Let’s get one thing straight: We love chocolate frosting and could never complain about anything frosting-related. It’s just that in fall and winter when the holidays start up, we’re in full-on baking ...

This chocolate cake with marshmallow creme frosting is a heavenly combination.

Chocolate makes everything better! This amazing Chocolate Buttercream Frosting is so rich, sweet, and delicious. You will want to make a huge batch to use for all your incredible dessert recipes. This ...

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 ...

While demonstrating how to make her chocolate cake with mocha frosting recipe, Garten shared the ingredient she loves to use in dessert recipes “to enhance the chocolate flavor.” She started by ...

We’ve all had that store-bought versus homemade dilemma before. Baking cupcakes from scratch for a birthday party or classroom celebration can be difficult and time-consuming. And store-bought sweets?

Let’s face it, cupcakes are fun. Familiar, colorful and oh-so-cute, these whimsical little cakes are famous for full-on flavor and mile-high frosting. And don’t forget the decorations. Best of all?

Forget the boxed version you grew up with. This yellow cake recipe gets a rich dark-chocolate frosting with a touch of tang thanks to sour cream. For the best presentation, it’s important to cut 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 ...

Note: This model butter cake recipe is perhaps the best you’ll ever eat--three sumptuous chocolate layers. Sylvia Thompson, who developed the recipe for her “The Birthday Cake Book” (Chronicle Books: ...

“It’s not dessert unless it’s brown.” That’s the way a former colleague of mine defended her love of chocolate treats — and her disdain for any other type of dessert. If you’re firmly in that camp, ...