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Chocolate Cake Recipe

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

"I made the buttermilk chocolate cake a couple of weeks ago and my husband declared it was the best chocolate cake that I had made! I ran out of buttermilk too that day and used the powder and it worked fine."

~Coleen~

Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

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.


Makes two 8 or 9 inch round cakes or 24 cupcakes

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 cup buttermilk
  • 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.

Mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder 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)

New!!!Chocolate Stout Cake

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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
  • 2 Tablespoons and 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 Tablespoon and 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 Tablespoon and 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cup oil
  • 8 eggs
  • 8 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 cups strong coffee(water can be used but the coffee is much better) You can use instant if you don't feel like making a fresh pot.
  • 4 cups buttermilk

Depending on your mixer, you may have to split this in tow batches.


Chocolate Cake Batter For A Larger Three Tiered Cake

This is enough for 2 layers each - 14, 10, 6 plus a little extra batter.

If you have large industrial mixer you can handle all of this batter at once, if not, then you will have to figure out what works best for your size mixer. Most Kitchen Aid tabletop mixers can handle the amount in the recipe at the top of this page times two. Back to Top

  • 14 cups all-purpose flour
  • 16 cups sugar
  • 6 cups cocoa
  • 5 Tablespoons plus 1 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 Tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 Tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons salt
  • 4 cups oil
  • 16 eggs
  • 2 Tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 8 cups strong coffee
  • 8 cups buttermilk

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

I use the rich and moist chocolate cake recipe on this page for the base and fill and frost my German chocolate cake with a german chocolate cake icing. 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.

Try it!

Go to my friend Gerhild's website www.easy-german-recipes.com for real authentic quick German recipes including a chocolate cake called "Schokoladentorte"

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