Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Chocolate cakes for all occasion

By Jenna

For the longest time ever, chocolate cakes has been the favorite desserts amongst a lot of people especially chocolate-lovers. So, if you ever do a search on Google, you will find thousands of chocolate cake recipes to suit your every need for a nice home made chocolate cake.

It is because of the uniquely delicious taste of chocolate cakes that combines the richness of chocolate with soft, sweet cake that makes it a favorite and loved by most people. This is probably why there are so many different cake recipes around that covers the gluten-free diet to the low fat diet. This means, there are practically all sorts of chocolate cake recipes that are suited to every taste from low calories ones to rich dark sinful ones.

Chocolate cakes are the best choice for any special occasion, be it a wedding, an anniversary or simply a gathering of friends. Nothing can go wrong with a nice, delicious slice of rich, tasty chocolate cake. Of course some people will say that cheese cakes are just as good but then this article is about chocolate cakes, so cheese cakes will be discussed in another article. To bake a chocolate cake is pretty simple because its recipe only contains chocolate, sugar, flour, eggs and butter. If you crave for thicker cakes, then leave out the flour and it will result in a dense and rich chocolate cake.

One of the best treat for a birthday celebration will have to be a chocolate cake made with Belgian chocolate and covered in rich chocolate frosting. However, as popular as chocolate cakes are, not everyone likes chocolates. Some people will avoid chocolate because they don't like the taste and some will avoid it because they thought it will ruin a strict diet and could cause one to put on weight.

This is mainly because many people are not aware that not all chocolates are bad for health. High quality dark chocolates can be beneficial to health and are not as bad as some people thought. If consumed moderately, it is good for the heart. However, not all chocolate cakes are healthy because of the other ingredients especially the sugar, butter and eggs.

So, if you have a craving for some chocolate cakes but are worried about the calories or unhealthiness of it all, why not make it yourself? There are many healthy versions of chocolate cakes even Weight Watchers' recipe that promises lesser calories with less sugar and more dark cocoa in the ingredient. The best part is that this cake tastes as good as the high calorie ones!

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