Cake is always a festive dessert that is prepared on special occasions and holidays. What else does each of us associate with the holiday? Of course, with a good mood, cheerful company, gifts and of course flowers!
In this article we have prepared for you amazing, luxurious options for birthday cakes that are decorated with flowers. Such delicious cakes are sure to be an incredible success at any home, and not only, celebration. Just imagine how you serve such an amazingly beautiful, one might even say fabulous, cake to the festive table! And most importantly, you didn’t buy it, you didn’t order it from a professional pastry chef, because you made it yourself right in your own kitchen.
So, if you're ready to start learning how to create amazing flowers on your homemade cakes, then it's time to get started.
Cake decorated with flowers
You can get such an incredibly delicate homemade birthday cake if you use the master class below.
To create such a lush sweet flower on the cake, you will need white chocolate, which will need to be melted in a water bath.
Now lay parchment paper on the table and place the slightly cooled white chocolate glaze on it, and then use the top of a spoon to smear it a little on the paper so that you form a neat petal.
You will need to make 8 large petals, 8 medium petals and 5 small petals.
Now place the chocolate petals on parchment paper in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
When the flower elements have hardened, they must be carefully separated from the paper and begin decorating the cake.
Apply the cake cream to the side of your homemade dessert and start gluing the petals. First we glue the large petals.
Then we apply another layer of cream and attach medium-sized petals, and then small petals.
Add a little cake cream to the middle and prepare the stamens of our sweet flower.
We suggest you make stamens from any candy like toffee. We cut the toffee into small pieces and then attach it to the middle of the cake.
Practical floristry. Master Class. Let's make a cake with flowers!
Both the owner of the flower shop and the florists want to surprise and delight their customers every day with new bouquets of flowers and floral arrangements. Buyers also want to please their loved ones with a variety of floral gifts, and not give the same thing every time. The picture is clear - it is necessary to constantly learn new techniques in floristry and constantly practice them in everyday work.
In previous lessons we learned how to make a handbag with flowers, a topiary from fresh flowers, a hedgehog from flowers and a pearl from chrysanthemums. Today I will show you how to make a cake from cut flowers, which you can make yourself by carefully watching this floral master class.
Flower cakes can be made in different sizes, shapes and with different numbers of tiers. It all depends on your imagination and the wishes of your customers.
I will be making a round, two-tiered flower cake.
To make the composition I will need: four piaflora bricks for fresh flowers, cardboard, felt-sisal, felt, cling film, technical cord, toothpicks, two plates, tape, decorative cord, decorative ornaments (cherry), cut flowers (eustoma, spray rose , gypsophila), tools (scissors, pruning shears, piaflora knife, floral knife, thermal gun, wire cutters, awl, needle with a large eye).
For my piaflora cake, I will cut out tiers 5 cm thick. To do this, I will cut each bar lengthwise. And then, I will cut out the top and bottom tier of the cake. To do this, place a large plate on top, outline it and cut out the bottom tier of our cake. We do the same when cutting out the top tier, only we need to take a plate of smaller diameter.
Soak the piaflora blanks in water.
Now we will make the base on which our flower cake will be placed. To do this, we cut out a square with sides 27 cm from cardboard. We cover it with felt-sisal; if desired, you can glue the felt-sisal on the wrong side with a heat gun.
Then we take the piaflor out of the water (after it sinks to the bottom on its own and is well saturated with water). We fasten the parts of the lower and upper tier together with toothpicks. After this, we wrap the lower tier first and then the upper one with cling film. We wrap each tier on the end side with tape to further secure the film. Carefully cut off the piaflora washers from the top of the film-packed washers.
Now the bottom tier of the cake needs to be secured to a cardboard base; to do this, we pierce holes on the base with an awl and thread a technical cord through them, then tie the bottom tier. After that, use toothpicks to connect the top and bottom tiers of the cake.
We decorate both tiers with a strip of felt folded in three, 5.5 cm wide. We secure the felt from the wrong side with a heat gun. And tie it with a decorative cord into a bow.
Now let’s start decorating the cake with flowers and decorative cherries.
The flower cake is ready. It will be a wonderful birthday gift, and can also serve as an original table decoration.
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Cake in the shape of a flower
Another delicious cake in the shape of a luxurious, amazingly beautiful flower.
To create such beauty you will need white chocolate, which must be melted in a water bath. To give the future flower a beautiful shade, add a little food coloring to the chocolate glaze.
Lay parchment paper on the table, draw triangles on the “wrong” side of the paper - this is the future shape of the flower petals.
Now, using a knife or fork, apply the chocolate glaze to the resulting stencil.
You will need to make petals of different sizes: large and small.
Now you can put the petals on parchment paper in the refrigerator until completely hardened.
When the flower elements have hardened, they must be carefully separated from the paper and begin decorating the cake.
Grease the top of the cake with cream and place large petals in a circle.
Apply a little more cream to the center and lay out a second layer, consisting of small petals.
We decorate the middle with edible beads.
You can also decorate the sides of the cake with sugar beads. You can replace the beads with multi-colored small candies in glaze.
How to decorate a naked cake for a wedding: fashionable ideas
The open dessert should definitely be remembered by the guests of the festive feast for its beautiful design in accordance with the general style of the celebration.
For a classic delicate wedding in a romantic style, an open cake with white and pink cherry and apple flowers, slices of fruit in caramel icing is ideal; a wedding in a “retro” style will be wonderfully complemented by a wedding “naked cake” with flowers in the form of multi-colored roses and balls of delicious caramel.
The most popular and fashionable ideas are the use of the following techniques in decoration:
- Berries and fruits.
- Natural flowers.
- Sweet figures.
- Cream decorations.
- Sprigs of lemon balm and mint.
This video shows one of the options for decorating a wedding “naked” cake:
Berries and fruits
An excellent decor for open wedding desserts is made from juicy berries and fruits, which are placed in a bright scattering on the snow-white or creamy surface of sponge cakes.
The overall impression of the delicacy will be greatly enhanced by the bright colors of the fruit compositions beautifully arranged on the delicacy.
Fragrant berries and pieces of fruit will not leave guests indifferent. In addition to wonderful taste, berry and fruit decorations are useful in a large amount of vitamins. On a multi-layer dessert, you can place rows of candied fruits and traditional fresh strawberries, blueberries or raspberries.
To prevent the laid fruit and berry decor from moving, it is covered with a thin layer of transparent jelly.
Natural flowers
If you want to decorate an open cake for a wedding in a non-standard way, you can decorate the cakes with fresh flowers.
For decoration, the same flowers are selected as in the bride’s bouquet. The floral arrangement on the cake will look harmonious in combination with the colors of the decoration of the hall for the wedding celebration.
An eternal classic - red roses on a white cream filling, placed on each tier of the cake. Delicate blue violets go perfectly with dark chocolate filling.
When choosing a cake decoration made from fresh flowers, it is recommended to pre-treat the selected specimens to prevent early wilting.
Sweet figures
An excellent decoration for a wedding dessert can be made from sweet miniature figures. Often, small copies of figurines of the bride and groom, figurines of a pair of swans, and cooing doves are placed on the upper tier.
Mini-figurines are usually made edible, but recently it has been customary to decorate a wedding cake with porcelain figurines and beautiful toppers, which can then be kept as souvenirs of the wedding celebration.
All this wedding paraphernalia reminds of the general purpose of the festive celebration - the wedding day.
This design of cakes brings elements of chic into the holiday atmosphere and brings smiles of admiration to the guests.
Cream
An open wedding cake can be decorated with various cream compositions in the form of multi-colored floral patterns of roses, daisies, lilacs, etc.
Even a simple scalloped wave of cream filling placed on the edge of the sponge cake will give the cake a unique look.
And if you place scatterings of live red small berries on a white cream surface, you will get a bright accent composition that attracts attention.
This video will help you decorate a cake with your own hands:
When making your own wedding cake, decorating with cream is not at all difficult. To do this, the prepared butter or protein cream must be placed in a special pastry bag and carefully squeeze out a small portion of the cream and draw any figure on the cake.
With sprigs of mint and lemon balm
Fragrant green sprigs of mint or lemon balm placed on the cake layers will add freshness and fragrance to a Provence style wedding cake. The bright greenery of the leaves will look contrasting on the sand or chocolate surface of the cakes, symbolizing spiritual harmony, purity and love for nature.
Decorating a wedding cake with green branches will perfectly complement an eco-style wedding ceremony, and if you add a sprig of fragrant lemon balm to the bride’s bouquet, this will be an interesting wedding decor solution.
A wedding “naked cake” in any design is considered a masterpiece of confectionery art. It seems to represent the openness of the soul, the truth of real values - strong love, marital fidelity and a friendly family.
How to decorate a cake with flowers
And finally, a homemade cake decorated with flowers made from sugar mastic.
Roll out the sugar mastic in a thin layer and cut out the necessary blank to form a realistic rose (see photo).
Then fold the workpiece in half and start rolling. Spread the petals.
Cut out leaves from green sugar mastic.
To make the whole cake light and airy, you can also decorate the sides with a thin fringe of sugar mastic.
And a few more options for creating incredibly beautiful cakes with flowers.
All the subtleties of decorating a cake with fresh flowers
Making a birthday cake is a very responsible task. Not only does the dessert have to be delicious, you want it to win the hearts of the guests even before they try it. And for this you need to work hard on its appearance.
Today, the confectionery business has become so developed that every product is a masterpiece. There are a lot of options for decorating holiday baked goods; you can choose one to suit every taste and color. A cake with fresh flowers looks incredibly beautiful at a celebration. Whether it's a wedding or a birthday, a cake made from fresh flowers will add even more solemnity to the moment.
However, before ordering dessert with similar decor, or making it yourself, you need to familiarize yourself with very important rules and points.
