If you're not familiar with mahogany cake, you are likely unaware of its importance to a very popular chocolate dessert.

Any self-proclaimed chocolate fanatic most likely requests a devil’s food cake on their birthday every year. Indulgent, moist and fluffy, a sophisticated chocolate cake like this is hard to resist.

Chocolate cake comes in all shapes and sizes, and with all manner of frostings, fillings, and flourishes. Plain and simple, with swooped and swirled frosting, marbled or molten, any chocolate cake ...