Last weekend was my sister-in-laws wedding and I couldn’t have been more excited! When we arrived at my mother-in-laws on Wednesday evening, it felt just like Christmas, with all the excitement and anticipation of the big day. There’s something really special about a family wedding. I was over the moon to be asked to do the cake and when the design was chosen I was really pleased to discover that it was something different to anything I had attempted before.
The cake was 4 tiers, the bottom tier was rocky road, the next tier up was lemon and poppyseed and the top 2 layers were fruit cake. The rocky road layer proved to be extremely popular and I don’t think I have ever received so many requests for a recipe! It has appeared on here before (I had it for the bottom tier of my wedding cake) but I have adapted it so that it is nut free. For the 12″ cake I used about 2.5 times the recipe:
Chocolate Biscuit Cake (adapted from Boutique Baking by Peggy Porschen)
Makes 24-32 slices
200g unsalted butter
600g plain chocolate, chopped
50g dark chocolate, chopped
6 tbsp golden syrup
300g Rich Tea biscuits, roughly broken
150g glacier cherries roughly chopped
100g mini pink and white marshmallows
Line a 20cm square tin with greaseproof paper.
Place the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a bowl and melt gently in the microwave. In a separate bowl mix the remaining ingredients. Add to the melted chocolate mixture and stir well until fully combined.
Pour into the tin and spread it out evenly, Leave to chill in the fridge until set. Take out the tin, cut into slices and eat!
Each flower for the cake was made using flower sugar paste and coloured to match the flowers for the wedding. I lost count of how many flowers I cut out and how many pearls I glued into the centre with edible glue and a pair of tweezers. It took a while to do, but it was very therapeutic!
Once the flowers had been finished and had dried and the cakes had been assembled it was time to stick the flowers on. I did this using some royal icing in a piping bag and some tweezers.
With the cake placed next to the wedding flowers, the colours really did look gorgeous together. The whole day was perfect from start to finish. Huge congratulations to Mr and Mrs Berry!
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