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30 heavenly chocolate cakes that take the cake

A rule of thumb: one slice is never enough.

Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache

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Chocolate is one of life’s joys – combine it with any kind of celebratory cake, and you have yourself a winning combination. Whether you’re adding cocoa powder or melted chocolate to your batter, there’s no denying the pull of an indulgent chocolate cake.

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We have a plethora of indulgent variations, like our easy chocolate cake with fudge icing, Flour & Stone’s blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade, a chocolate lamington cake recipe and our irresistible chocolate and ricotta cake.

Our guide to a Black Forest cake will have you baking every week, while our torta caprese is a simple chocolate cake recipe that requires little effort and doesn’t skimp on flavour. And although we always gush over the cake itself, a silky dark chocolate buttercream frosting, cream cheese topping or sweet icing can take a cake to a whole new level of decadence. Be sure to let the cakes cool completely before icing.

From easy-to-assemble chocolate cakes to tiered masterpieces, when it comes to chocolate cakes, one slice is never enough.

Here is our collection of the best chocolate cake recipe ideas.

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Torta Caprese

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A pâtissière’s guide to making Black Forest cake

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Brooklyn blackout cake

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Affogato cakes

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Flour and Stone’s chocolate Manjari cake

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Cacao, hazelnut and raspberry cake

Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache
Photo: William Meppem

Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache

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Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake - the best recipes of 2018
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Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake

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Chocolate and hazelnut Kugelhopf

Aaron Turner's Mum's chocolate ripple cake
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Aaron Turner’s Mum’s chocolate ripple cake

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Chocolate ricotta cake

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Chocolate lamington cake recipe
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Chocolate lamington cake

Chocolate mousse cake
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Chocolate mousse cake

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Chocolate cake with fudge icing

Flourless chocolate, hazelnut and buttermilk cake
Photo: William Meppem

Flourless chocolate, hazelnut and buttermilk cake

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Hazelnut-chocolate cake

Fudgy chocolate-cherry cake
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Fudgy chocolate-cherry cake

Burnt cocoa sponge cake
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Burnt cocoa sponge cake

Chocolate-hazelnut meringue cake
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Chocolate-hazelnut meringue cake

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Rocky-road cake
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Rocky-road cake

Choc-orange cake with Jaffa buttercream
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Choc-orange cake with Jaffa buttercream

Photo: Adele Brynne

Chocolate, apricot and rum pound cake

Blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Flour & Stone’s blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade

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Gâteau Opéra
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Gâteau Opéra

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Chocolate raspberry layer cake

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Chocolate and almond simnel cake

Photo: Prue Ruscoe

Chocolate cherry fudge and coconut ice-cream cake

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Chocolate, prune and walnut cake with chocolate and Sherry ganache
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Chocolate, prune and walnut cake with chocolate and sherry ganache

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Chocolate and hazelnut cake with espresso ganache

Triangular slices of iced chocolate cake on a marble off-white background.
Photo: Louise Lister

Spiced orange Sacher torte

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