Today, a naked cake became a hit of sales and orders for various celebrations, starting from birthdays and ending with a wedding. The name, of course, is unusual, but the cake itself looks beautiful - cakes coated with a large amount of whipped cream and decorated with fruit platter. Such a delicacy will surprise you with its taste, quality, unusual decoration, and will also please the birthday man and the newlyweds.
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Naked Wedding Cake
It would seem that there is nothing to surprise the sweet tooth and fans who upload photos of food on Instagram. However, the confectioners went on a trick and created a naked cake. It bears this name due to the fact that the cakes are not covered with cream, but are only smeared between each other. In addition, the composition uses exclusively natural ingredients, and the decoration is made from berries and fruits, as well as from flowers.
The popularity of such cakes is growing among newlyweds. You can choose the design, decoration, taste and quantity of cakes yourself. Guests will be delighted with such a natural and beautiful delicacy. It can be ordered in specialized candy stores or cooked at home, without limiting the flight of imagination.
So, to prepare a naked wedding cake, you will need:
- flour - 1.5 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- vanillin –2 sachets;
- eggs - 20 pcs.;
- vegetable oil - 20 tbsp. l .;
- baking powder - 3 sachets;
- hot water - 20 tbsp. l .;
- fat cream –800 g;
- sour cream 20% - 400 g;
- liquor - 10 tbsp. l .;
- fruits and flowers for decoration.
Cooking:
- Initially, you need to prepare a cake pan and parchment paper. There will be 6 large cake layers, which, in turn, will make up a three-tier cake.
- Turn on the oven for warming up and start preparing a gentle biscuit dough.
- Beat eggs with sugar until a thick white mass is added, add vanillin and flour, mix very carefully so that the dough does not sit, pour water and vegetable oil into the resulting mass, knead carefully.
- Pour the dough into the mold and send to the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C
- Thus, bake 6 cakes, if possible, then bake in two different shapes (then you do not have to reduce large biscuits to get tiers).
- Allow ready cake to cool, it is best to leave them overnight.
- In the meantime, you need to do cooking syrup for soaking cakes.
- Pour sugar in a saucepan and pour water, bring to a boil over low heat, add liquor and boil a little more (but do not let all the water evaporate, otherwise the impregnation will turn into caramel, and the cake will be spoiled).
- The cream can be made not just white and creamy, but you can add food coloring to it, if desired, or use chopped fruits and berries (beat strawberries with cream until a homogeneous consistency and so on).
- To prepare the cream, you need to whip the cream with sugar and sour cream until the appearance of "strong" peaks.
- Cakes should be cut into two parts (if their crusts are closer to brown than to chocolate, then it is worthwhile to peel them slightly with a knife).
- Put the first cake in the mold so that the cake is smooth and does not move out. Then grease it with a thick layer of cream - the one that was selected and cooked.
- Next lay a layer of fruit. It can be thinly sliced strawberries, banana or kiwi (everything is chosen to your taste).
- Do all the steps described up to the last cake, each smearing with a thin layer of cream on top.
- Let the cake cool a bit and prepare the decoration. There are several options. The first is that the tiered cakes will be abundantly crowned with berries - red and black currants, strawberries, raspberries, peaches - and lemon balm leaves, as well as currant branches, can be attached to the sides of the cake and sprinkled with powdered sugar. The second option is that a triangular piece is cut out of the whole cake, which is further filled with a flower arrangement.
- To give the cake a festive, wedding look, you can sprinkle it with special edible sequins.
Such a wonderful dessert will decorate any wedding and will pleasantly surprise guests.
Technology of cooking with berries
A naked cake with berries is prepared identically to the above described, but you can add a couple of interesting and bright ideas.
Ingredients:
- flour - 0.8 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg;
- vanillin –1 sachets;
- eggs - 10 pcs.;
- baking powder - 2 bags;
- curd cheese - 200 g;
- cream - 300 g;
- liquor - 10 tbsp. l .;
- food coloring - purple and pink;
- fruits for decoration.
Cooking:
- Bake 2 sponge cakes 10 cm high in pink and purple and leave them to cool.
- Meanwhile, prepare the cream: beat the cheese with sugar and cream, add liquor for taste.
- Cut the cooled cakes, make the first layer pink with white cream and strawberries, the second layer purple, also smeared and laid out with peach, the third layer will be pink with cream and banana, the top layer is decorated with cream peaks using a pastry syringe, and strawberry is laid in the center with grapes and peach wedges.
Such a treat is suitable for a children's holiday. However, a very important factor in the preparation of the cake is the correct choice of berries and fruits and their combination. So, for example, strawberries are combined with banana and grapes, blueberries or blueberries, red and black currants, slices of peach or mango. Kiwi can be combined with orange and grapes. Lemon cream will give extra piquancy. In addition, he will add a dessert of brightness. Delicate cream will be in perfect harmony with fresh cherries or “drunk cherries”.
Fruit dessert
You can make a mini-naked cake with fruit in a glass. It is tasty and beautiful, but takes a lot of time.
You will need:
- flour - 2 tbsp .;
- sugar 1 tbsp .;
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- Mascarpone cheese - 1 pack;
- cream - 1 pack;
- berries or any other fruits.
Cooking:
- Choose and wash the glasses in which the dessert will be prepared.
- Cook the usual biscuit dough, beat the eggs with sugar until white and add flour, knead gently and send to the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare a gentle cream, whipping the cheese with cream and sugar.
- Rinse the berries and let the water drain so that the dessert does not turn out watery.
- Cool the finished cake, cut into two parts and cut out a glass of circles from it.
- Put the first finished circle on the bottom of the glass and pour cream, lay the berries (in addition to the latter, you can make berry jelly, which will be no less tasty, but also natural). Repeat until glass is full. Top treat can be decorated with melted chocolate or berries.
- Ready dessert sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- There is another way to make dessert. At the bottom of the glass, lay the fruits (kiwi, banana, mango) and pour the cream, lay the cake on top, pour the cream and garnish with berries.
Serve dessert directly from the refrigerator so that the cream does not drip.
“Naked” cake “Red Velvet”
One of the most striking desserts is the “Red Velvet” Naked Cake. Its cakes have a rich color, and the taste is delicious, moreover, pieces of dessert literally melt in your mouth.
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs;
- kefir - 1 tbsp .;
- sugar - 1 tbsp .;
- dye 2 tsp;
- flour - 3 tbsp .;
- butter - 1 pack;
- baking powder - 1 sachet;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- cream cheese.
Cooking:
- Beat the melted butter with sugar and eggs.
- Pour dye into kefir and mix well.
- Combine the resulting masses and mix well before adding flour.
- Sift the sifted flour to the resulting mixture, mix. The dough is ready. Now you need to bake the cakes in a preheated oven for 40 minutes.
- In the meantime, you need to prepare a dish for cakes and cream cheese. It consists of cream, cream cheese and powdered sugar (all this is whipped until thickened).
- Cut the cooled cakes into two parts and lay on a dish, gradually coating each layer.
Having collected the cake, it is necessary to cool it and, if desired, decorate with red berries.
With chocolate smudges
Naked smudge cake looks very impressive, sometimes even a little careless. Dessert provides a wide field for the actions of any pastry chef and housewife. It is prepared from ordinary biscuit cakes. But a delicious, colored cream, plenty of fruits, various decorations make delicacies a masterpiece.
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 tbsp .;
- sugar 1 tbsp .;
- chicken eggs - 5 tbsp .;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- curd cheese - 1 can;
- cream - 1 pack;
- bar of milk and dark chocolate;
- walnuts - 200 g;
- berries or any other fruits.
Cooking:
- Cook tender, airy cakes and let them cool.
- Meanwhile, prepare a cream, rinse the berries and peel the nuts.
- Collect the cooled cakes into a cake with thick layers of cream.
- Melt the milk chocolate in a water bath and pour over the top layer of the cake (pour it along the edge so that the chocolate drains a little). It is important that the latter is not excessively hot.
- Let the first layer of chocolate cool.
- Melt chocolate and pour it next to milk, sprinkle hot chocolate mass with walnuts.
Decorate the chilled cake around the edges with the berries and melissa leaves. This type of dessert will appeal to the little birthday girl or birthday girl.
How to make with flowers
Cake with flowers will always be a great option for weddings.
There are two ways to decorate it:
- A triangular slice is cut out of the whole cake, and in the free space a scattering of flowers or a flower arrangement is made (the flowers begin to fall from above and are placed arbitrarily next to the cake). You can also make small inserts along the cake.
- Another decoration option is that flowers decorate the whole cake in the image of a screw. It looks magnificent and solemn.
Rinse flowers before use, get rid of excess twigs and thorns. Most often they use roses, peonies, lemon chrysanthemums, lilies. It is important to choose such flowers so that guests and heroes of the occasion will not have allergies to them.
So, for cooking you will need.
Ingredients:
- flour - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0.8 kg;
- vanillin –1 sachets;
- eggs - 15 pcs.;
- baking powder - 2 bags;
- curd cheese - 400 g;
- cream - 300 g;
- cocoa powder - 15 tbsp. l .;
- flowers for decoration;
- fruits.
Cooking:
- Bake two chocolate cakes and one regular, let them cool.
- Prepare a cream cheese.
- Cut the cakes and coat with cream, lay fruit between them to your taste. The first should go chocolate, the second tier consists of a simple biscuit.
- Next, decorate the finished cake with flowers according to one of the described methods.
Flower cake looks very tender and is suitable for airy, light celebrations.
Andy Chef's Naked Cake
Naked cake, aka naked cake, from the popular food blogger Andy Chef is not as difficult to prepare as it requires attention to detail and proportions.
Ingredients:
- flour - 300 g;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- nutmeg - 1 tsp;
- ground ginger - 1 tsp;
- butter - 200 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- cream - 1 pack;
- baking powder - 1 sachet;
- honey - 12 tbsp. l
Cooking:
- Mix all the dry ingredients, and then beat the eggs with sugar until fluffy.
- Melt the butter and add cream to it, mix well.
- Combine the eggs with the dry mixture and add butter and cream to them, knead and add honey.
- Pour the finished dough into molds and send to the oven for 45 minutes.
- Cool the finished cakes and cut them in half, each of them smeared with cream cheese, laying fruit on top of it: pear, strawberries, banana. Repeat until cakes are over.
Decorate the cake with fresh cherry and lemon balm on top.
Thus, a naked cake is a great solution for any holiday.
