Real flowers will work with all types of cake, though wouldn’t ideally sit on the satin icing of a chocolate cake.They can be used on the top tier of a layered cake or a small display placed in between each tier - perhaps hiding the pillars to create the illusion of each tier sitting on a bunch of flowers.
Edible Flowers can be made from chocolate or standard icing and can be used to decorate the sides of a cake as well as the top.Consider flowers made in the same colour as the rest of the cake to create a timeless, tasteful look. Don’t worry about combining flowers made with standard icing with a chocolate Wedding cake - your guests will be so impressed that they will easily forget the fact that the two taste different to one another.
Chocolate curls give a beautifully contemporary feel to any chocolate cake.With this design, the icing can be omitted if you wish, alternatively your cake maker will apply a sticky ganache sauce over the icing to attach the curls.Chocolate curls come in white, milk, dark or marbled chocolate, however it may be best to team them with a chocolate cake than a regular sponge. Cholocate curls can also be used in conjunction with some of the other suggestions here - particularly flowers (edible or fresh), fruit or chocolates.
Fresh fruit is suitable for most cakes however it works exceptionally well with chocolate.This could be because of the resulting taste, but more likely it is the fact that creamy white chocolate or the warm tones of milk or dark chocolate work work well visually with fruit, be they berries, cherries, oranges etc.
