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Chocolate Cake Recipe

My chocolate cake recipe is the best, and it's an easy recipe for chocolate cake!

New!!!Chocolate Stout Cake

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This is a buttermilk chocolate cake recipe that I got off the back of the Hershey's cocoa box back in the 1980's.

Here is the original recipe which makes an 8 or 9 inch two layer cake. This is a really easy cake to make, just dump, mix and that's it. The fact that it's a dump cake recipe is another reason I love this cake.

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chocolate-cake-recipe Makes two 8 or 9 inch round cakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups cocoa
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cups strong coffee(water can be used but the coffee is sooo much better) (I use Turkish coffee)You can use instant if you don't feel like making a fresh pot.
  • 1 cup buttermilk

Mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In another bowl, mix the oil, eggs, coffee, vanilla and buttermilk.

Dump the wet ingredients into the dry while mixing at low speed. Increase speed to medium and beat for about 2 minutes. Scrape the bowl and beat again for another minute.

Divide the batter evenly between the pans. This batter will be very thin. Don't worry it will bake up beautifully.

If you would like to see visuals I have video tutorials on the make your own wedding cake page.

Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, depending on your oven, or just until the tops are springy or a cake tester comes out clean.

Cool the cakes in their pans on a rack for 10 minutes. Then invert onto racks, or use my method. (tutorials)

If you are making this cake for a tiered wedding cake you will need to multiply it by 4.

chocolate_cake_recipe

Polka Dot Wedding Shower Cake

For the simple wedding shower polka dot cake to the right, I used this recipe times four.

This will make two twelve inch round cakes (I use the 3 inch high pans), two 9 inch round cakes (2 inch high sides) a 6 inch round which I use for cutting out the 2 or 3 inch rounds for the tiny topper.

You will even have leftover batter, enough for 7 cupcakes, which you can enjoy or share.

Here is the Chocolate mousse recipe for the filling.


Chocolate Cake Recipe X 4

Makes two layer 12,9 and 6 inch round cakes with leftover batter for cupcakes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Ingredients

  • 7 cups all-purpose flour
  • 8 cups sugar
  • 3 cups cocoa
  • 8 teaspoons baking soda
  • 4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cup oil
  • 8 eggs
  • 8 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 cups strong coffee(water can be used but the coffee is sooo much better) You can use instant if you don't feel like making a fresh pot.
  • 4 cups buttermilk

For this much batter, which is 22 1/2 cups, you will need a large mixer.

If you work at a restaurant or bakery where they have large mixers than you will be able to mix all of this at once, but since most of you do not have one this large, you will have to split the recipe and mix it in batches.

If you have a 4 quart Kitchen Aid you will have no problem fitting the recipe x 2 in the bowl.

Chocolate Stout Cake

The waitress at The Barrington Brew Pub in Great Barrington Massachusetts gave me this recipe after I told her how amazing it was. They stack their chocolate layer cake three layers high with a chocolate ganache filling in between each layer. Then to top it all off they frost it with the ganache. It's a very old fashioned tall Victorian style cake. It is soooooo good I made it for my sons wedding cake who is a huge Guinness stout fan. Check out this unique cake recipe.

Triple Chocolate Cake Recipe

My triple chocolate cake recipe, uses this buttermilk coffee chocolate cake as the base. The filling is a rich chocolate mousse, and then the cake is topped with a super decadent chocolate Ganache.

German Chocolate Cake Recipe

Again I use this rich and moist chocolate cake recipe for the base and fill and frost my German chocolate cake with a caramel like chunky pecan and coconut frosting. If you use it for a wedding cake than you would probably want to frost it with butter cream. It would make an interesting and much talked about wedding cake if it was frosted in the textured icing though.

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