Mastic is a plastic tasty mass that is used to decorate confectionery. You can wrap a cake with mastic, sculpt animal figures, flowers, fruits, mushrooms, inscriptions from it.
Modeling of figurines from mastic
The mastic can be made at home. To do this, you will need: – 10 grams of butter; – 400 grams of powdered sugar; – 100 grams of chewing marshmallows.
Melt the butter and marshmallows in the microwave. Then gently add the icing sugar to this mass, while continuously stirring the mixture. The finished mastic should resemble plasticine in its structure.
You can tint the mastic with food colors or vegetable and fruit juices.
It is easy and quick to form beautiful small roses from mastic, which will make any cake elegant. To do this, roll a small ball of mastic of a suitable color in your palms and shape it into a sausage. Gently flatten it with your fingers to make it thinner and flatter. Now carefully roll the piece into a roll and cut off the excess. Thus, form the number of products you need.
Form five balls of the same size using red mastic. Flatten each ball to form an oval – the petal of the future flower. Now form a tulip out of them, fastening together so that one petal slightly overlaps the other. From a small piece of yellow mastic, form a flagellum, attach two tiny balls formed from the same material to it. Fix the resulting pistil with stamens in the center of the flower – the tulip is ready.
To glue different parts of the mastic, the joints must be moistened with water or egg white with a small amount of powdered sugar
For a children’s cake from mastic, you can sculpt a figurine of a cute mouse. Take a piece of mastic of any color and divide it into four parts – three small and one large. Roll each part into a ball. Use a large ball to form a carrot-like shape. Now make two indentations on the sharp side of the carrot. Moisten them with water and glue in them flattened small balls – ears. Roll a flagellum from the third ball and fasten it on the wide side, slightly bend the resulting mouse tail. From yellow mastic, you can mold a small triangle and use a match to make holes in it. The mouse will now have a piece of cheese.
For a bright, cute fly agaric, you need red and white mastic. Make a mushroom leg out of white. Roll the red mastic into a ball and form a hat out of it. Decorate it with small balls of white mass and attach to the leg.