Like any festive occasion, a fortieth wedding anniversary often ends with a tea party. Usually a cake decorated with decorative elements of red color is prepared for 40 years from the date of marriage.
Interesting ideas
A cake for a ruby wedding must have decorations in red shades (from scarlet to dark cherry), as these colors are traditional for the fortieth anniversary of marriage. 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.
A classic ruby wedding cake is usually decorated with flowers. For example, red roses can be placed on top of white cream. For greater pomp, they can be cascaded. The initials of the anniversaries will look organically on the cake. Most often, jewelry is made from mastic, however, if this product is not popular with the heroes of the occasion or some of the guests, you can make jewelry without this ingredient, replacing it with a regular cream.
Any holiday is always associated with gifts. You can make a holiday cake in the form of a gift box. It’s enough to decorate it with decorative edible flowers, bows and “packaging”. You can perform a congratulatory inscription in English or Russian.
Elegant couples will like dessert with lace made from dark chocolate over a snow-white creamy base. If you add red details to such a cake, it will truly become the main event of the evening. A similar expression of the highest aesthetics in decoration is a red-black color scheme.However, the dark color must be used very carefully so as not to turn the festive dessert into a gloomy one.
Presenting the cake to the closest (parents), make sure that its decor contains not only red, but also gold details.
It is believed that a golden hue brings recipients longevity and financial well-being.
Holiday Cake Recipe
Anniversary cake baking can be ordered at any confectionery, however celebrators will appreciate if you bake a treat for them yourself.
The least troublesome dessert available for hand-made cooking 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. In a separate cup, oil, kefir and dye are mixed. You need to mix them until a deep red color is obtained. Separately, beat the refined eggs and eggs until a thick foam is obtained. Then you should combine them with kefir mass, add the remaining dry products. Everything is mixed up.
Three equal cakes will come out of the resulting volume. They must 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. Cakes should be cooled, then wrapped with food mica and put in the refrigerator (preferably all night). Cream for soaking cakes can be prepared from condensed milk and butter or cottage cheese (1.5 packs) with the addition of vanillin, refined powder (4 tbsp. L.) And 2/3 packs of butter.
To assemble a cake, you must follow a certain sequence of actions. For each cake, you need to cut off the crown and crush it to obtain crumbs. It will be needed for decoration. The cream is necessary not only to smear each cake, but also to lubricate the dish on which the cake will show off. After general assembly, with a long wooden spatula, you should well grease all the sides and the top of the treat. Crumb from cakes, you need to sprinkle it from the sides and top. In conclusion, the cake is decorated with the remaining cream using a pastry syringe.
If the cake is something old-fashioned for you, then you can make it biscuit cupcakes.
If the event will be held outdoors, it will be more convenient to drink tea with such 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 cream, you will additionally need:
- soft cheese - 1.5 cups;
- ground refined - half a glass;
- butter - 2/3 packs;
- vanilla sugar - 10 g.
Dry foods need to be combined. Separately, beat butter and sand. Then add eggs while continuing to beat. After this, you need to pour in vegetable oil, dye and kefir. In the end, add the dry components and mix the mass well until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. The resulting mixture is laid out in cupcake tins so that they are filled in 2/3. Bake cupcakes for a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 175 degrees.
At this time, it is necessary to prepare the cream. Butter should be combined with vanilla and powder, add cheese, beat with a mixer.
When the muffins are baked, they need to be given time to cool. Then the cakes are decorated with the resulting cream. For original design, you can also add dye to the cream.
To complete the decor, it is recommended to decorate the dessert with red berries (to your taste).
Examples of original options
The multi-tiered cake decorated with purple mastic bows and snow-white figures of cats looks unusual. Although there are no clearly red hues on the cake, lilac is considered a variation of the pink-purple palette.In addition, this color symbolizes wisdom, nostalgia, patience, calmness, that is, those qualities that heroes gained over a long time together. If desired, a 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 tassels of gold color. At the top is a box of mastic trimmed with pearls, in which two wedding rings flaunt. The cap is engraved with the initials of the anniversaries.
You will learn more about how to make and decorate a cake for a ruby wedding from the next video.
