A cake with your own hands with mastic seems to many something extraordinarily complex. But in order to cook it, do not necessarily finish the culinary academy. To make a cake with mastic (the master class consists of two parts - the actual cake and decorative coating), you need the most common products that you can buy at any store.
Baking cakes, cooking cream
Attitude to mastic at all different. Some people like her taste, and some people think that she should eat separately from the cake or even throw it away. In any case, the experience of decorating is not a problem. When you first prepare a cake yourself (with a mastic bought in a store or made from marshmallows), you will immediately understand if there is a desire to continue to do this. Let's first bake a classic oil biscuit. Such cakes will be convenient to give any form. Take six eggs, divide into squirrels and yolks. Beat the first to hard peaks. Yolks pound with half a glass of sugar and add to the protein mixture. Then gently interpose a hundred grams of melted butter and a glass of sifted flour. Add a glass of roasted and crushed walnuts. Bake each cake for twenty-five minutes. To such a biscuit is well suited oil cream with condensed milk. It can be done at home - mixing a glass of plain milk with half a glass of dry and the same amount of sugar. Brew this mixture for one hour in a water bath. The resulting condensed milk to cool (it is better to let it spend the night in the refrigerator) and beat with butter. Cover the cream with cream on both sides, sprinkle with walnuts and top with cream too. The top layer should be thick enough - as the mastic is better kept on the oil mass. Then proceed with the decoration.
Funny cakes made of mastic. Photo, children's decorations and modeling of figures
You will need two packets of marshmallows called marshmallow. What shape should your first cake have with your own hands with mastic? It is better to make it round - then it will be easier to decorate. You can slightly complicate the task and take a shape in the form of a heart or a star. It is not recommended for the first time to try to make a cake in the form of a pony or a dragon. Although this is nothing complicated (you just need to cut out paper figures and then attach them to the finished cake - this will help to give the parts of the cake the desired shape). But for the first time, concentrate on making mastic - you need to learn the technology of its preparation well and practice rolling out a sweet mass. And also to mold molds, roses and figurines from it. Zephyr candies should be poured with lemon juice and put for a short while in the microwave (for half a minute) or in a water bath. They will melt. While the mass cools down, it must be poured in powdered sugar, so that the finished mastic had an average density, did not stick to your hands, but was not too hard. After it is ready, place it for several hours in the refrigerator. Then roll out on a board, sprinkled with starch and cut out of it a layer, which will be covered with a cake with their own hands with mastic. Zephyr mass can be dyed with different dyes - both artificial food and natural (cocoa, turmeric). Cover the cake with mastic leaves, giving it the desired shape.