Chocolate Strawberry Torte

Is this not the cutest little cake?! It’s so demure and very German with its single layer and whipped cream in lieu of frosting, hence the name Chocolate Strawberry Torte. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: my Best Ever Chocolate Cake freezes really, really well. I baked two layers and used…

Chocolate Sheet Cake

Sometimes you just need chocolate cake. This easy one-bowl cake recipe comes together in a flash. It bakes for half an hour, you smother the frosting on top and bam, you’re done. It’s easy as…sheet cake! Add some fun sprinkles and you’ve got the perfect birthday cake or picnic cake, as 9×13 cakes are much…

The Best Chocolate Frosting

I dream about this frosting. When I bake my favorite chocolate cake, it’s usually because I want this frosting. I use dark chocolate cocoa powder in my chocolate frosting, making it rich and super chocolatey. There are a couple of important tips when it comes to frosting: Make sure your butter is soft. Cold butter will…

Maulwurfkuchen

If you love chocolate cake, bananas, and whipped cream, keep reading! The perfect Maulwurfkuchen recipe. This is my favorite German cake, and that’s saying a lot because I really love Black Forest Cake. Maulwurfkuchen or “mole hill cake” just has so many of my favorite things: chocolate cake, whipped cream, bananas, chocolate sprinkles! It’s light and airy…

Best Ever Chocolate Cake

The only chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever need It’s criminal that I’ve never posted my original chocolate cake recipe. This cake is incredibly moist with a deep, rich chocolate flavor and the creamiest chocolate frosting you can imagine. I am a cake snob. There, I said it. I’ve never been more proud than when my…

Chocolate Cinnamon Cake Roll

I love making cake rolls. They’re so fun! This is a great cake recipe to have on hand during the holidays. The cinnamon isn’t overpowering but gives it a lovely fall, fireside feeling. Cake rolls are not as hard as you might think. You just bake a sponge cake in a jelly roll pan, flip…

Chocolate Lavender Dream Cake

Layers of dark chocolate cake and lavender frosting piled high with blackberries and fresh cherries This is the dreamiest cake you’ll ever have. I came up with this show-stopping cake for A Midsummer Night’s Dream dinner party. I wanted lavender for the “dream” angle since lavender helps you sleep. I did hours and hours and days…

Cinderella Cake

I know you, I ate a slice once upon a dream I came up with this show-stopping Disney Cinderella Cake for my Cinderella Ball. Three layers of dark chocolate cake are smothered with vanilla frosting tinted sky blue and topped with a glass slipper. It would of course be delicious at an occasion decorated differently!…

Chambord Chocolate Cake

  What, pray tell, is more perfect than a slice of dark chocolate cake? I can’t think of a thing! I always bake with dark cocoa powder so my cakes are wicked chocolatey. I swapped out vanilla for Chambord liqueur, an infusion of premium raspberries, blackberries, black raspberries, black currant, Madagascar vanilla, and cognac. It somehow…