This simple royal wedding cake only needs five ingredients to make and can be made gluten free and dairy free! It's the perfect elegant royal cake for the holidays and more with buttery biscuits and a rich chocolate ganache! Best of all it only needs five ingredients and no baking is required!
Royal Beginnings...
As a child, I can remember my Mom watching Princess Diana and Prince Charles get married. I dreamed of having a wedding like that in a huge church!
Reality hit pretty quick as I got older. I realized dresses and heels were overrated and I'd rather have a beach wedding than a big expensive wedding. But I won't lie that my intrigue with royal life and psychology has remained a little through the years.
I may also still love Kate's wedding dress to this day. It's still one of my top favorite dresses.
The Dates
William and Kate were engaged on November 16, 2010 and were married on April 29, 2011.
The Cakes...
Is there ever a thing as too much cake? Not really!
William and Kate's served an eight tier fruitcake:
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And then there was this chocolate biscuit cake which was served as the groom's cake:
I truly tried to make mine look that beautiful but I have a history of cakes that lean, cakes that can be stretched and pulled like rubber, and popular cakes gone wrong like this Toy Story cake aka my first attempt at fondant.
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Chocolate Biscuit Cake Ingredients
Simplifying has been my go to when making cakes. The Royal Collection Trust recently released the recipe for William and Kate's Chocolate Biscuit Cake and when I saw it only had FIVE ingredients I thought I could totally do this!
BUT could it be made gluten free and dairy free?
That took a little more work and while it didn't turn out as pretty as the original, it still turned out pretty good! The ingredient list is simple:
- Dairy free dark chocolate: You can use Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Chips that are found easily at grocery, health food stores or on Amazon or Dark Chocolate Gourmet bars (the coconut milk or oat milk varieties are the most appropriate for this recipe).
- Dairy free whipping cream: We used Silk dairy free whipping cream for this recipe. We found it at our local health food store.
- Butter: You are welcome to use any dairy free butter.
- Caster Sugar: Caster sugar is a little different than regular sugar. It's much more fine granulated sugar. It can be found at grocery stores or other specialty grocery stores.
- Tea Biscuits: Gluten free tea biscuits can be a little tricky to find. Schar has the most traditional looking and tasting gluten free tea biscuits. For this recipe we were able to find Nairns Biscuits at our local health food store.
William and Kate Chocolate Biscuit Wedding Cake (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
Equipment
- 8 x 8 inch round baking pan
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 1 cup (225 gm) gluten free tea biscuits see notes
- ½ cup (115 gm) dairy free butter
- ½ cup (115 gm) caster sugar
- ½ cup (115 gm) chopped dairy free dark chocolate (at least 53% cocoa) see notes
- 2 tbsp warm water or dairy free whipping cream
For the Ganache:
- ⅔ cup (125 gm) dairy free dark chocolate, chopped see notes
- ⅓ cup (125 gm) dairy free whipping cream
Instructions
For the Cake:
- Prepare the baking pan by lightly greasing the pan. Measure and place the parchment paper to fit the bottom of the baking pan.
- Break the tea biscuits into bite sized pieces about 1-2cm in size. Note: You do not want to make the biscuits into crumbs.
- melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a simmering bowl of water.
- While the chocolate is melting, whip the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. (Note: if using dairy free butter, you can soften/melt (see video--the butter will be part melted and part softened), then stir the melted chocolate and sugar into it. Dairy free butter doesn't really become light and fluffy very easily and I found this to be a bit easier to manage with the dairy free butter.
- Once the chocolate is melted, pour the chocolate onto the butter and sugar mixture and stir thoroughly. Stir in the water and broken biscuit pieces. Stir the mixture well so all the biscuits are covered in the chocolate mixture.
- Pour the mixture into the cake pan and lightly but firmly press it into the pan evenly.
- Place the cake into the fridge to allow it to set up. Chill until the chocolate becomes firm, about 30 minutes.
To Prepare the Ganache:
- To make the ganache, pour the dairy free whipping cream and chopped chocolate into a saucepan.
- Place the saucepan over medium low heat on the stove and simmer. Carefully stir the mixture until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Remove the ganache from the stove, turn off heat and get ready to assemble the cake.
To Assemble the Cake:
- remove the cake from the refrigerator and place on a wire rack with a tray beneath it to catch the excess ganache.
- pour the ganache over the cake and smooth with a knife, allowing the excess ganache to drip off the sides of the cake. Smooth the sides of the cake with a knife to evenly distribute the ganache.
- Allow the ganache to set for several minutes before decorating. To decorate add tea biscuits, shaved chocolate, drizzled chocolate, etc to the top. We decorated ours with a couple of tea biscuits, chocolate shavings and an additional drizzling of ganache.
Video
Notes
- Dairy free dark chocolate: You can use Enjoy Life Dark Chocolate Chips that are found easily at grocery, health food stores or on Amazon or Dark Chocolate Gourmet bars (the coconut milk or oat milk varieties are the most appropriate for this recipe).
- Dairy free whipping cream: We used Silk dairy free whipping cream for this recipe. We found it at our local health food store.
- Butter: You are welcome to use any dairy free butter.
- Caster Sugar: Caster sugar is a little different than regular sugar. It's much more fine granulated sugar. It can be found at grocery stores or other specialty grocery stores.
- Tea Biscuits: Gluten free tea biscuits can be a little tricky to find. Schar has the most traditional looking and tasting gluten free tea biscuits. For this recipe we were able to find Nairns Biscuits at our local health food store.
Recipe adapted from Royal Collection Trust Baking conversions adapted from AnnaOlson.ca
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