Double Chocolate Wedding Cake
This cake has Joy the Baker written all over it. Why? It’s simple. It’s chocolate all over. It has natural elements that lend a hint of color, and quirky chocolate flowers that add a touch of light-hearted fun. And the cake isn’t perfect- it has stroke marks and rough sides. Wedding cakes these days are flawless. Obviously that’s not my style. I think this cake, even with all of it’s imperfections, is absolutely perfect. I spent about two days putting this cake together, and by the time I was done, I was absolutely smitten with it. Big time cake crush.
This cake (on day two I named him Sir Chocolate Monster) was requested for a ten year wedding anniversary and vow renewal. Ten years! Something about that struck me…
I think it all started with the engagement cake I made a few weeks ago, coupled with the fact that it’s wedding season, and I feel surrounded by old high school friends either planning their weddings or planning their baby showers. But ten years!!! I had to take a moment and let that sit with me. Ten years!
I realize that some of you who have been married twenty and thirty years are laughing at me. I know… I’m to young too understand, or something.
What I’m trying to tell you, in all of this, is that I really enjoyed making this cake. It feels special. Special that two people stay together and love each other for ten years. Special that after ten years they want to stop and tell each other again how they promise to love and cherish and take out the trash, blahblahblah. It’s just special, and I’m so glad I could be a part of it in this small way.
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Oh Joy, it is gorgeous. The icing (frosting) just calls for me to swipe my finger through it and promptly stick it in my mouth. Please save me a piece it looks devine. Will you be able to get a photo of it cut, I would love to see the moist chocolatey inside?
Cakes, thoughts, wedding … i wish this one was filed under recipes, too!
I _love_ baking cakes and i do strive for perfection (though i’m struggling because the only thing that seems to promise perfection is fondant and i think that thing shouldn’t even exist! ;)), but some cakes need those “imperfections” to be perfect and this one defenitely is one of them, it says love rather than impersonal polished look. Well done! Now, about that recipe … 
that’s a gorgeous cake! i love the flowers - and the white chocolate strawberries.
Wow - this looks gorgeous! Those strawbs are fab! Hx
Absolutely gorgeous cake. Love the strawberry/chocolate combo. You know…? My 1 year anniversary is coming up… HAHA!
Absolutely stunning! I wish I could take a pastry/baking class with you because your simple decorations are what I strive to learn. Plus, the execution of your cakes is flawless.
Wow! That chocolate cake looks amazing. I am constantly impressed with your skills!!
The cake looks delicious, I am dying now to hve chocolate cake…
As always - its just gorgeous! I’m going to call you in 8 1/2 years and you can do MY ten year anniversary cake, ok?!
Great post! I think I have a crush on Sir Chocolate Monster too! This July marks 10 years with my husband too. It is so funny to me that you wrote this because I was trying to convince him that we should have a party and he thought I was making it up and that people don’t have parties for 10th anniversaries! Proof - ha! Thanks Joy!
Beautiful! The icing looks so good, I’ve got a crush on this cake too:)
Hi Joy,
I just found your blog yesterday and I have to say….WOW! It’s just fantastic. I am drooling over your photos (and recipes!). If you don’t mind me asking….what kind of camera do you use? I look at your photos and want to make, and eat everything I see. I’m so glad I found you!
I love your simple an rustic style…beautiful!
Oh my Joy, its gorgeous. I wish I could fly you in to do our 10 year cake. Maybe I will, its 3 years away..
stunning!
I’m with you Joy, perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I hate perfectly decorated cakes that taste like nothing and are covered in decorations that aren’t edible or are edible, but you wouldn’t want to eat them. This cake is HOT and the celebrating couple, were lucky to have found you!
OK, I really did just burn my dinner because I can’t get off your blog. LOVE it! Hope you don’t mind me hanging around.
And this cake **sigh**, you should be very proud of it.
That is beautiful! Will you make my wedding cake?!
that is a beautiful cake and a beautiful post. there is something too fake-looking and not-so-good-tasting about those flawless cakes. i would much rather look at and eat this one!
Love your cake, it’s really beautiful, and refreshing to see a tempting chocolate cake instead of all the RFM ones, that are usually made for these ocasions. Great written post, I too am overwhelmed when I see a couple married for a long time and still so in love with eachother.
I want a piece of that for breakfast. YUM!
It’s beautiful. Way back when I married, one just didn’t “do” choclate cake at a wedding, but I’m kinda stubborn so we had chocolate with raspberry filling, but the obligatory white frosting. It was still beautiful and tasty and not cardboard - but yours, is so deliciously chocolate. . .With that wonderful frosting. . .and I LOVE the decorations. We are doing our 25 year vow renewals a year from August, and I’m keeping a picture of your cake. . .
Love love love love it
Absolutely stunning cake, Joy! People aren’t flawless and cakes shouldn’t be either. Flawlessness is an illusion, one that’s usually accomplished in cakes through use of things that sacrifice taste for appearance. I’d MUCH rather eat your frosting, stroke marks and all, than flawless-looking but taste-deficient fondant! Cheers to you!
I love this. Its refreshing to see cakes these days not made with fondant. It’s beautiful.
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wow. if you were in NY I’d want you to do my wedding cake!