3,496 chocolate cake recipes

Crazy cake (depression cake) is an egg-free, dairy-free chocolate cake mixed directly in the baking pan with cocoa, oil, vinegar, and water. Vegan-friendly and ridiculously easy.

A flexible basic vanilla cake template using cake flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, and your choice of mix-ins. The starting point for chocolate chip, fruit, or layer cakes.

Chocolate chip ice cream roll: a tender chocolate sponge cake rolled around softened chocolate chip ice cream, frozen firm, and dusted with cocoa. A make-ahead frozen dessert.

Tunnel of Fudge cake from scratch with a gooey, fudgy center that forms naturally during baking. A rich chocolate bundt cake with walnuts and cocoa glaze, no cake mix required.

Black Forest ice cream cake: two layers of moist chocolate-coffee cake sandwich a slab of vanilla ice cream, frosted with whipped cream and crowned with cherry pie filling. A frozen showstopper.

Mississippi mud cake with cocoa, marshmallow cream, and a rich chocolate-butter frosting loaded with pecans. A dense, fudgy Southern sheet cake classic.

Rigo Jancsi, the classic Hungarian chocolate cake with two layers of rich sponge filled with rum-spiked chocolate cream and topped with a glossy chocolate glaze. An elegant European pastry.

Warm brownie pudding cake bakes its own fudgy chocolate sauce underneath a soft cake top. Pour boiling water over the batter, don't stir, bake, then spoon out cake and sauce in one go.

Low-fat fudgy chocolate cake made with buttermilk, strong coffee, and cocoa powder, topped with a glossy cooked chocolate icing. No butter needed.

Three-ingredient chocolate almond filling for cakes, pastries, and tortes: melted chocolate, butter, and toasted almonds blended into a spreadable ganache-like filling.

Yummy chocolate dense cake, almost like a brownie but not too chocolatey!

Crazy cake, also known as wacky cake, is an egg-free and dairy-free chocolate sheet cake made with vinegar and oil. Depression-era one-pan recipe that bakes in 35 minutes.

Devil's food cake with creamy Neufchâtel cheesecake swirled through every slice, served with raspberry sauce. A stunning marbled chocolate cake from a box mix.

Coca-Cola cake frosting boils butter, cocoa, and cola together then pours over powdered sugar with pecans and vanilla. A warm, pourable Southern frosting for chocolate sheet cake.

Kartoffel Torte is a German chocolate potato cake with mashed potatoes, cocoa, pecans, and maraschino cherries baked in a tube pan and drizzled with powdered sugar icing.

Cotton Cake: a vintage chocolate layer cake where mashed potato keeps the crumb cloud-tender, layered with marshmallow filling and a cloud of foaming icing on top.