How to make flowers from mastic?

Decorations made of mastic were at the peak of popularity lately. The thing is that its secret is in the ease of manufacture, the ability to take any shape and ability to stick. The craftsmen make decorations from it such complexity and beauty that they can be used as a gift. To use flowers from mastic as an ornament for any pastry, you need to know how to make them.

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Secrets of mastic cooking

1. The main secret of the strength of the mastic is a sugar powder. So that the sheets of mastic were elastic and did not rush, choose the sugar powder of the smallest grinding.
2. Moisture in the manufacture of mastic products is very dangerous. If you find at least a drop of mastic begins to dissolve.
3. But the connection of various elements from mastic is sometimes slightly wetted by water, although more often protein with the addition of sugar powder is used as "glue".
4. It is best to paint products at the moment of mastic mastic, but if this moment was missed, then they are stained after giving them the final form. For this use food dye.
5. To get a sheet of mastic desired color apply the table of shades. This is a peculiar palette for confectioners, which helps to get the desired shade and describes the way how to achieve this. Usually use 3 dye - blue, yellow and red. By mixing them, various colors receive. For purple shade, for example, blend blue paint with red. And for a more complex terracotta shade, the mixing process is repeated several times: first get orange of two bright colors, then mix the red paint with a green for a brown shade and only then mix two final paints.

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Two mastic recipes

For a more complex recipe you need three ingredients:

• 2 h. L. gelatin
• 300 g of powdered sugar
• Liquid glucose

Recipe:

1. Gelatin is poured 40 ml of water, stirred and leave for 10 minutes, after which they dissolve in a water bath. In the resulting mixture, 15 g of liquid glucose is poured and mixed again.
2. 250 g of sugar powder is added to the mixture. They fall asleep it very slowly, one part. Once without stopping mixing the mixture. After adding powder, the consistency of the mixture will become much thick.
3. The residue of the powder is poured onto the board, on top lay out the resulting mixture. It is stirred as the dough until it is sticking. Then it is shifted into the container, closed tightly and do not touch 5 hours.

For a simpler recipe you need two ingredients:

• 50 g marshmello
• 250 g of sugar powder

Production process:

1. In a shallow capacity, 59 g of marshmallos are laid out, 30 g of water is poured and put a mixture into a microwave for about 30 seconds. This is enough so that the candy melted.
2. The resulting swashing mass is kneading for a fork and gradually suck in it 200 g of sugar powder. At the same stage, you can paint the mastic dye.

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Roses

Mastic roses are the most common and favorite decoration for cakes. They can be made small or large, turning the surface of the cake into the flower garden. To create roses, you will need only mastic from Marshmello, painted in the desired color. Sometimes rose petals make multicolored.
Process of creation:

1. A day before the manufacture of colors form their base. To do this, take so much toothpicks as they plan to make flowers, and they stick to them on the ball from mastic. Then form cones from the balls, which are given to stand at about 3 hours. It is best to do it at night in order to go to the creation of petals.
2. Mastic for the formation of petals should be more dense than to cover the cake. For this, the sheet when rolling does not make thinner 2 mm, otherwise it will rush. Then, with a glass or another round shape, they squeeze more base with a radius with a radius with a radius.
3. Then, with a shrinking with a ball on the end, one end of each mug is swept away, thinning it. If there is no such sleeve, then any wand with the rounding, even though the end of the brush is suitable.
4. Thoughtful edges are neatly converted with toothpicks so that they look like like natural rose petals. It is not necessary to convert them symmetrically so that the flowers look real.
5. After that, the leaf below is slightly wetted with water - they simply carry out a humid brush along it and are glued to the base. It seems to be wrapped in it to form a bud. Also come with two more petals.
6. The next three petals after gluing slightly flex so that the bud "revealed". For a large rose you need to roll out another sheet of mastic and cut large circles. Six petals are enough to form a bulk rose. The last petals will already be difficult to wrap out, so they are simply lined below. They not only give the rose view of the blossomed flower, but also hold the petals under them.

Make flowers from mastic simple, but still a rather time-consuming occupation, requiring some experience and skills. Fortunately, mastic does not freeze immediately and many errors when creating jewelry can be easily corrected.