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I want to share my experience of decorating a cake using sugar mastic. I’m not a professional and basically everything I know I found on the Internet, I don’t have special equipment, so I have to do everything using improvised materials, which you can always find at home.
I will not describe the base of the cake, since the internal filling can be absolutely anything. This time I had a sponge cake coated with butter-based cocoa cream.

cake


To decorate the cake, I prepared sugar mastic in advance. It seems to me that the most convenient mastic to use is one made from chewing marshmallows.

prepared sugar mastic


To prepare it, chewing marshmallows need to be melted in a water bath or in the microwave, adding a small amount of butter to it.

chewing marshmallows


Divide the melted marshmallows into two parts. We will leave most of it white, and paint the second part blue.

mix the mastic


Next, knead the mastic, just add powdered sugar to it until the mass stops sticking to your hands.

mix the mastic


Place the finished mastic in the refrigerator overnight, wrapped in cling film.

mix the mastic


Let's start decorating the cake by covering it with white fondant. Roll it out using a regular rolling pin.After a night in the refrigerator, the mastic rolls out quite hard, but it does not stick or tear.

Let's start decorating the cake

Let's start decorating the cake


To decorate the sides of the cake, I bought edible lace, which is very easily glued to the mastic with sweet syrup.

cake side decorations

cake side decorations


Roll out the blue mastic and cut out a rectangle - this will be the kryzhma. Using a regular toothpick, we form a fabric structure on it. Of course, all this is much easier to do with the help of special stamps, and it turns out more beautiful and more similar, but as they say, what is not there is not.

cut out a rectangle


Also, in the design of the christening cake, I used a cross, which I cut out using a stencil, which I actually made myself, simply by drawing a cross on paper, and it’s even easier to do this by printing a cross template on a printer.

cut out using a stencil

cut out using a stencil


I decorated the cross using silver sugar drops.

I decorated the cross

Decorating a cake with fondant

Decorating a cake with fondant


Using the same dragees, I laid out a silver cross and a chain.

Decorating a cake with fondant


I made the inscription on the cake on fondant cut out in the form of a sheet of paper. I made the inscription using a toothpick, which I dipped in dye diluted in sugar syrup.

Inscription on the cake


Flowers for decoration are made quite simply, the petals are formed using a toothpick, and we connect them into a flower (like a daisy).

Flowers for decoration

Flowers for decoration


We put all the elements on the cake, and this is the result.

Inscription on the cake

Decorating a cake with fondant

Decorating a cake with fondant

Decorating a cake with fondant
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