A wedding is one of the main events in a person’s life. And every bride dreams that the celebration will be perfect. While preparing the wedding menu, special attention pay attention to choosing a cake that will be the main decoration of the entire event. The dessert is selected taking into account the wedding style - it can be single-tiered or multi-tiered, with cream or fruit.
A wedding cake is the sweetest and most important attribute of the entire holiday, because all guests look forward to it. Before purchasing a dessert, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with a number of secrets and subtleties of choosing it. The most important thing is to order the “right” cake, the taste of which every guest can appreciate. Thanks to the wide selection of wedding cake designs, every couple will be able to choose just the perfect cake for themselves, all that matters is. Consider the following nuances:
- Shape – can be in the form of a heart, square, circle, rectangle. Choose what you like.
- Cakes – it’s better to opt for sponge cake.
- Filling - it all depends on your personal taste preferences.
- For a summer wedding, give preference to light desserts - for example, a soufflé cake, a cake with butter cream, which will not spoil quickly in the heat.
- For a winter holiday, choose soaked cake layers and cream fillings.
- Size and weight of dessert. The pastry chef will help you calculate these indicators correctly (approximately 100-150 grams per guest).
- Decoration. This can be decorated with fruits or rosettes made of cream.
- Color. Choose it in accordance with the style of the celebration or with the shades of the bride's dress.
Stand and number of tiers
The retail chain offers desserts of various shapes - rectangular, oval, square, round, triangular, heart-shaped, star-shaped. There is a wide choice of cake heights - from one to five tier culinary masterpieces. On top, figurines of young people, fresh fruits, custard, chocolate, flowers, hearts, and doves can be used for decoration. Inscriptions are often placed in the center and sides of the dessert. For example, wishes for the newlyweds, names of spouses or wedding proverbs.
In the 19th century, the first multi-tiered cake appeared and since then it has been the most important dessert on the wedding table. It must be remembered that the number of layers directly depends on the total weight of the dessert itself:
- weight less than 4 kilos – 1 tier;
- weight 5 kilos – 2 tiers;
- weight up to 8 kilos – 3 tiers;
- weight 10 kilos – 4 tiers;
- weight more than 12 kilos - 5 tiers.
The classic and optimal version of a wedding cake is only three tiers. If you have opted for more complex compositions, you need to think about the intricate, interesting connections that hold each tier together - these could be shelves, ladders, simple stands. For an additional fee, you can rent wedding figurines of the newlyweds, who will make appearance dessert more original, solemn. Thanks to their use, each layer of the cake will be easy to cut and distribute to guests.
Design color and filling
When deciding on the color scheme of your wedding cake, you can choose almost any shade that you like best - from snow-white tones to bright neon. However, the presence of unnatural colors indicates the addition of artificial dyes, which can provoke a severe allergic reaction in the most sensitive guests.
A completely snow-white wedding cake will not look very expressive, sometimes too pale. After all, its beautiful reliefs will not be visible in the video and photo, they will simply be blurred and begin to resemble one large pale spot. The ideal option for a wedding dessert would be a combination of blue, pink or chocolate with white - this is a noble classic that will always look tasteful and stylish.
You can add brightness to the cake by decorating it with a variety of fruits and berries. The dessert looks beautiful and interesting, chosen according to the color wedding dress bride, if she refused a snow-white outfit. The decoration of the baked goods must fully comply with the overall style of the event. For the filling, it is best to choose sweet and sour fruits and berries (raspberries, apricots, peaches), and strawberries and chopped nuts will be a wonderful decoration for the dessert.
Decoration and decor in accordance with the wedding style
When choosing decor for a wedding cake, pay attention to the features different options– start with traditional fruits, as well as everyone’s favorite chocolate, and end with marzipan and sweet mastic. Multi-tiered desserts should have a special stand to make it convenient to cut them, and the design chosen for baking should be fully compatible with the overall style of the wedding and decorations. If your cake weighs no more than 6 kilos, you can put one layer on top of another, but with a larger weight it will simply flatten.
To decorate both multi-tiered and single-tiered wedding cakes, in almost all cases rings, beautiful figurines of doves, swans, and newlyweds are used. If you want to make an unusual dessert, instead of traditional figurines of the bride and groom, use fairy-tale characters or give preference to modern interpretations. For example, it could be a couple of drivers or young people on a motorcycle. Use stories and images from here life together or a general hobby.
If you decide to complement your wedding cake not only with a variety of fruits, but also with figurines, they will only stick on a flat, hard surface. Therefore, the top cake should be covered with sweet icing, marmalade, chocolate or other sweets that hold their shape well. You need to decorate a wedding cake taking into account the style in which the celebration is held - roses, bows, fruits, etc. In the summer, a combination of fruits looks beautiful: apples, grapes, strawberries, currants, cherries.
Recipe for a delicious wedding cake with fruits
You can order your wedding cake from the bakery, but there is also the option to prepare it with my own hands Houses. Choose an idea for your idea - shortbread cake, waffle, jellied dessert, sponge cake, soufflé or meringue. To make homemade baked goods not only tasty, but also beautiful, use seasonal fruits, cookies, cream, marshmallows, and gelatin for decoration. To make a homemade wedding cake you will need the following products:
- sugar – 425-435 g
- softened butter – 1.25-1.5 kg
- vanilla sugar – 42-45 g
- syrup (cherry, lemon, strawberry) – 175-185 g
- eggs – 28-30 pcs.
- starch – 142-147 g
- water – 12-16 tbsp. l.
- peach jam – 980-1000 g
- flour – 415-425 g
- powdered sugar – 630-655 g
- baking powder – 22-27 g
Preparation:
- We make the dough for the cakes - take 15 eggs, separate the whites from the yolks.
- Using a mixer, beat the yolks until a thick foam forms.
- Gradually add water in small portions.
- Add sugar (235-240 g), baking powder, starch, sifted flour. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly until we get a mass of homogeneous consistency.
- With the remaining sugar, beat the whites with a mixer (a stable foam should form), then gradually add them to the dough, knead everything very carefully with soft circular movements.
- Use for baking round shapes, which should be of different diameters so that the wedding cake has several tiers (from the given ingredients you will get 4-5 cakes).
- Grease the inside of the pan thoroughly with a small amount of butter and sprinkle with flour so that the cakes do not burn.
- Pour in the dough and level it out.
- Bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for about 50 minutes (periodically check the readiness of the baked goods with a wooden toothpick or skewer).
- We leave the finished cakes for a while so that they cool slightly, then soak the halves of each portion with cherry or strawberry syrup (natural yogurt, mascarpone cheese, condensed milk, sour cream can replace it).
- Grease all the cakes with jam and carefully place them one on top of the other.
- Take the remaining eggs and separate the whites from the yolks.
- Mix the pre-softened butter with vanilla sugar, add the remaining syrup, and beat thoroughly using a mixer.
- Lubricate the cake on all sides with the resulting thick cream, and use a knife to make the layer as even as possible.
- A seasonal fruit basket offers a chance to create variety and bright decoration ready-made cake, canned pineapple is perfect.
- Using gelatin, you can pour any fruit on the top layer - it will be very beautiful and tasty.
- Homemade cakes are also decorated with cream roses.
Photos of wedding cakes with berries and fruits 2017
Video: curd cake with fruit without baking
You don't have to spend time baking to make a delicious wedding cake. Use a simpler version of dessert - cottage cheese cake with fruit. For a detailed recipe and the intricacies of preparing such a delicate and incredibly tasty delicacy, watch the following video:
When choosing a wedding cake, many newlyweds have a lot of questions. Of course, you can’t do without the central element of the holiday - the cake, however, before deciding on the final design and filling, you should familiarize yourself with various options.
A popular trend today is cakes decorated with fruit. Fruits are products with universal properties that have an unsurpassed taste on their own, and in combination with exquisite cake fillings they will add extraordinary beauty and aroma to the holiday product.
In the catalog of our website you will find a lot of options for cakes decorated with fresh berries and fruits. Don’t think that fruit decor looks cheap and too simple. The masters of our confectionery will make a cake decorated with berries and fruits to order, the appearance and taste of which will delight you and your guests.
It is worth noting that the tradition of decorating desserts with fruits came to us from ancient times, and today, in combination with modern technologies and tools took on a completely different look. We were able to create the optimal combination of old and new and offer you the best wedding cakes in St. Petersburg at sweet prices.
A fruit or berry cake will be an excellent design solution for a wedding in any style. You can order a cake on the website without prepayment, and to prevent it from spoiling in the heat, indicate the exact delivery time in St. Petersburg.
It's summer, and around the wedding, Mendelssohn's march is constantly playing in my kitchen, because I'm making a wedding cake again! This time it's a naked cake! Why naked? Yes, because without coating, in the most cakey nature! After a hearty feast, the young people did not want a cake with cream or sugar mastic, and I didn’t mind!
So, let's start preparing a naked wedding cake with berries and fruits with a sponge cake.
I concluded that the eggs don’t need to be refrigerated for this sponge cake, because I didn’t notice much of a difference. If you have a great kitchen machine, then don't think about it! Place the eggs in a bowl and add a little salt (on the tip of a knife). Beat until increased by 3-4 times!
Then add sugar and vanillin in two additions, constantly whisking.
Pour the flour and baking powder into the egg mixture in two additions and stir only with a spatula - using the folding method. Gently work from bottom to top so that the mixture retains its airiness.
Pour in 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and the same amount of boiling water, mix with a spatula, and our tender biscuit dough is ready.
I pour the first portion into a mold with a diameter of 16 cm - for the top tier. I bake for 40-45 minutes at 170 degrees.
I make the dough two more times and bake it twice in a mold with a diameter of 26 cm.
I cool everything upside down. This will prevent your cakes from settling due to temperature changes.
All biscuits are ready. Let's leave them overnight and assemble the cake in the morning!
There’s no need to leave the kitchen yet, we need to cook the impregnation. To do this, heat the sugar and water and boil until the sugar is completely dissolved. For flavor, add a little liqueur of your choice or rum.
Let's prepare jelly for the cream. You can use ready-made jelly in bags, but add 2 times less water than indicated on the bag. I prepared the jelly solution myself. It's cherry season, and I took a glass of cherry juice and filled it with water to 300 ml. Added sugar (0.5 cup) and instant gelatin (25 grams), let it swell, combined with juice, heated and strained. Let the jelly cool to room temperature.
Beat 200 ml of cold cream with 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff peaks form and place in a pastry envelope. I want the frosting on the sides of the cake to be white.
Whip the remaining chilled cream. Separately, beat sour cream with powdered sugar. Add cream to sour cream and stir. Then pour in the cooled jelly and beat.
You will get this dense cream of pale pink color.
Now cut each biscuit into 2 layers. And we cut the sponge cake for the top tier with a diameter of 16 cm into 4 layers. We soak each cake with our syrup and assemble the cake like this... Apply a little cream to the base so that the cake does not “run away” from the base, and place the bottom cake. We make a dam of cream along the edge so that the pink sour cream does not come out and spoil our color scheme.
Place pink cream in the middle.
And we continue to the top. Lubricate the top with cream and pierce the tier with a skewer. The skewer will keep the cakes from moving. Place in the refrigerator for several hours to stabilize. In this way we assemble both tiers. I do this in the evening, and in the morning I will decorate the cake. In the lower tier I inserted cocktail straws at the height of the tier. This is done in order to avoid the cake sagging under the top tier. In this case, the top tier should be on a cardboard cake base.
In the morning we assemble the cake.
Wash and dry the fruits for the cake.
We will need a neutral pastry gel. You can use it to secure the berries on the cake and lubricate the cut of the fruit, “sealing” the cut.
All that remains is to place the berries and fruits on the cake. Decorate with sprigs of rosemary and our naked wedding cake with berries and fruits is ready! The aroma of rosemary is such that your head is spinning!
I love summer very much for its bounty of colors and riot of flavors!
Fruit wedding cakes are not necessarily characterized by fruity flavors. Of course, classic cakes with fruit fillings are traditional wedding favorites. But fruit cakes are something else. In this case, the gifts of nature are used to decorate and decorate the festive delicacy. In other words, they act as a design element rather than as a menu component.
Fruits can be used as decoration for any type of cake. Forest fruits are endowed with a rich range of colors. A wide variety allows you to play with shades and combine individual textures.
The tropics boast an equally assortment of exotic fruits. This is not only an outlandish taste, but also unusual shapes, bright colors. The professional hands of the pastry chef will skillfully decorate the cake with pineapples, mangoes, and carambola, creating a real work of art.
There are only a few restrictions for decorating with fruits, so this design can be chosen at almost any time of the year (of course, the price of seasonal fruits will differ significantly). Several examples perfectly illustrate the beauty of fruit decor.
Forest extravaganza
A multi-tiered white or dark chocolate cake decorated with fresh blueberries, blueberries, cherries, and flowers is a great example of a wedding cake with an unusual flavor combination that will forever leave wonderful memories for the guests and the bride and groom.
Wedding chocolate cakes with berries
Orchard
The free space of wedding multi-tiered cakes is decorated with a scattering of fruits self made or natural fruits: peaches, pears, bananas, oranges, apples. Ribbons and flowers can add a special elegance to a wedding cake with fruit.
Wedding cakes decorated with grapes, figs, pears
Pear fantasies
Another idea for decorating a wedding cake: small green pears made of marzipan mass, as if carelessly scattered around each tier, and real green pears proudly reign on top of the festive beauty. Fresh pear fruits are also magnificent, decorating either the top of the cake or each of its tier.
Wedding cakes decorated with pears
Apple temptation
Apple decoration on a wedding cake is no less beautiful than pear decor. Don't limit yourself to just green: adding red, you get great option for an autumn wedding.
Wedding cakes decorated with apples
Paradise Fruits
A multi-tiered wedding cake with fresh grapes looks amazing. The combination will be perfectly complemented by any berries.
Wedding cakes decorated with grapes
Fairy basket
For a wedding in rustic style a real find There will be a cake in the form of a basket filled with fruits and berries. In general, based on the availability of apples, their trendiness is wedding decoration cannot but rejoice. If you don’t like fresh fruits, you can always use copies made from mastic.
Wedding cakes in the form of a basket
Heartfelt gift
An elegant shaped cake decorated with fruits, berries, flowers or a pair of beautiful swans is one of best ideas wedding cakes or gifts for loved ones.
Heart shaped wedding cakes
