Space Station Mir Hilarious. This was delicious, especially the frosting! I just made this with gluten free 1:1 replacement flour for a friend for her birthday and it was so good and so moist. It is now known as The Cake in our house. Your name for the cake reminded me of our favorite chocolate cake recipe -That Chocolate Cake. But as youve proven multiple times a person can have several favorites; especially brownies and chocolate cake. Very easy clean up. I used a whisk to mix the not really lumpy cocoa. Its perfect. I reduced the total sugar to 270g (so 135g in the original size), made it GLUTEN FREE by using brown rice flour, and also used rice milk soured with lime juice in place of the buttermilk. The cake was a little dry. We had a lot of fun, and the frosting is the best I have ever had in my entire life (she insisted I write that, its all I could repeat after eating it!). The five-year-old said, as I was cutting, make sure that I dont just get a sliver!. I am so thankful for a smaller cake recipe. Also, make sure you dont over-mix your batter, that would make it very tough! Im in week 11 and only the thought that morning sickness is about to end keeps me going! To make the homemade version I used this recipe with sour cream, 1/3 cup coffee liquor, and added chocolate chips to the batter. I love this cake! Thank you! Turned out, really, really well. Spinkle on powdered sugar if desired. I am going to try and bake this cake. Two of them (one spare) were slightly bigger than the others, but not that much. It worked really well. (and tastes great). Should the butter quantity for the frosting be 1/2 cup or 4 oz? Still delicious baked on Friday, refrigerated till Sunday am, served Sunday @ noon. THanks! Plus, if its sitting under frosting the whole time, the frosting will slowly soak into the cake. Making now! Congrats you just made brownies.. really? Thanks so much! They die for chocolate but dont care for overly sweet frosting. This is one of the best cakes I have made in a long time. I live at 5000ft, so I added an extra 2Tbs of buttermilk, cut the baking powder down by 1/8tsp (to 3/8 tsp), and baked about 10 degrees higher for more like 30 minutes. Delicious! I make my vanilla one in the food processor too. @smittenkitchen smitten kitchen . ), but it was reading the word chocolate for, what, maybe the 57th time in one post, while reading the list of ingredients that finally got me. ;). No buttermilk or baking soda (and white sugar instead of brown) in the batter and less butter in the frosting. Ill never buy it from a store again. Cake was good too, even though Im not a die hard chocolate lover. Do you think I could add 1/4 cup cocoa powder and decrease the powdered sugar to 1 cup in the frosting? This is my go-to site for recipes. Out of buttermilk can I add a bit of vinegar to some slim milk.think I will wait until I get the buttermilk hate to tamper with a great recipe. :). Find that I need to let the butter milk warm bit at room temperature or it hardens the butter when mixed in and makes it lumpy. Im so surprised. Ive read that German baking powder is single-acting while U.S. baking powder is double-acting, but I wouldnt worry about it so much for this recipe. Hey Deb! Thats what I usually have on hand. Id still frost it! Cake It is so not fair that you gave me this craving this late in a very long day. Made this and it was bone dry and crumbly. Must go spend hours perusing archives, after I make this cake! Generously butter the bottom and sides of three 8 round cake pans. The tart cranberries helped to cut through a bit of the rich chocolate and the frosting was smooth and creamy with just a little bite of ginger. I will try that recipe for sure. Thats the tradeoff for me, at least. If I double the recipe and make it a 9 by 13 pan,do I need to increase cooking time? b.) Hi, Beat the 12 tablespoons (170g) of butter with the 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (225g) of sugar, and salt until light and fluffy. Yum. Or should I be strong by hand? With lots of sprinkles, of course! The cake is perfect size too, not to big. Baked for 30 mins. Does it truly not matter? I just bought Dutch process thinking, I dont know how this cake could be any better, but Im in! to make a rerun on Sunday. Im here to tell ya, the frosting totally makes the cake! I really wanted chocolate cake but it was so late. So simple and so good. will take more time than simply making the frosting right then. Regrets: I have many. My kid ate only the frosting, though :) Thank you, Deb! This looks so delicious, and I cant wait to try this recipe out. So the amount was great for us, but obviously you could also double it if you wanted. Since there are so many positive reviews Id look beyond the recipe for another cause of the dryness and blandness you experienced. The outside was not dry and the cake did not collapse. Hi Deb! Actually as a followup to Aunt Vixens post 245, I too had to extend the cooking time. Just found out were having a second boy. This cake was so easy to make and was well loved by all who tried it! Hes enthusiastic now :), Literally just finished frosting it and devoured it along with the sprinkles. Stir one-third of egg-white mixture into chocolate mixture. Not too rich. I made this yesterday, for Chocolate Cake Day, but had no buttermilk handy, and was loathe to go out in the cold to buy some. I heeded the note about acidity required to wake up the baking soda, and so also added a splash of white vinegar. Delicious!! The melted chocolate had cooled a little but was not chunky when I poured it in. And the cakes seem so smallwho needs to work out?! One of those great Smitten Kitchen recipes that encourages me to make something I wouldnt have otherwise made, and turns out great, even though I was sure I messed it up! I made this while snowed in during the blizzard and Ive been sneaking bites throughout the day, I just cannot stop eating it. Not that I wont eat it :-D. Thanks so much Deb! I make little bear shaped cakes (two in gummybear shaped silicon dishes and two mini bear shaped baking dishes) and added a couple fresh raspberries. For a 4 tiered cake, says triple the recipe but what about when This icing, which we used for our sons birthday cake, is my favorite. I cupcaked these and doubled the recipe. New here? I saw this recipe and I wanted that chocolate cake for my birthday. Yes. A family favourite in our house. good luck and thanks for the beautiful cake! Man I have had a chocolate cake kind of week. Not sure if you still think this would be worthwhile, but if you were to do it, I would -totally- use it. 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt mine clocks in at 5 grams vs. the 6 grams of table salt. Oh, this is a great cake. anyway I came here looking for the fudgy chocolate cake recipe, that I used for cupcakes a couple months ago. (I also made it once with peanut butter frosting winner.) If round, you can probably 1.5x it. http://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26, Jenny Yes, you can make 2 6-inch round layers from this cake; the layers would be ever-so-barely-slightly thicker than the 8-inch square would be, but not a bad thing, as you can see the 8-inch square is very thin (maybe .75). next year I am making this chocolate cake. Love your strawberry cake, so I was excited to try this one. Hands down the best frosting Ive ever made! Step 4. Im buying a bunch of things on a limited budget, and here in London its all unfortunately pricey and Im trying to substitute with what I do have. I am enjoying cupcakes for breakfast this week! I used plain Hersheys un-Dutched cocoa, water and a teaspoon of vinegar in the cake batter; it was very dark, and rose fine. For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly coat two 9-inch round cake pans with oil and dust with flour. I this chocolate cake!! This was my first butter-based cake, and I think it turned out quite well! LOVE this cake! So, tomorrow is my birthday, and Im already planning to make David Lebovitzs salted butterscotch pudding, BUT we are also getting a decent snowstorm, so I think the weekend might require this chocolate cake as well! To make a birthday cake, I doubled the recipe and baked it in 3 7 round tins. We made this with your caramel chunks idea for the brownies sprinkled in, and added a whipped frosting with cream cheese, walnut, and chocolate chopped in. At 38 weeks, Ive decided I really should eat whatever I want, especially things that might cause problems when I start breast feeding in a couple weeks. And just want to confirm its fine for the frosted cake to stay room temp for a couple days? Thanks a lot Deb! My husband is back in NY right now (he speaks german) and im lost with a 2 year old and google translate on my phone at the grocery store (getting ingredients for this cake as a surprise)! I had to add another 1/2 cup of powdered sugar. Deb made this cake last night in a woohoo Ive made it to the third trimester fury. Loving this one. Turned out delicious! I also did simple chocolate ganache instead of buttercream frosting. Please, please tell me this doesnt mean you were still nauseous in week 16? THIS CAKE LOOKS SO YUMMY!!!!!! For me, this always ends with a liquidy batter with tiny capsules of butter/sugar floating, so I assume thats the norm. I dont often write but I want to express my gratitude for Smitten Kitchen, Deb, and this cake. Seven years ago: Escarole and Orzo Soup with Meatballs It rarely is in my experience, often because there are other acidic ingredients in the mix (here, buttermilk, even eggs, brown and white sugar are slightly so). For an Oreo vibe, you can do a full swap with black cocoa or even a half-swap (half regular cocoa) because its so intense, little is needed to Oreo (like, as a verb) a whole cake. Am i right? Hello Jen, sometimes I avoid cake recipes like this that require creaming the butter and sugar, because Ive heard that its actually tough to get that step exactly right. I like blooming cocoa mixed the dry cocoa with 1/2 cup boiling water; once the mixture was cool, added enough buttermilk to arrive at 1 cup of liquid total. (The 88 I have on hand is glass, with rounded corners, which makes it seem so much smaller.). Thank you for sharing the recipe. Thank you. I like a center filled with frosting, which is one reason I have never been enamored of cupcakes either. These, with the addition of the 66% baking chocolate chips will be my go to chocolate cupcakes from now on. The frosting is delicious too! If youre used to canned or standard back-of-the-box powdered sugar and butter frostings, it should be less sweet, due to the very bitter unsweetened chocolate thats used. And in case anyone who ever reads this comment wondered the same thing as me, I actually used two whole eggs, as I didnt want a random egg white floating around that Id have to account for. So easy to make- love that its one bowl, since that always makes me more inclined to make it in the future. (Im an exile from New Mexico living in Vermont and I need my chilies.) My baking tome was slightly less, but I always consider baking times rough estimates. (It says it on this package.) Rebecca Here you go. My sons birthday today. This was fun to make and eat for my first gathering with a friend post-vaccination. Can the frosting be made a couple days in advance and refrigerated or is it better the same day? I prepped all the ingredients for cake and frosting, got the butter, eggs and buttermilk at room tempIm mixing the butter and sugars together, add eggs, buttermilk, and rather than adding the flour mixture next, add the powdered sugar and have to start all over again! I added a heaping teaspoon of expresso powderDELICIOUS AND EASY. Perfect swirls! Also, such an epic amount. Toni Yes, same as the Monkey Cake. This was so good. It reminds me of childhood parties and I can just imagine how it tastes my mouth is watering just looking at the pictures! Ye gods all I want is that chocolate cake now (hello final month of pregnancy, so lovely to finally meet you). Update: went ahead and tried it anyways it was definitely enough for the naked cake look, ie just inside and on top! I tried it and it turned out superbly.Im going to tell just about everyone about your recipe,its too easy and decadent not to. Im not sure which area I am suppose to add the 1/2 tea of vanilla too. Coffee does rank about 5, making it an acid. I feel like something went wrong because it shouldnt seem heavy; rich with chocolate and not terribly sweet, yes, but I make it for almost every birthday layer cake and its always just delightfully tender and moist, especially, like most cakes, on day two. Unfortunately I cant tolerate buttercream, though I love it the taste and texture it makes me sick for days. Since I only have one (short on storage space) it was not difficult to simply bake one layer at a time. This is so totally the wrong place for this, but I will ask anyway. Any suggestions on the dryness? see? Thanks again! ps, is there a sub for the unsweetened chocolate? Reading this comment, I just realized I DID forget the 2 tbs of granulated sugar in the I Want Chocolate Cake cake that I made tonight! Thank you so much. I really wanted that light & fluffy frosting. Congrats! Second. Thanks for the spot-on recipe and the best chocolate cake Ive eaten in a long time. Thanks for responding! I actually had to be super careful plating it to frost. Recipes. This is a great cake! Two notes: I baked the cake for 27 min and it was a teeny bit dry watch carefully as it gets close to being done. You said in your email today that any 8 cake recipe could be halved and made in a 6 pan, which I would love to do- except when your chocolate cake calls for one egg yolk and one whole egg, how do I halve that? This was my first experience with Valrhona cocoa power. Thank you! Actually, Id probably keep 1/4 cup buttermilk, just so the batter wasnt too thick to work with. This is the BEST chocolate cake Ive ever made. I wish Id never made it because I CRAVE it and Im not pregnant. Youll want to make 4x this recipe; it makes 1 dozen. I made this with a mix of yoghurt and single cream, light brown sugar instead of dark, and caster sugar instead of granulated. It will be on the Christmas menu from now on. When reviewing the recipe I realized I should have lowered the amount when not using sea salt. Though it tasted sweet enough. Deb, in a very saturated social media food scene, you are one of the OGs and my absolute favorite. I am doing everything exactly as you prescribe and my cake has some larger-than-desired pockets of airI wonder now if I am not mixing the baking soda and baking powder in thoroughly before adding the dry ingredients? The food photography is top notch and presents the delicious food very well. I made this yesterday and it was delicious! Like pregnancy? I do know that I want this cake RIGHT NOW! I used a full fat cream-on-top plain yogurt from Trader Joes in lieu of buttermilk. (and Im not even pregnant ;) ) I used gluten free flour (King Arthur general purpose is my favorite), subbed coconut oil for the butter and coconut milk with a little vinegar for the buttermilk (to make it dairy-free). At around 25 weeks with my son, I suddenly craved chocolate after many months of guac, almonds and popsicles. But, what a lovely thing to have a perfect recipe to get to play with. If it has larger pockets, just needed more mixing of the leavening before adding the flour. One year ago: Morning Bread Pudding with Salted Caramel (you should totally make it this weekend)
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