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Here’s your new favorite recipe for bakery-style, homemade chocolate cupcakes. While you don’t HAVE to pile them high with my chocolate frosting, well, I thought we could be friends, but I guess not.

This rich, ultra-chocolatey frosting will be your new dessert go-to. Marcia Kiesel, a former Food & Wine test kitchen supervisor, is an experienced chef and recipe developer who graduated from the ...

I've baked a lot of cakes in my life, but none have earned as much repeat status as Julia Turshen's Happy Wife, Happy Life Chocolate Cake. The recipe comes from her cookbook, Small Victories. It's a ...

Ina Garten's chocolate cake with mocha icing is really moist, and the flavor gets an extra kick from instant espresso powder in the icing and batter.

Creamy, dreamy frosting is the best topping for cakes, cupcakes and other sweet desserts. Whether you're searching for the best frosting for cupcakes, or the best frosting for decorating cakes, ...

This vegan cake recipe doubles down on the classic pairing of chocolate and orange, using the combination in both the crumb and the dairy-free buttercream frosting. It’s a simple dessert but feels ...

If there’s only one cake you ever learn to make, let it be this. Yellow cake swaddled in chocolate frosting is perhaps the gold standard cake for birthdays, and for good reason–it strikes just the ...

Q: Ihad a Chicago Tribune recipe for chocolate cake and icing which the Tribrepresented was the winner from over 200 recipes the Trib people tested to findthe perfect chocolate cake. I made it for a ...

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