20+ Devilishly Delicious Chocolate Cakes {Roundup}

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people;
it does for me.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Happy National Chocolate Cake Day!

January 27th is National Chocolate Cake Day! (Yes! It’s a real thing!) In celebration of this momentous annual celebration, I asked some of my favorite foodies to share their best chocolate cake recipes. Many thanks for all who generously shared.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
~ Charles M. Schulz

The Bundts

Eggless Milkless Chocolate Cake with Caramel Frosting from Melanie Makes
Double Chocolate Bundt Cake from It’s Yummy
Quadruple Chocolate Bundt Cake from Shockingly Delicious
Chocolate Caramel & Pecan Bundt Cake from Balancing Motherhood

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
~ Mariska Hargitay

Decadent Bites

Single Serving No-Bake Chocoalte Peanut Butter Desserts from Mother Would Know
Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes from Chocolate & Marrow
Champagne Brownie Cake from Recipe for Perfection
Molten Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Filling from Mind Over Batter

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
~ Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

A Little Something Extra

Chocolate Cola Cake from Baking Beauty
Cold Chocolate Snacking Cake from The View From Great Island
Chocolate Mega or Jumbo Muffins from Mother Would Know

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
~ Katharine Hepburn

Layers Upon Layers

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting from Chez CateyLou
Chocolate Mud Cake from Bake Play Smile
Strawberry Chocolate Anniversary Cake from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Supreme Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mousse Filling from Sweet & Savory by Shinee

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
~ Dave Barry

Picture Perfect

Chocolate Almond Pound Cake from The Luna Cafe
Almost Flourless Chocolate Cake from Foodie Goes Healthy
Flourless Chocolate Decadence from The Joy Kitchen

“Can I come back and see you sometime?”
“Long as you bring me some chocolate,” Gramma said, and smiled. “I’m partial to chocolate.”
“Gramma, you’re diabetic.”
“I’m old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.”
~ Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls’ Dance

Sweet Temptation

Chocolate Whiskey Bundt Cake from Big Flavors from a Tiny Kitchen
Kahlua Coffee Poke Cake from Very Culinary
Gluten-free Chocolate Cake from No Recipes

Oh. My. Goodness. I just spent a few hours drooling over these while I put this post together, and even after all this contemplation, I can’t pick a favorite. Can you?

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Holiday Eggnog Cake {with Rum-Bourbon Glaze}

December 9 By Renée ♥ 4 Comments

Want to be the hit of your next holiday party? Serve up this amazing, uber-moist Holiday Eggnog Cake {with Brandy-Rum glaze}! This bundt is a crowd-pleaser for any occasion!

Let me introduce you to one of the most delicious bundts you will ever sink your teeth into – my amazing holiday Eggnog Cake.

{She said “Bundt!”}

OK, I know that at least a few of you just giggled, or at least smiled inside your head. If you didn’t, then watch the short clip below, because you have obviously missed out.

“There’s a hole in this cake!”

(I think I’ve watched the Bundt Cake scene from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” at least a dozen times and it still cracks me up. (If you’ve never seen the movie, I highly recommend it.) Now, on to the cake-making.)

5 from 1 vote

Holiday Eggnog {Bundt} Cake

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Ingredients

Cake

1/2 lb unsalted butter 2 sticks, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 large eggs separated and at room temperature
3 cups flour
1 Tbs baking powder
2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup egg nog

Glaze

1 cup sugar
1/4 lb unsalted butter 1 stick
1/4 cup water
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 cup dark rum Non-Alch.option: 1 T. rum flavoring
1/4 cup brandy Non-Alch. option: 7 T. apple cider

Instructions

For Cake:

Preheat oven to 375°. Grease a bundt pan with butter or Crisco and dust with flour.
Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks.
Sift together dry ingredients. Add to creamed mixture alternately with egg nog.
Note: If you typically make your cakes from a mix, be aware that this batter is much thicker. This is what it looks like before the egg whites are folded in - almost like a very soft cookie dough.
In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until they form soft peaks, and fold into batter. Once the whipped egg whites are folded in, spread the batter into your prepared bundt pan. Give the pan a couple of good taps on the counter to make sure all those little ridges are filled in.
Bake 50-55 minutes, or until tester comes out clean. Top of cake will crack. Remove from oven and cool in pan 10 minutes before turning out.

For Glaze:

Combine sugar, butter, water and nutmeg in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in rum and brandy, or flavoring and apple juice. Glaze will be very thin.
Invert cake onto rack. Prick top of cake with a long fork or skewer at 1-inch intervals.
To glaze, start with very warm glaze and a very warm cake. The glaze will be very thin when you start, but will thicken slightly as you go. Use a pastry brush and take your time, or all the glaze will run off. I usually glaze a layer and then wait a minute and glaze again, repeating until all the glaze is gone.
Let cake sit at room temperature for 2-4 hours before serving.
Freezes well.

Notes

If you are concerned about the alcohol being in your finished cake, don't be. It will all boil off immediately when you add it to the boiling hot glaze mixture. In fact, when you do this, stand back a little or the alcohol cloud from the burn-off may sting your eyes. (Voice of experience.)

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