If you are looking for a fashionable cake for the holiday, our article will help you make the right choice. Tasteless mastic decorations and bulky flowers made from greasy cream are slowly becoming a thing of the past, giving way to stylish decor, natural components and sophisticated design.
Modern desserts are distinguished by sophistication and elegant appearance. Desserts made from natural ingredients are popular today, for example, a trendy cake with berries or fruits. Our selection will help you find the best recipe.
Mousse cakes in velor and mirror glaze
A couple of years ago, such desserts seemed an incredible miracle. Today they are created by many confectioners. Some recipes are feasible even for a self-taught amateur.
To make a fashionable cake, the base of which consists of mousse, you will need a special shape: round, square, elliptical or another. The main thing is that it should be made of silicone.
There are many recipes for mousse. Most of them are based on a mixture of whipped cream and tempered proteins. Gelatin is used for density, and in some recipes, custard meringue is used.
The principle of collecting the cake is as follows. Mousse is laid out in the form, then decorative and taste elements (saber, confit, gelatin layers, fruit and berry compote). In most cases, the process of laying biscuit or crisp cake ends. After the future cake freezes in the freezer, it is covered with a layer of mirror glaze or velor from an airbrush.
Berry cakes
Great idea for the summer, right? In principle, you can decorate any cake with fresh berries, from Napoleon to Red Velvet. But in the summer I want something light and low-calorie. The following recipe might be a great solution.
A fashionable cake with berries, the photo of which you see in this section, not only looks stylish, but also will please those who monitor the quality of food. It is based on the famous Pavlova dessert, so beloved by the legendary ballerina.
For such a cake, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, cherries and many other berries are suitable. And as a decor, you can use leaves of young mint. They prepare a Pavlova cake with berries like this.
Beat with a mixer 4 protein. When you see the cream thicken, start adding portioned sugar (150 g in total will be needed). Having achieved steady peaks, pour 4 tbsp into the cream. l corn starch. After spreading the baking sheet with parchment, carefully spread the cream in the form of a bowl on it and send it to the preheated oven for 15 minutes. It remains to fill the bowl with freshly picked berries. And to make the taste of the cake even more interesting, you can layer a bowl of cream cheese.
Professional confectioners know one little trick and recommend it to anyone who intends to decorate a cake with berries. Dilute the packaging of fruit jelly with water in a proportion three times smaller than the manufacturer recommends. You will get a thick gel in which you need to soak the berries before putting them on the cake. They will retain freshness and presentable appearance for a long time.
Malaysian style cakes
The fashion for such desserts, as you can easily guess by the name, came from the Far East. Today, a fashionable cake in the Malaysian style is a real hit among confectioners.
You can use absolutely any recipe for cakes, for example, chocolate biscuit or honey cake. It's all about the decor.
To create luxurious flowers, use Swiss Meringue Cream or Japanese Bean Paste. You need to plant flowers not directly on the cake, but on chopped tracing paper. If you freeze them in the freezer for an hour and a half, decorating the dessert will be more convenient.
Naked Cakes
Probably, such a design was invented in order to minimize the amount of cream. In the “naked” cake, it is located only directly between the cakes, and the sides remain open.
Usually, biscuit cakes are used as the base. If you are looking for an interesting idea for a holiday, be sure to prepare a fashionable cake with berries, the recipe of which we will discuss in this section.
Stir 270 g of flour, and one teaspoon of baking powder, ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. In another bowl, beat 2 eggs with 100 grams of sugar. Melt half a pack of butter in a saucepan, add 150 ml of milk and 100 cream fatter.
Add to the egg mixture in small portions a milk-cream base and a loose component, and pour 100 ml of liquid honey at the very end.
This amount of dough is enough for 3 cakes of 1 cm. They need to be baked at a temperature of 175 ° C for half an hour. Appearing "hats" with cakes better cut.
Layers the cake with cheese cream, aligning the edge with spatula. It remains only to decorate with berries.
Minimalistic design
If working with a confectionery syringe and a spray gun seems overwhelming to you, the next fashionable cake can be a real find. To prepare it, you only need to smear the cakes soaked in syrup and even the sides.
To create an accent, a decor of condurin is applied on a white background. Do not get involved in gold, just spray a dye with a brush along the edges of the cake.
Mineral Cakes
These magnificent treats are popular in the West today. In appearance, such cakes resemble geode slices. The effect is achieved using elements of crystallized sugar and jelly.
To prepare such a dessert, you need professional skills, but the result is worth the effort. Not surprisingly, these cakes are gaining more and more fans.