The best decoration for a cake in the summer is fresh fruit! Especially bright, colorful, fragrant and delicious are desserts made from strawberries. Because of its color, it is in itself an excellent decoration. You do not need to be an experienced confectioner to create a masterpiece from your modest cake. This can be done with the help of fresh berries, which will become a bright accent even on a simple dessert. But here's how to make a strawberry from the original decoration to the cake, we'll tell you right now.
How to make a piece of strawberry for a cake?
You can start with the simplest, cut the berry plates and form them with appliqués in the form of flowers, while plunging pieces of strawberries into cream or chocolate ganache.
You can also turn every berry into a flower by simply cutting small pieces from all sides and slightly bending them we will get a beautiful bud.
And it will be very interesting to look, especially on a children's cake, small snowmen from strawberries and cream.
And here are a few more ideas to decorate the cake with strawberries.
To decorate the top of the cake with a large three-dimensional flower, cut the berries into halves and stack them in circles upwards. It is best to do this in a deepening in the upper cortex or on a thick layer of cream. So the "petals" will take the right position and the flower will turn out to be more voluminous.
A very interesting cake will turn out if you decorate it under a basket with strawberries with the help of mastic or marzipan. Then, along with the pedicels, the berries are placed just on top of the cake, as if in a basket.
Strawberries can be decorated and the sides of the cake, and to make the decor look more interesting and original, you can combine berries with cookies, wafers, etc.
Very often, to decorate a cake, use strawberries in jelly. It can be both cut by plates, and the whole berries laid out by a hill. Using this technique, you can decorate both the top and sides of the cake.
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Strawberry and chocolate cake decoration
No matter how banal the "strawberry in chocolate" sounded, but such an ornament is unlikely to ever come out of fashion, because it is not just beautiful looking, but also very tasty.
Moreover, such a product as chocolate can be completely different in its use for decoration.
For example, it can be melt and make spectacular stains from the edge of the cake, and in the middle lay out delicious berries of strawberries.
Or make a delicate chocolate crown for the cake. To do this, we take a piece of parchment, you can put a prepared stencil under it to make it easier for yourself to work and melted the pattern with melted chocolate. When the glaze is slightly cool and soyness will lose its fluidity, but it will not lose its plasticity, wrap it around the cake and wait for the final solidification. Then gently remove the paper substrate.
Using the same technique, you can make several pieces of chocolate of different shapes and sizes, and then decorate them with their own culinary art. It's also very easy to work with chocolate chips when there is a need to quickly decorate the sides.
Cake decoration with fresh strawberries and kiwi
Strawberries combine very well with kiwi, both in color and taste. Therefore, it is a sin not to take advantage of this opportunity, especially since kiwi is sold all year round.
The easiest way is to cut the fruit with thin plates and lay them all over the surface of the cake, alternating layers.
And you can build a mini lawn with beautiful strawberry flowers on a green background of kiwi.
And to add contrast to this decor, you can use berries from jam, they are much darker than fresh and therefore fresh berries will look good on their background.
Cake decoration with strawberries and mint
With this decoration, any cake, even prepared from simple pancakes, will look spectacular and fresh, it is only careless to lay out pieces of berries and twigs of mint from above on the cream.
Well, if there is a little more time to gently place the berries among the symmetrical waves of the cream and add a small little leaves-accents - get a work of art.
For non-standard cake we suggest not decorating its sides, but leaving them "bare" so that all attention is riveted to a wonderful colorful hill of berries and mint on the top.
