In cooking, mastic as a material for confectionery is very popular. The cakes and cakes decorated by her look very tasty, and there is an indispensable desire to eat them. Therefore, do-it-yourself figures made of mastic are a culinary art.
How to decorate a cake with mastic
The product is made in such a way that it is possible to sculpt various decorations from it: animal figures, castles, flower baskets, etc. In this article, using the example of a swan, we will look at how to create similar figures from mastic step by step. First you need to decide on the ingredients. Here is one of the recipes for gelatin mastic.
10 g of gelatin, 50-60 g of water, a pound of icing sugar, 2 small tablespoons of lemon juice, food colors.
Gelatin in a saucepan is poured with cold water for a quarter of an hour before swelling. Then you need to put it on medium heat and bring to a liquid state. Then separately sift the icing sugar, make a small hole in it and pour in melted gelatin. Knead the resulting mass to a plastic and soft state. Mastic is ready.
Add a little lemon juice so that there is no crumbling or sticking of mastic to your hands. The resulting product can be painted with food colors.
How to color mastic
For coloring, we take part of the mastic and make a hole in it. Now you need to pour a little paint into it and sprinkle with powder. It remains to knead the product on a flat surface. The same should be done with the rest of the mastic portions.
Next, the material for the figures must be tightly closed with a plastic bag, carefully letting air out.
Storage
Mastic should not be exposed to air, otherwise it will become too hard. To sculpt figures from mastic, take it in small pieces from a bag that you need to tie immediately. Remember, the product must not dry out. This is especially true with cake.
We sculpt a swan figure from mastic
We make a swan neck. To do this, roll the mastic into a tube, make the necessary bends (the picture can be taken from the Internet) and let dry.
Now focus on the wings. Under the wings you need a template. That is, first we draw them on paper according to the drawing, then we cut them along the contour. The resulting workpiece should be slightly pressed into the rolled mastic and carefully cut with a knife. The final stage of sculpting wings is to give bends and fixation on a rolling pin. Other details of the figure are also assembled according to the template.
Marshmallow Mastic
It is based on marshmallows and ground powdered sugar. Do not use large all-crystalline powder so that the mastic does not tear in the hands.
Production takes place like this. Marshmallows need to melt to a liquid state and pour the powder into the resulting mass. The mastic you make should not be sticky and dense. In order for the product to meet these parameters, and the figures from mastic were molded well, observe the ingredient ratio. Sweets need to be melted until a smooth swelling of a homogeneous mass.
Mastic rolling
For rolling, you need to use a flat surface lubricated with vegetable oil. Better fit plastic sheets. When decorating the cake, remove the upper polyethylene layer, and gently turn the lower one to the surface of the cake to cover it. Then you can remove the inverted layer. Roll the mastic to a thickness of about 2-3 mm. Less does not make sense, otherwise, most likely, it will break through. If you make curly jewelry, it is recommended to increase the thickness of the rolling.
How to make mastic shiny
Shine can be given as follows. A soft bristle brush should be slightly dipped in a honey-vodka solution. The proportion to observe 1: 1. Since the alcohol evaporates after a while, the taste of the product will not be affected.