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Chocolate Cake with Divinity Icing
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By á-3209
You have died and gone to chocoholic heaven with this chocolate cake with divinity icing recipe! The richness and c
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 ounces (4 squares) unsweetened chocolate
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Nonstick cooking spray, for greasing cake pans
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted
- 4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- Divinity Icing, recipe follows
- 3 large egg whites, room temperature
- Pinch salt
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons white corn syrup
- 3/4 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/3 cup mini marshmallows (about 30)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Chocolate-Chocolate Cake
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By á-11607
Mix cream cheese, sour cream
- 1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup coffee-flavored liqueur or water
- 2 eggs
- 1 package (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix
- 1 package (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate flavor Instant Pudding and Pie Filling
- 1 cup semi-sweet real chocolate chips
Chocolate Glaze for Chocolate Bundt Cake
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By Fleur de lis
Put choc chips into a medium bowl, set aside
- 1 cup Semi-sweet Chocolate Mini chips
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- 2 tiny pinches of salt
Chocolate-Cinnamon Coffee Cake
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By á-174535
This delicious Chocolate-Cinnamon Coffee Cake can be served with a dollop of whipped cream or yogurt and of course ...
- Special Equipment:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 1/2 cup blanched hazelnuts, chopped
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup sugar, divided
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup plain whole Greek yogurt
- 8-inch square baking pan
The Most Amazing Chocolate Cake & Frosting
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By AuntieLo
This cake is moist and has the perfect crumb
- FROSTING:
- Butter and flour for coating and dusting the cake pan
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- This recipe makes enough frosting to frost a 3-layer cake.
- Author: Rachel Farnsworth
- 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 7 to8 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk or as needed
Raw Mini Chocolate Cream Cakes
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By garciamoss
Perfect individual servings of delicious chocolate cream cakes that are not only healthy, but gluten free too!
- PECAN CHOCOLATE CRUST:
- 1 cup pecan meal (just ground up pecans, can use any nut meal of liking)
- 3 to 4 medjool dates (or 2 to 3 tablespoons maple syrup)
- 1/2 cup cacao powder (cocoa powder)
- Pinch sea salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- CHOCOLATE FILLING:
- 2 cups cashew, pieces
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, liquid
- 1/2 cup maple syrup ( or may use agave nectar)
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3/4 cup raw cacao powder (or cocoa powder)
- Optional toppings:
- Pecans, crushed
- Chocolate sauce
Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Poke Cake
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By á-25138
Chocolate, and peanut butter, and cake OH MY! Your friends and family are sure to love this rich and decadent desse...
- 1 chocolate cake, baked and cooled in 9x13-inch pan
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12.8-ounce) jar hot fudge sauce
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 (8-ounce) Cool Whip
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1 (8-ounce) bag Reese's Minis, chopped
- 1 (10-ounce)bag Reese's Pieces Baking Pieces
Vegan Adonis Cake
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By cll6@cornell.edu
Vegan chocolate cake for the Gods--moist and chocolaty
- FROSTING:
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2/3 cup pure maple syrup
- 6 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 1 (12-ounce) package silken soft tofu
- 3/4 cup dairy-free, semisweet chocolate chips, melted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Chocolate Cake
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By shobhapink
This rich, intensely chocolate cake is the perfect dinner party dessert because it is both so easy to make and seri...
- For icing the cake:
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour (maida)
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter melted & cooled
- 2 tsp pure vanilla essence
- 3/4 cup water
- 175 g unsweetened chocolate melted & cooled
- 125 g butter softened
- 125 g icing sugar
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
S' Mores Poke Cake
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By lioness7466
S'mores themed scrumptiousness is what you'll get with this poke cake
- 1 package (2 layer size) chocolate cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Water, as called for in the cake mix
- 1 (7-ounce) container JET-PUFFED Marshmallow Creme
- 1 (12-ounce) tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
- 2 cups crushed graham crackers
- 2 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
2-Ingredient Chocolate Cake
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By tinathorn
You are only 2 ingredients away from your chocolate fix with this decadent cake recipe
- 3 eggs
- 3 3/4 (1.55-ounce) chocolate bars, 5.8-ounces of chocolate total
Creme de Menthe Layer Cake
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By Jan_C
This Creme de Menthe Layer Cake can be made in a layer cake or as a sheet cake
- CAKE:
- 1 package white cake mix
- all ingredients from the package white cake mix, but substitute 1/4 cup Creme de Menthe instead of water
- 1/4 about 1/4 cup mini chocolate morsels, optional
- FROSTING:
- 1 (12-ounce) bag semisweet chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- whipped cream frosting or substitute Cool Whip with the Creme de Menthe
- 1-pint heavy cream
- 3 Tablespoons powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons Creme De Menthe or 1/2 teaspoon mint extract, optional
- 2 to 3 drops of green food coloring, optional
- chocolate curls or sprinkles or mini chocolate chips, optional garnish
- CHOCOLATE CURLS, OPTIONAL GARNISH:
- 3 squares of semisweet Baker's chocolate
- 1 tablespoon shortening
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