My SIL wants part of her wedding cake to be a flourless chocolate cake. I have no idea if this will work or not. I'm thinking if I were to do this the bottom tier would have to be flourless because of the weight. I've never attempted a 14 inch flourless choc. cake, and a non-springform pan as well.
Anybody have any success (or failures for that matter) that could help me? My thought was to do the cake in funfetti (her other flavor of choice 
) and just do sheetcakes of flourless choc. enrobed in ganache. I think it'd be easier and taste better than if it were frosted in buttercream anyway.
Thanks in advance for the tips!
I've only been trying to decorate for my family for the last year here, so please keep my lack of experience in mind when reading my post 
Rose Levy Beranbaum's Art Deco Cake in her Cake Bible is two layers (only a 6 and a 10) of her Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte (just eggs, butter and chocolate, very creamy but when refrigerated quite firm) covered with fondant. Here's a link to a thread on another discussion board where the poster made the cake, different decoration. There's a picture of the picture of the RLB cake, in addition to her own of course
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=74179
I'd prefer your ganache idea better for taste. I tried the torte and used MMF to cover, and it was ok.
Omg--I wonder who is this K8memphis is that Deborah mentions in her egullet post that Joyful links to??!! 
I'm the same name everywhere.
Too funny! What are the chances? (or are you that prolific of a poster? )
I've read a few threads on egullet but haven't taken the time to read through the sponsor/participant...distinctions and what allows one to post. 
It has been really exciting to find these communities - very helpful!
Yeppers that's me.
And I think you'll do fine with that cake.
I haven't made a large tier of that recipe before but an idea for you is to use a can as a baking core. That would be something I would try for a large flourless cake--I'd remove the top and bottom of the can and make it the right size for the pan. For example use a large cofffee can in a 14" cake -- that is what I'd try. And I would test it in advance of doing the cake too to see if it works ok. Just a thought for you.
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