Today I’m sharing a roundup of the BEST Chocolate Cake recipes! These have become our favorite chocolate cakes over the years.
Sharing the BEST Chocolate Cake Recipes!
We have several chocolate cake recipes (and white chocolate cake recipes) that we love, in addition to several cake recipes that combine our favorite frostings and fillings to use with them! If you love chocolate cake, you MUST put these cakes on your list to try!
In this roundup, you will find both scratch chocolate cake recipes as well as our favorite doctored chocolate cake mix recipes.
We’ve also included a few cake design ideas for your favorite chocolate cakes!
Have fun scrolling through, we hope that you’ll be inspired to hop in the kitchen and whip up a chocolate cake recipe or two!
The Best Chocolate Cake Recipes!
Today we are sharing a roundup of the BEST Chocolate Cake Recipes! If you love all things chocolate, you are going to love these super moist crowd-pleasing cakes!
If you're looking for a moist, delicious cake with a light chocolate flavor, this Milk Chocolate Recipe is for you! We have fallen in love with this cake. Ultra moist milk chocolate cake layers are filled and frosted with a luscious milk chocolate buttercream and milk chocolate ganache! This recipe is not as rich as some of our other chocolate cakes- it has a milder chocolate flavor that is just heavenly!
This easy and delicious Chocolate Chip Cake starts with a simple cake mix and has wonderful flavor! If you're craving just a small dose of chocolate, a chocolate chip cake is the way to go! This moist layer cake has a hint of brown sugar and is frosted with chocolate buttercream!
Moist and delicious Hot Chocolate Cake with Hot Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Whipped Cream! This decadent scratch cake recipe is perfect for the chocolate lovers in your life! We've topped it all off with a mountain of whipped cream!
This decadent Chocolate Turtle Cake with chocolate cake layers, ganache, caramel sauce, toasted pecans, and chocolate buttercream is sure to please!I This recipe is rich, super moist, and has so much flavor! I love the added crunch from the pecans as well as the combination of caramel, chocolate, and pecans. If you love chocolate turtles, you are going to fall in love with this cake recipe!
This Buttermilk Chocolate Cake is so moist ,fluffy, and perfectly chocolatey! We have several favorite scratch chocolate cake recipes on our site, and this is a great one! The addition of the buttermilk makes for even softer layers. Keep this homemade Chocolate Buttermilk Cake in mind the next time your chocolate cravings strike! YUM!
Calling all Nutella Lovers- this Nutella layer cake is the best! Decadent chocolate layers with Nutella and Nutella buttercream filling & frosting! So good! You will love this chocolate hazelnut cake!
This decadent Chocolate Kahlua cake is the perfect special occasion cake! Rich chocolate cake layers are brushed with Kahlua, and filled and frosted with a luscious chocolate Kahlua buttercream!
This flavorful Chocolate Cherry Cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser! Moist, cherry flavored chocolate cake layers are filled and frosted with cherry cream cheese frosting!
This moist, decadent classic chocolate cake from scratch is the BEST! This cake recipe uses the Reverse Creaming Method of mixing, creating an extra moist cake with a tight crumb and velvety texture.
These decadent scratch chocolate cupcakes are so moist and taste fantastic with all sorts of frostings from vanilla buttercream to mint chocolate chip, coconut, or chocolate!
Nobody would believe that this decadent chocolate cake all starts with a simple mix! This chocolate sour cream cake recipe is always a crowd pleaser! We have a scratch version of this recipe as well!
This cake is a decadent, flavorful homemade chocolate cake recipe paired with a heavenly pecan pie filling! This recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!
This moist and delicious Chocolate Cake all starts with a simple cake mix and a secret ingredient or two! Nobody would guess that this amazing chocolate cake isn't from scratch! So good!
This Chocolate Italian Cream Cake recipe is a delicious twist on a beloved classic!
This Candy Cane cake not only has amazing flavor, but the striped filling is so much fun!
These Chocolate Sour Cream Cake Layers are so ultra moist and chocolatey! We gave a doctored cake mix version of this recipe as well!
Oh how I love Mint Chocolate Chip cake! The flavor combo is just perfect, and I loved decorating the cake with ombre mint buttercream and a dramatic chocolate drip!
This German Chocolate Cake tastes amazing! Moist German chocolate cake layers with a flavorful coconut and pecan filling. This recipe is always a crowd pleaser!
This decadent double chocolate pound cake tastes amazing and is so simple to make!
White Chocolate Peppermint Cake! This recipe is perfection-- keep it in mind for your holiday entertaining!
White Chocolate and Raspberry are the perfect match, not to mention that it makes for the most beautiful slices!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter is a winning combination! I've made this cake SO many times for family birthdays and more.
This Black Forest Cake From Scratch is the Best! Chocolate cake infused with Cherry Liqueur and filled with whipped cream and cherry filling!
This moist and delicious Marble Cake recipe is always a crowd pleaser! Frost with your favorite chocolate frosting (we love it with our Classic Chocolate Buttercream)!
This Almond Joy Cake is amazing! Decadent chocolate cake layers with a thick and flavorful coconut filling, frosted in rich ganache.
Rich homemade Devil's Food Cake layers go perfectly with our raspberry filling and frosting!
Everybody loves Oreo Cake! Decadent chocolate cake layers are filled with Oreo Buttercream and a delicious chocolate drip!
This White Chocolate Cranberry Layer Cake has so much flavor. I love the tartness of the cranberries combined with the sweetness of white chocolate. This is the perfect cake any time of year, but we especially love it for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Learn how to make this fantastic, FUN, Candy Bar Drip Cake! Perfect for chocolate lovers!
This homemade Chocolate Chip Cake recipe has all of the flavors that you love in a chocolate chip cookie. You'll love the hint of brown sugar flavor!
This delicious Nutella Buttercream has amazing flavor from chocolate and hazelnuts. Makes a great filling and frosting, and pipes perfectly.
This Kit Kat Checkerboard Cake is such a FUN and easy way to decorate your chocolate cakes!
This decadent and dramatic ganache drip recipe is SO easy to make! We love to add it to our cakes for an added wow factor (plus, it's delicious)!
Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake is the perfect combination of chocolate, espresso, and toffee! As someone who loves everything chocolate and everything coffee, this is one of my favorite cakes! The toffee is a fantastically flavorful additional as well- these three flavors are perfect together. Enjoy!
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That’s a lot of Chocolate Cakes! :-) Yummy! :-)
Melissa, Are all these cakes dense enough to be stacked? Thanks, Vivian
@MsGF- Yes it is! I’m craving chocolate cake now ;0) —
@Vivian- Yes, these can all be stacked. The one titled “Chocolate Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix” is the softest, but stackable as long as you have good supports. It wouldn’t be my first choice for fondant though.
Yum! I love chocolate cake :)