Using Chocolate Cake For A Wedding Cake
Decorating By megglappa Updated 28 May 2011 , 8:56pm by jade8
Just wondering if anyone can help me...
I've just been commissioned to do a wedding cake (my first one) and have been asked for it to be chocolate cake. I have heard however that chocolate cake is not very good at being stacked on top of each other, is this true? and
If it is has anyone got any tips that could help me please
Thanks
xxx 
I use the Hershey recipe too, and I've stacked it many times with no problem. I do substitute sour cream for the 1 cup of milk, and it makes it a little more firm. You can stack any cake (or Jello, as IndyDebi says) as long as you have a good structural support. Another chocolate recipe that I used before I settled on the Hershey recipe was the Amazing Chocolate WASC recipe, which is also good. HTH!
.............heard...that chocolate cake is not very good at being stacked ... is this true?...........
I baffels me as to how such MISinformation get around 
NO - it's NOT true!
If it were I dare say some 1/3 of all wedding cakes would not have survived. Chocolate cake is often used in wedding cakes. Haven't you watched any of the tv programs about cake? Like Cake Boss; Ultimate Cake-off etc and seen how many of them use chocolate cakes?
If you use my *original* WASC recipe using chocolate cake mix you will have a very moist, dense cake that will stack beautifully.
I have made a many of stacked chocolate cakes, wedding, anniversary and birthday. All the recipes mentioned in previous post are absolutely wonderful. I only have problems with crumb coating, keeping the chocolate crumbs from bleeding thru the frosting.
I've never had a problem stacking chocolate cake. I highly recommend reading the SPS thread on this site. You can stack anything with these plates.
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-603925.html
Also, my favorite chocolate cake recipe is actually not from scratch. Scratch cakes to me always dry out faster, and that can be a problem if you need to make it ahead of time which sometimes happens with wedding cakes.
Cake Doctor's Buttermilk Devil's Food Cake is (for me) the moistest, best chocolate cake around. I get raves on it. If you want the recipe, PM me!
Just wondering if anyone can help me...
I've just been commissioned to do a wedding cake (my first one) and have been asked for it to be chocolate cake. I have heard however that chocolate cake is not very good at being stacked on top of each other, is this true? and
If it is has anyone got any tips that could help me please
Thanks
xxx
This made me laugh. Really? Why? Use the right supports and you can stack anything.
I used to say search CC, but lately you can't get past the first page of searching on here. So that won't help you. But I strongly suggest using the SPS system.
I suggest and advise you to practice with all kinds of cake recipes and flavors. It might just be me, but I find I can learn more by doing this with my recipes to see how they to work. Maybe you can make a couple of cakes to give away and then stack and unstack them before you give them away just to get the practice and see how your recipes work.
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