When you’re craving something decadent for dessert, it’s hard to go past the classic chocolate cake. And while the original recipe is undoubtedly brilliant, there are infinite possibilities for flavour combinations to improve on perfection. Here, we’ve gathered our favourite chocolate cake recipes, with everything from rocky road and orange mousse to espresso and hazelnut varieties. Indulge your sweet tooth and enjoy a slice, or three, of one of these gorgeous desserts.
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Three bean chocolate cake
This gluten-free three bean chocolate cake is made with coffee, vanilla and cocoa beans to provide a rich and decadent flavour combination.
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Triple-chocolate crackle crunch cake
Triple-chocolate crackle crunch cake
This triple chocolate cake recipe is features a deliciously crunchy chocolate crackle-inspired topping.
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Chocolate sponge cake
This chocolate sponge cake recipe is a delicious chocolatey spin on the classic Victoria sponge, filled with cream and jam and drizzled with ganache.
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Dark chocolate mud cake
This dark chocolate mud cake makes a simple treat on its own but is also excellent layered with chocolate ganache or other frosting.
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Moist chocolate and coconut cake
Moist chocolate and coconut cake
This moist and flavourful cake is easy to make with a touch of coconut to perfectly balance the rich chocolate.
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Chocolate and beetroot mud cake
Chocolate and beetroot mud cake
Give your chocolate mud cake an earthy edge with the use of this not-so-secret ingredient.
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Churros cake with chocolate ganache and dulce de leche
Churros cake with chocolate ganache and dulce de leche
Our delectable cake is inspired by the flavours of the Spanish dessert churros, fried dough strips dusted in cinnamon and sugar that are customarily dipped in chocolate or thick caramel.
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Six-layer chocolate cake
When it comes to chocolate cake – you can never have enough layers!
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Dark and dreamy chocolate cake
Dark and dreamy chocolate cake
This cake is unapologetically all about chocolate. So much so, that it’s even flourless, creating a fudgy, dense indulgent cake – you’ll find a little goes a long way.
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Chocolate slab cake
This simple chocolate slab cake is moist, chocolate-y, and topped with a deliciously creamy chocolate buttercream.
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Cherry Ripe choc cheesecake
Infused with rich dark chocolate, crushed biscuits, cherry ripe bars and sour morello cherries, this enticing cheesecake dusted with cocoa is almost too good to share.
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White chocolate and raspberry mud cake
White chocolate and raspberry mud cake
This gorgeous mud cake combines sweet, creamy white chocolate and wonderfully tart raspberries to create a divine dessert worthy of any celebration.
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Chocolate sour cream cake
You’ll love this super moist chocolate sour cream cake topped with dark chocolate sour cream ganache.
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Chocolate mousse cake with pomegranate syrup
This decadent dark chocolate mousse cake is delicately spiced with cinnamon and cardomom and topped with a tangy pomegranate syrup.
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Golden syrup chocolate cake with fudge icing
Golden syrup chocolate cake with fudge icing
The treacly richness of golden syrup adds a dark, caramel tone to this moist chocolate cake with fudge icing.
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Chocolate orange polenta cake
Moist, dense and dripping with syrup, this chocolate orange polenta cake is a very grown-up way to recapture a childhood love for jaffa cakes.
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Spiced walnut & chocolate cake with poached quince
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Rich rocky road mousse cake
Indulge your sweet tooth with this decadent rocky road mousse cake. One slice and you’ll be taken to dessert heaven…
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Hazelnut chocolate cake
The irresistible combination of nutty hazelnut and smooth, creamy chocolate makes this fluffy cake utterly delicious. Spread with a rich, chocolate icing, you will be hard-pressed to stop at one slice!
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Chocolate chestnut cake
This gorgeous layered cake is the perfect balance of sweet and nutty. It’s the perfect celebratory cake to serve at Christmas time.
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Sticky chocolate date cake
This warm and sticky cake is best served with lashings of double cream or ice-cream. Or both!
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Coffee mousse layered chocolate naked cake
Coffee mousse layered chocolate naked cake
Attention all coffee and chocolate lovers! This coffee mousse layered chocolate naked cake is a little slice of food heaven – simply irresistible.
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Peanut butter chocolate cake
The heavenly combination of peanut butter and chocolate is well documented and this cake is every bit as delicious as you’d expect it to be. Topped with peanut and chocolate ganache, the result is, well, the icing on the cake.
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Cookies and cream cake
Treat yourself with this decadent cookies and cream cake. Coated head to toe in mouth-watering chocolatey cream, and finished with crumbled Oreo cookies.
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Nutella chocolate cake
The unbeatable chocolate hazelnut flavour of this simple chocolate cake are thanks to a batter and frosting loaded with rich, sweet Nutella.
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Flourless chocolate cake with mint toffee ice-cream
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Mississippi mud cake
Whip up this mud cake for the ultimate indulgence filled with chocolate, coffee and whisky. Prefer white chocolate? Then you’ll not want to miss our white chocolate and raspberry mud cake.
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Popcorn and peanut butter chocolate cake
Popcorn and peanut butter chocolate cake
This elaborate-looking one-bowl cake takes little effort to pull off, but is definitely a crowd-pleaser.
