A step-by-step recipe for a New Year's cake from mastic. Rules to follow

Whatever the holiday is on the nose, the hostesses always think not only about hot dishes, appetizers and salads, but also about desserts. What to choose in the store? Cakes, candy or cake? Or maybe bake a cake at home? Let's get acquainted with the basic steps of choosing products for a New Year's cake recipe, the rules for preparing them and step-by-step preparation of a dessert in the form of a dog - the symbol of the year! So, recipes and nuances of a mastic cake for the New Year. General points first, followed by a step-by-step cooking guide.

How to make a cake?

You can see how this or that cake with a New Year's theme from mastic is prepared and decorated - a photo will be presented in this article. But how do you find your way?

We'll show you where to start if you decide to make a cake yourself. So, choose what shape the cake will be. If curly, for example, in the form of an animal, think about how to shape the cakes, most likely, the cakes will have to be cut. Then you need a recipe for airy biscuit, delicate cream, and then glaze. If you cover the cake with mastic, pick up the correct shade of food paint. If the cake is for the New Year of the Dog, make brownish or yellow-white wool, a dark nose and eyes from the mastic. Or maybe your "dog" will hold a mastic flower in its paws? Then take more varied paints.

How to bake a biscuit?

Choose a biscuit recipe according to your taste and products at hand. If you take the fastest, you will need:

a glass of wheat flour of the highest grade (if the grade is lower, add 1 teaspoon of potato starch);
a glass of sugar or powder (you can replace it with honey in the same amount);
3-4 large chicken eggs (if there are bananas, replace them in a 1: 1 ratio);
10 g of baking baking powder (with it the dough will be light in color, but you can take 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda with table vinegar).

All components must be mixed and the biscuit is baked in the selected oiled form.

And if you want an unusual biscuit, cook it in colored dry jelly. A mastic cake for the New Year will turn out not only appetizing on the outside, but also original on the inside. For a yellow crumb, you need a pack (160-200 g) of dry lemon jelly. And also:

3 eggs;
100 g margarine (butter or ghee);
200 g wheat flour;

First mix the jelly with eggs and soft margarine, and then add the free-flowing ingredients.

The cakes will turn out orange if you take sea buckthorn or orange jelly.

Impregnation options

As an impregnation, you can take a syrup from water and sugar with a drop of some alcohol:

cognac;
liquor;
White wine.

Other impregnation options are also suitable:

liquid jam;
liquid jam;
fruit syrup;

Cream options

For a sponge cake, the following types of cream are suitable:

in butter with powdered sugar;
from condensed milk with butter;
from egg whites, powdered sugar and citric acid (pinch).

The components of each type of cream just need to beat until a smooth, fluffy consistency. More complex creams are custards, with many ingredients and long step-by-step preparation. In our article, this will be found at the end in the recipe for a mastic cake for the New Year.

Inventory to help

In the stores of dishes and goods for pastry chefs, you can buy everything you need to make cakes and pastries of varying complexity. Let's think about what kind of equipment you may need to make a DIY New Year's cake with mastic:

Measuring spoons or a glass to follow the recipe correctly, otherwise something might not work out.
Various bowls and cups for mixing food.
Hand whisk and mixer. To create a delicate structure and uniform consistency of dough, cream, impregnation.
Biscuit baking dish - dessert basics. It can be of any diameter or size. After all, in order to lay out the silhouette of a dog, the biscuit will still have to be cut.
Universal cake cutter - with it you can easily divide the cake into equal parts - two or three as desired. That is, you get two or three cakes. Although you can do without this tool, take an ordinary long knife or use a fishing line.
Rolling pin for mastic - it is not ordinary, as for dough, but silicone with a soft structure.
Brushes (flat and oval) - for decorating the finished cake with a pattern of multi-colored cream. Beautiful New Year's cakes from mastic are obtained if a smooth surface is covered with an inconspicuous pattern.

DIY sugar mastic

What products are needed:

half a kilo of powdered sugar;
a pinch of vanilla sugar or extract;
4 tbsp. l. boiled or filtered water;
1 tsp gelatin powder;
1 tsp lemon juice.

How to cook:

Combine gelatin powder with water and leave for 20-25 minutes. Heat until dissolved, but not until boiling. Strain.
Add lemon juice, powder, and vanillin to the mixture. Stir vigorously until smooth. The dough should be soft.
Start shaping the cake surface or finishing right away. Ideas for New Year's mastic cakes are quite diverse - from flowers and ribbons to animal figures, inscriptions and wishes made of mastic (in the form of multi-colored letters).

Chocolate mastic recipe

What products are needed:

200 g of chocolate (your choice is dark, milk or white);
2 tbsp. l. natural flower liquid honey.

How to cook:

Break the chocolate into pieces and melt. It is convenient to do this in a microwave oven at maximum power - it will take 45-50 seconds.
Mix the mixture with honey and knead until a flexible but thick mass is obtained. Start molding the mastic.

Food colorings

To make the cake original and interesting, you will need dyes to make creams and mastic. It is possible to use special food colors in small tubes. But they are expensive, and if you do not plan to professionally engage in confectionery business on an ongoing basis, then they are unlikely to be useful to you later. So what can be done? Prepare paints yourself:

Orange and yellow color - saffron or turmeric tincture (in boiling water, vodka or alcohol), fresh lemon, tangerine or orange peel, young juicy carrots (1: 1 vegetable oil and carrots, everything is fried and then filtered through clean cheesecloth).
White color - cream, sour cream, milk, powdered sugar.
Green tint - fresh spinach.
Brown shades - instant coffee, cocoa powder, sugar burnt, strong black tea brew.
Red color (including pink shades) - juices of red berries (raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, lingonberries, cherries), their syrups with sugar; red vegetables - cabbage, beets (the vegetable is crushed, combined with acidified water and cooked to a boil, filtered), carmine or paprika extract (combined with ammonia and boiled with water until the smell disappears).

When adding dye, be careful not to add a lot of dye at once. Otherwise, the result may surprise you unpleasantly, and the cream will become pretentiously bright in color. New Year's mastic cakes should be not only tasty, but also beautiful.

Cake decoration - finishing

Each cake can be decorated with:

confectionery crumb (possibly curly);
small candies or lollipops;
figurines made of chocolate.

You can make chocolate pieces yourself from natural chocolate. All you need is a variety of molds. First, melt the chocolate with a small lump of heavy butter (82%) in a water bath. Pour the mixture into molds or pour on food foil in the form of a pattern - a star, a heart, a circle, or randomly. Refrigerate to set, then use to decorate dessert.

Cake with mastic in the form of a dog

Mastic cake for the New Year (photo below) will be dedicated to the Dog. Follow the step-by-step recommendations and be guided by a visual picture of the finished dessert when decorating.

What products are needed for a biscuit:

4 large eggs;
200 g sugar (or powder);
200 g flour (premium wheat);
1 tsp baking powder (powder).

Cream products:

200 g of white chocolate;
300 g creamy soft cheese;
a pack (160-180 g) of butter 82% fat;
1.5 tsp lemon juice.

Impregnation products:

50 g apricot jam;
50 ml of boiled water;
1 tsp liqueur (any, but better than fruit).

Products for mastic:

1 kg of powdered sugar;
a couple of pinches of vanillin;
8 tbsp. l. boiled or filtered water;
2 tsp gelatin powder;
2 tsp lemon juice.

Use cocoa powder, concentrated cranberry juice (or syrup), and black food coloring as colorants.

How to make a biscuit:

From the suggested biscuit products, knead the dough and pour it into a round baking dish lined with cling foil or tissue paper.
Bake at 180 ° C for about 35-40 minutes.
When the top of the dough is covered with a brownish blush, pull it out of the heat. After a couple of minutes, free the biscuit from the tin and foil. Leave on a wire rack to cool at room temperature for 3-4 hours.

How to prepare the cream:

Prepare a water bath. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt with the butter until it is smooth and creamy. Cool slightly.
Mix with cheese and lemon juice.
Beat the mixture with a blender whisk or mixer into a fluffy mixture. Cool slightly in the refrigerator.

How to prepare the impregnation:

In a small enamel bowl, combine the soaking ingredients and bring to a boil. Then cool it down.

How to make mastic:

See the section "Sugar mastic with your own hands" (above in the article).
Divide the prepared mastic into two parts. Leave one to cover the entire cake.
And cut the second part into small fragments along the parts of the dog's muzzle. Mix with dyes. A mastic cake for the New Year (see photo above) will be in the form of a dog. That is, leave a ball of white mastic for the eye sockets, mix a little with black food paint for the mouth and eyes of the animal, with cocoa powder for the mustache and ears, and cranberry juice for the tongue. And make most of the mastic a little beige with the help of cocoa to cover the biscuit with this layer.

Instead of cocoa powder, you can use a recipe for chocolate mastic to create a beige or brown hue.

How to assemble a dog cake

How to make a New Year's cake from mastic:

Using a special string or a long knife, cut a well-cooled biscuit into two cakes of the same height.
Coat its inner surfaces with the previously prepared impregnation. Don't use too much or the cake will float.
Place the bottom crust on a flat plate or special support for forming cakes. Spread with a thick layer of cream cheese cream (you can use another cream recipe if you wish). Cover with top crust.
Now roll out the beige piece of mastic with a soft rolling pin. Cover the whole cake with this layer and form a mold of the dog's face with your hands (see photo above). Smooth out the side surfaces.
Then, one at a time, roll out other pieces of colored mastic and make the tongue, ears, eyes and whiskers for an improvised dog.
So the mastic cake is ready. For the New Year, this will be a great gift for your family and guests. Chill the dessert slightly on the top shelf of the refrigerator and serve.

One of the popular trends in the pastry business is the ability to paint a prepared cake by hand. For this, a cream is used, tinted with various shades of dyes and a brush. But you need to outline in advance what kind of drawing you intend to create.

Beautiful New Year's cakes from mastic are obtained if you draw the face of an animal in this way, draw the legs and tail.

I think, on the eve of the New Year holidays, a master class on sculpting delicious marshmallow figures that will decorate your New Year's cake will be very appropriate. Moreover, they are done quite simply.
So, let's start by sculpting a small Christmas tree. To create it, we need a small piece of green mastic. I usually use marshmallow-based mastic, I like it the most, and it is convenient to work with.
Having kneaded the mastic well, we roll it into a ball, from it we form a cone, the height of which corresponds to the height of the future Christmas tree. It often happens that when the cone is put in an upright position, the mastic starts to settle under the weight, so I usually send it to the refrigerator for a few minutes, where it hardens a little and begins to hold its shape.

Now we take nail scissors and make cuts on the surface of the cone, cut each new row in a checkerboard pattern. I have separate nail scissors for these purposes, especially for use in cooking, I bought the cheapest ones, they will do just fine.

As a result, we get such a pretty Christmas tree, it remains to revive it a little and decorate it with New Year's toys.

With the help of food coloring, diluted in a small amount of water, we go through the tree with a brush. I dip the brush into the dye, then squeeze it a little on a napkin, and only then over the Christmas tree. For the toys, I used regular children's sweets, which are sold in every store. I glued the candies under the branches, when you lift them, the mastic is sticky inside and the candies stick to it without much difficulty. That's all the Christmas tree for the cake is ready.

Now you can start sculpting a snowman. We need a piece of white mastic and a piece of mastic of a different color, mine was pink.
Let's start sculpting the snowman from the body. Let's make a small cone, only the top does not need to be made sharp. Having rolled up small balls, we make the legs of the snowman.

We make handles from mastic rolled into a sausage (a very small piece). Let's flatten the sausage a little, and make a mitten on the edge just by making an incision and slightly tweaking it.

We glue the handles to the body, lubricating the edge with some water.

Let's start shaping the head. We mark a ball of mastic under the eyes and nose.

We make a nose from a tiny piece of red mastic. Just give it the shape of a carrot, make small cuts and the spout carrot is ready.

Having made a depression on the head under the nose, we lubricate it with some water and simply insert our nose into place. We simply paint over the eyes with black paint. And we form the mouth with a toothpick, making the snowman smile.

The head is connected to the body with a toothpick.

Now we will make a scarf and a hat for our snowman. I wanted the scarf to be striped, so on a rolled piece of pink mastic, I apply white mastic flagella and roll it a little more with a rolling pin.

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