The main dish for Easter is, of course, Easter cake. Together with cottage cheese Easter and colored eggs, it occupies the main place on the festive table. There are many recipes for making Easter baking, and each housewife uses her own proven recipe. Ready-made Easter cakes are decorated to look truly festive, because Easter is one of the main Christian holidays. How can you decorate Easter cakes?

How beautiful to decorate an Easter cake with your own hands

No need to spend a lot of time and money to decorate pastries for Easter. All ingredients are available to every housewife, and even children can handle the decoration. When the Easter cakes are ready, the kids will be happy to start decorating Easter cakes. The following products can be used as decoration:

• Powdered sugar;
• Food or natural dyes;
• Colored sprinkles;
• Almond petals;
• Nut crumb;
• Edible beads;
• Dried fruits;
• Candied fruits, etc.

The most popular options for decorating Easter baking:

1. Dough decoration. From the same dough from which the muffin was baked, you can make an original decor. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers also decorated pastries with braids, zigzags, petals, flowers, doves and other dough figures. In the dough, which will be used as a decoration, you can add natural or food coloring - so the pastries will look more spectacular.
2. Decoration with white icing. Often Easter cakes are decorated with white icing made from egg whites and powdered sugar. It would seem that whipping proteins with sugar is an easy task. But often, due to cooking errors, proteins do not whip well. In this case, the icing will unevenly lie on the baking and drain from it.
3. Decoration with fruit glaze. You can make a decoration from sugar and protein by adding a couple of tablespoons of berry or fruit juice. With fruity multi-colored glaze, very beautiful Easter cakes are obtained.
4. Decoration with chocolate icing. Luxurious decoration option that does not require much effort. You can make the glaze yourself or melt the already prepared chocolate bar in a water bath.

After applying the glaze on top, Easter cakes are sprinkled with colored dragees, sugar sprinkles, almond petals, marmalade, edible and inedible decor can be used.

There are many options for the original decoration of Easter cakes.

Rules for applying glaze to baked goods

• The mass, which is made from a hard glaze, is applied with a pastry spatula. Lubricate the baking surface with soft icing using a pastry brush or silicone spatula.
• Place dense thick glaze in a pastry syringe and you can create fancy patterns on Easter baking.
• If you pour liquid glaze on top of pastries, it will drain, decorating Easter cakes also on the side.
• Sweet watering hardens quickly enough, so it must be applied immediately after preparation.

Easter cake decoration with icing

The most popular decoration of holiday Easter cakes is protein glaze. It is made from egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice. The preparation of such an ornament will not take much time, but the products will look elegant, with a lush white “cap” on top.

Required Ingredients:

To get a quality glaze, it is important to beat the egg whites correctly.

• 4 proteins (it is better to take homemade eggs);
• 350 grams of powdered sugar;
• A teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice (lemon can be replaced with any citrus).

Glaze preparation:

Only very cold egg whites are used. In a clean, dry bowl, start beating the egg whites, gradually adding the powdered sugar. Pour in the citrus juice and continue beating until the mixture thickens. Stable protein peaks should form on the surface - in this case, the glaze is ready. Lubricate the tops of warm Easter cakes with protein glaze. You can decorate on top with multi-colored sprinkles, almond crumbs, candied fruits, dried fruits, marmalade, dragees.

For faster curing of the glaze, Easter cakes can be placed in a preheated oven for several minutes.

On a note! It is very important to properly separate the whites from the yolks. If even a small particle of egg yolk gets into the proteins, the protein decoration will not work.

How to decorate cakes with chocolate icing

One way to decorate the cake is to use chocolate icing. Prepare the following ingredients:

• 5 tbsp clean drinking water;
• 3 tbsp granulated sugar;
• a tablespoon of cocoa powder;
• A pinch of citric acid.

How the glaze is prepared:

1. First you need to prepare the sugar glaze. In a small saucepan, mix sugar with citric acid, pour water, mix everything well.
2. Put the saucepan on a small fire and cook, stirring, until the mass thickens.
3. When all the sugar crystals dissolve and the mass thickens well, carefully pour in the cocoa powder.
4. Boil the chocolate mass for a few minutes, then remove from the stove and let stand for a few minutes.
5. Apply the chocolate frosting in an even layer with a pastry brush. The frosting will set for a few minutes.
6. Place an openwork napkin on the watering and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
7. Remove the tissue paper carefully. Such an Easter cake decoration with your own hands looks very unusual.

On a note! The napkin should be with a large openwork pattern so that it is clearly visible on the chocolate icing.

Chocolate and nut decoration

1. Break 100 grams of dark chocolate into small pieces, put in a saucepan and put in a water bath.
2. When the chocolate pieces are melted, pour 40 ml of heavy cream into a saucepan. Cook, stirring, until the mass thickens. Do not boil the chocolate-cream mixture!
3. Spread the chocolate mass over the pastries, sprinkle with chopped nuts on top. You can use absolutely any nuts: walnuts, pistachios, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts.

Mastic decoration

Now it is very fashionable to decorate confectionery and pastries with mastic. You can also decorate Easter cakes with mastic. What is required for this:

1. We roll out the similarity of ribbons from white mastic.
2. We fold each mastic ribbon like a snail. We remove excess mastic from below.
3. We roll out the green mastic, cut out the leaves from it. If there is no finished form of leaflets, you can use a thin blade. From above on each leaflet we draw veins, like in leaflets.
4. The icing can be left white, or you can add a drop of food coloring to it in the form of a gel. We apply icing over the entire surface of Easter baking.
5. Immediately spread the leaves and flowers around the entire circumference on the glaze. In the center, you can lay out the letters “XB” with raisins or pieces of dried apricots.

Mastic will allow you to create original patterns and shapes on Easter cakes

Fancy Jewelry

We offer you several ways to unusually decorate Easter cake.

Easter nest decoration

1. First, the glaze is prepared, to which food coloring is added in the form of a gel of any color. For example, you can choose yellow as a symbol of the sun and spring.
2. Figures of Easter eggs are molded from multi-colored mastic.
3. Chips are cut off from a chocolate bar with a sharp knife, from which you need to lay out a kind of nest on top of the cake.
4. Mastic eggs are placed in the chocolate nest. The original decor is ready!

Chicken decoration

A chicken figurine will make your cake the most original. Prepare the following:

1. White, yellow, orange mastic;
2. Food markers;
3. Toothpicks;
4. A scalpel (if you don't have one, a knife with a very sharp blade will do).

How to beautifully decorate an Easter cake with a mastic figurine:

• You can buy ready-made mastic or make it yourself. The main condition is that it should be dense, elastic and keep its shape.
• Make a chicken out of yellow mastic.
• Using white putty, make two halves of the shell from which the chick will hatch.
• Make a beak out of orange mastic.
• Draw eyes with food markers.
• Glue the shell on top and bottom of the chicken figure so that its paws stand on one half of the shell, and the second half is stuck to the head.
• To attach the figurine to Easter baking, use a toothpick. Gently stick one edge into the figure, and secure the other in baking.
• If desired, you can cut flowers from multi-colored mastic and decorate the entire surface of the holiday baking.

Easter decoration options

Here are some more of the best Easter cake decorating ideas:

1. Use of liquid caramel. Liquid caramel is quite often used to decorate various confectionery and pastries. Draw any design on a piece of parchment paper, cut it out with nail scissors. Place the stencil on top of the pastry and use a pastry brush to gently brush the warm caramel over the design. After the caramel has cooled, the stencil can be removed.
2. Multi-colored coconut. Brush the top of the cake with white fondant and sprinkle with different colored coconut flakes.
3. Candied fruits. Slices of various citrus fruits will become an unusual decor for Easter baking.
4. In addition to edible decoration options, you can also use ribbons, figurines, candles, paper, and other inedible decor items. If there is a desire, we make it with our own hands, or we buy ready-made jewelry in the store.

Easter is a long-awaited time when Christians celebrate the miraculous resurrection of Jesus Christ. On this day, everything is filled with triumph, joy, happiness. Family members gather at a large festive table, on which there must be an Easter cake in the very center. Housewives try to make their Easter cakes not only tasty, but also beautiful, but even the most exquisite decoration will not make a Easter cake special if it is not done from the heart.

Easter is traditionally the largest and most popular Orthodox holiday. By the end of Lent, a few days before the Easter celebrations, people begin to cook Easter cakes and colored eggs. And if everything is clear with the dough recipe for the most delicious and religiously important treat, then certain problems may arise with its decoration. How to decorate an Easter cake spectacularly, and what goodies can come in handy for this?

Decorating with glaze

To decorate Easter cakes, protein glaze is traditionally used, as well as a variety of sprinkles and sugar dragees. To prepare the protein glaze, it is necessary to separate the egg whites from the yolks and beat them in a mixer (it will take about 2-3 eggs). After the mass thickens, you need to add half a glass of sugar to it and continue to beat the components until a homogeneous mass is formed.

Separation of proteins from yolks

Beautiful Easter cakes are obtained if you cover the entire cap of baking with this mass. As soon as this has happened, it is necessary to display on the surface of the glaze, until it has hardened, a variety of patterns using sprinkles, cream, marmalade figurines. What patterns of sprinkles are most common:

A person should not be afraid of experiments, because the brighter he decorates the cake, the better it will be. After applying the glaze and pattern, the baking should not be touched, as the top coating must dry completely. This usually happens within 10-15 minutes.

Now decorating by mixing sugar and protein is used everywhere for several reasons:

After decorating all the Easter cakes, you can proceed to their consecration and eating, since fresh pastries are the most delicious.

Cake decorating with chocolate

Decorating Easter cakes for Easter usually turns into a real creative experiment, since you can use a variety of components for this task. Often people replace icing sugar, which everyone has long been accustomed to, with an equally tasty component - chocolate.

To make the design seem even more interesting, you can decorate the hat with the following goodies:

• decoratively laid out fruits (for example, you can add the letters “XB” from them);
• colored sugar sprinkles, with which you can create the most original drawings associated with the holiday;
• grated white chocolate can also be contrasted with Easter cake;
• coconut can also be used to create a pattern, because in contrast it will look very interesting.

A beautiful Easter cake does not have to be traditional with white icing. Using chocolate, a person will get a much brighter and more unusual pattern.

For those who love to experiment, the double use of chocolate and icing for decoration is suitable. It will be possible to cover one side of the cake with dark melted chocolate, and the other side with white icing, and the result will be a very original and bright design. On the dark side, you can draw an image of a cross with coconut chips, and on the white side, use sprinkles to create the face of an angel.

This decoration option is original, interesting and fully fits into the concept of the celebration. Plus, the chocolate-covered cookies are incredibly delicious! Chocolate fudge made from cocoa powder is no less sweet and fragrant.

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Decorating with powdered sugar and coconut flakes

You can find a variety of ideas for decorating Easter cakes on the Internet. Inspired by such diversity, many housewives refuse to use the standard glaze of proteins and sugar. Now you can fully show your imagination, while not making much effort when decorating.

If not
time for a long decoration and preparation of glaze, you can safely use powdered sugar. With its help, you can generously cover the Easter cake cap, complementing the design with a few drops of jam, applied on both sides in the form of a cross.

So that the cake, decorated with powdered sugar, does not seem boring and uninteresting, it can be decorated with a special lace stand, as well as with a usually contrasting color ribbon. These inedible details will not make the cake tastier, but they can significantly transform it, adding originality to the most popular Easter dessert.

Beautiful Easter cakes for Easter can be prepared using coconut flakes in a variety of ways. So, for example, with its help you can create interesting patterns on chocolate icing.

With coconut chips, you can create an original glaze. To do this, it is enough to add this component to proteins and sugar in the process of preparing the glaze.

As a result, the glaze itself will acquire a more original, unforgettable taste, and even a new form. It will seem more voluminous, and therefore more attractive. You can decorate such a cake with a variety of details, from colored sugar sprinkles to marmalade.

The multi-colored coconut flakes look especially impressive. If there is one in the arsenal of the hostess, then with its help you can create a fancy design.

To do this, cover the top of the cake so that the protein glaze covers the top with a thick layer. It is she who needs to be abundantly strewn with colored coconut flakes (now you can find both green and red). As a result, the design of the Easter treat will not seem overly flashy, but at the same time it will turn out to be extremely original and memorable.

Original Easter decorations

Easter cake decoration is the very thing in which you can fully show your imagination. If a person wants to make the main festive dish truly original, then he should forget about traditional icing and multi-colored sprinkles.

What unusual decoration elements can be used to decorate Easter cakes:

An interesting decoration option that will appeal to all lovers of beautiful Easter cakes is decorating them with flowers. The hat of Easter cake itself can be covered with either melted chocolate or protein glaze, after which it is necessary to plant purchased flowers made of wafers or chocolate on it. Some housewives go further, using fresh flowers, such as chamomile, for decoration, but nothing good comes of this, if only because these decorations fade very quickly.

The hostess can make her Easter cakes unique by adding as many decorative elements as possible to them. Sometimes culinary masters go further and create decorations for Easter cakes not with fruits and chocolate, but using a confectionery syringe and a regular protein cream. In this way, you can create absolutely any drawings.

Those who know how to use such a device can display images of an angel on the Easter cake or even redraw some icon with the help of cream. This work is laborious, but the result is simply amazing.

Showing imagination when decorating, you can not only make each cake unique in appearance, but also give it a unique taste.

Decorating Easter cakes with inedible elements

You can decorate the cake in an original way not only with the help of chocolate and fruits, but also using inedible elements. So, for example, various images of angels or churches, made in miniature, which can be planted on top of the Easter cake, can come in handy. In this case, the festive food will look extremely attractive, emphasizing the grandeur of the celebration.

A variety of decorative figurines are now on sale, including those with the image of a cross or small yellow chickens. All this can be on Easter cake, making it even more attractive.

Options for decorating Easter cake using inedible elements almost always involve the use of a variety of decorative paper ribbons. They wrap around the bottom of the holiday treat, complementing the original design. If it seems that this decor is not enough, you can use a variety of ribbons and bows with which to tie the Easter cake.

The most important thing here is not to overdo it, using different methods of decoration, otherwise the Easter cake will not look original, but ridiculous. It is also important not to lose the religious value of this pastry behind the decorative elements.

It is wonderful if, after decorating, a person takes the Easter cake to the church along with the decorated eggs. There they will be consecrated, making food not only tasty, but also sacred.

Easter cake is the main dish of the festive table set for the bright Resurrection of Christ. This traditional pastry is approached with special diligence and care, putting love and striving to decorate ready-made Easter cakes in order to please loved ones and surprise guests.

Protein glaze

The most common way to decorate Easter cakes is with traditional protein glaze. She really looks very festive and elegant. Additionally, the snow-white coating is decorated with various confectionery toppings.

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To prepare such a glaze, thoroughly beat 2 egg whites, adding a little powdered sugar (1 tbsp.). Cooled Easter cakes are glazed with ready-made eggnog.

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We decorate Easter cakes with mastic

Ready-made figurines from it can be purchased at the confectionery departments. It can be Easter chickens and bunnies, flowers, small multi-colored eggs.

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But all this, if desired, can be done by yourself. To do this, you need to put the marshmallows from the package on a plate and melt in the microwave (10-15 seconds). Then you need to add powdered sugar (1 tbsp.) And knead the elastic mass. Now you can work with the finished mastic, roll it into a thin layer, and cut out petals, letters, twigs from it. Or mold figurines of birds and rabbits.

You can also make a “hat” out of mastic by rolling out a circle of the required size. Lay it on the cake and smooth it carefully so that there are no wrinkles. Decorate this cover by turning it into a spring meadow or make an Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" by laying out letters from fondant.

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• Marshmallows usually have a pale pink color. To get a different color, use food coloring - add a drop to the finished mass and knead again.
• After taking the required amount, wrap the mastic in cling film so that it does not lose elasticity.
• When rolling out the mastic, sprinkle the mat with a little starch - this will help roll out a thinner layer.

Meringues - a delicate decor for Easter cakes

Snow-white or pastel shades of meringue are the best suited as Easter cake decoration for the Easter table.

For the meringue, beat the whites (4 pcs.) With powdered sugar (1 tbsp.) And 1 tsp. lemon juice until white stable peaks appear.

Easter cakes are decorated with finished meringue, covering them with an even layer with a spatula. Or transfer the whipped mass into a pastry bag and place meringues on a baking sheet, which are dried in the oven for 2-3 hours at a temperature of 90 ° C.

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The meringue, before forming meringues, can be dyed in different colors by dividing it into parts and adding food coloring.

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Chocolate decorations and icing

Easter cakes decorated with chocolate figurines and icing will be bright accents on the festive table. Easter cakes with chocolate have a rich taste and will immediately attract the attention of fans of sweet delicacies.

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To prepare chocolate icing, you will need to melt 100 g of your favorite chocolate in a water bath. Add 5 tbsp. l. cream, 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 2 tbsp. l. sugar and mix thoroughly, keeping on fire for another 2-3 minutes. Spread the hot frosting over the cooled cake. Or make inscriptions, patterns with it.

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Icing

For icing, a protein-sugar mass is used. But in this case, Easter cakes are not covered with this icing, but various lace patterns are drawn with it on the surface of a colored or chocolate coating. And also with the help of a pastry bag, various decorations are laid out according to the pattern, allowed to harden, and then they decorate ready-made dessert dishes and pastries with them. Sugar ornaments are very fragile and require careful handling so as not to break them ahead of time. Drawings of butterflies, flowers, snowflakes are used as a stencil.

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For icing, the protein is mixed with a fork until it becomes a light foam. In no case do not beat, as, for example, for meringue. Then add powdered sugar (1 tbsp), continuing to mix. At the end, pour in 0.5 tsp. lemon juice.

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mirror glaze

Mirror glaze is loved because it does not crack or crumble, it looks very festive, covering Easter cakes with glossy “hats”. This effect helps to achieve the addition of gelatin to the usual protein or chocolate icing.

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Bright gingerbread decoration

Unusually and festively decorate Easter cakes with gingerbread figures baked from ginger dough. Traditionally, stylized small gingerbread cookies are baked for this - Easter cakes and in the form of eggs, as well as bunnies and chickens.

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Finished products are covered with white chocolate icing, which can be divided into several parts and added drop by drop of food colors of different colors.

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Dried fruits and nuts

On Easter cakes covered with any glaze, you can beautifully arrange dried fruits, nuts or candied fruits. They are abundantly sprinkled with Easter pastries or laid out from them the letters "ХВ", symbolizing the message "Christ is Risen!" Photo source: kyhar.net
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pearl dragee

If you do not have time to prepare complex decorations and decorations for Easter cakes, which require hours of effort to create, use the ready-made Pearl Dragee confectionery topping, which will decorate the protein glaze on holiday baking with a gentle shimmer.

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Easter creativity requires inspiration, work and time. Thanks for all this will be the admiration and joy of your friends and relatives. It is worth the effort, the celebration will be festive and joyful! Happy holiday! Good and light to you!

For Easter, you can cook Easter cakes with a variety of decoration options. Beautiful and unusual holiday pastries can be made using even the simplest products, such as powdered sugar or egg whites.

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Easter is one of the biggest and most revered Orthodox holidays, which everyone looks forward to. It is from him that the bright and long-awaited spring begins, so they prepare especially carefully for Easter: they carry out general cleaning, decorate the house, paint Easter eggs, prepare various dishes and bake Easter cakes.

Easter cake is undoubtedly the central decoration and element of the festive table. The hostesses start preparing it on Thursday, as the process of getting the perfect cake is quite long and complicated. Easter cake is not enough to cook, it still needs to be decorated. The traditional decoration of Easter cakes is protein icing and the usual purchased sprinkles. However, today there are a lot of original ideas for decorating the main Easter dish, with which you can experiment and improve.

In this article, we will look at photos of Easter cake decorations, and also talk about the most original ideas that can be applied when decorating Easter cakes.

Features of decorating Easter cakes

Before the Easter holiday, a huge number of various Easter cakes with all kinds of fillings and interesting decorations flaunt on the shelves in stores. But it is much more interesting to bake Easter cakes at home and come up with original decorations with your own hands. Every family, every housewife has in her arsenal many techniques for decorating Easter cakes, which are repeated from year to year and become a tradition. Today on the Internet you can find just a huge number of ideas about dyeing Easter baking using a variety of elements. The main thing is to have the desire to come up with something new and add a little imagination. As a result, you can get an original and very interesting cake on the festive table.

Features of decorating Easter cakes:

• First of all, Easter cakes have a recognizable shape: tall and round pies, the sizes of which can vary from the smallest to the largest.
• At Easter cakes, its upper part, the so-called hat, is decorated.
• An important element in the decoration of the Easter cake is the presence of two letters "ХВ", which means "Christ is Risen" and symbolizes the bright birth of a new life and embodies the whole essence of the holiday.
• These letters can be baked from dough, painted with egg whites, fondant, or sugar markers.
• Modern Easter cake decorations can be the most unusual and extraordinary. This is facilitated by a huge number of different delicious items in the confectionery departments and a lot of master classes on the Internet.
• You can make decorations for Easter cakes with your own hands, but, as an option, you can also purchase ready-made sprinkles, figurines and felt-tip pens.
• Decorating Easter cakes is the final stage in preparing for a big holiday. In this process, you can embody all your creativity, making the original baking decoration a hallmark of your holiday cakes.

Decorating Easter cakes with dough figures

The option of decorating Easter cakes from dough is perhaps the easiest and most convenient way to decorate holiday cakes. They can be prepared at the same time as you are baking Easter cakes. For the manufacture of decor, absolutely any dough that can hold its shape is suitable. Alternatively, you can leave a little dough and make decorations at the same time as Easter cakes.

Dough decorations can be very different: figures of leaves, flowers, chickens, Easter eggs. You can cut them out using ordinary cookie cutters or from improvised means. You can easily make beautiful braids from the strips and put them along the edge of the cake.

Such decorations can be made in two ways. The most popular is the preparation of decorations and placing them on a cheese cake. Before placing such Easter cakes in the oven, brush it along with the decoration with a beaten egg. Regarding the second option, decorations can be baked after cooking the Easter cake. In this case, the dough can be tinted with dyes. On the finished cake, such decorations are glued with whipped protein. Additionally, such Easter cakes can be sprinkled with sugar syrup for shine and add some nuts and dried fruits, as well as various toppings.

Decorating Easter cakes with powdered sugar

You can decorate Easter cakes very simply and quickly with the help of ordinary powdered sugar. On the golden crust of the Easter cake, a pattern made of powdered sugar will look very original. In this case, you can use various napkins and other laces. Just attach the lace to the Easter cake and sprinkle with powder on top, then remove it - you will get a beautiful and neat pattern.

The advantages of this method:

• Profitability. Powdered sugar is a fairly cheap product that can be purchased at any store.
• Rapidity. With the help of powdered sugar, decorations are obtained very quickly, it will not take you much time.
• Powdered sugar can be combined with cocoa or grated chocolate to form interesting patterns. On the one hand, the simplicity of decoration, and on the other hand, grace and tenderness will make your Easter cakes unique.
• To make interesting patterns from powdered sugar, you can use purchased or home-made stencils depicting a church, Easter eggs, a rabbit and other attributes of this holiday. Such stencils can be cut out of plain paper or cardboard.

Decoration of Easter cakes with protein glaze

Protein glaze is the most traditional and popular way to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands. Easter baking looks very beautiful with a voluminous protein cap, especially if small streams flowed down the sides of the cake.

• To prepare the protein glaze, you need to take two eggs and separate the whites from the yolks.
• In order for the proteins to whip well, they can be kept in the refrigerator for a while.
• Then beat the whites with a little lemon juice or a pinch of salt until peaks form.
• Next, add half a cup of sugar or powdered sugar and continue beating until the mass thickens.
• After that, immediately cover the Easter cakes you have prepared with a dense protein cap.
• In addition to icing, in this embodiment, you can use a variety of confectionery toppings, which are sold in any store, especially on the eve of the holiday. You need to sprinkle immediately, and then let the decoration harden. This takes approximately 15-20 minutes. In addition to sprinkling, you can use marmalade, nuts or fruits.

Benefits of glaze decoration:

• Ease of execution. Beating whites with sugar is quite simple, even an inexperienced cook can handle it. For whipping, you can use both a mixer and a regular whisk.
• Profitability. To decorate Easter cakes in this way, you will not need a lot of products.
• You can use different dyes to create brighter and more unusual decorations. In addition to food dyes, there are natural ones, for example, beet juice or red grapes. With the help of glaze of different colors, you can create the most incredible and interesting drawings.

Easter cake decoration with protein painting

A very original idea for decorating Easter cakes using protein painting. With the help of protein glaze of different colors, you can create beautiful Easter-themed drawings on Easter cakes: churches, flowers, flowering trees, Easter eggs and others.

To create a protein painting, you need to do the following:

• Make a protein glaze to cover the Easter cakes.
• Further, while the glaze has not cooled down, it is necessary to make a painting.
• To do this, with the help of food coloring, colored glaze is created.
• Drip small drops onto the protein cap and form a pattern with a brush or toothpick. This is how simple patterns, various leaves or petals are formed.
• For more complex patterns, you need a brush and a lot of experience.

Easter cake decorations with chocolate icing

Chocolate decoration is a win-win option. To do this, you can use dark chocolate, milk or white.

• First, melt a few bars of chocolate in a water bath, while constantly stirring the heated chocolate mass.
• You can add a little cream to the chocolate to adjust its density.
• If you are using white chocolate, various food colorings can be added to it. If there are none, you can replace it with turmeric, beet juice or other natural dyes.
• After preparing the chocolate icing, it is immediately applied to the Easter cakes.
• Additionally, for decoration, you can use various toppings, marmalade, mastic or dragee candies.
• To make the decoration more original, you can use two types of chocolate. On the white side, you can make patterns with dark chocolate using a pastry bag. Similarly, make white patterns.
• Chocolate icing can be made from cocoa, it will turn out much cheaper. For this glaze, in a small bowl, mix 5 tbsp. cocoa with 0.5 cups of sugar. Carefully pour in 6 tbsp. milk, while constantly stirring the mixture so that no lumps form. Then put this mixture on a slow fire. Stir while heating to prevent the mixture from burning. When milk boils, add half a pack of butter, about 100 grams. Mix everything thoroughly, at the end you can add 12 tbsp. flour for a thicker consistency.

Various sprinkles for decorating Easter cakes

A couple of weeks before Easter, a huge number of products appear on sale that are necessary for preparing holiday dishes, including baking Easter cakes. The most popular are confectionery sprinkles, sugar beads, jelly balls, marmalade figurines and other decorative elements for Easter cakes. You can buy decorations for Easter cakes in almost any store. Most often, sprinkles are used together with protein glaze or fudge. First, protein glaze is applied to the cake, you need to wait a couple of minutes, and then sprinkle your pastries with colorful sprinkles.

Such decorative elements can be very different:

• Sprinkle in the form of plain or multi-colored balls.
• Sprinkle in the form of stripes.
• Figured topping in the form of stars, circles, squares, flowers, hearts. They can also be plain or colored.
• Sugar beads that resemble pearls are very popular. They look original in combination with sugar figurines or with mastic as decoration for Easter cakes.
• Jelly balls. They can also be used to decorate Easter cakes. They can have a variety of sizes and colors.
• Marmalade figurines. Such decorative elements of the Easter theme include figures of chickens, Easter eggs, rabbits, and the letters "ХВ".
• All of the above toppings can be combined and create interesting patterns and patterns on Easter cakes. For example, using sprinkles of the same shape and different colors, you can draw stripes on Easter cake or other shapes through a stencil.

Decorating Easter cakes with sugar pencils

If you want to make your Easter cakes real author's masterpieces, you can purchase sugar pencils. Such sets are sold in the confectionery departments of stores. They can be completely different colors. For example, Dr.Oetker sugar pencils can be found on the shelves of the store in 4 pieces per package: 1 package - white, green, red, yellow; 2 pack - milk, chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, caramel.

Prepare your Easter cakes, cover with protein glaze and you can start applying interesting and unusual drawings that relate to the Easter theme. With several colors of sugar crayons, you can draw a picture of a church, chickens, colorful Easter eggs, flowers, and flowering trees.

If you could not find similar sugar pencils in the store, you can easily prepare such a mixture at home from simple products. To do this, you need to prepare sugar-lemon glaze. Squeeze 2-3 tbsp from one whole lemon. juice and beat thoroughly with 100 grams of powdered sugar. Optionally, you can add food coloring for a brighter pattern. Then put this sugar mixture in a pastry bag and start decorating Easter cakes.

Decoration of Easter cakes with fruits, nuts, candied fruit or waffle figurines

All Easter cakes can be simply and quickly decorated with various nuts or candied fruits. Randomly sprinkle crushed nuts on a cake covered with protein glaze and put a couple of caramelized cherries or orange slices. You can decorate Easter cakes very beautifully with the help of waffle figures. They can be purchased in stores. Figures of bright waffle flowers on a snow-white background of protein glaze will look original.

Decorating Easter cakes with mastic

Sugar mastic can be attributed to modern decorations of Easter cakes. This is a unique decor with which ordinary pastries are turned into a work of art. Most often, mastic is used to decorate cakes and cupcakes, however, Easter cakes with similar decorative elements look great.

There are several options for making mastic, some of them are quite easy to prepare at home, while others you can try to do with a little experience.

• Marshmallow sugar mastic. Take a small package of chewy marshmallows or marshmallows and 400 grams of powdered sugar. Marshmallows first melt slightly in the microwave, for about 10-15 seconds. Then add the sugar little by little and mix thoroughly. Powdered sugar can be replaced by half with starch and a little lemon juice or acid can be added. Give the mask a little rest. To get decorations of a wide variety of colors, add a couple of drops of water and food coloring to the pieces of mastic. Mix everything well to obtain a uniform color.
• Gelatin mastic. First, soak a bag of gelatin until it swells. Combine the swollen gelatin with powdered sugar and mix everything well. Add food coloring to get different colors of mastic.
• Mastic from ordinary marshmallow. Take 200 grams of regular white marshmallow and combine it with 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Microwave for 15-20 seconds to soften marshmallows. After that, add 1 tbsp. soft butter, mix well. Then start adding powdered sugar (about 350-400 grams) until the mass becomes plastic and soft. To obtain a more pliable mastic, a little cream thickener can be added to the resulting mass.

Original ideas for decorating Easter cakes

Option 1. Decorating Easter cake with berries

For such a decoration, first cover the cake with protein glaze. Then, with chocolate icing on baking paper, draw triangles or other patterns and place in the cold to set. Put a couple of multi-colored cherries and a piece of chocolate on the center of the Easter cake. You can add a little multi-colored sprinkles and draw two letters "XB" with a sugar pencil. This cake looks very fresh and unusual.

Option 2. Decorating Easter cake with protein glaze and mastic

Pour Easter cakes with protein glaze and let cool a little. Top with sprinkles of any shape and color. To decorate Easter cake, prepare figures of Easter eggs from sugar mastic. For the fondant, buy a chewy marshmallow and mix it with powdered sugar. Divide into several pieces and add different food colors. Shape the fondant into Easter eggs and place them in the center of the cake.

Option 3. Decoration of meringue cakes

To get such a delicate and elegant Easter cake, you will need to pre-cook the meringue, which is the main element of this decor. Separate two proteins and pre-cool them in the refrigerator. Then beat them together with 100 grams of powdered sugar, add a little lemon juice. Beat everything until a strong foam. Line a baking sheet with baking paper and squeeze the meringue onto it with a pastry bag. Bake at 100 degrees for 1.5 hours. Let the meringue cool down. Lubricate Easter cake with protein glaze and decorate it with meringue.

Master class decorating Easter cakes - video

• A few ideas for decorating the cake.

• Easter cake with mastic flowers.

Easter is a very bright and joyful holiday, for which all families prepare for a long time and carefully. The most important preparation for the holiday is baking and decorating Easter cakes. With the help of an unusual and original decoration, you can create real masterpieces.

Every hostess knows that learning how to bake delicious Easter cakes is not at all easy. There are many nuances that affect not only the taste and color of the finished cake, but also its height, aroma, splendor, etc. It is especially important to decorate the Easter cake beautifully so that not only the taste, but also the appearance of this traditional pastry pleases. As a rule, Easter cakes are decorated with protein glaze and confectionery powder. This option cannot be called original, and often the Easter cakes of different housewives, decorated in this way, are similar to each other like twins. Therefore, if you want your pastries to be not only tasty, but also beautiful and unbanal, then we strongly recommend that you take a closer look at the ideas and master classes with photos from our today's article. From it you will learn how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands in an original way, for example, with mastic or a chocolate net. You will also find simple and interesting ideas with photos and videos for decorating Easter cakes at home.

How to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands with powdered sugar and icing, a master class with a photo step by step

Let's start with a simple but effective decor option for Easter baking. To unusually decorate Easter cakes with your own hands in this way, you will need chocolate icing and powdered sugar. More details on how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands with powdered sugar and icing in the next master class with a photo.

Ingredients needed to decorate Easter cake with powder and icing

• sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
• water - 1.5 tbsp. l.
• cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. l. with a slide
• powdered sugar for decoration
• large lace

Instructions on how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands with icing and powder

How to decorate Easter cake with chocolate and protein icing, a master class with a photo

You can decorate Easter cake in a rather original and beautiful way with the help of traditional protein glaze in tandem with chocolate. All it takes is patience and a little skill. Learn how to decorate Easter cake with chocolate and protein icing in an original way from the following master class with a photo.

Necessary ingredients for decorating Easter cake with chocolate and protein glaze

• squirrels - 3 pcs.
• powdered sugar - 250 gr.
• citric acid on the tip of a knife
• chocolate - 100 gr.
• parchment paper

Instructions on how to decorate Easter cake with protein icing and chocolate

A master class on how to beautifully decorate your own Easter cake with chocolate and nuts

You can decorate Easter cake with your own hands in an original and beautiful way with the help of chocolate and nuts, as in the version from the next master class. In this case, walnuts will be used in tandem with dark chocolate. But for decorating an Easter cake, both milk and white chocolate, as well as peanuts, cashews, almonds or a nut mix, are suitable. Step-by-step photos and the master class itself, how to beautifully decorate Easter cake with chocolate and nuts for Easter with your own hands.

Necessary ingredients for decorating Easter cake with chocolate and nuts

• nuts - 70 gr.
• chocolate - 100 gr.
• cream - 40 ml.

Instructions on how to beautifully decorate Easter cake with chocolate and nuts

How to decorate Easter cakes with mastic for Easter with your own hands, a step-by-step master class with a photo

Mastic cannot be called a traditional material for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands. Many housewives are afraid to use it for decorating Easter baking, worrying that mastic can distort the traditional look of Easter cake. But in fact, with the help of mastic, you can give the Easter cake not only an original appearance, but also emphasize the beauty of this Easter muffin. Read more about how to decorate Easter cakes with mastic with your own hands in a step-by-step master class with a photo below.

Necessary materials to decorate Easter cakes with mastic with your own hands

• white and yellow paste
• sharp knife or scalpel
• food markers
• toothpicks

Instructions on how to decorate Easter cakes for Easter with your own hands with mastic

Ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way with a photo

If you want even more ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way, we recommend that you take a closer look at the following selection of photos. In it, we tried to collect quite simple in execution, but at the same time unusual, admirable, decor options. For example, if you like to add nuts or candied fruits when baking Easter cake, then you can safely use them for decoration. Just chop any nuts, dried fruits or candied fruits finely with a knife and sprinkle them on the glazed top of the cake. It is also quite simple to decorate the surface of the Easter cake with the help of colored protein cream and various confectionery nozzles. Another fairly simple way is dough decorations, which give the Easter cake a certain resemblance to a traditional Russian loaf. Such simple ideas as decorating Easter cakes in an original and beautiful way do not require complex instructions and are easy to reproduce at home.

Options for how to beautifully and unusually decorate Easter cake with your own hands

Especially for those housewives who want not only to decorate Easter cakes in an original way, but also to make them unique in their own way, we suggest not being limited to edible decor. For example, using corrugated colored paper, you can make very unusual borders for Easter cakes. Fresh flowers will also be an excellent, albeit short-lived, decoration. You can also achieve an original decor for Easter baking with ordinary sugar. To do this, you just need to color the sugar with food coloring. Such colored sugar looks very cute both on top of protein glaze and on chocolate fudge. You can also decorate Easter cakes with other sweets, such as small meringues, meringue pieces, chocolate dragees or macaroons.

How to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands at home, video

You will find even more ideas on how to decorate Easter cakes at home with your own hands in the video below. We are sure that among the variety of options presented in it, you will definitely find one that you like. And do not forget that the ideas presented can always be supplemented or changed at your discretion. See the options on how to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands in an original way at home in the video below.

Now you know how to decorate Easter cake with your own hands so that your pastries are the most beautiful and original on the holiday. We hope that our master classes with photo and video ideas for decorating Easter cakes will definitely find applications in your kitchen this spring. And remember that no mastic, meringue and even chocolate icing will make a festive cake special if you don’t put a piece of your soul and love for your neighbor into its preparation!