The best cake decorating ideas for a ruby ​​wedding

As with any festive occasion, a forty-year wedding anniversary often ends with a tea party. Usually, a cake decorated with red decorative elements is prepared for 40 years from the date of the wedding.

A cake for a ruby ​​wedding must have decorations in shades of red (from scarlet to dark cherry), since these colors are traditional for the 40th anniversary of living together. Of course, it is not necessary to design a festive dessert exclusively in red. Interesting options can be obtained by combining the base color with white, gold, beige, blue, black or green.

It is customary to decorate the classic ruby ​​wedding cake with flowers. For example, red roses can be placed on top of white cream. For greater pomp, they can be arranged in a cascade. The initials of the heroes of the day will look organic on the cake. Most often, decorations are made from mastic, however, if the heroes of the occasion or some of the guests do not like this product, you can make decorations without this ingredient, replacing it with ordinary cream.

Any holiday is always associated with gifts. You can also decorate a birthday cake in the form of a gift box. It is enough to decorate it with decorative and edible flowers, bows and "packaging". You can make a congratulatory inscription in English or Russian.

Elegant couples will love the dessert with dark chocolate lace over a crisp white creamy base. If you add red details to such a cake, then it will truly become the main event of the evening. A similar expression of the highest aesthetics in decoration is the red and black color scheme.However, the dark color must be used very carefully so as not to turn the festive dessert into a gloomy one.

When giving a cake to the closest ones (parents), make sure that not only red, but also gold details are present in its decor.

Baking an anniversary cake can be ordered at any pastry shop, but the heroes of the occasion will appreciate it if you bake a treat for them yourself.

The least troublesome dessert available for self-made is called "Red Velvet".

You will need the following ingredients:

• flour - 400 g;
• granulated sugar - 300 g;
• baking powder - 10 g;
• chicken egg - 3 pcs;
• vanilla (to taste);
• salt - 3 g;
• kefir - 300 ml;
• red dye - 15 g;
• vegetable oil - 200 g.

First you need to knead the dough. For this, dry components are combined in a deep container. Oil, kefir and dye are mixed in a separate cup. Stir them until a deep red hue is obtained. Separately, beat the refined sugar and eggs until a thick foam is obtained. Then you should combine them with kefir mass, add the remaining dry products. Everything gets mixed up.

Three equal cakes will come out of the resulting volume. They need to be baked for about half an hour at 170 ° C. The dough is laid out in a detachable round shape (22-24 cm in diameter), covered with baking paper. The cakes need to be cooled, then wrapped with food mica and put in the refrigerator (preferably overnight). Cream for soaking the cakes can be made from condensed milk and butter or cottage cheese (1.5 packs) with the addition of vanillin, refined powder (4 tablespoons) and 2/3 of a pack of butter.

To collect the cake, you must follow a certain sequence of actions. You need to cut off the top of each cake and crush it until you get a crumb. You will need it for decoration. The cream is necessary not only for smearing each cake, but also for greasing the dish on which the cake will flaunt. After the general assembly, using a long wooden spatula, you should well smear all the sides and top of the treat. Sprinkle it with crumbs from the cakes from the sides and top. Finally, the cake is decorated with the remaining cream using a pastry syringe.

If cake is old-fashioned to you, then you can make biscuit muffins.

To prepare a delicious dessert you need:

• flour - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 200 g;
• chicken egg - 2 pcs;
• vegetable oil - half a glass;
• cocoa - 10 g;
• kefir - 200 ml;
• butter - half a pack;
• salt - 2 g;
• baking powder - 5 g;
• red dye - 10 g.

For the cream you will additionally need:

• soft cheese - 1.5 cups;
• crushed refined sugar - half a glass;
• butter - 2/3 pack;
• vanilla sugar - 10 g.

Dry foods must be combined. Beat butter and sand separately. Then add the eggs while continuing to beat. After that, you need to pour in vegetable oil, dye and kefir. At the end, add the dry ingredients and mix well until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. The resulting mixture is placed in muffin tins so that they are 2/3 full. You need to bake cupcakes for a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 175 degrees.

At this time, you need to prepare the cream. Combine butter with vanilla and powder, add cheese, beat with a mixer.

When the muffins are baked, they should be allowed time to cool down. Then the cakes are decorated with the resulting cream. For originality of design, you can also add dye to the cream.

The multi-tiered cake decorated with purple mastic bows and snow-white figurines of cats looks unusual.Although there are no distinctly reds on the cake, lilac is considered a variation on the pink-purple palette. In addition, this color symbolizes wisdom, nostalgia, patience, calmness, that is, those qualities that the heroes of the day have acquired over a long time of life together. If desired, the delicate shade can be replaced with red. This will make the treat even more spectacular.

The cake looks original, made in the form of a luxurious soft bed, covered with a quilted bedspread with gold tassels. At the top is a box of mastic, trimmed with pearls, in which two wedding rings flaunt. The initials of the heroes of the day are engraved on the lid.

You will learn more about how to make and decorate a cake for a ruby ​​wedding in the following video.