Chocolate wedding cakes are unusual, but they make your guests really happy. These chocolate wedding cake ideas include some that are totally chocolate, plus some that have chocolate details. I made all of these for different clients, and I hope that they give you a little wedding cake inspiration for your own celebration.
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Chocolate buttercream basketweave.
This chocolate cake with a piped buttercream basketweave was a cute addition to a small family reception. It had sugared fruit, white chocolate covered strawberries, and a vintage cake topper that was a family keepsake.
Chocolate buttercream and ribbons.
This chocolate cake had chocolate buttercream, plus chocolate clay ribbons and chocolate bows. The tiers were square and slightly offset to create a spiral effect.
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Chocolate cake on the inside.
A chocolate wedding cake doesn’t have to be chocolate on the outside. A chocolate cake on the inside won’t show through the icing, and you can have chocolate cake with different fillings on each tier if you want to.
Click here to see an article about chocolate cake filling combinations, and my recipe for chocolate fudge cake.
Chocolate clay stripes.
This cake had a chocolate wrap with white chocolate and dark chocolate stripes. You do this very carefully, it takes time to make a wrap that large, but it creates a really nice-looking and unique design.
Alternating white and brown tiers.
This four-tiered wedding cake had alternating tiers with chocolate and vanilla buttercream with piped designs, plus fondant pearls around the base of the tiers.
Pink and brown polka dots.
This cake had pink and brown polka dots with vanilla and chocolate dots and icing on the tiers. It matched the pink and brown dot design scheme for the wedding reception.
Pink flowers and chocolate icing.
This chocolate-iced buttercream cake was covered with fondant flowers in shades of pink. It matched the pink and chocolate brown color scheme, and it was a unique way to bring chocolate into the wedding reception.
Chocolate leaves and gold dust.
This cake was covered with chocolate leaves that were molded, then dusted with gold luster dust to give them a shine and enhance the veining. This is a nice alternative to fondant if you don’t want buttercream or fondant.
Chocolate and purple flowers.
This 5-tiered wedding cake had chocolate icing, a chocolate fondant drape, chocolate shavings, and purple gumpaste flowers in a cascade down the side of the cake.
Chocolate and blue.
This 5-tiered wedding cake alternated dark chocolate and light blue icing, with alternating piped buttercream designs on each tier.
Tall chocolate tiers with red candy clay.
This tall chocolate cake had red candy clay ribbons at the base of each tier, plus gumpaste flowers, including large red peonies.
Chocolate ganache and truffle.
This delicious little cake has chocolate truffle icing and chocolate ganache dripped on the tiers. I covered the strawberries in more ganache to add to the look. This isn’t a typical wedding cake, but it’s the kind of wedding cake that makes guests very excited for eating it. They won’t be skipping this one.
Chocolate brown and blue.
This is a popular color combination, and this wedding cake used both colors in a way that isn’t typical of wedding cakes. The blue buttercream had chocolate piping, and there were chocolate clay bands at the bottom of each tier.
Blue and brown with gumpaste flowers.
I made this design several times with different flower combinations because it was such a pretty cake. The icing was a light blue buttercream, and the chocolate clay bands at the base of tiers also had a thin white line of icing piped around the top of each band. The gumpaste flowers and leaves added some color to the cake, and the square tiers made it modern.
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