Named after the grandma of Ina’s friend Michael Grimm, who passed along the formula, this chocolate dessert recipe originally ...

To this day, my favorite chocolate cake recipe is Ina Garten's famous Beatty’s Chocolate Cake. It is easy to make, moist, and ...

Ina Garten once said that her mocha chocolate icebox cake is so good it "makes grown men weep." Garten's recipe includes cheese, coffee, Kahlua, and Tate's Bake Shop chocolate-chip cookies.

Ina Garten makes an easy chocolate cake that’s rich and delicious and always a crowd-pleaser. The Barefoot Contessa star was inspired by a classic recipe for the dense dessert.

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake is featured in Garten’s 2006 cookbook, Barefoot Contessa At Home. Over the years she’s made a few variations due to its popularity.

This Barefoot Contessa chocolate cake is, unsurprisingly, absolutely overflowing with the sweet stuff. Garten puts cocoa powder in the batter along with instant espresso powder for a chocolaty kick.

Ina Garten once said that her mocha chocolate icebox cake is so good it "makes grown men weep." Garten's recipe includes cheese, coffee, Kahlua, and Tate's Bake Shop chocolate-chip cookies.

More specifically, the one she calls Beatty’s Chocolate Cake. First featured in her 2006 cookbook, Barefoot Contessa at Home, the dessert uses coffee to enhance the flavor of the chocolate.

While chocolate chips might be a usual go-to in other chocolate frosting recipes, Garten omits them from her own. “I use Valrhona Le Noir 56% Cacao Semisweet Chocolate,” she notes in her recipe.

Ina Garten | Paul Zimmerman/WireImage The story behind the Barefoot Contessa chocolate ganache cake In her cookbook Cook Like a Pro: Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks, Garten explained the way she ...

Now for how to make the Barefoot Contessa’s Chocolate Banana Crumb Cake. According to Garten’s recipe instructions seen on Make It Ahead page 261, it starts like any other cake recipe.