake for 10-12 minutes in the oven.

5. After the custard base has cooled, add butter and whisk. The orange cream is ready, put it in the refrigerator to thicken.

Important! Add oil in small portions!

Next, assemble the cake. Place the first shortbread. Apply cream and place orange slices in random order. Then the biscuit layer comes next, soak it with orange juice, grease it with cream, etc., do it with the rest of the cakes.

Coat all sides with cream as well.

6. And then sprinkle with coconut flakes or any other sweet powder. Decorate with orange roses. It will take its rightful place on your table. Bon appetit!

By the way, you can make it as a dessert for the New Year

Video on how to make a cake for New Year 2019

Of course, in the year of the pig, we want to decorate the cake in some way so that our friend will appreciate it. I suggest you make a pattern from hot chocolate, and then color it, watch and learn:

Delicious cake made from ready-made shortcakes with fruits

Now let's make another new product from shortcakes, assemble the cake quickly and easily. Decorate with fruits and berries and our dessert will be ready. I think many people will really like this idea.

For this sweet pastry, take ready-made shortcakes; if you know how to bake, then prepare your own according to your favorite recipe, the main thing is that they should be biscuit-like.

We will need:

Ready-made cakes - 3 pcs.
Condensed milk - 1 can
Butter - 1 pack
Walnuts - 1 tbsp.
Jam syrup - 1 tbsp.
Chocolate
Fruit, powdered sugar and mint for decoration

Cooking method:

1. Add condensed milk to the butter and mix with a mixer. Next, take the first shortbread and soak it in the jam syrup. Then grease the surface of the biscuit with the resulting cream. Sprinkle with walnuts; grind them in a blender.

2. Take your time, do everything slowly, then put out another shortbread again and also grease it with syrup, cream and sprinkle with nuts. Grease the third cake layer in the same way.

3. Grate the chocolate to form shavings.

4. Yes, grease the sides and sides with the remaining cream; it’s convenient to do this with a silicone brush. Now sprinkle with grated chocolate.

5. And now the simplest thing is to place strawberries and blueberries or blueberries in the middle, you can put walnuts. In general, create so that your masterpiece turns out original and unique. Bon appetit! Can be served and drunk with tea!

Christmas tree cream cake recipe

The base of this cake will be biscuit dough. Bake the shortbread yourself, or use this video in which you will learn how to properly bake a sponge cake for any cake or cookie:

Well, to make a Christmas tree, you will need to cut the finished baked biscuit. Read on and see for yourself.

We will need:

protein - 2 pcs.
sugar - 150 g
water - 40 ml
food coloring in different colors
vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
citric acid - a pinch

Cooking method:

1. Place the cake on parchment paper or a silicone mat.

Using a stencil, cut out a Christmas tree from plain paper, simply attach the sheet and cut it with a knife. Or you can use a ready-made Christmas tree mold and then you won’t have to cut anything.

Important! Add green food coloring to the cream.

To make the cream: pour sugar into a container and add water, put on fire to boil the syrup. As soon as it starts to thicken, start beating the egg whites in the mixer bowl.

Beat the whites until fluffy. Add citric acid to the syrup. And then add the prepared syrup into the foam in a thin stream, stirring with a mixer whisk, and beat.

3. Since we are making a Christmas tree, we need to add food coloring to the cream and stir.

And then, using a special attachment, make needles, take the star attachment and use it to decorate the sides of the Christmas tree, and then the tree itself.

4. You will get such a beautiful and magnificent Christmas tree.

5. Decorate it with garlands and toys in the form of a different color of cream, draw zigzags and toys. The Christmas tree turned out lush and delicate. Bon appetit!

New Year's cake made from mastic

Do you like to create miracles with mastic? Or maybe you don’t know what it is? Don’t miss the special issue and you will definitely love these decorations, because it’s like plasticine and it’s very easy to put into our hands, and the result is simply super:

The guests are delighted, everyone is surprised, there is a good festive mood and the party is a success))).

DIY cake Royal Honey cake

Oddly enough, for many lovers of the sweet life, the most delicious cake is always the one called Honey cake. And for good reason, let’s decorate it today in a festive way so that we can serve it on New Year’s Eve 2019.

Moreover, such interesting decorations will be used here; your guests will definitely not believe that it was you who made this cake. So, let's go...

We will need:

butter - 80 g
sugar - 150 g
honey-110 g
soda - 2 tsp
eggs - 3 pcs
cocoa-40 g
flour-380 g

milk-900 ml
eggs-4 pcs.
sugar-200 g
flour - 50 g
chocolate-150 g

Cooking method:

1. Break eggs, sugar and flour into a bowl. Stir. Then vanilla sugar, mix.

In another cup, warm the milk, but do not boil it, just bring it to a boil. After this, gradually begin to introduce milk into the egg mixture. Mix thoroughly with a whisk. Place the cream on the stove and simmer over low heat until thickened.

2. The custard base will cook for approximately 9 minutes. Next, add chocolate to the still hot base and stir until it melts.

Cover the resulting cream with cling film to cool.

3. While the cream is cooling, make the dough. Take flour, add cocoa to it. Place liquid honey, butter and sugar, vanilla sugar in another container. Place in a water bath and heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

As soon as you see that the sugar has dissolved, add baking soda and stir. The resulting mass will become lighter and more fluffy. Now add the eggs and stir. Gradually add dry ingredients.

4. This is how you will get such a tight, soft and elastic dough. Dust with flour and cocoa and knead.

5. Divide the dough into 9 equal parts, these are the naughty balls you will get.

6. Roll each ball into a circle with a diameter of 20 cm, to do this, place it on parchment paper, cover it with a plastic bag on top, and then mark it with a plate.

Remove excess dough with a knife, but do not throw it away. Then remove the film and prick the cake with a fork.

7. Place in a baking dish and bake for 5 minutes at 180 degrees.

When all the shortcakes are ready, assemble the cake. Grease each base with cream.

8. And then take all sorts of goodies and sweets. Use anything like an ice cream cone and candy or nuts.

9. And lay out all the products like this. Such a beauty and a great impression, and the taste. Bon appetit!

Master class on preparing the sweet dessert Snowman

For a children's table, I recommend making a Snowman, and take sponge cakes, cut them in the form of two circles, this will be the body, and then decorate with cream and draw eyes and a mouth. You can do this from mastic, or put two techniques together, in general, see for yourself:

Clock cake for New Year's table

I also wanted to present and show you the recipe in an unusual way, this means that we will add a secret ingredient, imagine, pumpkin.

The rest of the products will be ordinary, there will be no wisdom or anything you don’t know. And orange cream will give you a touch of tenderness. The decoration itself will be in the form of a watch, which will undoubtedly delight others.

By the way, you can use your favorite cream, for example, protein custard, it will also turn out very tasty.

We will need:

peeled pumpkin - 400 g
walnuts - 70 g
egg - 4 pcs.
sugar - 0.2 kg
vegetable oil - 0.2 kg
orange zest - 1 pc.
flour - 400 g
baking powder - 2 tsp
cinnamon - 2 tsp

juice of a whole orange and zest
sugar - 3 tbsp
cream - 1 l
powdered sugar - 6 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Grate the pumpkin pulp on a fine grater, but not on a coarse grater, otherwise the cake will not be baked. Pumpkin should be bright and sweet.

Lightly beat the eggs and sugar using a mixer or food processor. Then pour in vegetable oil. Then grate the zest of one orange on a fine grater.

Add salt, baking powder and cinnamon to the flour, mix. Add this mixture to the eggs and stir with a spoon. The dough will be thick. Add pumpkin, this will make the dough thinner.

At the very end, add chopped walnuts.

2. After this, cover the sheet with parchment and pour the dough into flat cakes. To make it easier, draw circles with a diameter of 20 cm on the back of the parchment with a pencil.

This is a cake for the lazy; you can bake two layers on one baking sheet at the same time.

3. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees on medium level. Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Important! The oven must be preheated in advance.

Bake all the remaining shortcakes in this way, you will get 20 pieces.

4. Make the cream, mix orange juice and zest of 1 orange and add 3 tablespoons of sugar and simmer for 15 minutes, then cool to room temperature. Beat the cream and powdered sugar with a mixer. As soon as the cream begins to thicken, add the orange base.

Grease all the shortcakes with cream.

5. Use an 8-tooth star tip to decorate the sides and top. This is done from the bottom up, just draw a line and remove excess cream each time.

6. Draw curls along the top using gel dye. Then make the cones. To do this, prick a corn stick on a stick and use a syringe to make petals in a circle, as if you were making a rose.

7. Plant the cones on the cake and also make leaves.

8. All that remains is to draw the dial and now the elegant and chic cake is ready.

DIY cake made from sweets and chocolates

Perhaps you are already familiar with this creation, this cake is called Kit Kat, why is there such a name, everything is very simple. The candies will be of this particular brand, or rather bars.

This option will be low-cost in terms of time, because almost everything is taken as a basis ready-made. This is the easiest cake to make; if you want to quickly make a sweet dessert, you’ve found what you need.

We will need:

ready-made sponge cakes - 2 pcs.
ready-made cake cream - 1 package
kit-kat bars - 3 pcs.
M&M's dragee - 100 g

Cooking method:

1. Take the finished cake and brush it with cream. Then place the second one and also saturate the entire surface with cream, grease the sides a little.

3. Sprinkle the top with colorful jelly beans. So a sweet miracle happened. Bon appetit!

New cake recipe for the year of the yellow pig Red Velvet

New this year is everyone’s favorite Velvet, let’s learn how to bake it correctly. After all, this cake has been gaining more and more activity lately. The secret, of course, is in the original cream, and of course in the color of the cakes.

If you have never tried this option, be sure to give it a try, it will be very tasty!

We will need:

output - 3 pcs.
wheat flour - 470 g
sugar - 430 g
butter - 150 g
vegetable oil without taste and smell - 70 g
buttermilk (kefir) – 360 g
chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
cocoa powder – 25 g
vanilla sugar - 15 g
baking powder - 10 g (1 sachet)
soda - 4 g or 1 tsp
salt - 2 g or 0.5 tsp
food coloring - 10 g or 1 tbsp

Philadelphia cheese – 350 g
cream 33% - 400 g
powdered sugar - 140 g
vanilla sugar - 10 g

Cooking method:

1. Combine the sifted flour with flour, salt, baking powder and soda.

Buttermilk needs to be mixed with dye and stirred, you get a red color.

Important! Use only food coloring, not the kind sold for eggs.

Combine butter with half the sugar, beat with a mixer for 1 minute, add the remaining sugar and vanilla sugar, vegetable oil. Stir. Then add eggs at room temperature and beat with a mixer for 4-5 minutes.

2. This way you will get a red dough. Look how expressive it looks.

3. Place the dough in a silicone mold and distribute a third of the dough into it. Bake in a preheated oven for 30-35 minutes at 170 degrees, on the middle shelf. Next, pull it out and only after 15 minutes remove it from the mold.

Bake 2 cakes in the same way. Cut off the tops of the shortbreads and mash into crumbs.

4. Stir the cream cheese until smooth. In another bowl, beat the chilled cream until it forms soft peaks. Add powdered sugar, vanilla sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.

Then carefully add the cream cheese, slowly stirring with the beaters of the mixer.

5. Now all that remains is to assemble the cake. To do this, lay out the first sponge cake and grease it with cream, then the second sponge cake and cream, and also the third.

Grease the sides and top with cream. Scatter the crumbs.

6. And the top can be decorated in the form of cream flowers. Place the cake in the refrigerator to soak for 3-4 hours. This is an amazing option, delicious discoveries!

How to decorate a cake for New Year

A home-made cake is not only tasty and original, but it is also a great indicator of the skills of the hostess. This is especially true for holidays, for example, New Year's celebrations.

Not a single guest will remain indifferent to such a culinary masterpiece, because it will not only be made with love and diligence, but will also become the center of the New Year's feast. Next, let's talk about how to decorate a cake for the New Year 2018.

New Year's celebrations, according to generally accepted rules, always take place under the symbol of the coming year, which means that homemade sweet pastries should reflect not only the festive mood, but also represent a kind of talisman, so the cake needs to have a specific idea.

It is known that the next year 2018 will be held under the symbol of the Dog, so the hostess can skillfully depict this in the form of a mastic figurine.

So, 2018 is the Year of the Dog, but not a simple one, but an Earthy one, so it will be possible to prepare mastic in the appropriate yellowish or brownish shades, cover it with a festive delicacy, and on top of it, using special culinary tools, depict the figure of a dog.

You can use any product for this: it can be chocolate (dark, milk or white), whipped cream, or meringue made from raw egg whites whipped with sugar. Moreover, a dog can also be depicted as a figurine made of mastic; this is done quite simply, because everyone remembers well how in childhood they sculpted animal figures from plasticine.

The principle of working with mastic is no different here. Mastic can be prepared in absolutely any color by adding natural food coloring during preparation.

Don’t forget about the numbers “2018”, which can be made both from mastic and from other products, for example, from marzipan or colored sugar dragees. You can also use various fruits, from the slices of which you can lay out numbers and inscriptions.

But shiny confectionery shavings, reminiscent of gold or silver plating, will look especially beautiful. By the way, it is precisely this that is worth paying special attention to, since it is at the New Year’s celebration that a large abundance of brilliant decorative elements in the interior and cooking is welcomed.

There are a number of other win-win options for decorating a birthday cake for the New Year, which will definitely remain in the memory of guests and household members as a sign of the hostess’s high culinary and design skills:

In general, a festive New Year's cake can be decorated in absolutely any way, the main thing is not to forget about the main theme of the celebration and select ideas as close to it as possible.

Ways to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic

Mastic has recently become very popular among confectioners who receive individual orders for preparing holiday cakes, because it is thanks to it that cakes turn into works of art. The coming New Year 2018 can also be met with such a sweet masterpiece. Mastic is not so easy to buy in a store, but it is very easy to prepare at home.

There are several recipes for making mastic, and one of them will be based on the use of the popular children's treat marshmallow, which resembles a sticky marshmallow.

Method No. 1 – marshmallow mastic. The recipe will require the following products:

Preparing mastic according to this recipe will take no more than 1 hour in total; the calorie content of the product per 100 g will be approximately 345 kcal.

How to cook:

Method No. 2 – gelatin mastic. The following products will be required here:

This mastic also takes about 1 hour to prepare; the calorie content of the product per 100 grams will not exceed 400 kcal.

Step by step recipe:

Method No. 3 – Milk-based mastic, which requires the following:

Mastic based on condensed milk and milk powder requires approximately the same preparation time - about 1 hour and 10 minutes, and in terms of caloric content such a product will contain about 470 kcal per 100 grams.

Step-by-step cooking method:

Pour milk powder and powdered sugar into one bowl, mix both ingredients;
Pour lemon juice into the bowl, mix the product again;
Gradually stirring the future mastic, pour in condensed milk, then knead it like dough until elastic;
Roll the finished mastic into a ball, wrap it in cling film, and then put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes;
After the specified time, add food coloring to the mastic, mix a little so that the color is uniform, after which you can begin decorating the birthday cake for the New Year's table on the main night of 2018.

Rules for working with mastic

When using mastic as a cake decoration, you need to remember a few simple rules for working with it:

Other Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

A New Year's cake can be decorated not only with mastic figures, because marzipan can be used for this purpose. It is not at all necessary to try to depict the symbol of the upcoming New Year 2018, because the main theme of the cake is the holiday of winter, which means that any winter elements are welcome.

You can melt regular chocolate in a water bath, place it in a pastry sleeve and carefully pour Christmas tree figures out of it (it is best to use parchment paper as a surface). The figures will need to harden; for this, a sheet of paper must be carefully placed in the refrigerator, after which the chocolate Christmas trees can be placed on the surface of the cake.

It should be remembered that when cutting a cake, all the chocolate products on it can easily be damaged, so culinary experts advise first cutting the cake into pieces, and then placing decorative elements.

Of course, not every housewife will be able to skillfully prepare all kinds of figurines, snowflakes, Christmas trees and other decorative elements, so for them you can go to any confectionery store, which usually offers a wide selection of such products.

Milk-based mastic always turns out to have a characteristic milky color, therefore, if a perfectly white layer is required, it will be necessary to add the appropriate food coloring to it;
Adding dye to the mastic also follows a certain rule: roll out part of the mastic, add a few drops of dye, and then roll out the whole layer until the color is uniform;
It is best to use liquid gel food colors based on natural fruit juices. You can also use regular concentrated juice of a particular fruit;
If you need to prepare marshmallow mastic for future use, then instead of milk (as in the first recipe) you need to add citric acid on the tip of a knife or a teaspoon of lemon juice. In this state, the mastic can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 months (it must be wrapped in cling film).

Now you know how to decorate a cake for the New Year 2018. A festive cake covered with mastic based on natural ingredients will become a real masterpiece among other dishes.

As you can see, mastic is absolutely not difficult to prepare at home; it does not require a large number of ingredients or any special skills, but in the end the housewife will not be left without compliments for her ability to prepare wonderful confectionery products. Happy New Year and Christmas!

And another idea for decorating a New Year's cake is in the next video.