Glaze for cake and gingerbread

Very many mistresses are wondering how to prepare the frosting for a cupcake. We decided to answer all your questions about this - all the controversial moments and all the most interesting ways of cooking are gathered in this little article. There are several options for how to prepare a glaze for a cupcake.

So, the glaze for the cake is prepared from the following products according to the first recipe: half a cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of water, lemon juice - squeeze half a lemon for it, 2 eggs - we need only proteins, the fourth part of a teaspoon of salt.

First beat the whites with salt and lemon juice. Sugar is dissolved in water and heated on fire - you need to get a syrup, add hot syrup to the protein mixture, whisk another 3 minutes. After the cupcakes are ready, you need to spread them glaze. After 2 hours after this cupcakes can be eaten - glaze will have time to freeze by this time.

In order to make the cake glaze for the second recipe, you will need the following products: half a glass of powdered sugar and 1 protein. The glaze turns white. Whip the protein. Gradually introduce sugar. It freezes glaze an hour after you spread it on the cake.

If you decide to make a colored glaze for a cupcake, then the third recipe will come in handy! It is quite tasty and easy to prepare. You need half a glass of warm water, a half kilogram of powdered sugar, a dye.

Sugar powder is better to sift, then pour water into the powder, start to heat on a small fire, stirring constantly. The syrup will turn out. Remove the syrup from the fire, add the dye into it, stir and apply the colored glaze to the cupcakes.

The glaze for the cake on the fourth recipe is prepared from such ingredients: 1 tablespoon of water, 100 grams of sugar, 50 grams of butter. Cook the syrup from sugar and water, then melt the butter on a steam bath and add it to the syrup. Stir thoroughly, then pour the cake with this mixture.

A strawberry frosting for a cake is done this way: mixing 3 tablespoons of strawberry juice and 200 grams of powdered sugar, stirred, heated on a small fire until thick.

A pleasant addition to the taste of your culinary masterpiece is the chocolate glaze for the cake. The easiest and quickest way to prepare it is to melt a pair of black chocolate bars, add the melted butter and mix the ingredients together. Put on the muffins, and for freezing place them in the refrigerator.

For those who are not looking for easy ways, we offer another recipe for chocolate glaze: 100 grams of sugar or powdered sugar, 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 100 grams of sour cream or cream, 100 grams of butter. Melt butter, pour sugar, cocoa into it, add sour cream to the mixture. Stir, cook on low heat. Bring to a boil, cool.

And this recipe is useful to you, if you decide to bake gingerbread. Agree, because it is the glaze and is the highlight of this dish. In addition, many like the icing for gingerbread, which they buy in the store. And everything cooked by yourself, as a rule, is several times more delicious than bought, so you should try to cook this dish. So, when the gingerbread is ready, it remains only to make the glaze. Especially for you we have prepared two options: white icing and chocolate icing.

White glaze is made as follows: 1 protein is beaten with 100 grams of powdered sugar, brought to a boil, cooled and applied to the flour product.

In order to make chocolate icing, melt the chocolate bar and mix it with butter and 20% cream. Oils are enough and 1 tablespoon, and the cream is 100 grams.

By the way, these glaze recipe recipes can be used not only to anoint cupcakes and gingerbread. This glaze can serve as an ornament for both cakes and cakes.