I'm looking for a new chocolate cake recipe to use for tiered and carved cakes. I have a tiered/carved chocolate cake to do in the next couple weeks and would like to try something new. Share your tried and true chocolate cake recipe for a tiered/carved cake. Thanks!

The recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa can is absolutely fab! I use it all the time and get rave reviews.

My Go To chocolate cake recipe is from this site. It's CakeMommyTx's Triple Chocolate Fudge cake (http://cakecentral.com/recipes/15158/triple-chocolate-fudge-cake). It's moist and dense, and tastes great. I've stacked it, but not carved it, but I think it would be fine for carving.

been using this one, since i read it on here. Double chocolate layer cake from epicurious.com hth delicious!!!

ditto icer, epicurious double chocolate layer cake

Can someone tell me the difference between the BC Triple Fudge Cake Mix and the Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Mix besides the chocolate chips?

I would love to try CakeMommyTx's recipe but BC mixes are dairy and I usually need to avoid dairy in my baking. I can sub for the chocolate milk, but I just don't know what the taste difference is between the two mixes.

Thanks,
Kathi

dark chocolate cake on this site... oh yes please. lol. people who dont like cake come back for more with that one. to carve, its much easier if the cake is frozen/semi frozen though.

indydebi and thin4life:
I have had great sucess with the Hershey's cake recipe. EVERYONE loves it.
However, I can't imagine that it's easily carve-able.
I have a hard time even leveling it. For me it seems to not cut cleanly. Maybe my knife is the problem (even tho I don't have a problem with the knife on other recipies. Maybe I need to bake it a few minutes longer. Do you have any tricks to leveling it?

no problems leveling at all. My understanding from the cake carving experts on here is to work with cake that is slightly frozen.

I use Sylvia Weinstock's recipe and everyone loves it.