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Confectionery decorations

Confectionery decorations...

Without a doubt, aesthetic, and that the main appetizing appearance of confectionery plays one of the main roles. After all, who will buy even the most delicious cake if it looks unattractive. Professional confectioners understand that first a person is with his eyes. For this reason, for a long time, masters of confectionery art have been armed with special methods, techniques, as well as means that are used as confectionery jewelry for ready-made sweets.

As a rule, the type of confectionery jewelry is determined depending on the type of confectionery product. For example, it is customary to decorate cakes, flour products, pastries and cakes with various confectionery masses. In addition, the so-called confectionery preforms may serve as confectionery decorations for the aforementioned culinary products. Typically, such preforms are nothing more than pieces of dough, marmalade, chocolate or fudge.

Such blanks of confectionery jewelry can have various shapes (figures, leaves, ornaments, flowers, inscriptions and curbs). It is worth noting that stable popularity. use confectionery jewelry, which is applied with the help of various confectionery creams in composition and taste. To decorate cakes, confectionery cream is applied to the surface of the product, and then a pattern is applied or other shaped blanks are added.

Professionals and amateurs use special confectionery equipment to work with confectionery jewelry from cream. For example, a confectionery syringe that is convenient to create patterns or apply cream, as well as shaped tubes or cornets. Perhaps it is confectionery jewelry from cream, along with dough jewelry, that can be considered the oldest ways to give the finished confectionery, baking or dessert a tasty appearance.

Dough jewelry is usually used in the manufacture of homemade baked goods or loaves. In addition, a base for confectionery jewelry is often made from dough. For example, figurines or dough inscriptions are coated with chocolate glaze and then used as confectionery. Marzipan is considered another popular confectionery decoration. This confectionery decoration is a mixture of powdered sugar, as well as almonds, grated into powder.

Marzipan has distinctive taste and consumer characteristics. For this reason, many confectionery decorations are made from marzipan, as well as independent sweets, for example, sweets. An excellent replacement for marzipan, of course, with a competent approach, can be mastic, which is lactic or gelatin. Classic types of confectionery jewelry include glaze and fudge. Most often, chocolate, sugar or milk glaze, as well as creamy fudge, are used to decorate confectionery products.

Professional confectioners say the chocolate pattern can save even the most hopeless confection. In addition to the above-mentioned types of confectionery decorations, methods such as stenciling or patterning with powdered sugar or grated chocolate, nuts, and waffle chips or coconut chips can also be distinguished. In addition, caramel, jelly, confectionery sprinkles and marmalade are used as confectionery jewelry.


pastry decorations 395 kCal

The energy value of confectionery jewelry (Ratio of proteins, fats, carbohydrates - ju):

Proteins: 4.7 g (~ 19 kCal)
Fats: 10.2 g (~ 92 kCal)
Carbohydrates: 73.9 g (~ 296 kCal)

Energy ratio (bj | y): 5% | 23% | 75%