How to decorate New Year's cake 2022 at home

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 confectionery art: “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.

What can be combined with

Chocolate cake decorations go well with other decorative elements:

caramel;
mastic;
meringue;
fruits;
creams;
sugar or gingerbread figures.

A combination of several decorations is a winning option. This New Year's decor allows you to achieve a complete composition and give the treat an unusual look.

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 toy for the Christmas tree 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.

Decoration with chocolate figures

Chocolate decorations are a classic loved by everyone. Chocolate figures can complement marzipan, mastic, and coconut flakes, and the combination with whipped cream can be considered simply ideal. You can melt chocolate using a pastry bag, and then make chocolate Christmas trees on paper. After being applied to paper, the figures are sent to the refrigerator to harden. Afterwards the figures are torn off the paper. If you don’t have confidence in your abilities, or you simply don’t have enough time for such decor, you can buy ready-made chocolate decorations.

Cake-Cockerel

The symbol of the coming 2021 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.

Which chocolate to choose for decorating

It is permissible to use both dark bitter, milk and white chocolate. The latter is especially relevant if you plan to color the cocoa product with a different color.

Note! For decoration, you need to choose high-quality confectionery tiles without additives or fillers.

A special glaze made from products equivalent to cocoa butter is also suitable for decoration.

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.

Delicate cake “New Year tree”

The honey aroma of the cake captivates you even during the baking process, and even then you want to break off and try a piece of the cake. If desired, you can add your favorite confectionery spices to the dough.

Ingredients:

chicken egg – 1 pc.;
granulated sugar – 80 g;
honey – 40 g;
butter = 50 g;
wheat flour – 200 g;
soda – ½ tsp.
salt - a small pinch;
vanillin – 1 sachet.

For cream:

chicken egg – 1 pc.;
granulated sugar – 110 g;
wheat flour – 3 tbsp;
fat sour cream (from 22%) – 350 g;
soft butter – 120 g.

Preparation:

First, start preparing the dough. To do this, in a deep container, combine sugar, honey, a chicken egg and a little salt, as well as vanillin, into a homogeneous mass. Then add the butter, place over low heat and stirring constantly, bring to a boil. Then pour in the baking soda, remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.

When the mixture becomes warm, gradually add flour into it in small portions and knead until the dough acquires a uniform consistency and is not sticky. Collect it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. But, if time permits, you can leave it overnight.

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.

Biscuit

Biscuit pastries should definitely decorate the New Year's table. These cakes surprise you with their extraordinary taste and aroma.

Pina colada sponge cake with delicate soufflé

Be sure to please your family and guests on New Year's Eve with this airy, delicate dessert. You will be delighted with the taste and festive appearance of the treat.

Ingredients:

eggs – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 110 g;
flour – 110 g;
syrup from canned pineapples – 5 tbsp;
canned pineapples – 580 ml;
sour cream – 300 g;
instant gelatin – 1 tbsp;
coconut flakes – 50 g;
powdered sugar – 70 g.

Preparation:

Let's get straight to the biscuit dough. Break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar, beat the ingredients, the mass should turn white.
Add flour and stir in using a spatula.
We take out a springform pan, cover it with parchment, grease the sides with oil, and send the dough mixture here.
Place the base in the oven at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
Let's prepare the soufflé. Place the gelatin in a bowl, pour in the hot pineapple syrup and mix.
Beat the sour cream with the addition of powdered sugar and coconut flakes.
Gently stir in the gelatin, which has already cooled.
Forming a cake. Place the cakes in a springform pan, soaking them in pineapple syrup.
Decorate the top with pineapple pieces.
Pour over the soufflé and sprinkle with shredded coconut if desired.
Place the dessert in the refrigerator for 6 hours, then cut into portions and serve.

Advice!
Canned pineapples can be replaced with any other citrus fruit.

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.

Nut

And, of course, every housewife should be able to prepare nut cakes for the New Year 2022. Such baked goods are incredibly tasty, appetizing and aromatic.

Nut cake Izbushka

If you want to pamper your household with a delicious treat, then here is a recipe for making this delicious and unusual cake.

Ingredients:

For the cakes:

egg whites – 12 pcs.;
walnuts – 650 g;
sugar – 3 tbsp;
flour - 4 tbsp.

For cream:

yolks – 14 pcs.;
sugar – 14 tbsp;
milk – 1.5 tbsp;
butter – 500 g;
vanilla sugar – 1 sachet.

For the meringue cakes:

egg whites – 2 pcs.;
sugar – 0.5 tbsp;
cocoa – 1 tsp;
nuts – 0.5 tbsp.

Preparation:

Separate the whites from the yolks.
We begin to beat the whites with the addition of sugar, you should get a strong foam.
Pour some of the nuts and 2 tbsp flour into the same mass. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
Take a springform pan, cover it with parchment, coat it with butter, put the dough in it, and send it to bake in a preheated oven at 120 degrees for 2.5 hours.
In the same way, bake another cake.
Place the bases on kitchen boards and let them cool for 4 hours.
Prepare Charlotte cream. Pour the milk into the container, add sugar, and put it on the fire.
Grind the yolks in a clean bowl, pour in the milk-sugar mixture, which we bring to a boil.
Place the container with the contents back on the fire and heat until the mass becomes thick. Cool.
Beat the softened butter with a mixer until white.
Add vanilla sugar, add the egg-milk mixture, and continue beating until fluffy.
Assembling the cake. Cut off the top crust from the bases, grease the cakes with rum for impregnation.
We place one cake in the mold so that the flat side is at the bottom, coat it with cream.
Place the second base on top and transfer to a flat plate.
Set aside a few spoons of cream for decoration, add cocoa here and mix.
We coat all the baked goods with cream.
Let's prepare the meringue. We take a wooden stick, divide the top of the cake into six parts, make connections to form arcs. Using a cornet with a narrow hole, we draw arcs on top with chocolate.
We attach small meringues at the intersection of the arcs, try to glue them in a checkerboard pattern on the sides of the baked goods, and place one large meringue in the middle.
Sprinkle the treat with nuts, lightly fry and chop them, leave for 4 hours and serve.

Advice!
You can also use colored marmalade for decoration, it will turn out beautiful and bright.

Unusual nut cake

This nut cake with praline is very original, not only in taste, but also in appearance. If you love nuts, you'll definitely love this sweet treat.

Ingredients:

For the biscuit:

eggs – 2 pcs.;
hazelnuts – 40 g;
sugar – 50 g;
butter – 10 g;
flour – 5 g.

For the crispy layer:

butter – 30 g;
sugar – 20 g;
hazelnuts – 50 g;
praline – 50 g;
chocolate – 40 g;
flour – 30 g.

For cream mousse:

cream 35% - 400 g;
chocolate – 25 g;
praline – 100 g;
corn starch – 7 g;
gelatin – 3 g;
salt – 1 pinch.

For the glaze:

chocolate – 100 g;
vegetable oil – 30 ml.

For the praline:

hazelnuts – 95 g;
sugar – 95 g.

Preparation:

Dry the nuts for 10 minutes in the oven at 150 degrees, then remove the thin skin.
Preparing praline. Caramelize the sugar in a thick-bottomed container.
Add nuts, mix, heat, put the mixture on parchment paper, which we grease with vegetable oil.
Divide the warm mass into small portions and leave to cool.
As soon as the caramel hardens, grind the nuts into caramel using a blender, you should get crumbs. Continue beating until it becomes a paste.
To prepare the base of the cream mousse, soak 15 ml of gelatin in cool water.
Mix 220 ml cream with starch, boil, cook for 30 seconds.
Remove from heat, add chocolate, praline, swollen gelatin mixture, salt, stir until smooth.
Cool, cover with film, and put in the refrigerator for 5 hours.
We are preparing a biscuit. Melt the butter.
Grind the hazelnuts with the addition of a third of sugar and flour.
Beat the whites with salt and sugar, also use a third part, you should get a fluffy mass.
Mix the remaining sugar with the yolks.
Here we add the whites, the nut-flour mixture one by one, and pour in the butter, which we melt in advance.
Place the biscuit dough in a pan lined with parchment and bake in the oven at 175 degrees for 12 minutes.
In order to get a crispy layer, grind some of the hazelnuts to crumbs.
Finely chop the remaining nut using a blender with added sugar.
Mix all the nuts, flour and cold, cut into pieces butter.
Grind the ingredients until crumbs are obtained, place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and bake in the oven at 175 degrees for 10 minutes.
Mix hot crumbs with chocolate and praline, distribute the mixture over the sponge cake.
Place the dough in the freezer for 1 hour.
Then we take it out, remove the parchment, remove it from the mold, and get the base of the treat.
Preparing the glaze. Mix melted chocolate with vegetable oil.
Cover the base of the cake.
Mix the custard mousse using a blender.
Whisk 180 ml of chilled milk, you should get a stable fluffy mass.
Mix these two mixtures.
Transfer the cream into a pastry bag and place the roses on baking sheets.
Place the treat in the refrigerator for 1 hour and then serve.

Advice!
Butter can be replaced with margarine.

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?

Recommendations for decorating New Year's desserts

For decoration, prepare a cream that is not prone to spreading or deformation. Protein and protein-custard, butter, and whipped cream hold their shape well. If the main holiday menu is dominated by fatty, high-calorie dishes, it is advisable to choose light cream for dessert. When adding dyes, start with the minimum dose to achieve the desired shade. If the color comes out pale, add drop by drop until the desired tone is achieved. An excessive riot of colors distracts attention from the beauty of execution and subtle details.

A set of special tips for a syringe allows you to create flowers, ornaments, and pinpoint color the desired areas of the design. When using a regular package, it is more difficult to depict complex details that require careful design. The background color is chosen white or contrasting so that the drawing, inscription, pattern does not merge with it. Compositions where cream elements are harmoniously combined with other types of decor look advantageous.

Decorating a New Year's cake yourself is an interesting task for creative people. Modern confectionery syringes, sprinkles, and dyes give wide scope for imagination. With them, holiday baking will turn out to be unusual, elegant and reflecting the spirit of the New Year.