T his is a ridiculously easy cake to make, with a gorgeous chocolate flavor packed with warm spices and the fudgy texture we all want in a chocolate cake.. Use this recipe to bake an 8-inch two ...

21 Layer Cake Recipes From Chocolate to Lemon Poppy Seed. Whether you stack together two cake layers or six, bringing any one of these showstopping cakes to the table is an act of pure joy.

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven. Grease 3 (8-inch) round cake pans, and line the bottom of each with a round of parchment paper.

Cake. 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped. 1 stick unsalted butter. 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract. 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder. 1 cup water ...

For its 10th anniversary, Cooking Light magazine was determined to come up with a dynamite low-fat chocolate cake. The magazine's recipe testers and food editors had been trying for a decade to ...

Recipe: Proof Bakery’s chocolate espresso layer cake. There is a certain irony operating here. Ma, a Glendale native who opened Proof Bakery in 2010, is not really a cake person.

Set 1 cake layer, bottom side up, on a serving plate. Use an offset spatula to spread about 1 cup of the frosting on top. Set the remaining cake layer, right side up, on top.

For that, I skipped melted chocolate in favor of cocoa powder. Melted chocolate tends to dry out cake batter, and unless you’re using 100 percent unsweetened chocolate, adding bar chocolate also ...