Wellesley fudge cake recipe

Wellesley Fudge cake, a deeply decadent chocolate cake topped with a slab of fudge frosting, seems an unlikely sweet to associate with the prim-and-proper ladies of Wellesley (the college featured in the classic feat of cinema Mona Lisa Smile). But it's true: fudge, and the cake, both have strong ties to ladies' colleges.

(adapted from The Perfect Cake)

A moist chocolate cake with a fudgy frosting. Its flavor and texture improves with time.

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Wellesley Fudge Cake from Cooks Country

Does anyone else find it odd that Wellesley — a town with three colleges, two if you don’t count Mass Bay — is somehow not really a college town? Not in the same way that Amherst and No…

Follow this Wellesley fudge cake recipe for two 9-inch layers of rich, chocolaty cake that can be frosted with fudge frosting or any frosting you like.

The double chocolate richness of Wellesley fudge cake is a favorite from way back -- practically irresistible when you make it, as your grandmother doubtless did, with Baker's Chocolate.

This gluten free chocolate cake has a moist, tender crumb even after it's been frozen first, so make it ahead! Made easily in one bowl.