Best 7 Incredible Yes Incredible Chocolate Cake Recipes

THE BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Grease and line three 8-inch (20 cm) cake tins with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
• In a large glass measuring cup, combine the stout, vanilla, and espresso powder. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes, scraping down the sides occasionally to ensure all the ingredients are being evenly creamed together.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, ensuring each egg is fully incorporated before adding the next.
• Add the mayonnaise and beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
• Preheat oven to 325˚F (160˚C).
• Alternate adding the prepared dry and wet ingredients to the batter. Starting with about ⅓ of the dry ingredients, beat until incorporated. Then add ⅓ of the liquid ingredients, mixing until the batter comes together. Continue until all the wet and dry ingredients have been incorporated.
• Using a rubber scraper, fold the dark chocolate chunks into the batter.
• Distribute the batter evenly between the 3 prepared cake tins.
• Bake for about 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Place the cakes on a cooling rack and leave to cool for about 10-15 minutes, until the outside of the pan is cool enough to touch.
• Once the cakes have cooled, loosen the edges using a butter knife. Then place a large plate over the tin and invert to release the cake from the pan. Remove the parchment paper from the bottom of the cake and slide the cake back onto the cooling rack to cool completely. Repeat for the remaining two layers.
• While your cakes are cooling, prepare the buttercream.
• In a large bowl, beat together the butter and vanilla.
• Gradually add in the cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and milk, continuously beating until all the ingredients have been incorporated and the frosting is light and fluffy.
• Frost and decorate to your liking.
• Slice and serve.
• Enjoy!

WORLD'S BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit/170 degrees Celsius. Grease a 9-inch/23-centimeter round springform pan with butter and line with parchment paper, then set aside.
• Make the cake: Place butter, chocolate and hot coffee in a large heatproof bowl and mix well until everything is melted, combined and smooth. Whisk in sugar by hand until dissolved. Add eggs and vanilla extract and whisk again until thoroughly combined and smooth. Sift flour, cocoa powder and salt together into a bowl and then whisk this into the melted chocolate mixture. The batter here is liquid, but don't think you have missed something; this is how it should be.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour, or until the cake is cooked and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean or with just a few dry crumbs attached. The top will form a crust and crack a little, but don't worry, this is expected. Leave the cake to cool for 20 minutes before removing from the pan, then set aside until completely cool.
• Make the chocolate ganache, if desired: Place chocolate pieces in a food processor, process until fine and set aside. Combine cream and corn syrup in a small pan and place over medium-high heat. As soon as bubbles begin to appear (just before it comes to a boil), remove from the heat. Get the food processor running again, with the chocolate still inside, and pour in the hot cream in a steady stream. Process for 10 seconds, then add butter. Continue to process until mixture is shiny and smooth. (You can also make the ganache by hand; just make sure the chocolate is chopped fairly finely before adding the cream mixture. Stir with a wooden spoon until almost melted, then add the butter. Stir again until the ganache is smooth.)
• Use a rubber spatula to scrape the ganache into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, with the plastic actually touching the top of the ganache. Set aside until it has set to the consistency you want. If you want a thin layer to spread over the cake, it can be poured over while liquid so that you get an even, light and shiny coating. For a thicker ganache with a spreading consistency, leave it for about 2 hours at room temperature. (The ganache can be stored at room temperature, providing it's not too warm, for 3 days or kept in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. It can also be frozen, although it will lose a bit of its shine when defrosted.)
• Make the espresso cinnamon mascarpone cream, if desired: Place all the ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat for 1 to 2 minutes, until soft peaks form.
• Peel the parchment from the cake and discard. Transfer to a serving platter and spread the ganache, if using, on top of the cake. Slice into wedges, divide the cake among plates and, if using, spoon the mascarpone cream alongside. With or without icing, the cake will keep well for 4 to 5 days in an airtight container.

INCREDIBLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions, using a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Place on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, poke 20 holes in warm cake. Pour milk over cake; cool for 10 minutes. Pour caramel topping over cake; cool completely., In a bowl, combine whipped topping and cocoa; spread over cake. Sprinkle with crushed candy bars. Cover and store in the refrigerator.

INCREDIBLE (YES, INCREDIBLE) CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• CAKE:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F and spray two 9" round layer pans with pan AND place a parchment circle on the bottom of each pan to make sure the cake doesn't stick.
• In a double boiler (you can do this slowly in the microwave if you feel confident), combine the butter, chocolate and coffee powder.
• Stir until mixture is smooth.
• Transfer to a large bowl and stir in sugar.
• In a small bowl, mix eggs and sour cream until well blended.
• Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• Alternately blend egg mixture and dry ingredients into chocolate mixture. Stir until the batter is smooth.
• Divide batter evenly and bake for 30 minutes.
• GANACHE: In a small saucepan, combine the heavy cream and butter.
• Stir over medium heat until butter melts and the mixture comes to a very gentle boil.
• Remove from the heat.
• Put chips into a food processor and start it, pouring the hot cream mixture through the feed tube. Process until smooth.
• Let stand in a bowl until cooled.
• DO NOT cool in the refrigerator.
• BUTTERCREAM: In the top of a double boiler (or in the microwave if you feel comfortable doing it), melt the chocolates.
• Stir until smooth.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer combine the egg whie and sugar.
• Set the bowl over hot, not simmering water.
• Do not let the water touch the bottom of the bowl.
• I have put a terry cloth dishtowel in the bottom of a large stock pot, then added some water. As long as the bowl is touching mostly towel, the eggs haven't "cooked"- you can also put a small wire rack at the bottom of the pot, making sure the water doesn't touch the bowl.
• Whisk the egg/sugar mixture until it is warm (about 110°) and all the sugar granules have been COMPLETELY dissolved.
• Transfer the bowl to the electric mixer and beat at medium speed for abut 5 minutes, until it is cool and has formed into a thick meringue.
• One tablespoon at a time, add the butter, beating completely until each piece is incorporated after each addition.
• Add the melted chocolate and rum.
• Continue beating for a few seconds until the buttercream is thick and smooth.
• ASSEMBLY: Place one of the cake layers on a cake plate or cardboard cake round.
• Then take four 2" widestrips of waxed paper and place them in a square shape under all four sides of the cake. This will "catch" any of the fluid ganache that drips down.
• Spread the top of this layer with the raspberry preserves, stopping about 1" from the edge, all around.
• You don't want the preserves to interfere with the chocolate ganache coating.
• Starting around the edge, lay dollops of the buttercream on top of the cake and spread it inward, covering the entire area of the top of the layer.
• Top with the second layer.
• Now is your opportunity to make your cake even by pressing down any high spots.
• This may result in some of the preserves or buttercream oozing out of the sides.
• Scrape tht away and if preserves are coming out of the sides, use additional buttercream to "spackle" that area.
• Any exposed preserves will tend to resist the ganache, leaving an exposed area.
• Using a metal offset spatula, spread the ganache evenly over the top and sides of the cake.
• There will be plenty of ganache, so pour an ample amount on the top of the cake, guiding it toward and down the sides.
• Scrape up any ganache that collects on the waxed paper strips and reuse it.
• Once the cake's top and sides are completely covered; set aside.
• You should remove the waxed paper strips once the ganache has solidified a bit in the refrigerator. You will have left over ganache. You can refrigerate it and put it into a piping bag. There will definitely be plenty to pipe rosettes or a full swag onto the bottom of the cake-- and them some.
• Be prepared to be showered with compliments on your culinary victory.

EXTREME CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
• Use the first set of ingredients to make the cake. In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in the boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the two prepared pans.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to cool completely.
• To make the frosting, use the second set of ingredients. Cream butter until light and fluffy. Stir in the cocoa and confectioners' sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat to a spreading consistency.
• Split the layers of cooled cake horizontally, cover the top of each layer with frosting, then stack them onto a serving plate. Frost the outside of the cake.

IRRESISTIBLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Blend together 1 cup sugar, cocoa powder and 1/2 cup yogurt.
• In another bowl, cream butter with 1 cup sugar.
• Beat eggs, one at a time, into creamed butter.
• Then beat in cocoa mixture.
• In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt and baking soda.
• Add flour to butter cocoa mixture, alternating with remaining 1/2 cup of yogurt into which the Kahlua has been blended.
• Fold in chocolate chips.
• Pour evenly into a buttered 10-inch springform tube pan that has been dusted with cocoa powder.
• Bake for approximately one hour or until tester comes out clean.
• Cool cake on a rack before removing from pan.
• For the Glaze---------------.
• Break chocolate into bits.
• Place double boiler over, not in, a pan of hot water.
• Add chocolate, cream, butter and Kahlua.
• Cover tightly and heat for a few minutes, stir until completely melted and smooth.
• Transfer to stainless steel bowl and cover.
• Keep at room temperature.
• Slowly pour about half the glaze over the top of the cake spreading it evenly with a metal spatula over the top, sides and in the center.
• Refrigerate until glaze is firm.
• Then repeat with remaining glaze.
• Refrigerate again to allow second layer of glaze to firm up.
• Decorate with piped buttercream chocolate frosting in an interesting shape and top each with a chocolate coffee bean or pecan or walnut half.
• Or just accent with fresh flowers in center and around the sides.
• Best served the next day.

ELIZABETH'S EXTREME CHOCOLATE LOVER'S CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch pans. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In the top of a double boiler, heat 6 ounces chocolate, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Stir in the melted chocolate. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the sour cream. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• Make the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting: In the top of a double boiler, heat 6 ounces chocolate, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm. In a large bowl, whip the butter for about 10 minutes until it is super fluffy, beat in egg yolk. Gradually blend in the confectioners' sugar, alternating with 2 tablespoons vanilla and 2 tablespoons cream, then blend in the melted chocolate. Beat in the softened cream cheese.
• Make the Ganache: In a large saucepan, combine chocolate chips and 1 cup heavy cream. Heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Assemble the cake: When cake is completely cooled, cover the bottom cake layer with as much ganache as desired. Refrigerate for 5 minutes, or until ganache has set. Spread frosting over the ganache. Cover with top layer of cake. Frost top and sides with buttercream, and garnish with more ganache.