It is impossible to imagine a wedding evening without a luxurious cake. This is a wonderful delicacy and a beautiful decoration at the same time. The most popular version of its design - flowers.
What are some flowers?
Flowers for the cake can be very different - wafer, sugar, cream or mastic. In addition to artificial, when decorating a wedding cake, live buds are also used.
Jewelry made of mastic are voluminous and look almost like living. Their colors can be the most fantastic shades, which does not happen in nature.
Most often, confectioners embody sweet roses, orchids or peonies in wedding desserts. Chamomiles and daisies look good. On the surface of the festive dish for tea, not only petals appear, but stems and leaves.
Even if you decorate a cake with a cream, with such colors it looks no less impressive than with “mastic sculptures”. Making the surface of the dessert with flowers from the cream can give it an elegant look and solidity. Although much depends on the subject of registration. One thing is representative roses, and another modest daisies.
Thick cream is easy to depict on the cake floral decorations of mint, lilac, peach and other shades.
The use of live buds imposes certain restrictions on the use of certain plants when decorating a wedding cake with flowers. You can not work with calla lilies, lilies of the valley, jasmine snowdrops. They contain toxic substances that are easy to poison.
Some fresh flowers are quite easy to turn into edible. They can be eaten without any harm to the stomach. At the same time, they will keep an elegant look until the very use. Usually for saccharification use roses, lavender, chrysanthemum or calendula. Suitable for eating orchid and tiger lily.
The flowers are coated with a mixture of regular sugar mixed with an egg (to do this you need to work with a brush), sprinkle with powdered sugar and dry.
These blanks are stored in the bank before the start of the cake decor, and they are used as intended when there is a real need.
For such decorations, flowers are often taken in light shades, since the dark ones after processing become even darker, and this is not always beautiful.
Principles of color arrangement
Decorate the cake for the wedding with flowers can be in different ways. It depends on the shape, size of the wedding dessert and the artistic intent of the pastry chef.
- You need to arrange the decorations according to the cascade principle, when they are scattered from top to bottom along the surface of the cake. Such an arrangement is permissible on desserts consisting of several tiers.
- You can place them in artistic disorder, as if there is no clear principle in their styling. This option is suitable for decorating cakes of various shapes.
- On a multi-tiered dessert, a uniform arrangement of jewelry on each tier is possible.
- Flowers may lie chaotically. The petals connecting the individual elements into a single composition become a unifying factor in the arrangement pattern. Such a principle is especially evident and effective on “sweet constructions” having a large area.
- Flower decoration should be concentrated only on the top of the cake, if it consists of several tiers.
Fresh flowers on the cake
It is assumed that these additions before eating dessert will be removed from it.These plants are easier to pick up in accordance with the overall decor of the festive hall and table so that they overlap with the bride's bouquet or decorations in her hair and dress.
On the cake peonies and roses, dahlias and anemones look best. A sweet dish strewn with such elements can be made at the same time by fruits and berries. This combination looks very appetizing and solemn. On this occasion, grapes, plums or strawberries are distinguished among the most common edible decorations.
Since fresh flowers are a peculiar thing, you should take into account some peculiarities when decorating a wedding cake.
- It is necessary to make sure of the durability and freshness of flowers, so that they remain until the end of the holiday. A sad flower bed instead of an elegant cake for tea drinking is not needed by anyone.
- To enjoy the freshness of plants longer, with the decoration you can use holders with water.
- When decorating a dessert, one should act carefully, ensuring minimal contact of the plants with the surface of the sweet dish.
- It is necessary to start decorating the cake with fresh flowers not earlier than two hours before this delicacy is cut into pieces.
- After decorating the sweet should be kept in the refrigerator.
A good way to design when fresh flowers on the cake are combined with edible figures. So, you can set edible swans and wedding rings on the top of the dessert, complementing the composition with a live flower or a bouquet of natural plants.
How to decorate the wedding cake with fresh flowers at home, you will learn from the following video.
Color solutions
Modern confectionery technologies make it possible to turn a cake into reality in any color. For white, the design of flowers of any shades is suitable. For example, a cake with a blue cake and white coating will look great with large blue roses from mastic. It will be interesting to see the transition from dark to light shades in floral decorations. (ombre effect).
A light cake will leave a lasting impression with purple or lilac flowers.
Red flowers look great on a white background. This is a very symbolic decoration for a wedding, considering that this is a union built on love and passion. The appropriate tones for this design will be gold and chocolate.
It is advisable to pick up a beige or yellowish background on white daisies, on which petals will not be lost, although a plain cake, for example, the same white one, looks in its own way elegantly. Flowers of mastic or cream that adorn it, give the impression of restraint and elegance.
Beautiful examples
Decorating a festive dessert in peach tones will bring a sense of freshness to the wedding tea party. A cake decorated in such colors is especially suitable for a spring wedding. Thanks to the beautiful buds and beads, emphasizing each tier of a sweet dish, it seems especially airy and elegant.
Mint color dessert can be decorated with mastic flowers in a variety of ways. Avoiding screaming paints, caressing eye compositions are created that you want to consider for a long time before tasting the cake.
Thanks to special elements using edible flowers, the wedding cake takes on a royal look.