There is very little left until the most long-awaited and beloved holiday of the Resurrection of Christ! Have you already baked Easter cakes? If not, I recommend that you take a look at one of the following recipes:
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And when you decide on the recipe, you can think about decorating Easter cakes with your own hands! I selected several options that I liked. And now I want to present them to your attention! 😉
The icing doesn't have to be white at all. Look how delicious the yellow color looks! And on top - Easter gingerbread!
And then there's the glazed gingerbread. And how delicately pink paper looks, matched to the decorations!
And another gingerbread option - birds, eggs, bunnies - ideal shapes for Easter baking and decorations. And here there are also milipus bezeks. I also liked the design with burlap and ribbon.
However, you can use any cream and depict flowers! Remember the “Korzinochka” cakes from the 90s? That's right, this decor reminds them exactly, doesn't it?
Flowers for decorating Easter cakes can also be made from mastic. Or buy ready-made ones. And if you don’t like mastic (like me), then you can look at wafer flowers - they are also edible, although their taste is usually inferior to their appearance.
If you love and know how to draw, then there is no problem at all! Look how beautiful it is! You can even make it with just melted chocolate.
And here, in general, are entire artistic creations!
Well, and on the theme of domes, there is also this decoration of Easter cakes - photo:
And here is another Easter cake, on which the protein glaze does not just lie on top, but plays the role of paint - the whole Easter cake is painted with it! Openwork!
By the way, on the topic of drawing - willow branches will look very solemn! I really liked this design. In my opinion, the perfect combination of colors and nothing extra...
Another option, brighter due to colored sugar sprinkles:
You can remember your childhood favorite dragee “Skittles” or “m&m’s”. Decorate with them in a chaotic or orderly manner. One year I applied them to “XB” Easter cakes.
And if we’ve already started talking about colored jelly beans, there’s no way to get around Easter in the form of dyes. If they are difficult to find in supermarkets, you can try using chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered raisins, etc. as an alternative.
Drop eggs can be laid out in different ways. For example, for chocolate chips:
Or for cream:
You can place this dragee on top of the icing with traditional Easter sprinkles:
How to decorate Easter cakes - a photo of incredible beauty, it seems to me! Here is the “draping” of the entire Easter cake - stylization as a nest. And a cut out Easter cake center with placed dragee eggs. A bird completes the look!
In combination with dragees, you can also use Merci chocolates or small thin chocolate bars, suitable-sized candies or waffles/wafer rolls. Place them around the cake and secure with tape.
And marshmallow?! This beauty can be made by first covering the cake with cream, which in this case will act as glue.
You can make a real assortment of cakes on the top of the cake - marshmallows / meringues, candied fruits / marmalades, nuts, etc.
I really liked this design - strict and festive! Again, marshmallows, nuts and... chopped chocolate bars. These cuts look very appetizing, IMHO!
Nuts also go well with other decor - chocolate icing, Easter gingerbread, and sugar figured decorations.
And look how original the Easter Easter cake decoration looks with pistachio cream and the nuts themselves! I really like the idea of coating the sides of the cake and this decor on top!
You can also add inedible elements to the decor. Although, personally, I really liked not the bird in this photo, but the beautifully applied one.
And one more idea on the theme of assorted dishes. Take a closer look! There are so many nuts and dried fruits here!
Or you can make the design more formal, but festive - for example, using candied citrus and almond flakes.
The idea of decorating Easter cakes with egg white glaze and berries. You can use fresh (nowadays you can get them in April) or frozen. But in the latter case, be careful. If the berries defrost, juice may leak. Therefore, it is better to lay out just before serving and more for decoration. However, you can replace them with gummies that imitate berries. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top - a la snow))
And also, in my opinion, we completely forgot about decorating Easter cakes from the dough itself! After all, this way you can decorate not only pies and loaves.
You can bake the dough decorations separately and then place them on top of hot icing or heated jam.
Another great idea is to cover the sides of the cake with white icing or cream, and the top with chocolate with streaks. And beautifully place the favorite Oreo cookies on top.
Well, in the end, even ordinary cream can decorate Easter cakes in a very original and festive way! All you need is a pastry syringe with attachments. Look how beautiful it is! The lace also adds a special “zest”:
I hope that my selection of ideas for decorating Easter cakes with your own hands with photos was useful to you! Keep it for yourself and experiment! 😉
Which ideas did you like best?
For Easter, you can prepare Easter cakes with a variety of decoration options. You can make beautiful and unusual holiday baking even using the simplest products, such as powdered sugar or egg whites.
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Easter is one of the largest and most revered Orthodox holidays, which everyone looks forward to with great impatience. This is where the bright and long-awaited spring begins, so people prepare especially carefully for Easter: they do general cleaning, decorate the house, paint Easter eggs, prepare a variety of dishes and bake Easter cakes.
Easter cake is undoubtedly the central decoration and element of the holiday table. Housewives begin preparing it on Thursday, since the process of obtaining the perfect Easter cake is quite lengthy and complex. It’s not enough to prepare the Easter cake; it still needs to be decorated. The traditional decoration of Easter cakes is protein icing and regular store-bought sprinkles. However, today there are a lot of original ideas for decorating the main Easter dish that you can experiment with and improve.
In this article we will look at photos of Easter cake decorations, and also talk about the most original ideas that can be used when decorating Easter cakes.
Features of decorating Easter cakes for Easter
Before Easter, store shelves display a huge number of different Easter cakes with all kinds of fillings and interesting decorations. But it’s much more interesting to bake Easter cakes at home and come up with original decorations with your own hands. Every family, every housewife has in its arsenal many techniques for decorating Easter cakes, which are repeated year after year and become a tradition. Today on the Internet you can find simply a huge number of ideas for coloring Easter baked goods using a variety of elements. The main thing is to have the desire to come up with something new and add a little imagination. As a result, you can get an original and very interesting Easter cake for the holiday table.
Features of decorating Easter cakes:
- First of all, Easter cakes have a recognizable shape: tall and round cakes, the sizes of which can vary from small to large.
- Easter cakes are decorated with the upper part, the so-called cap.
- An important element in decorating the Easter cake is the presence of two letters “ХВ”, which means “Christ is Risen” and symbolizes the bright birth of a new life and embodies the whole essence of the holiday.
- These letters can be baked from dough, drawn with egg white icing, fondant, or sugar markers.
- Modern Easter cake decorations can be the most unusual and extraordinary. This is facilitated by a huge number of different tasty elements in confectionery departments and many master classes on the Internet.
- You can make decorations for Easter cakes with your own hands, but, as an option, you can also purchase ready-made sprinkles, figures and felt-tip pens.
- Decorating Easter cakes is the final stage in preparation for the big holiday. In this process, you can bring out all your creativity, making the original decoration of baked goods the hallmark of your holiday cakes.
Decorating Easter cakes with dough figures
The option of decorating Easter cakes from dough is perhaps the simplest and most convenient way to decorate holiday Easter cakes. They can be prepared at the same time as you are baking Easter cakes. Absolutely any dough that can hold its shape is suitable for making decor. Alternatively, you can leave some of the dough and make the decorations at the same time as the cakes.
Dough decorations can be very different: figures of leaves, flowers, chickens, Easter eggs. You can cut them out using regular cookie cutters or using improvised materials. You can easily make beautiful braids from the strips and place them along the edge of the cake.
Such decorations can be made in two ways. The most popular is preparing decorations and placing them on a raw Easter cake. Before placing these cakes in the oven, brush the cake along with the decoration with beaten egg. Regarding the second option, decorations can be baked after preparing the cake. In this case, the dough can be tinted with dyes. Such decorations are glued onto the finished Easter cake using whipped egg white. Additionally, these cakes can be poured with sugar syrup for shine and some nuts and dried fruits can be added, as well as various toppings.
Decorating Easter cakes with powdered sugar
You can decorate Easter cakes very simply and quickly using regular powdered sugar. A pattern made from powdered sugar will look very original on the golden brown crust of the Easter cake. In this case, you can use various napkins and other lace. Just attach the lace to the Easter cake and sprinkle powder on top, then remove it - you will get a beautiful and neat pattern.
Advantages of this method:
- Economical. Powdered sugar is a fairly cheap product that can be purchased at any store.
- Rapidity. With the help of powdered sugar, decorations are made very quickly and will not require much of your time.
- Powdered sugar can be combined with cocoa or grated chocolate to form interesting patterns. On the one hand, the simplicity of decoration, and on the other hand, grace and tenderness will make your Easter cakes unique.
- To make interesting patterns from powdered sugar, you can use purchased or homemade stencils depicting a church, Easter eggs, a rabbit and other attributes of this holiday. Such stencils can be cut from plain paper or cardboard.
Decorating Easter cakes with protein glaze
Protein glaze is the most traditional and popular way to decorate Easter cakes with your own hands. Easter baked goods look very beautiful with a voluminous protein cap, especially if small streams flow down the sides of the cake.
- To prepare the white glaze, you need to take two eggs and separate the whites from the yolks.
- In order for the whites to beat well, you can keep them in the refrigerator for some time.
- After this, beat the whites with a little lemon juice or a pinch of salt until peaks form.
- Next, add half a cup of sugar or powdered sugar and continue whisking until the mixture thickens.
- After this, immediately cover the cakes you have prepared with a thick protein cap.
- In addition to icing, you can use a variety of confectionery toppings in this version, which are sold in any store, especially on the eve of the holiday. You need to sprinkle it immediately and then let the decoration harden. This takes approximately 15-20 minutes. In addition to sprinkles, you can use marmalade, nuts or fruits.
Advantages of glaze decoration:
- Ease of execution. Beating egg whites and sugar is quite simple; even an inexperienced cook can handle it. For whipping, you can use either a mixer or a regular whisk.
- Economical. To decorate Easter cakes this way you don’t need a lot of products.
- You can use various dyes to create brighter and more unusual jewelry. In addition to food colors, there are natural ones, for example, beet juice or red grapes. Using glaze of different colors you can create the most incredible and interesting designs.
Easter cake decoration with protein painting
A very original idea for decorating Easter cakes using egg white painting. Using protein glaze of different colors, you can create beautiful Easter-themed designs on Easter cakes: churches, flowers, flowering trees, Easter eggs and others.
To create a protein painting you need to do the following:
- Make a white glaze to cover the cakes.
- Next, while the glaze has not cooled, you need to make a painting.
- To do this, colored glaze is created using food coloring.
- Place small drops onto the white cap and form a pattern using a brush or toothpick. This is how simple patterns, various leaves or petals are formed.
- More complex patterns require a brush and a lot of experience.
Easter cake decoration with chocolate glaze
Chocolate decoration is a win-win option. For this you can use dark chocolate, milk or white.
- To begin, melt a few chocolate bars in a water bath, while constantly stirring the heated chocolate mass.
- You can add a little cream to the chocolate to regulate its thickness.
- If you are using white chocolate, you can add a variety of food colors to it. If there are none, you can replace them with turmeric, beet juice or other natural dyes.
- After preparing the chocolate icing, it is immediately applied to the cakes.
- Additionally, you can use various sprinkles, marmalade, mastic or dragee candies for decoration.
- To make the decoration more original, you can use two types of chocolate. On the white side you can make patterns with dark chocolate using a pastry bag. Make white patterns in the same way.
- Chocolate glaze can be made from cocoa, which will be much cheaper. For this glaze, in a small bowl, mix 5 tbsp. cocoa with 0.5 cups of sugar. Carefully pour in 6 tbsp. milk, stirring the mixture constantly so that no lumps form. Then place this mixture on low heat. Stir while heating to prevent the mixture from burning. When the milk boils, add half a stick of butter, about 100 grams. Mix everything thoroughly, at the end you can add 12 tbsp. flour to obtain a thicker consistency.
Various sprinkles for decorating Easter cakes
A couple of weeks before Easter, a huge number of products appear on sale that are necessary for preparing holiday dishes, including baking Easter cakes. The most popular are confectionery sprinkles, sugar beads, jelly balls, marmalade figures and other decorative elements for Easter cakes. You can buy decorations for Easter cakes in almost any store. Most often, sprinkles are used together with egg white icing or fondant. First, protein glaze is applied to the cake, you need to wait a couple of minutes, and then sprinkle your baked goods with multi-colored sprinkles.
Such decorative elements can be very different:
- Sprinkles in the form of plain or multi-colored balls.
- Striped sprinkles.
- Figured sprinkles in the form of stars, circles, squares, flowers, hearts. They can also be plain or colored.
- Sugar beads that resemble pearls are very popular. They look original in combination with sugar figures or with mastic as a decoration for Easter cakes.
- Jelly balls. They can also be used to decorate Easter cakes. They can have a variety of sizes and colors.
- Marmalade figures. Such Easter-themed decorative elements include figurines of chickens, Easter eggs, rabbits, and the letters “XB”.
- All of the above sprinkles can be combined and create interesting designs and patterns on Easter cakes. For example, using sprinkles of the same shape and different colors, you can draw stripes on an Easter cake or other shapes through a stencil.
Decorating Easter cakes with sugar pencils
If you want to make your Easter cakes real masterpieces, you can purchase sugar pencils. Such sets are sold in the confectionery departments of stores. They can be completely different colors. For example, sugar pencils from the manufacturer Dr. Oetker can be found on store shelves, 4 pieces per package: 1 package - white, green, red, yellow; 2 packs - milk, chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, caramel.
Prepare your Easter cakes, cover them with protein glaze and you can start applying interesting and unusual designs that relate to the Easter theme. Using sugar pencils in several colors, you can draw pictures of a church, chickens, colorful Easter eggs, flowers, and blooming trees.
If you couldn’t find similar sugar sticks in the store, you can easily prepare such a mixture at home from simple ingredients. To do this, you need to prepare a lemon-sugar glaze. Squeeze 2-3 tbsp from one whole lemon. juice and beat thoroughly with 100 grams of powdered sugar. If desired, you can add food coloring to obtain a brighter pattern. Then place this sugar mixture in a pastry bag and begin decorating the Easter cakes.
Decorating Easter cakes with fruits, nuts, candied fruits or waffle figures
All Easter cakes can be easily and quickly decorated with various nuts or candied fruits. Sprinkle chopped nuts randomly onto the white-coated cake top and place a couple of caramelized cherries or orange slices. You can decorate Easter cakes very beautifully using waffle figures. They can be purchased in stores. Figures of bright waffle flowers on a snow-white background of protein glaze will look original.
Decorating Easter cakes with mastic
Modern Easter cake decorations include sugar mastic. This is a unique decor with the help of which ordinary baked goods are turned into a work of art. Most often, mastic is used to decorate cakes and cupcakes, however, Easter cakes with similar decorative elements look great.
There are several options for preparing mastic, some of them are quite easy to prepare at home, while others can be tried with a little experience.
- Marshmallow sugar paste. Take a small package of chewing marshmallows or marshmallows and 400 grams of powdered sugar. First, lightly melt the marshmallows in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds. After this, add powdered sugar little by little and mix thoroughly. You can replace half the powdered sugar with starch and add a little lemon juice or acid. Let the mastic rest for a while. To get decorations of a wide variety of colors, add a couple of drops of water and food coloring to the pieces of mastic. Mix everything well to obtain a uniform color.
- Gelatin mastic. First, soak the gelatin packet until it swells. Combine the swollen gelatin with powdered sugar and mix everything well. To get different colored mastic, add food coloring.
- Mastic made from ordinary marshmallows. Take 200 grams of regular white marshmallows and combine it with 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Microwave for 15-20 seconds to soften the marshmallows. After this, add 1 tbsp. soft butter, mix everything well. Then start adding powdered sugar (approximately 350-400 grams) until the mass becomes plastic and soft. To obtain a more pliable mastic, you can add a little cream thickener to the resulting mass.
Original ideas for decorating Easter cakes
Option 1. Decorating Easter cake with berries
For this type of decoration, first coat the cake with egg white glaze. Then use chocolate glaze to draw triangles or other patterns on baking paper and place in the cold to harden. Place a couple of multi-colored cherries and a piece of chocolate on the center of the Easter cake. You can add some colorful sprinkles and use a sugar pencil to draw two letters “XB”. This cake looks very fresh and unusual.
Option 2. Decorating the Easter cake with egg white glaze and mastic
Pour the egg white glaze over the Easter cakes and let them harden a little. Top with sprinkles of any shape or color. To decorate the Easter cake, prepare figures of Easter eggs from sugar mastic. For mastic, buy chewing marshmallows and mix it with powdered sugar. Divide into several pieces and add different food colors. Form Easter eggs from mastic and place them in the center of the Easter cake.
Option 3. Decorating meringue Easter cakes
To get such a delicate and elegant Easter cake, you will need to first prepare the meringue, which is the main element of this decor. Separate the two whites and pre-chill them in the refrigerator. Then beat them together with 100 grams of powdered sugar, add a little lemon juice. Whisk everything until it forms a strong foam. Line a baking tray with baking paper and pipe the meringue onto it using a pastry bag. Bake at 100 degrees for 1.5 hours. Let the meringue cool. Grease the Easter cake with egg white glaze and decorate it with meringue.
Master class on decorating Easter cakes - video
- Several ideas for decorating Easter cake.
- Easter cake with mastic flowers.
Easter is a very bright and joyful holiday, for which all families prepare long and carefully. The most important preparation for the holiday is baking and decorating Easter cakes. With the help of unusual and original decoration you can create real masterpieces.
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!
Easter is a great holiday of Orthodox Christians. On this day, traditional dishes are Easter cakes and colored eggs. Each housewife has her own recipe for baking, as well as a way to decorate it. You can use glaze prepared using different methods, decorative elements that can be edible or inedible. In addition, every year women come up with new ways using modern cooking techniques, as well as their skills.
Icing for Easter cakes
The traditional decoration of Easter cakes is white icing, which is made using proteins and sugar. But increasingly, new ways to decorate Easter baked goods are appearing, which differ in the necessary ingredients, preparation, color, and taste.
Icing
This fondant is most popular for decorating desserts for Easter.
To prepare it you will need:
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;
- boiled water – 4 tbsp;
- dye - to taste.
Mix all ingredients thoroughly and heat to approximately 40 degrees.
Attention!
If the final product turns out to be liquid, then you can add more sugar or powder, and if it is thick, then water or milk.
To make the glaze taste more rich, you can add a little lemon juice. This sweet coating is applied immediately after preparation.
Sugar-protein cream for Easter cakes
This type of fudge is also known among housewives. It can also be used to decorate a cake.
Ingredients:
- protein – 1 pc.;
- lemon juice – 1-2 tsp;
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;
- vanilla - to taste.
It is important to ensure that the eggs are of good quality. This will allow you to prepare the glaze quickly, while it will be safe for health.
Preparation
- Separate the cooled white from the yolk. You need to make sure that not a single yellow drop gets into the container - otherwise the fudge will not thicken.
- Beat with a mixer until foam forms.
- Continuing to beat, add powdered sugar in a thin stream.
- Pour lemon juice into the powder-protein mixture.
As soon as the cream begins to thicken, stop mixing the products and apply it immediately. Otherwise it will harden quickly. The Easter cake, pre-cooled, must be dipped into the fondant and then carefully removed so that it does not spread.
“Toffee” glaze without gelatin and eggs
No mixer or egg is needed to make this sweet topping.
You will need:
- hard toffee – 200 gr.;
- butter – 50 gr.;
- milk or cream – 65 ml;
- powdered sugar – 1-2 tbsp.
Attention!
Some housewives use powdered milk, but this should not be done - the fudge will not have the required consistency.
Cooking rules
- Heat the milk in a water bath.
- Add powdered sugar in small portions.
- Stir constantly to prevent burning.
- The toffee should be poured into the resulting mass and stirred until completely dissolved.
Once the glaze is ready, coat the cakes with a silicone brush.
Protein-free glaze
Sometimes it happens that you need to prepare decorations for Easter baking, but there are no eggs at home. There is no need to run to the store because you can make fudge without this product.
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;
- milk – 4 tbsp.
Cooking steps
- Heat the milk.
- Gently add powdered sugar into it.
- Cook until thickened over low heat.
You can color the glaze a little, but use only natural dyes. Berry or fruit juice is suitable for this.
Marshmallow fudge
Not all people can tolerate egg white due to allergies. In this case, you can use confectionery marshmallows - marshmallows - to decorate the Easter cake. This ingredient comes in different shapes and colors, the choice of which depends on what kind of icing you want: white, pink or multi-colored.
Components:
- marshmallow – 100 gr.;
- butter – 1 tbsp;
- lemon juice – 1 tbsp;
- powdered sugar – 100g.
Attention!
It will take no more than 20 minutes for the glaze to harden.
How to cook
- Place a container with marshmallows, butter, and lemon juice in a water bath.
- Stir constantly so that the resulting mass does not burn or stick to the walls of the container.
- Gently add powder into the mixture and mix thoroughly.
To decorate a traditional dish for Easter, simply coat the top. If the cream has thickened, you can melt it again in a water bath by adding a little water or lemon juice. Then continue decorating. The glaze prepared in this way does not crumble.
With gelatin and sugar
The prepared coating according to this recipe hardens quickly, so decorations should be attached to it immediately. But if you cook it correctly, it will not crumble.
For the gelatin glaze you will need:
- sugar – 200 gr.;
- gelatin – 1 tsp;
- water – 6 tbsp;
- lemon juice – 3-4 drops.
In order for the fudge to turn out correctly, you must:
- Pour 2 tbsp gelatin. warm water.
- Leave for 10 minutes until swelling.
- Add sugar and remaining liquid to the container and place on low heat.
- The syrup must be stirred constantly.
- Let cool for 5 minutes, add the remaining gelatin, quickly mix everything with a mixer until the mass turns white and triples in size.
- Continuing to beat, add lemon juice.
You need to coat the cakes quickly.
Lemon glaze for Easter cake
Fans of sour citrus can prepare lemon cream.
To do this you need:
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;
- egg whites – 1 pc.;
- lemon zest;
- lemon juice – 2-3 drops;
- yellow dye - to taste.
Preparation
- Sift the powder.
- Add protein to it, beat well until foam appears.
- Add lemon zest and juice to the resulting mixture.
- Beat thoroughly. Add dye and mix again.
Decorate the cakes and let them harden.
Chocolate glaze
You can use chocolate fondant to decorate Easter baked goods.
To do this you should prepare:
- drinking water – 5 tbsp;
- granulated sugar – 3 tbsp;
- cocoa powder – 1 tbsp;
- citric acid - a pinch.
Attention!
Instead of cocoa, you can use a chocolate bar, but not porous. Otherwise, the mass will turn out to be heterogeneous.
Cooking steps
- Mix sugar, citric acid, and water in a container. Mix thoroughly.
- Cook over low heat until thickened.
- After the sugar has dissolved, carefully add cocoa.
- Cook the chocolate mixture for a few minutes, then remove from heat and let sit for a few minutes.
Apply to the cake in an even, even layer.
Decorations made from edible elements
You can get beautiful baked goods if you spend time decorating and use your imagination. You can decorate with various edible ingredients that will also be useful.
Easter cake decor from dough
You can decorate the Easter dish with dough, which is used for baking. To do this, you can make braids, letters, flowers, leaves, etc. To make the dough bright, you can add dyes to it.
The decoration will be beautiful after baking if:
- leave the cake to rise;
- cut out the figures, attach them to the top using protein;
- grease the decor with oil;
- Pour syrup over the finished dish.
It is allowed to bake the figures separately from the entire Easter dessert.
Decorating Easter cakes with mastic
You can make beautiful and bright decorative elements from mastic. It is similar to plasticine, so you can create anything from it. To prepare this ingredient you will need:
- powdered milk – 160 gr.;
- powdered sugar – 160 gr.;
- condensed milk – 200 gr.;
- lemon juice – 2 tsp.
Preparation
- Mix dry milk with powder and sift.
- Add condensed milk and lemon juice to the resulting dry mixture.
- Stir until smooth and put into a bag.
To add color, you can paint it with gel-based dyes. Used to create figures or cover the top of Easter cakes.
Traditional decorations
The most common way to decorate Easter baked goods is to place the letters “X” and “B” on the top, which means “Christ is Risen!” This is how people greet each other when they meet on the bright Resurrection of the Lord.
To apply the inscription, you can use mastic, nuts, candied fruits, dried fruits, honey, sugar, and special sprinkles. In addition, it is permissible to use food coloring to create a bright pattern. This activity can be entrusted to children who like to draw and decorate.
Decorating Easter cake with inedible decor
You can serve beautifully baked goods for Easter if you use inedible decorations. For example, ribbons, special paper, lace and figures. To serve the Easter cake effectively, you need:
- tie with a regular ribbon or with openwork embroidery. At the same time, you can also attach a flower to the ribbon, preferably a live one;
- wrap it in special brightly colored paper;
- bring the baked goods on a knitted napkin, always white. You can use special towels with a themed pattern. If you prefer plates, then it should be white or a color that matches the decoration or eggs.
Attention!
The main thing is not to overdo it with the decor, otherwise the cake will look ridiculous. If you want to use different decorations, it is better to divide them into several dishes.
You can also use beads or simply leave the dish in the paper pan it was baked in. When cut, it will act as a fried crust.
New ideas for decorating Easter cake
New and interesting ways are increasingly being used to decorate Easter baked goods. For example, you can use:
- Meringues - for this you need to prepare a strong meringue and dip the hot cake into it. Let the white cap dry and then bake. Roses and other decorations applied with a piping bag are also acceptable.
- Lace border and chocolate figures - this type of decor is applied using a bag of chocolate, in which small holes are first made. Let cool. You can also coat the cake with honey, wrap it in film with chocolate lace, slightly pressing it to the sides of the baked goods. Place in the refrigerator to harden, then remove the film.
- Caramel – place a stencil on the top of the Easter dessert, and then apply warm caramel with a silicone brush. The sample inscription or design must be removed after the decoration has completely dried.
- Coconut flakes - white or colored ingredients can be used. Just sprinkle it on top of the glaze.
There are also many options for decoration. It all depends only on the desire of the hostess and her free time. Moreover, you don’t have to make any special efforts, and everyone will like the result.
Decorating Easter cakes is no less important than preparing them. Beautiful Easter cakes are needed both for going to church for consecration, and for delicious Easter gifts for family and friends, and simply for creating a festive mood for Easter. Of course, for all these purposes you can buy ready-made Easter cakes, but it is much more pleasant and interesting to prepare and decorate them with your own hands. Children will especially love this activity! The Culinary Eden website has collected the brightest, freshest, simplest and most original ideas for decorating Easter cakes for Easter - take your pick!
Protein glaze for Easter cakes
A fluffy snow-white hat on Easter cakes is made from protein glaze. Because of its beautiful appearance, this thick glaze is called royal icing. It’s not difficult to prepare, you just need to find fresh eggs and practice beating the whites. Royal white icing looks stylish both on its own and with multi-colored confectionery toppings, pieces of candied fruits and dried fruits.
Protein glaze recipe
Ingredients:
3 squirrels,
1 tsp lemon or orange juice,
300 g powdered sugar.
Preparation:
In a dry, clean bowl, lightly beat the egg whites with the juice. Add the powdered sugar little by little and continue beating at high speed until smooth and fluffy, able to form stiff, sharp peaks. Spread the glaze over the hot cakes and let them cool overnight. To speed up the hardening of the glaze, the cakes can be slightly dried in the oven over low heat.
It is easy to attach voluminous decorations in the form of flowers or colored eggs made of marzipan or mastic on the white glaze.
Using tweezers and a steady hand, you can make intricate patterns or the letters XB from candied and dried fruits onto the protein glaze.
An original idea for gifts is to decorate the cake with fresh strawberries and chocolate chips.
Marshmallows, marshmallows or colored meringues on Easter cake - why not?
You can move away from the usual canons and decorate the Easter cake as if it were a cake: with a composition of macaroons, almond petals, pine seeds, thinly sliced dried fruits and even flowers, for example, lavender and dried roses.
Sugar glaze looks simpler than white glaze, but it is ideal for long-term storage and for those who are wary of raw eggs. It is important to make the sugar icing thick - if it turns out to be too liquid, it will spoil the appearance of the Easter cakes and will not allow decorations to be attached to them. Sugar icing can be made with milk to deepen the color; with orange or lemon juice to give it a pleasant sourness and aroma; Or you can color the icing soft pink or lilac using juice from defrosted berries: cherries, strawberries, blueberries.
Sugar icing recipe
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. liquids - water, milk, berry juice,
100 g powdered sugar.
Preparation:
Mix the sifted powdered sugar with the liquid and mix well. Pour glaze over fresh cakes and leave for several hours.
Melted chocolate icing is a relatively new, but very popular way to decorate Easter cakes. Chocolate icing is easy to prepare; it adheres firmly to the sloping surface of the cake and easily holds decorations in the form of colored sugar sprinkles, candied fruits and dried fruits.
Chocolate frosting recipe
The easiest option is to melt the chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave and pour over the cakes. You can do without chocolate, this glaze will turn out very tender and soft:
Ingredients:
100 g fat sour cream,
50 g butter,
2 tbsp. cocoa powder,
2-3 tbsp. powdered sugar.
Preparation:
Melt the butter with sour cream in a saucepan, pour cocoa and powdered sugar through a sieve, mix well and boil over low heat. Drizzle the slightly cooled glaze over the cakes.
By the way, you can do without decorating the Easter cakes altogether if you sprinkle them with pine nuts, almonds or hazelnuts on top before baking. The nuts will be pressed tightly and beautifully into the dough, and all that remains is to lightly sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar or brush them with apricot jam to make them shine.
Packaging for Easter cakes
It’s worth mentioning separately about the packaging of the Easter cakes - it should also be beautiful. For consecration in church and for decorating the holiday table, wrap the Easter cakes with a wide lace ribbon. You can wrap the bottom of the Easter cakes in thin colored paper, forming it into beautiful folds, and tie it with braid or ribbon in the shape of a green branch. If you bake Easter cakes in special paper molds with drawings, this will be enough.
Decorating Easter cakes for Easter is an interesting and exciting activity!
