During the Soviet years, weddings followed the same scenario. It was possible to distinguish the celebration only by the financial condition of the young family. Currently, the situation has changed dramatically. Each wedding is different from the previous one.
They differ in stylistic directions. It’s not so much a matter of the family’s financial capabilities as it is the desire to organize a beautiful celebration. If we talk about different styles of a wedding ceremony, the rustic style is considered to be one of the most popular. This is a special concept that came to us from France.
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.
Preparing cheese cream
The main rule for this cream: cold cheese and soft butter. The cheese can be chilled in the refrigerator in advance to firm it up. It makes sense to keep the oil at room temperature, it should become soft. Only with these ingredients will we get a rustic dessert. The cake will be covered with cream with the most delicate texture and wonderful taste.
It is done quite simply. All ingredients for the cream are placed in one bowl and whipped with a mixer. You should get a homogeneous mixture. You will spend about five to seven minutes on the beating process itself.
Many people are interested in the question of powdered sugar. So, first, beat the butter with powder at maximum speed, and then add the cheese.
When the cream is ready, all that remains is to decorate our dessert in a rustic style. The cake should turn out even, and therefore it is better to cut off the tops of the cakes with a knife. And then you can cover them with cream, which is conveniently placed in a pastry bag. It does not dry out at all, and the layers of cream turn out identical and quite even. The cream can be spread simply in a spiral.
You need to assemble a tower from the cakes, which is also smeared with cream. You can add berries, such as candied cherries or blueberries, to the top layer. If you want to make a beautiful wedding cake in a rustic style, then the outside should also be generously coated with cream. Apply a sufficient layer of cream to the side surface and level with a spatula.
Now the rustic style cake is ready. We figured out how to make such a simple miracle. Let's now talk in more detail about its decoration.
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.
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.
New trends
Gradually our tastes and priorities change. Nowadays people are demanding when it comes to desserts. They should not only be tasty, but also beautiful. Each cake is a work of art. The latest fashion trends have elevated the exotic “naked” cake to the Olympus. Why is a rustic dessert called that? The fact is that he seems to lack clothes from the usual white cream enveloping his sides.
You not only want to try such desserts, but also look at them and guess where and what kind of berries are placed. The cakes are always visible, and they do not have to be the same thickness. This gives the cakes a special charm, as if they were not yet finished by the hand of a master. Some confectioners call this style rustic.
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.
How to make a “Rustic Cake”
Let's make gingerbread cake with berries, cinnamon and buttercream.
Combine flour, baking powder, ground ginger, cinnamon, ground nutmeg in one bowl and mix them well.
In another (weigh an empty cup and remember), beat eggs (2 pcs.) with sugar (100 g), do this for 3-4 minutes, so that the mass increases significantly in volume.
Melt the butter (125 g) in a saucepan, let cool slightly and add cream (100 g) and milk (150 g).
Alternately add the dry ingredients and the liquid from the pan to the egg mixture. Beat well with a mixer.
At the end, add 100 grams of honey or aromatic maple syrup.
I made the cake in 16 cm pans. Three cakes came out. To do this, grease the mold with oil and sprinkle with flour. You can put a circle of parchment on the bottom. Place a third of the dough into the pan. This is why we weighed the empty cup. Now you can find out the mass of the dough and divide by three.
Bake at 175 degrees for 20-30 minutes. The top will turn golden and the skewer will be dry. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack, first in the pan (5 minutes), then turn the cake over and let it cool on the wire rack on its own.
The shortbreads will be 1.5-2.5 centimeters high.
Now you need to prepare the cream for the cake. We will make cheese cream. And here is the most important and only rule for you - very cold curd cheese, very soft butter.
That is, it is better to keep the cheese in the refrigerator all night so that it is cold and hard enough. On the contrary, keep the oil in the kitchen on the table for a couple of hours (overnight) so that it becomes soft and pliable. Only under such conditions will you get an excellent cream with a delicate texture and taste. The procedure is the simplest - put the ingredients in a bowl and beat with a mixer until smooth. This will take 5-7 minutes. Here's some advice that gets asked a lot. If the powder squeaks or you need a whiter color, do this: first beat the butter and powder with a mixer on high for 5-10 minutes. And only then he introduces cheese.
Now you need to decorate the cake with cream. Transfer the cream into a pastry bag. And in order to remove the cap from the cakes, you need to cut it off with a knife (usually I use a cheese knife).
What’s convenient about keeping the cream in a bag is that it doesn’t dry out and it’s very easy to make the layers of cream the same. Just spread the cream in a spiral.
Assemble the tower and add cream on top, on which we place the berries, in this case cherries and candied blueberries. If you want to make the same cake from the sides, generously coat the outside with cream (pipe from the bag), and level with a spatula or spatula.
