Chocolate wedding cakes aren’t as obvious as the typical fruitcake alternative. However, this only offers you more licence to make something truly unique for your big day. This post presents some suggestions for possible alternatives to the traditional wedding cake.
Even though having a chocolate version might appear to be quite a sophisticated option when compared with traditional cakes for weddings, they allow you a great chance to express your imagination and create amazing designs for chocolate cakes. Growing numbers of partners have been abandoning tradition to create extraordinary cakes that everybody can enjoy and that are just as unique as you are.
Chocolate Sculptures
Chocolate sculpture is a real art form that not many patisseries have perfected. It is based on sculpted images made from chocolate. Since chocolate sculpting is only done by hand, without a guide or mould, you’ll be able to request the most exquisite designs for your chocolate sculptures
Croquembouche
If you are looking for an alternative to the standard wedding cake, then you could opt for a Croquembouche (or Piece Mont©e), one of the many conventional French wedding desserts. Croquembouche is a delicious tower (frequently reaching 4ft or even more!) consisting of hundreds of profiteroles. In the past, the French visitors that came to the wedding took with them sweet breads that were set up into the same shape as a tower. The bride and groom would traditionally kiss over it in order to have a successful future. Nowadays, these conventional chocolate wedding cakes are specially created for the occasion and they have different hues, designs and flavours.
Individual chocolate cakes
Dimension is not everything. The new trend in chocolate wedding cakes is a beautiful arrangement of smaller sized cakes that will make your wedding party appear more sophisticated. In case you choose tiers of compact chocolate wedding cakes you will be able to decorate them and accessorise them however you please. Furthermore, it is best to have a larger version of the more compact wedding cakes if you wish to cut one together with your spouse.
Tiny chocolate cakes are not just beautiful, but on top of that very practical and versatile. Save on the mess of cutting your entire cake into individual portions and provide your friends with miniature versions in a range of colours, flavours and styles too!
Flavours
If you appreciate the concept of chocolate flavoured cakes, you may think the question of flavour is a fairly obvious one: “Chocolate!”. Nevertheless, chocolate itself has many flavours that can impress and astound you. Chocolate wedding cakes that are uniquely flavoured are truly in trend right now and the most impressive ones taste like chilli, champagne, espresso, Seville orange, Morello cherry and many more. For spring chocolate wedding cakes, floral flavours are especially popular with rose, lavender and orange-blossom taking centre stage.
