Cocoa powder, chocolate chips, cinnamon, pecans, and carrots create a showstopper cake, made even better with the addition of chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

There are a lot of ingredients in this recipe, but the nice thing is that they are almost all pantry basics.

While I enjoy this cake year-round, I find it especially nice to enjoy on a warm day when heavy desserts feel like too much.

Ingredients and Equipment

This recipe uses superfine sugar, also known as caster sugar. Superfine sugar is, just as the name implies, a very finely ground sugar. Because it is so fine, it helps to keep the cake nice and light. If you don’t want to buy a whole package of superfine sugar, you can pulse regular granulated sugar in a food processor to create your own superfine sugar.

Perhaps the best part of this sauce is that it only takes six minutes to make! Let’s get started!

Ingredients

Of course, the key ingredient in Mexican chocolate sauce is chocolate! The better the chocolate that you use, the better the end result will be. I use dark chocolate baking discs from TCHO [paid link]. You can also use your favorite dark chocolate chips.

It’s not a cake for beginners, but if you are up for a challenge, you will be wildly rewarded with the end result. The Baumkuchen cake is gorgeous, moist, not too sweet, and the almond flavor pairs so well with the dark chocolate topping.

Rather than removing baked layers from the pan and stacking them, in this Baumkuchen cake – as in the spit version – each layer is baked on top of the one before it. Using top heat only (from the broiler) and only short bursts of heat keeps the bottom layers from burning. If done correctly, each layer should be identical.

This cake would be great with any topping, but the the whiskey sauce makes it extra special. There’s even a little whiskey in the batter to give the cake itself a hint of that flavor.

Ingredients

This recipe uses mostly basic baking ingredients. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you gather them:

I originally started making this recipe as a decedent treat for Passover, but it’s wonderful any time of the year a great choice if you are serving dessert to someone who is following a gluten-free diet.

Ingredients

This recipe doesn’t use any fancy ingredients. But, you will need A LOT of chocolate. Because chocolate is the predominant flavor, make sure you use a chocolate that you love. One of my favorite chocolates to bake with is TCHO.

You can’t go wrong with it as a stand-alone drink, mixed into coffee, or mixed into a cocktail like a mudslide!

This has been one of the most popular recipes on my blog since the day I shared it. Read through the comments to see all the love it has gotten.

This Christmas Bark makes for a wonderful homemade holiday gift. Who wouldn’t love the gift of chocolate for Christmas or the New Year?!

Ingredients

To make this Christmas bark, you’ll need:

These treats are perfect mini versions of the cake! Around here, we like them even better than the cake.

Ingredients

Some of the key ingredients you’ll need for this recipe are:

Deva Williamson, owner of Big Laugh Kitchen and winner of Food Network’s Candy Land, joins me to offer up instructions and tips to help you make these treats.

Ingredients

To make these, you’ll need three basic things: