A rustic wedding is a celebration in a rural spirit, where natural materials, natural fabrics and living plants take center stage. The rustic style cake turns out very beautiful.
Themed weddings have become an alternative to classic ceremonies. It's no surprise that the rustic style has become popular. While cities are growing, people increasingly want to connect with nature and return to their roots.
The role of treats
A wedding in a rustic style is devoid of pomp. The celebration can be held in the form of a banquet or buffet in the fresh air.
The tables can be served with the simplest of rustic, home-cooked dishes, making a rustic wedding ideal for newlyweds on a budget. And, of course, you can’t have a rustic wedding without the king of the tables - the wedding cake.
A rustic cake might be the simplest. It is traditionally served at the end of the celebration after the bride has thrown the bouquet to her bridesmaids. Since a rustic wedding is usually held outside the city, you can roll out the treats at sunset on a table stylized as a cart.
At a rustic celebration, attention should also be paid to the candy bar. A buffet table with sweets is decorated with fresh flowers, spruce paws, wheat, sunflowers. Whether to place the main treat in the candy bar is up to the bride and groom to decide. Due to the nature of the celebration, it is better to take out a rustic wedding cake at the end, since insects can attack the dessert outdoors.
Interesting! Often a naked cake is baked for a rustic wedding. Ground ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon are added to the dough. By the way, you can decorate a cozy photo zone in the same style.
Cream cake with lace, burlap, field herbs, flowers
Natural decorations, often even inedible ones, are used to give the cream cake the desired style. So, pieces of burlap depicting flowers or ribbons, thick lace or plain chintz are placed.
The dessert is also tied with twine with thin bows made from it. The dessert can be decorated with fresh wildflowers, tree leaves or herbs, the main thing is to make sure that they do not contain toxic compounds. Chamomile, calendula, cornflower, dandelion, clover, thyme, and pansies are most often used to decorate wedding desserts.
Peppermint and lemon balm leaves are also used. These are the plants that you can eat.
Variety of species
Rustic weddings are usually held in the warm season, when many berries and fruits are available. Often at a wedding, a creamy treat is replaced by a pie with whipped cream and berries.
A naked rustic wedding cake is not greased around the edges, but this method of preparation allows you to end up with a slightly sloppy dessert that looks like a pile of delicious pancakes. The cakes are coated with cheese cream and decorated with raspberries, blueberries, cherries, blueberries, and peaches. The main meal is served on a stand made from cut wood.
Another option for a multi-tiered wedding cake is a dessert that looks like a tree trunk. In this case, brown cakes are decorated with white cream. The bottom cake is made with a larger diameter. Assembling a cake for a wedding in a rustic style in the form of a turret.
The traditional white cake for a rustic wedding can be modified. A multi-layered treat imitating birch bark will look original. On the middle cake, you can draw a heart and the inscription “Name of the groom + name of the bride” or their initials using brown cream. Such youthful romance will remind you of childhood, when lovers carved their names on trees.
Cakes can also be made in the form of galvanized wooden barrels. The top of the cakes is decorated with grated chocolate, which imitates earth. It’s a good idea to plant several plants in the “ground”—live or made from mastic, cream, or dough.
For a wedding, you can make a simple white cylindrical cake, decorate it with white fondant and paint twigs with barely blossoming leaves with food coloring. Minimalism is encouraged, so decorating a rustic cake should not be replete with details. To simulate multi-layering, a simple treat is placed on a wooden stand. The lower tiers will feature themed cakes and cupcakes.
For a rustic cake, simple village products are used: eggs, sour cream, honey. The cakes are baked quite thick - 2-2.5 cm. In this case, the dough should be soft and crumbly.
What does a rustic wedding look like?
The room in which the rustic holiday takes place looks like a hunting lodge, chalet or fairy-tale hut. It seems that there is a virgin forest outside the windows (however, a wedding can really be organized in nature, providing a real forest outside the doors).
Instead of bright decor - muted colors, natural materials, folk motifs. It’s good if the room is decorated with wood and stone. At the same time, rusticism requires that the wood retain its natural texture: with all the irregularities and knots, without glossy shine and layers of varnish. The stone should also remain rough.
For the table, use tablecloths made of non-woven or unbleached fabric, without pronounced geometric patterns. And the table itself is massive, rough, heavy. Rustic requires deliberate roughness and simplicity; it is a kind of return to the past and a way to take a break from the modern high-tech world. But how to maintain this style in desserts?
Decoration
The cake topper is made from natural wood. You can burn the names of the newlyweds on the sign. Decorate the cake topper with cones, moss, and spikelets. The cake topper can be made from twigs or straws. To decorate a themed cake, succulents, burlap, lace, and wooden flags with the inscriptions “Love,” “Loyalty,” and “Newlyweds” are used.
At the top of the confectionery you can install figurines made of polymer clay, ceramics, and plastic. These could be images of newlyweds in a rustic style, or a sprig of lavender. Figures can also be made from edible materials - mastic, marzipan, caramel.
Fortune Teller
Cutting the treat became a kind of ritual. An amulet baked into the treat brings good luck to whoever finds it in their piece. You can bake a decorative horseshoe or stone ring in a confectionery product. Tamara Solntseva
Please note that figurines made from inedible materials and cake toppers will have to be ordered separately. Find a specialist in advance. The master will need to send a sketch of a cake decoration in a rustic style.
Interesting! Consider design options for a rustic bridal bouquet and invitation cards.
Manufacturing
A rustic cake is elegance with simplicity and minimalism. Even the simplest white cake will sparkle if served on a wooden disk surrounded by living plants. Since rustic cake recipes are simple and require readily available ingredients, you can make the cake yourself. If you don’t have time for baking, you can use the services of a pastry studio.
To make a rustic wedding cake you will need the following ingredients.
For the biscuit:
- flour - 1 glass;
- sugar - 1 glass;
- milk - 100 ml;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- cocoa powder - 3 tablespoons;
- baking soda - 1 teaspoon;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- vanillin - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 0.5 teaspoon;
- hot water - 100 ml.
For buttercream:
- cream - 1 glass;
- powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon.
For the buttercream:
- butter - 1 pack;
- condensed milk - 200 g.
For the ganache cream:
- chocolate - 60 g;
- cream - 60 ml.
The amount of ingredients is calculated for 1 cake.
Cooking - next.
- Separate the white from the yolk. Beat the egg whites with a blender.
- Mix all dry crust ingredients. Stir so that there are no lumps. Use a whisk when mixing.
- Add the yolk to the vegetable oil and combine with milk.
- Add the mixture to the flour and cocoa, mix well with a spoon.
- Knead the dough, then add the egg white.
- Pour in half a glass of boiling water. You will get a liquid dough similar in consistency to sour cream.
- Take a round baking dish, pour in the dough and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
- Cool the cake on a wire rack, turning the convex side down to level the surface.
- Bake the second cake.
- While the cakes are cooling, prepare the buttercream. Take cream, half a spoon of vanilla and a heaping tablespoon of powdered sugar. Beat at highest speed until the cream begins to thicken. To avoid cream separation, reduce mixer speed.
- Cut the cakes in half. Since the cakes do not need impregnation, you can proceed straight to assembly.
- Brush the halved cake with cream. Cover with the other half of the cake. Do the same with the second cake layer.
- To decorate the edges you will need 200 g of butter and the same amount of condensed milk. Soften the butter with a whisk. Add condensed milk. Butter cream has a dense structure, so it is traditionally used to level baked goods. Grease the top and sides of the cake.
- Use ganache cream for decoration. Pour hot cream over the chopped chocolate and leave for 5 minutes. Mix thoroughly. Using a pastry syringe, make chocolate drips on the cake around the circumference of the top layer. Make a border at the base of the cake.
- Decorate the top of the cake with strawberries.
Super moist chocolate cake is ready. It has a moderately sweet taste and delicate texture. Even a beginner can handle the preparation. A rustic wedding cake, as in the photo, will fit perfectly into the wedding concept.
Master class on making a wedding cake
A wedding cake will have to be baked in several stages, but the dough and cream in the presented version can retain an attractive appearance and fresh taste for a long time if you put the finished tiers in the refrigerator.
Products are indicated for the lower tier with a diameter of about 30 cm (3-4 cakes). For the next one, you should take half the amount of ingredients and a mold with a diameter of 15-18 cm.
Next, you can once again reduce the amount of products and bake a third tier of even smaller diameter. It can be baked in an Easter pan and then cut into cakes with a knife, fishing line or string.
Products:
- 320 g wheat flour (sifted before adding to the dough);
- 4 eggs;
- 300 g sugar (white or brown);
- 400 ml milk (remove from the refrigerator in advance);
- 100 g plums. oils;
- 1 lemon (you only need its zest);
- 1 tsp each baking powder, soda, vanilla sugar;
- 1 small pinch of salt;
- fresh berries or fruits and nuts for decoration in any quantity.
Cream:
- 800 g mascarpone;
- 200 g powdered sugar;
- 2 tsp. lemon juice.
Cooking time: 3 hours.
Calorie content per 100 g: 338 kcal.
Melt the butter in the microwave or in a water bath and leave to cool. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and soda in a bowl. Beat the egg whites until they form a stable foam.
In a bowl, add yolks, butter, milk, zest to the flour and mix thoroughly. Then, stirring constantly, add the whipped whites. Mix a homogeneous, lump-free dough.
Oven temperature for baking is 170 degrees. It needs to be heated in advance. If one cake is baked, which will then be cut, it will take about 30-35 minutes. For individual layers – 25-30.
It is advisable to pierce the top of the cake with a fork in several places after 10 minutes of baking so that it does not swell so much. After the dough is baked, turn off the oven, remove the cake from the mold, turn it over and let it cool simply on a wire rack. If there are bubbles on the surface or it is too uneven, the top can be cut off.
All products for the cream are mixed and beaten well for 5-7 minutes. The cream can be prepared for all tiers at once by calculating the amount of ingredients. It can be stored in the refrigerator without losing its properties.
To assemble the cake, you need to bake all the layers and prepare the cream. The real dessert will be tastier, so you can assemble the tiers separately and leave them in the refrigerator overnight.
Immediately before the celebration, the tiers need to be placed on top of each other, level the visible surface of each of them with a spatula, add cream to the sides and level them too, leaving sections of the sponge cake peeking out.
Then you can start decorating. The easiest way is to place fresh berries and fruits on the surface of the tiers, sprinkle them with powdered sugar and nut crumbs on top. You can choose products of different colors to make the cake brighter.
