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…

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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…

Black cocoa and coffee (instead of the traditional boiled water) make up for the Ultimate Black Cocoa Cake...a delicious grown-up chocolate cake that is begging for a creamy whipped frosting, fruit, and herbs piled on top!