There are many options for cakes with a rich Chocolaty appearance. Frostings include:

Chocolate Ganache: a rich truffle covering that is poured over the cake giving the cake a smooth, shiny appearance. You can also pipe intricate designs with ganache or paint on ganache with sugar dust.

Chocolate Fudge: a thick ganache that is spread over the cake to create various styles of textured surfaces. This can be done with dark chocolate, milk chocolate, hazelnut chocolate and white chocolate.

Chocolate Buttercream: Traditional Italian meringue buttercream flavored with dark, milk or white chocolate to the flavor and color desired. Buttercream can be frosted smooth or textured.

Chocolate Fondant: A very smooth covering made from sugar paste and chocolate. This has a very sophisticated looked that can be made in shades of chocolate from creamy white to extra dark chocolate.

Many flavors of cake are compatible with chocolate frostings. A few of our favorite combinations include:

Chocolate butter cake with peanut butter mousse

Chocolate butter cake with chocolate mousse and raspberry preserves

Chocolate sponge cake with Jack Daniels mousse

Chocolate sponge cake with raspberry mousse

Coconut cake with spiced rum Bavarian cream

Orange Chiffon with Grand Marnier Bavarian Cream

Peanut butter cake with chocolate mousse

Vanilla butter cake with vanilla custard and fresh strawberries