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Valentine's Day Dessert: Red Velvet Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

This easy Valentine's Day Red Velvet Cake is deliciously moist, and oh so good. Similar to Devil's Food Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, this red cake and snow white frosting is perfect for Valentine's Day, or Christmas. Just change the sprinkles and decorations!

This is my favorite Red Velvet Cake recipe that I tweaked a bit after coming across Brown Eyed Baker's Red Velvet Poke Cake today. The difference between her cake and my original recipe is that she poked holes in the cake after it was baked, and poured sweetened condensed milk into it. Seriously! So, I pulled out my Red Velvet Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting recipes out, and made this cake my own!

I'll have more pictures of my Valentine's Day Red Velvet Cake tomorrow. The cake wasn't ready to cut into tonight. Once I do, you can bet it'll go quick, especially if the guys are around!

Red Velvet Cake Recipe

• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 Tablespoons dark Dutch process cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup canola oil
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon red food coloring, or 1/8 teaspoon of Wilton red gel cake color
• 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk

How To Make Red Velvet Cake

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray or butter one 8 X 8-inch square baking pan.
2. In a small bowl, whisk buttermilk and vanilla, and set aside.
3. Blend flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda and salt together in another bowl, and set aside.
4. Cream the sugar and oil together on medium-high speed in a large bowl fitted with a whisk attachment. Add one egg at a time and whisk. Add vinegar and food coloring or gel, and beat the batter well.
5. With mixer on low-medium speed, add half the flour and cocoa mixture to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk, and scraping as needed between additions. Mix until batter is nice and smooth with no lumps.
6. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
7. Bake cake for 35-45 minutes, or until a pick comes out clean.
8. Cool cake for about 10 minutes on a wire rack, then using the end of a wooden spoon handle, poke holes into the cake about 1-inch apart.
9. Gently pour sweetened condensed milk over the top, making sure it drips down into the holes.
10. Cool cake completely before frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 6 Tablespoons butter, softened
• 4 Tablespoons Marshmallow Fluff
• 3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-2 Tablespoon milk, if necessary

How To Make Cream Cheese Frosting

1. Using a stand mixer, and fitted with a paddle attachment, or in a medium to large bowl and a hand mixer, beat softened cream cheese, butter and Marshmallow Fluff together on medium speed until creamy.
2. Add confectioners' sugar 1/2 cup at a time and beat after each addition, scraping the sides of the bowl when necessary. Beat until smooth and fluffy.
3. Turn mixer to low, add vanilla and beat again, adding milk only if needed for proper spreading or piping consistency. Cover bowl with damp towel until ready to use.

You can also make Red Velvet Cupcakes with this recipe! This size recipe makes between 12-15 cupcakes.

MARDI GRAS King Cake Cupcakes Recipe: A King Arthur Flour Dessert Recipe

Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, and Shrove Tuesday are all celebrated today, Tuesday, February 12. King Cake is served throughout the Mardi Gras Carnival season. Fat Tuesday is a feast day before the season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

Mardi Gras King Cake and cupcakes are just two of the foods associated with this holiday and well worth the effort to make them yourself, especially if you can't find them at a bakery in your local area. The most traditional New Orleans King Cake is a ring of twisted cinnamon roll-style bread topped with icing or sugar, usually colored purple (which represents justice), green (faith), and gold (power) which are the traditional Mardi Gras colors. King Cake cupcakes are a lot easier to make since there is no yeast involved, and kids love to make them, and to eat them!

Most King Cakes have a small small plastic doll (usually a Baby Jesus figurine) or other trinket placed inside. Some traditions say the person who finds the trinket is declared the King or Queen of the day, bakes the next King Cake, or hosts the next Mardi Gras party. 

Mardi Gras King Cupcakes from King Arthur Flour

The flavors of King Cake, Mardi Gras' signature confection, are mirrored in these nutmeg and lemon-scented cupcakes. Cream cheese icing, garnished with sparkling sugars in traditional New Orleans Mardi Gras colors, add the perfect touch. This King Cake cupcakes recipe comes from King Arthur Flour who provided the gold, purple and green sparkling sugars for the King Cake and cupcakes.

Cupcakes

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 2/3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons soft butter
• 2/3 cup milk, at room temperature
• 1/4 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia; OR 1 teaspoon vanilla + 1/8 teaspoon lemon oil
• 2 large eggs

Icing

• 3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup (half of an 8-ounce package) cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon lemon oil
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar1 to 2 tablespoons milk, enough to make a spreadable icing
• colored sugars, preferably purple, yellow, and green

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease and flour a muffin tin. You can also line the muffin tins with papers, and spray the insides of the papers.
2. To make the cupcakes: In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the sugar, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.
3. Add the butter and beat with an electric mixer at low speed, until the mixture looks sandy.
4. Combine the milk and vanilla and add, all at once. Mix at low speed for 30 seconds, then increase the speed to medium and beat for 30 seconds. Scrape the bottom and sides of the mixing bowl.
5. With the mixer running at low speed, add 1 egg. Increase the speed to medium and beat for 30 seconds. Add the second egg, again beating for 30 seconds.
6. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, and beat briefly, just till smooth.
7. Scoop the batter by heaping 1/4-cupfuls into the prepared muffin tin. A muffin scoop works well here.
8. Bake the cupcakes for 23 to 25 minutes, until they've domed, and are a light golden brown around the edges. They'll spring back when pressed gently on top, and a toothpick inserted in the center will come out clean.
9. Remove the cupcakes from the oven, and place on a rack to cool completely before icing.

To make the icing:

1. Combine the butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and lemon oil in a medium-sized bowl, and beat them together until light and fluffy.
2. Add the sugar gradually, beating well.
3. Beat in the milk a little at a time, until the frosting is a spreadable consistency.
4. Spread each cake with icing, and immediately dip in gold, purple, and green sparkling sugars, covering about 1/3 of the cupcake with each color sugar.
5. Store at room temperature for several days. For longer storage, wrap well and freeze.
6. Yield: 12 cupcakes

Recipe and Photo used with permission from King Arthur Flour.

20 BEST CHRISTMAS DESSERTS: Most Popular Holiday Pies, Cheesecakes and Christmas Cookies Recipes

Christmas is finally here, so I thought I'd put together a list of my Top 20 Christmas dessert recipes. Homemade Apple Pie, Red Velvet Cheesecake, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Christmas Cookies, Chocolate French Silk Pie, Pumpkin Pie, New York Style Strawberry Cheesecake, Coconut Cake, and Cherry Cheesecake are definitely on my list this year. Not that I'm going to make them all this holiday, but I sure am craving them all! What are your favorite Christmas dessert recipes that you simply can't do without around the holidays?

Top 20 Christmas Desserts

Christmas Cookie Recipes - It seems you can never eat too many Christmas Cookies. Platters of festive Christmas cookies are already going to parties at schools, offices and cookie exchanges. Make a number of different Christmas Cookie recipes, eat some, and give the rest away!

Carrot Cake and Cupcakes Recipe - What would the holidays be without Carrot Cake or Carrot Cake Cupcakes? Ice this classic dessert with light and fluffy cream cheese frosting, and sprinkle with walnuts, or not! It's your holiday, enjoy it!

Coconut Cake with Coconut Buttercream Frosting - Snow white cake layers flavored with pure coconut extract and Coco Lopez, then frosted with pure white coconut frosting, and decorated with sweetened and toasted shredded coconut flakes. Very Christmasy!




Classic Pumpkin Pie - Everyone's favorite Thanksgiving pie, the Libby's Pumpkin Pie recipe is also great for Christmas too. Libby includes their recipe on the back of the can of pumpkin, but you can use any homemade Pumpkin Pie recipe made with canned pumpkin puree.

Homemade Apple Pie with Granny Smith Apples - Grandma's All-American dessert, the humble Apple Pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream is everyone's favorite holiday pie - no matter what holiday it is.

Kentucky Derby Chocolate Pecan Pie - This easy pie has toasted pecans or walnuts, bourbon, classic pecan pie filling with brown sugar and butter, and gourmet chocolate chips in a flaky pie crust. The Kentucky Derby Chocolate Pecan Pie can be whipped up in no time, making this is great last minute race recipe.

Chocolate French Silk Pie - A sinfully rich chocolate pie piled with heaps of whipped cream. Make it in either a flaky pie crust, chocolate cookie crust, or graham cracker crust.

NY Style Strawberry Cheesecake - Who doesn't love Strawberry Cheesecake? This one is the creamiest and most decadent, especially on a graham cracker crust, and topped with the juiciest Christmas red strawberries.

Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust - Pumpkin Cheesecake isn't just for Thanksgiving. Christmas is also the perfect time for this ultra creamy pumpkin cheesecake that sits on a spicy molasses cookie crust.

Cherry Cheesecake with Graham Cracker Crust - This dessert is a favorite cheesecake for Christmas, especially with ruby red Christmas canned cherry pie filling.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake - Uber-rich & creamy chocolate cheesecake, studded with chunks of Reese's PB cups, all sitting on an Oreo Cookie crust, rivals anything the Cheesecake Factory can dish out!

Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe - Just like the Red Velvet Cheesecake Factory Recipe, this rich red and white layered New York Style Cheesecake and Red Velvet Cake is decorated with buttercream frosting, and would be striking on a Christmas buffet table.

Red Velvet Cupcakes Recipe - This dazzling Chocolate Red Velvet Cake is a total head-turner! With its bright red cake layers, and snow white frosting, this gorgeous cake will be the best dressed guest at this year's Christmas party!

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake - Extra rich cheesecake studded with mini chocolate chips, baked in a sweet Oreo Cookie crust. Who doesn't love chocolate chips, especially when it comes in the form of a cheesecake?

Easy Kahlua Tiramisu Recipe - Ladyfingers soaked in Kahlua, layered with sweet brandy whipped cream and cream cheese filling. This Easy Kahlua Tiramisu is dusted with cocoa for a delicious finale!

Best Ever Pie Crust Recipe - How To Make A Perfect Flaky Pie Crust for the Holidays
 

3 Easy Pie Crust Recipes - Oreo Cookie Crust, Graham Cracker Crust and Sweet Short Dough

Flaky Pie Crust Recipe by Sweety Pies

Soooooo... I was just a few Christmas Cookies short of a Happy Meal—I mean cookie platter. But there's tons of festive Christmas Cookie recipes under that cookie link, so I'm going to fudge it a little and call it 30 instead :-) Have a Very Merry Christmas!

RED, WHITE and BLUE DESSERT RECIPES: Patriotic 4th of July Desserts

Have a Star Spangled Banner holiday with these red, white and blue patriotic dessert recipes! Red, White and Blue Flag Cake; Fresh Strawberry and Blueberry Pie; Strawberry and Blueberry Shortcakes; Red, White and Blueberry Dessert Pizza; Red, White and Blueberry Cobbler; Red, White and Blue Fruit Salad. See a recurring theme? All but a few of these are my own tried-and-true recipes that I've posted over the years with Examiner and Suite101. My family enjoyed every last bite! Have a safe, happy and delicious 4th of July holiday!

Fresh Strawberry Pie Recipe: Big juicy strawberries chilled in homemade strawberry glaze, nestled in a graham cracker or vanilla cookie crust and topped with fresh whipped cream.

 

Red, White and Blue Flag Cake Recipe: What would the 4th of July be without a Red, White and Blue Flag Cake? Blueberry stars, strawberry stripes and sparklers set this Firecracker Cake off quite nicely!

 

 

Red, White and Blueberry Cobbler: Fresh Cherries, blueberries and raspberries found their way into a deep dish stoneware pie pan, sprinkled with some cinnamon and a bit of freshly grated lemon zest all topped with a buttery sweet cobbler dough and a dollop of whipped cream.

 

 

Red, White and Blue Dessert Pizza: Striking grilled pizza with raspberries, blueberries and pineapple all nestled in a sweet cheese topping on top of cinnamon dough. Perfect for a 4th of July cookout!

 

Red, White and Blue Strawberry Blueberry Tart: This strawberry tart is made with a sweet shortbread crust, filled with strawberry jam, fresh strawberries and blueberries. Top it all off with fresh whipped cream, or serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

 

 

Red White and Blue Fruit Salad Recipe: It doesn't have to be cake or pastry to qualify as dessert, so why not make it a healthy dessert with his patriotic fruit salad with the colors of the flag! Red strawberries and raspberries, almost white bananas and pineapple, and as blue as you can get blueberries make one beautiful fruit salad!

 

 

Red, White and Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe: Take this Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe and add blueberries to the topping along with the strawberries. Fresh tastes best, but canned strawberry and blueberry pie filling work just fine too.

 

 

Red Velvet Cake with Blueberries: Traditional Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting topped with fresh blueberries. Can't get much better than this!

 

 

Strawberry Cream Cake with Blueberries: Yellow cake filled and frosted with fresh whipped cream, strawberries and blueberries. Very refreshing and perfect for a summer party.

 

Strawberry & Blueberry Shortcakes: Take the traditional Strawberry Shortcake recipe, split some homemade Buttermilk Biscuits in half, sprinkle with fresh blueberries, and add plenty of whipped cream to these delightful berry shortcakes!

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe: Fresh strawberry rhubarb pie recipe is a summer favorite. Classic fruit pie with sweet strawberries and tart rhubarb mixed with sugar and spices, and baked in a double crust. Add some blueberries or blackberries for the holiday!

Blueberry Pie Recipe Made with Fresh Blueberries: Plump blueberries picked fresh from the blueberry bush, mixed with sugar and a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg and baked in a flaky doubled crusted pie crust. Serve with a side of fresh raspberries or strawberries for a red, white and blue dessert!

Fresh Strawberry Muffins: Made with my favorite blueberry muffin recipe, these strawberry muffins are chock full of fresh strawberries and topped with brown sugar streusel for an easy summer picnic or brunch. Add fresh blueberries or blackberries to your muffin batter for a red, white and blue treat!

VEGAN Baking Recipes: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Baking

You don't have to be on a vegan diet to enjoy these vegan baking recipes. Vegan Red Velvet Cake and Cupcakes Recipe and Vegan Cheesecake are just a few of the delicious vegan recipes in this brand new cookbook.

Save $5.90 by pre-ordering from Amazon, and Barnes & Noble now for only $11.05.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Baking is due to hit the book store shelves on April 5th, and Amazon will send the books the day it's released. It's also available in the Kindle edition for $9.99.

I received my two author's copies in the mail last week from the publisher and have been totally excited ever since. I still can't believe I'm holding the book in my hands after 14 months. It seems like yesterday!

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Easy Valentine's Day Desserts: Cute Valentine Cupcake Recipes

Valentine's Day is Monday, February 14th. Do you know where your cupcakes are? Red Velvet Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting are the most popular recipes for Valentines cupcakes. They're red and cute, and they taste way too good. What's not to like? Another perfect Valentines cupcake recipe are Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Buttercream Frosting. Make a batch of each, top with red and pink sprinkles, and arrange them together on a pretty serving platter lined with a frilly white doily. Gorgeous!

Cute Valentine Cupcake Recipes

• Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Coconut Cake with Coconut Buttercream Frosting

More Valentine's Day Cake Recipes

• Devil's Food Cake Recipe
• Mocha Cake Recipe
• Texas Sheet Cake Recipe
• German Chocolate Cake Recipe
• Basic Yellow Cake Recipe
• Spice Cake Recipe
• How To Freeze Frosted Cakes and Cupcakes

How To Make Red Velvet Valentines Cupcakes, and more

• Follow individual cake recipe as directed, except fill regular size paper-lined cupcake tins 3/4 full.
• Bake cupcakes for approximately 20 to 25 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
• Cool completely on wire racks before frosting or freezing.
• Spread the cream cheese frosting over the tops of the cupcakes as desired.
• Or, place frosting in a large pastry bag fitted with a large star or rosette tip.
• Starting close to the cupcake, firmly squeeze the bag and frosting through the tip in a round motion, finally swirling the frosting into a peak.
• Leave as is, or decorate with sprinkles, colored sugar or finely crumbled red velvet cake crumbs.

Most Popular Red Valentine's Day Desserts

• Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe: Cheesecake Factory Inspired!
• Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe with Graham Craker Crust
• Cherry Cheesecake Recipe with Graham Cracker Crust
• White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake with Oreo Cookie Crust
• Heart Shaped Valentine's Day Cakes
• Fresh Strawberry Shortcake with Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
• Strawberry Cream Cake with Cream Cheese Filling
• Red Velvet Cake & Cupcakes
• Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake
• Strawberry Mousse Pie & Parfaits
• Cherry Pie made with Fresh Cherries
• Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe
• Cherry Kisses Cookies with Hershey's Chocolate Kiss
• Soft Sugar Cookies with Valentine Sprinkles
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• Fresh Raspberry Pie Recipe
• Fresh Strawberry Pie Recipe
• Strawberry Daiquiri Frozen Pie
• Fresh Strawberry Tart with Shortbread Crust
• Heart Shaped Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry Jam
• Cherry Meringue Kiss Cookies
• Cherry Almond Scones

Thanksgiving Desserts: Recipes for Pumpkin Cheesecake, Red Velvet Cupcakes and more

Thanksgiving 2010: Turkey Day is this Thursday, November 25th. Do you have your Thanksgiving dessert recipes planned yet? Will it be Homemade Apple Pie, Classic Pumpkin Pie recipe, or Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie? Or perhaps something you haven't tried yet, like The Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe knock-off, or maybe get a head start on Christmas Cookies and serve up a platter of Pecan Butterballs, Peanut Butter Blossoms, and Shortbread Cookies. Whatever you have a craving for, there's something here for your Thanksgiving Desserts menu.

Best Thanksgiving Desserts

• Red Velvet Cheesecake Factory Recipe   
• Homemade Apple Pie Recipe With Fresh Apples   
• Chocolate French Silk Pie Recipe
• Classic Pumpkin Pie Recipe
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe with Gingersnap Crust  
• Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe
• Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie recipe with Roasted Pecans
• Kentucky Derby Pie Recipe
• Red Velvet Cupcakes with Craeam Cheese Frosting
• Shortbread Cookie Recipe Christmas Cookies
• Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies Recipe
• Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe
  
  

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY Cookies, Cupcake Recipes

 
  

Heart Shaped Valentine's Day Cakes, Valentine's Day Cookies, Red Desserts, Valentine Cupcakes and lots more to say "I LOVE YOU" on Valentine's Day! Red Velvet Cupcakes and New York Style Strawberry Cheesecake recipes are sure to win someone's heart this Valentine's Day.

Red Velvet Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Read my Valentine's Heart Shaped Cake story from last year. It'll give you an idea of how we made hundreds of these babies every Valentine's Day. Ahhhh, memories! 

 

 

 

How to Make Valentine's Day Heart Shaped Cakes  

 

 

 

Heart Shaped Cookies: Coconut Lime and Chocolate Madeleines

 

 

 

Cherry Meringue Cookies Recipe

  

Cherry Hershey's Kiss Cookies

 

 

 

Most Popular Red Valentine's Day Desserts

• Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe with Graham Craker Crust
• Cherry Cheesecake Recipe with Graham Cracker Crust
• White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake with Oreo Cookie Crust
• Fresh Strawberry Shortcake with Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
• Strawberry Cream Cake with Cream Cheese Filling
• Red Velvet Cake & Cupcakes
• Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffeecake
• Strawberry Mousse Pie & Parfaits
• Cherry Pie made with Fresh Cherries
• Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe
• Cherry Kisses Cookies with Hershey's Chocolate Kiss
• Soft Sugar Cookies with Valentine Sprinkles
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries
• Fresh Raspberry Pie Recipe
• Fresh Strawberry Pie Recipe
• Strawberry Daiquiri Frozen Pie
• Fresh Strawberry Tart with Shortbread Crust
• Heart Shaped Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry Jam
• Cherry Meringue Kiss Cookies
• Cherry Almond Scones

Nutella Hot Fudge Pudding Cake Recipe

Celebrate World Nutella Day 2010 with this over-the-top, sinfully rich, ooey-gooey Nutella Chocolate Hot Fudge Pudding Cake. Awesome with fresh whipped cream and melted Nutella drizzle. Why not splurge this weekend? Throw this easy-peasy chocolate dessert recipe together in 10 minutes. Then let the oven do the rest of the work!

Here's my Nutella recipe from last year. Nutella Chocolate Fudge Brownies. They're to-die-for! Or how about Nutella S'mores? They're extra yummy too!

WORLD NUTELLA DAY 2010

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Check out the article I did last year for World Nutella Day 2009 Recipes.

 

Nutella Hot Fudge Pudding Cake Recipe

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 Tablespoons cocoa
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup room temperature Nutella
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 3/4 cups hot water
• 1/4 cup Nutella

 

How To Make Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray 8" X 8" baking dish with vegetable spray.
• In a medium size bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and 2 Tbsp cocoa.
• Stir in milk, oil and 1/4 cup Nutella. Spread in the baking dish. It will be very thick. You may have to use a spatula to spread it.
• Mix brown sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa in the empty bowl, and sprinkle it evenly over batter.
• Measure hot water in a 2 cup measuring cup. Add remaining 1/4 cup Nutella and stir to dissolve. Pour hot Nutella water over batter very slowly, so as not to disturb the batter. DO NOT STIR IN. Let the water sit on top in a puddle. This is where you'll think I've lost my mind, and got the recipe wrong. The water seeps into the cake as it's baking and magically makes the Nutella pudding!
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes. Do not over bake. It will be jiggly and set up as it cools.
• Serve warm or cool with sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Make sure to drizzle some extra melted Nutella over the top.
• Serves 6.

National Chocolate Cake Day 2010: Chocolate Cupcakes Hit the Spot Too

Have a slice of Chocolate Cake for National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27th! Chocolate Cupcakes, Texas Sheet Cake, Chocolate Truffle Cake, Devil's Food Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting, Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, Red Velvet Cake or Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake. There's more where those came from too! Make sure to pour a BIG glass of cold milk with these rich, moist cakes. You're gonna need it!

 

 

CHOCOLATE CAKE & CUPCAKE RECIPES

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake - ULTRA CREAMY, extra rich cheesecake loaded with mini chocolate chips, baked in a sweet Oreo Cookie crust.

 

Devil's Food Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting - Dark chocolate cake layers filled and frosted with chocolate fudge frosting. Decorate this moist Devil's food cake with chocolate curls, chopped walnuts or jimmies.

 

 

 

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake - Uber-rich & creamy chocolate cheesecake, studded with chunks of Reese's PB cups, all sitting on an Oreo Cookie crust, rivals anything the Cheesecake Factory can dish out! 

 

 

Red Velvet Cake Recipe - This dazzling cake is a real head-turner! With its bright red cake layers, and snow white frosting, this gorgeous cake will be the hit of the party!

 

 

Eclair Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting - This no-bake eclair cake layered with graham crackers, Cool Whip & vanilla pudding is frosted with homemade chocolate icing. Also called ice box cake, it's a perfect birthday cake or easy dessert!

 

 

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake Recipe - Looking for an ooey, gooey, over-the-top, orgasmic chocolate fudge pudding cake? Your dreams have been answered! This classic old-fashioned pudding cake is the one Grandma used to make! Serve it with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream for the ultimate indulgence!

Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipe - Death-by-chocolate cake is similar to a flourless cake, baked in a graham cracker crust and decorated with mini Oreos. It's like eating a box of chocolate fudge truffles. Ice this Truffle Cake with the Chocolate Ganche found below! Warning: You will need TWO glasses of milk with this sinfully rich cake!

Texas Sheet Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting - Easy chocolate cake recipe with dark chocolate fudge icing and toasted pecans. Serves a crowd.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte - Here's Dorie's Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte is all its glory. Peanut butter mouse, studded with chopped peanuts, topped with an extra rich chocolate ganache (found above), all sitting on an Oreo Cookie crust. This was an awesome cake, one that I've made over and over again. You'll love it too!

Chocolate Chip Banana Cupcakes - Bananas and Chocolate - What a great combination, especially when topped with extra fluffy cream cheese frosting! Make a batch today for the kids. Heck, make them for yourself. You deserve a treat! Not quite a "chocolate" cake, these babies have enough chocolate chips in them to qualify!

Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes - These chocolate cupcakes may be all dressed up for Hallopween, but don't let that fool you! This is a Tuesdays With Dorie special recipe. Did I say these chocolate cupcakes were good?

Mocha Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting - Quick & easy cupcakes with chocolate frosting, and mocha layer cake with dairy-free & egg-free cake recipes. Kid-friendly cupcake recipes they can decorate themselves!

Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips - Moist & flavorful Zucchini Nut Bread recipe loaded with chocolate chips, cinnamon and walnuts. Easy quick bread recipe can be baked in mini loaf pans or cupcakes with cream cheese frosting! Again, add enough chocolate chips in anything, and life is good!

White Chocolate Frosting Recipe - Melted white chocolate coating, blended with butter & cream cheese frosting. Decorate Red Velvet Cupcakes, Coconut Cake, Chocolate Cupcakes, or frost a cheesecake.

Chocolate Ganache Recipe - Every baker & cook needs to have a great dark Chocolate Ganache Recipe in their collection. Decorate cupcakes, eclairs, cakes, cheesecakes, cookies, muffins and brownies with this sinfully rich and silky smooth versatile ganache. Save some for hot fudge sundaes, and pour it over your ice cream!