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.
Wedding decoration in rose gold color
When thinking about wedding decor in pink and gold tones, you should pay special attention to not creating an overly glamorous and pompous celebration. Therefore, it is better to choose pastel pink as the main color, and complement it with spectacular golden notes. White and ivory can be used as secondary colors. Such a beautiful combination of colors can be successfully used both in the decor of off-site registration and in the design of a wedding hall, for example:
- Gold chairs decorated with pink ribbons + gilded arch decorated with pink flowers.
- Pink tablecloths + dishes with gilded borders + gold cutlery + white napkins.
- Draping the walls and ceiling of the wedding hall with pink fabric + gold lamps.
- Pink flowers in gold vases.
- Pink tablecloths + gold accessories and details (table numbers, candlesticks, etc.).
Wedding dresses in rose gold
The bride can choose either a classic white dress with pink or gold details (embroidery, belt, etc.), or a soft pink dress, complemented by gold accents. As an addition to the wedding dress - shoes, garter and manicure in the chosen color scheme.
The groom's image should not be overloaded with glamorous pink details; the only thing is that it can be a tie or bow tie in pastel pink and a boutonniere made of the same flowers as the bride's bouquet. Add some sparkle to your wedding suit with gold-plated cufflinks and a tie clip.
Bridesmaids can also support the celebration's palette by wearing pink dresses if the bride chose a white dress, or by choosing gold dresses if the bride's dress is pink.
Bride's bouquet in pink and gold
For the bride's bouquet, you should give preference to soft pink and white flowers: roses, hydrangeas, ranunculus, peonies, etc. They can be supplemented with gold brooches and a ribbon that can be used to decorate the bouquet's stem.
Accessories in rose gold
The main wedding accessories are invitations, so they must be made in a pink and gold palette, hinting at the color scheme of the celebration. You should choose pastel pink as the base, and complement it with gold prints, borders, etc. It is also better to write the invitation text itself in gold letters.
The design of other accessories should be done in a similar way: banquet cards, table numbers, menus, wedding programs, etc. It is fashionable to give guests small pink bags with “golden” dragees as bonbonnieres.
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.
Master class on making a cake with lace
Cooks make lace on a cake using icing. Learn how to prepare it so that you can decorate your wedding cake with lace yourself if you wish. Icing is a plastic white sugar-protein mass, which is obtained by grinding sifted powdered sugar with egg white and adding lemon juice or another acidifier. For greater plasticity, sometimes a little glycerin or glucose syrup is added to the mass, which greatly facilitates the work.
Procedure for working with icing:
- Place a stencil from a children's coloring book under plastic wrap greased with olive oil and apply icing using a piping bag.
- After the cream hardens, carefully remove the film and dry the snowflakes at room temperature for 2 days.
- The finished snowflake becomes solid.
- After hardening, icing of different colors is applied along the contour of the stencil.
How to make lace from fondant or chocolate?
Often, confectioners make chocolate or mastic lace for cakes using special molds. To use mastic for decoration, you need to roll it out with a rolling pin to the thickness of pasta. Then cut out several pieces corresponding to the size of the workpieces and powder them with corn starch. The starched side of the mastic should be placed on the mold and rolled several times with a rolling pin so that the blade on the mold cuts off the excess.
Pressing the mastic into the center with your fingers, remove its fragments and press the surface firmly against the template so that the print is clear. Removing the finished lace is simple: turn the mold over onto a clean table surface and carefully lift one edge, carefully releasing the mastic lace. If the fragment is a little too big, trim it, and if it’s too small, stretch it.
Watch the video how professionals make Merletti lace. This ready-made dry mix allows housewives to quickly prepare fantastic cake decorations at home.
There are special ready-made pastes on sale that can be used to make a magnificent covering (of different colors) for a wedding cake. Watch the video below for the process of preparing this decoration.
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.
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.
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.
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Which cake to choose for a golden wedding?
It's a significant anniversary that calls for a dessert to match. It must symbolize something grandiose. That’s why the delicacies are designed in this style. However, each of them is distinguished by the individual approach of the confectioner:
- Great value. A multi-tiered work of art with a neat golden border. The combination of white cream and gold trim looks very noble and laconic.
- Gold decoration. Here the focus is on the attractive alternation of tiers. High-quality drawn cream roses intersect with delicate beige layers. Everything is designed in the same color scheme, and this makes the weave look interesting.
- Swan wedding. This 50th wedding anniversary cake will be a touching symbol of love and fidelity, which helps two people walk hand in hand throughout their lives. The dessert is relatively small, which organically combines with the nobility and purity of the two creatures, whose figures adorn the creation.
- Quite a long time. A majestic dessert with a golden bow will decorate the banquet hall and festive table.
- Happy together. This design is a clear example of the fact that a multi-tiered dessert is an excellent canvas for the creativity of a confectioner. The top of the cake is decorated with a snow-white flower applique, in the middle there is a barely noticeable floral border, and at the base there is a carved golden hoop.
If you are thinking about what to treat your guests at your celebration or what to give your parents on such a significant day, then you should pay attention to this line of designer cakes!
