Lettering made from chocolate or white icing on a cake, chocolate letters at home

A congratulation written on a cake is a wonderful opportunity to decorate it. If you have never made inscriptions at home, then the tips from this article will help you understand the intricacies of performing all the work. A celebratory cake prepared by yourself will certainly delight the birthday boy or hero of the day; decorated with an inscription will cause surprise and delight.

Confectionery art can be compared to painting. Cooking a dish is like creating a masterpiece. But this does not mean that you have to be an artist to learn how to make beautiful chocolate inscriptions on a cake. You just need a little imagination, as well as the desire to create beauty. This exciting activity will help you develop new skills, thereby diversifying the appearance of your baked goods. Let's take a closer look at how to make an effective, memorable inscription on a cake with chocolate in our article.

Basic chocolate recipe for inscription

Chocolate inscription
Before you start decorating, you first need to decide what exactly you will decorate the cake with. Often, butter creams are used for this, which are tinted with food coloring, fondant, and chocolate icing. The fondant is very plastic, more uniform, and is applied in an even layer. Chocolate frosting for a cake is shinier. Fudge, like chocolate frosting, is fairly easy to make. We will look at the simplest recipes for preparing rice paste.

Ingredients

The fudge recipe differs from the chocolate icing recipe in the absence of one ingredient - plums. oils But it is precisely due to this that such different properties appear.

Fudge:

Cooking process

Grated chocolate

For fondant:

grate the chocolate;
heat the milk together with powdered sugar, stir;
add chocolate chips;
stirring constantly, cook over low heat so that the mass does not stick;
Boil until the mixture thickens.

Before applying to the surface, cool to a temperature of ~ 40 degrees.

For the glaze:

melt butter;
add milk, powdered sugar;
stir, add cocoa;
stirring constantly, heat over low heat;
do not boil.

Apply to the cake as soon as the chocolate glaze has cooled slightly (~ 70 degrees).

What to write on the cake

Use the recommendations of professional confectioners:

Write an inscription on the cake

The text should be contrasting with the main background, clearly visible on the surface, and easy to read.
An excellent base for decoration is a flat, smooth surface of a contrasting color made of glaze or mastic.
Before starting work on writing the text, use a toothpick to make straight, thin lines on the base coating for even lines.
The phrase should not be long or contain complex words.
If you make a mistake at any stage of writing with icing, do not correct the mistake immediately. Write a congratulation and put the dessert in the refrigerator. The defective fragment can be removed as soon as it hardens.
Never use hot paint because the base coat may melt and the text will float.

Secrets of beautiful inscriptions

Even a delicious cake doesn’t look festive without decent decoration. Sometimes it is enough to write a solemn congratulation and a culinary masterpiece becomes perfect. Good wishes written in beautiful handwriting transform his appearance. If you doubt your artistic ability to write a beautiful congratulation on the first try, then practice your hand first on an ordinary piece of paper, start with the simplest.

To create signatures, use special pastry tools:

a pastry bag will do;
special syringe with accessories;
different types of food markers.

Make sure that the cutout on the bag or the syringe nozzles are thin so that the letters can be written with pinpoint precision. The chocolate inscription itself should be short and expressive. Try to write correctly.

Errors are acceptable unless their presence is intentional. Choose fonts large enough.

First, numbers and text are applied to the surface, only then they are decorated with figures and flowers. This is done so that during the decoration process it does not turn out that there is not enough space to write congratulatory words.

Mastic inscriptions

Fondant in a variety of colors can be an easy way to add a memorable message to a sweet treat. Roll it out in a thin layer, mark the letters, numbers and punctuation marks that will be used in the congratulations and cut them out. Then, following the centering rules, place the finished letters on the base of the cake.

A stylish option could be this design:

Think over the color and prepare squares or rectangles from colored mastic. It can be one color, two or even more, especially if your cake is for a children's party.
Place square or rectangular mastic blanks on the surface of the cake.
Write one symbol on each plate with chocolate or fondant using a syringe or marker.
You can decorate the cake in the form of a postcard using mastic and the chocolate lettering technique - then the mastic rectangle must be large enough to put all the congratulatory text on it.

The work of decorating a cake for the holiday and creating congratulatory inscriptions is pleasant, fun, and beautiful. There are many options on how to create a miracle for your loved ones. And most importantly, there is real scope for imagination and creative pleasure.

Even the most ordinary cake can be turned into a work of culinary art if you decorate it with chocolate. An inscription made of chocolate will allow you to express sincere feelings for your loved one, congratulate you on their anniversary or other holiday, and also transform the look of the cake.

How to make lettering with white or dark chocolate

Put the inscription on the cake

There are a couple of simple ways to write a holiday message on a cake at home. Even an inexperienced amateur pastry chef can master it.

The first decoration method is the simplest:

First, come up with a congratulation and print it out. Try to ensure that the size of the letters matches the size of the space allocated for the congratulations.
Cover the printed text with tracing paper.
Break up a bar of white or dark chocolate and melt in the microwave.
Using a pastry syringe, bag or felt-tip pen, apply the drawing mixture to the stencil.
Place the stencil in the refrigerator and let the letters cool.
Place your congratulations on the surface of the cake.

Method number 2 is also quite simple. We make the inscription on the cake with white chocolate, to do this, first melt it. Then add 1 tbsp. l. creamy butter, 2 tbsp. l. milk. Stir and let cool. Place the drawing mass in a confectionery device, for example, a bag or syringe. You can do the work with a felt-tip pen - the congratulatory text is ready.

How to write “Happy Birthday” with chocolate

The inscription "Happy Birthday" in chocolate on the cake

The nature of the decor of the entire composition must correspond to the reason for the celebration. If the cake is being prepared for a birthday person, then the signature is needed “Happy Birthday” or “Happy Anniversary”. It is worth indicating the numbers, it is advisable to write the name of the hero of the day - he will be pleased. When designing, try to write words without hyphens, and arrange the text symmetrically.

Remember that you can even write with grated chocolate. Cut out a stencil with congratulations from paper, place it on top of the cake, carefully pour in grated chocolate (depending on the color of the base). Sweep away any excess shavings and remove the stencil. When decorating, remember that the letters should be made large so that what is written is easy to read.

Another extraordinary idea is to make chocolate letters using stencils, which are then transferred to the surface of the cake.

Subtleties of choosing chocolate for inscriptions on the cake

For the inscription, it is best to choose milk or white chocolate. This is due to the fact that these types of delicacies melt quite quickly and are plastic. Dark chocolate, on the contrary, is more difficult to melt, it is harder, and it hardens much faster.

You can also prepare the mixture yourself. To do this you will need:

four tablespoons of cocoa powder;
four tablespoons of sugar;
fifty grams of butter;
half a glass of milk.

All this needs to be mixed and then heated over low heat until the cocoa lumps are completely dissolved. The advantage of this mass is that it tastes and looks very much like chocolate, but it does not need to be melted and does not harden.

An easy way to write on fondant with chocolate

Chocolate inscriptions on a cake covered with mastic can be done using several methods. The simplest option for designing an inscription on a cake involves several manipulations:

words corresponding to the celebration are printed on a printer or written manually on paper;
Place the stencil on the surface of the cake;
using a simple sewing needle, trace the outlines of the letters;
remove the template; needle marks will remain visible on the mastic;
arm yourself with a painting brush, paint over the resulting contours with liquid chocolate, you will get chocolate letters on the cake.

Handmade chocolate letters will look just as good.

Cake decoration method

But the light did not converge on the cream. You can also decorate the cake using fondant. To prepare it, you need to mix sugar and milk in a ratio of two to one and bring this mixture to a boil. Then cook the solution until it thickens. When prepared correctly, fondant should not spread.

After the mass has cooled, you can start drawing.

Prepare the cake. It can be sprinkled with crumbs, covered with a layer of cream, icing or sugar mastic. To make the inscription neat, write it first with a toothpick.

Syringe attachments are so varied that it is possible to create wonderful ornaments and designs of various shapes and lengths.

How to make letters from chocolate to decorate confectionery

Chocolate letters for cake

For those who like to cook, we offer an answer to the question of how to make chocolate letters. A simple way - for decoration you can create individual letters or entire non-disintegrating words.

Prepare a stencil with printed solemn words.
Place the paper blank with words on a silicone mat (cool the mat before starting work so that the chocolate does not spread), cover the template with tracing paper on top. Secure everything with tape.
Using a pastry syringe, a felt-tip pen or a bag, write a word with chocolate mass, trying not to interrupt so that the word turns out unbroken.
As soon as you write, immediately put the mat in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Carefully remove the words from the paper. To create volume, outline the edges with a viscous mass on the reverse side. It will turn out very beautiful.

On the side of the cake, on top of the confectionery, in a vertical position - everywhere the letters will create an overall genuine edible picture.

For culinary specialists, there are both plastic molds for making chocolate letters at home, and options for silicone molds for such purposes. Pour glaze or fondant into the mold and let it harden. Then the finished letters are taken out of the mold and used to sign the confectionery masterpiece.

We got acquainted with various inscription techniques. Find the one you like. Bring your wildest ideas to life. Don’t forget that you can use food coloring and other innovations when cooking. Experiment with shape and color! Read only delicious recipes from us!