Modern wedding cakes are a real masterpiece of confectionery art. For a long time the traditional decoration in the form of a layer of white cream or sugar glaze has gone into the past, and on top are bright oil roses and "touching" curling patterns. The use of new technologies in the design of each wedding cake allows you to realize the most unusual fantasies.
What ingredients are used to bake wedding cakes? Thin cakes of biscuit, soufflé or parfait to taste perfectly harmonize with a layer of light cream based on yogurt. As an ornament, you can choose a sponge cake and fresh fruit. This combination is not only amazingly tasty, but not too high in calories - which is important for dessert.
Wedding cakes from mastic: ideas of festive decor
Confectionery mastic is a special plastic material used to decorate cakes. With the help of painted mastic, you can create a variety of decor elements (flowers, paintings, figurines, inscriptions), sometimes turning into whole complex compositions. What is in the mastic? Gelatin, sugar powder, food additives and edible natural dyes - in combination these components can "turn" the wedding cake into the main decoration of the festive table.
Fillings for wedding cakes - choose the best!
Filling is the main "highlight" of any cake, the correct choice of which depends on the overall impression of the festive dessert. Of course, everyone has their own taste preferences. So you need to try to choose the most acceptable option, which everyone will like at the wedding banquet. So, what do confectioners offer? Consider the most delicious filling options for wedding cakes.
Fruit and berry
The filling for a cake of fresh fruits or berries always gives the dessert a unique taste of summer. These nature gifts are used as an ingredient for the preparation of cream, and as the main filling - fruit soufflé.
Biscuit wedding cake will acquire a delicious taste, if the cakes grease with freshly prepared berry mousse (strawberry, blackberry, blueberry). Do not forget about impregnation! For this purpose, brandy, liqueur or sweet syrup is suitable.
Curd and yoghurt
The filling of the wedding cake from cottage cheese is tender and light, which is perfectly combined with many types of cakes (biscuit, poppy cakes, cheesecake). Yoghurt mousse with berry filler is also amazingly suitable for filling cakes and other desserts. Stunningly tasty and low-calorie!
Cream - sour cream or cream
The classic version of the filling for the cake. However, for the preparation of such cream sour cream should be the freshest - otherwise the dessert will acquire an acidic taste. In the summer heat, sour cream or cream should be prepared before the start of the celebration, and the lubricated cake must be taken to a cool place.
Wedding Cake Decoration
There are several ways to decorate a cake, using different materials and delicious decorative elements. Here opens a wide field for the confectioner's fantasy. So, let's start creating a masterpiece!
Chocolate glaze
For cooking, you will need butter, condensed milk and cocoa powder - we take 1 glass each time. We melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat, add condensed milk and cocoa powder. Ingredients, stirring constantly, cook a couple of minutes. When the glaze is ready, we put it on the surface of the cake. To successfully darken the dark chocolate color, we add ornaments from mother-of-pearl beads, mastic flowers, fresh fruits or berries. With chocolate icing, the most beautiful wedding cakes are obtained.
Sugar Mastic
Decorate the wedding cake can be colored or white mastic, from which it is also easy to make different figures and objects for decoration. Ingredients for mastic: powdered milk (160 g), powdered sugar (160 g), condensed milk (200 g), lemon juice (2 - 3 tablespoons), cognac (1 tsp).
Sift through a sieve powdered sugar - better twice. Add the milk powder and mix. Then we pour condensed milk and begin to gently knead the dough, gradually adding lemon juice. After 10 minutes, you should get an elastic mass of a pleasant light matte shade, which if necessary can be "colored" with colored food colors.
Now we begin to decorate the wedding cake. One option is to cover the surface of the cake with light mastic, and then decorate with figures of colored material.