Contents:

• Vanilla Glaze
• Custard frosting
• Caramel glaze
• Lemon Glaze
• Orange Glaze
• Creamy glaze
• Professional color glaze
• Gingerbread Glaze
• Coffee Glaze
• Chocolate glaze
• Yolk glaze

"The final touch ... dab ... artist ... canvas ... 'Yes, painting, like poetry is beautiful. And if the artist never knows how it will be the finishing touch of his paintings, the artist pastry is always what he do. And in his "art" is often the final touch is the icing that covers cakes, cookies, muffins, cakes and cookies.

And it is here that we, cooks, artists - the place to turn in all their creative power. After the glaze can be very, very different. Of course, all of it is based on sugar or powdered sugar, but it is added starch or egg white, milk or cream, sour cream or butter, cocoa or coffee, vanilla or fruit juice. And the icing can be white, colored or transparent, sour or sentimental, shiny or matte. And all the pastries with icing turns out not only especially tasty, but especially elegant. And that is why people invented a lot of various recipes icing. Here are just a few of them.

Vanilla Glaze

Recipe of the traditional version of icing sugar, not counting her "royal" execution. It fits perfectly to any baking and even the Easter cakes.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (half a cup)
• Milk (teaspoon)
• Salt (a pinch)
• Butter (teaspoon)
• Vanilla

Preparation:

Melt the butter and add the remaining ingredients. Stir until creamy. Melt the butter in a skillet, add to it milk and salt dissolve the powdered sugar. All stir until the consistency of sour cream or cream. The finished glaze put vanilla. If the mass is too thick, it is possible to add milk if the liquid - powdered sugar.

Custard frosting

This glaze is based on sugar and egg whites. It turns out it is dazzling white, smooth and shiny. Applied to the chilled pastry, which brew the icing dries quickly.

Ingredients:

• Sugar (glass)
• Egg whites (4 pcs.)

Preparation:

We organize a water bath. Proteins pour into a bowl, add to them the sugar and stir in the water bath for five minutes. Then heed the glaze from the heat and continue beating for another five to seven minutes

Caramel glaze

Recipe unusually delicious glaze on the basis of brown sugar and powdered sugar. Video and tastes like caramel.

Ingredients:

• Brown sugar (half a cup)
• Powdered sugar (cup)
• Butter (2 tbsp. L.)
• Milk (3 tbsp. L.)
• Vanilla

Preparation:

Melt the butter in a skillet (pan), pour it into the milk and dissolve the brown sugar. Give a boil and boil for one minute. Sugar-oil mixture and remove from heat add half a cup of powdered sugar. Stir well, cool, put the vanilla and the remaining powder. Beat again to finished glaze.

Lemon Glaze

This icing is different characteristic lemon flavor. Her recipe has a lot of advantages compared with other, as this gives the glaze finished baking juicy acidity.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (3 cups)
• Butter oil (100 g)
• Lemon juice (2 tablespoons)

Preparation:

Oil, fresh lemon juice and powdered sugar, and mix thoroughly whisk until fluffy. If necessary, add a little more juice or powder.

Orange Glaze

This liquid glaze made from orange juice and powdered sugar. She gently turns orange, baking spreads itself, impregnates her, and stiffens thin layer.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (part-time cup)
• Orange juice (3-4 tablespoons)

Preparation:

Juice squeeze themselves (bags will not work). Pour the juice into a saucepan and gradually add powdered sugar to it. That's (powdered juice, and not vice versa!). Mix the powder with orange juice, podsypaya it to the right consistency. Orange icing should get a little liquid to easily spread on baking.

Creamy glaze

This recipe is not too hard and not too soft glaze, which is suitable for any baking. In addition, it is convenient to tint.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (2 cups)
• Fatty cream (half a cup)
• Butter (tablespoon)
• Vanilla

Preparation:

Cream poured into a pan, put the oil to heat up, and all over medium heat until butter is melted. Then pour the hot cream powdered sugar, add vanilla and beat with a mixer all. Beat until cool and glaze the right consistency (thick and homogeneous).

Professional color glaze

This glaze is used by professional confectioners. When hardening it becomes solid and perfectly retains all the bright colors. Perfect for cookies and glazing Prints on cakes and cupcakes.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (cup)
• Milk (2 teaspoons)
• Sugar syrup (2 teaspoons)
• Almond extract (a quarter of a teaspoon)
• Food colorings

Preparation:

Powdered sugar mixed with milk to the state of a soft paste. Then add to it the sugar syrup (corn or invert), and flavor and start whisking until the icing will not become shiny and smooth. Spread frosting on the cups and add to each cup of dye desired. The more dye put, the richer and brighter turn color. For enrobing of biscuits dipped it in the colored glaze, or smear it with a brush. To paint lay in sweet icing syringe and are color drawings on the cake or cookies.

Gingerbread Glaze

Amazingly delicious gingerbread with icing and a translucent white monogram-divorce. Without it, and stick - not Gingerbread! A part of it is ridiculously simple: water and sugar. It is important secret of making glazes and glazing method of gingerbread.

Ingredients:

• Sugar (glass)
• Water (half a cup)

Preparation:

We pour water into a saucepan, dissolve the sugar in it, bring to a boil and boil, removing the foam, until large bubbles transparent (they appear at a temperature of about 110 degrees syrup). Cooled glaze and add flavorings (vanilla, almond, rum). Cooled to a still quite hot state: finger suffers, but it is very hot. Getting glazing. On the large gingerbread and gingerbread glaze applied with a brush. Small gingerbread simply immerse in the syrup, stir gently and take out with a slotted spoon. We spread the gingerbread on the grid to stack extra syrup and the remaining frozen and turned into gingerbread icing.

Coffee Glaze

This recipe for icing, pretending to elegance. The taste of coffee, the aroma of coffee, coffee color, and finished by baked - very elegant.

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (2 cups)
• Strong coffee (3 tablespoons)
• Butter (tablespoon)

Preparation:

We brew strong coffee. To heighten the effect should not take instant and fresh ground. Coffee Let cool. We give a little melted butter to make it soft. Mix the butter with powdered sugar and coffee until smooth.

Chocolate glaze

This is only one recipe for chocolate. In fact there are many more, but this could not be better corresponds to the concept of "icing".

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (2 cups)
• Milk (4 tbsp. L.)
• Cocoa powder (2 tbsp. L.)
• Butter (1 tbsp. L.)
• Vanilla

Preparation:

To add the soft butter icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla. Thoroughly rub and slowly pour the milk, stirring until smooth.

Yolk glaze

Not a very common recipe icing. Everything is of the proteins, but of proteins. And if we do not try and egg yolks put to use?

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar (half a cup)
• Sugar (half cup)
• Egg yolks (2 pcs.)
• Water (2 tbsp. L.)

Preparation:

We pour the egg yolks in a saucepan, pour back the powdered sugar and whisk until frothy. Sugar and water are mixed in another saucepan and cook the syrup (to cook the sample on a thread). Ready syrup to cool to a warm state, and gradually introduce him whipped yolks. The finished glaze can not be stored. It hardens quickly and therefore should be used immediately.

These are different recipes for icing sugar, which will be the finishing touch to your pastry creation. Dare, invent, try, create!