Tulips from mastic: master-class

The technique of decorating confectionery products with sugar or milk mastic was born in Great Britain in the last century. In 1981, the corresponding guild of professionals was formed in this country. But such decorating is becoming more and more popular. Whatever the tasty cake, it will become even better if it is decorated with flowers. Edible, of course. A cake with tulips of mastic is appropriate for Valentine's Day, March 8, birthday. Spring flowers create a festive mood and a premonition that the culinary masterpiece will not be heavy for the stomach. The main thing is to make buds as close to real tulips as possible. Lurid flowers look sloppy and can spoil the overall picture of the cake. In this article, we will teach you how to make tulips from mastic. The master class will be accompanied by photographs to explain each stage of the work.

Equipment

Nowadays, there are many specialized shops where you can buy a set of tools for modeling different colors and figures. Also available is ready-made mastic. It can be sugar, milk, made from marshmallow. But let's focus on the equipment. What do you need to make beautiful tulips from mastic? The master class usually demonstrates the technique of modeling colors using the tools from Martellato or Marset. These sets include mold-cutting for petals of various shapes, a soft mat, plastic tray for drying, molds for texture. To blossom tulips, you can use the gel color from Modecor. But, in principle, you can "grow" flowers and without special tools, resorting to the help of improvised tools: molds for cutting pastry, knife, container for eggs. Give the desired color will help dry food colorings.

Ingredients

To mold tulips from sugar mastic it is necessary one day before the supposed cake delivery . The decoration must dry. Attach them to the cake, as well as to connect the fragments among themselves with the help of melted chocolate or a kind of food glue (glucose syrup). To work with mastic, we need water and potato starch. To remove the surplus of the latter, you need to stock up a glass of vodka. Like everything. Now consider how to create tulips from mastic step by step.

With wire frame

No matter how we mold flowers, first we need to paint mastic. Is that you are going to make white tulips. But then you need to paint part of the mastic in green - for the leaves and stems. Before making a tulip from mastic, cut out a plunger (or a chip for a cookie in the form of a heart, which is then cut in half) such petals. On a slightly crumpled foil, which will give them a natural texture, straighten the tips. We can roll them out a little and create a corrugation with the help of a knife handle. We leave to dry petals on the special adaptation or on the container for eggs. So they will turn out to be concave. We put on our wire petals, along the way giving the tips a naturalness and form. The same is done with a green mastic. We roll the flagellum, gracefully curving it like a stalk of a tender flower. To make the texture of the leaves look natural, we cross out the streak with a toothpick.

How to make a tulip from mastic without wire

This option is more complicated. But the result is amazing: sugar flowers can not be distinguished from the real ones. In these tulips there are also stamens with pestles. You can even create "selection varieties", for example, with a corrugated or torn edge of petals. Skillfully using the dye, we will achieve iridescent colors. So, we begin our master class: "Tulips from mastic step by step." Take a small piece of yellow mastic and knead it. We roll the sausage. Tweezers make three clamps, forming a pestle. Cut out the yellow mastic mugs. So that it does not stick to your hands, we powder it with starch. We attach the pestle to this flower bed. Leave to dry in an open area. By the way, mastic, which is not currently in use, must be hidden in a well-closed container or wrapped in food film. The material for molding needs soft, like plasticine, so we protect it from weathering.

Step Two: Petals

This is the most crucial stage of the work. To the petals were the same size, roll out the mastic of the desired color between the two skewers. The layer should be as thin as possible - somewhere from one millimeter. If you have a proprietary plunger, cover the surface, press the spring, cut out the petal. It's simple. If you work with improvised tools, then cut out the shape for a cookie heart. For one flower you need three pieces. Cut the hearts in half. We remove them in the container, so as not to wither. Now that the tulips from the mastic look natural, you need to give their petals a texture. This we do with the help of mold. Just slightly press the mastic into the mold, giving the surface gentle veins of the petal. If there is no proprietary equipment, do not despair. Take a piece of foil, crush it lightly. On this surface, put a petal, just press down.

Step Three: trembling tips

We take out the petal from the dryer and place it on the rug (or sponge) with a drawing down. Using the stack, make the edges thinner. We work in circular motions, rolling mastic from the center to the top. We give the petal the final form. If it is a bud, the edges are bent inwards. If this is a blossoming tulips of mastic, slightly open the petals so that the flower cup is visible, with a pestle and stamens. By the way, about the basis. While the petals dry on any convex surface (necessarily drawing upwards), we roll balls of diameter 2-2.5 centimeters from the mastic. Slightly they will be approached from one side. On the base we make a second ball of smaller size. On it with the help of water we make a pestle and stamens. This cup of the flower is set in a high glass for drying.

Assembling a Tulip

When all the fragments of the flower are finally dried, we begin to fasten them. On the base of the three petals we apply some food glue. It can be melted chocolate or glucose syrup. The first option is preferable - tulips from mastic are obtained as if with a brown veinlet. While the glue is not dry, attach these three petals to the base with a pestle and stamens. This is the inner row of the flower. The same is done with three more petals. But we attach them outside the cup, trying to cover the gaps between the leaves of the first, inner row. Buds now need to be combined with stems and leaves. To do this, it is better to resort to alcohol (vodka) or glucose syrup.

Finishing touch

Both buds and leaves should be stored in special forms, interspersed with starch. From this product look as if powdered. Surplus starch should be carefully cleaned with vodka. For gloss, you can dissolve a little honey in alcohol. If you want your tulips from mastic on the cake to look very realistic (to mislead the guests), color the ends of the stamens black. To do this, dipped the brush in kandurin. We work extremely carefully - the stamens are very fragile, because they can break down. Well, now we place our flower or a whole bouquet on the surface of the cake. With a cream you need to be more careful. Too liquid can ruin all your work, starting to dissolve the mastic. It's best to put the decoration on the cake shortly before serving.