– the height of mastery: here you need to maintain the proportions of the human body, convey facial expressions and emotions. If you decide to try yourself in this matter, then welcome to our master class.

What kind of cakes can be decorated with human figures? Almost any. This could be a dessert with a naughty nurse in honor of Medical Worker's Day, or it could be a sweet with the hero of your favorite movie or TV series for a teenager's birthday. However, the most popular are wedding figurines of the bride and groom. We will devote most of our article to them.

Wedding cake figurines: what are they?

Long gone are the days when wedding cakes were decorated with a couple of rings, banal doves (swans) or plastic (porcelain) dolls. Recently, the fashion for mastic has dominated the confectionery art. Both the cake covering and its decoration are made from this material. This is understandable. Mastic allows you to bring to life the most daring ideas without restrictions. Even such traditional attributes as figurines of newlyweds made of mastic can be made very original.

Option 1. Unusual placement

Mastic couples can sit on a sofa, in a boat, on an airplane, in a car, or even in a tractor.

Option 2. Original plot

If the couple's sense of humor allows, you can present them with a cake where the bride holds the groom in her arms or takes him away from the computer, etc.

Option 3. Non-traditional execution

Such figures can be made in the style of a kind, friendly cartoon, with slightly changed body proportions.

Wedding figurine “Hostage Groom”: step-by-step instructions

To make this composition you will need mastic of three basic colors: white, black and flesh.

1. We sculpt the heads of the newlyweds. To save material, place a cotton ball or polystyrene foam in the center. It is important here to convey the emotional coloring of this scene, so we pay great attention to the development of facial features.

2. Let's start with the torsos. The groom is dressed in a black tailcoat with a vest and tie. The bride wears a long white dress without straps.

A wooden toothpick is used to attach the head; the remaining parts are joined by wetting individual areas of the figurine with water.

3. Since the bride and groom are interacting in our composition, we need to bend the arms and legs and set the angle of inclination for the figures.

4. Collect and decorate the figures. We make a silver pattern on the bride’s dress, add a veil, a wedding bouquet, earrings, and rhinestones to her hair.

We “shackle” the groom with a chain, and place beer cans next to him.

5. Give the figures a glossy shine using a brush dipped in sugar syrup.

Now the composition is ready to be placed on the birthday cake. You just hope that the bride and groom will appreciate your joke.

Cake figures can be made from chocolate icing and various pastes. But basically the most convenient thing is sugar paste or mastic. If you were previously sure that this was impossible, we suggest you start doing it right now.

Before making figurines and decorations, let's consider a recipe for making mastic with your own hands.

For this we need:

• Gelatin – 2 teaspoons;
• Water – 10 teaspoons;
• Powdered sugar – 450 gr.;
• Vegetable oil – 2 teaspoons;
• Egg – 1 white;
• Lemon juice – ½ lemon;

Preparing gelatin

It swells for quite a long time. It should be diluted with water in a ratio of 1:5. In order to soak the gelatin, you will need cold water. Some people add warm water to help the gelatin dissolve faster. But under no circumstances should this be done, since gelatin may lose all its properties. The resulting mass should stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

• Sift the powdered sugar through a sieve, so that the mass for the mastic is very elastic and elastic, the powdered sugar must be of high quality;
• Make a well and add vegetable oil, then 1 egg white, lemon juice;
• After the gelatin has swollen, it is best to dissolve it in a water bath until liquid. Within one minute, gelatin turns into a liquid base;
• Add the melted gelatin to the powdered sugar. Mix the mastic;
• As soon as we knead the mastic, add 1 tsp. vegetable oil. This will make it pliable and will not tear when you roll it out;
• As soon as you have kneaded it, wrap it in film and leave it for 30 minutes to let it sit, it will be much easier to make products from it;
• After it lies down, we start rolling it out. The mastic should be elastic. If it turns out that it breaks, then it is best to knead it again;
• Roll out very thinly on a surface coated with powdered sugar and starch. The thinner it is, the neater your work will look. Modeling is a very exciting activity.

So, let's begin:

Mastic figures perfectly complement a birthday cake. To make it look even better, we suggest covering it with mastic first. Therefore, for the cake, roll out a thin layer of mastic and cover it.

In order to cover the cake with mastic we will need:

• Silicone mat, which you can buy at a candy store. He is not afraid of cold temperatures or hot ones;
• Rolling pin. It must be perfectly even. Traditional wood leaves nicks in the finish;
• Roll out the mastic and cover the cake with it.

The covered cake should definitely be decorated with hand-made flounces or roses.

Preparatory stage:

• A glass is best for cutting out flounces for decoration. Use it to cut out circles.
• To prevent the mastic from drying out, and it dries very quickly. Place all the circles that you cut out in a pile, then they will not have time to dry out.

Fold the remaining mastic into a ball and put it in the refrigerator. Mastic can be stored in the refrigerator for one month.

Modeling shuttlecocks from mastic consists of the following steps:

• Take one circle, cut it using a glass, you should get a “crescent”.
• Then take a pastry stick. If you don’t have one, then take a stick with a diameter of 1 cm.
• Using a knife, cut out a cone. And we roll the mastic with such a cone; you should press the cone quite hard. The result should be a wavy line, a “ruche”.
• In order to give the flounces more volume, they need to be glued to each other.
• To do this, lubricate the edge of the shuttlecock with water, and place the next one on it, pressing it. Let's do this process again. It turns out that one consists of three.
• Lightly brush the edges of the cake with water and glue the flounces with the wavy edges down.
• Using a stick, secure the edges of the flounces to the cake, making holes. This will make the mastic shuttlecocks more airy.

Roses

What would a birthday cake be without roses! Do you think that sculpting them is very difficult? But that's not true. We invite you to make them yourself, suitable even for beginners.

Pestle

It is better to make a rose pestle from mastic in advance with your own hands. It should feel firm when you apply the petals to it.

Marbling

To ensure that the roses are not just white, but marble red:

• Add a little red mastic;
• To make red fondant, you need to add red dye;
• In the middle of the white mastic, put the red one (there should not be very much of it, 5-6 petals). Stir until marbling appears.

Modeling

• Roll out a layer of mastic. The thinner you roll, the thinner your rose petals will be;
• Using a glass, cut out circles;
• We begin to apply the petals;
• Take the first circle, rub the edges of half the circle with a tablespoon, do not touch the second;
• We take a leaf and put it on the bud, fasten it;
• Now we take the second one, stitch the next petal with a seam away from us;
• When you make a petal, it should be slightly higher than the previous one;
• First we turn on the right, then on the left. Don’t forget to give the bottom the shape of a bud each time.

Thus we need to make five petals. The more roses you make for the cake, the more beautiful it will be.

Mastic bear

For beginners working with mastic, you can safely take on sculpting animal figures.

To make a bear figurine from sugar mastic we need a minimum of tools:

• skewer;
• modeling kit from a set of plasticine.

Modeling step by step:

• Roll out the mastic into a sausage;
• Divide the sausage into legs. Two equal small pieces. Cut off a piece for the body. And two identical pieces for the front legs. The main part of the head. A small piece for the muzzle and two ears;
• First of all, we make the body of our bear. We also roll it into a sausage and make it slightly flattened.
• Legs. We roll balls. Then we roll them into sausages - droplets.
• Let's make the bear sit. Attach the legs to the sides of the body using a skewer. You can also make soles with toes for him using a tool.
• Head. The bear's head is round and slightly flattened.
• Muzzle. Make a ball and slightly flatten it on the sides.
• We attach the muzzle to the head. On the face we draw eyes with a toothpick and a small nose. The nose can be made from a small ball molded from mastic. We attach the head to the body.
• Pens. Roll out the circles. We recommend making the handles in the shape of a drop. We also draw fingers with a stack;
• Ears. We roll two circles, press them, we get “cakes”. Make dents in the middle of the ears;
• We attach the ears to the head.

We managed to make such an interesting bear figurine with our own hands for the cake.

Now we suggest you try to make a figurine of a charming bunny with your own hands to decorate the cake.

To make a hare figure, we will need:

• White mastic;
• Pink mastic;

Manufacturing process:

• Knead the white mastic well;
• Roll up a sausage and mark on it where the head, body, legs and ears of the hare will be located;
• From a piece of paste intended for the body, first roll into a ball and then form a cone;
• Roll out pink mastic into a layer 1 cm thick. We recommend sprinkling the surface with potato starch in advance. Cut the workpiece in the form of a drop. Glue it to the surface of the part. And then give it the shape of a “belly”;
• From a piece of mastic intended for the head, first roll into a ball and then form a cone;
• Cheeks are very easy to make. Form small pieces from small pieces and attach them to the surface of the part, giving them the shape of cheeks. Using a modeling stick, make a mouth;
• Make a spout from sugar paste to simulate pink color and attach it in the same way. Using a toothpick, connect the manufactured parts;
• From a piece of sugar paste intended for paws, first roll into balls, then form into cones and flatten slightly. Using a knife, make cuts on the workpieces, giving them the shape of fingers;
• Roll up pink modeling paste, make oval blanks and attach them to the surface of the part where the indentations were previously made. Attach the paws to the body;
• From the pieces of sugar paste intended for the other legs, first roll into sausages, then slightly flatten on one side and also attach to the body;
• From a piece of sugar paste intended for ears, first roll into sausages and then slightly flatten. Roll out pink modeling paste on a surface sprinkled with starch using a rolling pin into a layer 1 mm thick. And cut out two identical pieces in the shape of a drop, and then attach them to the ears. Next we attach them to the head.
• We recommend sculpting the eyes from black mastic, and the teeth from white in the shape of a rectangle.

These interesting figures can become decorations for a cake! Children will really like this sculpture. Try and fantasize, make your own cake mastic decorations, you will definitely succeed!

Making mastic figures for a cake as a decoration is actually as simple as working with plasticine or salt dough (as taught in labor lessons at school).

At the same time, there are difficulties in working with fairy-tale characters or little people created in full (cartoon) size from mastic.

So, when transporting the dessert, there is a possibility that the mastic man will fall over and damage or break itself.

For the frame of a man made of mastic, you can use thick floral or frame.

As a rule, if we talk about desserts, and in particular about cakes, then confectionery masterpieces decorated with figurines and other various decorations immediately come to mind. Previously, only cream was in great demand and popularity. A little later, marzipans began to be used.

Unfortunately, it is simply impossible to create truly exquisite cakes by using cream and marzipan. This deficiency was corrected by the appearance of confectionery mastic in cooking.

In the 16th century, mastic was better known as glaze, and it was then that it began to be used to create complex decorations. Then it was just as flexible and elastic, but when dried it crumbled and could not be stored for a long time.

When finished, the mastic can be stored tightly closed in the refrigerator for about 2 months. If you place the mastic in the freezer immediately after preparing or working, you will preserve the product for almost six months.

Mastic in its modern form is characterized by a long shelf life and accessible flexibility for recreating a wide variety of designs and forms for decorating desserts.

powdered sugar

wire (flower or frame)

Inventory

pencil

Smooth surface

wire

cutting board

toothpick

How to make a frame for a figurine of a man from mastic with your own hands

To create a frame base for a hero for a cake, you would need to imagine him in real life. The power of thought and wild imagination will not make the correct proportions, so we will use a sketch of the figure from the drawing.

So, let's start making a karateka. We have a sketch. Next, take two pieces of wire and twist them together in the middle part.

In order to correctly create the natural curves of the body, we attach our wire frame to, and adjust the karateka’s stance.

When bending the wire, individual parts may turn out to be slightly longer than expected. We will not bend the metal, thereby thickening the future figurine. We just trim off the excess and that's it.

If you need to cut off the excess wire from one leg, then leave the second leg elongated. After all, we will need to somehow secure the little man to the cake - this part will go into the thickness.

It is worth noting: If you are confused by the fact that the wire is in contact with the cake, then dip the tip, which will go into the thickness of the dessert, into hot chocolate and let it set.

Now we need to adjust the little man. So we put it on, bending the fastening part. By pressing a little from above, we adjust the tilt.

The frame of a future karateka must be stable without our help.

When the frame is adjusted, you can start wrapping the wire with mastic.

We create colored clothing for the body. And we will put the head in place using a simple wooden toothpick.

Now the almost inspired figurine can take its place on the birthday cake. And the frame of an elongated wire coming out of one leg will perfectly hold the athlete in the dessert.

Thanks to the frame base, with figures in any interpretation of the movement, it will perfectly reach the point of celebration without loss of aesthetic appearance.

Every mother dreams of her child's birthday being the best and most memorable. After all, you really want to see these enthusiastic children's eyes that glow with happiness, joy and pride. I am proud that it was you, the most wonderful mother in the world, who made this fairy tale for your child, and at the end of the celebration you were presented with the best cake, decorated with a figurine of your favorite hero. And since the generation of our children is now exclusively interested in superheroes, we will make one of them - Spider-Man from mastic.

In fact, every mother can do this; working with mastic is not as scary as it might seem at first glance. The most important thing is to have good mastic, and modeling skills were instilled in us all from childhood. For clarity, we offer a master class on modeling from mastic.

Simple recipe

First, make sure that your mastic is of good quality, otherwise it will be very difficult to sculpt suitable parts, or even all the work will be in vain and time will be wasted. Good mastic can be purchased in specialized stores or you can prepare it yourself. The most common mastic is made from marshmallows and marshmallows.

We will need:

• marshmallow marmallow, preferably white - 200 g;
• water, lemon juice or butter - 1 tsp;
• good quality powdered sugar - 500 g;
• food colors (red, blue).

Pour the marshmallows into a heatproof bowl and pour 1 tsp into it. water, lemon juice or butter. Place the bowl in the microwave for 40 seconds until the marshmallows have melted and puffed up. If you don’t have a microwave, it doesn’t matter, you can do all this using a water bath. When your marshmallows have melted and almost doubled in size, you need to carefully add powdered sugar into it, preferably with a wooden spatula or spoon.

According to the recipe, 500 g of powdered sugar is needed, but it all depends on the quality of the powder; it is better to mix in small portions so as not to overdo it.

You should get an elastic mass. In order to check the quality of the mastic, you need to pull it slightly by the edge; if it does not crumble or tear, then you have got what you need. Next, distribute the mastic into the desired parts and add food coloring, kneading to a uniform color. Place the mastic in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and let it rest.

Volumetric hero

Before we start sculpting the figure itself, let's decide what it will be like. For example, it can be voluminous or flat, in a horizontal or vertical position.

To complete the work we will need:

• mastic of 3 colors (white, red, blue);
• powdered sugar;
• black pastry marker.

When you take the mastic out of the refrigerator, you will notice that it has hardened a little, this is how it should be, don’t be alarmed. Take red and blue mastic and knead it a little in your hands until it becomes elastic, like plasticine. To prevent it from sticking, lightly sprinkle your hands or the surface of the table with powdered sugar. We sculpt all the necessary parts, connect them into a figure of the shape you need.

You can draw a black web on a super hero costume using a black pastry marker. Your figure is ready, now you need to place it in the refrigerator until it hardens.

Making a flat figure

In order to make a flat figurine of a super hero step by step, you need to make a template. You can find it on the Internet, print it, or simply draw it and cut it out along the outline.

We apply a template onto a rolled out layer of red mastic and also cut it out along the contour using a knife. In order to transfer the design to the mastic, you need to use a toothpick or pencil.

The base should look like this:

We do all the other components of the drawing in the same way.

No one will dispute that homemade cakes and pastries are tastier and more interesting than store-bought ones.

If you want to prepare some unique dessert for your baby’s holiday, we recommend that you pay attention to the “Spiderman” cake made from mastic. Your cute superhero will undoubtedly appreciate and enjoy this dessert on the holiday table.

So, let’s equip ourselves with aprons and a good mood and start sculpting. A Spider-Man cake made from fondant can be made quite easily and quickly. Yes, and you can, as they say, “play” on the composition of products, showing your imagination, but without fanaticism. You can use almost any filling and filling for the cake. Basically, everything you have in the house.

Let's sort it out main ingredients for cooking and modeling.

• Marshmallow - one hundred grams.
• Powdered sugar - two cups of 250 grams each.
• Butter - one small spoon.

Products that will be needed to create a biscuit.

• Two huge (250 grams each) glasses of flour.
• One and a half glasses of high-quality sour cream.
• One mug with sugar.
• Six eggs.
• Vanillin or sugar with vanilla (you can use any).

To create the cream you will need:

• Sour cream – 1.5 cups.
• Half a glass of granulated sugar.
• Vanilla sugar or vanillin.

Gallery: Spider-Man made of mastic (25 photos)

Let's start preparing the biscuit base

In order to make a Spider-Man cake from mastic, in addition to the final ingredient, you will also need to create a fluffy sponge cake. This will be the base of our cake. All ingredients will need to be combined together. Add sour cream at the final stage of cooking. It is necessary and possible to mix the ingredients for the dough using either a whisk or a good kitchen mixer.

Once we have a homogeneous mass, pour it into a pre-made mold. The oven should warm up to a full 200 degrees. Let the biscuit base bake for forty minutes. Don't forget that when you make a sponge cake, It is prohibited to open the oven and inspect the state of cooking. Control is carried out only through glass or a display that shows temperature fluctuations in the oven.

Let the biscuit base cool a little and cut it into 3 parts. If the biscuit is not very voluminous, then it can be divided into two parts. Coat each part with prepared sour cream.

How to prepare sour cream, master class

Creating the cream for the Spider-Man cake from mastic is very short and simple. Take sour cream, put it in a deep bowl, add granulated sugar or powdered sugar and beat everything until white. At the final stage, add vanillin.

Lubricate each cake with cream and wrap the cake in cling film so that it soaks faster and more properly.

Making mastic in the microwave, master class

Before buying marshmallows, you should choose what color we will decorate the Spider-Man cake. You can create the main background from red mastic, make houses from blue mastic, and make cobwebs from white mastic. But here, as your imagination will tell you. There are a lot of options.

So, let's create mastic. Let's take a large bowl and pour our marshmallows into it. Remember that the bowl should be completely dry. Add simple butter to it. Select medium mode on the microwave and place the plate for 20 seconds. If you need to play it safe, then set the device to the lowest operating mode. In this case, you will be able to control the entire process. Most often, the process takes only two minutes.

Take out the bowl and immediately add powdered sugar to it. Let's not rush to mix the mastic with our hands. It will be very hot after heating. First we will work with a spoon, and only then will we use our hands. According to our recipe, the mastic will be quite elastic and soft. With it you can create a variety of cake themes. And it will live in our refrigerator for about three days, which is a huge plus if you don’t want to cook with it right away.

"Spider-Man"

Now the most important thing remains - assembling the Spider-Man cake from fondant. To make the desired drawing clear, we will use stencil. You can create it from plain paper, on which your idea of ​​cake design will be depicted. Roll out a sheet of mastic. From paper, using a plastic culinary knife with a blunt end, you can transfer the image onto a sheet of mastic.

If you want to create figures, you should first do a couple of workouts. Also, the outlines of houses will go perfectly with this cake. They can be placed on the sides of the cake. And put a Spider-Man figurine on top. You can sculpt and bake different figures, mostly popular superheroes or cartoon characters. Don’t be afraid to start working, if you read the master class carefully, then everything will work out. Modeling is not a complicated process, but a very exciting one.