Half-naked cake. Naked wedding cake: photos and ideas

Some housewives have baked cakes all their lives that are not coated with cream on the sides, but do not even know that he is called naked. And now it is a fashionable trend, since a cake coated on all sides is no longer considered the height of perfection. Here is the art of baking a naked cake so that the fudge does not spread, the edges look good, and the main thing is that the whole structure does not crawl somewhere to the side - this is the height of skill.

How it was

When there were no special cake makers with a removable side panel, baking had to be done in all sorts of pans, which did not always have strictly vertical edges. To smear a few cakes, you had to do much more cream, to hide the difference in layers, or cut the edges exactly. Both methods brought with them a kind of sadness, since increasing the volume of fondant, we spend much more money on buying ingredients. And it's a pity to cut the edges and make them strictly vertical, since some pans had a rather large angle of inclination of the side wall.

Many housewives left everything as it is, and it turned out that the cakes were smeared only on top, and surplus cream dripped onto the edge, which created a kind of "cream fall" appearance. Maybe this was the beginning of the history of naked cakes.

Of course it is perfect option for home gatherings, when everyone sees the quantity and quality of cakes and cream, but the most interesting thing was the fact that such cakes have become fashionable for banquets, weddings and anniversaries.

On the question of baking a cake without clothes

Baking a naked cake at home is very easy as you don't have to trim the edges and make them perfectly straight. What may need to be trimmed is the tops, if suddenly from one side the cake rises stronger during baking than from the other.

It is imperative to soak the cakes, since the thick cream that is used to put the cake together will not be able to saturate all its parts and the baked goods will turn out to be dry. Any liquid formulations, brandy, liqueur, syrup from liquid jam or compote are suitable to soak a naked cake. In general, everything that will be in the house.

You can make baked goods with one or two tiers, just take into account that strong cream does not give such good adhesion between the cakes, so professionals use inedible ingredients to strengthen the cake. Anything can serve as such fasteners:

• Cocktail tubes;
• Toothpicks;
• Wooden sticks for sushi and rolls (they often remain in the house after ordering food from Japanese restaurants)
• Wooden sticks from decorative cocktail umbrellas and other paraphernalia;
• Plastic lollipop sticks.

Any solid, thin, oblong tubules will do, as long as they are made for eating or drinking.

The easiest option, if there are children in the house, is the tubes from baby juices. They are quite strong, although they do not have a large diameter.

How to connect a naked cake with baby juice straws. They should be rinsed and dried first. We put the first cake, coat, put the second. Take the short edge of the tube and stick it with the long, pointed edge into the top cake. When the tube passes through the upper one, the cream and enters the lower layer, it is necessary to carefully cut off the excess with sharp, usually manicure, scissors. So you can connect any number of cakes, just do it in different places so that the upper ones do not try to push out the lower tubes.

Decorations for underdressed baked goods

The most common decoration for modern naked cakes is berries and fruits, they can be laid out between the cakes or cover only the top layer. Bright berries will look good with all shades of cakes and any creams.

Fruit is also suitable as an interlayer and as a decoration, only for a layer it is better to cut them into thin slices or cubes. Tangerines and oranges are disassembled into slices and a thin peel is removed from each. It is also necessary to remove all the bones.

A number of housewives like to use cherries and cherries for decorating cakes, in this case, you will have to stock up on a special device for squeezing out the seeds so that the berries look good on top of the last cake.

Decorating with flowers and twigs comes into fashion, but these details should not be used in everyday naked cakes, since we usually bake for children, and the main thing for them is the taste, not the beauty of flowers and branches. In addition, it is very difficult to explain to the kids why this inedible bouquet was needed.

Super holiday

If you want to bake a multi-tiered holiday torus for a birthday or anniversary, then you will have to select baking tins of different diameters. According to professional pastry chefs the best option- these are 24 and 15 centimeters. There are two options for installing cakes:

1. The upper tier becomes exactly in the center of the lower one. In this case, a 4.5 cm area for decoration is obtained around the entire circumference. Such a cake will have to be decorated symmetrically so that it looks like a single whole. It turns out very beautifully if the cakes are of different colors and from different test in the lower tier there are two dark, one light, and in the upper tier, vice versa.
2. The upper tier rises with one edge - to the edge of the lower one. It's like a baseball cap, a cake with a visor. In this case, there is a large area for decoration and you can put large flowers or fruits on the peak of the cake.

Any option for festive table it is better to strengthen, since the structure without fasteners is very fragile, and fun and dancing, until it comes to the cake, can ruin all the work invested in it.

For a children's party, it is worth preparing multi-colored biscuits that will change color thanks to natural ingredients. There will be no greens and blues in this cake, as this color is often achieved through food additives, but the red, yellow, white and brown layers can be placed in any order. Each layer must also be decorated in a special way. For yellow, tangerines, peaches, nectarines, apricots are suitable. To red - raspberries, cherries, red currants. It is better to make a white layer with a contrasting coating - chocolate, dark nuts, black currants, and a dark layer - banana and white chocolate.

On the plateau between the tiers, mix the pieces of all the berries and nuts present. You will get a very unusual fruit and berry cake.

And the king is naked

The cake is rightfully considered the king of the wedding table, the first piece, cut by the bride and groom, is always sold, the cake itself is in full view of the guests throughout the evening and only at the last moment it comes down to it.

Since the fashion for naked cakes has infiltrated the wedding table, there are two options that are suitable for any wedding.

In the first case, the bride can bake a cake with her mother and girlfriends. Since no special skill is required to write out monograms, images of a heart, sculpting doves and other wedding paraphernalia. Simple cakes of your favorite cake are baked and placed one on top of the other with the help of cream. This multi-tiered statue can be decorated with berries, flowers, green twigs, cones and sprinkled with powdered sugar. A cake made by the bride's hand will please any guest.

The second option is to order a wedding meal at a pastry shop. They will offer a lot of options for decorations and will be able to increase the number of tiers.

The only drawback of this cake is that not all ingredients are edible, and guests must be notified of this in advance. Although some by the time the “wedding king” is cut, it will be all the same, and half of the flowers will definitely be in their stomachs. Therefore, when ordering a wedding cake in a pastry shop, it is worth pointing out that you should not put too bitter decorations on the cakes.

If the cakes are losing their clothes and moving on to natural ingredients, then housewives who like to bake such cakes should start harvesting berries for decoration.

Summer, and around the wedding and Mendelssohn's march is constantly heard in my kitchen, because I am making a wedding cake again! This time it's a naked cake! Why naked? Yes, because without coating, in the very nature of the cake! After a hearty feast, the young did not want a cake with cream or sugar mastic, but I did not mind!

So, we will start the preparation of a wedding naked cake with berries and fruits with a biscuit.

I concluded that the eggs need not be cooled for this biscuit, because I did not notice much difference. If you have a great kitchen machine, then don't think about it! Load the eggs into a bowl and add some salt (on the tip of a knife). Beat until 3-4 times larger!

Then add sugar and vanillin in two steps, beating without stopping.

Pour flour with baking powder into the egg mass in two steps and mix it only with a spatula - by folding. Gently from bottom to top to keep the mixture airy.

Pour in 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and the same amount of boiling water, mix with a spatula, and our tender biscuit dough ready.

I pour the first portion into a mold with a diameter of 16 cm - for the upper tier. I bake for 40-45 minutes at 170 degrees.

I make some dough twice more and bake it twice in a mold with a diameter of 26 cm.

I cool everything upside down. This will keep your cakes from settling due to temperature extremes.

All biscuits are ready. Let's leave them overnight, and in the morning we will collect the cake!

Don't leave the kitchen yet, we need to weld the impregnation. To do this, heat the sugar and water and boil until the sugar is completely dissolved. For flavor, add a little liqueur of your choice or rum.

Prepare jelly for the cream. You can use ready-made jelly in bags, but add 2 times less water than indicated on the bag. I prepared the jelly solution myself. It's cherry season now, and I took a glass of cherry juice and topped it up with 300 ml of water. I added sugar (0.5 cups) and instant gelatin (25 grams), let it swell, combined with juice, heated and filtered. Let the jelly cool to room temperature.

Whip 200 ml of cold cream with 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff peaks and place in a pastry envelope. I want the cream on the sides of the cake to be white.

Whip the remaining chilled cream. Beat the sour cream and icing sugar separately. Add cream to sour cream and stir. Then pour in the cooled jelly and beat.

You will get such a dense cream of pale pink color.

Now we cut each biscuit into 2 cakes. And we cut the biscuit for the upper tier with a diameter of 16 cm into 4 cakes. We saturate each cake with our syrup and assemble the cake like this ... Put a little cream on the support so that the cake does not "run away" from the support, and put the bottom cake. We make a dam of cream along the edge so that pink sour cream did not climb outside and spoil the color scheme for us.

Put pink cream in the middle.

And we continue to the top. Lubricate the top with cream and pierce the tier with a skewer. The skewer will keep the cakes from shifting. We put in the refrigerator for a few hours to stabilize. Thus, we collect both tiers. I do it in the evening, and in the morning I will arrange a cake. In the lower tier, I inserted cocktail tubes along the height of the tier. This is done in order to avoid the cake sagging under the upper tier. In this case, the upper tier should be on a cardboard backing for cakes.

We collect the cake in the morning.

Wash and dry the fruit for the cake.

We need a neutral confectionery gel. They can fix the berries on the cake and lubricate the cut of the fruit, "sealing" the cut.

It remains only to put the berries and fruits on the cake. Decorate with rosemary sprigs and our wedding naked cake with berries and fruits is ready! Rosemary has such a scent that makes your head spin!

I love summer very much for the generosity of colors and riot of tastes!

Today, the naked cake has become a hit of sales and orders for various celebrations, from birthdays to weddings. The name, of course, is unusual, but the cake itself looks great - the cakes are smeared with a lot of whipped cream and decorated with fruit platter. Such a delicacy will surprise with its taste, quality, unusual decoration, and will also delight the birthday boy and newlyweds.

It would seem that there is nothing to surprise those with a sweet tooth and those who like to upload photos of food on Instagram. However, the pastry chefs went for a trick and created a naked cake. He bears this name due to the fact that the cakes are not covered with cream, but only smeared between each other. In addition, only natural ingredients are used in the composition, and the decoration can be made from berries and fruits as well as flowers.

The popularity of such cakes is also 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 pastry shops or prepared at home, without limiting the flight of imagination.

So, to make a naked wedding cake, you will need:

• flour - 1.5 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• vanillin –2 sachets;
• eggs - 20 pcs.;
• vegetable oil- 20 Art. l .;
• baking powder - 3 sachets;
• hot water - 20 tbsp. l .;
• heavy cream - 800 g;
• sour cream 20% - 400 g;
• liqueur - 10 tbsp. l .;
• fruits and flowers for decoration.

Preparation:

1. Initially, you need to prepare a form for baking cakes and parchment paper... There will be 6 large cakes, which, in turn, will make up a three-tiered cake.
2. Turn on the oven to warm up and start preparing a tender biscuit dough.
3. Beat eggs with sugar until a white thick mass is obtained, add vanillin and flour, mix very carefully so that the dough does not shrink, add water and vegetable oil to the resulting mass, knead carefully.
4. Pour the dough into the mold and send to the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C
5. Thus, bake 6 cakes, if possible, then bake two of different shapes (then you don't have to reduce large biscuits to get tiers).
6. Allow ready-made cakes to cool, it is best to leave them overnight.
7. In the meantime, it is necessary to start preparing the syrup for soaking the cakes.
8. Pour sugar into a saucepan and add 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).
9. The cream can be made not just white and creamy, but added to it food coloring, if desired, or use chopped fruits and berries (beat strawberries with cream until smooth, and so on).
10. To prepare the cream, beat the cream with sugar and sour cream until "strong" peaks appear.
11. The cakes must be cut into two parts (if their crusts are closer to brown than to chocolate, it is worth peeling them a little with a knife).
12. Put the first cake in a mold so that the cake is smooth and does not slide out. Then coat it with a thick layer of cream - the one that was selected and prepared.
13. Then add a layer of fruit. It can be thinly sliced ​​strawberries, banana or kiwi (you can choose everything to your taste).
14. Do all the steps described until the last cake, each smearing with a thin layer of cream on top.
15. Let the cake cool slightly and prepare the decoration. There are several options. The first one is that the tiered cakes will be abundantly topped with berries - red and black currants, strawberries, raspberries, peaches - and lemon balm leaves, as well as currant sprigs can be attached to the sides of the cake and sprinkle everything with powdered sugar. The second option is that a triangular piece is cut out of the whole cake, which is then filled with a flower arrangement.
16. To give the cake a solemn, wedding look, it can be sprinkled with special edible sparkles.

Such a wonderful dessert will decorate any wedding and will pleasantly surprise guests.

Cooking technology with berries

The naked berry cake is prepared identically to the one described above, but you can add a couple of interesting and bright ideas.

Ingredients:

• flour - 0.8 kg;
• sugar - 0.5 kg;
• vanillin –1 sachet;
• eggs - 10 pcs.;
• baking powder - 2 sachets;
• curd cheese - 200 g;
• cream - 300 g;
• liqueur - 10 tbsp. l .;
• food coloring - purple and pink;
• fruits for decoration.

Preparation:

1. Bake 2 biscuit cakes 10 cm high of pink and purple flowers and leave to cool.
2. In the meantime, prepare the cream: beat the cheese with sugar and cream, add the liqueur for taste.
3. Cut the cooled cakes, make the first layer pink with white cream and strawberries, the second layer - purple, also smeared and lined with peach, the third layer will be pink with cream and banana, the final layer on top is decorated with cream peaks using a pastry syringe, strawberries are laid out in the center with grapes and peach slices.
   This delicacy is suitable for a children's party. However, a very important factor in cake preparation is right choice berries and fruits and their combination. For example, strawberries are combined with banana and grapes, blueberries or blueberries, red and black currants, peach or mango slices. Kiwi can be paired with orange and grapes. It will add additional piquancy lemon cream... In addition, it will add brightness to the dessert. The delicate cream will perfectly harmonize with fresh cherries or "drunken cherries".

Dessert with fruit

You can make a mini naked fruit cake in a glass. It is delicious and beautiful, but it 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;

Preparation:

1. Select and wash the glasses in which the dessert will be prepared.
2. Prepare regular biscuit dough by whisking eggs and sugar until white and add flour, knead gently and send to a preheated oven for 30 minutes.
3. In the meantime, cook delicate cream whipping cheese with cream and sugar.
4. Rinse the berries and drain with water so that the dessert does not turn out to be watery.
5. Cool the finished cake, cut into two and cut circles out of it with a glass.
6. Put the first ready-made circle on the bottom of the glass and pour cream, lay the berries (in addition to the latter, you can cook berry jelly, which will be no less tasty, and also natural). Repeat until the glass is full. Top treats can be decorated melted chocolate or berries.
7. Send the finished dessert to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
8. There is another way to prepare a dessert. Put fruits (kiwi, banana, mango) on the bottom of the glass and pour cream, put a crust on top, pour cream and decorate with berries.

Serve the dessert straight out of the refrigerator to keep the cream from dripping.

"Naked" cake "Red Velvet"

One of the brightest desserts is the Naked Red Velvet cake. Its cakes have a rich color, and the taste is delicious, besides, the pieces of dessert literally melt in your mouth.

Ingredients:

• chicken eggs –4 pcs .;
• kefir - 1 tbsp.;
• sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• dye 2 tsp;
• flour - 3 tbsp.;
• butter- 1 pack;
• baking powder - 1 sachet;
• vanillin - 1 sachet;
• cream cheese.

Preparation:

1. Beat melted butter with sugar and eggs.
2. Pour dye into kefir and mix well.
3. Combine the resulting masses and mix well before adding flour.
4. Send 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.
5. In the meantime, prepare the cake dish and cream cheese. It consists of cream cream cheese and powdered sugar (all whip until thick).
6. Cut the cooled cakes into two parts and place them on a dish, gradually spreading over each layer.

After collecting the cake, it must be cooled and, if desired, decorated with red berries.

With chocolate smudges

A naked cake with drips 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 delicious, colorful butter cream, an abundance of fruits, various decorations make a masterpiece out of delicacies.

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 tbsp.;
• sugar 1 tbsp.;
• chicken eggs - 5 tbsp.;
• vanillin - 1 sachet;
• curd cheese - 1 can;
• cream - 1 pack;
• a bar of milk and dark chocolate;
• walnuts - 200 g;
• berries or any other fruit.

Preparation:

1. Cook tender, airy cakes and let cool.
2. Meanwhile, prepare the buttercream, rinse the berries and peel the nuts.
3. Collect the cooled cakes into a cake with thick layers of cream.
4. Melt the milk chocolate in a water bath and pour it over the top layer of the cake (it is necessary to pour it along the edge so that the chocolate drips little by little). It is important that the latter is not overly hot.
5. Allow the first layer of chocolate to cool.
6. Melt the dark chocolate and pour it next to the milk chocolate, sprinkle the hot chocolate mass with walnuts.

Decorate the chilled cake around the edges with berries and lemon balm leaves. This type of dessert will appeal to a little birthday boy or birthday girl.

How to make with flowers

A cake with flowers will always be a great option for weddings.

You can decorate it in two ways:

1. A triangular piece is cut out of the whole cake, and a scattering of flowers or a flower arrangement is made in the free space (flowers begin to fall from above and are stacked randomly next to the cake). You can also make small inserts along the way of the cake.
2. Another decoration option is to decorate the whole cake with flowers in the image of a screw. It looks magnificent and solemn.

Rinse flowers before use, get rid of unnecessary 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 do not have allergies to them.

So, you will need it for cooking.

Ingredients:

• flour - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.8 kg;
• vanillin –1 sachet;
• eggs - 15 pcs.;
• baking powder - 2 sachets;
• curd cheese - 400 g;
• cream - 300 g;
• cocoa powder - 15 tbsp. l .;
• flowers for decoration;
• fruits.

Preparation:

1. Bake two brownies and one regular brownie and let cool.
2. Prepare cream cheese.
3. Cut the cakes and coat with cream, between them lay fruit to your taste. Chocolate should go first, the second tier consists of a simple sponge cake.
4. Further ready cake decorate with flowers in one of the ways described.

The flower cake looks very delicate and is suitable for airy, light celebrations.

Naked cake by Andy Chef

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.

Preparation:

1. Combine all dry ingredients and beat eggs and sugar until fluffy.
2. Melt butter and add cream to it, mix well.
3. Combine eggs with dry mixture and add butter and cream to them, knead and add honey.
4. Pour the finished dough into molds and send to the oven for 45 minutes.
5. Cool the finished cakes and cut in half, smear each of them with cheese cream, laying fruits on top of it: pear, strawberry, banana. Repeat until the cakes run out.

Top the cake with fresh cherries and lemon balm leaves.

Thus, a naked cake is the perfect solution for any occasion.

Ingredients to make Naked Cake at home.

Beat the softened butter until white at the maximum speed of the mixer. Without reducing the speed of the mixer, add sugar in several steps.




1. We introduce eggs one at a time.

   
   
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   Combine soda with kefir, stir and combine with ingredients in a mixer.

   
   

3. Combine all dry ingredients in a convenient container: flour, cocoa, baking powder, vanilla sugar and dye. We stir everything.

   
   

4. Reduce the mixer speed to the minimum and add dry ingredients one tablespoon at a time. Let the dough stir completely and turn off the mixer.

   
   

5. We bake the dough with one crust in a split form with a diameter of 26 cm. The oven is preheated to 180 degrees. We bake for 35-40 minutes.

   
   
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   Cooking sour cream soufflé. Pour gelatin with a small amount of water and leave to swell for 10 minutes.

   
   

7. Beat the cream at the maximum speed of the mixer until thick.

   
   

8. Without turning off the mixer, in several steps we introduce powdered sugar.

   
   

9. Then pour in the gelatin melted in the microwave or in a water bath in a thin stream (as shown in the photo).

   
   

10. The last we introduce sour cream 1 tablespoon.

    
    

11. We collect the cake. Cut the finished, well-cooled "red velvet" cake into three equal parts.

    
    

12. We leave the lower part of the cake in a detachable form and put half of the strawberries on it.

    
    

13. Put half of the sour cream soufflé on the strawberries as in the photo.

    
    

14. We increase the side of the split form.

    
    

15. Cover the soufflé with the second cake. Then we repeat: strawberries, soufflé and the last cake. We send the collected cake to the refrigerator for 2 hours.

It is simply impossible to take your eyes off modern cakes: they are so seductive. Even those on the most severe diet will not be able to refuse even a small piece - after all, there are berries and fruits in the same place. Such beauty can be easily done at home.

Down with mastic and oil roses. Naked cakes are on the offensive. True, before proceeding with the decoration, you will have to bake three or four biscuit cakes and cook butter cream... Since the cakes will be visible, in naked cakes they are not hidden under a thick layer of cream, then the baking process must be taken seriously. The cakes should be smooth and neat.

Put a spoonful of cream in the center of the stand and put the first cake on it. Gently presses, now the risk that the cake will "run away" is minimal.

The cream is applied gently using a pastry bag and a round nozzle. We begin to apply it from the center of the cake and move in a spiral to the edges. We do it carefully. We put the second cake on the cream, press it lightly, make sure that the cream does not start to crawl out of the bounds. We repeat the whole process and put the last cake on top.

Using a large spatula, smooth out the layer of cream on the top cake.

We decorate

You can decorate a naked cake fresh berries, flowers and whatever your heart desires. We admire the result of our work. Remember that since the cake is not completely covered with cream, you need to eat it in 24 hours, since the cakes will dry out quickly and the berries will flow.
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