Chocolate Cake Recipes at Romancing The Chocolate

From Denny: Thought I'd start cataloging these chocolate recipes so you can find them faster than a blog search! This is going to take a while so be sure to check back often for added links. Why waste time looking for a chocolate recipe when you can be digging into it with your fork and enjoying it? :)

CAKES

Most Popular Web Recipe: Double Chocolate Cake

Chef Sandra Lees Easy Frozen Chocolate Cookie Cake

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Flourless chocolate espresso cake with berries

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Almond Fudge Topped Shortbread
Easy MINI KISSES Cookie Torte
Really Chocolate Chocolate Cake
CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake

Calorie Monster Chocolate Truffle Cake with Raspberry Sauce

Recipe: Easy Black Russian Cake





Recipe: Easy Cocoa Chocolate Sheet Cake

Recipe: Swiss Chocolate Cake

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Recipe: Sour Cream-Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Chocolate-Peanut Butter Glaze

Recipe: University Club's Skillet Chocolate Gooey Cake

Recipe: How to Make German Chocolate Cake Without a Mix

Recipe: German Chocolate Cake and Coconut Pecan Frosting

Recipe: Triple Chocolate Mess in a Crock Pot


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Flourless chocolate espresso cake with berries

From Denny: A flourless chocolate cake is always awesome. How about kicking it up a notch by adding rich dark expresso to it? Then pile on some wonderful berries to finish. Skip the usual Christmas suspects of fruitcakes soaked in bourbon for the past year, go chocolate! :)

If you don't have time to fit this into your holiday plans, keep it in mind for New Year's or Valentine's! I know I will! Guess I have a lot of chocolate on my brain as I just finished making 84 cookies today for some of my husband's accounts who requested them - and by the time I'm finished it will be around 400. Nothing like last minute requests to slow down your posting! :)

Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake with berries

From: Chef Jim Nuetzi, Capital Grill

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb. Guittard semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 lb. Unsalted butter, diced
• 1 C. Freshly-brewed espresso
• 1 C. Golden brown sugar
• 8 Eggs, beaten to blend
• Bath of hot water
• Fresh raspberries For garnish

Raspberry sauce

• 1 1/2 lbs. Raspberries
• 1/4 lb. Sugar
• 1/2 tsp. Salt

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line bottom of a 9-inch diameter cake pan with 2 inch high sides with parchment. Place all chocolate in large bowl.

Bring butter, espresso and sugar to boil in medium saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar.

Add chocolate; whisk until smooth and cool slightly.

Whip eggs till blended. Stir eggs into chocolate mixture until blended. Do not whip.

Pour batter into prepared pans. Place cake pan in roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into roasting pan to come halfway up sides of cake pan.

Bake until center of cake is set and tester inserted into center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 45 minutes.

Remove pans from water and chill cake overnight.

Cut around pan sides to loosen cake. Using oven mitts, hold pan bottom over low heat for 15 seconds, warming slightly to release cake. Place platter over pan. Hold pan and platter together tightly and invert. Lift off cake pan, peel off parchment and dust top of each cake with cocoa powder.

Cut cake into ten slices and garnish with fresh raspberries and raspberry sauce.

Raspberry sauce:

In a medium mixing bowl, combine the raspberries, sugar and salt.

Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Combine all ingredients in a blender, puree, and pour through a strainer.


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Recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Nirvana Cake

From Denny: While I must admit the title had me curious, I just had to take a look at this delightful recipe over at the Jif site - and then laugh. Someone really knew what they were doing by giving it this title with the idea of dessert nirvana! :)

What are its awesome ingredients? Chocolate pudding, chocolate chips, Devils Food Cake and peanut butter are the winners combined to create dessert nirvana.

You might want to try out this easy recipe as a trial baking run before the holidays begin. After all, we do need to make sure it really is that good, right?! :) And practice makes perfect...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Nirvana Cake

Yield: 12 servings

Prep Time: 15 min

Cook Time: 55 min

Ingredients:

CAKE

• Crisco® Flour No-Stick Spray

• 1 (18.25 oz.) box Pillsbury® Devils Food Cake

• 1/2 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil

• 1 1/4 cups water

• 4 large eggs

• 1 (3.9 oz.) package instant chocolate pudding and pie filling mix

• 2 cups (12 oz. pkg.) semi-sweet chocolate chips

FROSTING

• 1/2 cup Pillsbury® Whipped Supreme® Vanilla Frosting

• 1/2 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter

• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

• 1/2 cup milk

• Chocolate curls or shavings for garnish (optional)

Directions:

1. HEAT oven to 350°F. Spray a 12-cup fluted pan with flour no-stick cooking spray.

2. COMBINE cake mix, oil, water, eggs and pudding mix in a large bowl with an electric mixer at low speed until moistened. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pan.

3. BAKE 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 20 minutes. Invert onto serving plate. Cool completely.

4. BEAT frosting, peanut butter, almond extract and milk in medium bowl with electric mixer until well combined. Spoon frosting over cooled cake. Garnish with chocolate shavings, if desired.