Wedding cake figurines - original and individual cake decorations for honeymooners

The culmination of each wedding celebration is the cutting of the cake, which is why the design of a sweet dessert should be given special attention. Cake can be baked in different styles, but it is always relevant and effectively looks pastry works with figurines.

Traditionally, they try to turn a wedding cake into a real culinary masterpiece. The main trend of recent years has become a multi-tiered treats, the top of which is decorated with figures that personify the newlyweds or symbolize the power of feelings and mutual love between the newlyweds. Figures are edible and inedible:

• edible made from caramel, mastic, dough, chocolate, marzipan or candy mass;
• inedible most often made of porcelain, plastic, polymer clay or ceramics.

If new spouses want to keep the memory of the celebration for many years, it is better to give preference to inedible decorations, but if you are determined to share the most appetizing pieces of wedding treats with your guests, then you should choose options for food materials.

The variant with the figures depicting the bride and groom is considered a classic. "Young" can hug, hold hands, kiss, ride a wedding car or dance. As a rule, they reflect the lifestyle of the newlyweds and their character.

Most often, young people are depicted in traditional wedding dresses in black and white colors, but some newlyweds do not look for easy ways and tend to stand out, so their desserts are crowned by men and women in the form of swans, Adam and Eve costumes, small Cupids or in some alternative options. In the second place in popularity are the figures of pigeons, swans and images of wedding rings with hearts.

Wedding cakes are often decorated with figures of famous cartoon characters. This option is optimal for those who are bored with the standard canons of a wedding celebration and for those who want to make their holiday truly fun and perky. Young people with a good sense of humor will certainly appreciate Minions, Prince and Cinderella, Mickey and Minnie Mausov, as well as Shrek with Fiona and Rapunzel with Eugene.

The funniest jokes are based on self-irony and self-criticism, so when using humorous décor, you can cheer up not only young but also all guests. Not necessarily funny figures should have a great external resemblance to the young, moreover, they are often made caricatured. For example, brides are very popular. who caught the groom on the bait, or the girls who are dragging the rested young man in the registry office.

There are some more popular ideas of such figures:

• a bride carrying in the arms of her beloved spouse;
• drunken spouses;
• the bridegroom, stepping on the long veil of his young wife;
• a man who helps his companion to get to the top tier of the cake.

In recent years, jewelry has become quite popular, representing the intertwined names of the newlyweds or their monograms. Thus, the decor emphasizes the uniqueness of the celebration and the address of the confectionery masterpiece. Depending on the concept of a sweet dessert, these can be full names, common surname, capital letters. At the same time, they can be located side by side, intertwined or closed in one ring. Short greeting texts and wedding wishes look very impressive.

Edible figurines for wedding cakes make for several popular technologies. Figurines made of white and black chocolate, as well as neat decorative elements of marzipan can be an excellent decoration. A stylish composition can be obtained by mixing cream and sugar, and swans made from meringue are considered the pinnacle of confectionery art.

However, the most popular for making figurines is mastic. It is used not only to create figures, it also makes all sorts of inscriptions and cake decorations. The material is a homogeneous plastic mass with a viscous texture. It can be purchased ready-made, but you can do it yourself. There are several recipes for making mastic.

• Honey - it is created on the basis of liquid honey. The peculiarity of the product is that such mastic is not frayed or crumbled.
• Dairy - Condensed milk is taken as a basis.
• Gelatinous - this product is used to create bulky and complex compositions.

How to make yourself?

• To prepare the figurines for a wedding cake, first you need to build a wire frame. First, the wire is twisted in the shape of a circle, while its diameter will correspond to the diameter of the future dress of the bride. The rest of it should be bent so that a right angle forms and one of its ends remains in the center of the circle.
• After this, it is necessary to wrap it with white mastic so that the semblance of the dress is young.
• One of the wires should be wrapped not along, but across the frame, it will become the basis for the bride's hands - they are wrapped in mastic of a beige shade, which is more like a natural body color.

• The head is made separately, also in a beige version, and then fixed to the shoulders. Do not forget that even a sweet and edible bride should remain a woman - give her forms all the necessary roundness. To do this, roll two balls, attach them in front, and on top cover with a thin white layer.
• The bride should definitely make her hair and a weightless veil; to make the latter, you should roll out the mastic as thin as possible, almost to the cobweb, and very carefully fix the “young” on your hair.
• Special care requires drawing the face of the bride - for this they use food dyes and a thin brush.

Tips

• When choosing images that will decorate the cake, first of all consider the style of the marriage ceremony. If you hold events in a touching and romantic way, humorous images will be totally inappropriate.
• If you prefer sweet figures, keep in mind that mastic requires special storage conditions - it is kept in a cool place, always in food film in a tightly closed container. From the fridge, the figure can be reached only a few hours before the holiday, and placed on the cake at all just before serving.
• It is very important to fix the figures tightly on the last tier of the cake, otherwise you can’t avoid falling to the floor and violating the integrity of the whole composition.

The most common idea of ​​decorating a wedding cake is delicate and romantic figurines depicting the bride and groom.

However, the figures can be caricature, they emphasize the infinite sense of humor of the young.

Effectively look cartoon characters and animal figures.

An unusual but spectacular idea is cakes with gingerbread toppers.

And of course, the classics - rings, hearts, swans and a pair of pigeons.

How to make figures on the wedding cake with your own hands, see the next video.