Easily recognizable by their exposed layers and minimal amount of buttercream or frosting, naked cakes have become a staple style in everything from homemade birthday cakes to multi-tiered, professionally made wedding cakes. This is not just a cake with less cream, but a very trendy feature today. And in my opinion, very stylish!

What is a naked cake?

A naked cake is easily recognized by its missing or minimal outer layer of finishing cream. This cake showcases the natural texture and filling of the cake. Some naked cakes have a little bit of cream on their outer edges that is almost clear or not at all.

The fashion trend of serving naked cakes remains relevant in 2018. Avoiding decorating the cake with cream on the sides allows the skin to shine and fill the room with aromas. But there are many more reasons to make your next cake naked.

7 Reasons to Make Naked Cakes

1. You want to show off the pie and the filling at the same time.
2. If you've spent a lot of time making a beautiful cake and delicious filling, skip decorating the sides with frosting or finishing cream and let the cake's color and texture captivate your customer with its natural appearance.
3. Are you low on cream? You've got your cake filled and layered and, oops, you're just freezing it a little! Just skip aligning the sides and the cake will still be just as neat, but less sweet.
4. Are you serving the cake on a hot day? Customers of desserts for weddings in the summer often choose a naked cake, since butter and cream can quickly melt on a hot summer day. Be sure to use a jam or meringue based filling if temperature is one of the reasons for using minimal buttercream.
5. Do you want something beautiful and rustic? Naked cakes show off texture and are very visually appealing.
6. Especially homemade, these unadorned cakes are perfect for any family celebration, even backyard weddings.
7. Do you want to decorate the top of your cake quickly and easily? Naked cakes are perfect for those of us who are nervous about assembling a multi-layer cake. Focus on creating beautiful cake layers and delicious fillings, and your cake will only need top makeup.

What kind of cakes are not found at wedding celebrations? Sweet treats amaze the imagination with their sizes, tastes and decorations. It would seem, what else can confectioners offer? And so, this season, naked cakes have boldly burst into fashion! Their photos simply “blew up” the Internet and won the hearts of brides forever!

The wedding services portal Svadebka.ws invites you to view a photo gallery of cakes and take a fresh look at the classic sweet treat for guests.

Why should you choose open cakes for your wedding?

A cake in the “Naked Cake” style is an opportunity to emphasize the individuality of the wedding celebration. The main advantage of such a treat is that it can be decorated in completely different ways. It all depends on the theme of the wedding, your desires and imagination! In addition, you can not only choose a custom wedding cake, but also bake a naked dessert with your own hands!

It is better to choose an open wedding cake for a celebration designed in the appropriate style. This element will only further emphasize the theme of the holiday and maintain the necessary atmosphere.

Choose an open dessert if you plan to:

• Eco wedding;
• Holiday in rustic style;
• Boho celebration;
• Summer wedding outdoors.

Due to the absence of mastic and a large amount of cream on the cakes, the cake looks as natural and unusual as possible. Such a treat can be safely given to children without worrying about the child’s body’s reaction to food dyes and chemical additives.

Advantages of open cakes:

1. Naked dessert will arouse genuine interest for guests, because such cakes are just beginning to appear at weddings in our country;
2. You can have this treat bake it yourself, saving on pastry chef services;
3. Mastic is a fairly high-calorie component of cakes. By refusing it, you will take care of the figure of each invitee;
4. Open cake - ideal for a wedding in hot weather year, because the treat will not “flow” under the sun’s rays, which means it does not require additional storage conditions, unlike desserts with mastic;
5. A wedding cake with open layers can be decorated in a variety of ways. Thanks to this, the treat will be made exclusively in the style of your wedding, and will correspond exactly to your desires;
6. No additional layer of mastic or cream would save for dessert, because the weight of the cake with open layers will be much less.

We are sure that you will find more than one plus in the direction of Naked Cake! The main thing is, don’t be afraid to give up traditional cakes and choose what your couple really wants!

Cake with open layers: what is it like?

Each open dessert is something completely new and original. Rest assured, by choosing naked treats as an alternative to a wedding cake, you will receive an original and unique dessert that will be the perfect end to the festive evening.

What ideas do confectioners offer:

• or fruit. Juicy gifts of nature will fill the dessert with bright, vibrant colors and exquisite flavor notes. This dessert will enchant you with its aromas and saturate your body with healthy vitamins.
  Berries and fruits are placed between the cake layers and used to decorate the “head” of the cake;







• Decor of fresh flowers. This decision will be especially relevant if you chose fresh flowers to decorate the banquet hall. Choose the same plants in the same color scheme to decorate the cake, hall and bridal bouquet.
  To decorate desserts, flowers are treated with a special safe solution, which helps the flowers not wither and stain the treat. Thanks to the variety of colors and a wide color spectrum, you can create an original and unique dessert for your holiday;








• Sweet figures on the cake. Decorative figures on a wedding cake are an immortal classic. But if earlier confectioners only offered figures of newlyweds, now fashion has moved further. Now on top of the dessert there can be a pair of doves, cats, snowmen, etc. In general, experienced confectioners will turn any of your wishes into reality;





• Inscriptions on the top crust. These could be the names of the newlyweds, the wedding date, etc. This decor looks elegant and not trivial;





• Ambre effect. Recently, a smooth transition of color has become very popular among girls. The game of color also included sweet treats. Naked cakes with a smooth transition of color will be a real highlight of the end of the wedding;









• Spruce branches and cones. The main thing is to wash them thoroughly. Natural materials will be especially useful at a winter holiday;




• Dripping caramel or chocolate- sweet decor is always relevant on a wedding cake;
• Fresh herbs. Another way to dilute the cake with bright natural colors. These could be the same spruce branches, fern leaves. And fresh mint leaves, which you can eat, will add unusual flavor notes to the dessert.

Recently, the "naked cake" style has become very popular in the confectionery industry. When we say “naked” (in Russian, “naked”), we mean the style of cake design: this is a cake that is not covered with cream on the outside or covered only with a thin layer of cream through which the sides of the cake are visible.

Today, naked cakes are ordered for weddings and other celebrations. This MK will help you understand how to prepare such a cake at home so that it is even and neat, it will teach you how to make sure that the cake layers and layers of cream are the same, which is very important in the case of “naked” cakes.

To prepare a naked cake from pastry equipment we will need:

Silicone spatula;

Rotating cake stand. If there is - good, if not - you can put the cake on a large dish.

For our cake layers:

3 cups flour;

1 tsp cinnamon;

A pinch of cardamom;

A pinch of cloves;

A pinch of salt;

1 tsp baking powder;

3/4 cup sugar;

3/4 cup brown sugar;

3 eggs at room temperature;

1/2 cup olive oil;

120 g butter at room temperature;

1/4 cup liquid from pears;

1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries;

3 spiced pears, cut into pieces.

For the spiced pears:

3 medium pears;

4 glasses of water;

1 cup brown sugar;

1 cinnamon stick.

For cream:

150 grams of softened butter;

450 grams of cold cream cheese (such as Hochland or Almette);

5 tbsp. powdered sugar;

Zest of one lemon.

First prepare the spiced pears.

Bring water with sugar and cinnamon to a boil, peel the pears and place in water.

Cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes or until the pears are slightly soft. Remove and cool.

While the pears are cooling, begin preparing the naked cake layers.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Prepare three pans by lining the bottom with circles of parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients (flour, spices and baking powder).

In another bowl, beat two types of butter and both types of sugar until fluffy and white, about 5 minutes.

Add eggs one at a time.

Then add dry ingredients and 1/4 tbsp in two additions. liquid from pears

Mix gently with a mixer at low speed.

Add berries and pears.

Mix everything together with a silicone spatula.

Place the second cake layer on top. Pipe the cream again (just like the first time).

Flatten and place the third cake layer.

Apply the cream again and smooth with a spatula.

It’s simply impossible to take your eyes off modern cakes: they are so tempting. Even those on the most severe diet will not be able to refuse at least a small piece - after all, there are berries and fruits. This beauty can easily be made at home.

Down with mastic and oil roses. “Naked” cakes are on the offensive. True, before you start decorating, you will have to bake three or four sponge cakes and prepare buttercream. Since the cake layers will be visible, in naked cakes they are not hidden under a thick layer of cream, the baking process must be taken seriously. The cakes should be smooth and neat.

Place a spoonful of cream in the center of the stand and place the first cake on it. Gently presses, now the risk that the cake will “run away” is minimal.

The cream is applied carefully using a pastry bag and a round nozzle. We start applying it from the center of the cake and move in a spiral to the edges. We do this carefully. Place the second cake layer on top of the cream, press lightly, making sure that the cream does not start to crawl out. We repeat the whole process and place the last cake layer on top.

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

Decorate

You can decorate a naked cake with fresh berries, flowers and whatever your heart desires. We admire the result of our work. We remember that since the cake is not completely covered with cream, you need to eat it within 24 hours, since the cakes will quickly dry out and the berries will flow.
And chocolate lovers can safely take out bubble wrap and use it to make

Some housewives spend their whole lives baking cakes that are not coated with cream on the sides, but they don’t even know that it’s called naked. And now this is a fashionable trend, since a cake coated on all sides is no longer considered the height of perfection. This is the art of baking a naked cake so that the fondant does not spread, the edges look good, and most importantly, the whole structure does not creep somewhere to the side - this is the height of skill.

How it was

When there were no special cake pans with a removable side panel, baking had to be done in various types of frying pans, which did not always have strictly vertical edges. To coat several cake layers, you had to make much more cream to hide the difference in the layers or trim the edges evenly. Both methods brought with them a certain sadness, since by increasing the volume of fudge, we spend much more money on the purchase of ingredients. But it would be a pity to cut off the edges and make them strictly vertical, since some frying pans had a rather large angle of inclination of the side wall.

Many housewives left everything as is, and it turned out that only the top of the cakes were coated, and excess cream flowed onto the edge, which created a certain appearance of “creamfall.” Maybe this is where the story of naked cakes began.

Of course, this is an ideal 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 issue of baking a cake without clothes

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

The cakes must be soaked, since the thick cream that is used to put the cake together will not be able to soak all its parts and the baked goods will turn out dry. To soak a naked cake, any liquid compositions, cognac, liqueur, syrup from liquid jam or compote are suitable. In general, everything that ends up in the house.

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

• Cocktail straws;
• Toothpicks;
• Wooden chopsticks 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 tube will do, as long as it is designed for eating or drinking.

The easiest option, if there are children in the house, is straws for children's juices. They are quite durable, although they do not have a large diameter.

How to put together a naked cake using baby juice straws. First of all, they must be washed and dried. We put the first cake layer, coat it, put the second one. Take the tube by the short edge and insert the long, pointed edge into the top cake. When the tube passes through the top cream and enters the bottom layer, you need to carefully trim off the excess with sharp, usually manicure scissors. This way 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 not quite dressed baked goods

The most common decoration for modern naked cakes are berries and fruits; they can be placed between the cake layers or cover only the top layer. Bright berries will look good with all shades of cakes and any creams.

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

A number of housewives like to use cherries to decorate 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 layer.

Decoration with flowers and twigs is becoming fashionable, but these details should not be used in everyday naked cakes, since we usually bake for children, and for them the main thing is taste, not the beauty of flowers and branches. Moreover, 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 cake for a birthday or anniversary, then you will have to select baking dishes of different diameters. According to professional confectioners, the best option is 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, you get a platform for decoration of 4.5 cm around the entire circumference. This cake will have to be decorated symmetrically to make it look like one whole piece. It turns out very beautifully if the cakes are of different colors and from different doughs: two are dark in the lower tier, one is light, and vice versa in the upper.
2. The upper tier stands 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 larger area for decoration and you can put large flowers or fruits on the top of the cake.

It is better to strengthen any option for a festive table, since the structure without fasteners is very fragile, and having fun and dancing before it comes to the cake can ruin all the work put into it.

For a children's party, you should prepare multi-colored biscuits that will change color thanks to natural ingredients. There will be no green or blue tones in this cake, as those colors are 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. Tangerines, peaches, nectarines, and apricots are suitable for yellow. For red - raspberries, cherries, red currants. It is better to make the white layer with a contrasting coating - chocolate, dark nuts, black currants, and the dark layer - banana and white chocolate.

On the plateau between the tiers, mix pieces of all the berries and nuts present. The result is 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 does it come to fruition.

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

In the first case, the cake can be baked by the bride with her mother and friends. Since no special skill is required to write out monograms, images of hearts, sculpt doves and other wedding paraphernalia. Simple layers of your favorite cake are baked and placed on top of each other using cream. This multi-tiered sculpture can be decorated with berries, flowers, green twigs, pine 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 treat at a pastry shop. They will offer a lot of decoration options 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 about this in advance. Although some will no longer care by the time the “wedding king” is cut and half of the flowers will definitely end up in their stomachs. Therefore, when ordering a wedding cake from a pastry shop, it is worth pointing out that you should not put too bitter decorations on the cakes.

If cakes lose their dressing and switch to natural ingredients, then housewives who enjoy baking such cakes should start harvesting berries for decoration.