26 chocolate cakes you'll want to bake straight away
Chocolate is one of life's joys. Combine it with the celebratory delight of cake, and you have a winning combination.
Chocolate is one of life's joys – combine it with the celebratory delight of cake, and you have a winning combination. From a fluffy chocolate ricotta cake to a dense Torta Caprese, and a hybrid chocolate lamington number in between – when it comes to these chocolate cakes, one piece is never enough.
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Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache
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Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake
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Chocolate and hazelnut Kugelhopf
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Aaron Turner's Mum's chocolate ripple cake
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Chocolate cake with fudge icing
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Flourless chocolate, hazelnut and buttermilk cake
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Chocolate-hazelnut meringue cake
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Choc-orange cake with Jaffa buttercream
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Chocolate, apricot and rum pound cake
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Flour & Stone's blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade
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Chocolate raspberry layer cake
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Chocolate and almond simnel cake
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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 and hazelnut cake with espresso ganache
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