Recipes for making cream and other confectionery decorations
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Even the most delicious dessert without the correct, bright design does not give any idea about itself, does not carry any tasty urge. In this article I want to talk about an option for serving dessert that is available even to novice pastry chefs, namely, decorating cakes with fruits at home with a photo for greater clarity.
What are fruits? They are a source of vitamins, first of all. And for whom sweets are most often prepared at home - for the flowers of life, our children. For me the main advantage of a cake decorated with fruits and berries is the benefits for the body, unlike, for example, colored creams or sugar figures. Another plus: if you overdo it with sugar while preparing the cakes or cream, fruits or berries with a sour taste will balance out and smooth out such a mistake.
Fruits are an excellent material for decorating a cake; they are inexpensive, tasty and healthy, colorful and bright. Fruits and berries have always been in harmony with the dough as a filling, why not use them in decoration.
To decorate a cake with fruit, it is advisable to choose ripe, but not overripe fruits, without cracks or stains on the skin, without dents or darkening. The most popular fruits for decorating desserts are: apples and almost all citrus fruits, bananas, peach, plum, apricot, kiwi, pears. Among the berries, confectioners prefer strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and currants (black and red). Grapes are often used in desserts.
But there is also a list of which fruits it is not advisable to decorate a cake with. Not all frozen fruit retains its color, shape and flavor once defrosted, so you need to be selective with it.
Cherries are not very suitable: firstly, because of the pit; secondly, after removing the pit, the cherry exudes juice, which colors the cream, on top of which the fruit is laid out. The same can be said about watermelon: it is too juicy to use in cakes.
Pineapple and kiwi do not allow the jelly to harden, so if you plan to fill the fruit decoration with jelly, they should be doused with boiling water before decorating. If canned fruits are used to decorate sweet dishes, the liquid must drain from them.
Let's look at how to decorate a cake with fruits step by step. I will be decorating a sponge cake with buttercream and chocolate fudge on top, apple, raspberries and blackberries. In order to prepare the decoration, I need the following products:
Decorating a cake with your own hands is not difficult, the main thing is that the composition does not float and the flowers, and I will make roses, do not fall apart.
Step one: I make syrup. Pour a cup (100 ml) of water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, then add 100 g of sugar. Stir the sugar until it dissolves completely and remove from the heat.
Step two: wash an apple and 100 g each of raspberries and blackberries. I scatter the berries on a towel to dry. I cut the apple in half, then into thin slices.
I dip a plate of apple in syrup and roll it into a tube, I also dip the next one and wrap it on top of the first.
The secret to how easy it is to decorate a cake with apple roses is that each “petal” covers the end of the previous one.
In addition, the “petals” are set by the syrup. One flower requires approximately five apple slices.
Step three: I place the flowers in the center of the cake. The mint leaves around them imitate rose leaves. Along the edge of the cake, it is round in shape, I place blackberries and raspberries close to each other, alternating them. I put several berries in a chaotic order in the free places on the cake. The cake decorated with fruit is almost ready, the final touch is to lightly sprinkle the berries with powdered sugar; it will look beautiful against a chocolate background.
During a famine in 1407 in the German city of Lubeck, it was decided to make bread from almond flour. Since then, Lubeck has been considered the capital of marzipan, which is known to be made from almonds and sugar syrup.
How to decorate a homemade cake depends largely on the event for which it is prepared. If it’s for a children’s party, then cutting out figures of animals or fairy-tale characters from fruits will be just a great idea.
From fruits you can make flowers, geometric shapes, hearts, and so on, whatever your imagination allows.
From fruits cut into slices, you can easily lay out any ornament or an entire carpet, combining fruits and berries of several colors. A composition of fruits and berries is often filled with jelly, which gives it stability and a glossy shine.
Fruits can be dipped in chocolate, sprinkled with powder or cinnamon, coconut, or ground nuts.
If we decorate a cake with fruit and sprinkle powdered sugar on top, the fruit or berries must be dry, otherwise the powder will spread on them.
1. Bouquet of orange roses with apple and kiwi leaves. The composition is filled with almost colorless jelly, which gives it durability and does not detract from the brightness of the color of the fruit. It looks simple and elegant.
2. A very delicate spring composition of raspberries and the remains of tinted cream. Despite the fact that only one type of berry was used, there is a sense of completeness in this design.
3. The cake is decorated with bright, juicy and appetizing berries. No complicated tricks, just a perfectly chosen combination of color and shape.
4. A fruit figure that is perfect for decorating a cake for a children's party. Using this owl as an example, you can depict any other animal or fairy-tale character.
Juicy and bright fruits give every cook his own ideas about using them as decoration. If you have similar experience, your own best practices and favorite techniques on how to decorate a cake with fruit, write to me in the comments, send me a photo, I will be grateful to you. It would be interesting to know your opinion about fruits that are easier to work with, about how best to combine fruits in color and taste.
Decorating a cake with fruit is the best option for decorating a dessert at home. Even a child can make this kind of decoration; a simple fruit ornament does not require any special skills. In addition, the combination of fruits and berries of bright colors looks festive and appetizing.
How to make fruit cake?
One of the many varieties of low-calorie sweets is fruit cake. It is distinguished from other desserts by the presence of berries and fruits. They can be our favorite apples and plums or exotic oranges, pineapples and kiwis.
Typically, fruit cakes have a similar base in the form of layers. Most often they choose shortbread or biscuit, but we can have absolutely any cream - according to the taste of the sweet tooth. It should be noted that you should discard buttercream as it will be heavy. The best option is sour cream or butter cream, as well as cottage cheese filling.
To prepare a fabulously tasty delicacy, Both fresh and frozen or canned fruits are used. In any case, they are processed in advance - the seeds and stalks are removed, and then washed with water. The juice must drain a little and only then can you start baking.
My favorite ingredient for this cake is jelly., which is prepared independently, in particular when a fruit cake is prepared for children. In addition to jelly, ground nuts can be used as an addition.
Berries and fruits become the filling and decoration on top. Various figures are cut out of them, from which entire patterns and paintings are then formed!
This delicacy is delicious, but also very healthy, especially when prepared at home. In winter, when the body does not have enough vitamins, even frozen fruits are beneficial. Today you can find a huge selection of recipes that do not even require baking, and therefore the fruit and berry filling retains its properties.
That is why children should be delighted with such a dessert as often as possible in order to replenish the energy lost during the day and give them joy.
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How to make fruit cake?
Fruit cake - general principles and methods of preparation
Fruit cake is a real creamy glaze miracle, decorated with familiar and exotic fruits and filled with fruit jelly. An ideal cake should be exactly like this: with a base of delicate biscuits soaked in sweet rum, a layer of fruit and jam. A light cream melting in your mouth with fruit fillings, decorations made of fancy flowers and fruit figurines are a real work of art, as well as a means to show your imagination and realize the most daring design ideas.
Fruit cake is just a variation of a sponge or shortbread base and different types of cream. To make a delicious and not too greasy cake at home, you just need to invent a recipe with a lot of variations and follow your own instructions.
Fruit cakes come in different varieties - every housewife probably has at least a dozen options in her culinary repertoire. The whole point of interest lies in coming up with something original, something that has not yet been done, in order to surprise and amaze with its unusual taste and appearance. And let this task be quite painstaking - at least an hour or two, and let the jelly or cream steep for several hours. The result will speak for itself, because fruit cake is almost impossible to spoil.
Fruit cake - food preparation
A homemade cake made with your own hands will undoubtedly be much tastier than a store-bought one. It’s easier to find fresh, high-quality products at home. First of all, these are eggs. It is best to beat the whites and yolks separately in a ceramic bowl. Gelatin or agar-agar is used to make jelly. Sour cream, milk, cream - of course, it is better to take homemade fresh products. And of course, fruit. If you are using canned compotes, let the liquid drain well using a strainer or colander. When whipping cream, it is still better to use fine sugar rather than powdered sugar.
Fruit cake - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Fruit Rainbow Sponge Cake
The base of this cake is a sponge cake. Our goal is to achieve softness and fluffiness, so we add starch to the dough, which makes the pores smoother. The filling of sour cream with fruit is what will make our cake light and airy, and, no doubt, extremely tasty.
Ingredients: eggs (7 pcs), fine sugar (150-200 g), a pinch of vanillin, potato starch (1 tbsp), flour (200 g, you can measure 5 full tablespoons).
Filling and cream: orange (1 piece), canned cherries (2 cups, remove pits), sour cream (2 cups), walnuts (lightly toasted, 30-40 grams), kiwi (1-2 pieces), fine sugar (150 grams).
Cooking method
First, let's prepare the base - a sponge cake. Separate the yolks from the whites, grind the sugar with the yolks until completely dissolved, the mass should increase approximately two to three times. Beat the whites into a strong foam, gradually adding a spoonful of sugar, this will make the whites stronger.
Biscuit
Mix the mashed yolks with 3/4 of the beaten whites, add sifted flour, starch and vanillin. Mix the mixture carefully, from top to bottom. Add the remaining whites and mix again. Grease the pan, lay out ¾ of the dough, followed by orange slices, cover with the remaining dough. Bake at 180°C for about an hour or a little less. We check the readiness with a splinter, but you can only open the oven at the end of baking so that the sponge cake does not settle. Cool, remove from the mold onto a wooden or fabric “breathable” surface. We cut around a 1 cm circumference, we get two uneven cake layers. This can be done using a thread inserted into the cut.
Fruit decoration
Place cherries on a thicker crust and cover them with sour cream (beat sour cream and sugar). Cover with the second cake layer. Coat the top and sides with sour cream and decorate with cherries and kiwi slices, sprinkle with nuts and place in the refrigerator to soak (at least 6 hours). This original fruit miracle will be a worthy end to the holiday.
Recipe 2: Yogurt Fruit Cake
Ingredients: eggs (8 pcs), sugar (250 grams), flour (100 grams), flour (1 tbsp), milk (2.5 cups), starch (1 tbsp), instant strawberry chicory cream , yogurt (200 grams), butter (150 grams), vanillin, cognac (30 ml), fresh or canned fruit.
1 glass of jelly.
Cooking method
Dough. Beat 6 eggs, 100 grams of sugar, 2 whites. Add a little milk (a quarter cup), flour, mix and divide into three parts. Quickly bake 3 round cakes.
Impregnation: boil water with sugar, cool and add a little cognac.
Cream.
Mix starch, a spoonful of flour and two yolks. Boil milk and 100 grams of sugar, add starch-flour solution. Stir, add butter, vanillin, and yogurt to the thickened, slightly cooled cream. Beat well.
Soluble cream. Mix the contents of the package with milk and beat.
Forming the cake. Soak the cakes with a small amount of syrup. Grease with yogurt cream, place fruit on top of the cream, and decorate the sides with strawberry cream. We make a border of cream on the surface using a pastry syringe.
Soak the cakes in syrup, brush with yogurt cream, and place fruit on top of the cream. Pour in the jelly and put it in the refrigerator to soak. A magnificent colored cake, a worthy reward for your efforts.
Recipe 3: Fruit Cake with Buttercream and Jelly
You can use absolutely any fruit in this recipe. For winter fruit options, compote or frozen fruits are quite suitable; in the summer, of course, it will be more convenient to add fresh ones. The originality of the recipe is emphasized by the curd cheese, which is included in the cream and gives it an original taste.
Ingredients
dough: butter or margarine (50 grams), eggs (2 pcs). sugar (50 g), baking powder, flour (150-200 grams).
cream:
cream (33-35%, 50 ml), curd cheese (150 grams), sugar (50 g), Jelly for the cake (10 g), fruits and berries for decoration.
Recipe
Any store-bought jelly is suitable for making a cake, but you need to take a little less water so that it hardens well and does not soften.
Dough
Grind the butter with sugar, add the eggs, mix, add baking powder and flour and stir well. We cover the dough form with paper, lay out the dough and make sides. Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool.
Cream. Whip the cream with sugar, mix with curd cheese. Spread the cream on the crust and leave it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Decorate with fruits and berries. For example, you can use seedless grapes (cut into 2 parts), strawberries (cut into slices), kiwi (cut into slices and rings), blueberries.
Prepare the jelly from the package and pour in the fruit. It’s better to start pouring a thin layer, let it harden a little and add the remaining jelly. That's all. It is absolutely not necessary to be an expert in the field of cooking, just follow the instructions, and real fruit miracles will be born under your hands.
Recipe 4: Jelly curd - fruit cake without baking
The cake that takes no effort in baking will be the most delicious. In order for the cake to form and hold, we use agar-agar. Try using several molds of different sizes and placing the ingredients (curd cream and jelly with fruit) on different levels - you will get a grandiose festive dish.
Ingredients:
First layer: agar-agar 2 tsp, mango 2 pcs., raspberries 100g, mango juice 250ml, cottage cheese 200g
Second layer: sugar (2 tbsp), watermelon, martini (150 ml), cottage cheese (200 g), blueberries (100 g), agar-agar 2 tsp.
Third layer and interlayer: agar-agar (3 tsp), sugar (3-4 tbsp), watermelon, martini (250 ml).
For decoration: grapefruit, grapes, mango.
1.Put the ingredients into a blender and beat, add agar-agar, bring to a boil and mix the cooled mass with cottage cheese. Add mango pieces and raspberries. Transfer the mixture into the mold and let it harden.
2. Using the same principle, beat peeled watermelon, martini, sugar, add agar-agar, boil, cool, mix with cottage cheese and add blueberries. Pour into a smaller form. Let it harden.
3. Mix the mixture for the base and layer in a blender, add agar-agar, boil for 1 minute.
The cake is formed in the following order: pour a watermelon layer onto the mango mixture, then a layer from a small mold. Decorate with fruits and fill with watermelon jelly. The cake should sit in the refrigerator for several hours.
Fruit cake - useful tips from experienced chefs
There are hundreds of creative additions to decorate cakes, such as lemon wedges. Squeeze the juice from 3 lemons. Add a tablespoon of gelatin, 8 tablespoons of sugar and 100 grams of vodka or cognac to the juice. Heat the mixture until the sugar and gelatin are completely dissolved. We clean the lemons from the pulp and pour the mixture into the skins of the lemon halves. Cool and cut into slices. In the same way, you can prepare different colored slices from kiwi, orange, tangerine, etc. An original addition for adult gatherings.
Cake is a favorite treat for both adults and children. Each of us dreams of a beautiful and original dessert for his birthday, and, naturally, every mother dreams of being able to create an unforgettable holiday for her child. The best option for a children's cake is classic sponge cakes, Genoese or butter sponge cake.
Thoughtful and coordinated celebration programs, fun competitions and prizes are an integral part of any children's party, and what birthday would be complete without a cake? No one!
Literally 10 years ago, the whole variety of cakes was represented by all the usual “Napoleon”, “Anthill”, “Biscuit with cream”, “Sher-Ami”, “Smetannik” and a couple of other cakes that our mothers baked or bought in pastry shops . And the standard decoration for a birthday cake were candles - straight, twisted, multi-colored, sometimes it was possible to purchase a number candle.
Gradually, the confectionery market expanded and offered more and more new products decorated with cream roses, stumps, leaves and chocolate chips, which are still a favorite treat for most of us today.
And only after broadcasting a series of programs about the king-pastry chef Buddy from New Jersey, we learned that a variety of technologies and ingredients are used to decorate cakes and create confectionery products, making it possible to create an exclusive cake for a child’s birthday, the idea of which will emphasize the child’s individuality and will suit holiday format.
The use of marzipan and mastic allowed our masters to create confectionery masterpieces that delight not only the eye, but also the stomach. Modern confectionery shops offer their customers a huge selection of birthday cake options for children, the weight, shape and decoration of which completely depends on the customer’s wishes.
In most cases, making such a cake will take at least 2-3 days and requires advance ordering (usually 2-3 weeks before the celebration).
You should not choose a confectionery shop at random. Don’t be lazy and don’t regret 10-15 minutes spent searching for reviews and recommendations from clients of a particular confectionery shop, and also first familiarize yourself with the recipes for cakes and cream used.
Remember, the picture in the catalog of a confectionery shop can be very different from reality. A good option would be a catalog of color photographs that have not undergone typographical or design processing.
Most websites of confectionery shops or private artisans contain real photographs and reviews, which will greatly facilitate your search.
“I don’t know what’s in that cake that’s made to order,” “I like to bake cakes myself,” “My family doesn’t eat store-bought cakes” - these and many other phrases can be heard when the conversation turns to store-bought confectionery.
If you belong to this category of people, you may find the information below interesting.
Modern needlewomen not only know how to bake delicious cakes, but also decorate them no worse than professionals. In most cases, very complex and labor-intensive cakes at first glance are not prepared at home, which is wrong; from the outside, any beautifully decorated cake seems like a work of art.
A cake for a child's birthday is an idea that can be nurtured for months, or even years, and, in the end, the mother awakens the desire to make a gift with her own hands.
The first rule to remember when preparing a cake is the correct dough for the cakes. Using recipes for shortcrust pastry and shortbread when preparing a cake for children under 3 years of age is not advisable, since such dough is quite brittle and hard and can cause one of the children to choke or choke. You should also be careful when preparing your favorite honey cake, as one of your guests may be allergic to honey. It is unacceptable to use alcoholic beverages when preparing cakes and especially cream.
Using sponge dough makes it possible to experiment with the color of the cake layers and the shape of the future cake.
Particular attention should be paid to the cream. Recently, yogurt cream has become popular, which children love very much. The advantage of this cream is its low fat content and ease of preparation. Heavy butter creams and whipped cream can negatively affect our children’s digestive system and ruin the holiday.
There are a huge number of different technologies for decorating a birthday cake - it can be custard protein cream, butter cream, icing, mastic or marzipan, the recipe for which can be found on the Internet or bought ready-made ingredients in specialized stores. If this is your first time deciding to use new decorating technologies, practice for a few days to get the hang of it. Working with mastic is greatly facilitated by special tools, cutting tools and rolling pins.
The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment! Go for it and you will succeed!
But with a lot of different fruits and jelly filling. Very beautiful and tasty! The recipe was sent by our reader Guzel Maharram:
Maximum fruit and minimum dough. The cake turns out very tasty, festive and also not heavy. I get asked for his recipe very often.
Cake “Fruit Paradise”
Biscuit:
Cake cream:
Fruit layer:
Decoration:
Jelly:
Cutting the biscuit cakes
Cream
Nuts
Bananas
Banana fruit layer
Cover the cake with cream
Kiwi
Kiwi fruit layer
Bananas with cream
Covering the fruit cake with cream
Sprinkle the sides with nuts
Decorating the cake with fruits
Making jelly
Fill fruit with jelly
Place the finished fruit cake in the refrigerator overnight.
P.S. If you want to make the cake not so tall, bake one layer and cut it into three parts.
Bon appetit!
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