Making a wedding cake with your own hands is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Even an inexperienced and novice cook can cope with such a task. The main thing is to strictly follow the instructions and tips. In this article we will tell you how to surprise loved ones and all guests of the celebration with their pastry talents.
Hand Made
Having made a wedding cake with your own hands, you will achieve that all guests will remember this celebration for a long time. Indeed, more often couples resort to the services of professional confectioners, not daring to tackle baking a delicious dessert on their own at the end of the gala evening.
But recently, the popular hand-made, covering already many areas of application, has reached wedding traditions. In reality, all this is a revival of long-forgotten traditions. After all, our grandmothers also baked wedding loaves with their own hands, so there is nothing surprising here. But the process itself will drag you in and swallow you, you can be sure. After all, it’s so cool to gather your friends after a bachelorette party to spend an evening on the eve of the most important celebration in your life for baking a cake! The only thing is to choose a proven recipe that everyone will like, and you will manage to implement it with dignity. Then a home-made wedding cake will turn out the way you dream.
Recipe
The best option in this case is to bake a Naked Cake. It is also commonly called naked. And to cook this very wedding cake with your own hands is worth it for several reasons.
Now it is extremely popular and is considered one of the most fashionable wedding trends of the season. In addition, it is as natural as possible, so it will be appropriate to use the so-called eco-style to decorate it. All this will allow you to touch the traditions and experience for yourself the beauty of this custom.
Another plus of this cake is that if something goes wrong with the decoration, then for everyone around, flaws can be attributed to the previously conceived originality and style of hand-made. This will only emphasize the originality of a handmade wedding cake, a photo of which is in this article. Therefore, the main thing is not to be afraid to experiment.
Naked cake
Naked Cake - a cake with bare cakes, decorated with berries and flowers. You need to start the creation of a wedding cake with your own hands at home with careful preparation. Buy all the necessary products. The main thing is not stint, because we will focus on the main triumph in your life. Believe that a lot depends on the quality and quantity of ingredients. Therefore, it is important to carefully check everything yourself, choosing the best.
Invite for a specific time everyone with whom you want to bake a wedding cake. These may be relatives of a friend with whom you have the best relationship. It will not be superfluous to ask them to constantly wish you and your future family health and happiness. Of course, this will not affect the taste of your cake, but the ancestors always claimed that it would affect the future family life. So if you want to follow the traditions, be sure to ask them about it.
Biscuit ingredients
And now we will tell you how to make a wedding cake with your own hands, step by step.
Start by baking a biscuit. Here you can take any favorite and proven recipe that you have used more than once. So, for a classic biscuit, you will need the following ingredients:
- 4 chicken eggs;
- half a teaspoon of vanilla extract;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 200 ml of sunflower oil;
- 200 ml of water;
- 250 grams of wheat flour;
- 50 grams of cocoa powder;
- 100 grams of starch;
- 10 grams of baking powder;
- salt to taste.
Step by step recipe
Let's start with the advice that you need to have baking rings or a split mold on hand, which you usually use to make a biscuit. If you are afraid that the parchment under the rings may start to leave, it is recommended to wrap it around the ring itself.
- To make a biscuit, start by breaking the chicken eggs in the dough bowl. To them should be added a pinch of salt, the required amount of vanilla extract and sugar.
- The resulting mixture should be thoroughly beaten until completely homogeneous. It should increase in volume and become brighter.
- Add oil and water, mix thoroughly again.
- At this time, mix wheat flour with baking powder and starch.
- Now it is time to add starch, flour and cocoa powder to the liquid mixture. Be sure to carefully sift everything and then mix until a homogeneous mass is formed.
- In conclusion, we lay out the dough in several forms and send it to the oven. Please note that the specified amount of ingredients is enough for three cakes, if you plan to have more, then it is worth proportionally increasing the number of products.
- The biscuit is baked in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 170 or 180 degrees. Before removing it from the oven, be sure to check the cakes for readiness with a wooden skewer.
- The resulting biscuits should be cooled in a cool place, and it is better to spend more time on it, but do without a refrigerator.
When preparing a wedding cake with your own hands, special attention should be paid to the diameter of the biscuit cakes. If you planned a single-tier cake, then the optimal diameter of each cake is 20 centimeters. But if the cake is two-tiered, then you should take the shapes of diameters 24 and 15 centimeters, respectively.
Of course, you can take a chance and make a cake in three or four tiers, but experienced chefs do not recommend preparing such complex desserts at home. The likelihood that the upper tiers will fall will be too high.
Cooking features
As a result, you should get a cake, the height of the biscuits which will vary from 7 to 12 centimeters. Please note that you can bake one thick biscuit or several thinner biscuits. It should only be borne in mind that the sides of the “naked” cake should never be covered with mastic or cream. After all, he is therefore called naked. At the same time, the side surfaces of the biscuit cakes can be a wonderful decoration of this dessert.
For example, they can be made in different colors, with an ombre effect (that is, a smooth transition from dark to lighter tones) or contrasting. If you settled on a few thin biscuits, then color them differently, to the tone of your wedding. It is only necessary to remember that artificial dyes are not added to the real "naked" cake. Therefore, if you want to exactly follow the canonical recipe, then color the cakes with cocoa or fruit juice.
Vanilla and Mascarpone
Now it is time to thoroughly smear the cakes with cream. You can also choose it at your discretion. As an example, give a cream of mascarpone with vanilla and lemon. To prepare it, you will need to take:
- 1 kilogram of mascarpone cheese;
- 500 grams of fat cream;
- 200 grams of powdered sugar;
- a pinch of vanilla;
- lemon juice to taste.
How to make a cream
Having made a wedding cake with your own hands, all of these ingredients should be cooled as much as possible, and then beat to a state of lush foam. The temperature you choose will directly depend on how well the cream breaks. Therefore, do not remove food from the refrigerator.
With the resulting cream, we grease all the cakes in turn. The main thing is to ensure that the cream does not fall on the side surfaces of the cake. Having smeared the surface of the top cake, grasp the decoration of the wedding cake with your own hands. From above berries and fruits are laid on it. If you have a two-tier cake, you should do the same with the lower tier, which will protrude beyond the upper one. It is important to make sure that your berries are whole and not rumpled, so that they do not turn sour or spoil the appearance and taste of the cake.
Original ideas
If you want to decorate your cake in some original way, then, in addition to fresh berries and fruits, you can use fresh flowers. To do this, they must first be washed and dried so that the cream does not drip and the biscuit does not become damp.
It should also be remembered that the juice of some plants is poisonous, so choose flowers carefully for decoration. It is better to refuse rare and exotic flowers, the names of which you do not know, even if they amaze you with their beauty. They should be laid out on the cake just before serving it to the table, because fresh flowers without water are a short-lived decoration.
When your wedding cake is almost ready, it should be sent to the refrigerator for several hours. During this time, he should well brew in a cool place. Only in this case, the dessert will turn out really tasty and original. If you follow all the tips exactly, you are guaranteed to succeed.