Cake is always a festive dessert that is prepared on special occasions and holidays. What else does each of us associate with the holiday? Of course, with a good mood, cheerful company, gifts and of course flowers!
In this article we have prepared for you amazing, luxurious options for birthday cakes that are decorated with flowers. Such delicious cakes are sure to be an incredible success at any home, and not only, celebration. Just imagine how you serve such an amazingly beautiful, one might even say fabulous, cake to the festive table! And most importantly, you didn’t buy it, you didn’t order it from a professional pastry chef, because you made it yourself right in your own kitchen.
So, if you're ready to start learning how to create amazing flowers on your homemade cakes, then it's time to get started.
Cake decorated with flowers
You can get such an incredibly delicate homemade birthday cake if you use the master class below.
To create such a lush sweet flower on the cake, you will need white chocolate, which will need to be melted in a water bath.
Now lay parchment paper on the table and place the slightly cooled white chocolate glaze on it, and then use the top of a spoon to smear it a little on the paper so that you form a neat petal.
You will need to make 8 large petals, 8 medium petals and 5 small petals.
Now place the chocolate petals on parchment paper in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
When the flower elements have hardened, they must be carefully separated from the paper and begin decorating the cake.
Apply the cake cream to the side of your homemade dessert and start gluing the petals. First we glue the large petals.
Then we apply another layer of cream and attach medium-sized petals, and then small petals.
Add a little cake cream to the middle and prepare the stamens of our sweet flower.
We suggest you make stamens from any candy like toffee. We cut the toffee into small pieces and then attach it to the middle of the cake.
Decoration examples
Wedding
Flowers are often used to decorate wedding cakes or other special occasions. It always looks gentle and fresh, especially in combination with white and pink. Peonies, roses and eustomas are most often used. When you buy a half-open bud, then you can watch how the flowers gradually bloom during the decoration process.
Bento Cakes
Small and compact cakes, serving only 2-3 people. It's convenient and minimalistic, as well as fast and inexpensive. But such cakes are also decorated with flowers, and more often with berries.
Cakes
Neat cakes, like mini-cakes, designed for one person, can also please the eye with delicate floral arrangements, even if only from several flowers. They are decorated in the same way as regular ones. Such miniature cakes don’t even need to be lined with cream, keeping the idea intact.
Multi-tiered
Multi-tiered cakes are real works of art. They often put together simply incredible compositions. Currently, such cakes are popular at various celebrations and photo shoots. They also have false tiers that can be decorated with flowers.
Cake in the shape of a flower
Another delicious cake in the shape of a luxurious, amazingly beautiful flower.
To create such beauty you will need white chocolate, which must be melted in a water bath. To give the future flower a beautiful shade, add a little food coloring to the chocolate glaze.
Lay parchment paper on the table, draw triangles on the “wrong” side of the paper - this is the future shape of the flower petals.
Now, using a knife or fork, apply the chocolate glaze to the resulting stencil.
You will need to make petals of different sizes: large and small.
Now you can put the petals on parchment paper in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
When the flower elements have hardened, they must be carefully separated from the paper and begin decorating the cake.
Grease the top of the cake with cream and place large petals in a circle.
Apply a little more cream to the center and lay out a second layer, consisting of small petals.
We decorate the middle with edible beads.
You can also decorate the sides of the cake with sugar beads. You can replace the beads with multi-colored small candies in glaze.
With live roses and raspberries
To prepare the cake according to this recipe, you need to allocate at least 4 hours of free time.
Composition of ingredients
Cake with fresh roses and raspberries consists of the following components:
- 4 eggs;
- 5 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
- 1/4 tbsp. l. baking powder;
- 5 tbsp. l. flour;
- 5 tbsp. l. milk powder;
- 2 packs of vanillin;
- 1/4 tsp. table salt;
- 5 garden roses;
- 200 g cream cheese;
- 200 g cream 10% fat;
- 100 g cottage cheese;
- 150 g powdered sugar;
- 250 ml raspberry syrup;
- 250 ml water;
- 1 pack of gelatin;
- 150 g raspberries.
Step-by-step cooking process
A cake with fresh flowers and raspberries can be prepared according to the following instructions:
- First you need to prepare the colors. You will only need petals from one rose; they should be separated from the flower.
- Break an egg into a small container, remove the yolk using a plastic bottle and remove it. You need to smear 4 rose flowers along with the petals with protein, sprinkle the greased flowers with powdered sugar, shake them a little and sprinkle them with powder again. The prepared flowers should be left to dry while preparing the cake.
- Next, break the remaining eggs into a deep bowl, add granulated sugar, table salt and add a package of vanillin. The ingredients should be whisked until the sugar and salt crystals dissolve. Now you can pour the milk powder into the mixture along with baking powder and flour. The contents of the bowl should be mixed well until all the lumps of flour are dispersed.
- Then you can cover a baking sheet with baking paper, pour the finished dough onto it and bake in an oven preheated to 180 °C. The biscuit needs to be baked for about 10 – 15 minutes. until a golden brown coating forms. The finished biscuit should be immediately wrapped in a roll and left to cool at room temperature.
- Meanwhile, pour water and raspberry syrup into a saucepan and stir. The gelatin package must be diluted with water according to the instructions on the package, combined with the syrup, mixed and the resulting liquid poured into a glass form. The mold must be placed in the refrigerator for 30 - 40 minutes so that the jelly hardens.
- Then put the cottage cheese, cream cheese in a clean bowl, pour in the cream and add powdered sugar. The ingredients must be beaten with a mixer until a single mass is obtained.
- Now the cooled biscuit needs to be cut into 4 equal parts, cutting off the uneven edges. Each part should be unfolded into a long strip, the finished cream should be applied evenly and a strip of frozen jelly should be placed on top. Part of the cream should be left for coating the sides of the workpieces. The blanks should be wrapped back into rolls and placed in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Then you need to coat the sides and top with the remaining cream and use a fork to make any pattern. Now you need to place pre-washed raspberries on top, place a candied rose flower in the center of each mini-cake and place rose petals on the edges or sides.
Before serving, the finished mini-cakes should be placed back in the refrigerator for another 2 hours.
How to decorate a cake with flowers
And finally, a homemade cake decorated with flowers made from sugar mastic.
Roll out the sugar mastic in a thin layer and cut out the necessary blank to form a realistic rose (see photo).
Then fold the workpiece in half and start rolling. Spread the petals.
Cut out leaves from green sugar mastic.
To make the whole cake light and airy, you can also decorate the sides with a thin fringe of sugar mastic.
And a few more options for creating incredibly beautiful cakes with flowers.
Which flowers can be used and which cannot?
Unfortunately for confectioners, not all flowers can be used for decoration, because many of them are poisonous or toxic and can cause not the best consequences. This method is not suitable for those who have allergies. Here is a small list of plants suitable for use in decoration.
Can
Mainly used:
- Rose
- Peony
- Chamomile
- Mint, sage, rosemary, lemon balm, acacia blossom
- Geranium
- Eustoma
- Carnation
- Cornflowers
- Petunia
- Orchid
When purchasing, it is important to ask the seller about the properties of the plant and indicate the purpose of use.
It is forbidden
As it turned out, many plants familiar to us from childhood are completely unsuitable for decoration. For example, jasmine and tulip.
- Lilies
- Lilies of the valley
- Jasmine
- Tulip
- Hydrangea
- Snowdrop
And many other types are unusable and can be toxic.
