DIY Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake with Cherry Mascarpone Frosting: from-scratch layers, a luscious whipped cream frosting … Happy Valentine!
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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake: an excellent buttermilk chocolate layer cake with a fantastic frosting, from Amerca’s Test Kitchen.
Smith Island-ish Cake
A Smith Island Cake consists of many, thin cake layers. It looks like a crepe cake, but the layers are made with from-scratch cake batter. This chocolate fudge version is ultra traditional.
Chocolate Raspberry Sour Cream Cake
Dark Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Buttercream and Sour Cream Chocolate Ganache: a 9-inch layer cake fit for the most extravagant occasion. It has many secrets: sour cream, bittersweet chocolate, and buttermilk among them.
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting
Classic Lemon Buttercream Frosting gets its smooth, citrusy tang from both lemon juice and lemon extract. It’s a French buttercream, which means its sweetened with a hot syrup that’s beaten into egg yolks, and then blended with butter. Easy-ish recipe (“-ish” because it requires a candy thermometer, and I know that scares some people).
Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake
Martha Stewart’s recipe for Salted-Caramel Six-Layer Chocolate Cake uses Dutch process cocoa powder as well as semisweet chocolate, so it’s black as night, but packed with true chocolate flavor. Nothing beats homemade caramel, and the caramel-chocolate pairing is intense. This cake is not for the timid.
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake, is a Dutch-process, hot water chocolate, four-layer cake with an espresso-laced Baileys filling and a triple cream (sour, cheese, whipping) frosting. Buttermilk makes it rich, oil (rather than butter) makes it moist, and dark, dark cocoa gives it its profound flavor.
Chocolate Stout Cake
Good things come in threes: this is the first of a trio of chocolate cakes that we’ll present over the next few weeks. Chocolate Stout Cake is a hot water cocoa cake in which the oil and water are replaced by sour cream and beer. Topped off with a cream cheese frosting, it’s quite an impressive cake.
Dark Chocolate Olive Oil Cake
To hell with decadence. This cake is immoral. Dark Chocolate Olive Oil Cake is our spin on a hot water chocolate cake, which we’ve made with dark cocoa, buttermilk, and olive oil. Frosted with chocolate fudge cream cheese frosting, with a touch of cinnamon. You’ll love the way this cake will defeat your efforts at restraint.