Recipes Desserts Cake Chocolate Cake 20 Crave-Inducing Chocolate Cakes By Food & Wine Editors Updated on October 20, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Justin Walker These incredible chocolate cake recipes include cocoa, dark chocolate, ganache, custard, and crumbs. From a silky, triple-layer cake to a moist Austrian torte, there's a chocolaty cake here to celebrate, entertain, or make your day. 01 of 20 Triple-Layer Sour Cream Chocolate Cake Nicole Franzen This magnificent cake has three layers of moist, tender chocolate with a hint of cinnamon and a silky chocolate ganache. Get the Recipe 02 of 20 Chocolate Blackout Cake Pastry star Gale Gand layers her phenomenal, high-rising cake with an intensely chocolaty custard and coats it with cake crumbs. Get the Recipe 03 of 20 Milk-Chocolate-Frosted Layer Cake This cake from Karina Gowing is perfection for anyone who loves frosting. The ultracreamy icing, which is almost like a milk-chocolate ganache, gets spread liberally over layers of light, delicate, cocoa-flavored cake. Get the Recipe 04 of 20 Mom's Chocolate Cake This is a real old-fashioned American chocolate layer cake. It's very moist, very chocolaty, a snap to make and best baked the day before serving. Marcia Kiesel acquired the recipe from her friend Joyce Cole, who got it from her mother. Get the Recipe 05 of 20 Chocolate Cake Dutch-process cocoa and buttermilk give this fluffy cake its texture and savory flavor. Garnish the cake by sifting confectioners' sugar and cocoa on top, and serve 10 in about an hour. Get the Recipe 06 of 20 Sacher Torte Sacher torte is a classic Austrian chocolate cake layered with apricot preserves. Lidia Bastianich's version uses the preserves three ways: for moistening the cake layers, as a thick filling between the layers and as a glaze to seal the cake before covering it in chocolate. The cake is moist and luscious on its own, but it's also delicious served the traditional way, with unsweetened whipped cream. Get the Recipe 07 of 20 Chocolate-Red Wine Cake © Frances Janisch A recipe in Anne Willan's 2001 Cooking with Wine inspired this fluffy, not-too-sweet cake, which uses just enough wine in the batter to give it a slight boozy flavor. Get the Recipe 08 of 20 Applesauce-Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake Kristin Donnelly is devoted to her mother's one-bowl Bundt cake because of its clove and cinnamon spices and its simplicity. As an exchange student in France, she even paid top dollar for chocolate chips and applesauce at an American market to make it for her host family. Today she adds a kick of black pepper to the batter and serves each slice with a cool-sour dollop of crème fraîche. Get the Recipe 09 of 20 Deep Dark Chocolate Coconut Cake Feeling blue? Have a slice of this cake. The chocolate and yogurt it's made with can supposedly boost levels of the feel-good brain chemical tyrosine. Get the Recipe 10 of 20 Molten Chocolate Cake with Marshmallow Filling More decadent than molten chocolate cake: one filled with warm marshmallow, reveals former F&W editor Grace Parisi. Get the Recipe 11 of 20 Fudgy Chocolate Layer Cake © Hans Gissinger Andrew Shotts is known for making his chocolates in small batches, creating appealing flavor combinations like mango pâte de fruit (jellied fruit paste) with passion fruit ganache. Here, he applies his talents to chocolate cake, mixing lots of buttermilk and coffee into the batter to create an incredibly moist, rich, and fudgy dessert. Get the Recipe 12 of 20 Double-Chocolate Bundt Cake with Ganache Glaze © Quentin Bacon Many Bundt cakes are heavy and buttery, but this one is surprisingly light and incredibly moist under its silky chocolate glaze. Strong-brewed coffee in the batter intensifies the chocolate flavor while cutting the sweetness. Get the Recipe 13 of 20 Toffee Almond Crunch Cake With its layers of tender chocolate cake and chocolaty sour cream frosting, this dessert on its own is completely spectacular. But Patti Dellamonica-Bauler takes it one step further by covering it in toasted almonds and crushed toffee candy. Get the Recipe 14 of 20 Mini Chocolate-Hazelnut Cheesecakes © Fredrika Stjärne Grace Parisi breaks up whole, cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies in a food processor with hazelnuts and butter to create a supercrunchy crust for these delectable little cheesecakes. The cream filling in the cookies both sweetens the crust and prevents it from becoming too crumbly. Get the Recipe 15 of 20 Triple-Layer Chocolate Macaroon Cake © Anna Williams François Payard layers chewy coconut cake with silky chocolate ganache. The beauty of the recipe is its simplicity: It has only six ingredients. Get the Recipe 16 of 20 Warm Double-Chocolate Brownie Cakes Brownie meets cake in this fun dessert from Emily Luchetti, a cookbook author and pastry chef. She bakes the batter in muffin cups so the edges turn crispy and chewy like a brownie, but the inside becomes soft and fluffy like a cake. Get the Recipe 17 of 20 Double-Chocolate Layer Cake "This is the most fabulous chocolate cake that I've ever made," says Ina Garten, host of Food Network's Barefoot Contessa. "It's so easy and so moist and light. There's buttermilk and a cup of coffee in the batter! The frosting is just buttercream and a little coffee." Get the Recipe 18 of 20 Marble Cake with Chocolate Frosting © Yunhee Kim This layer cake recipe combines moist, spongy cake and frosting that's a perfect balance between sweet and buttery. Get the Recipe 19 of 20 Chocolate Cream Squares This super-rich dessert contains chocolate whipped cream between layers of bittersweet chocolate cake topped with a fudgy chocolate glaze. It's best made one day ahead and refrigerated overnight. Get the Recipe 20 of 20 Red Wine Chocolate Snack Cake Justin Walker We all cook with red wine, adding a glug or two to enrich pan sauces and stews. Here, our culinary director Justin Chapple makes the case for baking with it as well. Cabernet Sauvignon adds fruity notes that brighten this chocolate cake, which is great for a midday snack or casual dessert. Get the Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit