Section 01 · Wedding Cakes

Couverture Chocolate Wedding Cakes

Not a centrepiece you only admire — the best thing anyone eats that day. Contemporary and modern, sometimes gloriously rustic — always striking. These cakes have a way of surprising guests, stopping conversations mid-sentence. And before the first slice is even cut, deep couverture aromas fill the venue: a quiet, decadent promise of what is to come.

Couverture chocolate petal wedding cake with mixed berries and icing sugar

Signature Dark Couverture chocolate wedding cake

Conical multi-tier dark chocolate swirling ruffle cake with silver jewel brooch accents

Swirling ruffles with silver jewel brooches

Gold edged sculpted couverture chocolate cake with magenta dahlias

Chocolate cake with hand-sculpted flowers and delphiniums

Hand-sculpted chocolate florals

Three-tier dark chocolate cigar cake with clusters of white garden roses and a white lily on each tier, on an ornate silver cake stand in a softly lit venue

Three-tier chocolate cigar cake with white roses

Dark chocolate sculptural wedding cake in moody industrial venue

Contemporary chocolate petal cake

Aerial view of a tiered chocolate tower cake dusted in icing sugar on a silver cake stand

Top view of tiered chocolate tower cake

Cocoa-dusted chocolate cake with sculpted flower and tendrils

Architectural sculpting, cocoa dusting

4 tiered spikey chocolate curl cake with green mums

Tall contemporary chocolate collar cake on silver pedestal with fairy light bokeh

Tall couverture chocolate collar cake with textured detail

Three tiered smooth dark chocolate collar cake, dusted with cocoa, with a dramatic sculpted chocolate leaf-and-bloom explosion and wild chocolate ribbons rising from the surface, on a silver tray

Smooth cocoa dusted chocolate cake with artistic chocolate bloom detail

Three-tier dark chocolate filigree lattice cake with pink roses and blue hydrangeas

Chocolate filigree lattice — three tiers

Four-tier dark chocolate vertical-scroll wedding cake with green sugar crystals, on brass tray with vintage Africa map backdrop

Vertical scrolls, vintage map, brass & velvet

Detail of chocolate bark cascading into sugar-dusted mixed berries

Chocolate bark meet sugared berries

The Craft

Chocolate, not fondant

In a market full of fondant and sugar art, Kanya works exclusively in premium couverture chocolate. Every decorative element you see — the ruffles, the petals, the spirals, the brooches — is sculpted by hand from melted, tempered couverture. There is no sugar paste, no fondant veneer hiding the cake beneath.

The texture you see is the texture you taste. A background in dietetics brings an analytical understanding of how layers interact, how richness balances, how temperature shapes a complete experience. The cake is engineered to be the dessert moment of the day — the thing guests go back for thirds of.

Every competitor is a fondant artist who also does chocolate. I am a chocolate artist, full stop.

Commission Yours

Let’s build something extraordinary

Every wedding cake is a one-off commission designed around the look and feel of your wedding, your palette, and your guest experience — whether you’re serving the cake as a standalone dessert, alongside coffee, as a sweet canapé with MCC just after the ceremony, or as the centrepiece of a cake-cutting high tea. Wedding dates fill quickly — please enquire at least 2–3 months ahead.

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