"Sandbox" - a cake for adults and children: design ideas

"Sandbox" is a cake that can be pampered not only by a small child, who loves to build castles. This delicious surprise can be presented to an adult as a reminder of spent childhood together, a holiday on the sandy coast or another memorable event. Today, let's talk about how to bake and decorate such a cake.

Crusts

"Sandbox" - a cake for the preparation of which you can use a variety of cakes: from purchased honey to the most refined and complex. This style of design involves simple forms, for example, a rectangle or a square in one tier. For this purpose, the basis of a biscuit test or even more complex textures: puff, jelly and mega-popular mousse. However, if you plan to arrange in the sandbox not only pasochki, but also multi-tiered locks, you may have problems with the stability of the form. To avoid this, use stiffeners (filled with melted chocolate cocktail tubes, bamboo skewers), and for high towers as a basis, choose light waffle cups and ice cream baskets. Cake "Sandbox", a photo of which is located below, is decorated with towers made of them.

Decorative elements

What certainly is in the sandbox? Of course, the inventory for games with sand: pisces, scapulas, rakes, buckets and much more. Someone decorates cakes with slides, benches, swings, because in some sandboxes there is also this.

The easiest way to make a similar decor is to mold it out of mastic. To do this, heat a handful of Marshmellow sweets on a water bath and knead a plastic smooth dough using powdered sugar instead of flour. Food colors are used to color the mass in the right colors. Use it as a plasticine, and ready-made figurines briefly sent to the refrigerator.

There are other options. For example, you can make flowers and wooden elements using a syringe, using different attachments. As a basis, use a cream of whipped oil and condensed milk (in equal amounts) or melted chocolate with a small amount of cocoa butter. "Sandbox" - a cake, which will look beautiful candy in the form of shells, colored pebbles.

How to make sand?

"Sandbox" - a cake that must necessarily remind of the warm summer sand. You can do this in many ways. For example, from the finished marzipan crumb or even ordinary cane sugar.

But advanced confectioners offer a more progressive way. Cake "Children's sandbox, decorated with velor, looks very stylish. For this, pneumatic or electric spray guns or ready-made balloons with cream are used. Buy them can be in the shops of goods for culinary creativity, and it's very easy to use such a paint: just spray the cream on the cake, before covering the surrounding surfaces with film or newspapers.

You can prepare a cream for velor yourself. Melt separately each other for 20 g of cocoa butter and white chocolate, combine and add a yellow, beige or brown dye, let it cool down to 30 degrees. Apply with a conventional construction spray gun (of course, a new one) on the cream layer. Be sure to cool the cake before starting work!

Do not forget to remind the child that not every sand is tasty and edible so that he does not try to treat them for a walk.