Looking for the perfect decadent chocolate cake recipe - please share your tried and tested ones

[dallafela]

I love baking, but need serious help with a celebratory and decadent chocolate cake for my husband's birthday. Any time I look for recipes for chocolate cakes there's so much variety and choice I find it impossible to make a decision about which one to try.

I usually make husband a layered coconut and lime cake, but I baked so many coconut cakes during lockdown I think that one would no longer be such a treat . Please help me out!

This is possibly the most indulgent cake I’ve baked realfood.tesco.com/recipes/double-chocolate-fudge-cake.html

Edd Kimber’s Guinness cake is a hit with my DH www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/chocolate/chocolate-and-guinness-cake?

I came across this recipe whilst searching for a cake for New Years Eve www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/entertain/baileys-chocolate-cake/

Thanks @Fivemoreminutes1. That Tesco recipe looks ideal - very indulgent indeed. I've always wanted to try a chocolate and Guinness cake but think for a birthday cake I'd better stick to plain chocolate and lots of it. Guinness cake is definitely on the agenda for another time though.

www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-cake

lovely cake

Throw out any other recipes for chocolate cake, this cake is the one you need! Goes down incredibly well every time I make it!

Mississippi mud cake from the hummingbird bakery is amazing recipe and I always end up with 2 x cakes as 3 tiers is huge x

@dallafela Please could you share your coconut and lime cake recipe. Sounds amazing!

See, this is my problem - all these recipes sound delicious. Thank you @Petrarkanian, @bearlyactive and @madmumofteens

@TaleOfTheContinents unfortunately it's a cake I've kind of cobbled together over the years to make my husband his 'ultimate' cake, as he's a coconut fiend. The sponge is the one from this really great Delia recipe which I double:

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/fresh-lime-and-coconut-cake

Then I sandwich with fresh lime curd, which is another Delia recipe, using lime juice and zest (which I sieve out at the end) instead of lemon:

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/lemons-limes-and-oranges/lemon-curd

Then cover it all with a coconut buttercream and more dessicated coconut. The Delia cake recipe is fantastic with no additions or substitutions, though. I just like the excuse to go a bit more all out for a birthday cake.

I’m dribbling @dallafela