DIY Christmas decorations made from mastic. How to decorate a New Year's cake with fondant

Mastic decorations on New Year's baking, photo: tantekiki.blogspot.com

It is customary to add spices to New Year's baking (cinnamon, vanilla sugar, pepper, ginger, nutmeg), a little cognac, so that the cake exudes the aromas of the holiday and sweet warm joy.

How to decorate a Christmas tree pie

The simplest thing is to draw patterns with cream: pine branches, Christmas tree decorations, garlands, snowmen... You can use cream for drawing on the pie or.

And cut out Christmas tree decorations from orange peels, candied fruits, take fresh berries or small multi-colored dragee candies. Or make jewelry from .

The finished Christmas tree cupcake can be decorated with protein icing (icing) and confectionery decorations - sweet Christmas tree decorations. Or take regular cream and draw pine needles and garlands. Photo: livemycity.gr

A Christmas tree made from confectionery sprinkles, snow made from powdered sugar (you can add coconut flakes), a skier made from mastic. A simple pie turned into a New Year's pie! Photo: mageirikesdiadromes.gr

Or you can simply draw a Christmas tree using pastry decorations on a regular cupcake or pie and add mastic figures to it... also very elegant! Or you can line the contours of the Christmas tree with nuts, make pine needles from colored coconut shavings, and make Christmas decorations from pieces of candied fruits.

This is Napoleon with a Christmas tree made of coconut and nuts

New Year's cakes

Girls. I found such cool cakes that look like either the reindeer from Santa Claus's team, or like Smeshariki!

Making them is elementary simple, and the children will have a lot of joy!

For such horned New Year's deer cakes, you need to roll them into balls. And for decoration: for the horns - snacks broken into halves (twisted small cookies), for the nose and eyes - chocolate dragee or pieces of candied fruits... in general, any edible sweet little things that you have on hand.

Hilarious deer. I really liked the idea.

You can also do Christmas tree cakes from some confectionery mass, which is usually used for cakes or pastries.

This is how you can easily decorate an ordinary cake with white icing - draw a clock or a Christmas tree... or a snowman. An icing design can even be applied to a store-bought chocolate-covered cake. Photo: xandraxxx.deviantart.com

Or, as an option, draw a New Year’s picture on the cake if you don’t want to bake a cake.

New Year's cake decorated with egg white icing. Photo: Fotis Chrysanthidis
You can also draw a New Year's picture on the icing of the cake.

Snowman made of 2 cakes

Here's a simple option - how to make a Snowman cake. Take 2 or 3 cakes (larger and smaller in diameter), shape them into a snowman, sprinkle the top layer of cream with coconut flakes or fill it with white icing (as an option, you can sprinkle the Snowman cake with powdered sugar). And then decorate with details - a scarf, insert a nose, eyes, lips, twig hands and buttons.

Snowman cake made from 2 cakes. Photo: Cookbook

Snowman cake, decoration option,

Decorating the cake with fruits and berries

Another way to decorate cakes, cupcakes, pies and pastries for the New Year and Christmas is to make them elegant and joyful. Let your baked goods have a traditional taste under the decoration, but you will delight your loved ones with a festive look of sweets. The first photo is New Year's.

This is a simple nut pie, which is elegantly decorated with fruits and nuts for the New Year. Photo: mycookingbookblog.com

A beautiful cake for the New Year. Any housewife can decorate this cake, just choose the available fruits and berries. Here: strawberry. kiwi, blueberries and carambola (yellow stars from it). Photo: happyhealthyliving.wordpress.com

And here are Greek cakes for Christmas from Kostas Papadopoulos. Lots of chocolate, red (the color of joy) and sugar figures of Santa Claus, his deer, and Christmas trees. You can decorate any homemade cake this way.

Beautiful New Year's cake,

But this is a very New Year’s version, scarlet strawberries create a festive mood!

New Year's cake with strawberry snowmen. Photo: Marian Bachev

Simple Christmas gifts made from cookies

For those who don’t want to bother with baking, I offer the option of a New Year’s construction set. From simple cookies (Anniversary, Nut, Strawberry, Baked milk and the like), confectionery decorations and, which I have repeatedly mentioned above, you can make a simple and edible New Year's toy - a small house made of cookies.

For each New Year's house you need 3 rectangular cookies, the joints of which are coated and glued with cream. One cookie down, 2 on the side, and then close over the third. Based on the principle of a cake.

You can also glue cookies with condensed sugar syrup - caramel. Decorations are also glued onto cream glaze.

This is a fun gift you can prepare for your loved ones for the New Year. You only need cream, the rest of the parts can be purchased at the store. Photo: gefsieleftherias.blogspot.com

• New Year's gingerbread cookies are becoming increasingly popular every year - honey baked goods are stored for a long time, do not lose their taste and can be made in the form of almost any character, house or figurine. Today I will show you how to use mastic to decorate a figurine of a bunny with a gift, everyone’s favorite character from Soviet cartoons and New Year’s cards, and the real Grandfather Frost. And, of course, I haven’t forgotten about the symbol of the coming 2016 - the mischievous monkey.

  Baking delicious gifts is not difficult, and decorating gingerbread cookies is an interesting activity for both adults and children.

  Ingredients:

  500 g sifted flour;

  250 g granulated sugar;

  100 g butter;

  100 g milk;

  25 g honey;

  Egg C2 3 g;

  Soda 10 g;

  Cinnamon 3 g;

  Vanilla essence.

  Preparation:

  1. Melt the sugar over low heat until golden brown, and at the same time bring the milk to a boil.

  2. Pour hot milk into sugar and mix well.

  3. Add oil, honey, cinnamon and vanilla. Return to heat until butter and honey are completely dissolved.

  4. Add baking soda and mix well.

  5. Remove from heat and cool.

  6. Pour the egg into the cooled mass and add flour, knead the dough well.

  7. Wrap tightly with film and put in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

  8. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 4-5 mm, bake at 180-200 degrees for 5-7 minutes.

  

  To decorate a gingerbread in the style of a bunny from Soviet New Year cards we will need:

  Rolling pin and board;

  Starch.

  

  Decor:

  Using a sharp stick, mark the borders of the gift bag on the gingerbread.

  For the hare skin, you need to mix and knead well blue, white and a little black mastic or paint the white mastic in these colors.

  Roll out the mastic into a thin layer and cut out the upper part of the cookie with a Bunny with a gift, cut out a bag from red mastic.

  Place the pieces onto the cookies, lightly brushing the cookies with honey.

  

  Use small pieces of mastic to form voluminous hare paws and use stacks to give the effect of fur.

  

  From a single piece of white mastic and a stick with a sharp end, form the face of a hare.

  Make a blue eye for the hare, decorate the ear (a layer of white mastic).

  Roll out thin white mastic and use a plunger to cut out snowflakes.

  

  Glue the finished snowflakes onto a drop of honey onto the gift bag.

  Roll a thin rope from yellow mastic and make a cord for a bag with gifts. Attach it in the shape of a bow to the bag, under the bunny's foot.

  

  Sprinkle the hare's ears and bag with powdered sugar.

  Next the gingerbread will be in the shape of a monkey hanging on a tree with a banana in its paw. To decorate it I used mastic and marzipan.

  For this we need:

  Metal or plastic cutting in the shape of a circle or oval to form the face of a monkey;

  Board for rolling out marzipan and rolling pin;

  A little starch.

  Decor:

  Color 20 g of marzipan brown with food coloring or cocoa powder.

  

  Roll out the marzipan in a thin layer and use a Monkey die to cut out the base of the future decor.

  You can immediately cut out the monkey’s head by cutting it in the shape of an oval or a circle and using stacks to give it a three-dimensional shape.

  

  From unpainted marzipan we cut out the ears - a small circle, which we will then divide in half.

  

  We finish decorating the monkey’s face: using unpainted marzipan we form the light part of the face and sculpt a three-dimensional smile.

  Marzipan is a fairly sticky material, so it doesn't need glue.

  We make the eyes and banana from mastic.

  

  That's all, it took very little time to decorate the cookies with marzipan, but how beautiful it turned out! And most importantly, it’s very tasty!

  To decorate cookies in the shape of Santa Claus we will need:

  - silver kandurin.

  

  At every holiday there comes a moment of climax when everyone realizes that the end is near. This is when the birthday cake is served.

  A sweet treat should be spectacular. Today we will talk about fashion trends in the art of confectionery: “naked” and “half-naked” cakes, corrugated cake, cake with an ombre effect and a neon version, we will not ignore the traditional design - with the symbols and attributes of the New Year, we will talk about decorations that can be made on your own, let’s get acquainted with the ideas for custom-made masterpiece cakes.

  Snow Cake

  White, plain and decorated cakes sprinkled with snow are an excellent thematic culinary solution for the New Year. As decoration we use snowflakes and white chocolate tubes, and a “lace” ornament made of white fondant.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  You can make a snow-white cake yourself, decorating it with spruce or thuja branches, pine cones, paper appliqués, berries, ready-made silhouettes and figures, snowflakes made of white and dark chocolate.

  

  

  

  

  Christmas tree cake

  The Christmas tree is a bright New Year's attribute. A cake with it a priori promises to be a hit on the table. In this case, the confectionery product can be either horizontal or vertical.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Gift or New Year's toy

  A cake in the shape of a New Year's gift or a tree toy is an excellent solution. It will make for interesting photographs, and it will be no less enjoyable to eat. You can go on a visit with it or give it as a holiday gift.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Cake-Cockerel

  The symbol of the coming 2017 according to the Chinese calendar is the Fiery Red Rooster. A cake with a picture of a bright cockerel, his family, and chickens will be just the theme for this New Year's table. It will especially delight kids.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Complex options made from mastic are available to experienced craftswomen. But it is quite possible for ordinary housewives to make a cockerel cake. To do this, we use cream, marmalade slices, candied fruits, and pieces of fruit.

  

  Snowman Cake

  Cute, cheerful, mischievous snowmen will decorate any cake, turning it into a New Year's one. It could be a pair of snowmen in love, an athlete snowman on skis, in the New Year's forest, with gifts. Or a vertical snowman cake. Purchase chocolate snowman figures in advance and decorate the cake with them.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Cake with New Year's animals

  Deer, bullfinches, penguins and other “New Year’s” animals will fit perfectly into the holiday theme. We make their silhouettes, figures, prints on the cake and it’s done!

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Chocolate cake for New Year

  Everyone loves chocolate cakes, and New Year is a great reason to treat yourself to this dessert.

  

  

  

  

  You can decorate such a cake simply: using a “snowflake”, “herringbone” stencil and a sprinkle of powdered sugar or coconut flakes, decorate with white chocolate, candies, gingerbread houses, pine cones and spruce branches, chocolate chips and chocolate Christmas trees.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Cake with Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Nutcracker

  Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden will definitely visit your New Year's celebration if you decorate the cake with a themed theme. You can also go on a visit “with your Santa Claus.” Then it will be not only a sweet treat, but also a gift.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Candy cake

  You can combine a cake and a gift by making a cake from candies. This cake can be stored longer than usual, but it is unlikely to succeed.

  

  

  

  

  New Year's "log"

  We make an original roll cake in the form of a log with fresh wood cuts, chocolate mushrooms, berries, and a figure of Santa Claus.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Joke cake

  When celebrating the New Year with a cheerful company, it is worth preparing a joke cake, made with irony. We offer several options for “funny” cakes.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Trendy Cakes

  If you decide to move away from the traditional execution of cakes, then you should familiarize yourself with trendy, shocking and extraordinary cakes.

  Naked and half naked cake

  One day, one of the confectioners simply did not have time to completely cover the cake with cream. So, apparently, the idea was born to present this “disgrace” under a new “sauce”, as a trendy trend. Let us make sure once again that everything ingenious is simple.

  And the idea went to the people. “Naked” and “half-naked” cakes began, paradoxically, to decorate more and more holidays.

  Well, we also like this idea, because such a cake can be made at home, decorating it with available materials: berries, flowers, fir branches and cones, citrus fruits, cinnamon, powdered sugar and coconut flakes. This will make the cake more New Year’s.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Corrugated cake

  A cake with cream ruffles is unconventional, tender and elegant. It is made in the form of multilayer stripes, curls, and flowers. These cakes look very impressive!

  

  

  

  

  

  neon cake

  If you want something very bright and memorable, then you should prepare a neon cake for the New Year. It can have a splashed color effect, resemble a rainbow, or be chaotically bright. The main thing in a neon cake is the use of safe dyes in the production of the masterpiece.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Gradient cake or ombre cake

  Decorating a culinary masterpiece in the style of a smooth transition of color is very difficult and very fashionable. Delicate pastel tints of shades will not leave anyone indifferent.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Now your New Year's cake will not be banal! What ideas did you want to bring to life?

  A delicious and unusually beautiful New Year's cake made from mastic is an opportunity to enjoy yourself and surprise everyone present at the table. This dessert turns out simply enchanting: bright, luxurious, extraordinary. At the same time, you can make a variety of figures from mastic, which definitely cannot be obtained from cream or sugar icing. Thanks to this solution, you can decorate even the most ordinary birthday cake in an original way, and you are guaranteed exclamations of admiration and praise! The preparation of this non-trivial decor option is done according to various recipes. Below are several common interpretations that will not be difficult to do with your own hands.

  New Year's cake with mastic snowflakes

  

  An original bright cake with mastic snowflakes will be a real hit on the New Year's table. It turns out so beautiful that it’s a pity to eat it.

  Cooking time – 7 hours.

  Number of servings – 10.

  Ingredients

  To make this cake you will need the following products:

  • cake – 3 pcs.;
  • sour cream and curd cream – 15 tbsp. l.;
  • sugar syrup - 9 tbsp. l.;
  • peeled nuts – 150 g;
  • dried apricots – 50 g;
  • prunes – 50 g;
  • butter cream with condensed milk – 5 tbsp. l.;
  • mastic.

  Cooking method

  It’s quite possible to make such a mastic cake yourself for the New Year. The main thing is to follow the step-by-step instructions.

  1. First you need to prepare the main ingredients.

  

  1. A split ring is installed to form the cake.

  

  1. One of the cake layers is laid out as the bottom layer.

  

  1. It will need to be soaked in sugar syrup. 3 large spoons of sweetness will be sufficient - you need to pour it evenly.

  

  1. On top you need to generously sprinkle the sponge cake with nuts, which have previously been peeled and crushed into crumbs.

  

  1. The next layer is generously spread with sour cream and curd cream. You can put 4 large spoons. They should be distributed evenly.

  

  1. Place dried apricots and prunes on top of the cream. But keep in mind that the fruits should first be thoroughly washed and soaked with water several times. Dried fruits are cut into thin strips.

  

  1. You will need to put another 1-1.5 tablespoons of sour cream and curd cream on them. It also needs to be leveled.

  

  1. The second cake is laid out on it. The same thing is repeated with it - soaking in syrup, sprinkling with nuts, laying out cream and dried fruits.

  

  1. It is necessary to place the final, third layer of biscuit dough on the workpiece. Now the workpiece is sent to the refrigerator for 5 hours. This will allow the layers to be thoroughly soaked, which will make the finished New Year's cake more tender.

  

  1. When the cake is removed from the refrigerator, you will need to remove the split ring from it. In this case, you need to act carefully so as not to damage the treat. Before removing the mold, you should carefully go along the sides with a sharp knife.

  

  1. Now you need to coat the cake with mastic cream on all sides. The optimal solution is a composition of whipped butter with boiled condensed milk. The layer should be even. Moreover, it costs two steps to coat the dessert with such cream. After applying the first layer, the treat should be placed in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours so that the mass “sets”.

  

  1. Then the cake is coated with condensed milk and butter cream again. It is very important to do this as evenly and accurately as possible, without unnecessary waves.

  

  1. Next you need to prepare the mastic. This can be done using the recipe below. The mastic needs to be blue. This is the basis of the decoration. It rolls out into a thin layer.

  

  1. The resulting blank is used to cover the cake.

  

  1. Additionally, it is worth making two wavy strips of mastic. They are fixed along the bottom edge of the dessert.

  

  On a note! In this case, it is recommended to attach all mastic elements to special food glue.

  1. Then you need to roll out the white mastic into a thin layer. Snowflakes are cut out of it using a special device.

  

  1. There should be quite a lot of snowflakes to decorate the cake. It is worth making them in different sizes and shades: white, blue, light blue.

  

  1. They are also fixed on the cake.

  

  Additionally, our New Year's confectionery miracle should be decorated with small mastic balls that imitate snowballs and sprinkled with coconut shavings. She looks like snow. You can also make a snowman out of fondant and place it on top of the cake. It will be very impressive.

  Cake with snowman made from mastic

  

  A cake with a mastic snowman will look very beautiful on the New Year's table. Preparing such a dessert does not take much time, but it turns out excellent. By the way, you can choose any base: honey sponge cake, shortbread dough or another option that you like.

  Cooking time – 1 hour.

  Number of servings – 1.

  Ingredients

  To prepare and decorate this cake you will need:

  • food coloring - as needed;
  • stick – 1 pc.;
  • mastic;
  • food glue.

  Cooking method

  The essence of creating such a New Year's delicacy is quite simple.

  1. You need to roll two balls from the finished mastic. Their sizes should be different - this is the basis of the future snowman. The largest lump is placed on the dish. A stick is inserted into it. You can take a large and strong skewer.

  

  1. The second ball is fixed on top. The stick just holds them together better.

  

  1. Now you need to start working with black mastic. It needs to be rolled out and fragments imitating buttons cut out. The parts should be attached to a large ball.

  

  1. Small circles of black mastic need to be glued to a small lump, trying to form details that look like eyes.

  

  1. Then you should roll out another circle of black mastic.

  

  1. It is attached to the top of the snowman. The result should be a beret. Don't forget the details. You need to attach a “tail” or pompom to the snowman’s headpiece.

  

  1. Also, from black mastic you need to cut out a part that will play the role of a mouth. She also needs to be put in place.

  

  1. Next is to do the orange mastic. From it you need to form a carrot, which is glued with food glue where the snowman’s nose should be located.

  

  1. Then you should form several thin strips of mastic. We will use them to make a scarf for a snowman.

  

  1. All that remains is to fix the snowman himself on the birthday cake, which is recommended to be completely covered with mastic of a certain shade, against which the snowman will look bright and catchy.

  

  Agree, the snowman turned out to be festively cheerful and positive!

  Cake with penguins made from fondant

  

  To decorate a New Year's cake, you can make penguins from mastic. They look cute and funny. This original decoration will appeal to both children and adults.

  Cooking time – 2 hours.

  Number of servings – 1.

  Ingredients

  To make a decoration for a New Year's cake in the shape of a charming penguin, you need the following components:

  • food glue;
  • cutter;
  • rolling pin;
  • mastic;
  • black and orange food coloring.

  Cooking method

  Even novice cooks can make the process of making a small and funny penguin that fits perfectly into the winter holiday theme. There are no special difficulties here.

  1. The first step is to paint part of the mastic black. From the resulting material you will need to form the body of our penguin.

  

  1. Next, take a small piece of white and thoroughly roll it out with a rolling pin. A small oval-shaped fragment should be cut out from the resulting mastic layer. This is the future belly of the penguin.

  

  1. The resulting part is fixed to the base using food glue.

  

  1. Next we need to return to black mastic again. You will need to cut out 2 small circles from it. You also need to make 2 similar elements from white mastic, but smaller in size. White parts should be placed on the black circles. You get eyes.

  

  1. The eyes should be glued to the upper part of the body, parallel to each other.

  

  1. Now it’s time to start working with orange mastic. The material is first rolled into a layer. A small diamond is cut out of it.

  

  1. The resulting workpiece is carefully rolled up. It turns out to be a beak. It also needs to be glued to the appropriate area.

  

  1. Next, you will need to cut out two oval shapes from orange mastic. These are future blanks for the penguin's legs.

  

  1. These parts are glued with edible glue to the lower part of the figure’s body.

  

  1. Using a toothpick or skewer, you need to apply a pattern on the paws that resembles the membranes on the paws of penguins.

  

  1. You should also cut out two ovals from black mastic. These are future wings.

  

  1. They are fixed to the sides of the body.

  

  That's all! The result is a charming and funny penguin that will be a worthy decoration for a New Year's cake. It's best to make a couple of penguins. In tandem they will look more impressive.

  Mastic recipe for decorating a New Year's cake

  Making your own mastic, with which you can luxuriously decorate any New Year's cake, is quite easy. There are several options for preparing such material at home. But one of the simplest solutions is to use marshmallows as a base.

  Ingredients

  To prepare mastic you will need to use the following products:

  • lemon juice – 2 tbsp. l.;
  • marshmallow – 220 g;
  • powdered sugar – 500 g;
  • food gel colors - as needed.

  Cooking method

  It’s not difficult to make marshmallow mastic with your own hands if you use the suggested recommendation.

  1. Marshmallows are placed in a container and filled with lemon juice. You should also add a spoonful of plain, clean drinking water here.

  

  1. The mass is sent to the microwave for heating for 15 seconds.

  

  1. Heating will allow the marshmallows to expand in size. The mass needs to be kneaded with a spoon. This is done gradually. Moreover, at the same time you need to add powdered sugar to the composition in portions. There is no need to add all the sweetness at once. Proceed gradually, thoroughly kneading each portion.

  

  1. The result is dough for mastic, which will still need to be thoroughly kneaded with your hands.

  

  On a note! If you need mastic of different shades to decorate a New Year's cake, then divide the resulting “dough” into several parts. Each batch is colored in the required colors by adding gel-type food coloring.

  Options for decorating New Year's cakes with mastic: a selection of photos

  If you decide to decorate a New Year's cake with mastic decoration, but cannot decide on the decor, the proposed selection is especially for you. You can decorate your holiday dessert with various themed figures: Santa Claus, hares, Snow Maiden, penguins, bullfinches, Christmas balls. You can form the green beauty itself or gift boxes. In short, everything you have enough creative passion for.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Video recipes

  If you have never decorated a New Year's cake with fondant, then the proposed master classes in video format will help you cope with the task perfectly:

  I think on the eve of the New Year holidays, a master class on sculpting delicious marshmallow figures that will decorate your New Year's cake would be very appropriate. Moreover, they are made quite simply.
  So, let's start by sculpting a small Christmas tree. To create it, we need a small piece of green mastic. I usually use marshmallow-based mastic; I like the taste the best and it’s convenient to work with.
  Having kneaded the mastic well, roll it into a ball and form a cone from it, the height of which corresponds to the height of the future Christmas tree. It often happens that when the cone is placed in a vertical position, the mastic begins to settle under the weight, so I usually put it in the refrigerator for a few minutes, where it hardens a little and begins to hold its shape.
  
  Now we take nail scissors and make cuts on the surface of the cone, cutting each new row in a checkerboard pattern. I have separate nail scissors for these purposes, especially for use in cooking, I bought the cheapest ones, they will do just fine.
  

  

  
  The result is such a cute Christmas tree, all that remains is to liven it up a little and decorate it with New Year’s toys.
  

  

  
  Using food coloring diluted in a small amount of water, we brush over the tree. I dip the brush into the dye, then squeeze it a little on the napkin, and only then on the Christmas tree. For the toys, I used regular children's candies, which are sold in every store. I glued the candies under the branches; when you lift them, the mastic inside is sticky and the candies stick to it without much difficulty. That's it, the Christmas tree for the cake is ready.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  Now you can start sculpting a snowman. We will need a piece of white mastic and a piece of mastic of a different color, mine was pink.
  Let's start sculpting a snowman with the body. Let's make a small cone, just don't make the top sharp. After rolling small balls, we make legs for the snowman.
  

  

  
  We make the handles from mastic, rolled into a sausage (a very small piece). Let's flatten the sausage a little, and make a mitten on the edge by simply making an incision and adjusting it a little.
  

  

  
  Glue the arms to the body, smearing the edges with water.
  

  

  
  Let's start shaping the head. Place a ball of mastic under the eyes and nose.
  

  

  
  We make the nose from a tiny piece of red mastic. We just give it the shape of a carrot, make small cuts and the carrot-snout is ready.
  

  

  
  Having made a depression on the head under the spout, lubricate it with some water and simply insert our spout into place. We simply paint the eyes with black paint. And we form the mouth with the help of a toothpick, making the snowman smile.
  

  

  
  The head is connected to the body using a toothpick.
  

  

  
  Now we will make our snowman a scarf and a hat. I wanted the scarf to be striped, so I put strands of white fondant on a rolled out piece of pink mastic and rolled it a little more with a rolling pin.