Wickedly rich chocolate cake recipes

When you’re in the mood for a decadent dessert, you can’t look past this chocolate mud cake recipe. Dense, moist and covered in dark chocolate ganache, this cake is a chocolate lover’s dream

This eggless cake is a lifesaver if you’re in the mood for cake but have run out of eggs!

These little dark cakes are sized to share, but you could also bake them in Texas muffin tins – just shorten the cooking time. Recipes and styling by Fiona Hugues. Photography by Jani Shepherd; Gatherum Collectif.

This chocolate and coffee sour cream cake recipe is deliciously moist and diabetes friendly. Featuring notes of vanilla and orange, this cake is sure to go down a treat

Alexa Johnston bakes a reliable sweet treat to keep you stocked for the cold months ahead.

Nici Wickes says that this is the only chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever need! It makes a high, moist, dense cake that keeps well and can be decorated in so many ways

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Whip up this incredibly indulgent chocolate whisky cake recipe next time you need to impress! Decorate with Maltesers and grated chocolate for a delicious finish

This is for the serious chocolate lover, a rich chocolate cake base layered with chocolate cream frosting. If you like, serve with coconut whipped cream and raspberry coulis. Raw desserts are one of the best ways to showcase the amazing flavours you can achieve with raw ingredients. It’s hard to imagine when eating this cake how it could possibly be raw; it just tastes insanely decadent and chocolatey. What is really brilliant about it, other than being full of chocolate, is that you now have a use for all that nut pulp you have left after making nut milk.

This is a moist and rich chocolate cake that is easy to bake. Although we don’t need an excuse to eat cake, the inclusion of beetroot makes it packed full of good nutrients to ward off any winter ailments!

For a sweet dose of Easter extravagance try this decadent chocolate layer cake recipe with layers of chocolate cake and mascarpone

This monumental chocolate cake is Fiona Hugues’ extreme solution to those times when you need an epic cake to either celebrate something audacious or silly, or to shed tears over as you commiserate with a loved one. Fiona has included every fantastic, wicked treat that she has at some time or other danced around with, or sat and wept with, and enveloped them in a Snickers-like cream and then drizzled in salted caramel sauce. Recipe and styling by Fiona Hugues. Photography by Jani Shepherd, Gatherum Collectif.

This decadent, indulgent flourless chocolate cake is perfectly topped with crunchy hazelnuts. A fantastic Paleo-friendly recipe you can enjoy for a scrumptious afternoon tea treat or dessert