Nowadays, wedding cakes have become not just a must-have treat at the wedding table, but also a bright accent that completes the holiday. That is why its decor and decoration is emphasized: some couples make a choice in favor of delicate and classical compositions, others prefer non-trivial and original decors, and still others buy cupcakes.
Types of products
Today the confectionery industry offers cakes absolutely for every taste. Newlyweds can choose the style and shade of sweet dessert, which will meet the general concept of the holiday. In general, wedding cakes can be:
- single or multi-tiered;
- with and without inscriptions;
- batch.
And in recent years, it is the last option that is rapidly gaining more and more popularity, since such a treat is conveniently served at the table, and it looks exceptionally stylish.
With mastic and cream
Quite often, cakes are coated with mastic. In this case, the desserts look perfectly smooth and very smooth, while the mastic allows you to get any color of the outer coating. However, some, in accordance with established traditions, cover the cake with cream and decorate with fruits and berries. A cake without mastic is a win-win for a classic wedding, especially if not all guests like the taste of such a sweet coating. Wedding cakes give a lot of room for imagination: young people can order a dessert with flowers, juicy berries, images of people, animals and fairy-tale characters. Moreover, cakes can be made not only in a standard round shape, but also in the form of a heart or a flower.
Sugar Cookies
Another hit in recent years has been the creation of a sweet treat in the form of a multi-tiered shortbread or sugar cookie, which is decorated with cream, chocolate drawings or glitter. This option is good if you can't decide which cake to choose, and order several different desserts instead of one to please all your guests - you can combine a whole palette of fillings and flavors in one treat. However, try not to overdo it - you should not choose more than 7–8 tastes at a time.
With fruits and berries
Classic cakes, perhaps, never lose their relevance, otherwise they will no longer be a classic. Flowers, fruits, assemblies - all these are the most common and frequently encountered details for decorating bridal cakes. However, despite the fact that all these decors remain at the peak of popularity, their number changes. The trends of recent years dictate their fashion, and now the design of desserts becomes either redundant or, conversely, extremely concise and minimalist.
Bare cakes
The pastry chefs note that in the last season, cakes with open cake began to be in demand - the so-called naked treats. Wedding designers predict that over the coming years, such treats will remain one of the hits of the newlyweds. In addition, the fashion for chocolate brown cakes is back.
Vintage
The vintage and the shebbi-chic, which burst into our lives rapidly, made their adjustments to the wedding decorations. Ideas sweet dishes made in retro style, a huge amount, and each of them in its own exclusive. Traditionally they are dominated by white, as well as golden and beige shades.One of the most recent trends is considered to be a vintage cake with hand-painted watercolor, while the decor theme can be very diverse: this is graphics, graffiti, and even images of young, stylized “antique”.
Especially popular are cakes made of sweet openwork. They are decorated in delicate pastel shades and decorated with white and brown lace made of food mastic and chocolate. Black lace cakes are considered truly delicious. Vintage in black and white color for several years kept at the peak of popularity, which is why wedding treats in this style, of course, in the trend. Black lace becomes the highlight of every wedding celebration.
In the vintage style is still popular floral themes. Usually, confectioners decorate desserts with large chamomiles, calas, roses and orchids. Traditional tapes with sugar bows made of mastic are no less popular. Probably a single-tier white cake with a chic bow on the side, completely imitating a fabric, is considered to be the dream of any bride and creates a special atmosphere of the solemn event.
With fresh flowers
No wedding is complete without lively luxurious flowers. They are considered to be an indispensable attribute of a wedding celebration: the marriage procession is drawn with flowers, they are used in creating the hairstyle and, of course, of them make up a bridal bouquet. And now flowers began to be used in decorating a sweet treat cake. Such treats create a feeling of stunning chic, luxury and crazy extravaganza. In recent years, it has become fashionable to decorate cakes with roses of delicate shades that are well combined in color with a bouquet of a young bride and a boutonniere on a groom's suit.
However, the classic version of the decor of white treats with scarlet flowers has not lost its relevance - it is a fairly simple combination, but at the same time the most winning one.
Candy cakes
Candy cake is considered to be a very rare, but undoubtedly, stylish wedding treat. Its essence lies in the fact that in the manufacture of treats are used ready-made colorful candy. Such a cake will look nontrivial if you use sugar lollipops for decoration. Usually they are placed on the top tier of the cake - this makes the treat bright and nontrivial. Some pastry chefs suggest that future spouses deviate from their usual canons and build a cake entirely of sweets. For this purpose, several types of treats are used, which are shaped into a two-, three-tiered cake. At first glance, such a treat is no different from the usual wedding treat.
With figures
For several years, the popularity of cakes decorated with interesting figures has not subsided. Such products are more individual in nature and fully create an atmosphere of solemnity and romance. Most couples prefer figurines depicting the bridegroom, as well as traditional decors in the form of hearts, rings, pigeons and a pair of swans. But increasingly they give way to statuettes with images of funny animals and fairy-tale heroes.
By the way, the figures may not necessarily be gentle and romantic. If young people have a good sense of humor, then you can crown the cake with original caricatures, which will bring a touch of fun and ease to the celebration.
Of cakes
The latest trend in wedding fashion has become a cake of cakes. The urgency of such a treat is obvious: huge cakes are quite difficult to deliver to the banquet venue, and it is quite problematic to cut it. That is why treats with portion desserts have become a good alternative to standard baking. Usually cakes are combined into one multi-tiered composition and spread on cakes stands. Most often in the course are cupcakes and miniature cupcakes.
This is very convenient, because the bride and groom will no longer have to try to please their guests by cutting portions of the same size - everyone can simply take the cake that he likes and enjoy the extraordinary taste. It is desirable that the cakes were with different fillings, for example, fruit pastries from the bottom, cupcakes with sweet cream in the middle, and on the top floor you can place a small cake for young people and their parents with witnesses.
For the decoration of wedding compositions often prefer macaroons. By the way, this dessert is considered to be one of the most hard-to-produce in the whole world, therefore an unusual treat from such cakes will surely be appreciated by all the guests of the festive event.
How to make a royal wedding cake, see the next video.
