I just adore homemade baking, especially cakes. And not only there is, but also the oven. Very soon at my kidding birthday, and he asked to bake him a delicious cake. And since the boy loves chocolate very much, then the question than to decorate the cake, I decided myself.
Often in stores you can see cakes decorated with fine and neat openwork. It looks like such an air and fragile. At first glance it seems that it is impossible to repeat.
However, if you understand the technology of creating such delicious beauty, you understand that the decorations made of chocolate for the cake are completely simple. You can use a different chocolate - white, milk, black, the main thing is that there are no fruits or nuts in it. Even the easiest chocolate pattern will look original. Show all your fantasy!
How to decorate a chocolate cake
Editorial "So simple!" Prepared for you several super-west tips from the experienced confectioner how to decorate a cake at home with chocolate patterns.You will need
- Parchment paper
- 1-2 Chocolate tiles
Best of all chocolate drawings look at the smooth surface of the culinary product. The surface should be smooth, smooth and best of all one-photon. For this purpose, dessert needs to be pouring either black or white icing.
To prepare chocolate patterns, you need to break into pieces and put in a dry container, then put on a water bath. It is important to ensure that water does not get into the pan with chocolate - otherwise there is a risk that he will come. Capacity should be placed on fire and stir periodically. As a result, an elastic homogeneous mass should be obtained.
There are several ways to decorate. The first is more suitable for those who are confident in their artistic abilities. From parchment paper you need to make a little kulek (such a homemade confectionery pencil).
Then it is necessary to gently pour the cooled liquid chocolate. Pay attention: the thinner there will be a hole in the kule and the tricky of chocolate, the more beautiful the openwork pictures will look. Slightly pressed on parchment corner and squeezing a thin flowing of chocolate, start painting what you want.
And those who are not quite sure in their abilities may first apply a drawing on the parchment paper, and then clearly along the lines draw chocolate on it. After that, the paper with the pattern should be placed in the refrigerator so that chocolate froze.
Then neatly with a thin knife takes off the drawing with parchment paper and gently enters it on the surface of the cake.
Another spectacular trick can be the decoration of the cake using templates. For example, you can use special lace paper napkins for this. Put one of these napkins on the cutting board, on top of the cover of its tray and gently repeate the drawing, such as white chocolate.
Ready decoration to be placed in the refrigerator before cooling. And then take it from the tank with a thin knife. You can place such a delightful decor on the edge of the cake or on its surface. It all depends on the flight of your fantasy.
And this method is my favorite. It is not very simple, but it looks original and beautiful. Please note that for this trick you will need green leaves. And it is better to pour them away from the road.
First you need to melt chocolate on a water bath. With the help of a tassel, melted chocolate apply on clean and dry leaves. In the summer, the leaves of roses are perfectly suitable, they are dense and embossed.
Chocolate blank must be removed for an hour in the refrigerator, and then carefully removed the leaves.
And the easiest version of the decoration is a chocolate cobweb. Moreover, you can try to make it from white chocolate on black glaze and vice versa. To begin with, the cake must be covered with chocolate icing. From the parchmental chopping rings from a chocolate of another color. It is advisable to arrange them at the same distance from each other. And to create a web itself, just spend a skewer or match from the center to the edges of the cake in several places. How do you result? In my opinion excellent!
Also, I propose to see a small selection of decorations for the cake. These are patterns and chocolate figures for inspiration.
- With the technology of decorating this cake, you can read by clicking on the link. This chocolate decor for the cake is no worse than the one in the picture.
- Amazing magnificence!
- Excellent example of cake decorating with chocolate leaves. Now you know how it can be done!
- Just a charming solution!
- Another option decor with chocolate leaves. I really like this combination of different types of chocolate.
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Pay attention: if you work with white chocolate, it is worth being extremely attentive and neat. If it is overdo it, there are grains in it. Therefore, we need to melting white chocolate only in a water bath and up to half. And then be sure to take it from the fire and, constantly stirring, bring to a homogeneous molten state.
Perhaps you inspired these examples and already tomorrow you beat your loved ones and friends with something sweet. I'm just sure you like to decorate the cake with chocolate patterns. Just imagine the delight of home and guests!
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