Mastic cakes have been at their peak for several years now. They are suitable for home tea drinking, as well as celebrations of various celebrations: anniversaries, weddings, children's parties and so on. We suggest you find out what kind of mastic tool confectioners use and whether it can be used at home.
What is mastic?
Mastic is a decorative material based on powdered sugar. It has the unique properties that confectioners value so much: plasticity and the ability to hold the necessary shape. Thanks to this, you can create any products and decorations for cakes, pastries and cupcakes. Finished crafts do not disappear and do not change their shape during transportation and while waiting for sweets. In skillful hands, mastic creates such decorations for desserts as flowers, butterflies, various figures of people, animals and fairy-tale characters. Also, with the help of this material, you can turn an ordinary biscuit into a work of art, just by forming from it a typewriter, bear or other object.
Pastry Tools
There are a large number of tools for working with mastic. This includes rolling pins (it’s convenient to roll out a pancake), curly knives and cutters (help to make beautiful edges), an iron (allows you to smooth out a ball of mastic).
A tool for mastic, which occupies almost the main place in the list, is a set of stacks with curly tips. It usually includes the following modeling sticks:
- Ball-shaped mastic tool. Helps to make leaves and petals, allows you to bend parts into the desired shape and thin the edges. Also, with its help it is easy to create waves, determine the place of the eye sockets (if it is a figure of a person, animal or fairy-tale hero) and other round shapes.
- Stack-bone. It performs the same functions as the previous tool. But necessary during the creation of smaller parts.
- Dresden tool for mastic. It has flat ends that help draw veins, lines, emphasize individual details. The stack can also be used while smoothing small parts of the figure.
- Stack with cone-shaped tip. An ideal tool for creating deep and narrow holes. For example, the core of flowers.
- A star shaped stack. It is used during the creation of flowers and drawing patterns.
- Tool for mastic - groove. It has the shape of a scapula with serrations. It is convenient for them to draw smiles or to apply hatching.
- Shell. With its help, you can make shells and apply patterns.
- Stack Wheel. Used when cutting very small parts.
- Stack needle. Suitable for drawing thin lines, making deep grooves and so on.
Cutting down
Working with mastic is practically impossible without tools such as cutting down. They resemble shapes for creating curly cookies, but work a little differently. With their help, you can sell flowers, figurines, leaflets and so on on a sheet of mastic. There are many forms. Therefore, you can easily find yourself the right ones. Cuttings are standard for creating roses, daisies, gerberas, ivy and rose leaves, butterflies, hearts. There are also forms for quilling.