While fondant may be the cake artist’s favourite medium of the moment, we simply can’t abandon our love affair with luxurious chocolate wedding cakes and occasion cakes here at Cake Geek Magazine. Showing you why, we’ve put together a selection of some of the most sophisticated chocolate wedding cake art, perfect for late autumn and winter weddings. Our feature cake above showcases an array of late autumn sugar flowers in mauve and purples set against a dark chocolate finish for a stunning ... Read More...
Vintage in White Chocolate
For brides who want a dessert style wedding cake but still want to incorporate the vintage look into their cake design, then look no further than these spectactular white chocolate wedding cakes by one of the world's top chocolate wedding cake designers, Kanya Hunt of The Hunt House Kitchen, South Africa ( Lizelle Lotter Photography). In the first design on the right, a central chocolate rose fans out to cover the entire cake with white chocolate petals creating a striking white chocolate ... Read More...
Chocolate Cake Decorating Chic
A rich chocolate cake is an enduring favourite that will forever be requested from bakers and cake decorators. So we've put together a selection of some of the most stand-out chocolate cake designs plus tutorials to inspire your chocolate cake decorating. The stunning creation (top left) by Jessica Vu takes a tall, cube-shaped chocolate cake and sets it off with a giant statement sugar peony to create a masterpiece in cake art. (You'll find a peony tutorial on our Cake Tutorials page ... Read More...
A Spring Wedding Cake
This has to be the perfect Spring wedding cake for chocolate lovers. The fresh green cymbidium orchids add an unmistakable Spring touch to this magnificent cake, designed by the pastry chefs at the renowned Robineau Patisserie. But it is the super-sized hand-moulded chocolate roses that really make this cake a stand-out design. Each rose is the height of a full cake tier, with the roses artfully arranged over the full five tiers, interspersed with cymbidium orchids. Add to that lashings of ... Read More...