Chocolate Cake Decorating

A rich chocolate cake with  Chocolate Cake Decorating  is an enduring favourite that will forever be requested from bakers and cake decorators.  So we’ve put together a selection of some of the most stand-out chocolate cake designs plus tutorials to inspire your chocolate cake decorating.
The stunning creation (top left) by Jesica Vu takes a tall, cube-shaped chocolate cake and sets it off with a giant statement sugar peony to create a masterpiece in cake art. (You’ll find a peony tutorial on our Chocolate Cake Decorating page here.)
Jacqueline Butler of PetalSweat, one of the worlds most admired sugar flower experts, has created a smooth and chic chocolate cake above right, accessorised with a show-stopping splash of purple anemones and stephanotis blossoms for a super stylish luxe chocolate cake. (Check out the PetalSweet blog above for more details on Jacqueline’s international teaching dates. In the meantime, you will find an anemone tutorial here from the UK’s Tasha’s Tasty Treats and a Chocolate Cake Decorating here.)
While sugar flowers have traditionally been paired with white iced cakes, the cake trend setters above have proven that chocolate is one of the best canvases for showcasing amazing sugar floristry.

Double-barrel cakes have been a huge design trend for the last while in iced cake decorating and the trend has crossed over into chocolate cake decorating too. We have two fabulous “tall-boy” chocolate cakes below from Sweden’s.  Chocolate wedding cake expert, alopaku.blogspot.com shows you how to decorate a cake with a chocolate wrap in this tutorial here: Chocolate Cake Decorating

Chocolate shards add a terrific dramatic effect to any chocolate creation whether in dark chocolate or white.

Chocolate superstars Choccywoccydoodah never fail to impress with their chocolate fantasy cakes. The design below left features a abstract sculpture of white chocolate fans resting on a cake finished with their signature dripping ganache effect.


Chocolate curls fashioned into a chocolate ruffle corsage create a beautiful cake top decoration.
Below right is another exquisite chocolate dessert idea with modelling chocolate rolled extra thin, then wrapped around a mini chocolate cake with the surplus bunched together at the top .

More exquisite chocolate cake decorating ideas below with a multitude of chocolate roses for the ultimate in chocolate cake luxury.
The chocolate roses can be piped with chocolate buttercream or chocolate ganache or can be hand-made from modelling chocolate.

San Franciso’s famed pastry have created one of the most simple, but most elegant chocolate cakes of the last few years – their iconic “Tomboy” cake below with a swirl of pink buttercream and a single sugar rose.

The popular baking blog lemon sugar have featured the scumptious Chocolate Cake Decorating idea below – the “hot chocolate cake” covered in lashings of creamy chocolate ganache and topped with a cocoa-dusted stack of home-made marshmallows.


Two more ultra chic chocolate cake decorating ideas below – a showy chocolate bow created with chocolate transfer acetate sheets in milk and dark chocolate (image via Tumblr) and an über-elegant chocolate seal monogram petit four via Once Wed. 

A quick and simple chocolate cake decorating technique is to use a cake stencil placed over your cake and then dust with icing sugar.
The beautiful cake decoration on the right was created with a lace cake stenci.

The chocolate cake creates a dramatic backdrop to highlight the delicate beauty of the lace and the crowning sugar corsage.