Some of us only care about the taste of the food, and they are ready to eat a porridge-like substance from an iron camp bowl, as long as it is appetizing. Others will not touch foie gras unless it is properly served. These people eat with their eyes as well as with their mouth, so presentation becomes just as (if not more) important than taste. The cakes below are perfect examples of visualizing your cravings for something sweet and savory. We won't be able to try them (unfortunately), but most of them LOOK as tasty as possible.
Most of these cakes owe their artistic magic to fondant, a controversial cake decorating ingredient that some find delicious and others find repulsive. Fondant icing is easy to make, comes in a variety of colors, shades, and consistencies, but most importantly, it is very easy to mold. So, if not because of the taste, then because of its practicality, it has deservedly acquired the status of an ideal basis for incredible figure-sculpted cakes, like the ones you can see below.
Cake library. So detailed and authentic that you just can’t raise your hand to stick a knife into it!
Pigs taking “mud” baths are actually chocolate baths.
House "flying" on balloons. From the cartoon "Up!"
Planet cakes that recreate pictures from textbooks in detail (even inside). In this case, Jupiter.
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Another cake based on a popular wide-screen cartoon: a squirrel and a nut on ice - from Ice Age.
Tall two-tier cake “Mama Giraffe and Baby Giraffe.”
A completely unique “Beer Bucket” cake, in which everything - from the bucket itself to the ice and bottles - is made from the same fondant. If the library cake amazes with the subtlety of small details, then here the skill of the designer, who worked with the half-tones of “foggy transparent” glass and ice, simply lies beyond the bounds of imagination.
The famous sorting hat from the Harry Potter series.
Antigravity in a flow of Maltesers and M&M's.
Top stack of the birthday boy's favorite books.
Detailed SLR camera cake.
Tea Party themed cake with the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
Another example of detail: a cake-set table with a huge variety of miniature dishes.
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Another tub cake: Olaf the snowman from Frozen makes himself a friend.
If you are interested in the topic, follow the link to the source and click on the orange button “Show [number] more” (several times) on the page that opens below: there you will find more than a hundred more cakes - if not those that are a pity to cut, then in any case Well, very(!) interesting specimens!
We already know how to make a cute teddy bear from mastic using one of the presented master classes. It was also mentioned there that the mastic figurine of a Teddy bear is very heavy and practically inedible.
Let's try to create a charming bear from, which we will prepare ourselves.
Thanks to the sculptural mass, and only the finishing made of mastic dough, the Teddy bear cake decoration is not heavy, will not harm the cake, and is very tasty.
The touching gray teddy bear named Teddy with the inscription “Me to you” is known to many and never ceases to touch. Its origin story is very young - about 10 years long. At the same time, the Teddy bear has predecessors in the person of the cute brown bear.
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of America) in 1902, on November 14, went hunting, invited by Andrew Longino (Governor of Mississippi) in the regions of Mississippi. It is known that Theodore was a noble and passionate big game hunter. The long hunt that day turned out to be empty; not a single bear was found. Enterprising helpers found a young bear at a watering hole, set dogs on him, exhausted and wounded the animal. They tied the poor bear to a tree and suggested that Roosevelt kill him. The president was outraged by this turn, as was the act of his aides. The bleeding beast was nevertheless killed so as not to prolong its torment.
About 48 hours later, the Washington Post, a well-known newspaper even today, published this story for public viewing, spreading it throughout the United States. Clifford Berryman (a famous cartoonist at the time) witnessed the situation and provided a drawing of the President with a bear.
The sentimentality of the American population immediately gave rise to sympathy for the current president and the little bear. This is how Morris Micht (a confectionery seller in his own store) saw the article. In the window he always displayed toys that his wife sewed at night. Then the first Teddy bear appeared, created in honor of the 26th President of the United States.
Mass production of the toy began immediately after receiving the president's agreement to use his name by the same candy store owner.
Ingredients
For the sculptural mass we will need:
- puffed rice;
- marshmallows (chewable marshmallows).
As you can see, all the ingredients are quite affordable.
For decoration and finishing:
Inventory
bowls (2-3 pcs.)
stand
microwave
silicone gloves
tablespoon
student ruler
Smooth surface
pizza cutting knife
nail scissors
tool for working with mastic
How to make a Teddy bear from sculptural mass and mastic
So, take a dry, clean bowl into which we pour approximately 30 grams of puffed rice and.
We send the ingredients to . We watch when the chewing marshmallow doubles in size and takes it out.
In order to mix the sculptural mixture well, it is better for us to use latex gloves and a spoon. Grease the gloves and spoon with a generous amount of butter.
First, mix the mixture with a spoon, and then start working with your hands.
Wearing gloves generously greased with butter, we create a bear blank.
This is what a blank plush body looks like.
And this ball of sculptural mass will become the head.
Let's reunite both parts of the blanks.
"Framework" for a Teddy bear
To understand what size our hero will be, simply measure him for yourself. The bear, which is created according to this MK, reaches almost 12 centimeters.
Let's set the future bear to for the convenience of further work with it. We use a wooden skewer, and if the bear is very small, a toothpick.
Roll out the mastic dough into a pancake that will cover the figure.
It’s worth noting: We don’t skimp on the mastic; there’s no need to roll it out thinly, because we’ll still need to ruffle the figure.
We tighten the workpiece.
There is absolutely no need to level the surface of the mastic workpiece - we will still do the wool.
We need to divide the plush blank in half and make a toy like a real one. To do this, it is permissible to use the tool shown in the photo (for example, a pizza cutter), or any other device that will be convenient to work with.
This is the “line” that is obtained as a mark from such a tool.
It is permissible to fluff or unfurl the teddy bear with simple manicure scissors.
You need to “wool” the decoration starting from the dotted line on the figurine. First start on the right side, then on the left.
We make small cuts with scissors, creating, as it were, wool on the body.
The “fur” of the bear should diverge from the “line”.
Now we have a tousled back.
Let's move on to working with scissors on the bear's head.
This is the kind of shaggy piece we get at this stage.
Let’s “dress” the bear in a beautiful sweater.
Let's make a sweater for the bear from brightly colored mastic.
Using a special device, we give the “sweater” a knitted look. It is permissible to make either other decorations to suit your taste, or do without clothes at all.
We roll the wheel over the entire surface of the future decoration.
When the mastic is ready over the entire surface, you can now put on the teddy bear.
“Dressing” the bear in a sweater
Roll up the edges of the mastic sweater to give it a natural look.
When the bear is already dressed, you need to attach paws to the figurine, which we will form from mastic of the same color as the whole body.
If we need to roll the hind legs into a shaped pear, then the front (upper) legs can be made simply into bars.
We attach the hind legs on the sides of the body - we will make a sitting bear.
Let's draw stripes on the paws, imitating a seam line.
We use the same stitching jig as for the body to get an identical print.
We shaggy Misha's paws with manicure scissors, also working from the seam in one direction and the other.
This is what the furry hind legs will look like.
We will immediately “dress” the upper legs in sleeves with an imprint
Let's form the face of the toy.
Let's stick a triangular-shaped nose, and divide the bottom of the muzzle in half - press it with a toothpick, for example.
Let's make beady eyes from black mastic. It is acceptable to use sugar balls of a certain color as eyes.
Let’s “plant” the eyes just above the nose, creating a cute face.
The bear is missing ears. Let's make them from the same mastic as the entire character.
Let's form depressions in the pieces of mastic.
Let's stick the ears in place, and also ruffle them with scissors.
You can apply a drop of white food paint to the spout, creating a highlight.
Cake Little pony
We will make a cake from such a toy. On the Internet I found different modifications of this toy, where the color of the skin and mane changes and she is dressed in a dress.
First we make the head. To do this, take puffed rice and marshmallows.
I had different types of rice: fluffy, called puffed rice in caramel, breakfast cereals (60 g in a pack). I used 2 packs, i.e. 120 g.
And rice in the form of glued tubes, called Golden Puffed Rice Cookies, made in Korea. There are 10 pieces of straws in a pack (100 g in total), I used 6 pieces, i.e. 60
In addition, I also took 2 packs of marshmallows, 80 g each.
Those. In total, it took 120g + 60g = 180g puffed rice and 160g marmushki per head. (This is for a cake 26-27 cm high)
These are the ingredients
The rice tubes need to be crumbled; they crumble easily with your hands, but I did it in a food processor.
Then I warmed up the gummies so that they swelled 2.5 -3 times (I describe in detail for those who have never tried to make a sculptural mass and sculpt from it.
And she kneaded all the rice in them.
It seems that there is too much rice and it does not interfere, but you still need to mold it all together. It will stick to your hands, to make it easier, periodically wet your hands in water and the process will go easier.
I finally made a head like this (profile photo), trying to extend it where the nose would be.
I stuck a wooden skewer at the bottom so that later I could connect the head with the cake body.
But I advise you to immediately insert three skewers, diverging towards the bottom like a tent (do not make the skewers widen too much towards the bottom. Consider the width of the cake at the bottom, otherwise the skewers, having pierced the cake, may come out of it. I made this mistake and then suffered). Later in the photo you will see how the skewers should be inserted approximately, but mine turned out to be a little wide at the bottom. And set it to dry. I stick skewers into a piece of foam and dry my hair while standing.
The head is dry. Now we take a sharp knife and become a sculptor. We cut off what is not necessary. On the dried head, we deepen the eye sockets, cut through the nose, mouth, lower lip, and slightly highlight the cheeks. This mass is cut approximately like foam plastic (it is, of course, harder).
And we begin to align the head with mastic. We do it the same way as a cake. I made it with ganache. First, for the first time, we try to level out all the unevenness in the roughing and in the cold.
We level it again, smoothing out the remaining unevenness and in the cold.
Well, the last time literally polishing the surface of the ganache. She showed in the photo how she was getting smoother.
Now let's get to the cake. I baked a honey cake from a large number of thin cakes with prunes and nuts.
I layered the cakes with cream and fillings and assembled a tall cake. And so that it wouldn’t slide onto its side, I pierced it with three skewers with a hut, as in the photo and in the cold.
We begin to shape the frozen cake. I made the mistake of cutting off too much on top. It was necessary to cut out only the middle, where the tummy would be. And I cut off the excess from the top, where the upper legs should be. I had to put them on later.
Cut out the legs from the bottom and top. The top ones turned out to be short, because... I cut a lot.
We grind all the scraps in a mixer, food processor, or grind them well by hand and turn them into “potatoes.” With this mixture we putty all the unevenness of the figure, where necessary, adding roundness. I used it to put on my front paws. And so that the paws do not fall off, I stuck transverse skewers into the cake, where the paws are. After the cake froze, I took them out and everything held up well.
Spread the cake with ganache until it is even. I do this in several steps. I'll coat it in the cold, then I'll trim it in the cold. Until the cake becomes smooth. The process is the same as with the head. Here is the result
I cover the cake in parts. The pony has pink legs, arms, and the area where the neck and chest are. White panties that peek out from under the dress. And the dress itself.
We cover the arms, legs, and chest with pink mastic, and white mastic where the panties are. Everything fits easily, because... everything is done in separate small pieces of mastic
Now we cover the head with mastic. The biggest difficulty is that her nose is convex, and under her nose there is a rather deep cavity in her mouth. It’s not possible to tighten it the way we fit a ball (throwing mastic on top and gradually smoothing it towards the bottom), the mastic on the nose breaks. Therefore, I began to tighten first of all the nose and carefully the indentation of the mouth. The mouth must be gently and carefully pressed with a soft stack. This part of the covering is difficult, the mastic in this place can tear...
The mastic where the mouth stretched greatly and even began to show through darker than in other places. But it looked quite natural in the mouth. Then, gradually smoothing the mastic, I brought its ends to the back of the head. So I ended up with a seam at the back of my head. But this is not important, because... the pony has a mane on the back of its head, and it will cover the seam. From the front we insert pieces of white mastic into the eye sockets; the eyes should be slightly convex in the middle and very thin at the edges. We roughly mark how the eyes should be colored.
Now we take the cake from the cold and take out all the wooden skewers from it. Those skewers that held the cake upright will replace the skewers that stick out from our pony's head.
Now I first made the top part of the dress up to the waist. I glued the sleeves and wings. Now we put our heads
You need to stick the skewers of the head into the cake and the head will fall into place. I miscalculated a little when I stuck the skewers into the head and widened them too much downwards. I had to cut off one skewer because... she would crawl out of the cake. That's why my head didn't hold up very well. I cut and picked at the top of the cake while I was installing the head, so I had to make a collar on the dress to cover the damage. Now we make a skirt, wave it, make a belt, a bow.
Let's make a mane, I made 4 of these strips and glued them on. I made the 2 outer strips longer. When I glued the mane, I connected the two outer strips with a sharp angle closer to each other in front and behind, and in the middle, moving them away from each other, so that then I could glue two more shorter strips of the mane between them. This is how I did my mane. One side of the strip is rolled out thinly, then we cut it into noodles, and the other is thicker, we will glue this edge to the head.
Glue the ears, a piece of mane under the bow and a bow on the head. On the dress I glued flowers from pink fondant in two shades; I made the flowers using cutouts. But you can also draw them.
We draw eyes. I first painted the outer edge of the iris - green, then the inner edge - faded yellow-green, then the black pupil. I made white circles and hearts from mastic and glued them to the desired part of the eye.
This is how they look on the toy. I tried to do everything the same, right down to the hearts in my eyes
Little pony is ready
Puffed rice sculptural mass (Rice Krispie) is a mass that allows you to make light and durable 3D figures for cakes. The sculptured rice mass is used not only by professional confectioners, but also by lovers of unusual confectionery products. Rice mass is needed to lighten mastic figures, for a more durable shape of figures or cake parts; it is used for large modeling and creating creative desserts for the festive table.
Rice sculptural mass for cakes provides great opportunities for creating 3D shapes. For example, if you are making, then you can form a head and tail from puffed rice (by the way, it will be very realistic), and if you decide to make a 3D cake in the shape of a bear, then the head and paws of the bear can be made from puffed rice, and the body from ordinary cake layers. At the same time, you don’t have to worry that the bear’s head will “float” at some point and its paws will lose their shape!
On culinary forums they write that any breakfast cereal is suitable for preparing a sculptural mass for a cake: balls, flakes, even corn sticks. In addition, they use ready-made breakfast balls, Nesquik for example. Sometimes wheat is used in caramel, but most often, the sculptural mass for the cake is made from puffed rice. True, the puffed rice that is used for these purposes in North America is strikingly different from the local one, so the result of preparing the sculptured rice mass cannot be called one hundred percent identical. American puffed rice easily crumbles into dust when squeezed, while local caramelized rice is very dense and does not crumble. Why is this bad? Because the mass of hard and large grains of rice has a lumpier surface than American puffed rice crumbled into fine crumbs.
If you were unable to buy American puffed rice to prepare the sculptural mass for the cake, then you can try the following:
- lightly beat the grains of rice in a blender
- use waffle cakes crushed in a blender instead of rice
- mix the crushed rice and the wafer cakes crushed in a blender together
In general, try and experiment!
So, in order to make a sculptural mass of puffed rice, you need to buy Kellogg's Rice Flakes. Kellogg's Rice Flakes can be bought in the online store or in Azbuka Vkusa supermarkets. You can also use Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats to make a sculptural mass for the cake.
The Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats bar tastes a little like honey, with a pleasant vanilla scent. Using Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme marshmallow paste or the most ordinary lozenges, you can make amazing original cakes for a Birthday or New Year! And the simplicity and the speed of their preparation (no more than 20 minutes) will certainly please those who have small children.
Rice Sculpture Paste for Cakes. Recipe
1. In order to make rice sculpture mass you will need: 50 g. butter, 200 gr. marshmallow (color is not important), 160 gr. rice cereal for breakfast. This amount of food produces a fairly large portion, so you can cut the amount of ingredients in half or make some figures from the leftovers.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan (over medium heat), add marshmallows and stir until melted, then quickly add rice cereal, remove from heat and stir quickly.
3. You need to work quickly with the sculptural mass of puffed rice while it is warm (it is advisable to lightly grease your hands with either oil or vegetable fat that has no taste or smell (for example, Crisco vegetable fat). By the way, Crisco is convenient for working with sugar flowers , when sculpting or when rolling out mastic.
4. Since the rice mass cools and hardens quickly, it is necessary to form the shapes you need as quickly as possible. This must be done by pressing the grains of rice tightly against each other.
5. Allow the formed rice mixture to harden well (you can leave it overnight, but a few hours is enough). Then trim it slightly to give the desired shape, fill large holes with mastic and smooth everything out with ganache. (Please note that you can cover the sculpture-rice mass with mastic only after it has completely hardened). After leveling, proceed to decorating the cake.
If you couldn’t buy Kellogg’s cereal, don’t despair. You can prepare a sculptural mixture of rice to create 3D figures from the ingredients available in every store. Take 1 package (100 g) of Haribo Marshmallow candies and 3 bags (60 g each) puffed rice in caramel (Dansonia).Also prepare vegetable fat or margarine.
Melt the marshmallows in the microwave without adding water until completely puffed up (about 1 minute per 100g). Then, remove the marshmallows from the microwave and pour the melted mixture into the pre-prepared puffed rice (i.e. rice without lumps). Now knead quickly using a greased spoon. And after a minute, when the marshmallow has cooled down a little, grease your hands and knead the mass with your hands until all the grains of rice are included in the mass. Keep in mind that you need to knead the sculptural mass from rice very quickly, because... it cools quickly and loses its elasticity.
When the sculptural mass is ready, we give it the desired shape with our hands (we make a three-dimensional edible sculpture for the cake). Let it cool and get stronger. Then we level the surface of the cake blank with icing or melted chocolate and proceed to assembling and decorating the cake itself. Finished products are decorated with icing, mastic, butter cream or melted chocolate - choose what is most convenient for you and make the most beautiful and most creative cakes.
