492 chocolaty cake recipes

European mocha fudge cake with a dense cocoa-pecan base and creamy coffee whipped cream filling. A flourless-style chocolate cake that's rich, fudgy, and made without leavening.

Upside-down chocolate cake baked over a brown-sugar caramel with apricot halves and maraschino cherries. Cocoa-rich cake flipped onto the platter for a glossy fruit top.

Chocolate tunnel cake with a hidden cream cheese filling baked inside a chocolate cake mix base. Topped with a glossy chocolate-corn syrup glaze. Semi-homemade and impressive.

A 5-ingredient dump cake layered with crushed pineapple, cherry pie filling, chocolate cake mix, pecans, and butter. No mixing, no bowls, no excuses not to bake tonight.

No-bake holiday chocolate cake layered with orange juice-soaked macaroons, bittersweet ganache, chopped prunes, and toasted almonds. Dusted with cocoa and chilled overnight for deep, complex flavor.

Microwave chocolate cake topped with gooey halved marshmallows and smothered in rich chocolate frosting. Ready in under an hour with zero oven time. A kid-friendly crowd-pleaser.

Moist two-layer chocolate cake with a bright orange zest frosting. Boiling water in the batter creates an extra-tender crumb. Drizzle with orange liqueur for special occasions.

Triple layer chocolate cake made with both melted chocolate and cocoa, plus yogurt and coffee for a moist, tender crumb. A lighter approach to a towering celebration cake.

City school red devil's food cake made with cocoa, hot coffee, buttermilk, cake flour, and a touch of red food coloring. The nostalgic cafeteria chocolate cake from scratch.

Gypsy John is a layered chocolate cake with rum-spiked whipped chocolate filling and a glossy ganache frosting. A rich, elegant dessert cut into squares for easy serving.

Nouvelle gateau is a French-style flourless-leaning chocolate cake with butter, semi-sweet chocolate, reduced coffee, and rum, baked in a water bath until fudgy and silky.

Gluten-free chocolate mousse cake: a flourless, intensely chocolatey cake with a light, mousse-like crumb, made from just five ingredients. Naturally gluten-free, rich, and deeply fudgy.

Black Forest cherry dump cake layers cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, chocolate cake mix, and pecans into a no-mix dessert. Topped with whipped cream for an old-school potluck classic.

Decadent chocolate mousse cake: a light, airy chocolate cake kissed with orange liqueur and zest, made by folding whipped egg whites into a rich chocolate batter, then frosted with chocolate mousse.

Buttermilk chocolate hazelnut cake bakes whole wheat pastry flour with cocoa, brown sugar, and a layer of toasted hazelnuts. Lighter, healthier chocolate cake with no butter and no whole eggs.

Triple layer chocolate cake with cocoa, unsweetened chocolate, and coffee in the batter, topped with a fluffy Italian meringue chocolate frosting. Lower in fat than classic recipes thanks to yogurt and egg whites.