This yellow cake with chocolate frosting features tender, sour cream cake layers topped with a double chocolate and espresso frosting made in the food processor.

Forget the boxed version you grew up with. This yellow cake recipe gets a rich dark-chocolate frosting with a touch of tang thanks to sour cream.

How do you make chocolate sheet cake better? Just add brown butter frosting, whose nuttiness is enhanced by an ingredient found in most grocery stores.

Photograph by Jocelyn Delk Adams Classic Yellow Cake with Whipped Chocolate Frosting Serves 18-22 Trust me, this traditional yellow cake is no plain Jane—in fact, it’s an icon.

Her chocolate sheet cake with vanilla bean frosting is a new take on an old recipe. “How amazing does that sound?” she asks her audience during The Pioneer Woman show.

Cool that cake down, and in the meantime, you can whip up a homemade frosting — dark chocolate, of course. You’ll use the same cocoa powder as before, plus all the usual sugar and butter and such.

This dark chocolate cake recipe from Allrecipes is a great place to start, especially if you’ve been self-conscious about producing a “Great British Baking Show” -type stunner.