How to make a heart shape for baking?

Delicious pastries are one of the most favorite treats of any festive table. Different shapes and colors, muffins, pies, cakes, muffins, cookies - you can cook a lot of this and love it. Sweet, salty, fruit, vegetable, with fillings and without them - there is always where to go for a fantasy. But nevertheless, one of the important tools is the baking dish, because it is she who creates funny and unpretentious figures for your cooking recipes. Often, ready-made forms are not always at hand, and sometimes just for theme parties and birthdays for children, shapes in the form of letters, numbers, flowers, and various animals are needed. In our article, we will help you understand all the intricacies of how to make a heart shape for baking, and other forms with your own hands. We hope that our tips and tricks will help you create a real holiday for family and friends. The best part is that we will create all our forms from accessible and sometimes not quite necessary objects and materials.

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Tin Cans Shape

So, to create a container for baking a cake with your own hands, we need the following materials:

• several cans;
• ruler and pliers;
• scissors for metal.

Let's get to work:

1. The upper and lower parts of the cans are cut with scissors.
2. The resulting cylinders are cut lengthwise so that in the end we get flat tin sheets.
3. After they are cut into equal strips with a width of about 15 cm.
4. We connect these cavities with pliers to each other until we get a shape the size we need.

A similar baking dish made from a can can remain flat for baking a round cake or become patterned - it all depends on your imagination.

Important! It is necessary to carefully fix the edges, so that after baking it was easier to take out our dessert from the mold. This baking dish can be used many times.

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How to make heart blanks for baking from improvised materials?

Each holiday we associate with certain symbols: Birthday - candles, Wedding day - rings, and most often we use hearts for Valentine's Day. And of course, cookies or gingerbreads in the shape of hearts will be sweet

reminders of your feelings.

Materials for work:

• sharp scissors or a clerical knife;
• empty tin can;
• ruler;
• marker.

Let's start the master class:

1. With a clerical knife or scissors, we cut out the bottom and top of the can.
2. Cut along the perimeter evenly - we get a rectangle.
3. On it, we mark with a marker the width of the stripes that we need, about 2-5 cm.
4. We cut them and form a heart.

Important! You can use this baking dish with your own hands not only for direct baking, they can also cut figures from dough and other products. When forming hearts, pay attention that the colored part of the jar does not come into contact with the dough. For convenience, we recommend that you draw the desired pattern on a piece of paper in advance - in this case, the heart, and form a blank from the tin strip.

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Round baking dish

The irreplaceable form for our culinary experiments remains round. And here is one way to do this with your own hands.

Materials for work:

• two empty plastic bottles of 1.5 l;
• large stapler;
• sharp scissors.

Master Class:

1. Scissors cut the neck and bottom of the bottle.
2. After we cut along the entire length to get rectangular parts.
3. Fold them and fix with a stapler.
4. Free edges are brought together, connected in the same way.

As a result, we get a split mold for a round cake.

Important! It can be used to make desserts without baking or to squeeze a round biscuit.

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Bake vegetables

For your vegetable side dishes, we also have advice: how and what to make a mold for such a dish.

Prepare the following materials:

• food cardboard;
• foil;
• food paper;
• scissors and stapler.

Let's get started:

1. First, cut out the bottom for a future shape.
2. The rectangle should be large.
3. Cut out strips of paper - the width should be slightly larger than the height of the cake. We connect them to obtain the desired size.
4. On the basis of the need to make small cuts along the bottom edge to fix the shape.
5. We bend them and fasten to the base with the help of a stapler.

Important! To prevent the dough from sticking, it is recommended to put parchment paper inside the resulting form.

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DIY aluminum baking dish

One of the reliable and reusable options is aluminum billet for cutting cookies and any other pastries. Done fast enough.

Important! Be sure to wear gloves before working with this material. Be careful not to cut yourself with the edges of the workpiece.

Materials for work:

• aluminum molds for the oven;
• scissors for metal;
• marker, pencil, ruler;
• clothes pegs;
• Super glue;
• pliers;
• paper;
• tight gloves;
• cardboard rectangle for stripes 4 cm wide.

Master Class:

1. Remove the side edges of the form. We apply a cardboard template (4 cm) with a marker marker to draw a strip on an aluminum sheet.
2. In the middle of the resulting rectangle, we draw another line, we get two rectangles of 2 cm each. They will subsequently help us to shape the workpiece.
3. Cut off the excess part of the sheet, a rectangle remains.
4. We bend the longitudinal edges of the sheet in the middle, where our middle line passes.
5. After we fold the workpiece with the sharp ends inward.
6. Smooth with a scissors handle to align our rectangle.
7. We draw on paper a sketch of the form that we want to receive.
8. Next, we attach our aluminum tape and form a baking dish along the outline of the drawing.
9. We glue the free ends with superglue and fix with a clothespin until it dries completely.

Important! Now you can safely use this form to cut out various cookies and arrange different themed holidays, because numbers, letters, a house, flowers - all this you can easily cut using your home-made patterns.

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Crystal glasses for the decoration of cookies

The easiest and fastest way to transform your pastry for baking and give it a festive look is glasses or wine glasses, preferably with a pronounced pattern.

Materials you need:

• Dough;
• Glasses, wine glasses.

Master Class:

1. We roll out the dough - you choose the thickness yourself.
2. Using the bottom of the glasses, we press round cookies on the dough. Depending on which drawing you have at the bottom, we get such baked goods.
3. We lay them on a baking sheet and bake.

So, without any tricks, we got interesting sweets in shape.

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Capacity for tartlets

A beautiful and very interesting form of baking is obtained in the form of small bowls, which can be filled with fruit, vegetable, as well as cream fillings.

The following materials are needed:

• cupcake baking dish;
• dough.

Master Class:

• Turn the cupcake pan upside down.
• Roll out the dough into small round cakes.
• We wrap each form in the dough and smooth.
• Set to bake at the right time.

The resulting tartlets are stuffed to taste. You can decorate them with berries and a leaf of mint.

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Molds for batter

If you do not have cupcake molds, then it is very simple and easy to replace them with foil molds.

Materials for work:

• an empty glass bottle of any size that suits you;
• foil;
• scissors;
• an elastic band for notes (or what is).

Let's get started:

1. We wrap the bottom of the bottle with foil, attaching an elastic band at the desired height.
2. Cut off the excess, wrap the edges of our shape.
3. Fill the dough, set to bake.

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Tubing molds

In this case, we will need cutlery:

• two spoons for each tube;
• rolled dough.

We do the following:

1. Cut the dough sheet into strips of 2-3 cm.
2. Double the spoons wrapped with dough, forming a spiral.
3. We put it on a baking sheet and bake in the oven.

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Paper baking dish

Such preparation requires more time, but as a result, it will delight you with delicious cakes.

Prepare the following materials:

• food paper;
• scissors;
• water;
• metal base of any shape.

Master Class:

1. Cut the desired shape from the parchment.
2. We apply several layers of wet paper, carefully press.
3. Leave to dry completely.
4. We separate the paper forms from the metal base, and we can safely start cooking.

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Of the many options that we have described above for you, we think you will be able to find something suitable for yourself. Try and experiment with different forms, it is quite possible that you will have your own original ways of creating new and interesting options with your own hands. Good luck