Every person knows about the Easter holiday - the largest in the Orthodox world. For this day, all families prepare holiday cakes and paint eggs. And, if the dough recipe used is approximately the same, then there are many options for decorating Easter cakes. Some are classic, others are original.

Decoration with powdered sugar

This method is common and does not require much time. To complete this option, you only need powdered sugar, which is evenly applied to the top of the holiday baking. This way you save both time and money.

To make the Easter cake original, it is also sprinkled with special sprinkles. These decorations are sold in different shapes and sizes. It is also possible to get an interesting pattern using a stencil or napkin. To complete this, you need to attach the selected stencil to the top of the Easter cake and sprinkle powdered sugar on top. The result will be an interesting and neat pattern.

Decorating Easter cake with protein glaze - recipe

This option is equal to the classic one, because it is popular and used by most housewives. This type of decoration is easy to perform, and the result will definitely please you.

1. Separate egg whites from yolks.
2. Place the whites in the refrigerator for a short time to cool.
3. After removing the whites from the refrigerator, beat them together with lemon juice.
4. Add sugar to the resulting mass and beat further. You should get a thick consistency.
5. In the end, all that remains is to generously water the tops of the cakes.

The drips on the sides will look interesting. To give the product more color, use special sprinkles. Which will look harmonious on the white top.

Painting Easter cakes with protein glaze

This idea is interesting and original.

• protein glaze prepared according to the recipe above;
• food colorings.

1. First prepare the white glaze.
2. Decide what drawings will be made (churches, flowers, Easter eggs, etc.).
3. Distribute the glaze among containers and use dyes to make it different colors.
4. To create a pattern, first the tops are covered with white, and then colored elements are drawn with a brush.

This option will appeal to those who love and know how to draw. However, everyone can draw simple elements.

Lenten glaze

This is one of the variations of Easter cake decoration for Easter. It is no more difficult to make than regular glaze, but there are no eggs among the ingredients, which is why it is considered lean.

1. Pour the ingredients into a deep container.
2. Using a fork or whisk, thoroughly mix the ingredients until smooth.
3. Drizzle the resulting fudge icing over the cakes.

Fruit or berry glaze

For those who like to try new ideas and experiment, you can replace lemon juice with another fruit or berry juice. In this case, you will get an original glaze with an interesting color and taste.

For preparation you will need the following ingredients:

• fruit or berry juice – 6 tbsp. l.;
• powdered sugar – 1 cup.

1. First, place the ingredients in a bowl.
2. Mix the ingredients until the mixture is homogeneous and without lumps.
3. Pour the thickened glaze generously over the tops of the cakes.

Thanks to the use of powdered sugar, the fruit glaze is obtained in delicate shades.

Chocolate glaze

Who doesn't love chocolate? There are probably practically no such people. Therefore, one of the options for decorating Easter cakes would be to prepare chocolate glaze.

To do this you will need the following components:

1. First, let the butter melt.
2. Then add the rest of the ingredients to it, mix and put on low heat. Stir the mixture constantly to prevent it from burning. Bring the consistency until thick, then remove from heat.
3. Pour over the slightly cooled cake mixture.
4. For beauty, you can sprinkle special sprinkles, nuts, marmalade, dragee candies, etc. on top.

Decorating with mastic

Among modern housewives there will certainly be lovers of mastic. With its help you can turn any baked product into a real work of art. Mastic is a great way to decorate Easter baked goods with your own hands.

For preparation you will need:

• marshmallows – 200-250 g;
• food coloring;
• water – 1/4 cup;
• powdered sugar – 400 g.

The cooking algorithm is as follows:

1. Place marshmallows in a container and place in a water bath. When the chewy marshmallows begin to expand and stick when touched, add powdered sugar little by little and stir constantly.
2. To make the mastic figures colorful, add a little water and dye.
3. Sculpt figures yourself or using molds.

There are other options for making mastic, for example, using simple marshmallows.

In this case, the following ingredients are needed:

• powdered sugar – 400 g;
• marshmallows – 200 g;
• butter – 100 g;
• lemon juice – 2 tbsp. l.

1. Place marshmallows in a bowl and add lemon juice to it. Place in a water bath and wait until the marshmallows melt, stir.
2. Add butter to the contents of the bowl and mix with marshmallow mixture.
3. Add powdered sugar little by little, stirring constantly.
4. The resulting mass should be soft and not stick to your hands. When it is ready, you can start sculpting the figures.

Decorating with edible elements

Classically designed holiday items can be complemented with various elements. There are quite a lot of them. Here are the main ones:

• Special sprinkles: multi-colored balls, sticks, flowers, stars, etc.
• Jelly fruits or balls look original and sophisticated, and can also be combined with other decorative elements.
• Pieces of fruit will be appropriate both on the top of the product and in the dough.
• Marmalade and candied fruits will be an original and tasty addition to holiday baking.
• Sugar pencil. With the help of such a device, real masterpieces are created in baking. Candy stores sell different colors, so it becomes possible to create an interesting Easter-themed design.
• Sugar pearls. This edible decoration will look original in combination with other decorative elements, such as mastic.
• Waffle figures are also an interesting way to decorate. Wafer flowers will look bright on the white top of holiday baking.

When preparing for Easter, use your imagination when choosing a way to decorate the main attribute - Easter cake. The following recipes will help you decide. It's up to you to decide which one to choose: classic or more complicated. Everyone will be able to choose a suitable recipe that suits their tastes, mood and budget.

It just so happens that I write most on the site on the eve of Easter. Perhaps this is explained by a breath of freedom after the winter-spring rush jobs. Perhaps inspiration thaws with nature. But you don’t have time to talk about everything right away, the topic is postponed, after the holiday it is postponed due to irrelevance, and then it is completely forgotten. Until next year. About beautifully decorating Easter cakes with your own hands - just from this opera. Last year I wanted to make a selection of ideas for you. But it seemed more important to post the recipes. Perhaps it's for the better. Master pastry chefs do not stand still. My collection of ideas has expanded significantly. And today I will finally show it to you!

Let's start with the simplest options available to any housewife/host with any level of culinary training. The ingredients used are the simplest - decor from purchased products.

How to decorate Easter cake at home if you are not a pastry chef :-)

The first thing that comes to anyone’s mind is, of course, glaze. We looked at the different options in detail.

If you beat the whites harder, you can pipe them using a pastry attachment and a bag.

If you don’t have a nozzle, you can spread the glaze textured and burn it with a torch or in the oven. If you use the second option, place the cake higher and watch it burns quickly.

Or you can cover it with a thin layer of glaze, dry it and draw a picture. There is even a special one on sale to make it convenient to work with.

As a rule, one glaze is rarely left. The finishing touch can be added by sprinkling the cake:

Pieces of freeze-dried berries

Dried flowers and herbs

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Coconut flakes

Grated chocolate

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If you don't like sprinkles, use nuts and candied fruits

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Easter cakes decorated with meringue/meringue

Bezes of various shapes and sizes, including those on a stick, can be used as decoration.

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Aerobatics - figured meringue

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The addition of candied fruits looks beautiful

You can use fresh berries as decoration. Unfortunately, the season has not yet begun for Easter, but it is already possible to find strawberries on sale at an affordable price.

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At the height of fashion are Easter cakes decorated with themed gingerbread cookies. You can bake them yourself or.

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Pasta decor is no less popular

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Last year there was a fashion for cakes with geodes. In this - she got to the Easter cakes. Let's stock up and create!

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The molded decor made from mastic moves a little to the side, but does not lose its relevance. Now you can use icing modeling mass as a replacement.

The 2019 trend is Easter cakes with bunny ears. Some people make decor from gingerbread cookies, others use mastic. In order for the sugar paste to keep its shape, it needs to be dried a little.

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If you are planning to decorate a whole composition on the Easter cake, pay attention to molecular moss. It is not difficult to prepare, and perfectly imitates greens.

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If you solve the problem yourself, Mr. will come to the rescue. They are small in size. Unfortunately, they are hard. But despite this, children really like it. In production and bakeries, Easter cakes are often decorated with them for holidays. Beautiful and not too expensive.

One of my favorite options is to use edible lace. You can make it yourself using or and , or .

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Spring! Where would we be without flowers? Whether flowers are made from protein, protein-butter or butter cream. You can also find decoration with bean paste. Flowers from it turn out like real ones!

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 like a big birthday cake! This is the main and long-awaited dessert. And it’s not only about its sweet dough, but also about its festive decoration. Traditional white glaze symbolizes purification and the beginning of a new life. All other decoration options - colored or chocolate fondant, inscriptions, sprinkles - appeared much later and also have the right to exist due to their aesthetic and taste qualities. So let’s get started with all sorts of recipes and decorate Easter cakes for the holiday.

Delicious, simple and quick decoration option

Let's start our acquaintance with culinary delights with the simplest recipes. They will be useful to those who are taking their first steps in the confectionery business, as well as to all housewives who love to whip up delicacies.

Option number 1 - powdered sugar. What could be simpler than decorating a cake with prepared powder or sugar crushed in a coffee grinder? Here, the traditional white color is preserved, and the delicacy will be simply finger-licking!

Option number 2 - whites whipped with sugar. You will need a blender, mixer or whisk. Sugar - half a glass for each protein (usually a couple of pieces are enough). If you baked the cakes yourself, then the yolks were used for the dough, and the remaining whites will be very useful for the glaze. Apply the whipped thick foam to the tops of the Easter cakes and let them dry in the oven. It turned out to be an economical recipe from our grandmothers.

Easy method number 3 - ready-made Easter icing. It can be purchased during the holidays at any grocery supermarket. The contents of the small bag include powdered sugar with additives (starch and citric acid). The starch in the composition is necessary for faster thickening of the mass; a few minutes will be enough.

The recipe is usually written on the package: beat the powder with the egg whites in the indicated proportions and then brush the tops of the cakes with a spoon or pastry brush.

Secrets of making glaze

There are secrets to preparing a glaze that has the perfect consistency and taste. Let’s remember them once and for all, so that we can later be proud of our confectionery masterpieces:

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We use decorative sprinkles

Ready-made confectionery topping is a real miracle for decorating Easter cakes. One nuance is important: when exactly to sprinkle the baked goods with it. You need to catch the moment when the glaze has hardened slightly, but not completely dried. If you add the sprinkles too early into the liquid protein mass, then these colorful particles will simply melt. If it is too late, the sugar decorative elements will not attach to the surface of the cake. Otherwise there are no restrictions.

You can choose sprinkles of any colors and shapes in the store and decorate your baked goods however you like.

To decorate Easter cakes, you can combine different types of decor and create unique combinations of colors and shapes. For even more variety, the sprinkles can be replaced with equally beautiful, tasty and aromatic ingredients, namely:

• coconut flakes;
• shavings of dark, milk and white chocolate;
• candied fruits.

Instead of protein glaze, you can use homemade chocolate or a melted bar. Then use this option for decorating the cake: sprinkle white shavings onto the dark chocolate coating, and vice versa, add dark chocolate onto the white icing.

For lovers of homemade milk chocolate, there is a proven, delicious recipe. You will need the following components:

• 100 g milk;
• 50 g butter;
• 1 tsp. Sahara;
• 4 tbsp. l. cocoa powder

Preparation:

1. Heat the milk on the stove.
2. Place cocoa and sugar in a saucepan with milk.
3. Separately, heat the butter in a water bath and pour it into the milk mixture.
4. Bring the mixture to a boil, then cook for 2-3 minutes over low heat.
5. Immediately apply the prepared chocolate to the baked goods, as it hardens quite quickly.

Sweet letters and inscriptions

To make a sweet congratulatory inscription on an Easter cake, there are several interesting ways.

Original decor ideas

In addition to the popular options discussed, there are many more ways to decorate Easter cake in an original way. Roughly speaking, you can sprinkle everything sweet, small and beautiful onto the icing. For example:

Easter cakes turn out very beautiful if you stick defrosted berries on the icing. A couple of cherries in the center of a round sweet bread - it's cute, bright and delicious!

The pinnacle of confectionery art is a beautiful Easter cake with figures made of sugar mastic or marzipan. You can buy them or make them yourself, like from plasticine. So get the kids involved in creating sweet figurines of bunnies, various flowers, chickens, doves, willow branches, miniature Easter eggs, angels and everything else.

For children, you can prepare mini Easter cakes and use the following decoration methods: draw funny smiling faces, bright stars and wonderful hearts using any confectionery means.

But glue marshmallows or meringues to the largest Easter cake. Raw protein works great as a cooking glue.

The ideas for decorating Easter cakes don’t end there! Options:

Final touches before serving

Now you know almost everything about how to decorate Easter cake. There are still a few culinary and decorative subtleties left.

• To beautifully serve the finished Easter cake, it is tied with one ribbon or several multi-colored, openwork, embroidered ones. Be sure to tie a lush bow, like on a gift. And you can attach a stem with a spring flower, live or artificial, to the ribbon. Place ears of wheat and decorated eggs side by side.
• Special culinary paper for wrapping Easter cakes (painted with floral and other motifs) is also sold.
• Easter baked goods look no less presentable on round white knitted napkins. A towel with an embroidered national ornament is also a good background for Easter dishes. If you like traditional plates, choose a neutral white one or one that matches the color of the decorations on your baked goods.

And the most important thing: Easter cakes should be decorated only in a great mood and with great love for the cooking process and for those people for whom the gifts are baked. Only then will the result be real works of confectionery art, pleasant to look at and taste. Let's use our spiritual strength and rich imagination to make Easter one of the best holidays of the year!

Frosting for Easter cake without eggs - video

Easter cake decoration can be very diverse. They can be covered with protein glaze and multi-colored sprinkles. Also, the top of the Easter cakes can be decorated with dough figures lined with patterns of nuts and candies. You can also prepare mastic and fashion flowers, figures, tiny eggs and crosses out of it. Often, instead of glaze, the cake is poured with chocolate or syrup.

Easter cakes painted

It all depends on your talent - you can create whole pictures, or you can add a few traditional details: willow or lily of the valley branches, apple flowers, simple patterns.

Flower cakes

Now there are a lot of ready-made floral decorations on sale, wafer, sugar and chocolate, but you can try making flowers yourself, for example, from marzipan.

Flowers can even be real: daisies, lilies of the valley, daffodils, violets, willow branches.

Easter cakes with domes

Easter cakes in the shape of churches with domes look very original.

Easter cakes with berries

Baby Easter cakes

Children will definitely like small Easter cakes, and they are also convenient to give to friends and family for Easter.

Attention to detail

Lace, ribbons, bows and various figures will make your Easter cake the most original and unique!

There are several more options for decorating Easter cake.

Making your own powder

In addition to confectionery powder, which is made from solid glaze, multi-colored coconut flakes, colored sugar, semolina and even millet are used as dusting on Easter cakes. You can buy powder not only before Easter, but at any other time. It is stored for a long time, and in a cool, dry place the excess can remain until next year. Making your own powder is also easy. To do this you will need food coloring and a base. At home, semolina is best, but, of course, a sprinkle of sugar will be tastier.

Egg paint gives bright and rich colors. You only need a little bit, so you can use the leftovers. But if vinegar was added to the paint, it will not be suitable for making powder. Semolina or sugar is placed in cold paint for a few seconds and dried on paper. After drying, you can break up large lumps into which cereals and sugar soaked in paint stick together.

Usually colored powder is mixed, or it is already sold in mixed form. But coconut flakes, for example, are packaged in individual colors. You can decorate the Easter cake in an original way by applying the powder in stripes or concentric circles. You can also cut out a stencil with the letters XB and simple patterns and apply powder through the stencil, letters and patterns in one color, and the background in another.

Traditionally it is decorated with the letters “ХВ”. This is an abbreviation for the Easter greeting “Christ is Risen!” The letters can be laid out with pieces of finely chopped fruit, raisins, dried apricots... Candied fruits (usually flat and multi-colored) are also used for inscriptions. And the letters “ХВ” are made from dough. And when the cake is ready, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, and highlight the letters with bright sprinkles (cooking beads, for example), or chocolate.

Glaze. Decorating Easter cakes with icing is a very common way to give them a festive, beautiful look. The glaze is prepared from egg white and sugar (or powdered sugar), which are thoroughly whipped until thick foam.

Icing for Easter cake

Ingredients:
1-2 egg whites,
0.5 cups of powdered sugar,
1 tbsp. spoon of lemon juice.

Preparation
The protein must be chilled. Beat it with a mixer. Start the process at first speed and gradually increase it. You can understand that it is enough to beat by turning the bowl with the egg white upside down - the egg white should not spill out. When the required consistency is achieved, begin to gradually, teaspoon by teaspoon, add powdered sugar sifted through a sieve. Finally, add lemon juice and beat for another 10 seconds. Apply the finished glaze to the hot cakes - then it will fit tightly and is unlikely to crumble. Another way to add additional “strength” to the glaze is to put the cakes in the oven for a minute, heated to 100-120°C.

The icing is a wonderful decoration in itself. However, you can add (sprinkle) nuts, dried fruits, grated chocolate, and multi-colored confectionery beads to it. Again, you can make the letters “XB” from the fruits. Or you can just write these letters with icing. There are many options. Easter cake is a holiday treat, so use your imagination! Often, a yolk is applied to the finished Easter cake to give it an appetizing shine and sprinkled with powdered sugar or brightly colored sprinkles. They mold the dough into a symbol of faith - a cross - and highlight it with icing. Can be used for decoration (already on top of the glaze), for example, waffle flowers, flowers made from culinary mastic.

Sugar culinary mastic for flowers and other decorations

Ingredients:
250 g powdered sugar,
2 tsp gelatin powder,
6 tsp water,
1 tsp glucose.

Preparation
Sift the powdered sugar. Pour it into a bowl. Take another bowl (small) and place the gelatin in it. Sprinkle it with water and let it swell for 2-3 minutes. Then place the bowl of gelatin in a water bath and dissolve it, stirring gently. Immediately after the gelatin has dissolved, pour in the glucose. The resulting liquid should be more or less transparent. Next, make a hole in the powdered sugar and pour a mixture of gelatin and glucose into it. Stir well, using a knife or chopping movements. After this, place the mastic in a plastic bag and the bag in an airtight container. Leave for 3-4 hours at room temperature. After this, you can sculpt flowers and other decorations from mastic.

Here's how to make, for example, roses from mastic. To begin, use food coloring to tint the mastic pink, green, scarlet, yellow and other colors. Leave a little white mastic. Place pieces of colored mastic in a plastic bag to keep it soft and pliable. Use it in small portions.

Make a “carrot” from a small piece of mass and place it on a table or board. After this, roll balls of the same size from the tinted mass - future rose petals. Mash the first ball with a teaspoon on a table dusted with powdered sugar, then use your hands to shape it into a petal. Make the petal thinner on one edge and thicker on the opposite edge. Then lightly moisten the lower part of the petal with water and wrap it around the “carrot”, thereby making the ovary of the flower. Make the next petal from the second ball. Moisten the bottom at the base of the petal again and screw it onto the workpiece so that the middle of the second petal covers the “seam” of the first petal. Glue the third petal and bend it from the middle to the side. So make 5-6 petals.

Let the finished flowers dry for 5-6 hours. The petals should be made as thin as possible towards the edges and thicker at the base! If there is excess glaze on the bottom of the flower, you can trim it off with scissors.

Then you need to prepare the leaves for the flowers. Form “carrots” from 3-4 green balls (can be of different sizes). Using two thumbs, press the middle of the carrot into a leaf shape. Then use a knife in the center of the sheet, and then diagonally, apply veins. The leaf can be given any shape and bent the way you like. Dry it. When the flowers and leaves are ready, they are collected into a bouquet. Apply 2 to 3 leaves to one flower.

The cake should be served on a large plate, on which painted eggs can be placed around the perimeter (we will talk about them later). But there is another option: with fruit. To do this, cover the kiwi with chamomile, and place a mixture of nuts, prunes, fresh berries, and chopped orange slices in the center. On the resulting fruit base, place the cake, decorated in the same style: fresh fruit on top of the glaze.

Easter icing and decorative sprinkles

But they came up with a modern way of decorating Easter cakes, although in reality Easter glaze is the same sugar, only in the form of powder, with the addition of citric acid and starch (for better whipping and thickening). You need to add egg white to the powdered glaze and beat it with a mixer; it whips quickly and hardens better than just whites and sugar.

Apply the glaze to the tops of the cakes with a brush or spoon and wait a couple of minutes. Because if you sprinkle the sprinkles right away, it will get wet and melt.

And after a few minutes, when the glaze on the Easter cakes dries, but does not harden - don’t miss it, the sprinkles will simply fall off from the frozen glaze!) - decorate with multi-colored sugar sprinkles.
And there are so many types of sprinkles - round, and long, and with stars, and in different, different colors! Entrust the work of sprinkling the Easter cakes with sprinkles to the children - they really like this job! True, some of the sprinkles are eaten :)

But look at how else you can elegantly paint Easter cakes using regular glaze and natural dyes!

Candied fruits, sugar beads and sugar figures

You can decorate Easter cakes not with sprinkles, but with multi-colored candied fruits. It looks very beautiful, but candied fruits are large and hard, so it is better not to give them to small children.

Easter eggs decorated with sugar figures made from mastic also look very original and beautiful - for example, these cute chickens. But, to be honest, you can’t chew these figures...

And sugar beads, shiny, gold and silver - although they are very beautiful, I do not recommend taking them for decoration! They are only good to look at, but they taste very hard and absolutely indestructible. And they are even dangerous for children. So let's take it...

Sugar crayons!

Brilliant invention!!! Well done to the pastry chef who invented them! The process of decorating baked goods - Easter cakes, cupcakes, cookies - turns into creativity! You can draw whatever patterns you want, leaves, flowers, put dots - paint the little bead like a paint job! The set includes three pencils of different colors - red, green and yellow. It’s so much fun to decorate Easter cakes with them for the whole family! Give the kids an Easter cake to decorate and let them paint it however they want!

Dough decoration

Two types of dough decorations

Decorations are placed on top of the cake before baking or glued onto an already baked cake using raw egg white. You can make decorations from the same dough from which the Easter cake is made, or from another dough that is less susceptible to deformation during baking. Braids are woven from the dough, flowers are made, letters and crosses are laid out.

If the cake is baked with decorations, the top is brushed with beaten egg or vegetable oil to give it a beautiful appearance. But this is optional. Then, after baking, you can pour sugar syrup over the top of the cake and even apply a fine powder on top of the syrup. Cover the gaps between the decorations with glaze and glue nuts and candied fruits with egg white.

For decorations from butter dough:

• 150 gr. flour,
• 30 gr. margarine,
• 1 tbsp. l. sour cream,
• 20 gr. Sahara,
• 1 egg.

You may be happy that the decorations will have a crispy golden crust and the same color as the rest of the cake. Then the decorations can be made from the same dough from which the Easter cake is made. Well, if you still want them to contrast in color, take another tip: decorations can be made from yeast dough, but not butter dough. Carefully, the prepared decorations are laid out on the already proofed dough, greased with egg slurry, and the cake is sent for baking.

Of course, there is no comrade according to taste and color. I prefer to work with special dough, then the decorations turn out more airy and elegant. The finished decorations are placed on the hot surface of the baked Easter cake. Since they turn out to be very thin compared to decorations made from yeast dough, the decor attached to the Easter cake just needs to be placed in a hot oven for a few minutes to fix and create a light shade.

Simple dough-Flour, salt and water, knead a stiff dough and make decorations.

Cut out different flowers and leaves on the rolled out dough:


For roses, you can use special recesses and assemble them according to the mastic type:


These are the preparations you can make while the cake is rising:

Plungers with which you can make flowers and leaves. If you don't have any, it doesn't matter. A variety of things can be done using scissors. Below is a photo of a lump of unleavened dough. It is kneaded in water with the addition of vegetable oil for elasticity.

These are the decorations I made using plungers.

In this photo, in addition to the roses, I came up with a bunch of grapes. I simply formed small balls from the dough, imitating grapes.

The dough placed in the mold was proofed and rose well. Be sure to brush the top with yolk. Now we can start decorating. Here we turn on our imagination and place the finished decorations on the dough. Now we grease the decorations with protein. On this loaf I made two bunches of grapes.

Yes, the yolk and white add contrast to the base and decorations. When baked, the yolk turns brown, but the white remains light.

Decorate and place in the oven at 160-170 degrees for 45-50 minutes.

I hope you choose a decoration you like to make your Easter cake attractive and delicious!