Wedding cake figurines - an original and individual cake decoration for newlyweds

The culmination of each wedding celebration is the cutting of the cake, which is why the design of a sweet dessert should be given special attention. Cake can be baked in different styles, but confectionery artworks with figures always look relevant and effective.

Traditionally, they try to turn a wedding cake into a real culinary masterpiece. The main trend of recent years has become multi-tiered treats, the top of which is decorated with figures representing the newlyweds or symbolizing the strength of feelings and mutual love between the newlyweds. Figures are edible and inedible:

• edible make of caramel, mastic, dough, chocolate, marzipan or candy mass;
• inedibles are most often made from porcelain, plastic, polymer clay or ceramics.

If newly-married spouses want to keep the memory of the celebration for many years, then it is better to give preference to inedible decorations, but if you are determined to share the most delicious pieces of wedding treats with your guests, you should choose options for food materials.

The version with figures depicting the bride and groom is considered a classic. "Young" can hug, hold hands, kiss, ride a wedding car or dance. As a rule, they reflect the lifestyle of the bride and groom and their character.

Most often, young people are portrayed in traditional wedding dresses in black and white colors, but some newlyweds do not look for easy ways and strive to stand out, so their desserts are crowned by a man and a woman in the form of swans, in costumes of Adam and Eve, in small Cupids or in some alternative options. In second place in popularity are figures of pigeons, swans and images of wedding rings with hearts.

Wedding cakes are often decorated with figures of famous cartoon characters. This option is optimal for those who are fed up with the standard canons of a wedding celebration and for those who want to make their holiday truly fun and provocative. Young people with a good sense of humor will certainly appreciate Minions, Prince and Cinderella, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as Shrek with Fiona and Rapunzel with Eugene.

The funniest jokes are based on self-irony and self-criticism, so when using a humorous decor, you can cheer up not only young but also all guests. Quite optionally funny figures should have a great resemblance to the young, moreover, they are often made caricatured. For example, brides are very popular. who caught the groom on a bait, or the girls who drag a stubborn young man in the registry office.

There are several more popular ideas for such figures:

• a bride carrying her beloved spouse;
• tipsy marriages;
• the groom stepping on the long veil of his young wife;
• a man who helps his companion climb onto the top tier of the cake.

In recent years, jewelry has become quite popular, representing the intertwined names of the newlyweds or their monograms. Thus, the decor emphasizes the uniqueness of the celebration and the addressability of the confectionery masterpiece. Depending on the concept of a sweet dessert, these can be full names, common surname, capital letters. At the same time, they can be located next to each other, intertwined or locked into one ring. Short congratulatory texts and wedding wishes look very impressive.

Edible figures for wedding cakes are made using several popular technologies. Great decoration can be figures made of white and black chocolate, as well as neat decorative elements from marzipan. A stylish composition can be obtained by mixing cream and sugar, and swans made from meringues are considered the top of the confectionery art.

However, the most popular for making figures is mastic. It is used not only to create figures, all kinds of inscriptions and cake decorations are also made from it. The material is a homogeneous plastic mass with a viscous texture. It can be purchased ready-made, or you can make it yourself. There are several recipes for making mastic.

• Honey - It is created on the basis of liquid honey. A feature of the product is that such mastic does not crumble and does not crumble.
• Dairy - Condensed milk is taken as a basis.
• Gelatin - such a product is used to create bulky and complex compositions.

How to do it yourself?

• To prepare figures for a wedding cake, first you need to build a wire frame. First, the wire is twisted in the shape of a circle, while its diameter will correspond to the diameter of the future dress of the “bride”.The rest should be bent so that a right angle is formed and one of its ends remains in the center of the circle.
• After that, it is necessary to wrap it with white mastic so that it looks like a young dress.
• One of the wires should be wrapped not along, but across the frame, it will become the basis for the bride’s hands - they are wrapped with mastic in a beige shade, which looks more like a natural flesh color.

• The head is made separately, also in a beige version, after which it is attached to the shoulders. Do not forget that even a sweet and edible bride should remain a woman - give her forms all the necessary roundness. To do this, roll up two balls, attach them in front, and cover with a thin white layer on top.
• The bride should definitely make hair and a weightless veil, to make the latter, roll the mastic as thin as possible, almost to the cobweb and very carefully fix the “young” one on the hairstyle.
• Particular care is required to draw the face of the bride - for this they use food colors and a thin brush.

Tips

• Choosing the images that will decorate the cake, first of all, consider the style of the wedding ceremony. If you conduct events in a touching and romantic way, humorous images will be categorically inappropriate.
• If you prefer sweet figures, then keep in mind that mastic requires special storage conditions - it is kept in a cool place, always in a plastic wrap in a hermetically sealed container. From the fridge, the figurine can be taken out only a few hours before the holiday, and set on the cake and just before serving.
• It is very important to tightly fix the figures on the last tier of the cake, otherwise you cannot avoid dropping them on the floor and violating the integrity of the whole composition.

The most common idea of ​​decorating a wedding cake is tender and romantic figurines depicting a bride and groom.

However, the figures can be caricatured, they emphasize the endless sense of humor of the young.

Cartoon characters and animal figures look spectacular.

An unusual, but effective idea is cakes with gingerbread toppers.

And of course, the classics - rings, hearts, swans and a pair of pigeons.

See how to make wedding cake figurines with your own hands in the next video.