Cake decorating workshops. Master class Sculptural mass of puffed rice recipe
Some of us only care about the taste of the dishes, 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.
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 is tasteless and odorless (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.
Master class “Sculpture cakes”
What is a “sculpture cake”?
Let's figure it out.
First of all, it must be said that such cakes do not leave a single person indifferent. The range of reactions is multifaceted, mainly shock, numbness, delight. bewilderment and surprise.
Sculptural cakes are made mainly for the “WOW” effect, for the sake of vivid emotions and impressions.
Below we will answer some of the most frequently asked questions about sculpture cakes and the course on making them.
1. How much does a sculpture cake weigh?
Of course, everything depends on the customer’s wishes and your capabilities. For example, the height and width of the cake is limited by the size of the refrigerator compartment. The weight and scale of the cake are also limited by the client’s financial capabilities, and, of course, by your speed of work. To have a rough idea of the weight of a cake, let's say that a cake with a height of about 70 cm (for example, in the shape of a bear) will weigh about 10-12 kg. Note that the weight of the cake also depends on the filling (thick or light cake)
2. How many days does it take to make a cake?
Any pastry chef knows that the more small details on a cake, the longer it takes to decorate it.
With experience, you can make such cakes in 2 days.
3. Do these cakes have internal structures?
Of course there is, as with any multi-tiered cakes, this cannot be avoided, the laws of physics have not been canceled))))
4. How many edible parts are there in these cakes?
According to the standards, up to 40% inedible parts are allowed in cakes. In sculptural cakes, the edible part can range from 60-95% of the cake volume.
5. Can a beginner take a cake sculpture course?
Yes, it can, but it will be more difficult. A master will help you successfully complete the course from start to finish.
Any business requires experience, which comes not just once or twice, but over time. Nevertheless, during the course you will be given all the theory and practice necessary for development)
6. How does the “Sculpted Cakes” course work?
The optimal number of students in a group is 8-10 people. Usually there are 4 sculptures on the course, 2-3 people work with each of them; this is the most successful number for creating a truly complex, high-quality and richly detailed sculpture. You can take on individual work, but at the same time it will be simplified two to three times - it’s easy to calculate)))
7. Will the course make fake or edible cakes?
During the course we make both fake and edible cakes to see and understand all the creation processes.
8. Will I be able to repeat everything at home after the course?
Of course you can. Absolutely all materials for creating sculptural cakes are available and there is nothing particularly scarce. During the course itself, you go through all the stages of creating a sculpture: choosing a character, drawing a project, making drawings, assembling internal load-bearing structures (yes, you will even saw))), working with dummy parts, working with an edible cake. The entire course program is designed so that every step is worked out practically, and not in words.
9. Will we work with an airbrush?
The course provides for working with an airbrush in an easy mode - shadows, penumbra, “revitalizing” characters. All characteristics and parameters of airbrushes and compressors, dyes that are suitable for our work will be given (this is for those who do not yet own an airbrush)
10. What should you take with you?
The course provides all the necessary materials and tools. Take with you only work clothes, comfortable shoes and a great mood)))) Optionally, you can take your favorite decorating tools with you, they are more familiar and more convenient to work with)))
So, we sorted out the questions. Now let's move on to a clear action plan.
Course program:
- cake design
- drawing drawings
- assembly of load-bearing structures
- recipes for suitable cakes
- working with fake cakes
- working with live cakes
- cake decoration
- working with mastic
- working with an airbrush
- working with cake accessories
Some photographs of groups of master class participants
Schedule of upcoming courses: "sculpture cakes", "chocolate" Busts
for 2017
Courses "Sculpture cakes", "Chocolate busts"
January 8-18 - Shenzhen (China)
January 20-23 - Kyiv (Ukraine)
January 27-30 - Moscow
February 2-12 -Tel Aviv, Jerusalem (Israel)
February 18-19 - Brussels (Belgium)
February 24-27 - Parma (Italy)
March 2-5 Voronezh
March 15-18 - Vladivostok
March 24-27 - Athens (Greece)
April 6-8 - Stuttgart (Germany)
April 23-26 - Barnaul
May 20-21 - Paris
May 27-28 - Astrakhan
June 6-7 - Novosibirsk "Chocolate busts"
June 9-12 - Novosibirsk
For details, applications for participation and organization of courses in your city, write to your classmates:
