I used this recipe to make my brothers wedding cake. Thanks for a quick recipe for our math celebration! Made at 9:30 at night and it baked perfectly in 25 min. Its cooling but Im so nervous its going to be dry, *swoon* How hard was it to take those gorgeous pictures of the finished and then sliced cake without pouncing on them first?? It was pretty powerful at first while mixing, so I wont go by first taste ever again!). Thanks. Sorry for the late response, even after such a nice comment! I used an 8 round springform and it rose more than your tray version and needed an adjustment in the cooking time but I have got used to listening to my cakes for that little bubbling sound that tells you they need a few more minutes. Hello, Deb. We made this for my mothers birthday and were delighted, particularly with the beautifully light frosting. Ive made it now about 1/2 dozen times and the recipe has held up well over time. Next time Ill try taking them out after 15 or 16 minutes instead. Wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli and a miso-ginger-tahini dressing all piled into one bowl make this one of my favorite everyone-approved weeknight dinners -- use any kind of rice or combination of vegetables you've got; the dressing is the star. I think SmittenKitchen is AT LEAST 10% of the reason why my fiance proposed to me. and checking the cooking time. Great cake! Used oil instead of butter (a scant 1/3 cup) and got great results. If i wanted to omit the chocolate from the frosting (as Im picturing blue frosting for a deep sea themed cake) and added some blue colouring, Would that work okay do you think? Admittedly, I dont have a thermometer inside my oven, nor do I know if its perfectly calibrated, but my bake times are usually pretty close to the recipe, and it seemed like a lot of extra for a small cake. And so many thanks for including metric measurements. SOI wondered if this method for making frosting could work for a vanilla frosting using the food processor rather than stand mixer and if so, what youd do about quantities without the liquid that comes from melted chocolate here. Thank you! Finally, a SK cake! Add one-third of the 1 1/4 cup (155g . This is now our go-to recipe for any kind of chocolate cake. This cake rivals the chocolate cakes from the best bakeries in town. Its been a pretty miserable week, and this cake is exactly what I need. Thank you for cheering us up! I love the buttermilk and richness from the egg yolk. This cake is perfect! But I wonder if thats more due to my mixing by hand than to inherent flaws in the recipes. Hope thats an ok combo. Magda I dont have the functionality at this time, but Id love to get it if possible. Got about 10 from a single batch, and baked about 24 minutes in my oven. Hey Deb! I guess it just shows what a vast repertoire of recipes you have and how easily searchable they are (kudos to the OCD indexing) Or how obsessed I am with your cakes and breads (ahem) :D. Aisha Its a totally fair question. So glad I didnt read the few negative comments. Thank you for sharing the recipe. I had to laugh at your comment about sweet potatoes. And so, my absolutely wonderful husband made it for me! I was looking for a quick and easy chocolate cake recipe, so finally I tried this one and I am thrilled! I just asked my boyfriend what chocolate afternoon snack should I have today? Could it be made in a sheet pan? This cake would feed one of them, maybe 2 if they were forced to share. If you suggest it, I make it. Just made this with my gluten free flour blend. Looks absolutely heavenly, making it today!! I would like to send him a care package including a chocolate cake. This is definitely my go to frosting..will never need another. I love your recipes! That said ive found most buttercream frostings to be too sweet so I dialed the sugar back to 2/3 of whats suggested here and it was perfect. I would triple the frosting, especially if you wish to coat the sides as well. Love love love it! Thank you!! Im making these for my daughters birthday. This cake was a hit! Thanks for your wonderful blog and mazes tov on your pregnancy! Then after that i could eat more (though not meat of any kind, or greens), but the only thing i really wanted to eat was your chocolate brownies. ;) Tonight get to share it with friends. Loaf pan Use the Everyday Chocolate Cake recipe. So the chocolate cake by itself is fabulous, but I went crazy and substituted the Barefoot Contessas peanut butter icingtwo fabulous ladies in one dessert treatI do not have a bunch of gays to invite over, just the boyfriendand I made it all to get me out of the doghouse. BTW, I have been following you since nearly the beginning and I feel as if I learned to cook with you. Notes: (Im pretty confident itll be right if I add it just after the eggs and vanilla. This cake looks perfect. The perfect chocolate cake. Coffee does rank about 5, making it an acid. And as a fellow pregnant lady whos had these chocolate cravings I totally feel you. i did end up going out to buy the bakers chocolate for the frosting and im glad i did because stephanie I suppose you could use a bittersweet chocolate, the most bitter you can find, but it will make the frosting more sweet/less dark. ;) Anyway, Im sure you know how well your book is selling by the numbers, but I thought Id share the glee of finding your book and an enthusiastic audience in a couple of different countries. We have been eating it today, and this recipe is wonderful. Thank you for the laughs and the chocolate as I wrap up my hell week! Is that just me?! Hi I am trying to figure out how to adapt this to fit a 10.5 inch cake pan. I miss being able to download your recipes directly from your posts. Thats what I usually have on hand. Frosting notes: I had super dark baking chocolate and used that instead of unsweetened for the frosting. Could I sub cake flour for ap flour? If youre looking for some detailed troubleshooting tips on dry cake, this is a site I go to often for baking tips, and has some guidance: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/prevent-dry-dense-cake/. Thanks for such a beautiful site Deb. 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? Was that the culprit?!? I like this site; I generally like or want to try the recipes. had seconds. And with that, I can hear the pitter-patter of my diets feet making itself scarce as I reach for more butter. This is the fudgiest, most delicious chocolate cake Ive ever experienced. I feel like Im talking to a celebrity!! And now youve posted the cake I have dreamed of. Ill be making this cake again, post haste, but next time with the proper frosting. This cake was fantastic and was so easy to put together. Quick question! Even if your batter is too thin and your frosting takes forever to thin to the right consistency dont lose heart. it actually reminds me of carvel frosting a little and i mean that in the best possible way. This is the cake that inspired me to comment. Thank you! I just want a few slices of cake, enough to last in our house for two or three nights, even when there is no birthday or holiday or cause for celebration in sight. Cant wait to give my kids a treat!!! Thank god for that frosting, because it turned out the ratio and the richness of the frosting balanced with the sturdy, deeply chocolate-y cake that was barely almost a smidge over but not too badly. Baked for 30 mins. It is delicious! Made with my daughter while snowed in yesterday. At 30 mins the top had cooked and closed over and not till about 40 mins did the skewer come out clean and the cake stop making that bubbling noise. Worked perfectly! I love reading your recipes, etc, and often print off the recipes. Did in a 9.5 pie pan, which alters the edge texture a bit, but that was what was on hand! In short, this is EXACTLY the cake I need when the chocolate cake craving hits :-). I couldnt figure out what Id done, but probably using an incing mixture instead of pure icing sugar, with the 70% dk choc, meant there wasnt *quite* enough sugar to soften the edge of that very bittersweet chocolate. The perfect antidote to absolutely needing a chocolate fix. Yes, I could have made it myself, but Id have had to get out of the bath tub. Thanks!!! -cut down the sugar in the frosting to 1 cup, which was more than enough frosting for the people I fed it to, and it tasted very buttery, which is my preference. Any thoughts?? Ive made this multiple times before and its my definitely my go-to chocolate cake but I want to make it tomorrow for my birthday and I dont have any unsweetened chocolate. Husband is on a single layer cake (he calls them sheet cakes, even though the ones I make at his request, are not) bender right now. And its the perfect size for our family. This will definitely be in my regular rotation of dessert recipes. Do you think its OK to double the recipe, and let half the batter sit while the first dozen cupcakes bake? Love your site your writing, approach and photography are all just superb, and I appreciate your sense of humour and real-life tips. The cake is in the oven! If anyone is like me and has a Costco sized version of coconut oil theyre all too eager to use (vs expensive organic butter), use coconut oil! Im fairly new to gluten-free cooking, but learned a good trick to get rid of the sometimes gritty taste the baked goods can have: let the batter rest for 30 min before baking. I wish this had been in the notes! 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. It will be great on the second day. The first time I doubled the recipe and baked it in a 913 pan baked for about 30 minutes. I dont think you will have time to respond to this question, but I am baking a beautiful cake for my baby who is turning one. Now Im craving chocolate cake! My question: my daughter wants a chocolate-strawberry cake for her birthday. Sorry so late to respond to this comment; no reason you cannot. Made this cake this afternoon. Reading this blog right now brings back so many memories. 3/4 cup banana + 1/4 cup buttermilk. I heeded the note about acidity required to wake up the baking soda, and so also added a splash of white vinegar. It took about 32 minutes baking time. I actually only made the cake part and I made it into cupcakes. Thanks, Deb!!!!!! I will also add that the cake batter is delicious by itself so I enjoyed risking a bit of salmonella and licking my spatula during the clean up. Then I put the cake in the fridge for 3 hrs until dinner, and when we had it for dessert the frosting had turned it ganache. My sister cooks a lot and makes good cakes. This is a great cake! (Okay, I see that you had already changed to doubling the eggs back at the red wine version. This looks amazing Deb what a perfect cake! Fran You can use coffee for most of the buttermilk and Ive heard good things about mayo too. None of these are a dealbreaker, of course, just good to know going in. ), I decided to make this cake instead! It still looks pretty and the thought that counts :). Simply meant to say I dont have Dutch cocoa, so just used standard. I need to make a nice tall chocolate cake for my daughters birthday this weekend. I put about a teaspoon of cloves into the dry ingredients sometimes. At around 25 weeks with my son, I suddenly craved chocolate after many months of guac, almonds and popsicles. Its ludicrously easy and not over the top sweet. Finally, this is my note to selfat 25 minutes the cake needed another few minutes, I left it in for 6 minutes, and that was too long, and maybe should have been 3 more minutes. I would love to make this for my daughters birthday.do I double the ingredients for 2 nine inch rounds? The five-year-old said, as I was cutting, make sure that I dont just get a sliver!. Im not normally a chocolate cake person, but Ive been crazy for it this week. Also I only made 1/2 the frosting (good gravy, so much butter!) This looks like heaven on earth I think I might need to run to the grocery store and bake this tonight!! Would this be enough frosting for three layers? Beautiful cake, thank you! I specifically went looking for an I want chocolate cake now and happen to have leftover buttermilk recipe. Youve totally made my two-year-olds day. From the share button (the one that looks like an up-arrow coming out of a box) at the bottom of the Safari browser on an iPhone. The directions mention this can be made as 12 cupcakes. Its really airy actually and isnt overly sweet. Eight years ago: Baked Tomato Sauce, And for the other side of the world: Yes, this is everything I want. Yum! This was exactly what I was craving! My sons birthday today. Thank you for this wonderful recipe it is incredible! I dont often write but I want to express my gratitude for Smitten Kitchen, Deb, and this cake. Otherwise, it would be much easier to make them less sweet! Thank you! Thank you for the recipe and inspiration. Its hard to decrease sugar (more than I have) with a quick buttercream like this because the sugar provides the structure. This recipe looks fantastic!! 1/2 cup (41 grams) Dutch cocoa powder Quick and easy for a last minute crowd pleaser. This was my first experience with Valrhona cocoa power. It was a hit. Deb this is just. And congratulations! I went to 6 stores in my neighborhood and couldnt find sprinkles. I recently doubled a recipe that was originally a 88 or 99 pan and put it in a 913 pan. Chocolate yummy!!!!! Thanks for the craving, Deb! A real end of the week treat. :). I just wanted to correct you because I dont want you to accidentally mess up anything you bake in the future as you would be using way too much butter. THanks! This is absolutely a keeper. THanks! The key here is the. This frosting is HEAVEN. Ive heard mayonnaise suggested before has anyone tried that? And I really really love the frosting. Your cake defies all logic, physics, and natural laws of consumption. Do you think itd work? Joining the gym after New Years so this is the week for this cake again. i used thinned greek yogurt for the buttermilk. Do you think it would work if I cut the two tablespoons of granulated sugar? Did I let it get too cool before I used it? It should all be fine in the end. It was just fine; moist but not dense. No particular comment on this cake (although it looks UH-MAZING), but I love you and I appreciate your blog so much. In my defense, I ate most of it over the course of a whole weekend, standing up with nary a fork or plate in sight. Had to bake a lot longer than called for, but still yummy! Ummm, yum! 1 large egg Looks fabulous cant wait to try this cake as soon as I can get the ingredients together. I may be making it (again) for our Faculty heads birthday next week, as a quick have cake! morning tea Im thinking about using little DINOSAUR sprinkles as well as Stars (my usual go-to sprinkle) because they would just be too CUTE. Four-year-old grandson adds the rainbow sprinkles and heartily endorses it. Baked for 20 minutes. Ive been reading that one shouldnt use Dutch processed cocoa with recipes that contain baking powder or baking soda; apparently recipes with those ingredients use the acidity of natural cocoa to react with and the alkalinity of Dutch process will mess with the product. Boy those MEANIES ar NY CAKE did it again when you click on their link it doesnt work. Deb, in a very saturated social media food scene, you are one of the OGs and my absolute favorite. But still it came out nicely, pretty dense almost like a brownie which was a plus. Well see if the cake it too salty or not. Thanks for having such well written and scrumptious recipes that end up being perfection every time. Not sure I would make this cake again. Yes, thats totally normal here. -made an orange cranberry filling I didnt know that was even possible. Truly a fast cake to whip up!! Its hard from the fridge and would need to be warmed up a little and possibly re-whipped. (I still have a slice left and am having it tonight, in defiance of the only eat food that was cooked less than 24 hours ago rule.). Its really easy, a mostly one-bowl cake and frosting. Thanks for a perfect chocolate cake recipe! Just made this cake tonight and as I have a milk allergy I replaced the buttermilk with 1/2 cup strong coffee and 1/4 cup red wine!! Way thicker than any buttercream Ive ever made before. A chickpea flour cake? Its kept quite well in the fridge for a week. -baking time was approximately 35 minutes I had a rather sad brownie experience last night and I am so appreciative of how consistent your blog and the results one gets from it are. So pretty but so simple too. chocolate peanut butter cup cookies. sick. YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!! And Im a recent grad, now. Made this yesterday and the cake was soft, dense, moist and delicious. The cake was incredible. You mention that the frosting is generous for an 88, but is it enough to cover a 913 (to satisfaction)? several times a year) and if anything, its on the sweet side. Ive been halving bundt cakes for years (very easy to do as all ingredients are easy to cut in half and bake in my junior bundt pan), and Id like this smaller chocolate cake (I halve to halve it :) ) but am at a loss. We were sitting around with a bit of wine and a roasted cauliflower tonight, thinking about what to do for the night; we are homebodies, Friday basically is equal to Tuesday in my mind and CAKE! I should have listened to your original notes and checked it a few minutes sooner it was a tad dry, which was completely my fault. Thanks! I cupcaked these and doubled the recipe. Except the word wanted doesnt accurately describe the craving; it was suddenly everything. In the book, I have a section with different flavor cakes and frostings built off of this one, including a vanilla-vanilla. Ive loved every single Smitten Kitchen recipe Ive tried, and these are no exception. Quick, easy and delicious but WHY is it in the recipe list as the I want chocolate chocolate cake? This is happening tonight. 1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon table or fine sea salt Frosting 2 ounces (55 grams) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled 1 1/2 cups (180 grams) powdered sugar (sifted if lumpy) 1/2 cup (4 ounces or 115 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature blood orange, almond and ricotta cake. (The 88 I have on hand is glass, with rounded corners, which makes it seem so much smaller.). Wow. Now, I need to make this cake recipe Thanks. How did it taste in the end? It is my new go to cake whenever someone in my house is craving chocolate cake. Hope it was a hit! Have visited this page many times, but thinking about making it for the first time for my roommates birthday! I look forward to trying it again with regular Dutch process cocoa. Im thinking if I work with it while frozen all will be fine.any thoughts? This was so good. Mission accomplished. They touted it as something like WORLDS BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE so I saved it and figured wed make it this weekend for our weekly baking project. Grad school is sometimes miserable but also wonderful. Easy to make, took about 25 mins in a 9 inch tin, is chocolatey but not too rich or heavy the way a cake made with melted chocolate is, and just really soft and comforting. You cant ever going wrong with chocolate cake! The whole house wants chocolate cake tonight! This is the easiest; its quite chocolaty, a little fudgy, not firm but holds together well. I may turn this into a regular Christmas cake :). Next time will try with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. What a difficult choice ! WTF is wrong with me? Please, please tell me this doesnt mean you were still nauseous in week 16? I had to add another 1/2 cup of powdered sugar. Thank you! Very observant! Dear Deb- Im hoping you can solve a problem for me. Obviously the sizes are different, but is one more chocolaty, moist, etc? Wow, made it, it came out perfect. However, it can lead to structural issues with a frosting like this (mostly just softer) and because sugar provides moisture in cakes, removing too much will make it seem dry. And then I had to tell my mother that it is better than The Family Recipe for chocolate cake. If I dont have unsweetened chocolate on hand but have a 70% cacao (or higher) chocolate, will this work? Youre kind of my hero. Looks incredible. HOLY HELL, its fantastic. Thank you SO much for this recipe! Well, I only made the frosting, not the cake (I put this frosting on a box yellow cake) but this is truly the best frosting I have ever made. So happy about the sprinkles. The frosting turned out a bit too sweetsolved by beating in an oz or two of cream cheese to mellow it out. I still have half of your Moms apple cake in my cake caddy so this will probably have to wait until the weekend but I am definitely making this! However, keep in mind that this is a thin cake layer, a little under an inch. My friends, family and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very very much :) And maybe use vanilla bean instead of extract? THIS CAKE LOOKS SO YUMMY!!!!!! i cannot wait to make this cake! Going to try out this recipe for my daughters birthday! Other ways to print: After trying both creaming and "reverse creaming," we turned to ribboning whipping eggs with sugar until they double in volume, then . 1/2 teaspoon espresso powder (I used this instead of vanilla, purely based on personal taste) I have 2 teenage boys. Your site is the first food blog Ive read continuously and made things from. 3 times? Not a recipe to save, though the pictures are pretty. Totally respect that! I loved it! You and your blog bring me great joy! :). I added slightly more salt just to bring out the flavour of the chocolate but all in all perfect! And as the cake was baking in the oven, I discovered I did not have any unsweetened chocolate. My son requested graham crackers with frosting for his lunch box treats this week, so I made a half batch of this frosting in my little mini-processor and it was the perfect amount. Just wanted to check in here and say how delicious this cake is! Finally made this cake for my mother-in-laws birthday last weekend. Coconut oil works great here so I hope this helps someone else in the making. Im definitely going to try this recipe! I believe I saw that exact offset spatula for a nice price at TJ Maxx today and I didnt buy it because I thought I would never use such a small one. Cupcakes bake for 14 to 18 minutes. I made the chocolate buttercream with 2 tbs of melted butter and 6 tbs of unsweetened cocoa powder to sub for the unsweetened chocolate and it worked beautifully. In your opinion, is there a great deal of variation in the taste of the different brands available? Jenny Not sure why it came out thinner but as long as it baked up well, I wouldnt worry about it. It was delicious. Also, your cheerful writing style has brightened up my day considerably :). Cost to Make: $6-$8 Calories: 275 Servings: 12 cupcakes Ingredients 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 3 cups confectioners sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder 3 to 4 Tbsp heavy whipping cream 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/4 tsp salt US Customary - Metric Instructions Two thumbs up. My little pregnancy book chimed in, asking if I was craving sweets. Not too rich. 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup half and half Instructions CAKE DIRECTIONS Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Okay I now have a terrible problem. 2007 on smittenkitchen.com | 2009-2023 Smitten Kitchen. I.e. Even my pregnancy-addled, not-right-tin-having self didnt mess it up. If square, 300 to 325%. Glad it was a hit! Im still super nauseous though, this was supposed to go away weeks ago, and havent baked anything because I cant stand being in the kitchen. Put all in the freezer to flash freeze and called it a night. Three years ago: Fried Egg Sandwich with Bacon and Blue Cheese Hello! And, you know, now. The first time, I left out half the flour, so the cupcakes arent very cake-y, but they are delicious (and there are few sins frosting wont hide). YUM. Who files stuff under THE? I want cake now! Gonna save this one :). and not sure how difficult/easy it is to do. You can make buttermilk by mixing a little white vinegar (somewhere between 1 tsp and 1 Tbsp) and the rest of the cup milk, itll curdle, and then you can use it as buttermilk! Thank you for this easy small cake! (My co-workers very kindly said that unless the cake leapt up off the plate and attacked them, they were going to love it but I was worried about the texture.) Two things: I havent read in awhile (not for any reason on your part, but like tv shows, I like to stock up on blog posts I love and then completely bingeI should not admit this unhealthy behaviour, but there it is) so, CONGRATULATIONS!! Your recipes are so easy and relate-able, and yet so novel, and your photography is scrumptious. Very much looking forward to any recipe involving peanut butter! And it is not smack-upside-the-head sweet. Just found out were having a second boy. This will make a great ongoing cake recipeyoud better believe its favorited. Letting the batter sit hasnt been a problem for me. It works but its better with an additional yolk if you want more of a golden cake. Made this cake GF for our babysitter (our policy is to always have something freshly baked for a sitter) by subbing out regular flour for Pamelas all-purpose GF flour. Erin Was the chocolate completely and totally cool, i.e. Had Hersheys cocoa on hand and the cake did not disappoint.

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