You don’t need to be a pastry chef to bake the perfect cake.
Fortunately, a homemade cake doesn’t have to be daunting.
Each recipe was hand-selected to be simple and relatively painless.
Photo: José Picayo
You’ll want to go for unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder rather than standard to intensify the chocolaty flavor.
Easy Ice Cream Cake
The secret to this astonishingly simple four-ingredient dessert?
Use ice cream sandwiches to build your cake.
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Slow Cooker Chocolate Pudding Cake
This dump cake is incredibly straightforward.
Simply drop in the ingredients, set the slow cooker, and forget about it for three hours.
The crunchy streusel topping ties the entire dish together and makes this dinner party-worthy.
Marcus Nilsson
José Picayo
Victor Protasio
Victor Protasio
Antonis Achilleos