Despite the fact that summer is considered the traditional wedding season, winter is an equally great time for celebration. Winter wedding makes it possible to feel like a real princess from a winter fairy tale. The wedding winter cake should fully correspond to the solemnity of the moment. What kind of cakes are there, and what should be preferred?
Color selection
For a winter wedding cake, not only taste is important, but also appearance. After all, the cake captured on the wedding photo will delight with its appearance for many years to come. The traditional colors for winter are shades of white, blue, bright red, golden. When choosing a color for the main treat of the evening, it is important to focus on the color palette of the wedding, because the winter version of the wedding cake should correspond to the theme of the celebration.
Recently, there has been a tendency to make bright accents on the cake. It can be bright red elements on a snow-white background. As these accents can be used as edible or inedible items.
Cake Topics
The style of the winter wedding cake should emphasize the thematic direction of the whole celebration. There are some of the most common topics for winter cakes:
- Cake in the style of the main holidays of the winter - New Year and Christmas. Such cakes can be decorated with figures of deer, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, slices of tangerines, persimmons and even real spruce cones.
- Cake in the style of Valentine's Day can be made in the shape of a heart, decorated with swans, romantic inscriptions, be red or pink. It can be decorated with hearts, red roses (cream or real).
The cake can also repeat the theme of the wedding, for example, decor elements such as fir branches, cones, a cake stand made of wood cut can be chosen for a celebration in a rustic style. A classic winter wedding cake can be decorated with white chocolate or mastic snowflakes. In addition, it is appropriate to decorate treats with winter berries - viburnum, cranberries.
Cakes and toppings
Much attention should be paid to the cakes and the filling of the winter wedding cake, because the taste of the treat should correspond to the external beauty. For a winter cake, an abundance of summer fruits and light souffle fillings are considered inappropriate. Most often, classic vanilla notes with chocolate filling are preferred. For those who love originality, confectioners can make such cakes:
- Vanilla sponge cake with chocolate and nut filling.
- Walnut sponge cake with coffee impregnation and chocolate cream filling.
- Sponge cake with gingerbread flavor impregnated with liquor and light vanilla cream.
- Classic biscuit with citrus filling and cognac impregnation.
- Chocolate sponge cake with chocolate filling, alcohol and alcohol cherries.
There are many options on the theme of winter wedding cakes, they are limited only by the confectioner's fantasy. Classics of winter weddings are such cakes as tiramisu, cheesecake, caramel-nut. They combine the familiar taste with the original appearance.
Mastic or cream?
Today, there are many pastry chefs who offer a variety of cakes decorated with cream or mastic. They are radically different in design and taste.
Mastic is a plastic sugar mass that is easy to sculpt. Thanks to her, you can create almost any design of goodies.
At the word “cream”, a cake pops in the memory, decorated with swans, roses and ruffles. However, such a design has long been outdated, replaced by more progressive forms. For example, realistic cream flowers, which in shape and color are almost identical to natural ones. Or cakes under a uniform layer of cream, decorated on top with chocolates, fruits, fresh flowers.
In recent years, the so-called naked cakes are gaining popularity. This is the name of the design of sweets, in which the cakes are not covered with cream or mastic on top, so the impression is made of “naked” cakes. Such cakes can be decorated with berries and fruits. Most often they are used at weddings with the themes of "rustic", "nerd".
Replacing a traditional cake
Photos of winter wedding cakes are striking in their beauty, but there are many couples who have abandoned them in favor of unconventional portioned sweets. It can be cupcakes on a beautiful tray, which are also decorated with thematic elements. Instead of muffins, cakes with the initials of the newlyweds can be served.
Recently, as a replacement for a traditional cake, a so-called candy bar has been equipped.
It is a freestanding table on which several types of sweets are located. All guests can come up at any time and enjoy the offered sweets. Candy bar decor supports the theme of the whole wedding.