Recently it has become a fashionable way to decorate cakes with different figures from culinary paste. On the wedding cake, you can see figures of the bride and groom from mastic. On the children's cake for the girl are dolls or animals. On the cake for adults - all kinds of figures in the form of banknotes, cognac bottles and many other accessories of everyday life of an adult. But on the cake for the smallest anniversaries, you can see the baby doll in the diaper, cute sleeping in the cabbage, rattles or nice booties. How to properly make booties from culinary paste (mastic) in order to decorate your cake will be discussed in this article.
In decorating the cake it does not matter whether you are a beginner or an experienced cook, the main thing is to have a great desire and a little patience. Work with mastic is the strength of every housewife.
We will describe how to properly make booties from mastic. The pattern, the master class is described accessible, it will be easy for you to figure out all the details.
Cooking Tools
To work with pasta you will need the following items:
- A rug from silicone on which it will be convenient for you to work with mastic, but you can also use a table for these purposes.
- Special rolling pin for rolling mastic. If you don’t have one, use a regular rolling pin.
- Edging roller knife. If not, you can use a kitchen knife or spoon.
- Texture mat to give a floral background to the mastic.
- The most common paint brushes for applying liquid to surfaces to be glued or stained.
- Recesses, plungers (these are special molds of various subjects, designed specifically for working with paste).
- Cutters (a device for creating ovals of different sizes from mastic).
Having these tools at hand, when working with paste, it will be convenient, quick and easy to create your own masterpiece. If you don’t have any special tools designed to work with pasta, this is not a problem, you can use the kitchen utensils available in your kitchen.
Mastic Recipes
There are many recipes for cooking pasta, complex and simple, different in taste and elasticity.
Mastic can be bought at the supermarket as a finished product or made from sugar, regular or condensed milk, from marshmallows, gelatin, honey, white or dark chocolate, marshmallows.
Condensed milk mastic recipe
We bring to your attention the easiest recipe for cooking pasta at home from condensed milk. The condensed mastic is soft and supple. It is very convenient to sculpt various figures and booties from it, including.
Ingredients:
- Condensed milk 150 ml.
- Powdered sugar 1 tbsp.
- Powdered milk or cream 1.5 tbsp.
Cooking:
- Mix powdered sugar with milk powder or cream.
- Add the condensed milk, mix thoroughly.
- Sprinkle icing sugar or starch on the table.
- Thoroughly mix all the components of the recipe to obtain a mixture that is similar in texture to soft plasticine.
Our mastic is ready for modeling.
Marshmallow Pasta Recipe
Ingredients:
- Marshmallow - 150 g
- Purified water - 1.5 tbsp. l
- Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l
- Corn starch - 3 tbsp.
- Butter - 40 g.
- Food coloring of the desired color.
Cooking:
- Marshmallows are added to water and put on a steam bath or in a microwave oven, bring the mixture to a soft elastic mass. This procedure will take no more than 1 minute.
- We mix corn starch and powdered sugar and slowly introduce it into the molten mixture of sweets, while mixing, we bring to a homogeneous mass.
- Add butter to the resulting mass.
Marshmallow mastic is ready!
The main details of the booties pattern
First of all, you need to prepare a pattern in advance for future booties. It consists of 3 main parts:
- Foot.
- Rear end.
- The front of.
If you are planning to make a cake decoration in the shape of a children's sandal, then when completing the drawing of the front part pattern, add a few additional holes so that your mastic product is as close as possible to the original.
Decorate booties from mastic
To decorate booties, it will be possible to additionally make laces, flowers, muzzles of animals, bows. Everything is up to you.
To make shoes, we need a pattern of booties from mastic, for the manufacture of which we need thick paper. After the drawing is ready, cut out templates for our future booties.
Booties size
Pattern of booties from mastic is done in a short period of time. The process will take you no more than half an hour. Culinary paste booties for cake can be of different sizes. The full-sized booties pattern from mastic has the following approximate measurements.
Foot:
- Length - 100 mm.
- Width in its widest part is 45 mm.
- Width in its narrowest part (heel) - 35 mm.
Front of booties:
- Width in the widest part - 100 mm;
- Toe part (with tongue) - 65 mm.
The back of the booties has a length of 14 cm. Make all roundings smooth.
Booties from mastic (patterns, photos of which are provided in this article) should not be too large. It all depends on the size of the cake itself.
You can make booties from mastic for a girl (a pattern for children of both sexes is provided above) or a boy. You can dream up and decorate shoes for a cake intended for a girl with beads, bows or lace. All this can also be done from mastic.
What is necessary for future booties?
- Tools for working with culinary paste (if any).
- About 100 g of mastic, prepared independently or purchased.
- Food coloring (if necessary) - approximately 0.5 ml.
- Starch, powdered sugar - 2 tbsp each
- Pattern of 3 patterns.
Making booties on a pattern
So, we already have a pattern, and now we begin to manufacture the booties themselves from mastic. Take a pre-bought or cooked pasta yourself. It is generally accepted that booties intended for a boy are blue and pink for a girl. But you can make them in any color.
If our mastic still has a white color, then it must be painted using food coloring. To do this, take 2/3 of the total mass of white, add one drop of dye and mix thoroughly for dyeing in a plain color.
We roll the colored mastic with a rolling pin on a special board or table to a thickness of 1-5 mm. Before working with mastic, the working surface must be crushed with starch and powdered sugar, after mixing them, otherwise it may stick to the table or pulp.
You can make booties with or without a picture. If you have a special rolling pin with a relief, use it.
We apply our templates alternately on the rolled mastic sheet and cut out 2 pieces (for 2 booties). Thus, we should get 6 parts: 2 feet, 2 front and 2 back. Now we will collect our booties. First we make 2 holes on the backs of the booties in the upper corners.
Using a roller or kitchen knife (spoon), it is necessary to make the edges of the sole as thin as possible. We perform the same procedure with the front of the booties. Now you need to process a small amount of water with a brush, the edges of the sole and the front of the inside for better bonding. We glue together the sole and the front so that we get slippers that look like a room slipper without a backdrop. In order for our shoe not to lose shape during the production process due to sagging, it is necessary to put a paper towel inside, which will subsequently need to be removed.
Roll out a thin sheet from the rest of the white mastic. Using recesses or plungers, we cut out flowers for our future booties. We decorate the upper part of the shoes with them. We wet the back of our slipper with a small amount of water and glue the back to it.
We roll out not very thick sausages from white mastic. These will be shoe laces. Carefully put them into booties into pre-cut holes and tie them.
Now we leave our booties until the mastic completely hardens on a dry, powdered mixture of starch and powdered sugar, on the surface. After our booties are completely dry, we take out napkins from them.
Mastic booties may look different. Patterns can be completely different sizes, types. But do not forget that the foundation should always consist of 3 parts: the foot, front and back parts.
When the baby booties made of mastic made by you are already ready, the pattern may be needed more than once. Therefore, do not throw it away, but leave it with your recipes. If you decide to seriously engage in decorating your cakes with mastic, then you better buy special tools that we described in this article. Moreover, you already have a pattern of booties from mastic and will always be at hand. You can make wonderful children's shoes for your cake or at someone’s request at any time.