The best decoration for a cake in the summer is fresh fruit! Strawberry desserts are especially bright, colorful, aromatic and tasty. After all, thanks to its color, it is an excellent decoration in itself. You don't need to be an experienced pastry chef to create a masterpiece from your humble cake. This can be done with the help of fresh berries, which will become a bright accent even on a simple dessert. But we’ll tell you right now how to make an original decoration for a cake from strawberries.
How to make a cake decoration from strawberries?
You can start with the simplest thing: cut the berries into slices and form them into an applique in the form of flowers, while immersing strawberry pieces in cream or chocolate ganache.
You can also turn each berry into a flower by simply cutting small pieces on all sides and bending them slightly to get a beautiful bud.
And small snowmen made of strawberries and cream will also look very interesting, especially on a children’s cake.
Here are some more ideas for decorating a cake with strawberries.
To decorate the top of the cake with a large voluminous flower, cut the berries into halves and place them in a circle with the cuts facing up. It is best to do this in a recess in the top cake or on a thick layer of cream. This way the “petals” will take the desired position and the flower will be more voluminous.
The cake will turn out to be very interesting if you decorate it under a basket of strawberries using mastic or marzipan. Then we simply place the berries along with the stalks on the top of the cake, as if in a basket.
You can also decorate the sides of the cake with strawberries, and to make the decor look more interesting and original, you can combine the berries with cookies, waffles, etc.
Very often, strawberries in jelly are used to decorate a cake. These can be either sliced into slices or whole berries laid out in a heap. Using this technique, you can decorate both the top and sides of the cake.
Cake decoration with strawberries and chocolate
No matter how banal “strawberries in chocolate” may sound, such a decoration is unlikely to ever go out of fashion, because it not only looks beautiful, but is also very tasty.
Moreover, a product such as chocolate can be used completely differently for decoration.
For example, you can melt it and make spectacular drips from the edge of the cake, and put delicious strawberries in the middle.
Or make an openwork chocolate crown for the cake. To do this, take a piece of parchment, you can put a prepared stencil under it to make your work easier, and draw a pattern with melted chocolate. When the glaze has cooled slightly and lost its fluidity, but has not lost its plasticity, wrap it around the cake and wait for it to completely harden. Then carefully remove the paper base.
Using the same technique, you can make several chocolate blanks of different shapes and sizes, and then decorate your works of culinary art with them. It’s also very easy to work with chocolate chips when you need to quickly decorate the sides.
Cake decoration with fresh strawberries and kiwi
Strawberries go very well with kiwi, both in color and taste. Therefore, it would be a shame not to take advantage of this opportunity, especially since kiwi is sold all year round.
The easiest way is to cut the fruit into thin slices and lay them over the entire surface of the cake, alternating layers.
Or you can build a mini lawn with beautiful strawberry flowers on a green kiwi background.
And to add contrast to this decor, you can use jam berries; they are much darker than fresh ones and therefore fresh berries will look good against their background.
Figures
For those who simply lay out berries on a cake seem like a very primitive solution, we can advise you to make interesting figures from strawberries. This cake design can be complemented by other decoratively cut fruits, berries (cherries, raspberries, blueberries, kiwi) and even mint.
In order for the figures to turn out the first time, you need to follow the instructions for their implementation step by step.
Using a sharp knife, make 4–5 cuts along the berry. At the base of the strawberry, squeeze the resulting petals a little - you will get a magnificent fan. For a more interesting visual design, it is recommended to leave the sepals and tail of the strawberry fan.
Complex figures
For those who don’t want to put large whole berries on the cake, you can also come up with interesting ideas. The simplest solution is to cut flowers from the berries and place them on the surface of the dessert. The guide to these steps is very simple, and even a beginner can handle it. A chocolate cake decorated with strawberries will look very good in this version. Bright figures of berries will look good on both dark and light surfaces.
Strawberries are an ideal fruit to use for decorating cakes due to their natural heart shape and sweet, delicate flavor. Additionally, turning other fruits into decorative treats may require special skills and techniques, but this berry can be processed using a sharp, thin knife.
Swans
You can even make swan figurines from strawberries. This will require a little time and perseverance from you, since strawberries are quite soft in structure and you need to work with them extremely carefully.
To create the figures you will need:
- 2 berries;
- sharp knife;
- toothpick;
- cloves – 1 pc.
First, the strawberries must be thoroughly rinsed in cold water and dried well.
Cut a small slice from one edge of the strawberry - this is the base on which the strawberries will lie tightly on the cake. From the other edge, make 8–10 cuts along the berry. Then cut off the green crown. From the resulting cut parts, form the wings and back of a swan, carefully moving the slices with a knife.
Mice
A strawberry decoration in the shape of a mouse will look original on a birthday cake.
Making it yourself is very simple:
- take a strawberry - this is the body of a mouse;
- we make the eyes from pieces of white chocolate, the nose from dark chocolate;
- for the ears, you can take any cookie (it is advisable that it be thin, but not brittle);
- The mouse's tail can be made from chewing marmalade of the appropriate configuration.
ladybugs
Strawberry ladybugs will look very cute as decoration.
You can do them as follows:
- take the desired number of berries, do not tear off the tails;
- Dip the top of each strawberry about 0.5 cm into melted dark chocolate;
- Decorate the surface of the berry with small drops of melted chocolate.
If desired, ladybugs can be made not from whole berries, but from halves. In addition, to make them more attractive, insects can be placed on toothpicks, and their eyes can be made of cream with a drop of chocolate in the middle.
Option 3: Chocolate cake with strawberries in boiling water
Biscuit in boiling water (aka chocolate in boiling water) tastes completely different, but is also simple and easy to prepare. This is a wonderful base for chocolate strawberry cake. If you prepare everything correctly, you will end up with a wonderful dessert at minimal cost.
Ingredients
- flour - 2.5 cups;
- 0.5 tbsp. oils;
- Two eggs;
- 6 spoons of cocoa;
- 300 g mascarpone;
- 1 tbsp. boiling water;
- 300 g strawberries;
- 1.5 tsp. soda;
- 1.5 tsp. baking powder;
- 350 ml cream;
- 5 spoons of powder;
- 50 g chocolate (for decoration);
- a glass of milk;
- 2 tbsp. Sahara.
How to cook
The dough for such a biscuit is made quickly, so immediately turn on the oven and put the kettle on the stove. We heat the oven to 180 degrees. In a bowl, mix flour with cocoa and add baking soda and baking powder; nothing needs to be quenched separately. Also, do not use only baking soda or only baking powder.
Mix eggs and sugar and add milk. You can beat it with a whisk or even knead the whole dough with a mixer, it will turn out quickly. Pour the milk mass into the dry ingredients, stir, add refined oil.
We measure out a glass of boiling water, pour it into the finished dough, mix and send it all into the mold. Bake the biscuit in boiling water until done. Cool and cut into slices, usually making three layers.
The cream is simple but very tasty. We start with cream. Beat until foamy, gradually add powder, and then cream cheese. You don't need to beat it for a long time with it. We wash and dry the berries, cut the strawberries into two or three slices.
Now we just assemble the cake. Layer each layer with cream and chopped berries. After applying the next cake layer, press it down a little. Decorate with berries and chocolate.
You can lubricate a sponge cake in boiling water with other types of cream, use ice cream or butter with condensed milk; sour cream and sugar (powdered) also go well with it.
Butterflies
Butterflies made from strawberry slices will look original on the cake.
To complete one figure you will need:
- strawberries – 2 pcs.;
- mulberries (can be replaced with blackberries) – 1 pc.;
- almonds – 1 pc.
Cut each berry into two halves. Place the blackberry (butterfly body) in the middle and attach 4 halves of wings to it. Make butterfly antennae from two almond quarters.
Snowmen
Children love making snowmen. Give them this opportunity even in the summer.
For this you will need:
Cut off the top of the strawberry. This side will hold the snowman on the cake. From a pastry bag, squeeze the cream onto the strawberries - this will be the face of a snowman. Use sesame seeds to make eyes and nose. Place a cut-off strawberry cap on top of the cream. Make a pompom out of cream on the hat. A beautiful and delicious cake decoration is ready.
Flowers
To create a strawberry meadow of flowers on the surface of the cake, you need to cut out berry rings and place them along the edge along the entire cake. Then make another strawberry ring inside the first one. Continue repeating layers until the entire area of the dessert is covered. In the center you need to place one strawberry, looking up with its nose.
You can add drops of cream on top of the strawberry meadow. There should not be too many of them, and the order of their placement should be far from correct symmetry. A dessert with sweet sprinkles will resemble flowers with dew.
To create more complex floral masterpieces from strawberries, you must follow these instructions:
- cut the berry from the spout to the stalk, but not all the way;
- Make 4-5 cuts in each part and straighten them a little - you will get something like a chamomile.
Making chocolate-strawberry cakes: recipes with photos
Chocolate cake with strawberries
Ingredients:
- 5 egg whites
- 1 1/2 cups wheat flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 lemon
- 250 g butter
- 200 ml condensed milk
- 50 g fresh strawberries
- 100 g cashew nuts
- 2 teaspoon cocoa powder
- whipped cream to taste
Preparation:
To prepare a chocolate-strawberry cake according to this recipe, beat the whites with lemon juice into a thick foam. Gradually add sugar while continuing to beat. Carefully add flour and grated lemon zest. Stir into a homogeneous mass. Line the bottom of the round pan with oiled paper and place 2/3 of the dough into it. From the rest, make sides, as well as 2 flagella. Place the strands crosswise on the crust, dividing it into 4 sections. Bake in a microwave oven for 2–2.5 minutes at above-average power.
To prepare the cream, beat softened butter with condensed milk until creamy. Fill one section of the cake with a quarter of the cream. Fill the second section with the same amount of cream and sprinkle nuts on top.
Fill the third section with cream and place the berries on top. Mix the remaining cream with cocoa powder and place it in the last part of the cake.
As you can see in the photo, chocolate cake with strawberries is decorated with whipped cream:
Before serving, keep the cake in the refrigerator.
Chocolate sponge cake “Strawberry” (1 way)
The cake is made from ready-made chocolate sponge cake.
Compound:
semi-finished biscuit, eggs - 3 pcs., sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons, butter – 150 g, ripe strawberries – 250 g, vanilla sugar.
To prepare the cream for chocolate sponge cake with strawberries, you need to grind eggs with sugar, add vanillin and heat in a steam bath until thick. Add butter, wild strawberries or strawberries to the warm mass and mix gently.
Cut the chocolate sponge cake horizontally into two layers, soak in sugar syrup or strawberry jam syrup diluted with water, layer with filling. Lightly soak the top and sides of the cake with syrup or spread with a thin layer of jam and cover with cream.
Chocolate sponge cake “Strawberry” (2nd method)
Composition for impregnation syrup:
sugar – 150 g, lemon zest, cognac – 50 g; for filling: strawberries – 300 g, strawberry butter cream – 400 g, powdered sugar; for cream: butter – 220 g, honey – 100 g, egg yolk – 1 pc., powdered sugar – 100 g, thick strawberry syrup – 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparing the biscuit base.
Wrap the finished chocolate cake in foil and place on a rack in a preheated oven for 15–25 minutes.
Mix strawberry syrup with honey.
Grind the softened butter with sugar and yolk, gradually adding the strawberry-honey mass. Beat the cream until foam appears.
Cut the almost cooled sponge cake into two or three layers, sprinkle with separately prepared syrup and brush with strawberry butter cream. Place the first layer of sponge cake on the prepared dish, sprinkle with syrup, coat with thicker cream, place the second layer on it, also sprinkle with syrup, brush with cream and, finally, place the third layer of sponge cake on top. Sprinkle it with syrup, coat the cake well with cream on top and on all sides, smooth the surface with a serrated knife or pastry comb and decorate with small identical fresh strawberries.
As shown in the photo, this strawberry-chocolate cake should be sprinkled with powdered sugar on top:
The same cake can be made with fresh blackberries and blackberry buttercream.
Chocolate cake with strawberries
Ingredients for the cake base:
sugar – 120 g, egg yolks – 4 pcs., egg whites – 4 pcs., 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa, salt, lemon zest - 1 teaspoon, flour - 60 g, potato starch - 60 g, vodka - 1 tbsp. spoon; for strawberry jelly: fresh strawberries - 750 g, powdered sugar - 100 g, gelatin - 30 g, heavy cream - 1 cup.
Add a little fine salt to the whites and beat them into a stiff, stable foam. Beat the yolks into a foam with sugar and lemon zest, add, stirring, flour, starch, cocoa, carefully fold in the whipped whites. Mix the biscuit chocolate dough from bottom to top, adding vodka.
Prepare a small baking sheet, grease it with oil or line it with parchment paper, pour the dough onto it, spreading it evenly over the entire surface.
Bake the sponge cake until done in a hot oven and carefully tip the tray with the sponge cake onto a table lined with white paper. Let the biscuit cool without removing the baking sheet from it - this way it will remain more moist and will not crumble. If the biscuit was baked on parchment paper, remove it.
Pour the gelatin with a small amount of cream diluted with cold boiled water, let it swell (prepare the gelatin before starting the cake) and then dissolve it over low heat. Make puree from half the washed and peeled strawberries, mixed with sugar. Whip the cream and carefully stir in the strawberry puree and completely dissolved gelatin. As soon as the jelly begins to harden, add the remaining strawberries, cut into quarters.
Place the biscuit base on a dish, apply semi-hardened jelly on it in an even layer, level the surface with a long thin knife dipped in hot water and place in the refrigerator. Before serving, decorate the frozen cake with decorations of whipped cream and whole strawberries, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Here you can see photos of strawberry-chocolate cakes, the recipes for which are presented above:
Strawberry bowls
Another interesting idea for decorating a birthday cake is strawberry cups with filling. First, you need to cut off the stem of the strawberry. Cut a small piece from the wide part of the berry - this will be the base for attaching to the cake.
Cut the strawberries lengthwise, but not all the way, remove the pulp from both halves. Cut the top into four parts to make petals. Place each petal in the cake icing. Place some yogurt or cream cheese inside the strawberry bowls.
Recipe for chocolate cake with strawberries and curd cream
Curd chocolate cake with strawberries
Ingredients:
- For the dough:
3 eggs, 0.5 cups sugar, 1.5 teaspoons baking powder, 1.5 tbsp. spoons, 1 cup flour - For cream:
200 g cottage cheese, 400 g full-fat sour cream or cream (30~35%), 0.5 cups sugar, 200 g strawberries
Preparation:
Beat eggs with sugar in a mixer. Add flour, baking powder and cocoa. Mix. Place a circle of baking paper on the bottom of a tall mold d=22cm. Pour out the dough. Place in an oven preheated to t=180~200°C for about 30 minutes. Remove the finished cake from the mold and cool.
To prepare curd cream for chocolate cake with strawberries, you need to warm the cottage cheese to room temperature - it will become thinner and easier to mix with the cream. Beat the cream with sugar with a mixer. Stir in cottage cheese.
The cream should be quite liquid. Set aside about 1/4 of it. Cut the strawberries into pieces and carefully, with a spoon, mix into the rest of the cream.
Assembling the cake.
Place the circle of paper back into the washed pan. Cut the cake into 2 parts. Place the top part of the cake into the pan. Pour all the cream with strawberries. Cover with the second cake layer. Spread white cream without strawberries on top. Leave at room temperature for 1~2 hours, and then put in the refrigerator overnight or overnight.
In order to remove the finished cake from the mold, you need to run a hot knife (dip the knife in boiling water and wipe it) along the walls of the mold. Place a piece of polyethylene film on the cake and a folded towel on it. Turn the cake over, remove the pan and the circle of paper. Cover with a dish and turn over to normal position.
Decorate the cheese and chocolate cake with strawberries and serve.
Hearts
If you want to surprise your other half with an unusual gift for Valentine's Day, decorate the cake with strawberry hearts. To do this, you need to cut off the stem of the berries. Press the resulting hole towards the middle to create a heart shape. Cut the berries into 5 slices, perpendicular to the V-shaped notch. This way you will get 5 hearts from one berry. The number of pieces for decorating the cake depends only on your imagination.
Strawberries in chocolate
To get this decoration you need to take several chocolates, put them in a small saucepan and melt them in a water bath. Dip pre-washed and dried strawberries, one at a time, into the chocolate mixture. To harden, the berries must be placed in the refrigerator. After a while they can be used to decorate dessert.
If you don’t have time for such decoration, the option of decorating with chocolate can be simplified. To do this, all the berries are cut into four parts and beautifully laid out on the surface of the cake. The dessert is topped with melted chocolate glaze from a pastry bag.
You can learn more about how to beautifully decorate a cake with strawberries in this video.
Strawberries are a favorite berry for many; they can act as an independent dessert, or they can be a wonderful decoration for a birthday cake. In this article, prazdnikblog.info has collected interesting ideas for you on how to decorate a cake with strawberries, as well as an interesting master class on how to make a strawberry-shaped cake.
How to decorate a cake with strawberries?
Dessert decoration
Apply the cream in an even thick layer over the entire surface of the cake. Then spread whole peeled strawberries over it, pressing them down slightly. You can do this in different ways. For example, decorate a cake with strawberries in the form of a basket of berries. To do this, place slices of chocolate or cookies along the edge of the surface of the dessert to create the appearance of walls. Then place the berry as tightly as possible over the entire surface. You can also arrange strawberries in the form of petals or hearts.
Moreover, you can prepare the icing according to a different recipe, but the main rule is to decorate the cake with strawberries before its surface hardens. Even melted white or dark chocolate can work for this purpose.
Decorate the cake with chocolate covered strawberries
A very beautiful decoration for a cake is made from chocolate-covered strawberries. We have already told you in a separate article how to prepare strawberries in chocolate glaze, so here we will not dwell on this in detail, but simply below will show you options on how to beautifully arrange strawberries on a cake.
Cake decoration with strawberries in chocolate glaze
You can make chocolate hearts from strawberries. Which will also become an exquisite decoration for your homemade cake.
Chocolate covered strawberry hearts
If you don’t have time to bother with such “decoration”, then you can do it simpler - cut the berries into four parts and place them on the top of the cake, and then pour chocolate over all this splendor.
How to quickly decorate a cake with strawberries
How to decorate a cake with fruits at home
What could be better than juicy berries and fruits decorating a multi-tiered bright cake? It looks delicious and attractive. To really impress your guests, you need to know how to choose the right decorations.
Best ingredients for decoration:
- papaya;
- tangerines and oranges;
- a pineapple;
- plums;
- peaches;
- pears;
- apples.
It is worth giving up:
- juicy berries;
- grenade;
- lime;
- persimmons
To decorate baked goods, you can use not only fresh products, but also canned ones. First, strain the juice from them. If the cake is decorated with fruits or berries that are too juicy, the cake will quickly become soggy and the dessert will lose its appeal.
