Chocolate cake instead of traditional fruit cake...

[mum2bubba]

Has anyone had this, was it a big hit at your wedding?

Grant and I don't like fruit cake all that much so we want a chocky cake instead. :chef:

What was the cost? We only want a small wedding so a smallish or medium cake to serve about 20 ppl would be great.

[draught]

We had a fabulous chocolate fudge cake with white ganache and white chocolate bands instead of icing - it fed 90 people plus we had some left over and it cost about $300 from memory - and it meant that we served it with some berries instead of dessert - very yummo!! We decorated it on the day with fresh flowers - it looked great and tasted scrumptious and all the guests loved it.

[mlbmummy]

We are having chocolate mud patty cakes with a chocolate mud cake top tier. There will be 50 patty cakes and the top tier we are going to let all the kids eat the next day as we aren't having any kids at the reception. The patty cakes are doubling as dessert also, saving us $10 per person. It is costing us $240.

[hayles86]

We had the most beautiful and yummy choc cake. I have never had such yummy choc cake in my life. Mine was 2 tiered, with white icing. It was a huge hit. I cant remember how much it costed us though as my mum new a baker and he did it cheap.

[oleander]

I had a 4-tier cake. The bottom 3 were chocolate cake and the top one a fruit cake. The top one was for keeping and cutting on the birth of the first baby or the first wedding anniversary, whichever came first.

[library-laksa]

we had choccie cake and heaps of people commented on how yummy it was :)

[shed]

Yes, we will be having chocolate mud cake, or just chocolate cake.

I loathe fruit cake, yuck.

I think we might be having a buffet so the cake can go at the end of that when the desserts come out. Maybe. Just an idea at the mo.

[jazzak]

yes chocolate cake seems to be the new fruit cake !! so its becomming the new tradition i rekon

I absoulutely hate fruit cake with a passion

we are def having choc cake for our wedding

[BlessedWithBlue]

We had a 3 teir chocolate sponge with white icing filled with chocolate mousse!! and every tier was held up by little gold cherubs with fresh flowers around it. It was soooo yummy!! Ours fed 90 people and cost $350 but the place where we had it made do cakes that start at $50 to feed 30 people. Either choc or vanilla sponge with either fruit, choc mousse, choc cream, jam or pineapple filling. We usually get our kids birthday cakes there too and everyone loves them!!

[~mia&ryan~]

We are having a three tier chocolate mud cake with white overlay!:thumbsup: My ma is making it and it's going to be delicious. I can't stand fruit cake and neither can DF. Everyone we have told thinks its a great idea, even the Grandparent who like fruitcake. Go with what you like.:yes:

[Jif]

you are paying, get what you like!! We had one tier fruit and two tiers choc marble sponge. mmm. All the fruit cake wasn't eaten, everyone wanted sponge:thumbsup:

[JorBai]

We decided we didnt want a fruit cake either as we hate fruit cake. When we first told Mil she freaked out and said what about the oldies and we just said, the wedding is not just for the oldies and there wont be many anyway.

So we had 3 tiers
Bottom- Chocolate
Middle- White Choc
Top- Caramel chocolate.

It was absolutely beautiful and looked devine. My aunty and uncle payed for it as our gift. It was $340 but well worth it. It fed about 100 people.

[imogensmummy2005]

We are having either mud cake or white mud cake for our wedding too, fruit cake is terrible!

[Butterbear]

we had 3 layers

top - fruit (which we kept for later on)
middle - chocolate mud
bottom - whiteand milk choc mud

it went off like a hit!!!!

I was worried when i did it but then i said to myself..... my wedding my decision!:p

[blessedmummy]

we had chocolate mud cake for our wedding cake.. with white icing on it.. two layers i think it was... was very nice! :D

[Kristy07]

We had a Marble mud cake traditionally decorated - everyone loved it! We were still able to save the top teir of the cake and freeze it. We took the 3 teir away to our family holiday (we went to Mooloolaba for a few days with family prior to going on our honeymoon) and everyone there couldnt get enough - they didnt have to buy desert in the restaurants they had dinner in!

[the_original_duchess]

my mum made my wedding cake, it was a small top layer of fruit cake, shaped like a heart, and a huge bottom layeer of choc cake. yummo. ill try to find a pic and post it for you.
the cake (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p304/the_duchess_2006/IMAGE0012.jpg)
the cake and us. (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p304/the_duchess_2006/IMAGE0013.jpg)
my mum is very good at cakes. hope you get the one you like. we are having our vows renued on our 7th anniversary and im having a lamington layer somewhere in there. wanted to be different. and also the centrepeice on each table will be a choc fondue fountain (small one) and platters of strawberries adn all different typs of fruit

[shorty_851]

There is no way i'm having fruit cake at my wedding it will be something else i don't like fruit cake and i know that everyone else in my family and friends would much prefer soemthing else

My mum for her second wedding had a tower of profitor rolls

[Tls5431]

It took us a while, but we decided on a donut stack (it's a three tier donut stack) from dreamy donuts... Donunts are glazed with Lindt chocolate (two stacks of milk and one stack of white)... and it was pooh-poohed by the inlaws, but we like it...

[kiah]

We had a fabulous chocolate fudge cake with white ganache and white chocolate bands instead of icing - it fed 90 people plus we had some left over and it cost about $300 from memory - and it meant that we served it with some berries instead of dessert - very yummo!! We decorated it on the day with fresh flowers - it looked great and tasted scrumptious and all the guests loved it.

oh my god...that sounds a bit yummy...i think i might order one for my next bday....mmmmmm

[H&B'sMum]

I had 3 tiers, bottom layer fruit cake for the "oldies" who wanted it, middle layer Choc mud, because I don't like fruit cake and top layer was fruit cake that we kept and eat with family to celebrate the arrival of Harry.

[katherine]

i had marble choc and white mud cake...... YUMMO

was a big hit too.

[Kizmet]

I hate the biggest tier in chocolate mud, middle tier in white mud and the top tier only for me n dh made of strawbery/ white mud swirl yummo

[Percy]

Im with you. Fruit cake is gross.

We had a two tier cake. Top was white chocolate, bottom was chocolate. It was really nice.

It was around $400.

[SilverStarfish]

We had a three tiered cake, one dark chocolate, one white chocolate, one caramel :thumbsup:

We ordered it though our local "Cheesecake Shop" and it looked (and tasted) devine :yes:

[justrace]

We had a three tier cake, each tier was two layers - one white mud cake and the other choc mud cake.

Two tiers were for the 100 guests and the top tier we took on our honeymoon.

Only $150 from a lady in Frankston. - looked exactly like a cake I saw in a magazine that cost $800+

Now I'm hungry talking about cake :)

[damien's mum]

Yup we had chocolate brownie cake mmmmmm :thumbsup:

[Mum2Bug]

My sis had a choc mud cake and we all enjoyed it much more than we wouldve if it had been a fruit cake

[JATS]

We had a three tiered cake, one dark chocolate, one white chocolate, one caramel :thumbsup:

We ordered it though our local "Cheesecake Shop" and it looked (and tasted) devine :yes:


Same here except we had 2 white choc cakes, one dark and one caramel! Fed 120 guests and there was still heaps left over, not bad for $70!

[borntobemummy]

we had chocolate mud cake too:p It was such a shame, DH and I weren't in the mood for eating that night:rolleyes:

[spoon]

We had the most beautiful cake ever. it is called a crochenbouche (spelling?) and it is basically pofiteroles filled with hazlenut custart and choc custard. It is then dipped in toffee and spun with toffee. We went to a lovely little italian pattiserie in Haberfield NSW (Italian Captial) and they made it for us. Everyone RAVED about it! Plus it doubled as a dessert

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r17/allilovespete/cake.jpg

[ogilberry]

we had a cheescake shop mudcake ( a huge square one) with white choclate over it. i had red roses so i draped some red roses and vine over it and had a rich burgundy and gold ribbon around the base of it. it looks stunning simple and elegant.

it looks the same anyway as you cant tell what is underneath the icing/marzipan and i figured at least it would get eaten. most people dont really like fruit cake.

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[M~T~J~M]

We had a two tier cake - bottom layer was mars bar mud cake, and top layer was choc ripple mud. It had white chocolate pieces around it. Both layers were absolutely yummo!!

[Moorish]

I make celebration, Christening, birthday and wedding cakes as a hobby and I've done both fruit or choc mud or a combo of both. The one I'm doing now is a 6 inch fruit, a 10 inch fruit to cut, and 70 x 5cm individual choc mud cakes. All to be displayed. The guests have some fruit cake at the reception and they get to take home an individual cake to take home in a lovely little box.

I say go with what you like - most people will have whatever is served - even the oldies like mud cake!

[spoon]

Wow Anna, I just looked at your website, you are VERY talented!!!!!

Good luck honey!!!! I think you could definatley make some money, i would rather go to you to make our cakes than the bakers around here.

[Fitmumma]

we had choccie cake and heaps of people commented on how yummy it was :)


Same here, my mum made ours (she is agreat cake maker), it was called death by chocolate, four years on our friends still talk about how yummo it was:yes: If you ate too much it probably would kill ya:laughing: ....So rich....but oh so delicious:D

[OopsieDaisy]

We had a chocolate fudge cake with the white icing!
It was soooo yummy, a moist choc mud cake which was covered in a layer of fudge then the icing :thumbsup:

[mummyof5]

I had a medieval wedding, so our cake was shaped like a castle. It was mostly choc mud, but the little battlement on the top (think thats what you call it, anyway:confused: ) was fruit for my olds and his olds. My mum does not eat mud cake, so I thought it only fair they got to eat cake too. Shame I don't have a pic on this computer or I'd show you, the lady did a fantastic job, even painted the cake board up to look like a moat and painted the royal icing up in browns and greys...it looked so real!!!
Everyone was blown away!:thumbsup:

[Niki]

we are having a 3 tier mud cake with strwaberrys dipped in chocolate around it, its costing about $100