Chocolate wedding cake

[googoodoll]

So I need to bake a chocolate wedding cake...
Any tips or advice?

 

[Azbubu]

Do they know that you're inexperienced in baking?

 

[googoodoll]

Do they know that you're inexperienced in baking?

lol I'm not completely inexperienced. I have baked wedding cake before but this couple wants moist chocolate cake with caramel inside and only buttercream icing on the outside - nothing like normal wedding cake or white icing.

The last chocolate wedding cake I made still had fondant on the outside but just normal icing? I'm not sure what to do...

 

[Azbubu]

Outsource it...

 

[OGroteKoning]

So I need to bake a chocolate wedding cake...
Any tips or advice?

An oven... You'll need an oven... And a mixer :thumbup:

 

[ld13]

The last chocolate wedding cake I made still had fondant on the outside but just normal icing? I'm not sure what to do...

1. Bake a moist chocolate cake with caramel inside.
2. Put butter cream icing on the outside.
3. ????
4. Profit!!!!

The trick with moist chocolate cake is to not bake the cake too much.

 

[googoodoll]

Outsource it...

They're not paying me. I'm just doing it as a favour.

But I still want it to look nice.

I usually put a chocolate collar around the chocolate cakes but I've done that so many times I just want to try something a bit different. Just don't know what.

 

[googoodoll]

1. Bake a moist chocolate cake with caramel inside.
2. Put butter cream icing on the outside.
3. ????
4. Profit!!!!

The trick with moist chocolate cake is to not bake the cake too much.

What to do to make it look as good as it tastes.

 

[ld13]

What to do to make it look as good as it tastes.

Tada:



Otherwise this is always a winner:

 

[Hosehead]

Got any Plastic Icing?

 

[Pooky]

If you are looking for a recipe, this one is very very nice: http://addapinch.com/cooking/2013/01/25/the-best-chocolate-cake-recipe-ever/#.Ugfe0pIwe6M

 

[upup]

If you are looking for a recipe, this one is very very nice: http://addapinch.com/cooking/2013/01/25/the-best-chocolate-cake-recipe-ever/#.Ugfe0pIwe6M

I use about the same recipe, but for icing use cream and caramel mixed. No coffee powder.

 

[Pooky]

I use about the same recipe, but for icing use cream and caramel mixed. No coffee powder.

Yeah the icing on that one is decent but it's really the cake that's damn good.

 

[KalMaverick]

Tip 1: Don't put a 5cm icing layer on it.

That's all I have for now

 

[Hosehead]

I use this recipe but I half the sugar as the yanks have too much sweet tooth. For a wedding cake just drape a rolled sheet of Plastic icing over chilled buttercream icing and straighten it slick then tie formal ribbons and plonk on a pair of plastic Gnomes in a wedding outfit.

http://foodess.com/2011/03/moist-chocolate-cake/

 

[koeksGHT]

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Use a bigger mug

 

[googoodoll]

Tip 1: Don't put a 5cm icing layer on it.

That's all I have for now

But I love icing

 

[googoodoll]

Got any Plastic Icing?

They don't want plastic icing near the cake. That's the biggest problem.

 

[googoodoll]

The recipes look delicious. I'll have to try them each. Twice. Just to make sure if they are any good.

 

[Electric]

Slightly off topic.

The wife and I ordered a chocolate cake with mouse filling.
Unfortunately the baker thought we wanted a cake made of chocolate mouse.

He delivered an entire cake for 200 people made of chocolate mouse.
It proceeded to melt and leave us with a puddle of chocolate.