I told you how to make Easter cakes and gave recipes with photos. Now I will tell you about the decoration. About how to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands. Perhaps you will like some of my ideas, or something of your own will come to mind based on them. It is clear that here I use mastic almost everywhere, albeit in small quantities (flowers and Easter eggs from it), but Easter eggs can be made from candies, for example, sea pebbles. In general, I will specially post a mastic recipe soon. So that you can make it at home (if you don’t buy it ready-made in confectionery stores).

Easter cake recipes with photos: decoration

Perhaps the simplest and most classic option for decorating Easter cakes is to pour icing on top and sprinkle with confectionery sprinkles.

For the glaze we need:

1 protein,

250 grams of powdered sugar,

You can also add 1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)

Beat the egg whites with powdered sugar and lemon juice or just mix well. You don't need to beat it for long, just enough to mix it, otherwise the glaze will be brittle.

Decorating Easter cakes for Easter: the simplest recipe

1. Let's take Easter cake.

2. Pour a few spoonfuls of glaze over it to let it drip off.

How to decorate Easter cakes in an unusual way with your own hands

And now I’ll show you how to make this Easter cake decorated with ribbon roses. I somehow fell in love with these roses. They are done simply, but the effect is superb.

We will again need icing, mastic of the desired colors and pink dye. The icing could also be left white, it would still be very nice, but I decided to show you how to paint.

1. Making ribbon roses. Roll out a piece of mastic not thinly.

2. Roll it into a snail.

3. Then we pinch off the excess from below, thereby making the lower part of the rose narrower.

4. Cut out as small leaves as possible from green mastic (you can do without them). We draw veins like leaves. If there are no molds for leaves, then you can simply use a knife.

5. Place some of the glaze in a separate mug and add a drop of pink gel coloring.

6. Mix.

7. Cover the cake with glaze.

8. Lay out roses and leaves.

9. Place a little white icing in a pastry bag or bag with a corner cut off and make an inscription.

10. Kulich is ready!

Decorating Easter cakes for Easter: step-by-step photos on how to make an Easter nest

And now I will show you how to make such a decoration for Easter cake.

1. Prepare the glaze as above and paint it any color (as above). I chose light yellow.
2. Make Easter eggs from fondant.

3. Cut thin straws from a dark chocolate bar and make a nest out of them.

One of the most traditional ways to decorate Easter cakes is to decorate them with dough. To decorate the Easter cake, you can use the main dough from which the Easter cake is made, or you can use unleavened dough made specifically for decoration.

To decorate with the main dough, when forming the Easter cakes, you need to set aside a little of the finished dough, add a little more flour to it so that it is easier to form the decorations. When the cake is ready, before putting it in the oven, carefully place the dough decorations on top, attach them with a wooden stick and brush with milk or egg mixed with 1 tbsp. spoon of water and 1 tbsp. spoon of vegetable oil. In the oven, decorations made from such dough will also increase slightly in size, and you need to cover the top in time so that the decorations do not burn. After baking, the wooden sticks must be removed from the cake.

To ensure that dough decorations do not fit in the oven and retain their shape, you can prepare a simple dough of flour, water and salt. The dough should be soft so that you can easily make flowers, leaves, and birds from it. Flowers and leaves made from this dough do not lose their shape, but they are not as tasty as decorations from the main dough. Sugar is not added to this dough to prevent the decorations from burning. Decorations are placed on the greased top of the cake.

Decorating Easter cakes with protein cream

To decorate homemade Easter cakes, you can simply use egg whites whipped with sugar (for 1 egg white, 50 grams of sugar and beat as for meringue). Decorate the hot cakes with meringue on top and place in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 90-100°C.

You can make a full-fledged “wet meringue” protein cream. For this, 2 egg whites, a pinch of citric acid and 60 g. Sugars are whipped into cream in a steam bath. Cooled Easter cakes can be decorated immediately and left for several hours to allow the cream to dry. The cream can be sprinkled with store-bought colored sprinkles on top.

You can decorate the cake with protein cream, and top with nuts and dried fruits. The cake looks original when wrapped in a beautiful napkin or paper with a beautiful ribbon.

Decorating Easter cakes with icing sugar

A very good glaze that hardens well and does not crumble is gelatin-based sugar glaze. We dilute 1 teaspoon of gelatin in a tablespoon of hot (about 70 ° C) water. 2 tbsp. Mix spoons of water with 100 grams of sugar and, stirring, bring to a boil, boil for several minutes until the sugar dissolves. Then remove from heat and mix with diluted gelatin, let cool slightly (5 minutes). Beat with a mixer into a strong snow-white foam. Then we immediately apply it to the cake and immediately decorate it with sprinkles or other decorations, because the glaze hardens quickly.

You can make a simple glaze by mixing 120 gr. powdered sugar and 3 tbsp. spoons of lemon (or orange) juice. The powder and juice must be thoroughly mixed until smooth with a silicone spatula. Apply the glaze to lukewarm cakes. When hardened, the glaze turns white.

You can also decorate Easter cakes with flowers and patterns made from mastic, but to do this you need to learn how to work with it in advance.

Modern culinary technologies and inexhaustible human imagination make it possible to spend a lifetime perfecting the art of decorating Easter cakes.

Easter cake is the main symbol of the Easter holiday and a true decoration of the Easter table. We have collected all the well-known and most interesting options for how you can decorate Easter cakes to make them even tastier and more beautiful.

Easter cake is a symbol of the main spring holiday, and therefore every housewife tries not only to bake the most magnificent and fragrant Easter, but also to decorate it as elegantly as possible. And if earlier the decor of Easter cakes was limited only to sugar or protein glaze and confectionery topping, now there are many more options for how to decorate Easter. Today you can even find a lot of recipes for icing for Easter cakes.

Decorating Easter cakes is like a special form of art, so wide are the housewives in Easter creativity. If you are thinking about how to decorate Easter in an original way, we suggest you familiarize yourself with the most beautiful options for decorating Easter cakes. And yes, it’s not only beautiful, but also incredibly tasty!

Icing for Easter cake: protein or sugar

Protein or sugar glaze is a classic option for decorating Easter cakes. It plays an important role, because it is not only a decoration for Easter baked goods, but also its most delicious part.

And white icing is an excellent basis for further Easter cake decoration. Of course, you can just top the Easter cake with sweet frosting and leave it that way. Or you can decorate the icing itself - the choice is yours.

Easter chocolate decoration

Chocolate icing for Easter eggs or chocolate decorations will give the Easter cake an incredible taste and make it look like a cake. It is better to pour the chocolate glaze onto the cake after it has cooled slightly and leave until the chocolate has completely hardened. Sweet tooths will appreciate it!

Candied fruits and nuts for decorating Easter cake

Candied fruits, nuts and dried fruits are another great option for decorating Easter cakes. To start, cover the cake with icing, fudge or syrup, and top with dried fruits or nuts. This way they will stay on the top of the cake and will not crumble when cutting or transporting.

Confectionery topping for Easter decoration

Another well-known way to decorate Easter cake with your own hands is to sprinkle it with confectionery sprinkles. This decor is not limited to just colorful sprinkles. Now you can find sugar balls, confectionery beads, and edible pearls. Easter cake decorated in this way will become a real decoration of the Easter table.

Easter cake decorations made from mastic

If you know how to work with mastic or marzipan, you can try decorating Easter with figures made from this confectionery material. You can also involve children in this process - they will be happy to help sculpt figures from sweet “plasticine”.

Decorative painting of Easter cakes

Do you have time, inspiration and desire to do something unusual? Stock up on icing or melted chocolate, a pastry bag or brushes, and natural food coloring.

You can also use sugar pencils - these are tubes with colored sugar syrup, which can be used to draw any patterns on Easter cakes. Thematic drawings or inscriptions on top of the Easter cake will look very elegant.

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Many housewives who plan to bake Easter cakes themselves, of course, think about how to beautifully decorate Easter. The editors of “The One and Only” have prepared 10 interesting ideas for you.

To beautifully decorate Easter cake, you will need traditional products: powdered sugar, decorations, dried fruits, flowers and some dyes. It should be immediately noted that there are no special rules on how to decorate Easter. You can completely and completely succumb to inspiration.

Here is a traditional way to decorate Easter. For this you only need powdered sugar.

In the last few years, more and more housewives are decorating Easter with natural flowers. Agree, it looks interesting.

If you are skeptical about natural flowers because they cannot be eaten, pay attention to edible flower decorations for Easter bags.

Another fashionable option for decorating Easter is dried fruits and nuts. The advantage is that this adds beneficial qualities to the cake.

Here's another way to decorate Easter: chocolate chips and orange zest. Looks very original.

If you have children, Easter cakes can be decorated with colored icing and bright decorations. Kids will definitely appreciate it.

And so it is possible.

If you want shine.

You can decorate Easter with bizet in combination with marmalade and small nuts. This combination is sure to please even the most demanding household members.

You can make a real work of art from Easter cakes.