There is simply a huge variety of baking designs. And, probably, it is impossible to fit all these creative ideas into one article. Therefore, we will consider the easiest options that will be available for embodiment even to inexperienced culinary specialists. And then even a novice hostess will be able to please her family and friends with not only delicious but also beautiful pastries.
Unsweetened pastries
First, let's talk about the design of pastries from unsweetened dough. The dough can be used both puff and yeast. For example, you can do something like manti using strips of dough and sausage, or ham. You can also make bacon slices with the filling. How is such a beautiful dish made? The dough is cut into small strips 5-6 cm wide. Next, bacon or ham, or sliced sausage, is laid out there. Thus, we roll up such snacks from the dough, and we get round semi-finished products that can either be baked in the oven with some kind of gravy, or stewed in a cauldron or in a frying pan on the stove. This dish looks beautiful and tastes interesting too.
From the yeast dough you can make a pie in the form of the sun with almost any filling. We use unsweetened filling, for example, from eggs and onions or minced meat, or maybe some vegetables with herbs. How to work on the design of baking? First we form a regular closed round cake. It is important to cut it out using some plate or pan lid so that the circle is perfectly even. Then, in the middle of our pie, we put a cup or a mug, and press so that we get a depressed circle. It will be the sun itself. And from the edges we will cut the rays. To the border of the circle we cut strips of the same width. Just like that we cut the whole pie in a circle, then twist these stripes a little bit. Such a cake will surprise and delight your guests and household.
We want to offer another baking design option. This is a cheesecake. The dough here can be used as puff or yeast. But it is desirable to roll it very thinly. From the dough we lay out a long strip. Its width will be no more than 15 cm. From the strip we form tubes into which we first pour the grated cheese. And just roll up like a snail shell. This will make a pie in the form of a twisted spiral. This is an elementary simple way of decorating baking, but despite the fact that it is very simple to do, it looks amazing, you can put it on any holiday table.
Sweet pastries
There is a good idea for decorating apple pie. For example, you can make a fish from apples and puff pastry. To do this, roll the dough into an oval. You need to lay out the apple slices so that they stand on the "ribs" and not lie flat. They need to be laid out to each other tightly so that they do not fall apart while we decorate the dough. You get such a column of apples. You need to sprinkle our filling with sugar on top, cinnamon is good for apples. Next, we cut thin stripes obliquely from the dough. And weave them together, as if a scythe. Thus, scales will be formed from the gaps in the test in the form of rhombuses. From the remains of the dough we sculpt the head and tail and apply them to the ends.
No one canceled the baking of cookies from figures made of dough cut out using molds. If you want something unusual, that is, the idea of decorating cookies in such a way that it looks like buttons. To do this, take the cap from the plastic bottle and first make rounds of dough with a diameter slightly larger than this cap. Using the lid, push the middle and make four holes in the middle so that our cookies resemble buttons. You can also use forms in order to cut out some artistic pieces of dough such as hearts or stars, from which you can make a delicious and beautiful puff pastry cake.
The filling can be a variety of fruits or berries. You can also take jam, jam, even chocolate. This is for your taste. But it is necessary to decorate the pie in such a way that from the small cut figures of the same, we lay out the crown of our pie. The bottom, of course, is made from a single piece of dough. Such pastries look simply amazing.
Tips for giving a finished look to products
If you bake unsweetened cake or any other unsweetened pastries, then in order for the product to shine, it must be greased with oil on top before putting it into the oven. And sweet pastries can be lubricated with sugar syrup for the same purpose.
Any dough will behave well during baking, if you strictly follow the recipe. It is very important that our products rise as needed, do not fall, so that nothing irreparable happens with their appearance. Also, properly cooked dough will not stick to the sides or bottom of the vessel.
If the dough is prepared with yeast, then be sure to knead it at least twice, while it will stand. Thus, the design of baking begins precisely from following the recipe when kneading the dough.
Bon appetit and baking not only delicious, but also beautiful!