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40 fudgy and fabulous chocolate cakes

Traditional, fudgy, flourless or with lashings of ganache - whatever type of chocolate cake you prefer, it's sure to be a winner. So get baking and cook up a cracking chocolate cake.

40 recipes
Dutch-process cocoa powder gives this cake and its icing a rich colour.
EASY

Adam Liaw's classic chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Big choc chip cookie.
EASY

Adam Liaw's big choc chip cookie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh's simplified take on the Hungarian chocolate cake.

Helen Goh's Rigo Jancsi cake (flourless chocolate mousse cake)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's lamington-inspired chocolate cake.

Helen Goh's lamington chocolate cake with marmalade and coconut

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chocolate, licorice and caramel cake.

Chocolate licorice loaf cake with choc-licorice crumb and caramel

  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate layer cake with pecan and coconut icing.
EASY

Adam Liaw's 'German' chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Chocolate loaf cake. Karen Martini WINTER THRILLS recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed May 28, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

Chocolate loaf cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw's chocolate love cake.

Chocolate love cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Jewels's favourite chocolate cake

Jewels's favourite chocolate cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
Neil Perry's almond and chocolate cake (with a dash of rum).

Almond and chocolate cake with rum syrup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Dan Lepard recipe - Chocolate banana cake
EASY

Chocolate banana cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
A moussey chocolate cake.
EASY

Flourless chocolate cake

  • 1-2 hrs
Frank Camorra's beetroot and chocolate cake.

Beetroot and chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Frank Camorra
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EASY

Sticky chocolate gingerbread cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Chocolate cake wioth ganache.

Chocolate cake with ganache

  • 1-2 hrs
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Fast and easy chocolate cake.

Fast and easy chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Dan Lepard recipe Chocolate date layer cake Photograph by William Meppem Styling and food prep by Hannah Meppem

Chocolate-date layer cake with peanut butter chocolate ganache

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Coconut chocolate marble cake, with a chocolate bourbon glaze, by Dan Lepard.

Coconut chocolate marble cake with chocolate bourbon glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
This double chocolate cake is made using olive oil.

Double chocolate olive oil cake with white chocolate mascarpone buttercream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Magic: Adam Liaw's bitter caramel and cocoa custard layer cake.

Bitter caramel and chocolate custard layer cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Simple Chocolate and Almond Cake.
EASY

Neil Perry's chocolate and almond cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Chocolate rose marble cake.

Gluten-free chocolate rose marble cake

  • 1-2 hrs
Gluten-free coconut and raspberry cake.

Coconut and raspberry cake with chocolate ganache

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Dark chocolate and pear are a classic combo.

Chocolate, pear and olive oil cake with cocoa crumble

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Gluten-free chocolate birthday cake with soft-set cocoa icing.

Gluten-free chocolate birthday cake with soft-set cocoa icing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Chocolate fondant cake with Grand Marnier poached oranges.

Chocolate fondant cake with Grand Marnier poached oranges

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chocolate hazelnut cake with mascarpone.
EASY

Chocolate hazelnut cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Jill Dupleix's simple flourless chocolate and almond souffles.
EASY

Souffle recipes: Flourless chocolate and almond souffles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Moist Chocolate and Zucchini Loaf
EASY

Moist chocolate and zucchini loaf

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kristy Komadina
Black Forest cake.

My Black Forest cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Brigitte Hafner
Dan Lepard's chocolate tomato muffins with espresso glaze.

Chocolate tomato muffins with coffee glaze

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Dan Lepard's double choc lamingtons.

Double-chocolate lamingtons by Dan Lepard

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Chocolate genoise sponge for Danielle Alvarez's trifle.

Chocolate genoise sponge recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Jill Dupleix's two-tone chocolate swirl cheesecake.

Chocolate swirl cheesecake recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Chocolate and coconut banana bread.
EASY

Chocolate and coconut banana bread

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Rolled chocolate cake with green tea cream.

Chocolate roulade with matcha cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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