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! Its so beautiful! Just enough for a big swirl on 12 cupcakes and even tastes good made vegan with earth balance buttery sticks. But yes, I did up the egg on all future versions after the loaf one, and reduced the sugar. Any other ideas? I need to make a nice tall chocolate cake for my daughters birthday this weekend. Just made this with two 6-inch rounds (following Debs recent advice!) Sometimes it comes back for an afternoon but its not like it was. And now youve posted the cake I have dreamed of. The baking time was a bit of a problem! Sigh. And then I had to tell my mother that it is better than The Family Recipe for chocolate cake. Youre the best. Ive made this a few times and its turned out the best with whole milk yogurt (not Greek yogurt) and a half to on teaspoon of instant coffee/espresso. rounds. apparently they dont use baking soda here but then what? Thank you. Aarthi I havent, but it sounds really good. -I used regular cocoa powder and absolutely missed the Dutch cocoa powder, so go for the gold here Your email address will not be published. Could I sub cake flour for ap flour? I dont have an oven thermometer, but is there anything else other than my oven being too hot that could have caused it to go so wrong? (FWIW, I tend to make oil based cake recipes if Im looking to avoid dry cake at all costs.) This cake is now my cake. YUM. Great recipe, easy to make. A real end of the week treat. Doesnt have to be a quick buttercream but I would prefer not to do a ganache. 1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour I think another eight minutes after that and the testing knife finally came out clean enough that I was prepared to take the thing out of the oven. Delicious!! It came out perfectly baked, not very risen. So delicious. I made if for my daughters third birthday and it was a hit among kids and adults alike. 1 / 8 teaspoon baking soda So making this! I decided to look at a recipe anyway. All of your chocolate cakes look delicious and I cant decide which recipe to use! All in all, not a problem. Youre pregnancy sounds exactly like my pregnancy. The cake looked so good. Would this be enough frosting for three layers? Free shipping for many products! In your opinion, is there a great deal of variation in the taste of the different brands available? This was DELICIOUS! Can you PLEASE make The Cake tonight mom?! Or have them page by page. It came together simply and easily. Delicious ! This frosting looks deliciouscould it be piped, or will it not hold its shape? I also topped the cake with my own chocolate whipped ganache as I needed to use up my heavy whipping cream. Good luck! Nailed it! I plan to make this for a birthday party, and do a double layer 913. Details. dont quit your day job When I click Print Recipe I am directed to another website, which requires me to do I dont know what. with chocolate buttercream, but lets be real. Surprisingly so. blood orange, almond and ricotta cake. Melissa Yes, double the ingredients, including the frosting if youre looking to cover the sides as well. My kid ate only the frosting, though :) Thank you, Deb! Deb, I love your recipes and we just made this cake delicious!! Im currently 7 months pregnant, and Im pretty sure Ill never eat them again after A Very Unfortunate Incident involving your sweet potato tacos (RIP to my favorite SK recipe) in my first trimester. Im using a Williams-Sonoma Gold Touch 88 here. I just asked my boyfriend what chocolate afternoon snack should I have today? . This is definitely my go-to chocolate cake. Turned out delicious! Deb, in a very saturated social media food scene, you are one of the OGs and my absolute favorite. I know you have other vanilla frosting recipes but I love making this one in the food processorso easy and the texture is great. 1. Its really airy actually and isnt overly sweet. We were at the cabin so this was going to be a hand-mixer + $5 ikea-cake-pan-smeared-with-whole-cow-of-butter kind of a job. I used coconut sugar in place of the brown sugar here, and about 40g less, it works great! Did not have the right size pan so baked 6 delicious cupcakes. I adjusted to the 115 g of butter without adjusting for the extra heavy cream. Its not the same but it probably wont destroy the cake or anything. But I wonder if thats more due to my mixing by hand than to inherent flaws in the recipes. Im the only one here! I made a half recipe of this and out of it came 4 largish size muffins? Thank you! Recipes. What a treat for a weeknight! Brought this to a neighbors party and gleefully watched as it was gobbled up. Privacy Policy. Even the first piece of cake, which was shortly after icing it, the frosting was still very soft and the flavor was intensely bitter chocolate. Love that you include the alternatives for the liquid moisture. I usually bake for around 21 minutes for the regular cupcakes with this recipe. (It says it on this package.) From the fridge, its a bit of a pain. One of the easiest and most satisfying chocolate cake recipes ever. Note to self: Keep cake ingredients and directions separate from frosting info. I needed a piece of chocolate cake so badly that I began to regret every cupcake shop Id ever walked past and not gone in during the height of the mid-aughts cupcake craze. I went to 6 stores in my neighborhood and couldnt find sprinkles. I noticed that you put less white sugar in this than your Everyday chocolate cake (which I adore). Thank you for posting! 5 minutes outside on a winter day, its good to go. Seriously, we love it so much!! Finish with rainbow sprinkles; dont even fight it. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Think of it as my New York Sheet Cake, intense (the impact of cocoa and unsweetened chocolate should not be underestimated), rich (butter, in all of it), tiny (one-eighth of a sheet, to be particular) and quick to make, so you can just because you want it but not have it stay long enough to cause any permanent damage. All that to say, I enjoyed a piece of your chocolate cake for breakfast enormously. I think it was too close to the bottom heat source too. .And P.S. Im not sure whats been happening with my cakes but would love ANY advice or ideas! And I was vegetarian. Crap. That could be the issue too much creaming. Thank you! Everyone, Deb is right, get that small offset spatula. Finally made this cake for my mother-in-laws birthday last weekend. Like eat-one-square-in-two-bites perfect. If you give a cook some frosting. (Also a ridiculous amount of red dye and a little fondant because we used a 9 circular pan and made Elmo.). I dont even like frosting but Im drooling at the sight of yours! Really happy to find a chocolate cake recipe thats not overwhelmed by so much sugar. They are all gone now and left everyone (all adults) with smiles on their faces. So the amount was great for us, but obviously you could also double it if you wanted. Congratulations on your wonderful news, and I cant wait for your next cookbook! This is happening tonight. Can the frosting be made a couple days in advance and refrigerated or is it better the same day? My hubby loved it for his decadent birthday surprise! Thank youit looks so good though! I dont know if anyone else experienced this, but I attempted to process it the 1-2 minutes, and something happened to it. chocolatey without being overwhelmingly rich (and thus, every excuse for a second slice ;-)). Seriously, thank you, I think I may have already written a comment on this recipe, but I have to write one againthis cake is magic! I used two whole eggs for not wasting an egg white, but it turned out fine. It all came together rather quickly on a weekday evening too. Beat butter, powdered sugar and salt, if using, in a large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy. Loved this! This is a great cake! I only made the frosting part, but had to comment because it was fantastic and easy. I had to bake for the full 30 minutes, at 25 mins. Did freezing work well?? This is the easiest; its quite chocolaty, a little fudgy, not firm but holds together well. Hi Deb I actually found your blog while searching for Apple Tart recipes and accidentally clicked on this Chocolate Cake recipe instead. Hubby blew the candles out, served it up, we started eating, and nobody said a word. This is a delicious, fast chocolate cake! Better to make triple the batter and divide it between 4 pans. I do have a blender (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00Y2QHY02/ref=s9_top_hm_b3rSILn_g79_i13), might that help? The icing on this was great! It actually tasted like chocolate, unlike most bakery cakes that just taste brown. Any ideas why? http://www.highergroundstrading.com/blog/38/coffee-acidity:-the-science-and-the-experience, My cake took almost 30 minutes to bake?! The frosting recipe I made as is, with the addition of about 3/4 cup of left-over coconut cream I had. nevermind. We used m&ms instead. I was looking for a quick and easy chocolate cake recipe, so finally I tried this one and I am thrilled! Recipes. I know youve given us variations on it before, but for some reason the photos here really drove home that this chocolate buttercream appears to be the frosting I have been looking for all my life. In another bowl, whisk together sour cream, corn syrup, and vanilla extract until smooth. Im sorry this will sound similar to a comment I posted on another recipe (marshmallow frosting), but how does this chocolate cake compare with the other chocolate cakes on your site, especially the ones in the double chocolate layer cake and the peanut butter chocolate cake? Im so worried about under-baking, even by a little that I forget the residual baking in the pan once I take it out of the oven. Topped with your chocolate sour cream frosting (a half recipe together they use 1 smallish sour cream container) which is the real star, I think. Actually as a followup to Aunt Vixens post 245, I too had to extend the cooking time. My Significant-Something-Or-Other, the theatrical sound-and-lighting tech, had a birthday was this week, but he was buried under two show openings and an over-the-top Sweet Sixteen birthday party (can you believe a $200,000 budget????). not sure what I was thinking) and spent a bunch of time probably twenty minutes until I realized my mistake. You read my mind! Looks amazing! 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. Hi Deb, Love your recipes:) I just moved a few weeks ago from Brooklyn, NY to Germany and I wanted to see if you had any insight on the baking soda/baking powder issue. It ended up being about 2.5 inches tall, which was the perfect height for a small birthday cake. Oh my goodness! 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. It works but its better with an additional yolk if you want more of a golden cake. This is soo going to get made tomorrow! Erin Was the chocolate completely and totally cool, i.e. Things like humidity and elevation can even factor in. Is there a video anywhere illustrating this technique? Im on my way to a weight loss/fitness goal. Seriously good. You think it might have anything to do with the 20 tabs of different chocolate cake recipes I have open on the computer? kids loved it and so did parents who couldnt stop having seconds. Every bit as wonderful as I imagined. I made this today and I am happy. I used Herseys special blend cocoa (dutch and natural) and added some instant espresso powder into the milk. Great recipe. I cant wait to get all the ingredients and bake this cake! Then Im in trouble. This will make a great ongoing cake recipeyoud better believe its favorited. Hi Deb, Thank you!! Definitely going into the rotation. We were supposed to grill kabobs for birthday, but a thunder storm started so we needed to change the oven temperature for the kabobs and not the cake. A fantastic recipe! i made this into cupcakes. 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. Okay I now have a terrible problem. Yummy! I want it. NB my main beef with most chocolate cakes is that they are far too sweet and rich (I drink cocoa without any added sugar at all so that tells you something about my palate for sugar) and I would not reduce the sugar in this. To properly substitute non-Dutch cocoa you need to increase alkaline. Also can you recommend a baking pan for this cake? Add one-third of the 1 1/4 cup (155g . It should have been on the rack one level up. Thank you so much. I guess Ill be investing in a thermometer! I added slightly more salt just to bring out the flavour of the chocolate but all in all perfect! sick. Thanks. So good though for such a quick cake! After a good 30 minutes it comes out DELICIOUS. Way thicker than any buttercream Ive ever made before. I have a three layer 9 inch cake to frost. Sally Yes, it should be great two days later. Thanks for having such well written and scrumptious recipes that end up being perfection every time. The directions mention this can be made as 12 cupcakes. Thank you for an awesome cooking blog! Hi, I used microwave chocolate mug cake when I had this craving, 5 min crave to product time. Did I need to do that? Could also be scaled and stacked as a birthday cake. It was a small miracle when I received your weekly newsletter including small celebration cakes on the same day as my partners birthday. At seven weeks (for the third time), I both totally understand these intense cravings and cant tell if I actually want this cake or not. :). Would that work? Even serious adults turn giddy at the sight of sprinkles, men too! Any reason I need to pack it first and then weigh? Does it give a tighter crumb for it? Just worried about it warming up and shifting. I even had to use half caster sugar because I didnt have enough icing sugar and it was still good! Was it supposed to turn out that way? It is my new go to cake whenever someone in my house is craving chocolate cake. We used the Hersheys special dark cocoa and 6 large muffin wells came out perfectly in 18 minutes. I never found it, and was too lazy to try to make it (im never satisfied with my own baked goods anyway). Have just put this in the oven. The cake came out fine, but the batter was just that pourable batter, not the spreadable, brownie batter-like kind in your photo. OMG. Thank you! Making this for Mothers Day, and an 88 is too much cake for two people on the pandemic meal plan. Lovely cake though, one of my faves! Deb, as far as the buttermilk subs. The 'I Want Chocolate Cake' Cake | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman - YouTube 0:00 / 8:11 Intro The 'I Want Chocolate Cake' Cake | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman smitten kitchen. So I caved in last night and started my chocolate cake-baking journey. The thing is, if you reduce the confectioners sugar, youll have less structure and more chocolate and butter whipped together. Not sure how much it holds, but probably. Thanks. Soft and moist. Cupcakes Usually bake for 17 to 20 minutes. How much batter should I make for two 10-inch pans? Because when you really need chocolate cake, I vote for doing it properly. So, I remade it, but I was so scared I was going to ruin it again, that I didnt whip it enough and it wasnt as creamy as its been all the other times Ive made it. So easy to make, this is my forever birthday cake. I didnt use this frosting as I had some swiss meringue buttercream left over from a previous baking session, but am looking forward to using this frosting recipe in the future :-) I choose to make this because I should have everything in the house for this cake. I would have wanted and moaned until I managed to get my husband to remedy it but your solution is way better. Hes a twin so it was one of two cakes served on party day, which is the only explanation I have for why we have leftovers two days later Wrapped in the fridge to keep the frosting manageable, its still moist and delicious. I will force feed it to my colleagues tomorrow. Youll want the full yield of frosting for each layer, especially if youre covering the sides. (Ive mostly cut out eating sugar but this cake looks like it has little enough of it that it would be good when I want a treat!). Next time, Ill add those adorable confetti sprinkles! 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! It will be great on the second day. Let cool for 5 to 10 minutes in cake pan on cooling rack, then flip out onto rack or serving plate to completely finish cooling before frosting. Oh Deb, as I am now a little over 4 months pregnant, I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that our cravings are in sync. Add a pinch of cinnamon, if desired. Everyone commenting on the sweetness of the frosting is scaring me off! Rebekah describes this perfectly deep chocolate flavour, not too sweet, very easy to mix up and bake I loved the frosting this is my new chocolate frosting. Thanks for such a beautiful site Deb. I turned this into a dairy-free, stacked birthday cake with the following adjustments: -doubled the recipe Thank you, this one will become a regular go-to recipe for sure!! Better the same day. So, made this today in honor of my little girls birthday (and of course shes too young for this, thus the in honor part). :) (Also, see Joannes comment!). In most recipes, you can reduce it by 25% without changing a whole lot. I was just about to make a batch of chocolate fudge, but now Im torn.
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