Decor for a cake can be created not only from mastic, which requires special skills for work and special tools. To make simple, but picturesque design of delicacies it is possible and with the help of usual melted chocolate, or chocolate ganache. The level of complexity of the design varies depending on your skills: some of the options offered below will require you to start the confectionery skills, while others will cope with the child. More details on how to decorate chocolate cake, read below.
How to decorate cake with spiderweb of chocolate?
One of the simplest ways to decorate is by drawing a web on the surface of your dessert. It is easy to carry out if you apply melted chocolate on a plastic base, like a cream or ganache, which is previously covered with the surface of the cake.
After melting the chocolate, pour it into a pastry bag or homemade parchment bag. Through a small hole, squeeze the chocolate onto the surface of the cake as a spiral, moving from the center to the edges.
With a skewer or toothpick, draw the lines from the central spiral to the periphery.
If desired, you can add a chocolate spider to the cake.
How to decorate the sides of the cake with chocolate?
If you did not know how to decorate a cake with chocolate patterns, which can often be seen in photographs of a variety of culinary magazines, then we hasten to please you - it is much easier than it may seem. The main thing here is to carefully catch the moment, in which the chocolate has not yet frozen, but has ceased to be liquid.
Overflowing the melted chocolate into the confectioner's bag, distribute it on a sheet of parchment, the length of which will correspond to the diameter of the cake. You can distribute the chocolate either in an arbitrary manner or by recreating any preferred pattern.
Now start watching the process of solidification of chocolate, catching the moment in which the pattern begins to lose its luster, becomes a little more opaque. Now carefully transfer the pattern to the sides of the cake, before covering them with cream.
How beautiful is the cake with melted chocolate?
Before you decorate the chocolate cake with chocolate at home, prepare ganache from chocolate, it is fluid enough to recreate the desired effect.
Transfer the ganache into a pastry bag and spread it around the circumference of the cake, covering about two centimeters from the edges.
Walk on the surface of the ganache with a spatula, so that surpluses from the surface begin to flow down.
Combine the cream and ganache with berries and chocolate drops.
