131 chocolaty cake recipes

Sauerkraut chocolate cake with a rich sour cream chocolate frosting. The sauerkraut adds surprising moisture and tang that no one will guess, topped with a creamy melted chip frosting.

Mexican chocolate cake with 12 ounces of melted semi-sweet chocolate, ground almonds, Kahlua, and mayonnaise for moisture. Beaten egg whites give it a light, almost flourless texture.

Fudgy sourdough chocolate cake mixed in one bowl with cocoa, cold coffee, and sourdough starter. Rich, dense, and scratch-made with a tang you can't get from a box mix.

I have finally found it! Oh thank neptune, the perfect chocolate cake. It is fluffy, moist, deeply chocolatey, and the frosting is smooth and creamy as it should be. You will make a lot of new friends with this recipe.

Moist, low-fat chocolate cake made with pureed prunes instead of butter and topped with a tangy orange glaze. Deeply chocolatey with barely any fat, and no one will guess the secret ingredient.

Crazy chocolate cake made with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Vinegar and baking soda create the lift in this one-bowl Depression-era recipe that bakes up surprisingly moist and rich.

Rich chocolate cake with melted chocolate, pecans, and a hint of red food coloring, topped with homemade chocolate pecan frosting. A Southern classic from scratch.

Triple chocolate cake with cocoa layers, chocolate buttercream filling, apricot preserves, and a poured chocolate glaze. A four-layer showstopper finished with whipped cream and pistachios.

Lotsa chocolate cake is the classic doctored-cake-mix bundt with devils food mix, instant fudge pudding, sour cream, and a full bag of chocolate chips. Dense, moist, foolproof.

Old-fashioned three-layer chocolate cake built with brown sugar, buttermilk, and melted unsweetened chocolate. A heritage American layer cake decorated with walnuts and frosted between every tier.

Magnificent chocolate cake baked in a 10-inch tube pan with six ounces of unsweetened chocolate, six eggs, and chopped nuts. A tall, tender, old-fashioned bundt-style cake.

Moist chocolate layer cake with amaretto-coffee frosting. Beaten egg whites create a light crumb, while espresso and almond liqueur deepen the chocolate flavor.

A ridiculously easy chocolate cherry cake made with just cake mix, cherry pie filling, and almond extract. Holes poked in the warm cake let a boiled milk chocolate frosting sink in for poke-cake bliss with Black Forest flair.

Rich chocolate layer cake with cocoa, hot coffee, and a hint of almond extract. Colette's recipe bakes into two moist 9-inch layers that are begging for your favorite frosting.

Simple but irresistible, this cake is great for dessert after dinner.

Rich, fudgy chocolate almond cake with a silky dual-chocolate glaze and fresh raspberries. A flourless-style showstopper that melts on the tongue with every dense, buttery bite.