A hit of sour cream and a combination of butter and oil ensure that the layers stay moist and sturdy for stacking into a celebratory tall cake. The double chocolate frosting with espresso powder ...

The inspiration for the technique used to make this frosting comes from dessert expert, cookbook author, and "Queen of Cake" Maida Heatter and her award-winning Book of Great Chocolate Desserts.

If there’s only one cake you ever learn to make, let it be this. Yellow cake swaddled in chocolate frosting is perhaps the gold standard cake for birthdays, and for good reason–it strikes just ...

Come for the chocolate sheet cake recipe—no mixer needed! practically one bowl! big chocolate flavor!—stay for the brown butter frosting. The delicate nutty taste of brown butter shines ...

If you love all things chocolate, you may have just found heaven on earth with this moist chocolate sheet cake recipe! With a fluffy chocolate sponge base and creamy double-chocolate fudge buttercream ...

So when I set out to develop my ideal chocolate layer cake, my goal was to add just enough sugar to produce both a cake and a frosting that were flavorful but not noticeably sweet. The final cake ...