Today it is not known for certain by whom and when the amazingly delicate and fragrant delicacy cake with berries was first prepared. It should not be confused with a fruit pie, in which one layer of filling and a maximum of two layers of dough, while the cake combines at least three layers of dough, soaked in cream, with berry layers. In addition, the cake is very beautifully decorated. And desserts for ceremonies often resemble works of art.

Cake decoration with berries: the most beautiful options

In order for a cake cooked even according to the simplest recipe to turn into a festive dish, it needs to be beautifully decorated. Cake decorating is a very exciting activity, but it requires certain skills. An easy version of the decor is decoration with berries.

In addition to ease of use, decorating a cake with berries has other advantages:

  1. The benefits of berries are undeniable, especially in comparison with colored creams or mastics.
  2. Berry cakes have a pleasant sweet and sour taste, which makes the dessert soft and light.
  3. Children can and should be involved in decorating.
  4. Berry decor looks bright and elegant, creating a festive mood.

For decoration, you can use both berries of the same type and size, and all kinds of combinations thereof. It all depends on the creative intent of the cook.

Fashion in confectionery, as well as in other areas of its manifestation, is constantly changing. This year's fashionable trend is cakes with a mirror (mousse) or velor coating, with chocolate filling with smudges and, finally, the most popular are uncoated cakes.Especially spectacular are the compositions of fresh berries in combination with confectionery decor and glazed painting.

The decor of the modern cake is minimalist and sophistication. The most beautiful and stylish versions of these cakes are decorated not only with festive sweet tables, but also with the covers of popular magazines reputable in the culinary field.

Cake with Frozen Berries

For berry cakes, seasonal fruits are more often used. But thanks to the use of technology of deep freezing, it became possible to prepare a dessert with any fruit, regardless of the time of year. Even delicate berries with this storage method after defrosting retain all their properties and vitamins.

When using frozen berries for a cake, it is recommended to thaw them correctly. The best way to maintain an attractive appearance and vitamins is to move the frozen berries from the freezer to the refrigerator for 6-8 hours. A faster way is to spread the berries in one layer on paper towels. Defrosting will take about two hours. There are accelerated methods for thawing berries, but when applied, the appearance of the product is significantly impaired. Therefore, berries for cakes, especially for decorating them, are not recommended to be defrosted in a microwave or under running water.

To prepare jelly, berries also need to be thawed, otherwise it will not freeze, and the dish will be spoiled.

Chocolate dessert

Berries in combination with regular chocolate cake create a harmony of delicate taste and refined aroma. In addition, a chocolate cake with berries on top looks very elegant on the festive table.

 

It is possible that the Black Forest chocolate cake recipe became the prototype for all subsequent cakes with berries. It was first prepared by a confectioner from Germany, Joseph Keller, as an experiment in the early twentieth century, deciding to add fresh cherries to the traditional biscuit.

Ingredients:

  • chicken eggs - 7 pcs.;
  • yolks - 7 pcs.;
  • wheat flour - 350 g;
  • sugar - 700 g;
  • icing sugar - 300 g;
  • butter - 150 g;
  • cocoa powder - 70 g;
  • vanillin - 0.5 g;
  • chocolate 70% - 300 g;
  • cream with a fat content of 33% - 1 l;
  • pitted cherries - 750 g;
  • potato starch - 40 g;
  • water - 150 ml;
  • rum - 100 ml;
  • Large-sized chocolate chips - 100 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Bake a sponge cake from eggs, yolks, 2 cups of sugar, flour, butter and vanilla.
  2. Beat the chocolate cream from ½ part cream and melted chocolate.
  3. Combine cherries with 20 g of sugar and leave to separate juice.
  4. Drain the juice and add ½ part of the remaining sugar.
  5. Stir in a small amount of the obtained syrup and set aside for 10 minutes.
  6. Bring the remaining syrup to a boil and pour a mixture of starch into it with a thin stream.
  7. Constantly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and introduce cherries into it.
  8. Boil for about 3 minutes, remove from heat and cool.
  9. For impregnation, pour rum into hot syrup from water and remaining sugar. Stir and let cool.
  10. For a light cream, whip the remaining chilled cream with a blender and partially add powdered sugar into them.
  11. Cut the biscuit into 3 cakes.
  12. Soak them in syrup.
  13. Put the first cake on the dish.
  14. Using a pastry bag, put on a cake chocolate cream in the form of a spiral with gaps between adjacent turns of about 1.5 cm.
  15. Fill the gaps with cherry filling.
  16. Similarly, smear the second cake, but with a light cream.
  17. Grease the third cake with chocolate cream.
  18. Cover the side surface with a light cream and make a fringing on the upper surface.
  19. Garnish the cake with cherries and chocolate chips.

Before serving, the Black Forest cake should be kept in the cold for several hours for final impregnation.

From biscuit cakes

Significantly speed up the process of making a cake with berries using ready-made biscuit cakes.

Ingredients:

  • sponge cakes - 3 pcs.;
  • sour cream with a fat content of 25% - 450 g;
  • cottage cheese with a fat content of 19% - 450 g;
  • sugar - 300 g;
  • vanillin - 0.5 g;
  • gelatin - 20 g;
  • water - 200 ml;
  • strawberry juice - 250 ml;
  • strawberries - 500 g;
  • cream with a fat content of 33% - 500 g;
  • icing sugar - 200 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Prepare a cream of sour cream, cottage cheese, vanillin and 1 cup of sugar.
  2. Beat cream with icing sugar.
  3. Prepare jelly based on juice, remaining sugar and gelatin.
  4. Cut half the strawberries in half.
  5. Collect the cake in the following order: cake, cream, strawberries.
  6. Cover the side surface with whipped cream and make a rim along the edge of the upper part, using a pastry bag with an asterisk nozzle.
  7. Decorate the top of the cake with whole strawberries.
  8. Pour the berries with chilled jelly.
  9. Put the cake in the cold until it hardens.

Thanks to the fragrant strawberries, the cake is juicy and tender. But you can additionally soak the cakes with syrup.

Bunk Cake with Berries

The main point in the preparation of a two-tier cake is its assembly.

Having shown imagination, you can create a dessert that will decorate the sweet table of any celebration.

Ingredients:

  • white biscuit cakes with a diameter of 25 cm - 3 pcs.;
  • chocolate sponge cakes with a diameter of 18 cm - 3 pcs.;
  • cream cheese - 0.5 kg;
  • icing sugar - 200 g;
  • cream with a fat content of 33% - 0.5 l;
  • coffee - 0.5 l;
  • liquor - 50 ml;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • milk chocolate - 600 g;
  • berries - 600 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Mix coffee with sugar and liquor and soak cakes.
  2. Beat cream cheese with a mixer and add powdered sugar into it, without stopping beating.
  3. Beat the chilled cream until stable peaks and combine them with the cheese mass.
  4. Put light cake sponge cake on a dish.
  5. Spread a layer of cream on it.
  6. Cover with a second cake.
  7. Lubricate the second crust with cream and evenly distribute the berries on it.
  8. Cover with the following cake and grease it with cream. Spread the cream on the side of the cake.
  9. Place the chocolate cake in the middle of the white biscuit.
  10. Collect the top tier of the cake in the same sequence as the bottom.
  11. Place the cake completely covered with cream in the cold for 8 hours.
  12. From parchment paper cut two strips of circumference of the first and second tier. The width of the stripes is 2 cm more than the height of the tiers.
  13. Melt the chocolate, apply it on parchment and wrap the sides of the cake.
  14. Cool for about 15 minutes.
  15. Remove parchment from chocolate.
  16. Garnish the cake with berries.

This cake looks no worse in white when white chocolate is used. Berries are suitable for any. The main thing is that they are dry and without damage. When creating berry compositions, removing the stalks is not necessary. The finished composition can be coated with jelly. This technique will give it stability and create a glossy shine.

With mascarpone

The basis for a berry cake can be not only biscuit cakes, but also shortcakes made from shortcrust or honey dough.

Ingredients:

  • berries - 300 g;
  • honey - 12 g;
  • sugar - 200 g;
  • butter - 50 g;
  • chicken egg - 1 pc.;
  • soda - 10 g;
  • wheat flour - 350 g;
  • Mascarpone cheese - 500 g;
  • icing sugar - 200 g;
  • cream with a fat content of 33% - 0.5 l;
  • blueberries - 250 g;
  • pectin - 10 g;
  • vanillin - 0.5 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Mix half the sugar, honey and butter and dissolve over low heat.
  2. Beat eggs with soda and introduce into the prepared mixture. Mix.
  3. Add sifted flour and knead the dough.
  4. Divide the dough into 3 parts.
  5. Roll each part into a layer with a thickness of about 2-3 mm and bake at 200 ° C for about 4 minutes.
  6. Trim the edges of the warm cakes according to the pattern of the desired shape.
  7. From cheese, cream, icing sugar and vanilla, prepare a cream.
  8. Grate the blueberries in a puree through a sieve.
  9. Mix the remaining sugar with pectin.
  10. Bring the blueberry puree to a boil and, with vigorous stirring, introduce the prepared dry mixture into it. Cook for about 5 minutes.
  11. Wrap the cake mold with cling film, pour the blueberry mixture into it and put in the cold until it solidifies.
  12. Collecting a cake in a pastry ring.
  13. Put the first cake and cover it with a layer of cream, on which evenly distribute the blueberries.
  14. Cover with a second cake.
  15. Cover it with a uniform layer of cream with a side.
  16. Put the frozen blueberry jelly inside and coat it with cream.
  17. Cover with the last cake.
  18. Lubricate with a thin layer of cream and place in cold for 1 hour.
  19. Remove the cake from the mold and cream the upper and side surfaces.
  20. Garnish with berries.

To decorate this dessert, in addition to berries, you can use trimmed honey cakes, grinding them into crumbs, chocolate chips and mint leaves.

Jelly treat

This delicacy is not only tender and tasty, but also useful. If you combine jelly treat with a cake, you get a very elegant dessert for the festive table.

Ingredients:

  • biscuit cakes - 2 pcs.;
  • sour cream with a fat content of 25% - 250 g;
  • icing sugar - 100 g;
  • vanillin - 0.5 g;
  • fruit jam - 100 g;
  • gelatin - 20 g;
  • water - 200 ml;
  • fruit juice - 200 ml;
  • sugar - 75 g;
  • white chocolate - 300 g;
  • any berries and fruits - 750 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Prepare sour cream from sour cream, powdered sugar and vanilla.
  2. Prepare jelly from gelatin, water, sugar and fruit juice.
  3. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
  4. Put the sponge cake on the dish and spread the cream on it.
  5. Cover with a second cake.
  6. Lubricate the cake with jam.
  7. Using a pastry brush, apply chocolate to a strip of parchment slightly wider than the height of the cake.
  8. Attach a strip of chocolate to the side of the cake.
  9. Chill until chocolate hardens.
  10. Remove parchment.
  11. Put a composition of berries and fruits on the surface of the cake.
  12. Pour berries and fruits with cooked jelly.
  13. Place in cold until solidified.

Compositions with berries and fruits can be any. To cut such a cake in portions you need a warm and damp knife.

Wedding Cake with Berries

The highlight of the wedding banquet is the wedding cake. With its cutting and serving, many rituals are associated. Therefore, the main wedding treat should not only be delicious. It should look very beautiful and solemn.

Very often a multi-tiered cake is prepared for the wedding. This dessert looks very impressive. In addition, there can be a lot of guests at a wedding party, so the cake should be large. The number of tiers of a wedding cake depends on the weight of the treat. To calculate the number of tiers, the total weight of the product is divided by 2. Very large multi-tiered cakes weighing more than 7 kg are placed on special multi-tiered supports.

The best basis for a wedding cake is a biscuit, and as a filling, it is recommended to use cream, souffle, yogurt with berries and fruits. It is very important that the main dessert of the wedding table is tender and light in taste. A good choice would be a berry cake, combining pleasant taste, summer aroma at any time of the year and delightful, fashionable decor.

Berry decoration compositions organically look both on a traditional white wedding cake, and on an ombre cake, when the color of the coating gradually changes from a dark tone to a light shade, as well as on an uncoated cake.

Recently, more and more often, fresh flowers are added to wedding berry compositions. The effect is amazing. The cake looks gorgeous.

With fresh flowers

To decorate the cake with fresh flowers, fruits and berries, you can use one of the options that cooks offer:

  • cascade - can be either direct or spiral;
  • interlayer decor along the contour - for multi-tiered cakes;
  • placer - for unusual flowers, as well as berries of the same species;
  • hat - for lovers of minimalism in the decor.

You can just fantasize and create your own masterpieces. It is important to know that it is strictly forbidden to decorate dishes with some flowers, including cakes, these are poisonous plants.

To decorate the dessert, you can use:

  • roses;
  • orchids
  • cornflowers;
  • daisies;
  • the color of the apple tree;
  • oregano.

In this case, certain rules must be observed. Flowers should be grown without pesticides. The contact of the plant with the cake is minimal. To do this, the tips of the flowers are wrapped with cling film.You need to decorate the product with flowers at most 2 hours before serving. Decorated with fresh flowers, the cake is kept in the cold.

Yogurt dessert

This delicate three-layer dessert is very similar to a cake. It’s easy to cook. The recipe will be appreciated even by supporters of proper or dietary nutrition, since it is prepared on the basis of yogurt and fresh berries, the benefits of which are undeniable.

Yogurt for this treat you need to choose thick. Otherwise, the product should be drained, only then measure the required rate.

Ingredients:

  • sponge cake - 1 pc.;
  • yogurt with a fat content of 10% - 750 g;
  • cream with a fat content of 33% - 300 g;
  • gelatin - 50 g;
  • milk - 100 ml;
  • icing sugar - 100 g;
  • lemon zest - 15 g;
  • lemon juice - 90 ml;
  • strawberries - 350 g;
  • water - 0.5 l;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • fresh berries - 750 g;
  • green tea - 100 ml;
  • gin - 20 ml.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Prepare the impregnation by mixing a third of lemon juice, tea and gin.
  2. Soak the biscuit.
  3. Mix yogurt with half the remaining lemon juice and lemon zest.
  4. Pour half the gelatin with chilled milk and set aside for 10 minutes.
  5. Beat cream and add powdered sugar into them.
  6. Heat the milk, stirring constantly, until the gelatin is completely dissolved.
  7. Introduce the cooled mixture and cream into the yogurt mass.
  8. Put on a biscuit.
  9. Place in cold until solidified.
  10. Pour the remaining gelatin into 100 ml of cold water.
  11. Pour the strawberries with the remaining water.
  12. Add sugar and the rest of lemon juice.
  13. Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for 1 minute. To track.
  14. Add gelatin, mix and cool.
  15. Put the berries on the yogurt layer and pour the jelly.
  16. Place in cold until solidified.

It is convenient to assemble the dessert in the confectionery ring. In order not to violate the integrity of the product when removing the ring, it is necessary to warm the latter a little, for example, with a hairdryer. Keep this delicacy in the cold.

Cake with berries and chocolate smudges

Another fashion trend in the design of berry cake - decorate the cake chocolate smudges. Their shape can be of various shapes, depending on the type of chocolate coating, which can be based on butter or cream. Often used ganache and colored glaze.

As a rule, the top of the berry cake is decorated with berries and fruits. Therefore, the icing is applied only along the edge of the upper cake in the form of an even line about 2 cm wide, and the smudges themselves are lowered using a spoon, a pastry bag or a syringe. After work with smudges is finished, it is necessary to level the upper part of the glaze with a spatula.

When applying this method of decorating the cake, temperature plays a big role. The cake should be as cold as possible, and the icing should be warmed up to 30 C.

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