Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary is a bright, memorable event. Couples who spent half a century together experienced a lot: there were moments of joy, misunderstandings. But through all the hardships they carried their strong love, and mutual understanding allowed them to resolve all differences. A golden wedding cake should sweeten and decorate such a holiday. Many people prefer to celebrate the occasion with family or friends. It doesn’t matter which celebration option you choose, you need to take care of the appearance and decent filling of the main delicacy.
Golden Cakes
Cakes that look like a precious ingot are the absolute trend of the season.
They are ordered for weddings and birthdays. This is a real sweet gem! To create such cakes, real gold leaf is used. The thinnest gold plates are edible.
If you want to try making such a cake, you can order such plates at a candy store, but it is much easier to buy them at any art store. The gold leaf used for cakes is the same one used for gold elements in artwork. This gold costs about 500 rubles for 100 sheets, which will be enough for five cakes.
50th Wedding Anniversary Cake Ideas
It is advisable to make the cake unusual and original! You can order a cake either from a pastry shop or bake it yourself.
To make the cake represent a bright and strong feeling, it can be made white with golden flowers or other golden colored decorations as it is a golden wedding. Very symbolic and beautiful.
You can decorate the cake with flowers, swans, hearts, inscriptions, figures and other symbolic forms. The main thing is that it looks harmonious and unusual.
Cakes can be made from mastic or without mastic, from cream. The decoration can be funny pictures under gelatin filling.
Typically, golden wedding cakes for parents or grandparents vary in design. On this occasion, parents are often given cakes with funny inscriptions or pictures, but in vain, and adults can appreciate the humor in decorating such a cake, the main thing is not to overdo it.
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But the best gift for a golden anniversary is, for example, a cream cake with swans. To emphasize the strength and beauty of long and strong love. Swans represent fidelity, purity and beauty, which is so characteristic of such a long marriage.
The cake should be large and voluminous, beautifully decorated (you can combine swans, flowers, an inscription and figures in one multi-tiered cake, so that one tier is decorated with gold fondant, the second with cream flowers and swans, and the third with a cool picture under gelatin filling, and the edges can be decorated with fruits and icing)
If we talk about symbolism, you can give a cake made of golden fondant for a golden wedding anniversary. After all, this is a golden wedding and the golden color of the cake will be very appropriate. You can write Happy Anniversary or the number 50 in golden letters, you can also make golden flowers or just golden mastic as a decoration.
There are many ideas and options for decorating a cake for a golden wedding. Here are photo examples of beautiful anniversary wedding cakes:
Silver Cakes
These cakes look simply amazing: fresh, elegant and incredibly sophisticated! The technology for such cakes is completely different: silver, unlike gold, is not edible. Therefore, imitation silver coating is used for such cakes. You will need kandurin, an edible dye powder. It can be applied to the cake using a dry brush.
If you cover a biscuit with kandurin, a significant part of the powder will be absorbed by its porous surface. Therefore, kandurin is most often placed on top of a layer of confectionery mastic, which is used to cover the entire surface of the cake. Read how to prepare mastic here.
Expensive wedding cakes
A beautiful cake with impressive weight and dimensions is a mandatory attribute of a wedding celebration , because it becomes the key figure of the holiday when the bride and groom cut it together, demonstrating marital unity. Elite wedding cakes are sweet masterpieces with impressive shapes.
Their fillings are decades-tested classics , improved with the help of modern technologies:
- Nut – delicate sponge cakes with creamy custard with the original taste of walnuts, meringue and boiled condensed milk.
- Red velvet - the delightful delicacy of porous dough, from soft pink to bright red, harmoniously combines with white buttercream, giving rise to a chocolate aftertaste.
- Chocolate – a classic in a modern incarnation – a duet of the most delicate chocolate cakes and the velvety structure of a mousse based on Belgian chocolate.
- Honey - a laconic combination of honey sponge cake and sour cream, leaving a refined aftertaste.
- Esterházy is a traditional Hungarian recipe - the porosity of nutty cakes with almond notes combines deliciously with a delicate creamy custard.
- Kyiv is a classic Ukrainian culinary recipe - airy, light meringue with aromatic notes of nuts and vanilla cream based on condensed milk.
- English curd cheesecake - airy texture with ultra creamy taste.
- Mascarpone is the most delicate dessert - dense cakes with a porous structure, soaked in cheese cream and berry coulis, giving a berry-creamy aftertaste of strawberries, cherries, blueberries, etc.
- Carrot is an extraordinary cake - bright, juicy and soft cake with an exquisite spicy-cheese taste.
- Yogurt is a classic of the culinary genre - the most delicate and aromatic sponge cake with notes of vanilla and a yogurt layer, melts in the mouth and has a bright taste.
In addition to traditional fillings, “La Violette” clients always have access to VIP orders, taking into account the slightest personal taste preferences .
Birch cake
This design is most often used for wedding cakes. The surface of the cake imitates tree bark. And there may be a declaration of love on it. This cake looks great and is easy to make. You bake chocolate biscuits and place one on top of the other. Coat the biscuits with a layer of whipped cream and carefully use the edge of a pastry spatula to draw strokes in the layer of cream - specks on the bark. That's all.
Ways to decorate cakes and desserts
Applying edible foil to decorate desserts is scary, but not difficult. The easiest way is to use flakes. It is enough to scatter them on top of the cake or pastry in a chaotic order.
If you have small gold sparkles that you want to decorate chocolates or cakepops with, you can secure them with the icing that has not yet cooled, carefully sprinkling the dessert. As a result, you will end up with something like this:
A few more options for decorating chocolates:
The main thing is not to take the cereal with your hands. You can easily wrinkle them and leave greasy fingerprints on the surface. It's better to arm yourself with tweezers and save every piece.
How to attach gold leaf
Working with foil is a little more difficult than with flakes. If you are planning to cover a whole cake, you may not get it perfect the first time. Still, this is quite a painstaking job, for which you will need:
- fondant-covered cake;
- a bowl of water;
- book with foil;
- scissors;
- paper towel;
- gloves.
Operating procedure:
- Separate the paper sheet with foil from the book. Trim off excess paper on 3 sides. We will hold on to the last piece as we work.
- Fold the paper towel to form a tight, easy-to-work rectangle. Lightly moisten with water and blot the mastic. You need to process a small area at a time, a little larger than gold leaf. Do not wet the mastic too much, otherwise it will melt. We just blot it.
- Glue the gold leaf to the cake. To do this, apply the foil to the mastic and gently smooth it through the paper in one direction.
- We wet the adjacent area without touching the gold coating. Otherwise it will tear easily. Repeat the procedure until the cake is finished.
- If there are gaps left, cut the foil along with the paper to size and apply it carefully, trying not to catch the existing layer.
Gold leaf should not be touched with your hands, cloth or brush. It breaks and deforms very easily. And considering the cost of decor, every mistake will be expensive. But as a result you will get this beauty:
You also don't have to cover the entire cake. It is enough to make a beautiful pattern with the rim, without even worrying about making it even. This way, both you and the client will save money without losing the attractiveness of the decor:
Here is another simple idea for decorating a money cake. You can take chocolate coins and cover them with kandurin:
I love gold accents like these on desserts. And you? Or is it all just show-off and gypsyism? Share your opinion in the comments.
naked cake
In English this type of cake is called naked cake. This cake is devoid of all the decorations that are usually used to cover confectionery products. Such decorations do not affect the taste, but only serve a decorative function. So the idea of this cake is the following: leave only the very essence of the cake, those elements that give it taste: cake layers, cream, berries. Everything else is gone. Try it! Naked cake is a cake for real fashionistas.
Photos of cakes for a golden wedding
Above are a lot of options for what a cake should be like for a golden wedding. First of all, it is unusual, since not every married couple celebrates 50 years of marriage. Such a celebration must have a special scope, and it cannot be done without confectionery. It can completely replicate the cake that stood at the wedding 50 years ago to awaken the couple's memories. But this is also an excellent opportunity to make a treat that symbolizes a new stage.
Chevron cake
This is the name given to cakes decorated with a specific geometric pattern. They look like a real work of art and it seems that only a super-pro can handle creating such a dessert. But in reality everything is simple. Buy several types of colored mastic. Roll out the mastic like pie dough: in a thin layer. Next, take a sheet of plain paper. Cut out a zigzag strip from it. Place it on the rolled out mastic and cut along the contour. Fix the resulting zigzags on the surface of the cake.
The benefits and harms of edible gold
Decorating the cake with gold leaf is half the battle. Clients are usually more concerned about whether it is beneficial or harmful to the body. And at this stage the information begins to differ. No one doubts that gold is safe:
- It is chemically neutral and does not interact with the human body, therefore it is hypoallergenic and does not interfere with the functioning of internal organs.
- The metal does not settle in the intestines, so it easily leaves the body naturally unchanged.
- Gold foil has no sharp edges. It is not capable of injuring the esophagus.
A small percentage of silver is similarly safe. Moreover, it will have a weak bactericidal effect, slightly improving digestion.
As for the benefits of gold, this metal is covered in myths and legends. If you look for information, you can find out that when you eat this precious supplement you can:
- cleanse the liver and kidneys;
- protect the lungs from germs;
- improve blood circulation;
- improve brain function.
The only thing is that it is not clear how all this works if gold does not interact with the human body and leaves it unchanged. Therefore, I believe that the precious metal is neutral. Does no harm or benefit. It's just decoration.
Some tribes in India still believe that eating gold gives the ability to levitate. This is probably why Indians lead the world in eating precious metals.
If you're still worried about the potential harm of eating gold, just keep in mind that the precious desserts have been regularly consumed by Europeans since the 15th century. And so far no one has been hurt.
In addition, gold is regularly added to expensive drinks, such as Choya Gold or Manotsuru sake, Aviva or Infuehr Gold wine, Goldwasser liqueur, and even Bushido Katana Gold instant coffee. And there is nothing to say about the number of desserts with such decor.
