Right from the start, my mum and me wanted to make my wedding cake. I suppose this was because of the astronomical prices of wedding cakes, we like baking and it seems more personal.
This has meant much research, a little bit of baking and the fun part, tasting. But the ones we'd made so far didn't seem right. They were too dense, too sickly - I had visions of tipsy people throwing up into the posh hotel plant-pots! This is especially important as I'm serving the wedding cake as a dessert in the evening, not in the day.
But then my mum found the recipe for the 'most amazing cake ever'! And I'm calling it that because I held a taste-test at school in my office.............and that's what every single person who tried it called it!
Now, I thought it only fair to share so have tried to add a link just above this post. However, as my links never seem to work, I'll probably end up adding it in the comments box below!
The recipe is from the BBC Good Food website and has lots of helpful comments from other people at the bottom. I'm planning on having a fruit tier and then all the others as chocolate as it was so amazing and we're serving a lemon dessert in the day.
Honestly, the chocolate recipe is worth making for a birthday or other celebration as it's so delightful!
I'm off to eat the last piece (oh, OK, two pieces!).
