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15 Great Chocolate Birthday Cakes

1. The Perfect Chocolate Cake 9. Triple-Decker Raspberry Chocolate
Cake with Chocolate Ganache
2. Ever-So-Moist Chocolate Cake with
Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting 10. Martha’s Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream
Cake with Hot Fudge Sauce
3. My Favorite Birthday Cake
11. Dark Chocolate Roulade with
4. Old-Fashioned Devil’s Food Cake with
Chocolate Cream Filling
Fluffy Chocolate Frosting
12. White Chocolate Angel Food Mousse
5. Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cake with
Cake
Cinnamon-Chocolate Cream Cheese
Frosting 13. Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Crushed
Peppermint Buttercream Frosting
6. Cookies and Cream Cake
14. Debbie’s Dazzling Red Velvet Cake
7. Peanut Butter Cake with Fluffy
Chocolate Frosting 15. White-on-White Cake

8. German Chocolate Cake with Pecan-
Coconut Frosting

flour. Shake out the excess flour. Set the bined. Divide the batter evenly between
pans aside. the prepared pans, smoothing it out with
the rubber spatula. Place the pans in the
2. Place the cake mix, water, peanut but-
oven side by side.
ter, oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing
bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low 3. Bake the cakes until they spring back
speed for 30 seconds. Stop the machine when lightly pressed with your finger, 23
and scrape down the sides of the bowl to 28 minutes. Remove the pans from the
with a rubber spatula. Increase the mixer oven and place them on wire racks to cool
speed to medium and beat 2 minutes for 10 minutes. Run a dinner knife around
more, scraping the sides down again if the edge of each layer and invert each onto
needed. The batter should look well com- a rack, then invert again onto another rack