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10 outrageously delicious chocolate cake recipes

Triple-layered, fudgy or frosting-laden slices should all be enjoyed more often than just birthdays, don't you think?
Chocolate cake with mocha frosting

Mocha ice cream cake.
Photo, Roberto Caruso.

10 ways with chocolate cake

Double-Chocolate Espresso Cake

How do you get that smooth finish? Use a wide spackling knife! This tool (found at local hardware stores) will help you get that even coat. Beautiful flowers complete the elegant look. Get our double-chocolate espresso cake recipe.

Chocolate espresso layer cake on a white cake stand draped with a decorative green fern-shaped paper topped with roses (Photo: Roberto Caruso)

Guinness Chocolate Fudge Cake With Cloud Icing

This cake might just have you making up reasons to celebrate. (The guinness gives it a super-fudgy decadence.) Get our Guinness chocolate fudge cake with cloud icing recipe.

Guinness Cake With Cloud Icing on a blue stand.

Mocha Ice Cream Cake

It takes just five ingredients and 25 minutes to whip up this unforgettable no-bake ice cream cake. Laced with espresso and topped with candy-shop chocolates, it’s the ultimate treat. Get our mocha ice cream cake recipe.

Mocha ice cream cake on a white cake stand covered with malteasers next to a vase of pink flowers (Photo: Roberto Caruso)

Mocha Biscuit Cake

Short of time (or baking know-how)? This cake—rumoured to be a favourite of Prince William's—is the perfect, eye-pleasing Christmas dessert. Get our mocha biscuit cake recipe.

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A mocha biscuit cake with one slice cut out of it (Photo: Erik Putz)

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake

With layers of lusciousness, from the easy cookie crust to scrumptious chocolate curls, this cheesecake spells nirvana for the devoted chocoholic. Get our triple chocolate cheesecake recipe.

A triple chocolate cheesecake topped with chocolate shavings on a white cake plate (Photo: Michael Graydon)

Gluten-Free Chocolate Fudge Cake

And for our gluten-free friends, we have a dark and fudgy bundt cake that rivals any of these cakes. Get our gluten-free chocolate fudge cake recipe.

Gluten free chocolate fudge cake from bundt mold with sliced piece Photo, Michael Alberstat

Chocolate Cake With Mocha Frosting

Prefer your coffee on the side? Just substitute more milk into your icing for a classic chocolate on chocolate variation. Get our chocolate cake with mocha frosting recipe.

Chocolate cake with mocha frosting

Chocolate Cake With Pink Vanilla Frosting

This traditional three-layer cake gets a pop of colour with a minimalist, but eye-catching frosting. Get our chocolate cake with pink vanilla frosting recipe.

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A three-layer chocolate cake with pink vanilla icing on a white cake stand next to green pine cones (Photo: Roberto Caruso)

Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

It's one of the most moist and decadent slices you've ever tasted. Get Nigella Lawson's chocolate olive oil cake recipe.

Nigella Lawson's chocolate olive oil cake on a white fluted-edge cake serving platter next to glasses of sparkling wine and forks and flowers

Lidia Bastianich's chocolate hazelnut torte

Brandy, hazelnuts and chocolate make this rich cake a dessert to remember. Get the recipe.

Lidia Bastianich's Chocolate hazelnut torte Photo, Steve Giralt.

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