With the approach of the great holiday Easter of the Lord, hostesses begin to think about recipes for cakes, and, you see, there are a huge number of them - from economical to more expensive products. But no matter what recipe you choose, the cake should definitely be tasty, aromatic and beautiful.

I would like to pay special attention to the topic easter cakes decoration... After all, it is important not only to prepare a delicious cake, but also to decorate it with dignity and taste. In addition, it is believed that the decoration of the cake symbolizes the pure thoughts of people who break bread together, renewal and purification.

When should you start decorating an Easter cake? Definitely, the cake should be decorated only after it has cooled down. Please note that the cake should be cooled according to certain rules: slowly and rather carefully. It will be correct to wrap only baked cakes in something and leave to cool in this way for 3-4 hours. Only then unfold the cakes, decorate and send them for storage until the holiday, for example, in a saucepan.

How are Easter cakes most often decorated? It is easier for someone to buy decorations for an Easter cake, but why not decorate the cake in some unusual and unforgettable way? We offer the following options for decorating Easter cakes:

• decorating Easter cakes with powdered sugar
• decorating Easter cakes from dough
• decorating Easter cakes with mastic
• icing for Easter cakes

- lean icing-fudge made from powdered sugar and lemon juice
- berry icing for Easter cakes
- chocolate icing for Easter cakes
- chocolate-creamy icing for Easter cakes
- chocolate icing for Easter cakes
- icing with rum for Easter cakes
- egg yolk frosting for Easter cakes

DECORATION OF EASTER CLUSTERS WITH POWDER SUGAR

The easiest, fastest and cheapest way to decorate an Easter cake is to buy powdered sugar and, using a fine strainer, scatter evenly over the entire surface of the cooled Easter cake. The white color of the powder perfectly sets off the ruddy cake and makes it more beautiful and appetizing.

DECORATION OF EASTER CLUBS FROM Dough

Why not decorate the cakes with dough? Leave a little dough and think of how you will put it on top of the cake. It can be a single drawing of a cross, flowers or letters, often “XB”. Easter cake looks very nice with dough decoration in the form of braids, petals and leaves, dough spirals. When baking Easter cake, you will see how a beautiful and harmonious pattern is formed.

For decoration, you can use the same dough from which you will bake the cake, or another. The cake dough decoration can be baked both together with the cake and separately. If you bake a cake with a dough decoration, you can brush it with egg yolk or vegetable oil. After baking, such cake can be poured with syrup or decorated with confectionery powder, nuts, candied fruits. If you bake cake and dough separately, then attach the decoration to the cake using egg white. Here you can get creative and color the dough for decoration. Note that the decoration should be made small, since after baking it will increase significantly in size.

For example, let's prepare a dough decoration in the form of the letters "ХВ" We use the same dough as for the cake. We take a small piece, roll it into a ball, form a sausage, from which we spread letters on top of the cake. We pre-grease the letters with egg yolk so that they stick well on the kulich. We grease the cake itself with the same yolk. After the cake with the letters is baked, you can arrange it to your taste - sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar, and leave the letters intact, or vice versa - sprinkle the letters, but not. Easter cake will also look beautiful if you pour the letters on it with chocolate icing or decorate them with confectionery powder.

Many hostesses have long been familiar with mastic. It can be bought ready-made or. We are accustomed to seeing mastic on cakes, cookies and muffins, but mastic on an Easter kulich will look no less colorful and appetizing. The main thing is to acquire tasty and elastic mastic and you can easily arrange an original Easter cake. To do this, you need to roll the mastic into a layer, and then cut out the figures. Housewives who do not yet have experience in sculpting from mastic can start by cutting out flowers, hearts and other elements using ordinary cookie cutters. People who know how to handle mastic and have a lot of experience in this can create real culinary masterpieces. Observing the theme, you can create a voluminous decor in the form of flowers, birds, Easter eggs.

To make homemade mastic, you will need: 200 g marshmallows (chewing marshmallows), 500 g icing sugar.

How to make homemade mastic. We send the marshmallows into a small saucepan and bring it to full softness in a water bath (or use a microwave oven). You will see how the marshmallow will visually increase in volume, and when touched, it will strongly stick, deform and fall off. Mix soft marshmallows with 300 g of powdered sugar, stir and put the resulting mass on the table. Gradually add the remaining icing sugar and knead the mass like a regular dough. The mastic will be ready when it stops sticking to your hands. Then you can start sculpting figures from mastic.

Easter cakes icing is an affordable treat. In this addition, Easter cakes look especially beautiful and delicate. In addition, the glaze is not only beautiful, but also necessary - thanks to the glaze, Easter cakes stay so fresh, soft and tasty longer. Let's consider several glaze options.

PERMANENT POWDER GLAZE AND LEMON JUICE

An equally difficult way to decorate an Easter cake is to pour it with fondant icing made from freshly squeezed lemon juice and powdered sugar. Why is this frosting considered lean? Because there are no eggs in its composition. This is a pretty quick way to decorate Easter cakes.

To make a lean icing with powdered sugar and lemon juice, you will need: 1 tbsp. powdered sugar, 5-6 tbsp. lemon juice.

How to make a lean fudge icing with powdered sugar and lemon juice. Everything is quite simple - you just need to combine both ingredients in a deep bowl and slowly but thoroughly mix until a homogeneous thick and viscous mass. Usually, 1 lemon is enough for such a portion, but lemons are different, so you need to look at the situation. You can also substitute lemon juice for other citrus fruits. Or why not use grated berries from the freezer in addition to or instead of lemon juice. Of course, the color of the fondant glaze will change, but the taste will not worsen unambiguously.

The glaze will amaze you with its delicate color and pleasant berry flavor.

To make icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 1 tbsp. powdered sugar, 4-5 tbsp. natural juice of berries.

How to make icing for Easter cakes... Pour natural berry juice (homemade, not diluted) into a bowl with powdered sugar. We grind and monitor the consistency. The mass should not turn out lumpy, but resemble thick sour cream. The color of the glaze is obtained in pastel shades, even despite the rich color of the juice used. If you want a brighter glaze color, use food coloring.

Do you like chocolate? Decorate the Easter cakes with chocolate icing. Nothing new or unusual, but it is definitely delicious!

To make chocolate icing for Easter cakes, you will need: 200 g sugar, 4 tablespoons cocoa, 120 ml of water, 100 g of butter.

How to make chocolate icing for Easter cakes... Melt the butter in a small ladle. Add cocoa, sugar, mix and pour in water. Cook over low heat until lightly thickened and remove from heat. After the frosting has cooled, it will become much thicker. For aroma, you can add a little vanilla or orange juice.

CHOCOLATE CREAM GLAZE FOR EASTER CREWS

Amazing icing for Easter cakes - with a certain sourness, not sugary, of a beautiful consistency. It will take a little of your time - and the result will pay off!

To make chocolate creamy Easter cakes icing, you will need: 1 tbsp. sugar, 4 tbsp. heavy cream, 100 g butter, 6 tbsp. cocoa.

How to make chocolate creamy icing for Easter cakes. We send a ladle of butter to a slow fire, melt it, add sugar, cocoa, mix and add sour cream (preferably homemade country). Stir constantly, boil the mass until thickened.

Perhaps this is one of the easiest ways to decorate Easter cakes. A chocolate glaze is prepared with just two ingredients and in just a few minutes.

To make the Easter Cakes Chocolate Frosting, you will need: 100 g of chocolate (black milk or white), 30 ml of heavy cream.

How to make chocolate frosting for Easter cakes... We send a ladle of cream to a low heat, break the chocolate there and, stirring constantly, bring the mass to homogeneity.

Make an awesome flavorful rum cake icing.

To make the rum frosting, you will need: 0.5 tbsp. powdered sugar, 1.5 tbsp. rum, 0.5 tbsp. hot water.

How to make rum frosting. Sift the icing sugar into a small bowl, pour in the rum and hot water. Rub the mass thoroughly with a spoon. The glaze is ready, you can cover the cooled cakes with it.

We are all used to hearing about protein icing for cakes, but there is also an equally good recipe for egg yolk icing.

To make the egg yolk frosting, you need: 5 egg yolks, 1.5 tbsp. icing sugar, 3-4 tbsp. fresh orange juice.

How to make egg yolk frosting... We send egg yolks into a bowl, pour in freshly squeezed orange juice and beat with a blender until a stable foam forms. Separately sift the icing sugar and gradually add to the egg-orange mass. Mix thoroughly until smooth. Cover the cakes with the resulting glaze and send them to the oven to dry at a temperature of 100 degrees.

Toffee Glaze For Easter Coughs

Do you like toffee? Do not eat them all at once, leave them for the icing for the cakes.

To make the toffee frosting, you need: 400 g hard toffee, 80 g butter, 0.5 tbsp. milk, 2-4 tbsp. powdered sugar.

How to make toffee frosting... We send a small saucepan with butter to the fire, melt it and pour in the milk. Heat, then add toffee, add powdered sugar. Cook the mass over low heat, stirring constantly, until the candies are completely dissolved. Apply the finished icing to the cake in several layers.

1. Any glaze should be of medium consistency - not liquid or thick. In consistency, it should resemble sour cream. Then the glaze is well applied to the cake, does not run off, does not take in lumps and does not crack. If you followed the recipe and the frosting is too thick, add 1 tsp. hot water, if too rare - a spoonful of powdered sugar.
2. For the icing, it is better to use the icing sugar that you have prepared, be sure to sift it before adding to the rest of the ingredients.
3. Lemon juice is often added to the glaze, it should be used freshly squeezed. Lemon juice can be used as a substitute for water or added for flavor. Lemon gives the glaze an incredible aroma and taste.
4. The glaze can be prepared either separately from egg whites or from egg yolks. Glaze with proteins is more often used to cover Easter cakes, and it is also ideal for applying patterns. As for the yolk glaze, it has a pleasant yellowish tint. Such glaze must be dried in the oven at a temperature of 100 degrees.
5. You can vary the glaze and change its color. Many people use food coloring for this purpose. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, but remember that you can use natural colors, for example, use turmeric, beet juice, or simply add a little raspberry jam to the icing.
6. It is more convenient to apply liquid icing on cakes with a culinary brush. The painting glaze is applied using a pastry syringe. By the way, if you don't have one, you can use a regular disposable syringe.
7. Your Easter cakes will look especially beautiful and original if you apply icing not only on top of the cake, but also on the sides. To do this, put the cooled cake on its side, make patterns, wait until the icing dries, and then do the same on the other side of the cake.
8. If you plan to sprinkle confectionery powder over the glaze, “seat” ready-made figurines or decorative beads, do it directly on the freshly applied glaze, otherwise it will harden and your jewelry will not stick to the glaze.
9. In addition to glaze, Easter cakes can be decorated with chopped nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits, marmalade, pieces of chocolate, coconut and more.
10. You can decorate Easter cakes with patterns and inscriptions over the glaze using sugar pencils. It is quick and convenient, especially for those people who do not have much free time to decorate the cakes.

Nowadays, you can find a lot of ready-made icing for Easter cakes, but why buy them, if now you know a lot of options for icing and other types of decorating cakes? Let's not turn Happy Easter into a celebration of fast food! We offer you dIY Easter cake decoration

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Many housewives who plan to bake Easter cakes on their own, of course, think about how to beautifully decorate Easter. The editors of "Edinstvo" have prepared 10 interesting ideas for you.

To decorate your Easter cake beautifully, you will need traditional products: powdered sugar, decorations, dried fruits, flowers and some dyes. It should be noted right away that there are no special rules on how to decorate Easter. You can completely and completely succumb to inspiration.

Here's a traditional way to decorate Easter. All you need is powdered sugar for this.

In the past few years, more and more housewives have been decorating Easter with natural flowers. Agree, it looks interesting.

If you are skeptical about natural flowers because they cannot be eaten, then look at edible flower decorations for Easter bags.

Another fashionable option than to decorate Easter is dried fruits and nuts. The plus is that it adds useful qualities to the cake.

And here's another way to decorate Easter: chocolate chips and orange peel. It looks very original.

If you have children - Easter cakes can be decorated with colored glaze and bright decorations. Kids will definitely appreciate it.

And you can do that.

If you want shine.

You can also decorate Easter with bizet in combination with marmalade and small nuts. This combination will surely please even the most demanding household members.

You can make a real work of art from Easter cakes.

Easter is one of the lightest Christian holidays of the year. It is preceded by Great Lent, which contributes to the spiritual and physical cleansing of a Christian. The last day of fasting is Great Saturday. And since midnight of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, Christians can already eat various festive dishes. But before you eat them, you need to cook them. Since the dishes are festive - they should be not only tasty, but also beautiful. Especially beautiful! "Culinary Eden" has prepared for you material on what and how to cook for Easter, how to decorate Easter dishes. I think it will be interesting not only for believers.

Kulich

Kulich, Easter, painted chicken eggs - these are, perhaps, the main edible attributes of the holiday of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.

Let's start with the familiar cake. This is a tall buttery cylindrical bread, decorated with symbolic inscriptions, glaze, poppy seeds, raisins. You can bake it yourself or buy it. Moreover, stores sell both already decorated Easter cakes and simple ones that you can decorate yourself. Easter cakes recipes are on our website, so we will completely focus on decorating them.

There are several options for decorating an Easter cake. Traditionally it is decorated with the letters "ХВ". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Used for inscriptions and candied fruit (usually flat and multi-colored). And the letters "ХВ" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkling (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.

Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way of giving them a festive, beautiful look. A glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until a thick foam.

Icing for cake

Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.

Preparation
The protein should be refrigerated. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at the first speed, gradually increase it. To understand that whipping is enough, you can turn the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not spill out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, in a teaspoon, add powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finish with lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional "strength" to the glaze is to put the cakes for a minute in the oven heated to 100-120 ° C.

Glaze is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can lay out the letters "XB" from the fruit. And you can just write these letters with glaze. There are many options. Kulich is a holiday treat, so get creative! Often, yolk is applied to the finished cake to give it an appetizing shine and sprinkled with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. A symbol of faith - a cross - is sculpted from the dough and glazed. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, wafer flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.

Sugar Pastry for Flowers and Other Decorations

Ingredients:
250 g icing sugar
2 tsp powder gelatin
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.

Preparation
Sift the icing sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve, stirring gently. Pour in glucose immediately after dissolving the gelatin. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the icing sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife, chopping motion. Then place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.

Here's how to mold roses from mastic, for example. To begin with, using food colors, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Place the colored mastic in a plastic bag to keep it soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.

From a small piece of mass, mold a "carrot" and place it on a table or board. After that, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table covered with powdered sugar, then shape it into a petal with your hands. Make the petal thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the "carrot", thereby making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, mold the next petal. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the "seam" of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.

Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an extra mass of glaze has formed on the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.

Then you need to prepare leaves for the flowers. Form "carrots" from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). With two thumbs, press down the middle of the carrot and shape it into a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and then obliquely, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bend it the way you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach from 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.

The Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out the kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, and chopped orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit on top of the glaze.

Another traditional dish that is prepared on Bright Sunday is Easter. Easter cake is often called Easter, but this is wrong. The main component of Easter is pureed cottage cheese. To it add butter, sour cream or cream, eggs and sugar. Easter cottage cheese was traditionally made in the form of a quadrangular pyramid, which personified Golgotha \u200b\u200b- the mountain in Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ was crucified. Nowadays, unfortunately, Easter is cooked much less often than, for example, Easter cakes. If you are still thinking, know - you need to cook Easter on Maundy Thursday.

Royal Easter

Ingredients:
1 kg of fresh, well-pressed cottage cheese,
2-3 cups granulated sugar
5 eggs,
200 g butter
2 glasses of sour cream
1 bag of vanillin,
light seedless raisins, almonds to taste.

Preparation
Wipe the curd and butter through a sieve, add sour cream, mix thoroughly, put the dishes on the stove and bring the mass to a boil while stirring continuously with a wooden spatula so that the mass does not burn. Immediately, as soon as it boils, remove from heat and, if possible, cool quickly, also stirring continuously. Add sugar, raisins, almonds, vanillin to the cooled mass, mix everything, put it in a pasochny (form for Easter, sold in stores), knock the mass tightly, put a saucer on top, a small load and refrigerate for a day.

You can also decorate Easter. Usually it already has a cross and the letters "ХВ" (depends on the shape for Easter). Decorate them with candied fruits, pieces of fruit, raisins, nuts, culinary beads, chocolate chips. You can mold figures from culinary mastic corresponding to the holiday, use wafer flowers for decoration. Easter and Easter cakes can still be decorated with red candles.

Easter eggs

The egg is a symbol of life. For Easter, it is customary to paint chicken eggs, less often goose eggs (waterfowl eggs, due to the danger of salmonellosis, must be boiled for at least 25 minutes). Do not paint eggs in dark gloomy colors. Red color and its shades should prevail. The painted red egg marks the rebirth of people by the blood of Jesus Christ. Painted eggs - a symbol of the holiday - add a special character to the Easter table.

There are several "folk" ways to color eggs. For example, in onion peels, tea, coffee, grape juice, saffron and turmeric. But in this case, we are more interested in not just a painted, but a decorated egg.

In modern conditions, when every minute counts, there are several ways to quickly paint eggs. For example, use thermal labels. They are sold in stores. Just put the label on the already boiled egg and place it in a bowl of hot water. A spectacular pattern is guaranteed! There is an even easier way - special stickers with an Easter theme. On the eve of the holiday, they are also sold on every corner. You can also use special food colors. However, there is one "but" - such jewelry cannot be called original.

If soul and faith require something more, there are other ways to decorate Easter eggs. The main thing here is your own imagination. After all, an Easter egg is a gift. They are exchanged, congratulating each other on the Bright Resurrection of Christ. So make a gift with a soul for your family and friends!

First of all, the eggs must be boiled. Then cool them down, wipe with a cotton cloth. Gouache or acrylic paints are perfect for coloring eggs. Of course, the most relevant topic is Easter. You can paint eggs with various ornaments, flowers, patterns. Write wishes to relatives and friends. Let's repeat - turn on your imagination! When painting with gouache or acrylic paint, it is worth remembering that such eggs cannot be stored for a long time, because the dye can penetrate under the shell.

If you are not very good at drawing or just do not like to do it, there are other possibilities to decorate Easter eggs in an original way. But by the way, even if you are not a great artist, this should not scare you. It seems that close people will appreciate your work and will be happy with such a gift (a painted egg), even if something is drawn somewhere crooked.

Let's go back to other possibilities. Rhinestones, ribbons, even feathers can be used to decorate Easter eggs. In stores, you can find various small details for decoration: bows, braid, and so on. Of course, in this case, you also cannot do without your own imagination.

Another great and easy way to color Easter eggs and give them their original look: plant leaves. For example, decorative indoor.

It's simple. Take eggs. If you get the main color with the help of food dyes, then boil them first. If the color base will be obtained by means of, for example, onion peel, you do not need to boil it in advance. In any case, you will need a clean nylon stocking to carry out your plans. Put an Easter egg in it, and carefully place a leaf of the plant on the egg. Then secure the stocking with thread so that the sheet cannot move.

Next, place all other eggs in the stocking as well. As a result, you have in your hands a kind of bunch of future Easter eggs. Then put the stocking with "semi-finished products" in a saucepan where food coloring has been diluted in advance or in a saucepan with onion skins. Cook a little. By the way, if you use onion peels for coloring, the decor in this case will turn out to be especially effective. It will look very natural, natural, even environmentally friendly.

As a rule, many relatives and friends gather at the Easter table. Try to prepare an Easter gift for everyone: a beautiful egg and a small Easter cake. By the way, besides painted eggs and Easter cakes, Easter gifts can also be various chocolate sets on Easter themes, edible figurines of chickens, cockerels, rabbits and bunnies. Good holiday to you!

Decorating Easter cakes can be very diverse. They can be coated with protein glaze and colored sprinkles. Also, the top of the cakes can be decorated with figurines made of dough, lined with patterns of nuts and candies. You can also make mastic and sculpt flowers, figurines, tiny testicles and crosses from it. Often, instead of glaze, the cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.

Painted Easter cakes

It all depends on your talent - you can create whole pictures, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley branches, apple flowers, simple patterns.

Flower cakes

Now there are a lot of ready-made flower decorations on sale, waffle, sugar and chocolate, but you can try to make flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.

Flowers can even be alive: chamomile, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow twigs.

Easter cakes with domes

Easter cakes in the form of churches with domes look very original.

Easter cakes with berries

Baby cakes

Children will definitely like small cakes, and it is also convenient to give them to friends and family for Easter.

Attention to detail

Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!

There are several more options for decorating the Easter cake.

Preparing the powder yourself

In addition to the confectionery powder, which is made from hard glaze, colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as a powder for Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but also at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a cool dry place, the excess can remain until the next year. Preparing the powder yourself is also not difficult. This will require food paint and base. At home, semolina is best, but of course, sugar powder will be tastier.

Egg dye gives bright and saturated colors. You need very little of it, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar has been added to the paint, it will not work for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed in cold paint for a few seconds and dried on paper. After drying, large lumps can be broken into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.

Usually the colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in separate colors. You can decorate the cake in an original way if you apply the powder in strips or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with letters XB and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, the background in another.

Traditionally, it is decorated with the letters "ХВ". This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!" Letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots ... Used for inscriptions and candied fruits (usually flat and multi-colored). And the letters "ХВ" are molded from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkling (culinary beads, for example), chocolate.

Glaze. Decorating cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. A glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until thick foam.

Icing for cake

Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites
0.5 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.

Preparation
The protein should be refrigerated. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at the first speed, gradually increase it. To understand that whipping is enough, you can turn the bowl of protein upside down - the protein should not pour out. When the required consistency is reached, start gradually, in a teaspoon, adding powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finish with lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to hot cakes - then it will fit snugly, and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to give additional "strength" to the glaze is to put the cakes for a minute in the oven heated to 100-120 ° C.

Glaze is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can lay out the letters "XB" from the fruit. And you can just write these letters with glaze. There are many options. Kulich is a holiday treat, so get creative! Often, yolk is applied to the finished cake to give it a delicious shine and sprinkle with powdered sugar or bright sprinkles. A symbol of faith, a cross, is sculpted from the dough and glazed. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, waffle flowers, flowers from culinary mastic.

Sugar Pastry for Flowers and Other Decorations

Ingredients:
250 g icing sugar
2 tsp powder gelatin,
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.

Preparation
Sift the icing sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water, let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve, stirring gently. Immediately after dissolving the gelatin, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the icing sugar and pour the mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife, chopping movements. Then place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature. After that, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.

Here's how to mold roses from mastic, for example. To begin with, using food coloring, tint the mastic in pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave some white mastic as well. Place the colored mastic pieces in a plastic bag to keep them soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.

From a small piece of mass, mold a "carrot" and place it on a table or board. After that, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusted with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal. Make the petal thinner on one edge, thicker on the opposite. Then slightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the "carrot", thereby making the ovary of the flower. From the second ball, mold the next petal. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the "seam" of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.

Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If an extra mass of glaze has formed on the bottom of the flower, it can be cut off with scissors.

Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. Form "carrots" from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). With two thumbs, press down the middle of the carrot and shape it into a leaf. Then with a knife in the center of the sheet, and then obliquely, apply veins. You can give the leaf any shape and bend it the way you like. Dry. When flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected in a bouquet. Attach from 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.

The Easter cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be laid out around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, lay out the kiwi with chamomile, and in the center place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, chopped orange slices. On the resulting fruit base, place the cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit on top of the glaze.

Easter glaze and decorative dusting

But they came up with a modern way of decorating Easter cakes, although in reality Easter glaze is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the glaze in powder form and beat with a mixer, whisk quickly and hardens better than just proteins with sugar.

Apply the icing to the tops of the cakes with a brush or spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle with sprinkling at once, it will get wet and melt.

And in a few minutes, when the icing on the cakes dries up, but does not harden - do not miss it, the sprinkling will simply crumble from the frozen glaze!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - round, and long, and asterisks, and different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling cakes with sprinkling to children - they really like this business! True, some of the sprinkling is eaten :)

But look at how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes using ordinary glaze and natural dyes!

Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figurines

You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very nice, but candied fruits are large and hard, therefore it is better not to give them to small children.

Pasches decorated with sugar mastic figurines also look very original and beautiful - for example, such cute chickens. But, to be honest, you can't chew these figures ...

And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not recommend taking them for decoration! They are good only to look at, but the taste is very hard and absolutely unbreakable. And even dangerous for babies. So we'd better take ...

Sugar pencils!

An ingenious invention !!! Well done, the pastry chef who invented them! The process of decorating baked goods - cakes, muffins, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put specks - paint the paste like a paint! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It is very exciting to paint cakes with them with the whole family! Give the kids one cake for decoration, and let them paint as they want!

Dough decoration

Two types of dough decorations

Decorations are laid out on top of the cake before baking, or glued to an already baked cake with raw protein. Decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is made, or from another, less amenable to deformation during baking. Braids are made of dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.

If the cake is baked with decorations, grease the top with a beaten egg or vegetable oil to make it look beautiful. But this is optional. Then, after baking, the top of the cake can be poured with sugar syrup and even a fine powder can be applied over the syrup. Cover the gaps between the decorations with glaze, glue the nuts and candied fruits with squirrel.

For jewelry from butter dough:

• 150 gr. flour,
• 30 gr. margarine,
• 1 tbsp. l. sour cream,
• 20 gr. Sahara,
• 1 egg.

Perhaps you will be quite satisfied that the jewelry will have a crispy golden crust and the same color as the whole cake. Then the decorations can be made from the same dough from which the cake is prepared. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take on one more decoration tip, you can make it from yeast, but not butter dough. Gently, the prepared decorations are laid out on the already distant dough, smeared with an egg suspension, and the cake is sent for baking.

Of course, there is no comrade in taste and color. I like working with a special dough more, then the decorations are more airy and graceful. Ready-made decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked cake. Since they turn out to be very thin in comparison with decorations made from yeast dough, it is enough to place the decor attached to the cake in a hot oven for a few minutes to fix it and create a light shade.

Simple dough- Flour, salt and water, knead dough and make decorations.

Plungers with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, it doesn't matter. A variety of things can be done with scissors. Below is a photo of a lump of unleavened dough. It is kneaded in water with the addition of vegetable oil for elasticity.

In this photo, in addition to the roses, I came up with a bunch of grapes. I just formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.

The dough that was laid out in the mold was spaced and fit well. Be sure to grease the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on imagination and put the finished decorations on the dough. Now grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf, I made two bunches of grapes.

Yes, the yolk and white give a contrast to the base and decorations. When baked, the yolk turns brown, while the white remains light.

Decorated and in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

I hope you choose a decoration to your liking. To make your Easter cake attractive and delicious!

I greet you today and will gladly continue to develop the Easter theme. Moreover, there are so many interesting topics in it. They begin to prepare for this bright holiday in advance, create,. And the day before the holiday, the baking of Easter cakes and the creation of Easter begins. And each housewife is in search of the very recipe that tastes better than the rest.

Of course, delicious and aromatic pastries are already half the success, but for the holiday they also want to decorate them. And the puzzle begins - how, and how to spread it and sprinkle it on the top of the cake. And everything is very simple, read below, I will tell you about very affordable and beautiful options. We simply forget about some of them, although they are very suitable for festive decoration.

Whipped protein cream is one of the most traditional and widely used options for decorating the cake head. It is quite simple to manufacture, and experienced housewives have already found the nuances, subject to which the cream will be ideal. You can use not only protein, but others. But in my childhood they did just that. Mom whipped the whites, decorated the pastries, and gave the leftovers from the sides of the ladle to us. We licked these spoons until they shine!

But, not everyone succeeds in this simple cream, so I will give the basic rules for whipping proteins.

1. Clean and completely dry dishes.
2. The eggs should be cold.
3. If the cream is not immediately applied immediately after cooking, it will settle.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

It is prepared very simply. The eggs are divided into whites and yolks.

Put the bowl in which you put the proteins in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, it should be cold, only then start cooking.

Beat only the whites for 20 seconds, then add the powder in a teaspoon. Beat the sugar mixture for 2 minutes.
Then pour in 1 tsp. lemon juice and now beat the cream until good peaks. This will take another 6 to 11 minutes.

Before decorating, let the baked goods cool, otherwise any cream, at least, will begin to flow on the sides.

All the lush protein mass must be used, the next day it will not be so airy, because it will simply settle and dry out.

You can use absolutely any cream, for example, beautiful flowers are obtained from butter.

Such Easter must be kept in the refrigerator, and the oil can be replaced with one that also keeps its shape well, but not as fatty and high-calorie as butter.

Home decor with chocolate

Chocolate decoration is also always in use. It looks very beautiful in contrast to powdered sugar or white chocolate. You can also make chocolate letters or lines over the glossy white frosting!

Most often, they just take a bar of milk chocolate, break it and melt it in a water bath. And then, when all the pieces have completely melted, they begin the design process. You can just cover the top of the baked goods instead of the icing, or you can think of a design.

For example, I really love the idea of \u200b\u200bdark sweet letters on a white protein cream.

Or I also want to give you a delicious basket idea using a stencil and a chocolate mixture.

For this, we prepare a stencil. To do this, you can use tracing paper or parchment paper. We measure our bead along the circumference and cut out a strip of the same length, 4 centimeters wide.

Now comes the hardest part. Pour the chocolate into the bag, tie the edge well and cut off the cellophane tip at the corner. We begin to display chocolate paths according to the template. This must be done quickly so that the mixture does not cool down.

To make the strip come off well, you can first grease it with oil a little, and then apply chocolate.

Making icing for Easter cake

The protein cream starts to crumble when you cut the paste. And a lot of this crumb is then thrown away. Today I want to give you a recipe for also white glaze, but without the use of eggs and it does not crumble at all. The whole secret is in the absence of protein and the addition of gelatin.

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 tsp gelatin
• 6 tbsp water
• Lemon juice

Pour gelatin with 2 tablespoons. water and leave to swell.

Then pour sugar into the container, fill it with 4 tablespoons of water. And you until the sugar dissolves.

Remove the hot mass from the heat.

We spread the swollen gelatin and mix.

Then beat with a mixer at maximum speed for 4-5 minutes, until the mass turns white.

Now we squeeze a couple of drops of lemon juice into this mixture, you can replace it with an orange or grapefruit or a dye.

Now beat for another thirty seconds and you're done.

It easily falls on the surface and is squeezed out of the pastry syringe.

You can also add any dyes to this glaze.

This should be done at the stage of adding gelatin. Then the paint will mix well with the whole mass.

Ideas for decorating treats through a stencil

I started my way in baking design with this method. And I still think it is the simplest and most favorite.

This decoration option consists in the fact that a stencil is laid out on the surface of the baking, on which a mass contrasting with the coating is laid.

It turns out very beautifully when large lace is laid on top of the chocolate and powdered sugar is sprinkled on top. You can do the opposite, and pour cocoa or colored sugar on a white glossy surface.

I cut out my stencils with a clerical knife from paper and tea packs. But, if you have a large drawing, then it is better to choose a landscape sheet. It is easier to apply on an uneven, for example, rounded surface than a cardboard blank.

And also here are a couple of templates that are suitable for a Bright holiday.

For example, such letters that are always used on this day.

The hare in the egg is a very symbolic picture. And for a wide Easter cake it will be very appropriate.

They do not contain many details and are easy to cut.

How to decorate the cake on top without squirrel?

Many people are afraid to use raw eggs for food. I recently also began to relate to this category of people, so let's figure out what other design might be suitable.

My dear ones, for those with a sweet tooth, condensed milk would be an excellent option. The usual gostovsky must be applied in a thin layer, and the boiled one can be thicker, it is not as liquid as the usual one. Or use the icing I mentioned above or melted chocolate.

Ok, we have prepared the base, now we want to add some bright colors! And we run to the store for dried fruits, candied fruits, nuts and MMDs.

Yes, my dear various kernels in bright glaze, gummies and small biscuits are all we need.

For those who appreciate naturalness and healthiness, it is better to take candied fruits of papaya, mango and pineapple.

They can be accompanied by nuts or dried fruits, such as dates, figs, or prunes with raisins.

But more often, dried fruits go into the dough itself than for external decoration.

Making decor with marshmallow mastic

Gorgeous flowers, figures and patterns are obtained from mastic. But it is not so easy to make real mastic or marzipan at home. I will show you how you can knead such a delicious dough for decorating with marshmallows with your own hands, in the store it is called marshmallows.

Watch a detailed video, where a wonderful hostess shows and tells everything in a very accessible way.

I think that the very process of creating such a multi-colored jewelry will greatly inspire you!

See what decoration is made of mastic: flowers, ornaments. And I love the idea where one item is cut out.

It turns out very harmoniously and without unnecessary details.

Simple ideas with coconut flakes and pastry topping

In our childhood, mothers and grandmothers used only purchased confectionery sprinkles or colored sugar. Now, in addition to the fact that there are different forms of sprinkling, you can also pick it up by color. If you want, take a multi-colored one, but you want in one tone.

Often it is simply sprinkled over the top of the baked goods, trying to do this very evenly.

But we have always drawn with her the two main letters of the holiday XB, which mean "Christ is Risen."

Of course, you cannot write a complete transcript on a kulich, but an abbreviated one is definitely possible. Now, if we have a chocolate cake, we make the letters with coconut chips so that they are clearly visible.

How to decorate Easter cake with dough?

You can decorate with dough not only the top of the cake, but also the sides. Especially if they are not very even.

For the top, you can make roses and leaves. For example, let's roll out the usual dough, you can not yeast.

Cut 5 circles out of it with a glass. We put them in one line so that the edge of the next one is on the previous one and we fold it into a roll.

We cut it in half and finish the design of the flowers.

To prevent the roses from flying off during baking, we will put them on toothpicks. And we will send the baked goods to the oven until fully cooked.

But you can also make an unusual edging from Easter. To do this, we also roll out a layer from ordinary dough, take a long lace, put it on the layer and begin to roll out the fabric with a rolling pin.

This will transfer her pattern to the dough.

Now we will remove the lace and cut the pattern along the edges.

We transfer our beautiful workpiece to a baking sheet and dry it a little in the oven, for five minutes at 180 degrees. This is necessary for the dough to start keeping its shape.

Then we take it out of the oven and wrap the cake. We also hold the edges with toothpicks.

Now you need to bake this structure for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.

Strawberry berry decoration

And also very modern berry design. For example, use strawberries. Of course, we will not take out frozen foods, because they will melt, release a lot of liquid and juice and thus spoil the appearance of the baked goods. So let's take some fresh strawberries. Moreover, it is sold now at any time of the year in hypermarkets.

To add sweetness, the berry can be dipped in chocolate.

Combined with strawberries, the cookies look very natural. Its bright color immediately inspires and reminds of summer and warmth.

My dear! I have already found several options for myself that I will embody this Easter. And how do you decorate Easter cakes? Your ideas and wishes are very interesting!