Home cake on New Year's Eve is a real event. Much more time, effort and imagination are spent on its preparation than on ordinary pastries for tea. Experiments with trendy cakes, favorite recipes from Soviet confectioners or creative gingerbread houses keep a warm family tradition going.

A simple recipe for treats "Prague"

The chocolate extravaganza of Soviet times will more than reward you for the time spent in the kitchen.

Biscuit dough:

• 100 g flour;
• 6 eggs;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 40 g butter;
• 30 g cocoa.

The biscuit is baked in advance, no less than a day before the X hour. He must have a good "rest" before they start cutting him into cakes, otherwise you will get only crumbs. For high-quality impregnation, it will take a few more hours.

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºС. The form must be placed in hot oven until air bubbles come out of the dough.
2. Beat egg whites with half the sugar in a mixer strong foam. To make the mass lush, you can add salt on the tip of a knife.
3. Grind the yolks until white cream with the rest of the sugar. All grains should dissolve.
4. Carefully combine both masses, maintaining the structure of the foam.
5. Sift flour and mix with cocoa. Slowly introduce her into egg mixture.
6. Add melted and chilled butter.
7. Cover the form with parchment. For the indicated number of products you will need a container of 22 cm in diameter. The biscuit is baked high so that it can be divided into cakes.
8. Pour the beaten dough into the mold, put in a hot oven for 30 minutes and do not open the door all this time. Biscuit does not like drafts and temperature changes.
9. Cool the blank for the cake and keep it under a towel for 8 hours.

Chocolate cream:

• 50 g cocoa;
• 15 ml of water;
• yolk;
• 100 g of condensed milk;
• 200 g butter;
• vanilla sugar.

The cream is prepared on the basis of syrup.

1. Dissolve the yolk in water.
2. Add condensed milk and vanilla.
3. Heat the composition over low heat, stirring constantly. The mixture should thicken a little.
4. Pour the cooled syrup into softened butter and beat the whole mass.
5. In the process of whipping, add cocoa powder a pinch at a time so that bitter lumps do not form.

An important stage: in order for the cakes to acquire moisture and heaviness, “Prague” is saturated with sweet tea:

• brew strong black tea without flavorings;
• dilute 70 g of sugar in 100 ml of hot drink and cool.

Biscuit is divided into at least three cakes. This is done with a long knife or fishing line. The result depends on practice. If the cakes break or get uneven, you can glue and level them with cream.

1. Put the cake on a serving dish and soak it with tea.
2. Apply a layer of cream.
3. Repeat everything with the rest of the cakes.
4. Brush the top with apricot jam.
5. Cool the cake.

For decoration:

• 100 g of dark chocolate;
• 10 g butter.

The icing is prepared immediately before being applied to the cake.

1. Dissolve chocolate and butter in a water bath.
2. Sprinkle the cake with starch to set the frosting.
3. Distribute it by smoothing it with a warm wide knife or spatula. So that the instrument does not cool down, it is dipped in boiling water from time to time.
4. Decorate the cake when the icing is completely set.

Here it is, a simple recipe for a delicious Prague cake. According to the standards, after the “assembly”, the dessert should be infused for another eight hours, although it is already quite ready.

"Bird's milk" for the New Year

The secret of this famous cake in his elastic creamy soufflé and lots of sugar.

For the biscuit:

• 150 g flour;
• 100 g of oil;
• 100 g of sugar;
• two eggs;
• vanillin.

For the soufflé:

• 450 g sugar;
• 200 g butter;
• 100 g of condensed milk;
• 150 ml of water;
• two proteins;
• a teaspoon of agar-agar;
• half a teaspoon of citric acid

Glaze is made from chocolate and butter, taken in a 2:1 ratio.

1. Add vanillin and sugar to the softened butter.
2. Beat eggs.
3. Sift flour.
4. Combine everything into a homogeneous, thick, like sour cream, dough.
5. Bake two separate cakes for 10 minutes at 200ºС.

Before preparing the soufflé, you need to prepare agar-agar according to the instructions on the package.

1. Heat it until completely dissolved.
2. Boil the syrup for 5-10 minutes over very low heat. Quality control: a drop of finished syrup can be rolled into an elastic ball.
3. While the syrup cools slightly, mix the cream of butter and condensed milk.
4. Add to proteins citric acid and beat the composition into a strong, as for meringue, foam.
5. While continuing to work with the mixer, gradually pour in the syrup and add the buttercream.
6. Agar-agar stabilizes at 40ºC, so the cake must be formed immediately, without allowing the creamy mass to cool.
7. Cover a detachable form with parchment and put layers of biscuit and cream on it alternately.
8. Leave the workpiece in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
9. Prepare and chill frosting. Spread it over the frozen soufflé.

You can carefully cut the soufflé with a hot knife.

Festive cake "Napoleon" with custard

A multi-layer cake turns out to be tastier, the better it is soaked. Gives special tenderness to "Napoleon" custard.

For the classic test:

• egg;
• 125 ml of water;
• 5 g citric acid;
• 5 g salt;
• 200 g butter;
• 300 g flour.

It will take a long time to work with the test. To prevent it from “dragging out”, all products are pre-cooled strongly.

1. Sift flour onto a mixing board. Rub oil into it.
2. Mix the ingredients with chopping movements of the knife until the state of wet crumbs.
3. Dilute the egg, acid and salt with water.
4. Pour the liquid into the butter crumbs, continuing to chop the dough.
5. Punch down the dough with your hands and divide into 12 pieces.
6. Wrap each in cling film and refrigerate.

In cream:

• 1 liter of milk;
• 250 g sugar;
• 2 pcs. eggs and individual yolks;
• 80 g starch;
• 5 g vanillin.

If the cream seems cloying, the amount of sugar can be reduced by a third.

1. Melt sugar in hot milk.
2. Combine the eggs and yolks with the rest of the ingredients and some of the milk to equalize the temperature. No need to beat.
3. Pour egg mixture into milk.
4. As soon as it begins to thicken and reach for the whisk, immediately remove it from the stove.
5. To prevent the cream from winding, press the cling film close to its surface.

Before rolling out the cakes, you need to preheat the oven. Then:

1. Roll out chilled portions of dough to the size of the mold.
2. Pierce in several places so that the cake does not warp during baking.
3. Bake until golden brown at 200ºС.

Before assembling the Napoleon, put a little cream on the dish to fix the cake.

1. Spread at least 3 tablespoons of cream on the cake.
2. "Napoleon" smear with cream and sprinkle with crumbs from the cakes.
3. Leave for impregnation for several hours in a cool place.

How to cook "Bounty"

Recipes for delicious cakes are born from the most unusual associations. "Bounty", a delicacy with tender coconut filling, created "based on" the famous chocolate bar.

For soft cupcakes:

• 80 g flour;
• 20 g cocoa;
• 120 g of sugar;
• three eggs;
• 5 g baking powder.

For the indicated number of products, a mold with a diameter of at least 22 cm is required.

1. Beat eggs with sugar.
2. Slowly add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
3. Submit batter into a greased form. Bake for 30 minutes at 190ºС.
4. Cool the workpiece completely in the form and divide into two cakes.
5. Soak them with a mixture of cream and Malibu liquor, taken 1: 1.

For stuffing:

• 200 ml of milk;
• 150 ml coconut flakes;
• 100 g butter;
• 100 g sugar.

Coconut flakes are pre-steamed in a deep saucepan.

1. Melt the butter and sugar first. Pour in the milk, being careful not to curdle.
2. Pour the coconut flakes and actively stirring, hold the composition on the stove for a quarter of an hour.
3. Spread the cooled mixture on bottom cake and top with the second.

To give the cake a finished look, you need to cover it with a glaze of melted chocolate and butter.

Red Velvet Cake

Popular american recipe from Adams Extract, a manufacturer of confectionery colors and flavors, is designed to use the original products of this company. But by replacing a few ingredients, you can successfully adapt it for home cooking and surprise guests with an original bright treat.

For a cake with a diameter of 22 cm:

• 300 g flour;
• 300 g powdered sugar;
• 20 g cocoa;
• two eggs;
• 110 g white margarine;
• 240 ml of kefir;
• 5 g salt;
• 10 g vanilla extract;
• 15 g of soda;
• 15 ml of vinegar;
• 30 ml of red dye.

Gel dye will need only 2 teaspoons. Dry dye will not allow you to achieve the desired juicy shade. White margarine can be replaced with butter and vegetable oil in a ratio of 7:3. Vegetable oil will give the cakes moisture and the right texture.

1. Sift together flour, cocoa, salt, soda.
2. Beat softened margarine and powdered sugar.
3. Add eggs vanilla extract and beat the mixture thoroughly again.
4. Insert alternately flour mixture and kefir. You need to mix the dough quickly so that it does not “tighten”.
5. Add vinegar to the last portion of kefir.
6. Bake in turn in 2 - 3 parts or in 2 - 3 forms at once. Optimum temperature- 175ºС. Baking time - 30 - 35 minutes.
7. Remove the “cap” from the cooled cakes with a fishing line so that the surface is even. The remains of the biscuit will come in handy for decoration: cut out stars and other New Year's symbols. It is convenient to sprinkle the sides with a crumb.

For thick cheese cream:

• 600 g cottage cheese or cream cheese (Philadelphia or Mascarpone);
• 300 ml cream 33 - 35%;
• 300 g of powdered sugar.

Cream can be replaced with 300 g of butter.

1. Whip the chilled cream and icing until stiff.
2. Gradually add cheese, without ceasing to work with a mixer.

It is better to collect the cake in a ring, as you will get thick layers of cream.

1. Spread about a quarter of the cream on each cake.
2. Smooth it over the surface with a pastry spatula.
3. Refrigerate the dessert to stabilize.

Cake "Clock" for the holiday

For the New Year's table, you can use any proven recipe sponge cake, turning it into a symbol of the holiday with the help of the appropriate decor.

To decorate the cake in the form of a dial:

• 100 g dark chocolate;
• 300 ml of condensed milk;
• 300 g butter.

For the base of the cake - biscuit cakes. Wonderful suitable dough, as in the cake recipe " bird's milk”, or from the previous version.

1. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and spread evenly over cling film until completely frozen.
2. Prepare two fluffy cakes and one very thin.
3. Whip the cream out equal parts condensed milk and butter.
4. Connect the cakes with cream and remove the workpiece in the cold.
5. From thin cake cut out 12 circles for numbers for the cake.
6. Lay them around the circumference of the upper cake and fix them on the surface with cream.
7. Cover the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the cream.
8. With a sharp knife, cut out the numbers and arrows of the desired size from the chocolate sheet and carefully transfer them to the stands. Set the “clock” hands to 23:55 so that the guests have time to make a wish before the chiming clock.

New Year's cake "Christmas tree" with meringue

Cake without baking from finished meringue will save the hostess a couple of hours in the pre-holiday turmoil.

For decor:

• meringue 3 - 4 cm in diameter;
• hazelnuts in chocolate or colored dragees;
• white chocolate as "glue".

From cardboard or thick paper, you need to roll the cone to the size of the future Christmas tree and wrap it with foil.

1. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
2. Dipping the flat part of the meringue into it, attach in rows to the cone.
3. Paste in between chocolate balls or other delicious decorations.

Festive dessert "Shishka"

This themed no-bake dessert is also quick and easy to make. Children will cope with this work on their own and help in preparing the festive table.

For the cake you will need:

• 100 g chopped nuts (walnuts or hazelnuts);
• 100 g dry cookies;
• a can of boiled condensed milk;
• 30 g cocoa;
• cookies "Straws" by the number of cones;
• 150 g chocolate corn flakes;
• powdered sugar.

"Pine cones" about 4 - 5 cm tall. "Spruce" - up to 8 - 10 cm. Ordinary cornflakes dark honey color or almonds, cut into petals.

1. Crumble the cookies and crush any lumps.
2. Combine crumbs, nuts, cocoa and condensed milk.
3. On the "straws" form cones from the resulting sticky mass and place the blanks on the dish with the wide side down.
4. Press the corn flakes in rows around the circumference. Wu " pine cones“The scales are open like flower petals, in the “spruce” they are pressed against each other.
5. Break off the excess part of the straw and mask the tip.
6. Dust the portions with powdered sugar to create the effect of snow.

The cake should be kept refrigerated until serving.

Treat from cookies "Winter house"

famous " Gingerbread house"- an integral part of the European, and now Russian tradition of decorating the festive table.

For beautifully decorated still lifes, such houses are baked from special test in special forms, carefully considering the way of assembly and design. For a home holiday or for a creative evening with children, the process can be greatly simplified.

The walls and the roof will turn out great from dry cookies, you can use any “goodies” that you have at hand for decoration.

To connect the parts and create all kinds of icicles and snowdrifts, you need to prepare icing sugar:

• egg;
• 260 g of powdered sugar.

Kitchen appliances are not needed, everything is easily mixed with a spoon.

1. Separate the protein from the egg.
2. Grind it with powdered sugar until smooth.
3. Use the frosting immediately before it hardens. You can pipe it out of a pastry bag with the smallest hole.

A drawing for walls and roofs on a scale of 1: 1 will facilitate the work.

Hard cookies are carefully cut with a serrated knife.

1. “Cut out” details for the house: two walls with triangular ledges for the roof, two with holes for windows or doors.
2. Connect the walls with ribs using glaze. Excess protruding from the seams is not removed.
3. Glue the workpiece on a serving dish.
4. Fix the roof and, if desired, the pipe.
5. Decorate the window openings and the edges of the roof with glaze icicles.
6. Lay out the tiles from marshmallows, pieces of marmalade, or draw with glaze squeezed out of a pastry bag.
7. From the glaze, make "drifts" around the house.

Marshmallow treat without baking

Without baking, you can cook not only children's desserts for fun, but also quite a solid, and most importantly, delicious cake.

A simple recipe for a marshmallow masterpiece:

• 1 kg of marshmallow;
• 700 g of whipped cream;
• 200 g ground hazelnuts;
• 200 g dark chocolate;
• 500 g candied cranberries or currants.

Spread a little cream on a serving dish to fix the bottom layer of the cake. Then:

1. Lay out in layers: marshmallow halves / nuts / berries / marshmallows again and so on.
2. Spread all layers with whipped cream. Upper layer must be marshmallow.
3. Drizzle with melted chocolate and decorate with berries. Cool down.

If a metal baking dish is used, it is simply immersed in hot water and invert onto a serving platter.

1. Dilute gelatin with water according to the instructions on the package.
2. Dissolve sugar in this liquid.
3. Combine the composition with sour cream. It is better to mix with a regular spoon, and not with a mixer, so that air bubbles do not form.
4. Citrus peel and white films. Put on the bottom of the mold with a beautiful pattern.
5. Chop the cookies into small pieces.
6. Cut peaches and pineapples into slices, no more than a tangerine slice.
7. Pour all the ingredients into the mold and carefully pour the cream.
8. Tap the sides of the mold or twist it clockwise and counterclockwise to release all the bubbles.
9. Put in the cold until completely solidified.

• 350 ml of heavy cream;
• 400 g dark chocolate;
• 50 g white chocolate;
• 100 g of powdered sugar;
• 80 ml of Baileys liqueur;
• 100 g ground nuts;
• 50 g of biscuit crumbs.

The crumb can be made from stale biscuit or butter cookies.

1. Melt dark chocolate in hot cream. Add liqueur and cool slightly.
2. Mix nuts and biscuit crumbs and divide in half.
3. Pour one part into the bottom of the greased mold and pour over the warm mixture.
4. Cover with the other half of the crumb, gently pressing it into the chocolate.
5. Cool down.
6. Before serving, invert dessert onto a serving platter and garnish with white chocolate snowflakes.

Ideas on how to decorate a cake for the New Year

Any cake can be turned into a Special New Year's Treat with a capital letter using thematic decor.

From colored mastic, you can make voluminous or flat figures of Santa Claus, snowmen and deer, garlands of colored lanterns, mistletoe wreaths, gift boxes, decorative socks, and more.

For plastic mass:

• powdered milk,
• powdered sugar,
• condensed milk,
• a pinch of citric acid
• food colorings.

With the help of melted chocolate, you can make inscriptions and patterns directly on the cake. If you put the drawings on cling film and cool them, you get original figurines: snowflakes, stars or Christmas trees.

You can also create a drawing or pattern using a stencil.

• Cut out a snowflake from a paper towel.
• Circle it on the second napkin and cut out the “negative”.
• On a cake covered chocolate icing, put the stencil and crush it with powdered sugar.
• Remove the stencil very carefully so as not to disturb the pattern.

Any application can be made from colored slices of fruit or marmalade: kiwi - for a green Christmas tree, cranberries - for balls, strawberries - for red caps, banana - for round dwarf faces.

To use all the ideas, you will have to cook something special for Christmas, Old New Year and other holidays. Even for a cake for the Chinese New Year, there is a unique author's solution.

Look for biscuit cake? Then here it is, a cute pig made of cakes and cream. For cooking, you will need colors, so buy pink dye in advance at the store.

• 5 raw eggs;
• honey - 3 tablespoons;
• granulated sugar- 200-250 g;
• tsp soda;
• 1-1.5 cups of flour.
• condensed milk -350-400 ml;
• 150-200 g butter;
• 1.5 glasses of water;
• 5 tbsp Sahara;

For custard:

• 3 raw eggs;
• 200 g of sugar;
• water - 1/2 cup.

How to cook:

Take the eggs and grind with sugar, add flour. Melt the honey a little, pour it into the eggs. Pour in soda, stir the mass with a spoon. Place the resulting mixture into the mold. Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes.

When the cake has cooled down a bit, cut it into large pieces. Make a syrup of water and sugar and soak the pieces with it. Remove the butter from the freezer, it should melt a little. Stir the condensed milk into the oil. Beat the cream mixture with a mixer for 5-6 minutes.

Take a deep bowl and line the bottom with plastic wrap. Fold the cakes on the bottom, and then cover them with cream. Put oppression on the cakes so that they are better saturated: take a jar of water or put a small saucepan. The cakes will soak for a couple of hours.

Heat water in a saucepan. When it boils, put sugar in it and cook for 3-4 minutes, then turn off the heat. The mixture will start to thicken little by little. Whisk the egg whites in another bowl until stiff. white foam. Gently fold the egg whites into the hot bowl using a spoon. sugar syrup and stir. Beat the custard for another 3-5 minutes until it becomes fluffy and thick.

Set aside a little white cream in a separate cup, you will need it for further decoration. Mix the rest with pink dye. Take pastry bag with a star nozzle and transfer the cream into it.

Turn the bowl of cakes onto a flat plate to make a slide. Decorate the slide with cream to make a muzzle. Decorate the piglet's ears, piglet. Make eyes out of white cream, and instead of pupils there will be dark chocolate.

Put the creation in the center of the table, the guests will appreciate your culinary skills and enjoy tasting such an attractive dessert. Separately, a photo recipe can be viewed.

On a note!

Condensed milk for the cake can be taken both boiled and plain, it turns out delicious in both cases.

"Herringbone"

On the New Year's table the symbol of the holiday must be present - spruce. We offer to make an edible Christmas tree, it will appeal to children and adults.

• butter - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - a glass;
• 3-4 tbsp powdered sugar;
• flour - 1.5 cups;
• baking powder, a pinch;
• 90-100 g of white chocolate;
• 100 g coconut flakes;
• starch - 1/2 tsp;
• 2 yolks;
• ½ cup sour cream;
• 1/2 cup cream 25%.

How to cook:

Combine the yolks with sugar, rub well. Add sour cream, then add flour little by little. Defrost the butter until it becomes soft and add to the egg mass. Pour in the baking powder. The dough should become thick, but not sticky. Transfer the mass to a bowl or bag and put it in a cool place for 40-50 minutes.

Make stars out of paper different size, from large to small. Roll out the dough, and then cut out the stars according to the sketches. Bake the biscuits for 10-15 minutes.

Melt the chocolate, add cream with starch, powdered sugar to it. coconut flakes chop in a blender and pour into melted chocolate.

Assemble the Christmas tree: place the largest cake on the bottom, grease it with a creamy mass, and press it down with a smaller cake on top. Thus, the smallest cake should be on top of the Christmas tree. Decorate the top with candied fruits by gluing them to the cream. Let the tree harden for 1-2 hours. By the same principle, you can cook chocolate Christmas tree.

On a note!

Great for cream rustic sour cream, it is fatter and whips up much better than a store-bought product.

"New Year's boot"

In other countries there is a tradition to cook for new year holidays sweets in the form of a boot. It is believed that such a delicacy will bring good luck to those who try it. We propose to make a cake in the form of a boot for the New Year. Households will be pleasantly surprised by the surprise and will immediately want to try a piece.

• 350-400 g of sugar;
• 350-400 g flour;
• 10 eggs.
• boiled condensed milk - 300 g;
• 200 g butter.

For impregnation of cakes:

• 200 g of granulated sugar;
• 200 g strawberry jam;
• 1.5 cups of boiled water.

For decoration:

• 8 egg whites;
• tsp citric acid;
• red food coloring;
• a glass of sugar;
• glass of water.

How to cook:

Mix chilled eggs with granulated sugar with a whisk. Using a wooden spatula or spoon, add the flour to the egg mixture. You can pour flour into the egg mixture directly through a sieve, but stir constantly.

Take a rectangular mold, cover with parchment and pour the dough into it. Put the mold in the oven for 40-50 minutes. You can bake cakes 2-3 times in a row, you can make one large cake, and then cut it into 3 parts.

Cut the butter into pieces, leave in a cup for 1-2 hours in the kitchen to soften. Beat the butter with a mixer, then add the condensed milk with a spoon. Beat the cream for at least 5 minutes to make it fluffy. In a saucepan, make syrup for soaking. Heat water, add sugar to it and bring to a boil. Simmer the mixture for 3-4 minutes until thickened. Then turn off the heat.

Soak the rectangular cooled cakes with syrup for a couple of hours. Then smear them with a thin layer (jam), and put cream impregnation on top. Stack the biscuits on top of each other. Cut out a boot from the cake: cut a semicircle from the long side, and cut off the bottom of the cake a little obliquely. Put the rest of the cake on top.

Now you need to make a creamy mass for decoration. Take egg whites, beat them with sugar (150 g) until white thick foam. Set a glass of water to heat up, after boiling, dissolve the remaining sugar, cook for 3-4 minutes, then remove from heat. Pour the hot syrup carefully into protein foam. To prevent it from settling, mix the proteins in one direction, add a lemon.

Divide the custard mixture into 3 equal parts. Set aside one part, and add the dye to the rest and place in a pastry bag. Decorate the cake with red cream, and then draw patterns from the remnants of white or make a frill at the boot. Put finished cake in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, then treat guests.

On a note!

If you like nuts, you can use them for the filling. Put the nuts with cream between the cakes.

"Raffaello"

If you don’t have time, or you don’t want to bother with cooking cakes, then you will definitely like the Raffaello recipe. Buy a ready-made cake in the store, then soak with cream and decorate. Delicious dessert will be ready to serve in a few minutes.

• biscuit cake - 1 pc.;
• 2 cups cream with a fat content of 30%;
• thickener - 2 sachets;
• a box of Raffaello chocolates;
• white chocolate bar;
• 3 tbsp coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Remove the cream from the refrigerator so that it is at room temperature. Whip cream with a thickener with a mixer for 3-5 minutes.

Set aside 7-8 sweets from the box, put the rest of the sweets into a mixer cup and grind until smooth. Pour the candy mixture into the whipped cream. Should work thick cream.

Divide the biscuit into 2 equal parts. Lubricate each part with a creamy mass. Lay the pieces on top of each other.

Rub on fine grater chocolate, sprinkle crumbs on the cake. Sprinkle sides and top with additional coconut flakes. Put sweets on top of the cake and put the kettle on. You can try the delicacy right away, but especially delicious cake will be when soaked for 2-3 hours.

You can increase the number of cake layers on the cake, just remember to make more cream. Complete recipe with step by step photos.

Cake "Santa Claus"

Delicious and light cake can be cooked if there are 3-4 biscuit cakes in your kitchen. You can use store-bought or bake your own if time permits. It takes less than half an hour to make the cake.

• 4 biscuit cakes;
• 1.5 cups of sour cream;
• 3 tbsp powdered sugar;
• 100 g canned pineapples;
• 4 egg whites;
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar;
• for decoration:
• tsp red dye;
• a handful of grapes.

How to cook:

Put sour cream in a bowl and beat it well with a mixer. Then gradually pour in the powdered sugar and continue beating for another 4-5 minutes. Drain the juice from the pineapples. If you bought whole fruits in syrup, then cut them into small pieces.

Now you can start assembling. Take a flat plate and apply a little cream mass so the cake won't slip. Put the cake, grease with cream, put another one on it, grease again. Do not grease the top of the cake with cream, we will decorate it differently.

Take a saucepan and pour 50-60 ml of water into it. Put it on fire. When the water boils, add 1 tbsp. sugar and cook for 2-3 minutes, then turn off the heat and cover the syrup with a lid to cool slowly. Beat the egg whites with sugar until stiff peaks form, slowly pour the syrup into the egg white, stirring constantly. Divide the custard into 3 parts, add coloring to one part and set aside for now. Fill a pastry bag with white cream and start creating. Make the beard first, then the face. Insert grapes for eyes. Next, make the nose, mouth and cap with red cream. Place the cake in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Happy tea!

Cake "Snowman"

Take note of the recipe for a New Year's dessert with a winter name Snowman. The cake turns out to be autumn tender, the biscuit is well saturated with cream. Coconut flakes or white grated chocolate are suitable for decoration. It takes about 1.5 hours to prepare.

• 4 chicken eggs;
• 1/2 cup flour;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• 2 tbsp starch;
• 100-150 g butter;
• sachet vanilla sugar- 10-15 g;
• a pinch of salt.

To prepare the cream:

• 300 g of rustic cottage cheese;
• 400 g of heavy cream;
• st.l. gelatin;
• 100 g sugar.
• for decor:
• a couple of grapes;
• a piece of carrot;
• 100 g coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Remove the eggs from the refrigerator in advance so that they accept room temperature. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, gradually adding it to the mass. Add sifted flour, softened butter and baking powder. Sprinkle vanilla sugar and salt into the dough. You need to bake 4 shortcakes: 2 with a larger diameter, 2 with a smaller one. You can take the same shape for baking, just cut the baked cakes on a plate with a smaller diameter. Remove the finished cakes from the mold and cool.

Mix cream and cottage cheese in one cup so that there are no lumps in the mixture, take a blender or mixer. Add sugar to the mass and gelatin.

On the big dish lay out 2 shortcakes of different diameters, grease with creamy mass. Then put the remaining cakes in accordance with the size of the previous ones and go over the cream again. Sprinkle the snowman with shavings. Insert grapes and carrots instead of eyes and nose, a smile can also be made from carrots. It takes from 2 to 3 hours to soak the cakes, but it is better to remove the dessert for the night in a cool place, then it will soak even better.

Replace cottage cheese for making cream with cream cheese then no sourness will be felt.

Snowman biscuit cake recipe - master class

Cake "Snowman" I suggest you cook for the New Year. It turns out it is very funny, the design is not complicated, so you can safely start cooking with me.

To taste, the cake comes out soft, since the cakes are biscuit, and the cream is made from sour cream. If for some reason you can’t have sour cream, then replace it with confectionery cream. Also, you can safely add your favorite fruits to the cake: kiwi, pineapples, bananas, strawberries and other berries.

Ingredients needed to make the dough:

• eggs - 5 pieces;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• flour - 1 cup;
• cocoa - 2-3 tablespoons.

Necessary ingredients for the preparation of the cream:

• sour cream - 1 pack (weight - 450 grams, fat content - 20-25%);
• sugar - 150 grams.

Crack the indicated number of eggs into the mixing bowl. It is not necessary to separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the egg mass for 3 minutes. During this time, it will become lush and slightly increase in volume. Pour sugar over beaten eggs. Mixer, if you have it stationary, do not turn it off. Beat everything for 3-5 minutes.

Now add flour and immediately cocoa. Stir the dough.

Pour the dough into a circle metal mold for baking, which you will cover parchment paper for baking. Send the form to the oven for 30 minutes. Ready biscuit chocolate cake remove from the form.

Pour the sour cream into a mixing bowl. Add sugar immediately. Turn on the mixer and beat the cream with it for at least 5 minutes. During this time, the sour cream will become much thicker, and it will be convenient to lubricate the cakes with the resulting cream.

Cut the finished chocolate cake into three parts. Let them cool completely, otherwise the cream will "melt" and drain from them.

Lubricate all the cakes (the top one too) with sour cream.

Now you can color the remaining cream in the desired colors (using helium dyes) and draw the eyes, cheeks, mouth and nose on the snowman. I used ready-made eyes and cheeks from mastic. The nose and mouth were cut out of carrots. So beautiful and birthday cake"Snowman" turned out!

Agree the best treat in new year's eve and you can't imagine!

Happy New Year!

"Snowflake"

If you are still thinking about New Year's dessert we advise you to shake air cake. Especially for those who love butter cream and coconut flakes.

• a glass of flour;
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• a small piece of butter weighing 30-50 g;
• tsp baking powder;
• 1.5 cups of cream;
• a glass of fat sour cream;
• 4 tbsp powdered sugar;
• white chocolate bar;
• 100 g coconut flakes.

How to cook:

Grind the eggs with sugar into a homogeneous mass. Sift flour into it and add baking powder. Add the melted butter to the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Divide the dough into 6 parts, make a cake from each part and bake in the oven for no more than 10 minutes.

Mix sour cream with cream, beat the mixture with a mixer for at least 5 minutes. According to st.l. add powdered sugar. Melt the white chocolate in a water bath and add to the cream.

Lubricate the shortcakes with creamy mass, connect. On the top cake and on the sides of the cake, apply the rest of the creamy mass, sprinkle the cake with coconut flakes. Leave the Snowflake in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours, then you can try the cake with tea.

"Zebra"

An unusual treat is easy to prepare according to this recipe. It is simple, so even an inexperienced hostess can handle it. So stock up on food and start cooking without any delay.

To prepare the dough:

• 150 g of granulated sugar;
• 150 g butter;
• 4 eggs;
• 300 g of sour cream with a fat content of at least 20%;
• 1.5 cups flour;
• 2 tsp baking powder;
• 30 g cocoa.

For cream:

• 1.5 cups of sour cream 20%;
• 150 g of granulated sugar;
• tsp vanilla extract.

For glaze:

• 100 g butter;
• 50 ml of milk;
• 100 g of granulated sugar;
• powdered sugar - 3 tbsp
• 50 g cocoa.

How to cook:

Remove the butter from the refrigerator and wait until it melts. soft butter combine with sugar and grind until white. Add eggs, baking powder, mix. Put sour cream, and at the very end sprinkle flour. The dough should be liquid. Divide it into 2 parts. Add cocoa to one part.

Pour a ladle of white dough into the center of the baking dish, and pour the dough with cocoa into its center. You should get a combination of 2 colors, you can take a needle and draw lines straight across the dough from the center to the edges, it will also be beautiful. Thus, you need to bake 2 cakes.

Beat sour cream with granulated sugar to make a thick white cream. Add vanilla, stir. Lubricate the cooled cakes with sour cream and sugar. The top cake does not need to be lubricated, we will make glaze for it.

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Pour granulated sugar with cocoa into the butter and add milk. Simmer the frosting until it thickens noticeably. Pour frosting over cake. Place in a cool place for 2-3 hours to harden the icing.

Cut out stencils from paper - zebra stripes. Lay the stencils on top of the cake and dust with powder. Then carefully remove the paper. The cake is ready, have a nice tea party!

On a note!

Put some coffee with cocoa, then the aroma of baking will be more pronounced.

"Pancho"

All family members will no doubt like the Pancho cake. It has walnuts and canned pineapple which makes the dessert taste unusual. Try to make your own cake, it's not difficult.

• 1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
• 6 chicken eggs;
• 1.5 cups flour;
• 5 tsp baking powder;
• 800 g sour cream with a fat content of at least 25%
• 200 g canned pineapple;
• 1.5 cups of powdered sugar;
• Cup walnuts(shredded).

How to cook:

Break the eggs into a bowl and grind with granulated sugar until a white homogeneous mixture is obtained. Mix flour and baking powder, sift and spoon over eggs. stir.

Pour a third of the total dough volume into a greased mold. Bake at 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Add cocoa to the rest of the dough, mix again and bake the cake for half an hour.

Transfer the sour cream to a deep bowl and mix with powdered sugar. Separate about ¼ of the total amount, set it aside in a separate bowl. In the remaining cream, add pineapple pieces with nuts.

Put a light cake on a flat plate, soak it pineapple juice. Cut the baked chocolate cake into small pieces, mix with the cream. Put the soaked pieces on a white biscuit cake, give them the shape of a slide. Garnish with sour cream. If you have a dark chocolate bar, rub it down and sprinkle over the cake.

By the way, Pancho cake with cherries is very tasty.

Red Velvet Cake

In cafes and restaurants, you can often find a dessert called Red Velvet on the menu. It is not necessary to buy a dessert, because it is easy to prepare even at home. The cake just melts in your mouth, and its taste is very delicate due to the airy cream.

• 1.5 cups flour;
• 1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
• 100 ml vegetable oil;
• 1/2 pack of butter;
• 3 eggs;
• 1.5 cups of kefir;
• 2 tsp red helium dye;
• tsp dough baking powder;
• a pinch of vanilla sugar.

For cream:

• a glass of powdered sugar;
• a pack of butter;
• 800-900 g Mascarpone.

How to cook:

Start cooking by beating eggs. Beat the egg mixture until foamy, then gradually add the flour sifted through a sieve. Add softened butter to the mass, stirring constantly, add kefir. Add a pinch of vanilla sugar to the dough and add the baking powder. Stir the dough so that there are no lumps, you can use a mixer or blender. Add color to the dough. Pour the mass into a baking dish and bake the cake for 1 hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

When the cake has cooled, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Then the biscuit will be soft.

For cream, grind the softened butter with powdered sugar. The color of the mass should turn white. Then add in the Mascarpone cheese. Stir the cream mixture constantly so that it is homogeneous.

Take the biscuit out of the refrigerator. Using a thread or a knife, cut it into 2 or 3 pieces. Put the crumbs that remain from cutting on a plate, they will be needed for sprinkling. Lubricate each part with cream, and then lay the cakes on top of each other. Brush the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the cream, and then sprinkle with crumbs. Leave the dessert to soak in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and preferably overnight. Happy tea!

On a note!

Instead of Mascarpone cheese, other cream cheese or homemade cottage cheese will do.

Cooking Ideas

A New Year's cake on the festive table will come in handy, because desserts must be included in the menu for the New Year. Even if you have never cooked, but want to try it, go ahead, you will definitely succeed, and our easy recipes will help you. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

No matter how the Christmas tree is decorated, no matter how luxuriously the festive table is laid, but not a single feast will be complete without a delicious New Year's cake. Usually, households are waiting for their mother's or grandmother's sweet masterpiece, unique, delicious, made from fresh and natural ingredients. Yes, and guests are waiting in anticipation of sweet food for the New Year's tea party.

Today, New Year's cakes can be prepared according to many recipes, and in general, how many housewives, there are so many solutions, but today we have prepared for you three homemade New Year's cake recipes for 2019.

Dishes and products for New Year's cakes

To prepare delicious New Year's cakes, you most often need base ingredients, to our New Year's collection this also applies. Firstly, there is flour in any of our cakes. premium, chicken eggs, butter or margarine, sugar, powdered sugar, sour cream and milk, lemon, candied fruits, in tiles, baking powder, gelatin, vanilla sugar or vanillin, fresh berries or fruits.

To prepare New Year's cakes according to the recipes given in the article, you need a table, dishes, and an oven. Utensils should be clean and dry - bowls, spoons, an egg beater or mixer, several clean glasses, a sieve for sifting flour, baking paper / parchment, a rolling pin for rolling dough, a grater, a sharp knife, a mechanical or electric meat grinder, cutters layers of biscuit, confectionery spatula, baking sheet, serviceable oven, juicer and more

Given that the preparation for gala dinner takes a lot of time, we picked up only the simplest and at the same time the most delicious New Year's cakes, while very bright and elegant!

New Year's cake-roll "Berries in the snow"

A roll cake under this name is as picturesque as it is delicious. If we add that it is also easy to make, then the problem of choosing a New Year's cake can be solved with this recipe. For its preparation, you will need fresh berries, but in our time this will not become a serious obstacle, especially since they can be replaced with ice cream if the cake does not need to be stored for a long time.

Dough Ingredients:

• chicken egg - 5 pieces of protein;
• granulated sugar - 150 grams + 50 grams;
• premium flour - 1 cup;
• fresh milk - 2 tablespoons;
• odorless vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons;
• table salt - a pinch;
• vanillin - to taste.

Cream Ingredients:

• cream 30% - 500 milliliters;
• granulated sugar - 2/3 cup;
• cream cheese "Philadelphia" - 200 grams;
• vanillin or vanilla sugar - to taste.

for impregnation:

• sweetened water - 0.5 cups;
• liqueur "Belize" - 1 dessert spoon.

to decorate the roll:

• fresh raspberries;
• fresh;
• canned cherries;
• coconut shavings.

According to the recipe, the New Year's cake-roll "Berries in the Snow" is prepared as follows:

1. In a suitable container, beat the yolks of five chicken eggs with a mixer, first adding granulated sugar, followed by milk, and a little later, vegetable oil. Continuing to beat, sprinkle in small portions of the sifted flour and a little vanilla. Set this container aside for the time being.
2. In another container, beat the whites first without sugar until fluffy, add sugar and beat completely. Return to the container with the yolks and flour, into which add the sugar-protein whipped mass in three steps with constant stirring. As a result of this mixing, a light and fluffy biscuit mass is obtained.
3. Lay baking paper on a baking sheet and pour the dough on it, smooth it with a spatula and even lightly tapping on the table. By this time, the oven should already be heated to +170 C and the baking sheet is sent into it for 10-12 minutes.
4. After the specified time, take out a baking sheet with a biscuit, walk along its edge with a knife or spatula to separate the edges, carefully tip it over directly hot cutting board, immediately remove the baking paper and cover the biscuit with it again, cover with a towel on top and let the biscuit evaporate for 5 minutes.
5. Open the rested biscuit, loosely roll it into a roll directly with paper and leave it in this form to cool.
6. While the biscuit is cooling, you should prepare the cream, for which, in a separate container, beat the cream with the addition of sugar with a mixer. In a separate bowl, loosen the Philadelphia cream cheese with a spoon, add 2 tablespoons of whipped cream to it - beat with a mixer, another 2 tablespoons of cream - beat again. When all the cream is combined, beat with a mixer for another 2 minutes.
7. The time has come for the impregnation, which is prepared in half a glass of boiled chilled water with the addition and mixing of one and a half tablespoons of sugar and dessert spoon liqueur "Belize" or another brand of liquor.
8. Unfold the cooled roll, remove the paper, coat with impregnation to make it more fragrant and juicier. Next, spread cream on the soaked side on the biscuit and arrange fresh raspberries, blueberries and canned cherries on top in random order. Roll the biscuit with cream and berries without pressure so that the cream does not come out.
9. By this moment, a dish narrow in the form of a “snow log” or a suitable board wrapped in foil has already been prepared, on which the roll is carefully placed, and cream is evenly applied to it, which is quite enough according to this recipe.
10. As soon as the “snow log” is smeared with cream, it is sprinkled with coconut flakes. Decorate on top fresh berries, which are also sprinkled with coconut flakes.

Ready roll cake "Berries in the Snow" can be served immediately. If this event is delayed in time, it should be stored in the refrigerator without freezing. If frozen berries are used to prepare this roll cake, then you need to use it immediately, on the day of preparation.

Homemade recipe for New Year's cake "Favorite"

The simplicity and short period of preparation of this confectionery masterpiece will pleasantly surprise you, and the result will delight, because at the end you will get almost Kiev cake, which compares favorably with the named brand in that it does not crumble at all during slicing into portions. It also excels in its taste data - everything is fresh and of the highest grade. Cooking time 80-90 minutes.

Cake Ingredients:

• premium wheat flour - 3 cups;
• creamy margarine - 250 grams;
• granulated sugar - 100 grams;
• peeled nuts (any) - 100-130 grams;
• fresh chicken yolks - 4 pieces;
• baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
• table salt - 0.5 teaspoon.

For the business:

• chicken proteins - 4 pieces;
• granulated sugar - 200 grams.

For cream:

• condensed milk - 250 grams;
• butter - 200 grams;
• shortbread biscuits, crushed, baked milk type, for sprinkling finished cake(maybe ground nuts) - 150-200 grams.

By home recipe New Year's cake "Favorite" is prepared as follows:

1. Carefully separate the whites and yolks of heavily chilled fresh chicken eggs into different bowls. Beat the whites until fluffy foam with a mixer, then, gradually introducing granulated sugar, finally complete the whipping process to the peak. Put the bowl with the resulting mass for the bizet until the time in the refrigerator.
2. To make the dough, pour 1 teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of salt, granulated sugar into a bowl with yolks and beat with a mixer until the mass is homogeneous.
3. In another container, grind the flour sifted the day before with margarine. As soon as this happens, combine this mass with yolks whipped with sugar, knead the dough. It turns out plastic and you need to divide it into equal 2 or 3 parts, depending on the number of cakes you prefer.
4. To bake cakes with a layer of bizet one after another, you will need detachable form for a cake with a diameter of 23-22 centimeters, the sides and bottom of which should be smeared butter, and put baking paper cut out along its circumference at the bottom. Roll out the first cake from part of the dough so that it fits into the shape. Trim the laid cake with your hands if it does not coincide with the borders of the bottom.
5. Put a part of the raw bizet on the dough cake, trim it with a spoon, sprinkle with finely chopped nuts, dip them gently in the bizet so that they do not burn in the oven, and put the baking dish for the first cake in an oven preheated to +150 C for 20-30 minutes. With the second and, if you divided the dough into 3 parts, with the third cake, do the same.
6. Allow the finished cakes to cool, and at this time prepare the cream by whipping boiled condensed milk with butter in a separate bowl and smear each cake with this cream on top, then coat the cake completely with a culinary spatula.
7. It remains to crumble the cookies in a convenient way for you and sprinkle the entire cake on top and sides. Decorated in one way or another, the cake should be placed in the refrigerator on demand for the festive table.

Given the New Year theme, the Beloved cake can be decorated in this style. In this case, cookie crumbs can be replaced with coconut flakes and non-melting icing sugar, which perfectly imitates snow, and other themed decorations made of sugar, caramel and other delicious culinary decorations can be selected.

Homemade recipe for New Year's cake "Milk Girl"

New Year's cake according to this recipe is prepared quickly, simply, from available products, and the result is a New Year's elegant dish that can decorate the table, please everyone who feasts, and glorify the hostess as a home confectioner.

Dough Ingredients:

• premium flour - 160 grams;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• condensed milk - 400 grams;
• baking powder - 1 tablespoon.

for cream:

• powdered sugar - 2/3 cup;
• cream 30-35% - 600 grams;
• cream fixer - 1 sachet.

New Year's cake "Milk Girl" according to a homemade recipe is prepared as follows:

In a suitable cup, beat with a whisk or mixer raw eggs, adding condensed milk, continue beating. Mix flour, baking powder, vanillin and, gradually pouring into the egg mass, continue stirring until the dough is homogeneous, which is allowed to brew for 10-15 minutes to make the cakes more magnificent. Cook cakes as follows: draw a regular circle on a sheet of baking paper along a dessert plate with a diameter of 20 centimeters. Turn the sheet over - the circle will be noticeable. Put a sheet of this paper on a non-slip (silicone) surface and, spreading evenly, spread 2 tablespoons of dough within the outlined circle. If the size of the baking sheet allows you to place two cakes at once, then this will speed up the process of their preparation.

At this point, the oven is already heated to +190 C or +400 F, paper with raw cake carefully place on a baking sheet and send to bake for 4-5 minutes. While the first cake is baking, lay out the second cake on the second sheet of baking paper with the same circumference so that it can be immediately baked.

Remove the finished first cake from the paper while hot. When all the cakes are ready, stack one on top of the other and cut off the protrusions and bumps in a way that suits you, for example, under a suitable lid. Cakes folded one on top of the other, shifting baking paper, leave to cool.

While the cakes are finally cooling down, prepare a cream for smearing them from sour cream and powdered sugar, which are mixed with a whisk or mixer, pouring the powder gradually in portions. Important condition: all items and products of this process must be cooled, and from cream less than the specified fat content good cream will not work. The cakes are ready, the cream is ready - it remains generously, not sparing the cream (these cakes absorb it quickly), coat them one by one on top, put the subsequent ones on the bottom, each smearing with cream.

For impeccable flowability, dry the coconut flakes in advance and sprinkle the completely smeared cake on top and on the sides with these chips, which will make the “Milk Girl” look like a snow-covered low cylinder. The top can be decorated with light blue sugar snowflakes, and on your holiday table there will be a small edible snowdrift in the form beautiful cake. So that the New Year's cake "Milk Girl" pleases you optimal taste, you just need to let him spend a cool night in the arms of the refrigerator. Then it will become tender, soft, with fragrant smells of cream and vanilla... Happy New Year 2019!

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

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

Making a dessert for the new year is different from conventional cooking- after all, on this day, in addition to sweets, you need to cook a large number of salads, snacks and hot dishes. Lack of experience also affects - after all, cakes with a New Year theme have to be prepared only once a year.

Cake decoration features:

• There is no need to make the decorations on the cake too greasy - on the festive table, and without this, there are enough foods that are heavy for the stomach;
• You need to practice in advance in creating jewelry. On December 31, there will be enough worries, and it will be hard to learn something new in the pre-holiday turmoil.

Cake decorating rules:

• Do not abuse artificial dyes, especially if there are small children among the guests. A beautiful color can be given to the product with the help of berry juice;
• When decorating a cake, do not overdo it with its design - the product must be stable, and the decorations must hold securely on it;
• Do not aim to make an exact copy of the cake from the picture - often the most beautiful jewelry are self-created when inspired during the manufacturing process.

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

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

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. Favorite treat rooster is seeds, nuts and popcorn. If all this is not planned in decorating the cake, then the cake itself can be cereal or nutty.

Cake decorating options:

• Marzipan figurines.

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 several colors) and plasticine handling skills. Ready-made marzipan can be bought at the store by choosing the right colors for your cockerel.

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

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

• Chocolate decorations.

Chocolate for decoration is melted and poured into a pastry bag. With such chocolate, you can draw openwork snowflakes, Christmas trees, snow drifts. Figurines can be placed vertically in the cake - such 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 jewelry so that they do not fall under the cut line. White chocolate will allow you to create real "snow", and beautiful spruce trees will turn out from the dark.

• 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 figurines: these are shiny beads, snowflakes, stars, leaves. From this set, you can lay out a picture or decorate the edges of the cake.

• Fruit decor.

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 different shapes from fruits and lay them on the surface of the cake. Also, bright berries will perfectly decorate the New Year's dessert.

• Decoration with powdered sugar.

Having cut out stencils of images from paper, you can put them on the cake and sprinkle the rest of the surface thickly with powdered sugar. With its help, you can draw whole pictures on a confectionery product.

Some jewelry options can be combined with each other, others look better without unnecessary elements. Before you start designing a product, you need to decide on the 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 beautifully cover the cake. Various figurines are also made from mastic. Dyes will allow you to decorate the mastic and add brightness to the finished product.

Can buy finished mass but the tastiest sugar paste obtained by home production.

Marshmallow mastic

Marshmallow mastic is quickly prepared and easy to use: it is evenly colored, easily rolled out and takes any shape.

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

Marshmallow cut into small pieces, fill with water and put on water bath. When the marshmallows begin to dissolve, you need to add oil to the pan. After the marshmallow becomes a homogeneous mass, it's time to remove it from the stove.

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

If the spoon starts to get stuck, stir the mass with your hands.

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

Gelatin-based mastic

It is very convenient to sculpt figurines and decorations from this mastic.

For cooking 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 mass must be stirred and not allowed to boil.

Pour half of the powdered sugar on the table and form a hill with a recess from it. We pour into it lemon juice with gelatin and knead the mastic, gradually adding the remaining powder. You need to mix until smooth, then wrap the mass cling film and refrigerate briefly.

Milk mastic

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

To prepare the 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 milk powder, lemon juice is added and everything is mixed. Now gradually add condensed milk and stir the mass until a dense state. 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.

With the help of mastic, a smooth coating of the top of the product and its sides is created. 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 must be rolled out to a thickness of 5 mm. Cover the product with mastic carefully, smoothing out all the folds and cutting off the excess with a knife. If the mastic is not applied very beautifully, you can hide the flaws by decorating - figurines, icing or cream inscriptions are suitable

• Stucco compositions.

Figurines are made from mastic of varying complexity. For their manufacture, you can buy ready-made stamps - mastic is applied to them, and then the figure is squeezed out of the mold. The figurines are also molded by hand - the consistency of the mastic resembles plasticine, so even children can handle the modeling.

Rules for working with mastic:

• So that the mastic does not stick to the table, it must be sprinkled with starch;
• It is necessary to store the mastic in a hermetically sealed container so that neither air nor water violates the consistency of the mass;
• Already finished goods from mastic can be lubricated with a solution of vodka and honey (1: 1). The smell of vodka from the product will disappear, and the figures and glaze will acquire a mirror shine;
• To get 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 decorating a cake 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 subdued 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.

Via a large number mastics regular biscuit can be issued as a symbol of the new year 2017 or a large Christmas tree toy.

• Waffle treat for kids.

If a separate birthday cake, then it can be simply and tasty to decorate waffle sticks. Kids will love it beautiful view crunchy treats.

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

Conclusion

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

• It is necessary to think in advance about the design of the cake and the products necessary for its manufacture;
• With no decoration experience confectionery, 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, manage to stop in time - a big pile various decorations may look messy.

Unusual and beautifully decorated cake will become the best gift for the whole family.