This Ridiculously Delicious Chocolate Cake is the perfect holiday dessert. Simple to make and sinfully decadent, the name speaks for itself. It is ridiculously delicious!
For several years growing up, Christmas Eve dinner culminated with an array of rich, mouth watering desserts. Cheesecake, Berry Pie, and always a glorious chocolate torte. This chocolate cake recipe reminds me of that torte, except it’s so much easier to make! Layers of luscious chocolate and fluffy whipped cream cheese icing, it’s the perfect dessert for any special occasion.
What Makes Cake Moist and Fluffy?
The trick to achieving that perfect moist cake is the eggs. Make sure they’re at room temperature. And using hot water in this recipe will ensure your cake is light, fluffy, not too dense, and with just the right amount of moisture.
How to Store Ridiculously Delicious Chocolate Cake
Because of the heavy cream in the frosting, it’s best to store any leftover cake covered, in the refrigerator. It will stay nice and fresh for up to five days. But let’s be honest, cake for breakfast never hurt anybody so I’m not sure those leftovers will last that long anyway.
How To Make Layers of Cake and Frosting
You can make this cake a number of different ways. But for a beautiful presentation, I love to slice the two rounds of cake into two pieces each so you end up with four layers of cake. The whipped cream cheese frosting is soft enough that it’s easy to spread between each layer. You can also freeze the cake layers to make it easier to get a nice thick layer of icing between each luscious chocolatey layer.
Can You Freeze Chocolate Cake?
Yes! This cake freezes beautifully for up to two months. You can either wrap the layers of cake separately until you want to make the frosting fresh and assemble the cake or freeze the entire thing together. Just wrap it carefully and store in the freezer.
More Chocolate Cake Recipes To Try
We love our chocolate around here. There’s a chocolate cake recipe for just about any occasion. Try a few of these decadent desserts:
- Slow Cooker Molten Chocolate Cake
- Better Than (You Know What) Cake
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip Nothing Bundt Cake Copycat
- Instant Pot Chocolate Lava Cake
- Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake
- Chocolate Pudding Cake
- Texas Sheet Cake
- Carnival Cruise Line Warm Chocolate Melting Cake
How to Make Ridiculously Delicious Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cup hot water
- 2 9 inch round cake pans greased
Frosting:
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened room temperature)
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream must be heavy or it won't be thick enough
- fresh raspberries (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300. Combine butter, sugar and cocoa. Add eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Slowing add this to the the rest of the mixture. While this is mixing, slowly add the hot water, letting all the ingredients melt together, be sure to scape the sides as you go. The finished product will be runny and soupy; do not worry, this means you did it the right way. Pour into round greased pans.
- Bake at 300 for about 30-40 min. Check it at 30 minutes and then every 5 minutes until toothpick comes out clean when placed in the center of the cake.
- Take it out of the oven and allow to cool for 15 min before removing from pans. Let the cake cool completely on wire racks before frosting.
- If you want a 4-layer cake as shown, cut each cake in half. Frost between each layer.
- Optional: Sprinkle the top of the cake with sifted powdered sugar and garnish with raspberries.
- Must keep refrigerated.
Frosting
- First beat the whipping cream with an electric mixer til it has thickened to stiff peaks stage - almost to the thickness of soft butter. Chill the beaters and the bowl in the refrigerator before mixing to speed the process. Remove whipped cream from the mixing bowl and set aside.
- Add cream cheese, vanilla, salt and 1 cup of powdered sugar to the mixing bowl. Mix until creamy and well blended.
- Alternately add whipping cream and remaining powdered sugar to the mixture, blending well between each addition.
Caci says
is it 1 1/2 cups of whipping cream or 1 1/2 tbsp. of whipping cream? I want to make this and I just want to be sure and use the right amount of heavy whipping cream! Thanks!!
Natalie says
this looks so awesome! definitely bookmarking this! i love those oreo pans 🙂
Kerilee Law says
Drooool.
Melanie says
Honestly, that is the most adorable cake I've ever seen. I LOVE those pans – how cute! And the cake itself (with all that creamy frosting!) sounds divine.
Heidi says
I've never made an icing with cream cheese, brown sugar AND whipping cream. Sounds wonderful!
Gast Family Recipes says
That is awesome! Love those pans!!
Erica says
Thanks! My sister-in-law got them at William's Sonoma if you are looking for them!
Caci says
Thanks!!!!!
Alison @ Hospitality Haven says
That looks amazing!!! Just found your blog – look forward to checking it out.
Heide says
That cake looks divine> I bet it tastes heavenly.
Erica says
JM-So glad to hear that you liked it! It is one of my new favs for sure. Thanks for your comments everyone!
J♥M says
Oh my! I love the frosting and it's NOT too much! I seriously couldn't believe how much I liked this!
Kelly says
Hello,
I've tried some of your recipes and have really liked them. I'd like to try this cake. I'm just curious as to how the frosting is still white when you use brown sugar. Is that a typo? Do you really add brown sugar?
Erica says
Yeah it's not a typo, you really use brown sugar. The frosting still turns out really white. It's yummy
Jeannette says
I am SOOO excited to try this recipe out!! Im so glad I found your website!
Halsey says
That was Yum-O! The frosting isn't too much with the cake. We all loved it!
Julie says
This recipe references powdered sugar, but comments say brown sugar. Which is it?
Favorite Family Recipes says
The frosting on this recipe calls for powdered sugar. Thank you!
Shirley Foster says
Scrumptious!! I loved making this for my husband! We have it every birthday!!!👏❤️❤️❤️
Favorite Family Recipes says
What a fun tradition! So glad to hear this cake is a hit for you and your husband 😀
Olivia says
I made this cake today and the taste was very bad 🙁 very sweet and I didn’t expect like that.
Erica Walker says
Was it just the sweetness that threw you off? We re-made this recently and found it on par with other cake recipes as far as sweetness goes. Did you feel there wasn’t enough chocolate flavoring to offset the sweetness?