"Hand made" is a great way to please others and show yourself. And cooking is no exception. For example - a masterpiece homemade cake: with lush biscuit cakes and appetizing cream, covered with sweet homemade mastic and decorated with the same sweet mastic figures or flowers. But we will not offer you recipes for delicious cakes, but we suggest dwelling on the decor and mastering the basics of art, how to make figurines for cakes out of mastic with your own hands.

How to make figurines from mastic

Let's start with what it takes to make mastic decor at home. Firstly - the mastic or paste itself, which you can buy ready-made in the store or find the most convenient recipe for you and make it yourself.
Secondly, what to work with, that is, tools (and hands, of course). From special tools you may need:

• silicone mat for working with mastic mass;
• special snacks for small parts;
• notches, plungers, molds, patchwork - that is, various forms for obtaining ready-made figures or their parts;
• brushes for painting figures, brushing off excess starch or powder from them, as well as applying a coating for shine.

Here we will immediately make a reservation that all of the above will facilitate your work and is not a prerequisite, without which work with a tight-fitting cake is impossible.
Thirdly, the idea and the way of its implementation. Here, you can take your imagination and your culinary and artistic skills as a basis, or you can turn to the all-knowing Internet and find there suitable mastic figures and videos on how to sculpt them. And here it will not hurt you to know some of the practical points of working with a mastic mass in terms of creating figures:

1. 1. lubricate the joints of the parts or the figure itself with the base with water - this guarantees their strong "grip";

1. 1. if your idea is colored, it is not necessary to paint the mastic mass itself - you can paint a ready-made, but well-dried figure;

1. When using artificial food colors, choose salt-free options.

You can replace them with natural beetroot, spinach or carrot juice.
If you are just starting your journey into the world of sculpting figurines from mastic, then choose easy-to-accomplish goals - flowers, simple figurines. And we have prepared for you a couple of ways to create such "starter" baking decorations.

Roses from mastic

Making beautiful roses in this way is not at all difficult. For this, take the mastic of the desired color, a cutting board, a scalpel and a rolling pin.
Now let's move on to the process of creating simple, but very delicate and beautiful roses:
1. we form an oblong "sausage" from a piece of mastic mass of a small size;
2. roll it out with a rolling pin, but do not be too zealous and leave sufficient thickness;
3. one edge of the rolled mass, which will be the top of our flower, lightly smooth it with your finger and begin to fold it from one end, pinching it from below.
If such roses are used to decorate cupcakes or cakes - the lower part of the resulting rose will need to be cut off, it will be part of the cake decoration - try to make the blanks longer.

If you have already mastered this technique or consider it too simple, try another easy way to create beautiful roses by looking at the master class of mastic figurines:

Mastic snails

Ideal use of edible figurines is cakes for kids. We invite you to please them with a delicious cake decorated with cute snails and present an easy way to make such figures from mastic with your own hands. To do this, you will need several colors of mastic: light brown for the calf, purple for the sink, and black for the peephole. Of course, you can choose other color variations to your liking.
Now we are making our delicious cake snails:
1.start with the snail's body, for which we roll a ball out of light brown mastic, from which we form an oval and stretch it, slightly rolling it so that one edge is narrower (this will be the tail), and the other is wider and larger (this will be the head of the snail) ;
2. bending the body, we raise the head of the snail to the top and make holes for the antennae in the upper part of it, where we attach thin antennae rolled from a mastic mass of the same color, smearing the surface with water;
3. now we turn to the sink: we roll a thin flagellum out of the purple mastic and roll it up in a spiral, forming a snail;
4. We connect our shell with the little body, also lubricating the contacting surfaces with water, and attach small eyes formed from black mastic to the head of the snail, also with water.

If you feel the strength to create a more difficult version of the mastic snail, watch the following master class:

Decorating homemade baked goods with mastic, including figurines from it, is an extremely exciting business and brings a lot of positive emotions. Therefore, be careful - it will be very difficult to stop!

Mastic is a soft mass that resembles plasticine in its structure. It is very convenient to work with it, to create the necessary forms. It does not stick to your hands and stains well. Cakes decorated with mastic figures arouse enthusiastic interest in adults and children. Decorating a cake with mastic is the highest class of confectionery art, but the result is worth the effort. Of course, making complex compositions at home will not work right away, but simpler things - quite possible. Today we will teach you how to make DIY figurines for a children's cake at home.

How to cover a baby cake with mastic

Cover the finished and assembled cake with icing or butter cream, carefully smooth and refrigerate.

Roll out the mastic with a rolling pin a little larger than the diameter of the cake, transfer it neatly to the cake and close the top of the cake. Cut off excess mastic with scissors. For the sides, roll out the ribbon a little wider than the height of the cake and longer than the circumference of the cake.

The sides of the cake can be decorated with bright circles, squares or stars. You can make shapes with cookie cutters or make your own stencils.

We roll out colored mastic in a thin layer and cut out figures from it with stencils, with which we will decorate the sides of the cake. We place the cut figures on the tape for the side of the cake and press them with a rolling pin into the main mastic.

We transfer the tape to the cake, wrap it in a circle. Cut off the excess and beautifully close the side seam.

Now we think over how we want to decorate the top of the cake.

How to make figurines from mastic

The top of the cake can be decorated with applique. To do this, we make a stencil of the picture for the top of the cake, disassemble it into parts and cut them out of colored mastic, collecting the picture from the parts on the top of the cake.

And how to mold funny figures from mastic?

Sculpting from mastic is very simple, just like from plasticine. You can sculpt figurines of animals, butterflies, mushrooms, bees and more.

It is very easy to mold smeshariki from mastic. For example, we blind Sovunya. We roll a ball of colored mastic - this will be the head, we attach the triangular ears. From white mastic we make white circles for the eyes, cover part of the eyes with eyelids. We sculpt the beak and attach it to the head, after which the beak can be cut to make it appear ajar. We attach the pupils to the eyes. We roll out thin sausages and make Sovunya's legs. We attach the legs, wings and make a funny hat for Sovunya.

• lubricate the joints of the parts or the figure itself with the base with water - this guarantees their strong "grip";
• if your idea is colored, it is not necessary to paint the mastic mass itself - you can paint a ready-made, but well-dried figure;
• for mastic, take very fine powdered sugar, if you take granulated sugar, that the mastic will tear;
• using artificial food colors, choose options without salt, instead of colors, you can take natural juices;
• store the mastic in the refrigerator for no more than 2 weeks, in the freezer for up to 2 months.

Related videos

Modeling simple figures from mastic:

How to make a bunny:

How to blind a smart owl:

"Hand made" is a great way to please others and show yourself. And cooking is no exception. For example - a masterpiece homemade cake: with lush biscuit cakes and appetizing cream, covered with sweet homemade mastic and decorated with the same sweet mastic figures or flowers. But we will not offer you recipes for delicious cakes, but we suggest dwelling on the decor and mastering the basics of art, how to make figurines for cakes out of mastic with your own hands.

How to make figurines from mastic

Let's start with what it takes to make mastic decor at home. Firstly - the mastic or paste itself, which you can buy ready-made in the store or find the most convenient recipe for you and make it yourself.
Secondly, what to work with, that is, tools (and hands, of course). From special tools you may need:

• silicone mat for working with mastic mass;
• special snacks for small parts;
• notches, plungers, molds, patchwork - that is, various forms for obtaining ready-made figures or their parts;
• brushes for painting figures, brushing off excess starch or powder from them, as well as applying a coating for shine.

Here we will immediately make a reservation that all of the above will facilitate your work and is not a prerequisite, without which work with a tight-fitting cake is impossible.
Thirdly, the idea and the way of its implementation. Here, you can take your imagination and your culinary and artistic skills as a basis, or you can turn to the all-knowing Internet and find there suitable mastic figures and videos on how to sculpt them. And here it will not hurt you to know some of the practical points of working with a mastic mass in terms of creating figures:

1. 1. lubricate the joints of the parts or the figure itself with the base with water - this guarantees their strong "grip";

1. 1. if your idea is colored, it is not necessary to paint the mastic mass itself - you can paint a ready-made, but well-dried figure;

1. When using artificial food colors, choose salt-free options.

You can replace them with natural beetroot, spinach or carrot juice.
If you are just starting your journey into the world of sculpting figurines from mastic, then choose easy-to-accomplish goals - flowers, simple figurines. And we have prepared for you a couple of ways to create such "starter" baking decorations.

Roses from mastic

Making beautiful roses in this way is not at all difficult. For this, take the mastic of the desired color, a cutting board, a scalpel and a rolling pin.
Now let's move on to the process of creating simple, but very delicate and beautiful roses:
1. we form an oblong "sausage" from a piece of mastic mass of a small size;
2. roll it out with a rolling pin, but do not be too zealous and leave sufficient thickness;
3. one edge of the rolled mass, which will be the top of our flower, lightly smooth it with your finger and begin to fold it from one end, pinching it from below.
If such roses are used to decorate cupcakes or cakes - the lower part of the resulting rose will need to be cut off, it will be part of the cake decoration - try to make the blanks longer.

If you have already mastered this technique or consider it too simple, try another easy way to create beautiful roses by looking at the master class of mastic figurines:

Mastic snails

Ideal use of edible figurines is cakes for kids. We invite you to please them with a delicious cake decorated with cute snails and present an easy way to make such figures from mastic with your own hands. To do this, you will need several colors of mastic: light brown for the calf, purple for the sink, and black for the peephole. Of course, you can choose other color variations to your liking.
Now we are making our delicious cake snails:
1.start with the snail's body, for which we roll a ball out of light brown mastic, from which we form an oval and stretch it, slightly rolling it so that one edge is narrower (this will be the tail), and the other is wider and larger (this will be the head of the snail) ;
2. bending the body, we raise the head of the snail to the top and make holes for the antennae in the upper part of it, where we attach thin antennae rolled from a mastic mass of the same color, smearing the surface with water;
3. now we turn to the sink: we roll a thin flagellum out of the purple mastic and roll it up in a spiral, forming a snail;
4. We connect our shell with the little body, also lubricating the contacting surfaces with water, and attach small eyes formed from black mastic to the head of the snail, also with water.

If you feel the strength to create a more difficult version of the mastic snail, watch the following master class:

Decorating homemade baked goods with mastic, including figurines from it, is an extremely exciting business and brings a lot of positive emotions. Therefore, be careful - it will be very difficult to stop!

The recipe for my mastic for sculpting simple figures and details. This mastic is similar to marshmallow mastic and also replaces marshmallow. The mastic is rubberized, which makes it convenient to sculpt simple figures and is also ideal for sculpting interior details and simple hollow forms (for example, a tower for a castle). Details from this mastic harden into stone, so it is very convenient to cut out even parts from it and then glue it. It is ideally painted in bright colors, since it contains CMC, which retains moisture from the dye. Mastic for modeling 1 kg of powdered sugar 17 g of gelatin 60-70 g of cold water for gelatin (try 60 g first, if it is dry - you can then add water during the modeling process) 135 g of glucose syrup 8-10 g CMC 1 protein 3 g food glycerin 1 tablespoon of fat or butter, in no case SUNFLOWER, as it polymerizes (thickens) and the mastic will only get worse! Soak gelatin in water for 20 minutes. Mix powder with CMC. Measure out the glucose syrup and heat it for 40 seconds in micro. Dissolve in micro gelatin and mix with syrup, the mixture should be hot. Add fat and glycerin there, you can also add a couple of drops of lemon juice (it bleaches the mastic). Make a hole in the powder and pour this mixture into it. Cover the hole and pour the protein next to it (not hot in this mixture, otherwise the protein will cook). And start mixing with your hands or with a powerful planetary mixer. The mixture will be thin and thick, similar to cement or chewing gum - continue to knead for 10 minutes by hand. Then scrape off with a plastic confectionery scraper, grease your hands with fat so that the mastic does not stick, and put it in a plastic wrap and in the refrigerator for a day. Before use, set and allow to warm to room temperature, knead it well with your hands, rub it to a ruminant state, lubricating your hands with fat. Mastic is stored in the refrigerator for half a year, in the freezer for up to 1 year. Before packing, roll into a ball, grease the surface with fat or oil (but not sunflower oil, as it polymerizes, that is, it thickens and turns into a nasty sticky mass) and wrap tightly with cling film, then put it in a bag and sign the date of manufacture and the name of the mastic (to not to be confused with another). If the piece is dry, but not to a strong crust on top, you can reanimate: pour boiling water over the piece, let it saturate with moisture for several seconds or even minutes, if the piece is large, then you can warm it up in micro for 10-20 seconds. Then sweep out with your hands, lubricating them with grease. At first it will seem that you have completely ruined the mastic. We must continue to knead with clean, greased hands. The moisture will be absorbed and the mastic will return to normal. And here are some of my old and newer works, where details and characters are made from this mastic. Chip and Dale, a dog, a hollow house, trees and a hare with a mouse, sweet toys Donkey, a Bee and a snail (copies of the birthday boy's favorite toys), a hollow train from Romashkovo, Winnie the Pooh, Christmas trees, a ball, the whole cake decor based on illustrations for the book " I am a bunny ", minions - all of this mastic. If you have any questions, write in the comments)

The art of molding from mastic has recently burst into cooking. Now almost all pastries and cakes are decorated with figurines and various patterns made of mastic. In addition, completely unimaginable shapes can be sculpted from this mass, which together can create a whole cartoon plot or a romantic bouquet.

What is mastic, is it difficult to make figures out of it?

By itself, the mastic is an adhesive and astringent, which, moreover, is edible. If you knead it correctly, then it will be similar in consistency to plasticine.

There are several varieties of this mass. It is created from different products and kneaded in different ways. The most famous:

• Honey: it is softer in appearance. Suitable for sculpting almost any figures, does not crumble or disintegrate;
• Gelatin-based mastic is distinguished by its high speed of solidification and hardening. Most suitable for preparing the smallest parts;
• Dairy is one of the most common. Condensed milk is used as the main ingredient. Ideal for creating a base and a continuous covering for a cake, as well as medium-sized figurines;
• Marzipan is used to cover the cake. It is very soft and not suitable for sculpting figures;
• Industrial or general purpose mastic is purchased in stores. It is also used for sculpting and rolled out for the base. The taste practically does not differ from home;
• Floral - this type of mastic is best for creating jewelry where delicate work with small details is required.

Each of these types is good in one way or another. In any case, you need to try different types in order to understand and adapt to this type of delicious sculpting.

Sugar mastic recipe for sculpting figures at home

We take a suitable container (a wide bowl will be enough), sift the icing sugar there, and then add the dry milk mixture. Stir and pour in the condensed milk. Now you need to knead the mastic like dough. When kneading, lemon juice, brandy, dyes are added. The result should be an elastic mass that is pleasant to work with and sculpt with.

If you do not add dyes, then the mass should be dull.

DIY figurines from cake mastic step by step: instructions for beginners

The good thing about mastic is that you can make a wide variety of figurines and decorations for goodies from it. This is especially useful if you need to decorate a cake or cakes for a children's holiday.

We sculpt a toddler from mastic step by step

To make such a cute little one, you need flesh-colored mastic. To do this, when preparing the sculpting mass, you need to add body dye.

Step 1. We make the torso. We sculpt a small oval the size of a small chicken egg. We take a toothpick and make a hole just below the center (this will be the navel).

Step 2. We sculpt the head. We take a piece of mastic somewhere 20-25% less than on the body and roll it into a ball. Insert a toothpick into the upper part of the body. It will serve as a fastening element for the torso and head.

In the head with a toothpick, you need to make a couple of holes for the eyes. We sculpt the nose from a small piece of mastic: it should be a slightly flattened round with a diameter of about 4-5 mm.

We carry out the mouth with a toothpick, while do not forget to make stronger indentations for the dimples.

For the ears, take two small balls. We roll them up and use a stack to make a dent in the center. We glue them to the head.

Step 3. We fasten the parts: we put the head on the base (toothpick).

Step 4. Making handles. We take a couple of pieces, a quarter smaller than the head. Roll them into sausages. Using a toothpick at one end, we make fingers.

Step 5. Attach the handles to the body. If the parts do not adhere well, brush over the joint areas with a brush dipped in water.

You can diversify your baby with a toy or other items you like.

Little mouse as decoration

First of all, we prepare mastic of different colors. You will need yellow, light green, white and pink. For the eye and mouth, you will need black edible beads (powder). If there is no black color, you can replace it with dark blue.

From the tools you need to prepare toothpicks, a stack, a mold for the base (a glass or glass is suitable), a sharp knife or cutter.

Step 1. Make a base from light green mastic. Roll it out to a thickness of 3 mm. We use either a special shape or a glass (glass).

Step 2: a gift. We take a yellow base. We make a ball first, and then gradually move on to a cubic shape.

The pink mastic should be rolled out quite thinly: 1-2 mm thick. We take a knife or a cutter, cut it into thin strips that will serve as ribbons for a gift. You also need to make a small bow out of them.

From the remnants of the rolled pink mastic, you need to make small peas (use a special shape). Their diameter should be approximately 1-1.5 mm. With the help of a stack or a toothpick, they are attached to the gift.

Step 3: mouse. White mastic is used to create a mouse body.

First, we make a little body: we roll the ball, then we try to give it a more elongated shape. Next, we make the legs, they are also a little teardrop-shaped. Using a toothpick, mark the stripes that separate the fingers.

We stick toothpicks into each part. We use halves for the legs, since they are small. We fasten the body with the paws so that one serves as the base, and the second is in the air.

Roll a ball for the head, then transform it: just below the middle we make a notch. We make a recess for the mouth and a peephole. Insert black beads there. We make a nose out of pink mastic.

We take a couple of small pieces, roll them into balls, and then use a stack to make indentations - these are future ears. They need to flatten well and cut off the bottom. We attach them to the head.

Now we put the head on a toothpick that fixes the body.

The upper legs are made in much the same way as the lower ones, only they should be slightly smaller. We make the tail from a thin sausage, which should thin out to one edge.

Step 4: flower. We make the stem for the future flower from light green mastic. We roll it into a thin strip 3-4 cm long above the mouse. We make a flower from a piece of pink base. It can be cut with a special shape. With the help of a stack, we make indentations on the petals. Then we cut out another flower, but smaller, and make indentations in it. We make the middle from a yellow pea-sized piece, rolled into a ball. We fasten everything together. Add a small leaf from the green mastic, which we add to the stem.

Lion cub

You will need 4 colors of mastic: yellow, white, brown and black, as well as tools.

Step 1: sculpt the torso and head. The head should be in the form of a ball, the body should be in the form of a drop. From the white mastic we cut out the inserts on the body of a teardrop shape.

On the head for the mouth, add a little white mastic using the curved tip of a sharp stack.

We make eyes and sculpt rounds around the mouth.

Step 2. We make paws from yellow and white mastic: from yellow we sculpt the main part, and the part with fingers from white. Don't forget to draw lines to separate the fingers.

First add white round parts to the holes for the eyes, then, a little less, black ones. We make the nose in a triangular shape from a brown mass.

Then we sculpt the ears in the form of flattened circles, as well as the tail (sausage, thinning towards one end). At the tip, we also make a triangular brush from a brown mass.

Step 3. We make the mane from brown mass. It is made in the form of individual petals, which are then attached around the head.

If there is a white and black mass left, you can mix them and make stones on which the lion will sit. Interspersed grass can be made from green.

We sculpt a panda step by step

Required:

• White and black mastic;
• Modeling tools;
• A couple of toothpicks.

Step 1. Take the white mass and roll it into a ball. We make holes for the eyes on it. We sculpt small balls from the black mass, insert them into the recesses and expand them using a stack. The color should be black over the entire area of ​​the grooves.

Add a ball of white mass (nose).

We finish the nose: add a black piece, in which we make a couple of holes with a toothpick or a stack with a sharp tip.

Step 2. We make eyes and ears from small pieces of black and white mass.

The body consists of two parts: a round white and an elongated black. We fasten them with a toothpick.

Step 3. We make legs from black mastic. They should be teardrop-shaped. Now for each foot you need to make pads from white mastic.

We sculpt an airplane

Two colors of mastic are required: white and blue, as well as a toothpick or sculpting stick with a sharp tip.

Step 1. We sculpt the white trapezoidal body of the plane. Add a blue mass front glass to it.

Step 2. We sculpt the wings. We take a couple of balls, roll them out a little or knead them with our hands. We make triangular wings. We make the tail a little thinner and trapezoidal.

Step 3. Add stripes to the wings, tail, the main part of blue mastic.

Step 4. Make eyes from white and black mass. We draw a mouth with a toothpick or a stack.

Sometimes, even following step-by-step detailed instructions, not everything works out and not always. Each craftswoman has a couple of secrets that help in the sculpting process:

1. Sometimes it is hard enough to cover the whole cake with mastic neatly. Wrinkles appear here and there on the side parts, which spoil the whole view. In this case, the mastic should be rolled out in such a way that a sufficiently large supply is maintained. Next, we put it on the cake and, under its own weight, it should lie as it should;
2. It's hard to find a black dye. In this case, you can get out of the situation as follows: take three dyes (blue, yellow and red) and mix them in a 2: 1: 1 ratio. There is also the option of adding blue to the brown paint;
3. In order for the mastic coating to shine, it must be greased with a solution of vodka and honey. To prepare it, you need to mix both ingredients in equal amounts. We lubricate the surface with the resulting liquid using a soft brush.

Imagine and, perhaps, you will create your own individual figures from mastic, not like anyone else's. Good luck!