Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe with step by step pictures. Decadent three layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting is perfect for any special occasions.
Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe
I made this cake for a birthday party. She told me to make a chocolate cake and it should be really chocolaty. I am happy that I have the best chocolate cake recipe in the world. So I promised her.
This cake is so soft and has a rich chocolate taste to it. I frosted this cake with two types of frosting. I used a simple chocolate ganache to frost outside and cream cheese icing to frost inside, since I had some left over from this recipe. But you don’t have to do that. You can any of your favorite frosting.
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Ingredients for Making Chocolate Layer Cake
- All Purpose Flour - 300 gms / 2 ½ cup / 10.5 ounces
- Sugar – 220 gms / 1 cup +2 tblspn / 7.5 ounces
- Eggs-4
- Cocoa – 2 tblspn
- Baking Powder- 1 ½ tsp
- Baking Soda – ½ tsp
- Butter-200 gms / 7 ounces / 1 cup
- Milk- 4 tblspn
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp - Dark Chocolate Chips– 200 gms / 7 ounces / 1 ¼ cup
- Cream Cheese Frosting as needed ( Click Here for Recipe )
- Chocolate Ganache as needed ( Click Here for Recipe )
HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
1)PRE PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350 °F. Butter three tins generously and dust the inside with flour and tip the excess out. Set this aside for a moment.
Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.Set this aside for a moment.
Take milk and chocolate chips in a sauce pan and melt it gently. once it boils switch off the flame and allow it to melt completely.
Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl and beat till creamy and fluffy. Add in eggs and beat well. Now pour in melted chocolate and mix well. Now sift in the flour mixture and cocoa in this and fold gently until combined.
Pour this on to three prepared tin and bake it for 25 – 30 tins. Let this cool a bit before removing from the tin. Leave this cake to cool completely over the wire rack.
I sliced some from the top to make it even for frosting. Prepare Cream Cheese Frosting and Chocolate Ganache to frost the cakes. Now take once cake and frost with cream cheese frosting then stack another cake on top and spread some more frosting. At last keep another slice and cover the entire cake with chocolate ganache. Slice and serve or give it as present.
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Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2½ cup All Purpose Flour (300 gms | 10.5 ounces)
- 1 cup Sugar (200 grams)
- 4 Eggs
- 2 tbsp Cocoa
- 1½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter (200 grams | 7 ounces)
- 4 tbsp Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1¼ cup Dark Chocolate Chips (200 grams | 7 ounces)
- Cream Cheese Frosting as needed
- Chocolate Ganache as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350 °F.
- Butter three tins generously and dust the inside with flour and tip the excess out..Set this aside for a moment.
- Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl..Set this aside for a moment.
- Take milk and chocolate chips in a sauce pan and melt it gently..once it boils switch off the flame and allow it to melt completely.
- Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl and beat till creamy and fluffy.
- Add in eggs and beat well.
- Now pour in melted chocolate and mix well.
- Now sift in the flour mixture and cocoa in this and fold gently until combined.
- Pour this on to three prepared tin and bake it for 25 – 30 tins.
- Let this cool a bit before removing from the tin..Leave this cake to cool completely over the wire rack.
- I sliced some from the top to make it even for frosting.
- Prepare Cream Cheese Frosting and Chocolate Ganache to frost the cakes.
- Now take once cake and frost with cream cheese frosting then stack another cake on top and spread some more frosting.Atlast keep another slice and cover the entire cake with chocolate ganache.
- Slice and serve or give it as present.
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| Now take your cream cheese frosting...(Click Here for Recipe) |
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| Take your chocolate ganache icing..( Click Here for Recipe ) |
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Prabhamani
Wonderful cake..Loved it .
Lizzy
Mmmmmmm...this looks amazing! My hubby and sons usually request a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for their birthdays...I'll have to try your recipe next. Super chocolaty with the melted chocolate AND the cocoa! Must taste wonderful~
Have a great weekend!
Anna
Son maravillosos tus paso a paso y la tarta se ve exquisita!!!. besos
Gloria
This cake look amazing and yumm! love it! gloria
Chitra
wow , wonderful 🙂
Chitra
wow , wonderful 🙂
Manju
Yummy....I love chocolate cakes. I should try this sometime.
Regards,
Manju
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Love this pretty with full of chocolate! Yummy!!
M.R.T.E
Mi siguiente entrada es muy parecida a esta 🙂 una rica tarta muy muy sencilla y parecidas saludos
Shabs
Wowowo , I am drooling , this cake looks really delish , will try yours next time while thinking of making chocolate cake 🙂 .
kankana
I can never frost a cake neatly. You have done a very good job 🙂
Dzoli
Very nice cake(of course when it;s with so much chocolate:)))
Asiya
Looks great! Chocolate cake is a favorite with me and my boys!
Neha
Cake looks very yummy....
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow delicious and u have layer it perfectly...very nice!
Heather @ girlichef.com
It definitely looks big and beautiful and chocolatey...enough to make anyone smile! Delicious 🙂
Lisa
What a fantastic looking cake. My girls love chocolate cake and this will be our afternoon project tomorrow. Thank you!
Amina Khaleel
This indeed looks the best chocolate cake ever.. thanks for sharing... bookmarking it...
Priyanka
Yummy Cake....lovely photos, even I like Rachel Allen's cake recipes
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Nice cake...........
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yummy n perfect cake....arthi i tried ur galic chutney....it was yummy and super..v had it with dosa...thank u dear!
Chitra
wow, its a wonderful cake 🙂
Daksha
Wow very creative and unique combo of flavors..Looks delicious cakes..Lovely too.
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Archana
Just when I tell myself no more chocolate recipes you have to put this temptation in my way. So how can I refuse looking at it?
yummy cake.
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Beautiful, yummy looking cake...especially for me. I love chocolatey cakes like this one. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. Thanks.
sangee vijay
wow...its really a wonderful cake...very unique and lovely recipe...thankx for sharing..bookmarked!!
Coleen
Great job. Did you weigh your butter? There are 16 tablespoons of butter in a cup (your recipe says 7 tablespoons).
Aarthi
Coleen..That is not 7 tblspn..It is 7 ounces...
Pegasuslegend
Looks wonderful, love your dog too!
Vidhya
Yummy cake and I am a bit envious of your friend who got this lovely cake.
Indu
Ooh, looks so chocolatey
Rosita Vargas
Un buen trozo me llevaría esto es estupendo,chocolate y chocolate,abrazos hugs,hugs.
Tamara
this is a beautiful cake!!
Praba Arun
Lovely cake Aarthi. How do u bake as three separate cakes? I mean in various racks in a single oven ? Or do u use two ovens? Thanks!
Aarthi
@Praba ArunI have a big oven, i baked two cake at a time, and then i baked the third one after that
Praba Arun
Thanks so much for ur prompt reply. So u bake two cakes in a single rack in ur big oven? Also is it ok to rest the third cake batter till one batch is baked? TIA.
Aarthi
@Praba Arunyes you can rest the other cake, it is not going to be a issue
Vidhya Madhan
Hai arthi.. Thank u so much for this super recipe.. I tried this today to celebrate my first new year with my hubby after our marriage.. He is a foodie and he just love it.. I turned it as base for black forest cake and its really delicious...wish u happy new year and thank you once again.. I just love ur recipes.. Keep rocking...
nasima barad
Hi aarthi i love your recipes but please specify the size of the pan and i have a small microwave convection oven in which i cant bake 2-3 tins together and i want to make layered cakes without using the oven twice please advise on whether i can bake a cake and cut it from between and apply the frosting thank you reply fast and i want eggless recipes thank you dear
Aarthi
@nasima baradthe size of the pan is 15 cm
Aishwarya Rangan
Hi .. can u suggest me which baking tin is good on convection microwave ... non stick or aluminium? ? From which shopping site u get ??
Aarthi
u can go for aluminium.
shylaja
Aarthi can I do this cake without egg?? Any possibility???? Waiting for your reply
silvia
wow...love it! I'm gonna try it for my son. thanks!
Forum
Few questions if you could help-
Is the butter used unsalted?
Is the cocoa powder unsweetened?
If I don’t use dark choclate for melting choclate, will it turn out fine?
Aarthi
Butte is unsalted. Cocoa is unsweetened. yes u can use dark chocolate