Mastic is a sweet plastic mass made from powdered sugar, water and other ingredients. The recipe may contain gelatin, condensed milk, food colors. One of them will help make a flesh-colored mastic.
How to make flesh-colored mastic
It is easy to mold figures of people from mastic, which are then used to decorate a wedding cake. Their faces and hands should be flesh-colored for the figures to look natural.
Food colors do not please with a variety of colors. Depending on what saturation the flesh color is required, a drop of brown dye is added to the finished mastic. Then you get a soft flesh color. In addition to a drop of brown, a drop of blue and red dye. In this case, the color will be more saturated.
Improving the color
In any case, first one drop of dye is added to the prepared mastic, which has a white color, and the mass is well mixed. If it turns out pale, then you need to add another drop of brown and mix again.
If you overdid it with the dye and the flesh color turned out to be too dark, then white mastic will help out. But do not rush to add it to the entire darkened mass. Take a little at first, mix with light. If the color suits, then in the same ratio white mastic is added to the rest of the dark one.
An excellent way out of the situation will be white marshmallows. They are placed on a plate, placed briefly in the microwave and removed when the mass is melted. This is an excellent base for mastic. Light candies will also help if more brown dye was added to the mass than needed.
Marshmallow mastic will help out if you want a lily to flaunt on the surface of the cake. You can make smeshariki from cartoons from such mastic. These figurines will decorate your child's birthday cake.
You can involve children in the creation of mastic, but there is a small nuance. If they sculpt the details with their hands, then some of the dye will remain on the palms. It will not be so easy to mix it later.
It is better to sculpt from colored mastic in rubber medical gloves, then your hands will remain clean.
After the figures are sculpted from mastic, you need to moisten your hands in water and run them over the sweets, then the mastic will shine, and the sweet masterpieces will look amazing.
