Mastic made from gelatin and powdered sugar

If you want to please your kids or surprise guests with a real piece of confectionery, decorate your cake with figurines or flowers made from sugar mastic. A little patience and free time and what seemed to be a difficult task can be a pleasant hobby for you, delivering joy to your loved ones and satisfying you.

Mastic made from gelatin and powdered sugar at home - recipe

Ingredients:

• gelatin - 1 teaspoon;
• water - 8-9 teaspoons;
• lemon juice - 5 drops;
• sugar powder - 250-300 g;
• flavoring.

Preparation

That the sugar mastic on this prescription from gelatin really turned out, special attention should be given to the choice of gelatin. It must be necessarily qualitative. If the choice is made correctly, then after an hour of soaking the required amount of water in the water should be gruel, in density is similar to thick sour cream. During the entire time of soaking gelatin with water is periodically mixed. If the gruel did not work, then try to correct the situation by adding another amount of gelatin. Too thick a total mass, hardly stirred by a spoon, dilute a bit with water.

Now warm the gelatinous gruel on a water bath, stirring, until the lumps are completely dissolved, but do not bring to a boil, add flavor, lemon juice and mix.

We sift a handful of powdered sugar into a bowl, pour hot gelatinous mass onto it and begin to mix it first with a spoon, pouring the remaining sifted sugar powder a little, and then shifting it to a flat surface and with your hands. Should get a plastic, well-shaped form. We take into account that after cooling down the mass will thicken, so we add a little powder and as soon as the com ceases to "swim" we knead it homogeneously and begin modeling patterns. We try to do this very quickly, because the mass quickly freezes and becomes fragile. For convenience when working with mastic, you can lubricate your hands with vegetable oil.

If desired, you can paint the required amount of mastic in a different color. To do this, pluck off the total mass of the slice, add the dye into it and knead it until it is completely distributed and a smooth color is obtained.

This mastic, made from powdered sugar and gelatin is not suitable for tightening cakes. But it produces very effective figures, flowers and other decorations for the cake.