With two layers of fluffy sponge and swooshes of fudgy frosting, this picture-perfect gluten-free chocolate cake recipe looks almost too good to be true. But this layer cake? She delivers. Her trick?

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 ...

baking soda, and salt) are stirred into that molten chocolate mixture, and some magical alchemy occurs. The resulting cake is moist, tender, and about a million miles away from a ho-hum box mix.