Black Forest Gateau Naked Cake!

Tempting naked cakes seem to be quite the popular trend at the moment! We’ve been gathering an impressive amount of requests for them in a fun variety of forms from macaron toppled birthday treats to towering rustic wedding designs. This super bright Black Forest Gateau inspired naked cake is definitely one of our favourite cakes we’ve made this year. It’s also the pinkest cake we’ve seen let alone created! Read on for more about how we made this cherry macaron adorned delight…

Pretty pink naked cake with cherries, macarons and roses by Juniper Cakery

Back when we held the consultation for the couple who requested this cake we were left with a few definite cake must-haves… a pink colour palette, Black Forest Gateau flavour, macarons, roses… and for the end cake to be an absolute surprise! They wanted a naked cake a little different to the usual, but wanted their wedding cake to be top secret until the big day. In other words we got full creative control!

Naked wedding cake with pink cherry macarons by Juniper Cakery

One of the first things we established were the flavours. Obsessed with cherry flavours the couple were pretty certain what tastes they wanted, but we added in our Cherry Ripple and Sour Cherry macarons as well as splashes of German Kirsch, fresh Picota cherries and liberal servings of Morello cherry preserve inside the cake. Perfect for making chocolate cake a little more exotic!

Bright pink Black Forest Gateau naked cake by Juniper Cakery

Pssst… inside of our macarons are home made Morello cherry confiture, Madagascan vanilla bean and white chocolate ganache with Kirsch buttercream and tangy cherry sherbet crystals! Kirsch is an amazing ingredient- it’s like Chambord in that it seems to pump up the fruit flavour a little more. Adding a matching fruit liqueur into buttercream or preserves gives it another level of taste - great for parties or receptions without kids!

Gorgeous pink naked cake by Juniper Cakery

To make this naked wedding cake a little more different we planned on scraping bright cherry Swiss Meringue Buttercream outside of each tier, much like a crumb coat, before arranging the flowers, macarons, foliage and cherries in a sweet garland formation around the top of the bottom tier and then as a ball on top of the cake to add a little bit of extra height and drama.

We’re both huge fans of wild arrangements and bouquets so we tend to include lots of berries, textural herbs and pretty foliage in our florals (sugar and real). A fabulous herb to use is Rosemary as the sprigs look somewhat like plumes of feathers; with these we added in stripped rose leaves too.

NOTE:

If you’re planning on using Rosemary sprigs to add detail to a naked cake or buttercream cake don’t go overboard and pair your flavours well. It can be quite fragrant and also has a distinct taste. Our tip is to combine it with strong fruit flavours such as lemon, cherry, or raspberry - perhaps with lighter notes of white chocolate and vanilla.

Pink cherry and chocolate naked cake by Juniper Cakery

As with every cake we’re always sad to see it leave, but we’re happy to say that the surprise cake design went down a treat with the couple! Some very eagerly received slices were even saved just for us - they didn’t last long though…

 

 

Rose and Fuchsia Wedding Cupcake & Cake Tower!

Here’s a lovely and sweet cupcake tower topped with a floral adorned cake that we created for a late spring wedding. A sumptuous and over-hanging bouquet of ivory roses and lilac fuchsia flowers were requested. We also whipped up a large batch of matching cupcakes in some pretty mouth-watering flavours; Mango & Passion Fruit, Red Velvet, Lemonade and Raspberry!

Sweet rose and fuchsia cupcake and cake wedding tower by Juniper Cakery

 The cake itself was a lovely and moist vanilla sponge filled with delicious strawberry jam and iced with vanilla fondant. We then embossed an ivory fondant covered cake drum with a pretty lace mould, trimmed the board with grosgrain ribbon and once we placed the cake on top it was finished with royal icing polka dots, a royal icing pearl border and handmade sugar flowers!

Beautiful rose and fuchsia cupcake and cake wedding tower by Juniper Cakery

The bouquet is made of 7 ivory roses, 9 fuchsia buds, 9 small fantasy berries, 9 fuchsia leaves, 8 rose leaves and 10 fuchsia flowers all made from scratch by our hard-working hands and from custom coloured gum paste!

Rose and fuchsia wedding cupcakes and cake by Juniper Cakery

To accompany the cake the wedding tower was completed with 100 cupcakes. We baked them all fresh and from scratch before filling the Lemonade cupcakes with home-made lemon curd and the Raspberry cupcakes with home-made raspberry confiture! For the Mango and Passion Fruit cupcakes we frosted them with a lovely two toned swirl; lilac for the passion fruit flavour and ivory for the mango flavour!

Rose cupcakes for a wedding by Juniper Cakery

 

 

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