Today, almost every woman tries to follow a diet, eat only natural food, counting every calorie. However, there are holidays when sweets simply can not do. One such event is the wedding anniversary.
The wooden anniversary is an event held after 5 years of living together. The cake here is a traditional treat. This article will talk about how to choose a cake for a wooden wedding anniversary.
Treat as a symbol
Many women wonder what a cake should be like at this event. However, there are no standards. The main thing is that it is soft and tasty. All other components: appearance, dough, 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.
Marriage after 5 years of marriage becomes strong, like wood. Parents of the protagonists of this event are compared with the roots, and 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 cake from experienced pastry chefs or make 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 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 suits your liking. Confectioners are able to translate into reality any fantasies of anniversaries.
Mistresses who like to make cakes with their own hands will have to make a lot of efforts to surprise their guests.
Varieties
If you have extensive experience in preparing this delicacy, then your chosen one is very lucky. You can look through the recipes and choose the one you like. Making it a reality is not a big deal. There are a large variety of cakes that are prepared for the 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 bright leaves.
Sandwiches covered with pastry mastic can serve as the final dish for this holiday. It is very easy to cook it yourself.
- Take 1 cup of powdered sugar and one cup of milk. Add boiled condensed milk here.
- Put everything in a container and mix until a thick, uniform mass is obtained.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out the resulting mixture, place on the cakes that you baked in advance.
Make sure your pastries are already cold and dry by this time. There should be no cream on the surface. The edges can be painted with any kind of food color. From small pieces you can mold any figures and decorate a cake with them. It all depends on your imagination.
Professionals often make cakes in the shape of a large chest on which anniversaries sit. Wooden huts and cakes in the shape of a large hemp are also popular.
If you do not have enough experience, but still want to make a treat with your own hands, then start preparing cupcakes. If you translate "cupcake" literally, it turns out "cake in a cup." For baking, special confectionery molds are used. However, you can also use mugs for the anniversary, which you will give away to guests after the celebration.
The recipe for 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 in advance and let it soften. Slowly add sugar and beat until grains disappear. Mix the resulting mixture with flour and pour milk. You need to add it, constantly mixing, to avoid the appearance of lumps. The dough is laid out in paper containers at 2/3. The resulting workpiece is sent to the oven for 30 minutes.
You can make hemp cakes. This sweetness perfectly matches the theme of a wooden wedding in its appearance. Such a hand-made treat will not only surprise guests, but will also give your man an extra reason to be proud of you.
Following the tradition
In France, a cake called "Classic log". If you want to bake it with your own hands at home, then this will take you a lot of time and effort. In this case, the use of mastic is not necessary, because not everyone likes it. Let's look at the recipe for this delicacy, with the proper preparation of which 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 biscuit roll. Stir three eggs, sugar, potato starch and flour. If you want your roll to easily curl, then prepare a dampened towel in advance, put a hot sheet on it from the oven, and cover the cooked cake with another dampened towel.
Wait for it to cool completely, then brush with cream, sprinkle with grated walnuts or dried raisins. Now you can roll the resulting workpiece into a roll.
The main component of such a treat is cream. Break good chocolate into small pieces, sprinkle sugar and coffee.Send the resulting mass to a water bath. At the very end, add a couple of spoons of brandy. 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. Nearby you can make many colorful flowers and leaves.
The resulting “log” can be signed: “Congratulations on the fifth anniversary! ”Or“ L'amour ”, which means“ love ”.
You will learn more about how to make the Log Cake in the next video.
