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how to decorate a baby cake

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List of the best options for decorating baby cakes

As the experience of my friend shows, decorating a children's cake is not at all difficult, you just have to involve your imagination, knowledge of the preferences of your child and his guests, as well as some culinary features of this or that dessert, which I will now tell you about.

It is often not easy to decide how to decorate a children's cake with your own hands at home so as to please the child and feed him with a tasty and healthy treat. And at the initial stage of choosing a method of how to beautifully decorate a children's cake, you should focus on the compatibility of ingredients with the cake layers.

Win-win jewelry options would be: chocolate icing, butter cream and cream - for biscuit cakes, fruits and berries - for cottage cheese, butter cream and boiled condensed milk - for sand and puff, marshmallows and mastic - for honey. However, this is not the only correct solution to the issue of decorating a children's cake, since each person's taste preferences, like the concept of the beauty of a dessert, are different.

Taking into account that the decorated cake is intended for treating children, it is recommended to decorate it with mastic, marshmallows, cream, cream, chocolate, fruits and jelly, since they will look good on the finished cake and are harmless to children's health.

The better not to decorate a cake for children

Since the cake is intended for children, you should choose the ingredients for decorating it as meticulously as possible - it should only be fresh products.

• artificial colors, they should be replaced with natural freshly squeezed juice from vegetables and fruits;
• creams that are flavored with alcohol - liqueur, rum or cognac, if necessary, they can be replaced with zest or citrus juice or vanilla;
• sugar syrup for soaking the cakes, since excess sugar is useless for the child's body;
• small candies or inedible solids that the child can choke on.

In my opinion, the most beautiful cake decorating is mastic, although it is a little more difficult to make compared to other types of decorations. Any figurine can be formed from mastic - either a cartoon character, a doll or a car, or the letters of a child's name, and the decoration itself will delight the children. Consider how to decorate a children's cake with mastic.

To prepare mastic, you need the following products:

1. Gelatin is dissolved in water, stirring continuously, and left for about 30 minutes to swell, then add citric acid.

If it is necessary to obtain multi-colored mastic, the ingredients are mixed in several containers separately, in each of which food coloring of the desired color is added.

2. Pour the sifted icing sugar into a deep bowl, pour out the gelatin mixture, stir with a spoon in a bowl until smooth, then mix the sweet mass a little until a firm elastic state.

3. A well-mixed mastic should be rolled out in a layer about 4-6 mm thick and placed on the surface of the finished cake and on the side. Covering the cake with mastic, you should smooth it, avoiding the appearance of folds. The excess must be carefully trimmed along the bottom edge of the cake with a sharp knife.

It is very easy to mold any figurine of an animal, a man or a toy from plastic mastic, which is installed on the smooth surface of the cake or along its sidewall.

Having wrapped the finished mastic in polyethylene, it can be stored in the freezer for up to 60 days, taking it out as needed to create another confectionery masterpiece.

Consider options for how you can beautifully decorate a children's cake without mastic. The marvelous beauty of mastic can be recreated from marshmallows, which are much easier to process.

Required Ingredients:

• 200 g chewable marshmallows;
• 500 g icing sugar;
• 200 g starch;
• 10 g butter;
• 2 tbsp. l. water.

1. Melt the chewing marshmallow in the microwave for 30 seconds, add butter and water to the mixture and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds to completely dissolve the ingredients.

2. In a deep container you need to mix starch and powdered sugar, then add melted marshmallows little by little to the dry mixture, stirring thoroughly. After combining the dry mixture with melted marshmallows, the resulting mass must be intensively mixed for 5 minutes and left to rest for about half an hour in a plastic bag.

3. The finished marshmallow is rolled out in a thin layer, which covers the entire surface of the cake, and any fancy decorations can be fashioned from this elastic mass. Examples of how to decorate a children's birthday cake using marshmallows can be viewed on the Internet.

Work with marshmallows should be prompt, since the mass dries up very quickly. You can save its plasticity for some time by packing it in a plastic bag.

Children's cake can be decorated in an original way with the help of cream. The cake decorated with cream is a classic of children's desserts.

Required Ingredients:

• 100 g butter;
• 6 tbsp. l. condensed milk.

1. Slightly melted butter at room temperature should be whipped with a mixer until a foamy mass is formed.

2. Add condensed milk to the butter foam, one spoon at a time, beating the mass with a mixer until a fluffy homogeneous cream is obtained.

3. To decorate the cake with butter cream, you need a pastry syringe with various attachments, if not, you can use a thick plastic bag with a cut off corner. With the help of a syringe or a cone filled with cream, you can "draw" the desired cartoon plot, numbers or letters on the cake, create flowers and volumetric figures, and make the child's wishes come true.

Cream will also work to decorate the cake.

Required Ingredients:

• 200 ml of cream with a fat content of 35%;
• 50 g icing sugar.

1. Chilled cream is whipped with a mixer until peaks are formed.

2. Little by little powdered sugar is added to the whipped cream, while the process of whipping with the mixer does not stop until the mass, when draining from the whisk, gives solid peaks.

3. Decorate confectionery with whipped cream similarly to butter cream using a special syringe. Baby cakes decorated with cream are not only tasty, but also healthy due to the nutritious cream rich in calcium.

The cake, garnished with butter cream and whipped cream, can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 36 hours.

The most common option for decorating children's desserts is fruits. Fresh, canned or frozen fruits and berries look very nice on dessert and kids love to eat them. Before decorating a children's cake with fruits, they need to be properly prepared.

Berries can be used as a whole, large fruits must be pre-cut, frozen - thawed, and canned - dried with a paper towel. For the beauty and safety of the fruit decoration, it should be covered with a layer of jelly, because without it, fruits and berries quickly dry out and lose their appearance.

Required ingredients for jelly:

• 1 tbsp. l. powdered sugar;
• 2 tsp gelatin;
• 1 glass of orange juice

1. Dissolve gelatin in 50 ml of juice; to speed up the process, the mixture can be heated a little in the microwave.

2. Introduce the entire volume of juice and powdered sugar into the gelatin mixture, mix thoroughly until complete dissolution and obtain a homogeneous viscous mass.

3. To decorate the dessert, you need to beautifully lay the berries and fruits on the surface of the cake, pour jelly well over them and put the cake in the refrigerator for several hours to solidify.

Cakes decorated with cream, mastic, whipped cream and fruits will decorate many children's parties, bring joy to the kids and look great in the photo, reminding them of the wonderful celebration of this or that event.

Decorating cakes for children: ideas and photos

Photos of culinary masterpieces of my brilliant friend, who kindly shared her secrets of confectionery, will help to give inspiration and an interesting idea on how to decorate a children's cake.

Cake decorated with mastic:

Cake decorated with marshmallows:

Cake decorated with cream:

Fruit cake:

Video recipe for decorating a baby cake

For a visual example of how to decorate a children's cake, we recommend that you watch a short video. This video review will introduce you to the main points of cake decorating. The experienced hands of a pastry chef will show you how you can decorate a confection with a wonderful edible figurine, which is not difficult at all.

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As a basic recommendation, experienced chefs advise to apply decorations not on the cake, but on a thick layer of thick cream, marzipan or glaze - this will give a more even coating of the cake surface and the durability of decorations and figures. It is better to decorate the dessert just before serving, since the decorated cake can absorb moisture and odors during long-term storage in the refrigerator.

It is recommended to whip the cream in a very cold glass container with a chilled whisk - this way the whipping process is faster and better. A children's cake decorated with sweets - sweets, chocolate and sugar figurines, bright sprinkles and dried fruits looks very impressive and is absolutely not difficult to perform.

Since it is very easy to decorate a children's cake with your own hands from available products, you should not be afraid of this, since the most difficult thing is to decide and bake a delicious cake, and the creative process of decorating a dessert for kids will use your unique imagination and captivate the whole family. Share your recipes and decorating options, suggest interesting cake decorating ideas.