Sinful Chocolate Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine first seven ingredients. Stir in two packages of chopped cookies. Mix on medium speed until well combined. Divide batter among four greased and floured 9x13-in. pans. Bake two at a time until a toothpick inserted in the center of each comes out clean, 20-24 minutes. Cool 10 minutes. Repeat with remaining pans., While cake layers are warm, poke holes in the surface using the end of a wooden spoon or similar rounded object. Microwave hot fudge sauce until pourable, 1-2 minutes. Pour both jars over all four layers; spread to smooth over top. Let stand until completely cooled., Prepare filling by mixing pudding and milk; stir in two more packages of chopped cookies. Spread one-fourth filling over each layer; freeze layers until pudding is set, about 2 hours., Meanwhile, prepare frosting by beating softened butter on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add cocoa powder; beat until well blended. Reduce speed to low; slowly add confectioners' sugar one cup at a time. Alternate with heavy cream and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes., Remove cake layers from freezer; stack and frost. Line bottom of cake with cookie halves. Top with toasted coconut and any remaining cookies. Microwave hot fudge sauce 1 minute; stir. Drizzle hot fudge and caramel sauces over cake. Refrigerate; remove 30 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Spread one can cherry pie filling over cooled prepared cake.
• Combine cream cheese with 1/2 cup of the milk, beat until creamy.
• Add rest of milk and the box of instant pudding, beat until well mixed.
• Let sit until thickened.
• Then pour over cherry pie filling.
• Garnish with maraschino cherries and chopped nuts.
• Chill 4 hours or more before serving.

Steps:

• Prepare 2 - 8" round pans, with butter and flour.
• Preheat oven 350.
• Cake: In a mixer, beat first 7 ingredients in order, adding one at a time. Sift the dry ingredients. Fold in boiling water and chocolate chips. (Note: if you add the boiling water and the chips together, they will melt, but if you delay adding the chips for a couple of seconds, they will keep their form).
• Bake for 25 minutes at or until cooked. Remove from pans and let cool on baking racks.
• Incredible Icing: In a food processor, blend butter, sugar and cocoa for 4 seconds. Combine vanilla, milk and hot coffee and blend in just enough liquid until icing is smooth and silky.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Remove the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan and cover with tin foil, wrapping foil around to the back (this will make it easier to remove cake from pan).
• Replace bottom of pan in springform.
• Grease and flour bottom and side of pan.
• In heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine semisweet and unsweetened chocolates and butter and melt over very low heat, stirring frequently until smooth.
• Pour into a large bowl and set aside.
• In another bowl with mixer at high speed beat egg yolks and sugar until very thick and lemon colored, about 5 minutes.
• Then add the egg yolk mixture to the chocolate mixture, stirring with rubber spatula until blended.
• In another bowl with clean beaters, beat a high speed the egg whites and cream of tartar until soft peaks form when beaters are lifted.
• With rubber spatula fold beaten egg whites into chocolate mixture, one third at a time, make sure you fold not stir.
• Pour batter into prepared pan, spread evenly.
• Bake for 35 minutes.
• DO NOT OVERBAKE Cake will firm up while standing and chilling, it is a truffle cake not a standard cake.
• Cool cake completely in pan on a cake rack.
• When cool refridgerate overnight in pan.
• In the morning to remove the cake from pan, run a hot knife, (run knife under hot water) around edge of cake, and unhook spring latch on side of pan and lift off side of pan.
• Invert cake onto cake plate, unwrap foil from bottom of pan and lift off bottom of pan.
• To decorate top of cake using a fine sieve, sprinkle with confectioners sugar, or I made a heart stencil with paper for valentines day and placed on top of cake to create a heart outline with the sugar.
• Refrigerate cake and remove 15 minutes before serving.