Happy New Year, my dear friends!
I sincerely congratulate you all on the upcoming 2021 and the upcoming Christmas!
I wish you that all your cakes are a great success, and that Grandfather Frost does not add a single calorie for this, but only adds joy from what is cooked and eaten!
You know, in the first days of the year, I don’t feel like writing new recipes right away. Moreover, I myself did not prepare anything radically new for the New Year: choux croquembouche with mascarpone and eclairs.
Therefore, today I decided to distract you from Olivier with an entertaining and educational article about trends in the confectionery world in 2021.
Simple white cake
The fashion for such cakes appeared a year ago, but it is not going away yet. The smooth white cake is versatile and looks gorgeous on its own or with decorations.
Popular birthday cakes photos 2021 options fashion ideas
A birthday is a holiday when you can present the most gorgeous cake as a gift to the birthday person. Thanks to the use of mastic, which molds perfectly, like plasticine, you can make a unique product for a small child who will be delighted with the small figures on the cake or will be able to read his name on it.
The most beautiful cakes in the world created for adults, the photos you see below, cause simply indescribable delight. Without a doubt, the celebration with such a cake will be a success! And if you also find out the hobbies of the hero of the occasion and order a cake according to the theme, then there will be no limit to surprise. We invite you to look at birthday cakes photos. Sometimes you are surprised at how creatively you can present a gift to your loved one, thus emphasizing your love and affection for him. Perhaps you are using the birthday cake idea for your ideas.
White on white
We predict that these works of art will be the top wedding cakes of 2021. A simple white cake is decorated with three-dimensional white elements, and the texture of the cake itself can be different, and three-dimensional parts occupy the entire surface or only part. This cake is decorated with flowers, light openwork petals or white feathers. Well, or whatever comes to your mind.
Not milk alone!
Confectionery trends have not ignored the familiar milk - it has become widespread in 2021 in the production of various types of sweets. If you believe the statistics, in the United States more than 80% of the population buys chocolate and its by-products. Considering that the media are actively developing information about how healthy natural chocolate with a high content of cocoa beans is, the data regarding what people end up buying looks less rosy. Almost 60% of buyers prefer milk chocolate with less cocoa, which looks somewhat strange against the backdrop of such popularization of a pure and healthy product.
Another interesting point is that not a single major manufacturer uses an alternative to traditional milk - coconut, almond or soy - in the process of making such products. This seems quite strange, since lactose intolerance is one of the most common food allergies.
In view of this, as well as in order to search for new tastes and non-standard variations, buyers are increasingly combining animal proteins with plant proteins, which is greatly facilitated by the growing trend towards abandoning animal products.
Wedding cake with gold
The gold decor does not lose ground, but looks new. An all-gold cake is bad manners, and light accents are just in fashion. If you don’t like minimalism, then there is a fresh trend for you that almost no one has seen: cakes with golden stucco. It literally looks like ceiling molding, but it's beautiful and impressive.
Black forest
In the popular cakes of the world, the cake fell under both “Black Forest” and “Drunk Cherry”. The name is associated with the region of the same name in Germany, where in the 1930s the dessert was first baked, soaked in the signature local cherry liqueur Kirschwasser.
Ingredients
To decorate the dessert, buy a jar of cocktail cherries, and for the cream, buy the thickest cream; the thicker it is, the tastier the cake will be. The base is Genoese sponge cake, which requires the freshest eggs.
Cakes
- 6 eggs
- 180 g sugar
- 100 g flour
- 30 g cocoa
- 80 g butter
Chocolate cream
- 100 ml cream
- 1 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 70 g dark chocolate
Butter cream
- 700 ml cream
- 6 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 500 g fresh or frozen cherries
- 170 g sugar
Advice!
Add cognac, rum or brandy to the cherry syrup for piquancy.
Preparation
- Beat eggs into a saucepan, add sugar and heat in a water bath to 35°C, stirring continuously. Remove from heat, and with a blender at full power, beat the egg mixture until fluffy.
- Divide the flour into three parts, mix one with cocoa and sift through a sieve. Add to the eggs and use a spatula to mix until smooth.
- Melt half the butter in the microwave, carefully pour into the dough, add the remaining flour and mix.
- Pour the dough into the mold. Preheat the oven to 170°C and bake for 30-35 minutes. Cool until it gets cold, prepare the cherry sauce.
- Pour 50 g of sugar over the cherries, you can do this in advance, you need to get 170 ml of juice. Strain, cook for 5 minutes, add cherries to the syrup and let them cool.
- For chocolate cream, mix cream and sugar, heat and add grated chocolate. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, cool and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Cut the cakes into two parts lengthwise and soak in cherry syrup. Beat the cream for 1 minute, cover with a layer and lay out the cherries.
- For the second cake, beat 300 ml of cream with powdered sugar, apply and add cherries, cover with a third layer.
- To decorate, whisk the remaining cream with powder and brush over the top and edges of the cake. Grate the chocolate, sprinkle with shavings and garnish with cocktail cherries. Before serving, leave the cake in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours to soak.
Black forest
Cake with jagged edges
A few years ago, desserts with “ruffles” were in fashion: decoration of the edges, similar to a multi-layered skirt. Wedding cakes 2021 take jagged edges to the next level, now featuring a completely smooth surface topped with a top that looks like it's been "torn off" by hand. Apparent negligence is deceptive - to achieve such a result, painstaking work is needed, otherwise the cake will turn out sloppy. Make sure that the chosen pastry chef has already done something similar so as not to get the creepy “expectation-reality” effect.
Napoleon
One of the most popular cakes in the world has a very simple recipe. The origin story is interesting: Josephine, known for her jealousy, caught Napoleon at the moment when he was flirting with one of the court ladies. The resourceful emperor said that he dictated the recipe for his favorite dessert and named several ingredients. Josephine asked the court pastry chef to bake a cake that became incredibly popular and was named after Bonaparte.
Ingredients
We offer you a classic Napoleon cake recipe. Be sure to freeze the oil before cooking, and use wine or apple cider vinegar instead of regular vinegar.
- 450 g flour
- 250 g butter 82.5%
- 1 egg;
- 1 tbsp. l. 6% vinegar
- 150 ml ice water
- 1 tsp salt without a slide
Advice!
Don't skimp on butter or replace it with margarine. The better the quality of the product, the tastier the puff pastry will be.
Preparation
- Take a deep bowl and sift the flour through a sieve.
- Remove the butter from the freezer and grate it on a fine grater.
- Mix the butter and flour with your hands into a homogeneous mass.
- Pour water, vinegar, salt and egg into a separate bowl and whisk.
- Pour the egg mixture into the flour and butter and knead the dough.
- Divide the dough into 12-15 parts and place in the freezer for 3 hours.
- While the crust is cooling, prepare the custard.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Take out the balls of dough one at a time, quickly roll out as thin as possible and bake on a silicone mat or parchment for 5-7 minutes until golden brown.
- When the cake is ready, cut it to the desired size using a plate.
- Grease the cakes with cream, be sure to coat the sides and top. Chop the remaining baked dough and sprinkle Napoleon on all sides.
- Take the cake to a cool place for a day, cut into squares and serve.
Napoleon
Watercolor cake
These cakes appeared a year ago, becoming more elegant over time due to their completely smooth surface. For an experienced pastry chef, making such a cake is not difficult, but it requires skill, so, as in the previous option, check that your specialist is already familiar with it. An unusual type of watercolor is marble cake or a cake with a marble effect.
Vegan treats
In any more or less large city today there is a vegetarian cafe (or at least a separate menu in restaurants). The demand for dishes without milk and eggs is quite high.
This trend has not spared desserts either: many pastry chefs believe that in 2018 we will see a boom in vegan sweets. They use dough without eggs and butter, creams with vegetable “cream”, cocoa butter and cocoa powder, plus various fruits and berries. These ingredients are enough to create delicious recipes.
Vegan desserts can also tempt butter lovers
Wedding cake 2021 as an art object
Here we come to extraordinary cakes - they look like objects of modern art and can surprise even guests for whom your wedding is already the twentieth. The most amazing trend is a cake with succulents. It was invented by a girl from Jakarta (check out her Instagram, nickname ivenoven), and was picked up by the best pastry chefs in the world. The cake is covered with edible succulents, made with such care that it is hard to believe that these are not plants pulled out of a pot.
A new take on minimalism comes from San Francisco-based Jasmine Rae, who works with textures and comes up with unique elements that make even the simplest cake stand out.
Whatever wedding cake design you choose, remember that it will be eaten. Don’t take anyone’s word for it and try the future cake yourself; to do this, order a tasting set from the pastry chef. Test not only popular fillings (fruit, chocolate), but also experimental ones; sometimes they turn out to be tastier than the classics. Avoid the strongest allergens (for example, nuts) and calculate the amount with reserve. Each guest should get a piece of cake, and some will want to eat a couple. There are many cake weight calculators online, but most of them have no basis in calculation, so rely on your common sense and knowledge of your guests. No online calculator knows that your best friend hasn’t eaten sweets for two years, Uncle Vasya can only be pulled away from the cake in an hour, and distant relatives will want to take another piece with them.
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Refined flour fades into the background
White wheat flour, familiar to all of us since childhood, will gradually fade into the background.
The consumer has already begun to think not only about the taste and ease of availability of products, but also about their benefits and nutritional value. Refined white flour will be replaced by whole grain, buckwheat, almond, coconut and other types of flour that we have not even heard of yet.
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