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This is The Perfect Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Pastry chef Caroline Schiff joins Bon Appétit to make her perfect chocolate cake: an ultra-moist, four-layer showstopper with silky chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and a glossy chocolate sauce soak. From using oil and sour cream for a soft, tender crumb to balancing dark and milk chocolate with flaky sea salt, Caroline shares her best baking tricks for creating a rich yet surprisingly light chocolate cake from scratch.


For more recipes like this one, preorder Caroline’s cookbook Daily Dessert, out 10/13/26: https://www.pastryschiff.com/cookbook/

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Seize the day with our carrot cake with cream cheese frosting recipe!
How I Developed The Perfect Chocolatey Red Velvet Cake
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Shilpa Uskokovic spent days in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen making tray after tray of red velvet cake to develop her perfect recipe. Watch as she experiments with every variable to arrive at the ultimate red velvet—from the rich chocolatey taste to the fluffiest cream frosting—before publishing it for Bon Appétit.

Get the entire recipe, plus access to over 50,000 more from Bon Appetit and Epicurious: https://bit.ly/3uLqs8D
Easy Yellow Sheet Cake with Quick Chocolate Frosting
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You'll never buy the boxed version again. And there's no need to worry about multiple tiers and pans when it's all baked on one sheet pan. We made the sprinkles optional, but they're a must-have in our opinion.
Chocolate Birthday Cake
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Brighten up a birthday with our chocolate birthday cake recipe!
How to Ice the Perfect Cake
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Get the buttercream frosting ready and let's do this thing.
How One of NYC's Best Bakers Makes Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Pastry chef Caroline Schiff shares her ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe using two special ingredients. Discover how brown butter and malted milk powder create irresistibly chewy centers, crisp edges, and deep toffee-like flavor for the perfect cookie. For more recipes like this one, preorder Caroline’s cookbook Daily Dessert, out 10/13/26: https://www.pastryschiff.com/cookbook/
How To Make A No-Bake Cake
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Join chef Samantha Seneviratne as she makes Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake with Caramel Cream from the home kitchen. Perfect for warmer summer months when turning the oven on is the last thing on your mind, Sam's recipe sees ginger cookies soften into layers of tender cake surrounded by loads of raspberries and lofty caramel cream.

Get the recipe: Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake

More no-bake desserts, right this way →
Chris Makes Easy Chocolate Cake
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Join Chris Morocco in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes easy chocolate cake. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake. You can pre-mix batches of the dry ingredients together, store them in airtight containers for up to three months, and be ready to celebrate at a moments notice with your own DIY cake mix. Check out the recipe here: https://weightloss-tricks.today/recipe/easiest-chocolate-birthday-cake%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="StackedRatingsCardWrapper-RIFgn jsPKbl SummaryCollectionGridSummaryItem-ilztYA cpHIzM search_result_item-5c62e062050c433e0a336d39">
Flourless Chocolate Cake
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Try our sweet, low carb, flourless chocolate cake recipe!
Pitchfork x Philly Cream Cheese: Clouds
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You don't just taste it, you feel it. Check out PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
The Raspberry Cake Recipe I Almost Couldn't Figure Out
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Join Food Editor Shilpa Uskokovic as she makes her raspberry cake with whipped cream filling, a recipe that proved so challenging to develop she almost couldn't finish it.

See the full recipe here: https://weightloss-tricks.today/recipe/raspberry-cream-cake%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="StackedRatingsCardWrapper-RIFgn jsPKbl SummaryCollectionGridSummaryItem-ilztYA cpHIzM search_result_item-630e536990ed9596ce0d0f87">
Pitchfork x Philly Cream Cheese: Slope
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You don't just taste it, you feel it. Check out Philadelphia cream cheese's Lemon Cake with Cheesecake Tunnel recipe.
Claire Teaches You Cake Filling
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Claire teaches us the ins and outs of the sweet stuff spread between cake layers, with tropical twists, creamy caramels, and of course, chocolate. Lot and lots of chocolate. As far as cakes go, it’s what’s on the inside that counts! (Well, that and the frosting.)
How to Make 3-Ingredient Flourless Chocolate Cake
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Butter, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and eggs. That's it!
Rick Makes Chocolate Blackout Cake
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Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes blackout cake! According to legend (a.k.a. the Internet), this decadent chocolate cake was first created by Ebinger’s bakery in Brooklyn, New York, and named after the blackout drills during World War II.

Get the recipe: Brooklyn Blackout Cake
Chocolate Dutch Baby
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Make this super simple chocolate dessert for your sweetie this Valentine's Day!
Pumpkin Spice Icebox Cake
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No need to even touch the oven to make this perfect autumn dessert. Our pumpkin spice icebox cake is easily assembled and unbearably delicious. Get the recipe here: http://weightloss-tricks.today/recipe/pumpkin-spice-icebox-cake Written recipe coming soon!
Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Toasted Marshmallow
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If you love toasted marshmallows, try it on top of a smooth pumpkin purée!
Pastry Chef Attempts To Make a Gourmet Twinkie
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Bon Appetit's Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet Twinkie without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients. The first test is Genoise cake, an Italian sponge cake. For the creamy filling, Claire uses 7 minute frosting. The second test is yellow cake and buttercream filling. Next comes chiffon cake, a light cake that uses vegetable oil. Finally, with some help from Test Kitchen Manager Brad Leone, Claire decides to "Frankenstein" the recipe.
4 Pro Chefs Turn Fruit Into Dessert
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Join Brad Leone, Zaynab Issa, Melissa Miranda, and Chrissy Tracey in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as they each prepare a cool fruit-based dessert perfect for warm summer nights. From cantaloupe candy and fresh berry sorbet to grilled mangoes and cheesecake, there's sure to be something here for every person at the cookout.

See Zaynab's full recipe for her lemon ricotta cake here: https://weightloss-tricks.today/recipe/any-berry-lemon-ricotta-cake%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="StackedRatingsCardWrapper-RIFgn jsPKbl SummaryCollectionGridSummaryItem-ilztYA cpHIzM search_result_item-58e2b30f65366d7ba9081336">
Super Easy Raspberry Ricotta Cake
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There’s nothing like a moist, fluffy, berry-streaked cake to make any weeknight (or, um, weekday morning) feel special.
Blackberry Icebox Cake
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This creamy, dreamy cake recipe is built in a bowl for maximum ease—and is the no-bake dessert you'll be making all summer.
Chrissy Makes Chocolate Lava Cake
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Join Chrissy Tracey as she make vegan chocolate lava cake. The ganache filling features Chrissy's own homemade maple syrup from the trees in her back yard (hi Brad), but don't worry if you have to use the store-bought stuff.