You won’t be able to resist the urge when you find yourself face-to-face with this Triple Chocolate Cake. With 3 layers of rich and decadent chocolate, every bite will feel like a walk through heaven!

Triple Chocolate Cake
This chocolate cake is so delicious and delectable. This recipe contains 3 types of chocolate to make the cake just melt in your mouth. This recipe is filled with dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. This cake is sure to be the talk of the household when you bake it. It will fill your house with an incredible aroma and have your mouth watering. The cake is a great dessert and if you love cake like me then this Coca-Cola Cake (Cracker Barrel) or Lemon Curd Cake are great alternatives in taste and flavor to try out.
Ingredients
- Flour- Use all-Purpose flour for the best results.
- Salt- This will bring out the flavors in the recipe.
- Baking Powder- This will allow the cake to rise in the oven.
- Butter- Use unsalted to control the amount of salt in the recipe.
- Canola Oil- Use vegetable oil as a substitute.
- Sugar- Every dessert recipe uses sugar as an ingredient.
- Eggs- Use these at room temperature.
- Vanilla– Use pure extract for the best flavoring.
- Buttermilk- Use milk with a bit of vinegar as a substitute.
- Chocolate- You will need Dark, Milk, and White chocolate.
- Powdered Sugar- This is the best sugar for homemade icing.
- Chocolate Chips- You will need milk chocolate for this recipe.
- Heavy Whipping Cream- This will help with the consistency of the ganache.
How to Make Triple Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Ganache Directions :
Frosting Directions :
Assemble the cake:
What makes this a triple chocolate cake?
This is a triple chocolate cake that has three layers. This recipe contains 3 types of chocolate. You have dark, milk, and white chocolate that give this recipe its name.
What can I use instead of buttermilk?
If you do not have buttermilk, that’s ok! You can use a mix of two ingredients to use as a substitute. You can get some milk and mix a bit of vinegar into it and it will work just as well.
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Triple Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 C flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 C unsalted butter softened
- 1/2 C canola oil
- 1 C sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 C buttermilk
- 1/2 C Dark chocolate melted and cooled
- 1/2 C milk chocolate melted and cooled
- 1/2 C white chocolate melted and cooled
Triple Chocolate Frosting ingredients:
- 3 C unsalted butter softened
- 6 C powder sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3-5 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 3/4 C dark chocolate melted and cooled
- 3/4 C milk chocolate melted and cooled
- 3/4 C white chocolate melted and cooled
Chocolate Ganache Ingredients :
- 1 C milk chocolate chips
- 1/2 C heavy whipping cream
Instructions
Cake directions :
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray three 9in a round cake pan with baking spray
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder
- Using a standing mixer, beat together until creamy the butter, oil, and sugar for about 3 minutes
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time until combined
- Beat in the vanilla extract
- Alternating between the two, add in the flour and buttermilk and continue to mix until combined after each addition
- Divide the batter into three bowls
- Mix in the cooled dark chocolate into one bowl
- Mix the milk chocolate into the second bowl
- Mix the white chocolate into the third bowl
- Pour each batter into one of the cake pans
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center
- Allow cooling completely
Chocolate Ganache Directions :
- Using a small pot, heat up the heavy whipping cream until simmering
- Pour the chocolate chips into a heat-safe bowl and pour the hot heavy whipping cream over it
- Allow sitting for 2 minutes before whisking until smooth
- Pour into a squeeze bottle
Frosting Directions :
- Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powder sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream until creamy and smooth
- Divide the batter into three bowls.
- Mix in the cooled dark chocolate into one bowl
- Mix the milk chocolate into the second bowl
- Mix the white chocolate into the third bowl
Assemble the cake:
- Using 10in cake rounds, Remove cake layers from cake pans and place them on cake boards
- Using a cake leveler, remove the domes from the top of the cakes
- Starting with the dark chocolate cake layer first, scoop out 1/3 of the dark chocolate frosting onto the top of the dark chocolate layer and spread evenly
- Place the milk chocolate cake layer on top of the dark chocolate
- Scoop out 1/3 of the milk chocolate frosting onto the milk chocolate cake layer and spread evenly
- Place the white chocolate cake layer on top of the milk chocolate frosting
- Repeat steps with 1/3 of the white chocolate frosting
- Scoop the remaining icing into their own piping bags
- Cut the tip off the piping bags
- Using the dark chocolate one first, pipe two rings around the outer edge of the cake
- Repeat steps with the milk chocolate and white chocolate
- Using a cake scraper, smooth out the frosting
- Using the chocolate ganache, pipe the ganache all around the top edge of the cake and allow it to drop down the sides.
- Using the remaining frosting in the piping bags, pipe dollops of the 3 different frostings around the top
- Sprinkle chocolate curls around the top
Last Step:
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- 3 disposable piping bags
- 1 squeeze bottle
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