Sugar mastic at home - it's easy! And also very interesting and exciting for those who like to decorate cakes with their own hands with the help of various products.
Take a small sachet (100-150 g)marshmallow, a tablespoon of butter or margarine, sugar powder (it may be needed up to 350 g, so be stocked) and food colors (preferably liquid). Marshmallow melt, adding oil, in a microwave or in a water bath. This will take no more than twenty seconds in the first case, and in the second few minutes. After the marshmallow swells under the influence of high temperature, start adding powdered sugar, gradually mixing. If you need a multicolored mastic at home (photos show how different it may be in color), then add the dye immediately, dividing the mass into parts.
Roll the mastic into the layer. If you make small figures to decorate cakes, dry them for a day, but do not put it in the fridge. If the mastic at home is ready, how to roll it into a thin uniform layer? Many people think that this laborious operation is only available to experienced confectioners. This is not true. There are two ways that are available to even beginners. The first is the rolling out of the mastic on the starch. The second is between greased sheets of polyethylene. The latter method is also convenient because you can roll the mastic onto a cake on one of the sheets of film. Polyethylene is better to take a thicker, it will not form wrinkles. We will open a little secret that will make it so that the sugar mastic at home glitters after it is applied to the cake: smear its surface with a mixture of honey and vodka. These ingredients should be taken in a 1: 1 ratio.
Honey mastic at home
10 g of gelatin soak in water for swelling. After this, it should be heated in a water bath so that it dissolves, mixed with two tablespoons of margarine and the same amount of honey. Now your task is to add to this mixture half a kilogram of powdered sugar. You need to do this gradually, by mixing the powder with a spatula or spatula. Stir in the thickened mass, laying on the table like a dough. Honey mastic - a kind of sugar. But when working with it, you must follow certain rules. In no case it should not be soft - it will make working with it impossible. It will constantly tear. Therefore, with the addition of powdered sugar, make the consistency of the honey mastic steeper. Please note that the cake cover made of this material does not tolerate humidity. Therefore, use recipes that allow you to bake a dry biscuit, and keep the finished cake in a sealed package.
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