Dough Attractions

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Whether you make pie, fruit pie or other pastries, there is always a little dough left. If you knead and roll it and delve into your imagination, you can turn the leftovers into wonderful decorations to give a colorful look to the cookies.

Forms and leaves: use dough cutters or cookie cutters to cut out different shapes. You can cut them with a sharp knife or knead them by hand. Choose such forms that suit the filling - fish for fish pie, bouquets of small vegetables for vegetable pie. To make the leaves, roll out the dough as thin as you can, otherwise the leaves lose their shape while baking. Use a cookie cutter in the form of a sheet and cut the dough into strips, then cut it diagonally into diamonds of equal size. Outline the leaf veins with the blade of a knife.

Flower decorations: if you are going to make a chrysanthemum, cut a strip of dough measuring 15 x 5 cm. Cut it into fringes on one side, starting with long and ending with short fringes. Spread the base with beaten egg and wrap the dough, starting with the long fringes. Spread the fringes aside and place the chrysanthemum upright on the pie crust.

Apple pie: can be decorated with an apple twig with leaves. Knead balls of apple batter and cut the leaves. Use cloves for apple stalks. Roll out the dough with the palm of your hand to form twigs. Fold the twigs around the center of the pie, place the apples and leaves along its length.

Finishing decorations

After decorating the pie or pie, spread icing to give the pastry an attractive golden color. Use a beaten egg or yolk dissolved in a little water or milk or just milk. Optionally, you can add a pinch of salt for savory pies and powdered sugar for desserts.

Cutting and folding the edges: used to pinch the double layers of soft dough. Make light incisions at the edges - so the dough rises better. Squeeze the dough lightly with your thumb and forefinger and slide the knife between your two fingers to fold the edges.

Decoration ideas: use three long strips of dough, pinched together at one end and braided to decorate the end of the pie. Knead small balls of dough and place them where the arcs form. Cut petals into shapes or shape them by hand. Put balls of dough to represent small fruits. Make a twig with two petals and 3-4 fruits and place it around the edge of the pie.

Fish Pie: To decorate a fish pie, draw the tail and mouth with a sharp knife and make incisions at the bottom. Form an eye out of a dough ball. With the tip of a knife, draw semicircles on the dough to represent the fish scales.