No wedding, no matter how big, is complete without wedding cake. It is the same attribute as the wedding dress of the bride or the rings of the newlyweds. Many guests even wait for the end of the banquet to watch and taste a small piece of culinary masterpiece. What could be more symbolic on a holiday than a heart wedding cake?

You need to take care of choosing a sweet dessert for a wedding in advance. Find out which firms or bakeries in your city specialize in making cakes to order. Take an interest in customer reviews, prices for such services. To decide on a particular cake, you must know the expected number of guests at the wedding, decide on the shape, size and weight of the dessert, composition and decor. How do you feel if the main delicacy of your celebration will be a heart-shaped wedding cake - a symbol of great and eternal love?

Stand and number of tiers

Dessert can be single or multi-tiered. The choice is up to the hosts. For a small wedding party, a single-tiered cake with several layers is suitable. Approximate sizes can be calculated by the number of people invited to the celebration. On average, a portion of the cake is 5-7 cm wide. If more guests are expected, then the dessert should be increased in size, both in width and in height. Biscuits look very nice, laid out in several floors, decorated with mastic and cream.

The cake cannot be without a substrate at the base. There are several types of stands and different diameters:

• multi-tiered vertical;
• with 2, 3, even 5 tiers in the shape of a tree;
• dessert tray;
• table on wheels for a large cake.

On a stand, this wedding delicacy always looks more solid and more presentable. Such devices are plastic (transparent or white), glass. Trays are made of metal or plastic. After baking, biscuits of the desired shape are laid out on substrates so that the contours between the frame and the future cake coincide. Only then does the confectioner, who creates a masterpiece, start decorating.

Finishing color and filling

It is better to decide in advance what color scheme the cake should be. The bride and groom need to choose for themselves whether it will be something delicate white and pink, airy or bright juicy tones. Flowers, butterflies, beads or figures molded from mastic can serve as decoration. The most common option for decorating a wedding cake is the prototypes of the bride and groom, standing on top of the confectionery.

There is no limit to the imagination when choosing fillings. In the course can go:

• fruit;
• vegetable cream;
• butter cream;
• creamy curd;
• based on condensed milk;
• sour cream.

The cake should turn out not only outwardly attractive, but also necessarily tasty. For every kind biscuit cake suitable cream. It all depends on what you want to get as a result - an airy cake or a juicy and satisfying one. The combination of fresh or canned fruits and vegetable cream in the dessert does not cause heaviness after eating it. Sour cream is very popular. Creams based on vegetable cream, Mascarone cheese are best suited for decoration with mastic.

Decoration and decor

How advanced the technology of cake production is, only experienced confectioners know. Some 30-40 years ago, the decoration was monotonous cream roses (oil). Now pastries can look like a work of art, which is even a pity to cut, not to eat. To work on such a cake and get the expected result, you need to know a lot of secrets.

Nowadays, cakes decorated with mastic figures or completely covered with mastic have become widespread. A whole plot or picture is molded. Edible sugar beads, marmalade figurines come to the rescue. Separately, you can fashion or purchase ready-made figurines from mastic, designed for a specific celebration, in this case, a wedding. The inscriptions are made using a special tube filled with food gel.

If the cake has several tiers, then each should be done differently. It will be interesting to look at the outside, and guests will be able to taste several types of biscuits and toppings. For example, one tier can be decorated with fruits, strawberries and cream, the other can be soaked in cream on a creamy base and decorated with a scattering of flowers, and the top one can be covered with a layer of mastic and necessarily decorated with figurines of the newlyweds. Such a cake will be remembered not only by the perpetrators of the event, but also by all those present.

The recipe for the cake "Two hearts" at home

At home, it is quite possible to cope with baking such an original cake as "Two Hearts". The output will be a dessert weighing about 9 kg. If you have the time, and most importantly the desire to do homemade cakes for a celebration - worth a try. stock up necessary products and start taking action. Surely, you will surprise all the guests by creating this masterpiece with your own hands. According to this recipe, you can bake a cake not only for a wedding, but also for its anniversary.

Required ingredients for the dough:

• flour - about 2500 g;
• granulated sugar - about 1 kg;
• cocoa powder - 12-13 tablespoons;
• baking powder - 4 teaspoons;
• egg - 4 pieces;
• creamy margarine -200 g;
• honey - 8-9 tablespoons;
• milk - 25 tablespoons.

Cream Ingredients:

• butter - 1300 g;
• milk - 2.5 l;
• sugar - 1300 g;
• yolks - 16 pieces;
• vanilla sugar - 40 g;
• flour - 20 tablespoons.

To decorate the cake you will need:

• cream - about 1 liter;
• powdered sugar - about 1.5 kg;
• mastic;
• gelatin - 20 g;
• food coloring red.

Cooking cakes:

1. Combine eggs with sugar in a bowl, mix well, add honey, margarine, milk.
2. Prepare a steam bath, put a well-mixed mass on it. Bring to a boil so that the margarine, sugar, honey are completely melted.
3. Mix cocoa, half the norm of flour with baking powder. Mix well and remove from the steam bath.
4. From the remaining flour, make a mound with a hole inside, pour the hot chocolate mass into it.
5. Knead the dough until it becomes elastic and does not stick to your hands.
6. Divide it into 16 equal parts and make balls.
7. Roll out the balls into cakes, slightly larger in size, as the size decreases during baking.
8. Each cake is baked in the oven for 6-8 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. This is how all 16 layers of the future cake are prepared.
9. We give the shape of the heart to the cakes while they are hot, otherwise it will be difficult to do it later.

Cream preparation:

1. Approximately 1.5 liters of milk, mix 800 g of sugar, put on a small fire.
2. In a separate container, thoroughly mix the yolks, the remaining sugar, vanillin until homogeneous mass, gradually adding 1 liter of milk.
3. Pour the milk-yolk mixture in a thin stream into the hot milk standing on the stove, stirring constantly.
4. When the cream starts to thicken, bring it to a boil.
5. In the cooling composition, add softened butter, mix well.
6. Let the cream cool completely and beat well.

Assembling and decorating the wedding cake:

1. Soak each cake with cream, fold. You should get two hearts in 8 layers.
2. Putting side by side, cut off an extra corner from one heart, connect them together. We give time to soak for 30-40 minutes.
3. We begin to decorate with whipped cream, powdered sugar.
4. We coat the cake well on all sides, level the cream on top with a knife.
5. We decorate with figures from mastic.

Video: how to decorate a cake with mastic?

In order not to order or buy mastic figurines, you can show your creativity - make them yourself. If you involve the whole family in this process, you will get an interesting exposition. Modeled figurines from mastic can be stored for up to 6 months in a cool, closed container. After watching the video below on decorating with mastic (how you can “fit” a cake with it), you will want to immediately put your knowledge into practice.

Photos of the most beautiful wedding cakes in the shape of a heart

Heart shaped cake is one of the most popular confectionery, which can be prepared for Valentine's Day, wedding, as a gift to a loved one, as well as a birthday. The main thing in this cake is its shape, you can decorate it with mastic or cream, depending on which confectionery material is easier for you to work with. This product can be considered one of the easiest to prepare, making it quite simple, especially if you use our detailed master class.

To create a wedding cake, you need very few ingredients. Full list as follows:

• biscuit - it is quite acceptable to leave the cake white, add cocoa powder, use any non-liquid cream;
• mastic;
• decorgel;
• powdered sugar;
• mother-of-pearl sugar balls;
• liquid dyes pink, brown, white.

In addition, you will need tools:

• substrate;
• multiple stacks;
• stands for the formation of roses;
• tassel.

A heart-shaped wedding cake is traditionally meant to be done in pastel colors, so we will use a soft pink dye, do not pick up a separate dye to create roses, just pour a little more of it into the fondant to intensify the colors. original decoration This cake in our master class is a box, which can also be made from mastic. This box with a lid can hold a wedding ring or other small item.

Foundation preparation

Cake "Heart" has a characteristic shape, as indicated by our master class. Making a cake of this shape is quite simple:

• bake round biscuit large diameter, from which a heart is subsequently cut out using a paper stencil or using an iron punch;
• bake a biscuit in a detachable form;
• if the basis for the cake is not a biscuit, but, for example honey cakes, then they can also be cut out immediately using a stencil in the shape of a heart.

After the cakes have cooled, they must be greased with butter, cream or other enough thick cream, let it soak in the refrigerator for about 2-4 hours, depending on the rigidity of the cakes. After that, the base can be covered with mastic, as in our MK. For these purposes, light pink mastic is used, you can use gelatin, based on condensed milk, store-bought. It must be painted very carefully so that the color is not intense, pastel.

For covering, roll out a large layer of pink mastic, carefully, trying not to tear, transfer to the surface. Now, with the help of your hands and a special iron, release all the air, smooth the mastic from above and along the sides to the base. Carefully cut off excess mastic with a knife or a special tool. Do not throw away the remaining mastic, roll it into a ball and wrap it in polyethylene.

Decorating a wedding cake

Such a wedding cake requires appropriate decor. There are many tutorials on decorating desserts to make for a special occasion. For a wedding or other celebration, you can make a cake in the form of a single heart, as well as make two hearts in one, but this is usually a cream version.

Let's start decorating:

1. Pour a little more dye into the pink mastic to make the color saturated. Now roll out the layer, make several circles by cutting, form multi-layered roses on a special stand. With these roses, you can decorate both the entire cake around the perimeter, and make several flowers in one part.

1. In the center you need to place a box in the shape of a heart, how to make it, our master class will also tell. To create a box, you need to make the same blanks in the shape of a heart, make the edge jagged using a special tool. Inside the bottom, make a side about 2 centimeters high. Place mother-of-pearl sugar beads on the gel at the base of the rim, decorate the edge of the lid with the same beads, and you can also make a drawing on it using icing. In our wedding manual, on the lid of this box, there are 3 small roses made of burgundy mastic.

1. Glue the box to the surface with a gel or syrup, inside the white mastic box you can lay out an imitation of the fabric on which the ring is placed.
2. Now plant pre-made roses on the surface.
3. From dark red putty, make a long ribbon, which you attach at the base with water, so you can hide the cut of the cover.

Do not forget to coat the surface with decorgel before decorating and attaching flowers and the casket on MK, as in our MK, to give a beautiful shine.

Cream cake "Heart"

According to our master class, the Two Hearts cream wedding cake looks no less festive than the one decorated with mastic, but it is easier to prepare. For it, you will need the following ingredients that our master class requires:

• 2 biscuit bases of the same shape;
• creamy or creamy custard;
• food coloring pink, red, green;
• a small piece of mastic to create newlyweds' rings and inscriptions with their names;
• as well as a pastry bag, a rotating cake stand, a spatula, a knife.

Cream wedding cake "Two Hearts" according to our master class is prepared quite quickly:

1. First you need to bake 2 heart-shaped biscuits, as in our MK, then layer with cream, rub on top, let it brew in the refrigerator for several hours.
2. Now you need to connect our "Two Hearts" blanks. To do this, put them side by side, using the form in which the cake was baked, cut out part of the first heart and insert the second cake there.

1. Coat the cakes with cream inside and out, put in the cold.
2. Large volume white cream type in a bag with a nozzle, squeeze a little cream on the surface, level with a spatula, as in MK. To draw a border of hearts, attach the shape and lightly press down.
3. Using a bag with a star tip, decorate the sides with vertical stripes, edging at the base and around the perimeter and border of the hearts at the top of the cream miracle.

1. Form chrysanthemums from cream on a special carnation, place 2 flowers on one heart, 3 on the second heart according to our master class.
2. Now the wedding cake needs to be decorated with roses. We also form them on a nail, after which we transfer them to the surface.
3. Use green cream to form narrow leaves.

The wedding cake is ready. It remains to decorate it in accordance with our MK with two rings that can be made from yellow mastic, as well as a small strip with the names of the newlyweds. In addition, beads, icing balls and other decor can be placed on the surface according to your desire.

Design Ideas

The central decoration of the holiday will be a wedding cake-heart, which already by its shape symbolizes the atmosphere of love, kindness and warm wishes to the newlyweds. Such a contour of the cakes allows you to fit any other types of decorations, inscriptions and a color palette from a large number of shades or just 2-3 colors into the general theme.

At home, confectionery art allows you to use simple options decorations with cream, chocolate or fruit - the main idea will be preserved in the contour of the heart, which will remain in the memory and in the photographs.

The artistic play on the shape of the heart gives scope to a variety of options for the composition of the cake. Based on the number of guests at the holiday, the necessary one is determined. You can do it, but from several opposite figures. The mastic coating embodies the sophistication of the design solution and the impression of luxury with minimal use of coloring compositions.

Traditionally used in design, which is abundant in natural ingredients for decoration (fruits, flowers, berries) and their derivatives (jams, juices, jelly, marmalade).

It can be filled with details of various appearance and taste (fresh, candied or made by hand).

single tier

The classic cake is conveniently and habitually cut by the hero of the occasion, which is why it is so in demand in different versions.

Only 2 wedding attributes (rose and heart), embodied in cream, will make an indelible impression with some diligence of the master.

It is convenient to place on a flat surface of sufficient size, which will be visible to guests from afar.

Inedible or ceramic figurines, photo collages can be easily and quickly removed from a single-tier product.

Multi-tiered

Placing a massive dessert on a small one, and even so that it solemnly rises above the surrounding attributes, is an option for a multi-tiered cake. At the same time, each floor is separated by a contrasting color border from the neighboring level, so that the effect is maximum. These can be beads, flower buds, edible sugar mastic ribbons.

The iconic shape of the cake is perfect for minimalist events, when there is no colorful play of colors, or themed weddings, where the rest of the decoration is chosen for reasons of originality.

With mastic

Mastic allows you to fashion from it the most elaborate elements for decorating surfaces. Easily dyed in the desired color, the mass is complemented by openwork patterns of white or dark chocolate, bows, bead necklaces or a cascade of the finest flower buds. The icing-style finish of the composition, reminiscent of an ice pattern, is popular.

Sugar mastic takes on any color with the help of special food gels, which make it possible to convey the tenderness of the petals of real live flowers.

With cream

Cream ornament has a large number of different options. It all depends on the set of nozzles for the confectionery syringe, the imagination of the master and the skills of working with this material.

Cake - two hearts with cream is considered a win-win option for guests with different tastes. Wedding dessert is possible. The brilliance and depth of this finish is given by a coating of jelly, marmalade and meringue inserts.

The relief of whipped proteins gives airiness and splendor to any cakes.

(naked cakes) are made from cream.

Heart Cake Design Ideas

The fashion for decorating cakes is booming in many directions, as themed weddings have become widespread. Today, fragments from the history of Ancient Greece, with the inhabitants of the underwater world, are colorfully built on a heart-shaped base, they reproduce architectural masterpieces that impressed the newlyweds.

Vintage celebrations present the most unexpected solutions from the characters and accessories of youth culture.

Thematic design of the cake decor can be as follows:

• a basket or box of flowers;
• figures of people, animals, children's toys, cars, household items or professional orientation of the newlyweds;
• symbols of happiness, fertility, good luck, motherhood, abundance;
• comic scenes, details with a hint of some memorable events;
• texts, photographs, drawings, portraits, ;
• gastronomic abstraction;
• status design, logos, precious and exclusive inclusions.

An effective solution presupposes its availability for perception by those present. It is not necessary to overly complicate and burden the composition with complex conclusions, if this is not included in the program of the event. The subtle work of a cook can say a lot for itself.

Figurines and flowers

Various versions of edible figurines made from sugar mastic, marzipan are very often used to decorate a cake. By installing such figurines on a wedding cake-heart, the master not only saves time, but also gives it a solemn finished look of a thematic product.

In this video you will see how you can create figurines of the bride and groom yourself:

The elements on the surface of the dessert are arranged according to a well-thought-out scheme so that they harmoniously (without excess) embody the author's idea and make it possible to easily divide the product into portions for guests.

Flowers for framing the figurines only emphasize the tender feelings and solemnity of the event. Bouquets or garlands look beautiful, which do not crush with their mass, but delight with the grace of each petal.

Variety of colors

Flower buds are distinguished by their perfection not only in shades of color, but also in the subtlety of work. Therefore, for such a design, choose from 2 options:

• a riot of colors, iridescent, contrasting transitions;
• one-color execution with careful drawing of details.

In the first case, bright cream flowers are made across the field of the cake on a completely ready-made basis, emphasizing the difference between a bouquet and a basket.

Home confectioner may come in handy original way forming colored parts from fruit marshmallow, which is easier to handle than confectionery mastic.

Quickly and beautifully, not only flowers and leaves are made from it, but also letters for congratulations, parts of an ornament on a cake or heart-shaped cakes.

As an option for combining contrasting color and monochrome design, the decoration of the top of the dessert is used, which stands out against the general background with a central composition and peripheral trim with small patches of gold or silver.

On a stand

The main sweet dish of the holiday does not have to be one whole array. Modern rules have brought into fashion the serving of a wedding cake, consisting of several completed products in one style composition. They are placed on the same stand and separated only before cutting.

This video shows how to decorate a wedding cake:

The upper platform is occupied by a cake for the newlyweds, the lower floors are available to guests. There can be both cut sweets and author's cakes (ready-made portions).

The decision to choose a heart cake for a wedding will be in the vast majority of cases a successful and win-win option. The emotional coloring of a form so appropriate for such an occasion, combined with a spectacular design in the style of the event, will not leave indifferent either the guests or the heroes of the occasion. The completeness of the impression will provide a memorable taste of each piece of this confectionery product.