Review of fashionable types of wedding cakes - how to choose your option?

At any wedding ceremony, from the most luxurious to the most modest, there is always a good tradition of treating guests to a piece of wedding cake.

Today on the festive table you can find both traditional items, for example, honey cake, and unusual and varied gastronomic masterpieces of confectionery baked goods.

When choosing the type of this sweet attribute, it is advisable to take into account the general style of the celebration: classic, lakeside ceremony, retro or Provence style, so thematic design of a wedding cake will be an excellent addition to creating a festive atmosphere for the event.

Types of sponge cakes for weddings

The most versatile and beloved cake is considered to be baked from a delicate and airy sponge cake. There are a huge number of recipes for making biscuit sweets of numerous types:

• Cream cakes. A modern wedding cream cake with the most delicate buttercream and airy decoration of whipped cream is a real exquisite luxury for decorating a wedding table; the same decor can be used to decorate a bottle of champagne and glasses. This dessert with a wonderful taste can be made from sponge, waffle or puff cakes of round or square shape. This confectionery delicacy is suitable for a classic wedding, celebration in Provence, retro or country style.
• Wedding cakes with and without mastic. An interesting alternative to a cream analogue would be a dessert with mastic made from powdered sugar with food coloring. Externally, the mastic resembles an elastic marshmallow, which is ideal for the unusual design of a wedding treat. Mastic-free mousse wedding cakes look like a stylized single composition on any theme: from retro in the style of the 60s to the look of the Eiffel Tower. From this delicious dessert you can assemble lush multi-tiered compositions.

A sponge wedding cake with any filling can be solemn and classic, delicate and romantic, fantasy, but most importantly – tasty, elegant, beautifully and stylishly decorated.

What kind of celebrations is it suitable for?

We are used to celebrating a wedding on a grand scale: a huge banquet hall, many guests, and for dessert - a magnificent dessert in several tiers. There should be enough sweet treats for everyone present. A small wedding cake can also consist of several tiers. To prepare it, cakes of small diameter are baked.

Whatever style of wedding the newlyweds prefer, a wedding dessert must be served at such a celebration. However, for a holiday in a small company there is no need to order baked goods in several tiers. A small cake is the best choice for such an occasion. Even those who decide to simply sign and celebrate this event in private should not be left without a traditional dessert. But the filling and appearance of a small wedding treat can be different.

Interesting! Here you will find ideas for organizing a small wedding. And in this article - tips on how to save on little things.

Chocolate wedding cake: what is it made from?

Chocolate is a favorite treat with an attractive appearance and a pleasant, unforgettable taste.

A dessert made from this popular sweet will always look great at a solemn and cheerful wedding celebration and will definitely please the invited guests. It consists of the following components:

1. Korzhey. The basis for the chocolate wedding treat is light sponge cakes with chocolate flavoring. The most delicious is the delicious “Canarian” sponge cake with a delicate creamy filling of whipped condensed milk with the addition of natural sour cream, supplemented with nuts, pineapples, etc. Sponge cakes are soaked in sweet flavored syrup or a small amount of cognac and rum.
2. Cream for chocolate dessert. Chocolate cream with additives is considered a classic filling option. Nuts, candied cherries, prunes, whipped low-fat cream will be an excellent addition to chocolate cream and will bring a delicious variety of flavors to the creamy chocolate composition. A very tasty filling with the addition of dark chocolate and a few drops of vanilla liqueur or aromatic syrup. You can add finely chopped coconut, almond petals and pieces of fruit to the white chocolate layer. This combination will give the chocolate cake an unusual and very delicate taste.
3. Decorations. This dessert is decorated with an inscription with multi-colored glaze made from different types of chocolate. A wedding cake covered with white or brown melted chocolate with a decoration of caramel flowers, a topper with pink, beige milky bows will have a magnificent look. You can also decorate the sweet with chocolate leaves made from real leaves of cherry, apple, rose and other plants.

For chocolate cake, black and white milk chocolate are used.
Cheesecake, pancho or a glossy wedding dessert with a combination of dark chocolate cakes and creamy cream filling will be extraordinary and original. In the ranking, chocolate wedding cakes take first place because of their unusual beautiful appearance and amazing taste .

Original

Those who like to stand out prefer original cakes. There are many options for unusual desserts.

• Small colored cake - if previously wedding desserts were decorated with white or pink icing, then modern confectioners have the opportunity to make baked goods of any color. Small beautiful wedding cakes in blue, red, purple or light blue will decorate a themed wedding.
• Tower - for its preparation use profiteroles or maracoons (almond balls) of different colors. They are laid out on a tower-shaped dish. All sorts of decorations give this dessert a festive look.
• Pancakes are a budget-friendly dessert for a family celebration that you can prepare yourself. Normal, at first glance, pancakes are coated with any desired filling and decorated. This dessert is quite suitable for a modest wedding.
• Ice cream is an interesting option for a summer celebration if you have a good refrigerator. Guests will be happy to cool off with this dessert on a hot day.
• Candy is a good idea for a small wedding. It is created entirely from ready-made candies or used as a filling. Multi-colored lollipops, marmalade, and toffees will appeal most to the little guests of the holiday.
• Snack cake - some newlyweds who are not afraid to go beyond the standards prefer a layer cake filled with meat, cheese, aspic or mushrooms to sweet desserts. It can be made, for example, in the shape of a hamburger.

Keep in mind that small cakes will not support bulky decorations. For such baking, miniature decor is chosen.

Yogurt, mousse, soufflé cake for a wedding: composition, shape, assembly features

There is always an abundance of various dishes on the festive table, and at the end of the feast you want something light and tasty.

A real hit of the wedding table can be called a light low-calorie yogurt cake, which can be single-tiered or multi-tiered. This type of dessert is at the peak of popularity, or, as it is fashionable to say now, “in trend,” due to the current trend in the fight against excess weight.

This delicious and sweet dessert is prepared on the basis of natural yogurt, flour, starch, baking powder, eggs, gelatin and various fillings from fresh fruits and berries. All ingredients are mixed and light, almost weightless sponge cakes are baked.

As a layer, use soufflé or mousse with a delicate texture and natural thick yogurt, whipped with a small amount of powdered sugar.

It is customary to decorate a wedding cake with various figures that have a symbolic meaning:

1. Swans as a symbol of marital fidelity.
2. Red roses symbolize passionate and ardent love.
3. Horseshoe - wishes the newlyweds a happy family life.
4. Bells as a symbol of happiness and joy.

On the top tier, covered with multi-colored glaze, figures of young people are placed, surrounded by flowers, birds and angels. To make these miniatures, a mixture of sugar, marzipan and multi-colored chocolate is used.

It should be remembered that wedding cakes with yogurt have an original and memorable look, but are considered the most expensive in cost.

Wedding mousse cake is considered the pinnacle of confectionery art.

In this video - a recipe for a very tasty mousse cake:

The word “mousse” comes to us from the French language and means “foam”. Mousse is a fruit, berry or chocolate frozen aromatic foam.

In a wedding cake, colorful, delicate, airy mousse layers are placed on thin sponge cake layers and decorated with fresh flowers, fresh berries, mousse cakes, and chocolate figures.

Mousse cake is not only tasty, but also healthy, since I use natural fresh berries and fruits to make it.

The popular wedding cake-soufflé tastes like the long-known and beloved dessert “bird's milk”. It can be prepared in several ways: with the natural gelling agent agar-agar or with egg whites whipped into a stiff foam. For the cakes, traditional sponge cake or shortbread dough is used.

Cream soufflé with a delicate structure and varied taste is placed on cakes and decorated with cream roses, fresh berries, candied fruits, and chocolate figures.

With mirror glaze

Very often, mousse cakes are decorated with mirror glaze. It has a glossy surface and is prepared on a fatty basis with the addition of syrup, chocolate and gelatin.

Ingredients:

For invert syrup:

• sugar – 300 g;
• drinking water – 130 ml;
• citric acid – 3 g.

For the glaze:

• gelatin – 12 g;
• water – 135 ml;
• sugar – 150 g;
• invert syrup – 150 g;
• white chocolate – 100 g;
• condensed milk – 100 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Prepare invert syrup.
2. Pour gelatin into 60 ml of drinking water.
3. Mix chocolate pieces with condensed milk.
4. In a thick-bottomed bowl, combine the remaining liquid, sugar and syrup. Cook at 103 0C. Pour into chocolate, stir, add gelatin.
5. Beat the mixture with a blender until smooth. Avoid foam formation.
6. When it cools to 32–35 0C, the glaze can already be applied.

If you want to give it any shade, use food coloring of any color. Chocolate glaze is made from dark tiles. Mousse cake with mirror glaze based on berry juice has delicate natural shades and a pleasant berry flavor.

Bounty

The exotic coconut taste of the treat and rich tropical aroma are combined with the light texture and richness of the chocolate biscuit base.

Lush sponge cake recipe:

• 4 eggs;
• half a glass of sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
• 100 g sifted flour;
• ½ tsp. crushed salt;
• ½ tsp. vanilla.

Coconut filling:

• 120 g confectionery shavings of coconut;
• 200 ml whole milk;
• ½ stick of butter;
• 100 g sugar.

For the chocolate glaze:

• 70 ml fat milk;
• 120 g of high-quality dark chocolate.

For soaking:

130 ml low-fat cream.

A simple recipe for coconut chocolate sponge cake:

1. In a container, mix cocoa powder with sifted flour and vanilla for flavor. Mix the eggs with sugar and a pinch of salt, beat the mixture at medium speed with a mixer until a fluffy white mass.
2. Add the dry ingredients, stirring with a spatula from bottom to top until you have a smooth chocolate dough. Bake the sponge cake in a springform pan with parchment lined on the bottom at 180℃ for 35 minutes.
3. In a saucepan, heat milk with sugar and melted butter until the grains melt. Add coconut flakes and let the mixture thicken for 10-12 minutes. Cool the cream, cut the biscuit into 2 halves, soak with liquid cream.
4. Layer the sponge cake layers with coconut mixture and keep the cake in the cold for 2-3 hours. Pour glaze of chocolate melted in milk on top, and sprinkle the side surface with shavings.

FAQ

Agree that preparing a mousse cake does not take one hour. But nevertheless, looking at the result of my work, I want to conquer new heights of confectionery art. To make your path to conquering the “mousse Olympus” a little easier, let’s look at 5 popular questions that novice confectioners ask on thematic forums.

1. How to cut mousse cake? For a beautiful cut (for example, for a photo), you need to use a slightly warm knife. Just dip it in boiling water or heat it over a fire. Be sure to wipe the blade clean each time to avoid smearing the layers.

2. Shelf life. Refrigerate for no more than three days. If you decide to put it in the freezer, then the dessert will last a whole year! The main thing is to pack it well in film.

3. What are the best flavor combinations? With dark/white/milk chocolate: raspberry, strawberry, cherry, blueberry, apricot. Creamy mousse goes well with banana or caramel.

4. How to assemble a multi-tiered mousse cake? Same as normal. For this you will need skewers or cocktail straws. It is impossible to do without supporting structures. Otherwise, the top layer will push through the bottom one.

5. Is it possible to replace gelatin with agar-agar? Certainly. But such a cake cannot be frozen, and the mousse will turn out very fragile.