Sugar Paste Cake - How to Cover a Dessert with Sugar Paste

Often, after preparing a cake, we are assailed by a doubt: "how can I improve the aesthetics of a cake without falling into banality?" Today I will reveal all the tricks to elegantly coat a cake with sugar paste in the next video we will see instead how to prepare some fun decorations with this modeling paste. Let's go step by step and learn the art of cake-design step by step.

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Identity Card of the Recipe

• 247 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  • 100 g of chocolate custard or custard
  • 1 cake with a diameter of 24 cm. 1 hazelnut cake is recommended
  • About 250-300 g of sugar paste

  To serve (Hint)

  • 40 g (1 medium) of egg white
  • A handful of red fruits
  • About 30 g of sugar
  • A handful of edible flowers

  Materials Needed

  • Pastry board
  • Rolling pin
  • Latex gloves (optional)
  • Spatula
  • Knives
  • Bowls
  • Whisk or fork for egg white

  Preparation

  Please note
  In this video we used a hazelnut cake filled with chocolate custard and Chantilly cream. Anyway, you can use any type of cake filled with cream of your choice.
  The aim of this video is to introduce the best way to cover a cake with a sugar paste.

  1. Roll out the sugar paste with a rolling pin. It is recommended to work the dough by always dusting the pastry board with powdered sugar, to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface or rolling pin.
  2. Calculate roughly the measures of the cake to be covered (including the height), so that the sugar paste can also cover the edges.
  3. Before covering the cake with the sugar paste, it is strongly recommended to brush the entire surface of the cake with jam, chocolate, cream, honey or simple jelly: in this way, the sugar paste will remain perfectly adherent to the cake. In this case , considering the hazelnut cake, we used a chocolate custard (for the recipe, click HERE).
  4. At this point, gently slide the sugar paste onto the surface of the cake, taking care to cover the edges well. Remove excess sugar paste with a knife.
  5. To make the cake even more elegant, it is possible to frost flowers (edible and not chemically treated) or fresh fruit. To frost, lightly beat the egg white with a fork and dip the fruit or flowers in it. Then sprinkle the fruit (or flowers) with granulated sugar and place on top of the cake.
  6. The cake is ready to serve.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  The coating with sugar paste really gives a touch of elegance to the dessert! And then, for decoration, you can frost fruit or even edible flower petals. And elegance is also transformed into refinement.

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  Sugar Paste Cake - How to Cover a Dessert with Sugar Paste - is a dessert rich in simple carbohydrates and remarkably caloric. The proportion of fats is relevant but not excessive, while that of proteins relatively affects the energy density of the food.Sugar Paste Cake - How to Cover a Dessert with Sugar Paste is absolutely contraindicated in case of type 2 diabetes mellitus and is not a suitable food to be contextualized in the diet against overweight. The average potion of Sugar Paste Cake - How to Cover a Cake with Sugar Paste is around 40-50g (100-125kcal).