Star cook
Not only Russian celebrities, but also the richest people on the planet order unique products from him, sometimes weighing more than 10 tons. Only a pile foundation with a concrete platform can support such a cake.
The star pastry chef's cakes decorate the celebrations of politicians, businessmen, bankers in the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Italy, Germany and other countries.
The name of this wizard is Renat Agzamov. “Fili Baker Premium”, a project created by the confectionery, is an intellectual confectionery platform. Author, cake designer, work organizer, leader of dozens of stylists, designers, confectioners and even florists - Renat Agzamov.
Renata’s pride is the star cake “Zwinger Castle”. Its weight is four tons, there are monitors inside the cake, and air is supplied to cool them.
Renat revealed one of the secrets - the technology for making the Bird's Milk cake - to Instagram subscribers. The two components are whipped separately - the protein with sugar and the protein with butter and condensed milk. Beat the egg whites at low speed to prevent large bubbles from forming.
These components must be combined at the same temperature. This prevents the finished product from separating. This cake can be decorated with caramel or chocolate stars according to the age of the person for whom it is baked. The cake is perfect for the birthday boy.
Cake at the wedding of Said Gutseriev and Khadija Uzhakova
Weight: 150 kg. Height: 2 meters. Number of tiers: 6. Decor: white cake with pink roses and a crescent moon on top. Confectioner: no information.
The wedding took place on March 26, 2021 in Moscow and became one of the loudest in 2021. Said Gutseriev, the son of Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev (owner of JSC NK RussNeft, head of one of the richest Russian family clans in Russia 2015 according to Forbes) married student Khadija Uzhakova, who comes from a poor but wealthy family with a good reputation. According to media reports, the wedding budget amounted to 76 billion rubles, and about 600 guests were present at the celebration.
Star Cake
Let's start preparing the Star cake. There are an incredible number of recipes for various desserts; moreover, every person with talent, imagination and the ability to experiment can create an original confectionery work of art.
Soon everyone will congratulate their defenders on their professional holiday - Defense of the Fatherland Day. On this day, it is best to serve a beautiful and tasty star for dessert. The cake can be made in the image of the Order of the Red Star, the Star of the Hero of Russia or the Soviet Union.
To prepare the cake you need to take:
- 300 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 250 grams of flour;
- milk – 3 tablespoons;
- 200 grams of powdered sugar;
- 2 - 3 eggs;
- a pinch of vanilla;
- jam or marmalade to taste.
Cake at the wedding of Mariam Bazhaeva and Magomed Erikhanov
Weight: no information. Height: about 2 meters. Number of tiers: 7. Decor: white cake with pink and white flowers. Confectioner: no information.
The wedding took place in April in Moscow and was alcohol-free, attended by 200 guests. The bride and groom are children of wealthy parents. Magomed is the son of the head of the Chechen regional branch of Rosselkhozbank Usman Yerikhanov, Mariam is the daughter of the president of the Alliance Group Musa Bazhaev.
Sponge cake - the basis of the cake
The technology for preparing the dough is quite simple. Heated, but not melted butter needs to be beaten with sugar, eggs, vanilla and baking powder. As a baking powder, you can take soda (1 teaspoon) - a natural, harmless product.
Then you need to sift the flour, this will eliminate lumps from its composition and saturate it with oxygen. Continuing to beat the butter with the eggs and other ingredients, slowly add the flour, not allowing lumps to form. To achieve the desired consistency of the dough, you can add a little milk without stopping stirring.
If you are going to make a cake, you must have a baking dish in the kitchen. For the “Star” cake, of course, you need to take a star-shaped mold, line it inside with baking paper, fill it with half of the prepared dough and send it to the oven, preheated to 100 degrees Celsius.
Baking can last about 7 minutes. The top surface of the cake will look moist, but you can test for doneness by piercing it with a pin or toothpick. The finished biscuit will not leave traces of dough on it. When the first half is ready, remove it and cool. Fill the pan with the remaining dough and bake again.
Cut off the top of the cooled cake evenly so that you can use the cut layer to decorate the cake in the form of stars of various sizes and shapes. You can bake the entire biscuit at once and cut it into two flat halves.
Cake at the wedding of Anna Elashvili and David Mardi
Weight: no information. Height: about 2 meters. Number of tiers: 8. Decor: white cake with gold decoration and a crown as a topper. Confectioner: no information.
The wedding of Anna Elashvili, the daughter of the owner of the Sbarro, Elki-Palki and Eastern Bazaar restaurant chain Merab Elashvili, and Israeli citizen David Mardi took place in Tel Aviv in April. There were 2 thousand guests at the celebration.
Delicious cream: step-by-step recipe
Let's start preparing the cream:
- Mix butter with powdered sugar and beat well, adding milk, so that you get a fluffy, airy cream.
- For taste, you can add a little vanilla, cinnamon or other favorite spices.
Divide the prepared cream into two parts and spread one of them onto the first cake layer.
Prepare jam or jam for soaking the second cake layer. You can buy this lubricant in a store, or you can make it yourself. Usually, preserves and marmalade made with your own hands from berries or fruits are much tastier than industrially produced products. They differ from them in their peculiarity and uniqueness, depending on the imagination of the cook.
Cake at the wedding of Mikhail Chigirinsky and Nata Pkhakadze
Weight: 200 kg. Height: no information. Number of tiers: 5. Decor: the shape and decoration of the cake resembles a castle. Special “screens” were built into one of its tiers, on which the dance of the newlyweds was broadcast using a projector. Confectioner: Renat Agzamov.
The nephew of the famous oligarch Shalva Chigirinsky and the daughter of the reputable businessman Vakhtang Pkhakadze got married on September 18.
Making raspberry soufflé from Renat Agzamov
You need to grind the raspberries with sugar and put them in the refrigerator for a while. Then beat the egg whites with powdered sugar and mix this mixture with the pureed raspberries. The temperature of the mixed products should be equally cold.
After thorough mixing, the lubricant for the second cake is ready. Now you need to soak the second cake layer with it and connect both halves of the sponge cake.
Grind the scraps of the first cake to flour, mix with the remaining cream and put in the refrigerator for two hours.
Cake at the wedding of Alina Monosova and Pavel Kalturin
Weight: no information. Height: no information. Number of tiers: 4. Decor: laconic white cake with blue and orange planets, lighting was also used in the decor. Confectioner: Renat Agzamov.
One of the most beautiful and romantic weddings of the season. The project was called “The Birth of the Universe,” which is why the cake is cosmic. The celebration took place in the last days of February. The bride Alina Monosova is the daughter of the vice-president of AFK Sistema Leonid Monosov, the groom is Pavel Kalturin (son of the owner Vladimir Kalturin, player of the Gazprom UGS football team.
Mastic for decoration
While the star is cooling, you need to make mastic in these two hours. There are many recipes for making mastic, let’s look at one of them.
For preparation you need the following components:
- marshmallows (chewable) 200 grams;
- powdered sugar to taste;
- food coloring;
- water or lemon juice (2 tablespoons).
Pour marshmallows into a deep bowl and fill with water or juice (juice tastes better). Close the lid and microwave for 30-40 seconds. Set the microwave power to 800 watts. Add dye dissolved in 1 ml of water and sifted powdered sugar.
Stir the resulting mixture thoroughly until it reaches the consistency of plasticine. Powdered sugar acts as a hardener, so its quantity must be carefully controlled. Roll the finished product into a ball, wrap it in film to prevent it from drying out, and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After half an hour, take it out and roll it out onto the desired thickness on film to make it easier to transfer to the cake. Damage to rolled mastic can be easily repaired with water. It will take one hour to make the mastic.
Cake at the wedding of Sarkis Karapetyan and Salome Kintsurashvili
Weight: no information. Height: 6 meters. Number of tiers: 8. Decor: snow-white cake with an unusual white decor reminiscent of a flower tree made of sugar roses and lilies, of which there were 18 thousand on the cake. Pastry chef: Abusharaf Iyad (world-famous chef who worked at the court of the Prince of Kuwait).
At this wedding, taking out the cake became one of the most talked about events. The dessert could not be transported into the hall because it touched the chandelier! The wedding took place in early June. Sarkis Karapetyan is the son of the group’s president, Samvel Karapetyan. His chosen one, Salome, is the co-owner of a fashionable consignment store. More than 500 guests attended the celebration.
How to assemble a cake
After cooling the star for two hours, remove it from the refrigerator, spread cream and crumbs on it, cover with mastic and give the almost finished cake a neat appearance. Trim off any excess fondant and use it to decorate the cake.
The top of the cake can now be given a festive look. The entire cake can be decorated with cream so that it takes on the appearance of a star of a hero of Russia or the USSR, the Order of the Red Star and Glory. You can decorate it with a constellation made from mastic of different colors other than the main one.
Cake at the wedding of Dmitry Konov and Katarina Konks
Weight: 200 kg. Height: no information. Number of tiers: 9. Decor: light cake, which, thanks to the effects of video projection, changed color during the presentation. Confectioner: Natalya Yaroslavskaya.
One of the most unusual cakes of the season, the presentation of which uses not only confectionery, but also information technology. The celebration for which it was made took place in April in Moscow. Katarina Konks is a model, Dmitry Konov is the head of SIBUR (a petrochemical and gas processing company).
Prince William and Kate Middleton
On the occasion of the wedding of the prince and his beloved, 2 cakes were baked: the first (white) by personal order of the bride, and the other (dark) by order of the groom.
This fabulous work of culinary art was created over the course of 5 weeks. The cake was an 8-tier white tower cupcake decorated with buttercream and sugar icing flowers. In addition to the names of the newly minted royal family - "Kate and William", the dessert featured edible plants that symbolized different parts of the United Kingdom. I wonder who got the symbol of England - the rose? Surely, one of the representatives of the royal family.
The sweet miracle from the groom was much smaller in size and tasted completely different. Chocolate biscuit was chosen as the main ingredient.
Both of these items cost the royal family approximately $80,000.
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz
The cake at Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz's wedding was designed in the style of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland." It was an edible composition of a watch, a green top hat and a pot of flowers. I wonder which part the newlyweds cut off the first piece from?
Fergie and Josh Duhamel
Musical stars continue to delight us with their original approach to the details of a wedding celebration. The delicacy at the festive evening of these newlyweds was made in the shape of a castle, including several buildings of banana and chocolate flavor. To bring this culinary masterpiece to the banquet hall, the help of four people was needed.
