It's hard to go wrong with a good chocolate cake. It's one of those desserts as welcome at an elegant black tie dinner party as it is at a child's birthday party or a backyard cookout. Or even a ...

Whether you stack together two cake layers or six, bringing any one of these showstopping cakes to the table is an act of pure joy. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than ...