Luxury cake - a real festive table decoration Decoration of festive table - the art of decorating . Such a cake is not enough to be just delicious - it should be even and beautiful. To achieve the desired effect can help a variety of lipsticks for New Year's cake: smooth, shiny, delicious. The preparation of such lipsticks may seem tricky, but to master it is not too difficult: you need only properly cook the sugar syrup and beat him.

What is the lipstick

Sugar lipstick - a kind of glaze. Confectionery lipstick is a boiled sugar syrup and whipped. The syrup is carefully added small quantity of acid - this allows to reduce the size of the crystals. In industrial conditions to that end as treacle (molasses five grams per hundred grams of sugar), or invert syrup, home is the easiest way to add sugar to the lemon juice or citric acid. When using citric acid per hundred grams of syrup is added five drops of the acid solution. You can also use a three-percent vinegar - half a teaspoon for every hundred grams of sugar. The dosage should be followed exactly: if you add too little acid, it will be a matte lipstick and smooth enough, because of the rapid crystallization it can be difficult to work with. If you put too much acid, the lipstick will badly whipped and solidify.

During whipping sugar crystallizes, and fine crystals are obtained, whereby a lipstick delicate texture. It is used to decorate cakes and pastries, as well as to give special taste confections. Products glazed a lipstick, long stale, and look attractive.

Cakes, sugar-coated lipstick always look elegant. Shiny sugar surface can be decorated with cream, chocolate, marzipan figures, or figures from sugar mastic. And by choosing different types of sugar fondant, you can change not only the look but also the taste of the cake.

All the secrets of cooking

Prepare lipstick is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. First you need to properly cook the sugar syrup. To cook the syrup is necessary to use a metal pan with thick walls, ideally - copper or brass, but the fit and steel.

In a saucepan to put half a kilogram of sugar and add one hundred and fifty milliliters of hot water. With constant stirring, the mixture is brought to a boil over medium heat. When the sugar is completely dissolved, the fire must be turned off, remove the syrup from the surface all the foam, and the walls of the pan to remove all the sugar grains. The most convenient way to do it with a damp cloth or a cooking brush.

After that cooking continues over high heat. After about four minutes into the syrup should add a tablespoon of lemon juice. If desired, use of citric acid dissolved in a little water, or vinegar. After that you need to cook the syrup for about a minute before the sample on a soft ball. The trial is conducted as follows: the syrup dripping into a glass of cold water, and when it hardens, try to sculpt soft plastic ball. If work - lipstick ready. While the sample is carried out, the pan off the heat better, to the syrup is not digested.

Thereafter, the syrup must be rapidly and uniformly cooled. You can do this in several ways: for example, immerse the pot with syrup container with a larger diameter, filled with ice impaled. Or even decomposed pieces of ice on the surface of the syrup (water, then it is necessary to accurately merge). On the eve of New Year the easiest way to make a pot on the balcony and put in a container with snow.

Fifteen minutes later the syrup should be cooled to forty degrees. This means that you can start whipping him. Traditionally, this is done using a metal spatula, but you can use a conventional mixer with kneading. When whipping syrup gradually turns white. When it becomes completely white and heavily thickened - lipstick ready. It should be thick, but plastic, slightly shiny, but non-sticky. Cooked lipstick can be applied directly to the surface of the cake (for this it is necessary to slightly warm water bath), and can be stored for a long time in a refrigerator and used, if necessary, warming up slightly before it. Glazed product must leave for several hours at room temperature, and then put into the refrigerator.

Variety of lipstick

Snow White Christmas cake looks wonderful, but the lipstick can be not only white. Adding sugar syrup flavoring and coloring agents, you can endlessly experiment with colors and flavors. It is only important not to abuse additives, so they do not affect the quality of sweets. As colorants, fragrances and desirable to add at the beginning of whipping. You can, however, slightly (up to forty-five or fifty degrees) to heat finished lipstick and stir in her fragrances.

The simplest and most popular additive to lipstick - cocoa. To obtain a rich chocolate taste and brown, to said quantity of syrup sufficient to add ten grams of the cocoa powder. If you add less than cocoa, the taste will be more delicious, with a hint of chocolate and shade accordingly lighter. Chocolate glaze is almost universal - this goes well with sweet vanilla, chocolate, fruit and nut cakes.

Coffee glaze can be prepared by adding a couple of tablespoons of syrup to the infusion of coffee. This glaze gives a nice taste of hazelnut, almond, cream and vanilla cake. Interesting mix of coffee with lipstick and chocolate cake.

For cakes with apple, plum and apricot stuffing perfect lipstick with cinnamon. Lipstick with vanilla flavor is absolutely perfectly set off any cake. Pleasant taste have lipstick flavored rum, brandy, Kirsch liqueur of the same name, or synthetic fragrances.

Maria Bykov

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