Double chocolate cake with black velvet icing

Rich, chocolatey black velvet Halloween cake has a deep chocolate flavor and moist, velvety texture. It's filled and frosted with black cocoa buttercream for a true, decadent chocolate pairing! It's scary good!

Adapted from: Gourmet via Epicurious Notes: The original recipe calls for making a chocolate ganache, which sounds heavenly, but I have always adored my grandmother’s chocolate glaze recipe — it’s called black velvet icing and it contains eggs, which is odd, but it’s so good — so that is the one I use. If you want to use Gourmet’s chocolate ganache, find it here. Some commenters have found the amount not to be enough for a full cake, so I've updated the quantities below to be a double…

Double Dark Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing from Dimples and Delights

This cake is everything a chocolate cake should be: fudgy, moist, intensely chocolaty. Topped with black velvet icing, this cake becomes both an elegant dessert and a perfect treat to snack on with your morning coffee.

Black velvet cake - moist black chocolate cake with black fudge frosting! Naturally colored with black cocoa for a unique Oreo-like flavor; it's a rich chocolate dessert perfect as a Halloween cake, for birthdays, and more!

Source: Gourmet via Epicurious Notes: If you want to make a larger cake, you can make the original recipe. Find it here. Here, I’ve made a half recipe and baked it in two 6x2-inch round cake pans. You could also use one standard round or square cake pan (measuring about 10x2-inches). For the first time, too, instead of making my grandmother's black velvet icing, which I love, but which is a little fussy (calling for eggs and one's full attention), I made Gourmet's chocolate ganache, which is…

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing Ingredients: 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, plus more for greasing ramekins 6 ounces...

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing Ingredients : 1 3/4 cups (230g) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup (30g) cornstarch 1 cup (100g)...

You guys, I am flipping out just a little over here right now. You know I'm a little self-conscious of my photography skills, and layer cakes are the bane of my existence. No mater what I do, they look all skeewompus, and could not for the life of me figure out how people got those PERFECT cake shots! I'd set up the shot JUST like the pictures I admired, perfect slice, perfect angle, perfect plate, perfect light... and it just didn't work. It was like the fun house mirror version, every…

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