3,496 chocolate cake recipes

The famous Tom Cruise Cake: a German chocolate poke cake soaked in condensed milk and butterscotch, piled with whipped cream and crushed Heath bars. Outrageously rich, dead simple, and worth every sticky, toffee-laced bite.

Fudge nut cake with melted unsweetened chocolate and chopped nuts baked in a single 9x13 pan or two round layers. A dense, fudgy from-scratch chocolate cake with old-fashioned charm.

Spaceship cake shapes a chocolate loaf cake into a rocket, studs it with slivered almonds for porthole windows, and pours warm hot fudge sauce over the top. Fun retro kids' birthday cake.

Better-Than-Sex cake: poke cake made from German chocolate cake mix soaked with sweetened condensed milk and caramel, topped with whipped cream and crushed candy bars.

Four-layer Celebration Cake stacks chocolate and banana cake with rum-spiked pineapple cream filling and rich chocolate frosting. A showstopper for birthdays and holidays.

Slice-and-bake chocolate walnut cookies built on a flourless-style dough with a pound of melted semi-sweet chocolate, espresso, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Crackly tops, fudgy centers, almost no flour.

Pistachio bundt cake marbled with chocolate syrup, built on a yellow cake mix and pistachio pudding base. A vintage doctored cake mix bundt with a beautiful green-and-brown swirl.

Amaretto-spiked chocolate cake layered with boozy whipped cream frosting and topped with handmade chocolate trees. A showstopping holiday centerpiece using a simple cake mix shortcut.

Angel food cake slices stuffed with chocolate chips, marshmallows, fruit preserves, or coconut, then grilled golden in a sandwich maker. A 15-minute dessert kids go wild for.

Frozen tri-color cake with split angel food layered with chocolate ice cream and raspberry sherbet, frosted in almond whipped cream. No-bake make-ahead dessert.

Pumpkin-shaped Halloween cake made from two chocolate bundt cakes stacked together, frosted orange with a banana stem and fruit roll-up jack-o-lantern face.

Devil's food cake mix upgraded with melted chocolate chips, sour cream, vanilla pudding, and pureed raspberries, served with a mango-raspberry sauce and fresh kiwi garnish.

No bake death by chocolate trifle layers devil's food cake, Kahlua, chocolate pudding, crushed Heath bars, and whipped topping. A potluck-ready chocolate dessert in 15 minutes, no oven required.

A tri-colored Neapolitan bundt cake with vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate layers from one box of cake mix, finished with a drizzly chocolate glaze. A showstopper that's surprisingly easy.

Better-than-anything cake with German chocolate base soaked in sweetened condensed milk and caramel sauce, topped with whipped topping and crushed Heath or Snickers bars. Make-ahead party cake.

Easy cappuccino bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, espresso powder, cinnamon, chocolate chips, and hazelnuts. Dusted with powdered sugar and served with sweetened ricotta.