How to choose a cake for a wooden wedding?
Today, almost every woman tries to follow a diet, eat only natural food, counting every calorie. However, there are holidays when you simply cannot do without sweets. One of these events is considered to be a wedding anniversary.
Wooden anniversary is an event held after 5 years of marriage. The cake is a traditional delicacy here. This article will show you how to choose a cake for your wooden wedding anniversary.
Treat as a symbol
Many women wonder what the cake should be at this event. However, there are no standards here. The main thing is that it is soft and tasty. All other components: appearance, dough, the amount of cream depend only on the taste and capabilities of the hosts of the celebration. The five year anniversary cake is an iconic dish.
A marriage after 5 years of marriage becomes as strong as wood. The parents of the characters of this event are compared with the roots, and the children with young shoots. The family begins to grow like a tree. Hence the name of the celebration. The festive mood should be fully reflected in the symbol of the event. It doesn't matter if you order the cake from experienced pastry chefs or prepare it yourself.
In stores or on the Internet, you can find a large number of cake recipes, as well as design options. If you decide to order a cake from professionals, then they should present you with a portfolio with images of already completed orders on this topic. The hosts of the celebration will only have to study all the options and choose the one that they like. Confectioners are able to make any fantasies of the heroes come true.
Housewives who love to make cakes with their own hands will have to make a lot of effort in order to surprise their guests.
Varieties
If you have extensive experience in cooking this delicacy, then your chosen one is very lucky. You can flip through the recipes and choose the one you like. It will not be difficult to translate it into reality. There is a wide variety of cakes that are prepared for a five-year wedding anniversary. The most popular is the high-rise cake.
At such events, you can find a chocolate cake made in the shape of a tree trunk. They are often decorated with colorful flowers and vibrant leaves.
As a final dish for this holiday, sand cakes covered with pastry mastic can be used. It is very easy to make it yourself.
- Take 1 cup of powdered sugar and one cup of milk. Add boiled condensed milk to this.
- Place everything in a container and stir until a thick, homogeneous mass is obtained.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out the resulting mixture, place on the cakes that you baked in advance.
Make sure your baked goods are cold and dry by this time. There should be no cream on the surface. The edges can be painted with any color of food grade paint. You can mold any figures from small pieces and decorate the cake with them. It all depends on your imagination.
Professionals often make cakes in the shape of a large chest on which the heroes of the day sit. Also popular are wooden huts, cakes in the form of a large hemp.
If you don't have enough experience, but still want to make a treat with your own hands, then start making cupcakes. If you translate "cupcake" literally, you get "cake in a cup". For baking, special confectionery molds are used. However, for the anniversary, you can simply use mugs that you give to guests after the celebration is over.
The recipe for making cupcakes is very simple.
Ingredients:
- butter - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- baking powder;
- premium flour - 400 g;
- milk - 240 ml.
Remove the butter from the refrigerator beforehand and let it soften. Add sugar gradually and beat until grains disappear. Mix the resulting mixture with flour and pour over the milk. You need to add it, stirring constantly, to avoid the appearance of lumps. The dough is placed in paper containers for 2/3. The resulting workpiece is sent to the oven for 30 minutes.
You can make hemp-shaped cakes. This sweetness perfectly matches the theme of a wooden wedding in its appearance. Such a do-it-yourself delicacy will not only surprise the guests, but also give your man another reason to be proud of you.
Following tradition
In France, a cake called "Classic log"... If you want to bake it with your own hands at home, it will take a lot of your time and effort. In this case, it is not necessary to use mastic, because not everyone likes it. Let's figure out the recipe for this delicacy, if properly prepared, it will be remembered by your guests for many years.
Ingredients:
- flour - 30 g;
- starch - 50 g;
- sugar 150;
- expensive chocolate - 250 g;
- strong coffee - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cognac - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- butter - 150 g;
- eggs - 7 pcs.
The main ingredient of this cake is a light sponge roll. Stir in three eggs, sugar, potato starch and flour. If you want your roll to curl easily, then prepare a moistened towel in advance, put a hot sheet from the oven on it, and cover the prepared cake with another moistened towel on top.
Wait until it cools completely, then brush with cream, add grated walnuts or dried raisins. Now you can roll the resulting workpiece into a roll.
The main component of such a delicacy is cream.Break good chocolate into small pieces, sprinkle with sugar and coffee. Send the resulting mass to a water bath. At the very end, add a couple of spoons of cognac. It will quickly evaporate, and there will be no trace of it.
After cooling completely, grind the boiled yolk with sugar and butter.
The resulting roll should be cut diagonally. Outside, it is covered with chocolate, with the help of a stick, a drawing is made in the form of circles on a log. Many colorful flowers and leaves can be made nearby.
The received "log" can be signed: "Congratulations on your fifth birthday! "Or" L'amour ", which means" love ".
You will learn more about how to make a "Log" cake in the next video.