You can make decoration techniques practical with ready-made pastry cream. Decorating cakes and desserts is the most enjoyable way to impress your guests with both taste and appearance. However, we don’t always have time for detailed decorations. That’s when it’s time to adopt a time-saving decoration technique. Ready-made pastry cream offers a practical and appealing way to decorate. Here are some ideas to enhance your decoration techniques:
Whipped Cream Coating
Let’s start with the most basic technique to achieve the core of the cake using ready-made pastry cream. You only need a spatula or a flat knife. Cover the entire cake with cream and smooth the surface like a cylinder. Then add colorful sugar, fresh fruits, or chocolate pieces. You’ll get a simple yet elegant decoration.
Colored Creams and Patterns
Color the ready-made pastry cream and use a piping bag with a fine tip to draw lines on your cake. Food coloring allows you to create stripes and spiral patterns. This technique is perfect for children’s birthday parties and allows you to make colorful cakes for special occasions.
Brush Technique
The brush technique is a great way to create a unique texture on your cake. Apply a thin layer of ready-made cream to the cake’s surface and gently run a clean pastry brush over the cream to leave streaks. This technique will add an elegant and striking look to your cake.
Cream Flowers
Using various piping bags with different nozzles to add flowers to your cake with ready-made cream will give your cake an elegant touch. You can create roses, daisies, tulips, and more on your cake. If you use colorful pastry cream, your flowers will look more natural.
Ombre
A recent popular cake decoration trend is best applied with ready-made pastry cream. Color the ready-made cream from white to dark shades and then layer it on the cake. This technique allows you to create much cooler-looking cakes.
Lace Patterns
You can make your cakes more sophisticated with lace patterns. Apply a thin layer of ready-made cream to the cake’s surface and then use a lace cake stencil. This will allow you to highlight the lace patterns on your cake.
Chocolate Drips
You can give your cake a dramatic look by applying chocolate drips to the edges of a ready-made cream cake. Let melted chocolate drip down from the edges of the cake. This technique can make your cake more appealing. Try decorating your next cake in a neat and creative way. With these techniques, you can make more attractive decorations. The most important thing is to reflect your own style in the decorations.
