I love a good cake, and I also love when they look pretty too! I’ve been wanting to make this Chocolate Italian Love Cake for quite awhile so I figured Valentine’s Day would be the perfect time. This cake is really simple to make, but the presentation looks like it took a lot of time and effort. When you start out, you put the cake batter on the bottom of the pan with the cheese layer on top; while it’s baking the layers magically switch! Then you top it off with a rich mousse like frosting and it’s pure heaven…simple, delicious and pretty!
1 chocolate fudge cake mix (do not use one with pudding in it) plus the ingredients on the box
32 ounces whole milk ricotta cheese
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 C sugar
1 pint heavy whipping cream
1 (5.9 ounce) box chocolate instant pudding
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
Make the cake mix according to the package directions.
Pour into prepared baking dish; set aside.
Mix together the ricotta cheese, eggs, vanilla and sugar.
Slowly pour this over top of the cake batter.
You can see the chocolate layer is on the bottom and the white is on top.
Bake for 55-60 minutes. Now the chocolate layer is on top & the white layer is on the bottom. Cover & place in the fridge for a few hours or overnight.
Whip together the heavy whipping cream and pudding mix. It will be thick!
Evenly spread the frosting onto the cake.
Slice, serve and enjoy!
Can I use part-skim ricotta?
I made this cake over the weekend, following the directions to the letter. The cake never came up and covered the Ricotto cheese layer, but I took it to work anyway and everyone loved it. But I did add about 1/2 cup more cream to the pudding mix, it was just way to thick to spread. But that worked out great. The cake is very rick, heavy and dense so I suggest smaller
pieces for serving
I'm not quite sure what happened, but I'm glad you and your co-workers enjoyed it…thanks 🙂
I WILL be making this, as soon as I can get out to the store to get a couple of ingredients that I need! (Snowed in at the moment)
what if i have one less egg than the ricotta layer calls for? will it still work or should i run to the store?
Yes Keely three eggs will work, but only use 28 ounces of the ricotta this way the ratio is correct 🙂
thanks! i ended up getting more eggs but i only had 30 oz of ricotta for four eggs so hopefully it's right! we will know soon! lol
I hope it came out well and you enjoyed it 🙂
I don't see why not; sounds like a delicious addition to me!