How beautiful to decorate a cake with strawberries?

Beautifully decorated cake always creates an unforgettable holiday atmosphere.In the summer, in the season of fruits and berries, you can decorate your cake with strawberries on your own at home, without the help of professional pastry chefs.

Everyone loves strawberries. By adding this berry to the cream, you can get a complete dessert, and you can use the resulting strawberry cream as a cake decorating. Such a delicacy will be incredibly gentle in structure and will have a slight sour taste. If the dessert is prepared for a children's holiday, fresh strawberries added on top of the cream will look beautiful. Every child will certainly want to pull them out and eat first.

Show imagination and decorate a dessert in the form of a basket with strawberries. To create "a la walls" on the edge of the cake, you can use cookies and chocolate. Inside the berries spread out, pressing them as closely as possible to each other. If the cake is meant for girls, you can imitate inside the blooming flowers and strawberry hearts.

The cream can be used not only as a coating on the surface of the cake, but also to soak the cakes.

To prepare the cream will need the following products:

• fresh strawberries - half a kilo;
• butter - 1 cup;
• icing sugar - 2.5 cups;
• vanilla extract - 10 ml.

Puree 1.5 cups of strawberries in a blender until a homogeneous consistency (about 2 minutes). Combine the oil with ½ of icing sugar and beat until cream is obtained. Then add a glass of powdered sugar and knead thoroughly. Add half the berry puree, mix. Add vanilla extract and powder to the mass, continue to knead the cream.

The density of the puree and its sweetness are easily adjusted to taste by adding more or less berry puree and sugar.

For those to whom just laid out on the cake berries seem a very primitive decision, we can advise you to make interesting figures of strawberries. This design of the cake can be supplemented with other decoratively cut fruits, berries (cherries, raspberries, blueberries, kiwi) and even mint.

In order to make the figures from the first time, you need to step by step follow the instructions for their implementation.

Use a sharp knife to make 4–5 cuts along the berry. At the base of the strawberry squeeze the resulting petals a little - a magnificent fan will come out. For a more interesting visual design, it is recommended to leave a strawberry with a sepal fan and a tail.

Even figurines of swans can be made from strawberries. To do this, you will need a little time and perseverance, as the strawberries are quite soft in structure and you need to work with it very carefully.

To create figures will need:

• 2 berries;
• sharp knife;
• toothpick;
• Carnation - 1 pc.

From one edge of the strawberry cut a small slice - this is the basis on which the strawberries will lie tightly on the cake. From the other side make 8–10 cuts along the berry. Then cut off the green crown. From the resulting notched parts to form the wings and back of the swan, gently moving the slices with a knife.

Take the second berry and cut it into three parts. Two extreme segments to postpone, you need only the core. From the base cut a semicircle. Then on each side to separate another small piece. Press a carnation into the strawberries. Put the berry on a toothpick and attach it to the main part of the swan figure.

The number of swans decorating a cake can vary depending on your personal preferences. The optimal amount - 2 pieces. It is then that these figures will attract everyone’s attention and add a touch of romance to the festive atmosphere.

Original on the birthday cake will look strawberry decoration in the form of a mouse.

Making it yourself is very simple:

• we take strawberries - this is the body of the mouse;
• make eyes from white chocolate pieces, spout - from dark;
• for the ears, you can take any cookies (it is desirable that it was thin, but not fragile);
• The tail of the mouse can be made from chewing marmalade of the appropriate configuration.

Strawberry ladybugs will look very nice as decoration.

You can make them as follows:

• take the desired number of berries, tails do not tear;
• dip the top of each strawberry into the melted dark chocolate by about 0.5 cm;
• to decorate the surface of the berries with small droplets of melted chocolate.

At the request of the ladybirds can be made not from whole berries, but from halves. In addition, for greater attractiveness, insects can be planted on toothpicks, and their eyes can be made from a cream with a drop of chocolate in the middle.

Originally on the cake will look butterflies from strawberry cloves.

To complete one shape you will need:

• strawberries - 2 pcs .;
• mulberry (can be replaced with blackberries) - 1 pc .;
• Almonds - 1 pc.

Each berry cut into two halves. Blackberry (butterfly body) put in the middle, dock to it 4 wings of the halves. The antennae of the butterfly make two quarters of almond nut.

Children love to sculpt snowmen. Give them this opportunity even in the summer.

For this you will need:

• Strawberry;
• cream;
• sesame.

Cut off the top of the strawberry. This side of the snowman will be mounted on the cake. Squeeze the strawberry cream out of the pastry bag - this will be the face of a snowman. With the help of sesame make eyes and nose. On top of the cream, put on a strawberry cap - a sliced ​​lobule. On a hat make a pompom from a cream. Beautiful and tasty decoration for the cake is ready.

To create on the surface of the cake strawberry glade of flowers you need to cut the berry rings and spread them along the edge along the entire cake. Then make another strawberry ring inside the first one. Continue repeating the layers until the entire dessert area is covered. In the center you need to put one strawberry berry, looking spout up.

To create more complex flower masterpieces of strawberries, you must follow this instruction:

• cut the berry from the spout to the stem, but not completely;
• in each part, make 4–5 cuts and slightly straighten them - you get something like a daisy.

Another interesting idea for decorating a holiday cake is a cup of strawberries with a filling. First, the strawberries need to cut the stem. Cut a small piece from the wide part of the berry - this will be the basis for fixing on the cake.

Cut the strawberries along, but not completely, remove the flesh from both halves. Cut the top into four pieces to form petals. Each petal to drown in the icing of the cake. Put some yogurt or melted cheese inside the strawberry bowls.

If you want to surprise your soul mate by making an unusual gift for Valentine's Day, decorate the cake with strawberry hearts. To do this, the berries need to cut the stem. Press the hole through to the middle to form a heart shape. Cut the berry into 5 lobes, perpendicular to the V-shaped notch. So you get 5 hearts from one berry. The number of blanks for decorating the cake depends only on your imagination.

To obtain such an ornament, you must take a few chocolates, put them in a small saucepan and melt in a water bath. Pre-washed and dried strawberries dipped one by one into the chocolate mixture. To harden the berries must be removed in the refrigerator. After a while they can decorate the dessert.

If there is no time for such decoration, the chocolate decoration option can be simplified. To do this, all the berries are cut into four parts and beautifully displayed on the surface of the cake. Top dessert poured with melted chocolate glaze from the pastry bag.

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