Cake "Green": useful and original design ideas

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Desserts of bright colors are widely used in cooking all over the world. So, red velvet cake has become a classic delicacy in many cuisines. In fact, cakes can be painted in any shade. For example, you can cook a green cake. To do this, you need a little imagination and specific components. Below are a few options for such an interesting dessert.

Bright velvet cake

This green cake uses a classic "velvet" dessert recipe with coloring replaced. Cocoa powder remains in the dough, but in a reduced amount. You will need the following.

For cakes:

• 300 grams of flour;
• 400 grams of granulated sugar;
• 2 teaspoons natural cocoa powder;
• 1 teaspoon s alt;
• 1 teaspoon baking soda;
• 2 large eggs;
• 120 grams of odorless vegetable oil;
• 240 ml buttermilk;
• 1 spoona tablespoon of white vinegar;
• 120 grams uns alted butter;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract;
• 1-2 teaspoons yellow food coloring;
• 1 teaspoon green food coloring.

For cream:

• 1 cup egg whites;
• 700 grams of uns alted butter;
• 700 grams of powdered sugar;
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract;
• 1/2 teaspoon s alt.

How to make green velvet cake?

Preheat the oven to 190°C and prepare two identical baking pans.

Beat eggs with vegetable oil, melted butter, buttermilk, vinegar and food coloring until smooth.

Place the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and stir. Slowly add the resulting mixture to the mass prepared in the above step. Place on the stove and heat for a minute, stirring and not boiling.

Pour batter evenly into molds and bake for approximately 30 minutes. Cool completely until creamy.

How to make cream?

Place the egg whites and icing sugar in a mixing bowl and start beating, gradually adding small pieces of butter and then vanilla and s alt. Beat everything at high speed until airy. Then reduce the mixer speed and continue mixing for another 15-20 minutes until all air bubbles are gone.

How to assemble dessert?

Place the first cakeon a serving platter and brush with a thick layer of cream. Put the second cake on it, grease the dessert with the remaining cream on the sides and top. If you want your green cake to have the same color on top, use colored coconut flakes or jelly beans as a topping.

Colored cream variant

You can also prepare a completely green dessert by tinting not only the dough, but also the cream. This cake is perfect for themed parties or children's parties. For it you will need the following.

For cakes:

• 2, 5 cups all-purpose flour;
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder;
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda;
• 1/2 teaspoon fine s alt;
• 1 1/4 cup buttermilk, well shaken;
• 1 tablespoon green food coloring;
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract;
• 2 cups granulated sugar;
• 1 cup uns alted butter, room temperature;
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten.

For cream:

• half a cup of all-purpose flour;
• one and a half glasses of milk;
• one and a half cups of uns alted butter at room temperature;
• one and a half cups of granulated sugar;
• 4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract;
• a pinch of fine s alt;
• green liquid or gel food coloring;
• green candy for decoration,optional.

How to make a green cake?

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Butter three identical round cake tins and line them with parchment paper.

Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and s alt in a medium bowl, set aside. Whisk buttermilk, food coloring and vanilla in a tall bowl.

Beat granulated sugar and butter in a separate bowl on medium speed. This will take about five minutes until the mass becomes very light and airy. While the mixer is still running, slowly add the eggs and beat until fully combined. Reduce the speed to the lowest setting and gradually add the flour and buttermilk mixtures in small batches alternately. You should have a completely homogeneous mass.

Spread the dough evenly between the three molds. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the pans for 15 minutes, then remove and cool completely.

To make green cream cake, place flour in a small saucepan. Gently pour in about half a glass of milk, stir until the lumps are completely broken. Slowly add the remaining milk while stirring. The mixture should be very homogeneous. Heat it over medium heat, whisking continuously with a fork, until very thick (about 5 minutes). Pour the mixture into a bowl, cover with cling film and cool completely. This will take approximately 45 minutes.

Using a mixer equipped with paddles, beat butter and sugar-sand at medium speed to airiness. Add the chilled flour and milk mixture a tablespoon at a time and mix until smooth. Connect whisks to the mixer instead of spatulas and add vanilla, s alt and 3 to 5 drops of food coloring. Beat until very light and airy.

To assemble this green cake, place one cake on a dish, spread with cream and repeat with the other cakes. Spread the remaining cream on the sides, sprinkle the dessert with colored sugar and decorate with sweets.

How to make a beautiful decoration?

If you want to make a green wedding cake, then the decoration and decoration must be original. For this purpose, you can use culinary mastic, the use of which depends only on your imagination. For basic decoration you will need the following:

• ready green cakes;
• any oil cream in sufficient quantity;
• marshmallow fondant;
• green gel food coloring.

How to decorate dessert?

Bake cakes according to your favorite recipe. Once they are ready, let them cool completely. Prepare an oil cream and add some dye to it. It should be a light mint shade.

Assemble the cake by spreading cream between the layers. When the dessert is ready, apply an even thin layer of cream over its entire surface. Place it in the refrigerator until completely solidified. Add more dye to the remaining cream so that it is dark.green.

Put a little dye into the culinary mastic until you get a delicate but pronounced shade. Roll it out on a table sprinkled with powdered sugar into a very thin layer. As soon as the cream on the cake hardens, remove the product from the refrigerator. Cover it with a mastic plate, gently pressing it over the entire surface. Cut off excess with a sharp knife.

Using a cooking syringe or a bag with a small hole in the corner, make any drawings and inscriptions with dark green cream. You can also put figurines of the bride and groom on such a cake.

Other design options

As you can see from the photo attached to the article, the green cake can be decorated in many ways. In addition to decorating with cream, dessert can be decorated in other ways. Various stencils are well suited for this purpose.

So, you can cover the finished cake with white icing and let it harden half way. Then, using a stencil, make drawings on it with green confectioner's sugar or coconut.

If you are an experienced cook, you can make a variety of figures and silhouettes from the painted fondant and decorate the dessert with them. This is perfect for a themed party.

Another interesting design option is to use white and green icing sugar. Apply them to the surface of the cake alternately in a thin stream to get the effect of a marble surface.

Other options for decorating a green cake caninclude the following:

• Cut yellow and green fruits into petals and arrange them in a “snail” or “tile” (kiwi, grapes, pears, peaches).
• Use green jelly (with kiwi or gooseberry flavor). This can be somewhat tricky as the green cake recipe gets more complicated with this decoration. First you need to pour the jelly at the bottom of a deep detachable form, wait for it to solidify completely, then apply a thin layer of cream on it. Only after that should it be laid in the form of cakes and smeared. After that, the form with the dessert is turned over and unfastened. You get a green jelly cake on top.
• Use a special pastry needle and make colored roses out of buttercream.