So much inspiration on here. Deb this cake looks great and just the type of thing I want to make, but dont want my husband to realize I am capable of making, lest the requests come non-stop! Or, what I do more often is if youre using a stand mixer anyway, just cut it into chunks and let the paddle soften it. the frosting is SO GOOD and i am not a frosting person and Youll have more icing than you need, but of course, need is relative. I made this today and I am happy. (This is a 75% volume of that, so it wont fill out a loaf as well. I have 2 teenage boys. Are you saying this is not normal? I thought that I might use this for a birthday cake. Im new to receiving your blog, and I have (hopefully) two quick questions: 1. Doesnt have to be a quick buttercream but I would prefer not to do a ganache. To make the soft gooey layer, in a small bowl, whisk together the corn syrup or golden syrup with the milk or cream, and vanilla. Recently made your Valerie chocolate cake with this frosting. 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. I decided to divide my cake in to two 9 round pans. 3. Everyday Cakes - smitten kitchen Ive made it now about 1/2 dozen times and the recipe has held up well over time. Going to try out this recipe for my daughters birthday! Did I let it get too cool before I used it? I followed the instructions exactly and the cake turned out beautifully. And its beginning to be like my cure-all for days Im in a sour mood. This is heaven and all my friends love me now. I have never made a vanilla buttercream that I liked, and Im scared to try a meringue-based frosting. Beautiful, btw. Id LOVE any advice you have. Could you really taste it in the scone? I added on at least another 5 minutes, and maybe more, for the baking time. OH.MY.GOD. Better the same day. Thank you! I specifically went looking for an I want chocolate cake now and happen to have leftover buttermilk recipe. Also, such an epic amount. It was GREAT! This is soo going to get made tomorrow! I frosted my cake and then covered it well with plastic and it was GREAT the next day. We opted for a few fresh strawberry slices on each little square and it was just right. It was definitely brown-butter-nutty flavored enough that my health conscious husband thought it was whole wheat- did I correct him, no :) I saw some recipes that brown then freeze the butter and use buttermilk instead of cream in the scone. Best chocolate cake ever! I have bittersweet baking bars and cocoa powder. I try to give credit to stores where I buy things, and not just Amazon all the time, but I cant help if their site doesnt have permalinks in the year 2015. Youll want to make 4x this recipe; it makes 1 dozen. This is one of the best cakes I have made in a long time. Thank you for this easy small cake! This cake looks perfect. Not fancy or perfect, but just right for the occasion. Congrats you just made brownies.. really? Ive taken to drive thrus lately because I can decide what I want, not be involved in cooking it, and eat it five minutes later hopefully all before I change my mind! Thank you! $5.50; 200 . Nina Not sure was the melted chocolate cooled? For vanilla, I prefer 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar and a full teaspoon of vanilla extract. I used KAF Triple Cocoa Blend, which worked well. I used plain Hersheys un-Dutched cocoa, water and a teaspoon of vinegar in the cake batter; it was very dark, and rose fine. the cake was *very* thin, so i cut it in half and stacked it to create a small layer cake. I made mini-cupcakes for my son. Deb, have loved your blog for years and some of your recipes are my go-tos! I was thinking of making a vanilla version, and looking more carefully at the comments I see youve already offered an answerdecreasing the powdered sugar, increasing vanilla, and leaving out the unsweetened chocolatebut Im glad to know theres more in your new cookbook, I will check it out! If square, 300 to 325%. Thanks for a perfect chocolate cake recipe! Incidentally, I did walk into every cupcake store and bakery during my first pregnancy. I had to make one change to the frosting. The first two attempts were as the recipe said, the third with replacing 1/2C of buttermilk with coffee. I am about to make the vanilla frosting. I also went to NY Cake Shop on 22nd st and they were really nice, helpful and had hundreds (no exaggeration) of sprinkle choices- will definitely be going back. It came out slightly dry. I might have eaten what was left straight out of the bowl with a spoon, but we wont ask too many questions, right? This was just what we needed tonight for a little impromptu gathering. Definitely a keeper, thanks! Thank you for this recipe, I made the cake last night subbing in slightly thinned soya yoghurt for the buttermilk and sunflower spread for the butter as my daughter is lactose intolerant, and it worked beautifully! But so thick that the cakes moist crumb couldnt hold up to it. liz I have no idea! We have an egg allergy in the family has anyone tried making this recipe with an egg substitute? Im torn b/w this recipe and the Homemade Devil Dog SK recipe. I am off to the store to get the ingredients I need right now. I was hoping it would work with the quite sweet yellow cake my husband requested but I was to worried about it to wait and see. I used two whole eggs for not wasting an egg white, but it turned out fine. The standard Id say for this size is 8 tablespoons instead of 6. Two years ago: French Onion Tart Yes, but it is not needed to make this cake tender/plush. 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. Snow day chocolate cake! Will definitely make again. So pretty but so simple too. I dont normally make cakes with frosting because its that much more of a time commitment, plus you normally end up with a ton of cake and its just my husband and me at our house. Love the frosting. Was it supposed to turn out that way? I had to bake for the full 30 minutes, at 25 mins. Hi Deb I tried decreasing the sugar to 1 cup and replacing it with 1/4 cup cocoa. Worked perfectly! The sweet frosting with this rich second batch hit the right spot. My fiance was going to bake me a cake but he came down with an awful migraine and so I figured Id make this cake and top it with whipped cream and cherries, for an easy but pretty dessert for the dinner we were hosting. Excellent, reliable cake. Trying to make up my mind which to make tomorrow . Yes. The icing is to die for and such a snap to make. Came out perfect baked in a 9 inch round. It was DELICIOUS! Think I might have to healthify and recreate! Thanks for having such well written and scrumptious recipes that end up being perfection every time. I dont like a lot of icing on my cake. More cocoa, brown sugar, that extra egg yolk for richness, etc, etc. There is a print icon that leads to a print template at the bottom of each recipe, where it says DO MORE: You can also click CTRL or + P [on desktop] from any recipe post and it will take you to a streamlined print template. Deb, the worst thing about this recipe is that at the drop of a hat you can make a delicious chocolate cake (for those of us who do not need more cake!). Thanks in advance! i got 12 standard size cupcakes plus one bigger one, made in a custard cup. 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. I truly hope it will be me. makes some foods terrible, but others so much more DELICIOUS than youd have ever imagined. I call it my short on time, big on love cake, perfect for celebrations. No particular comment on this cake (although it looks UH-MAZING), but I love you and I appreciate your blog so much. Note: when I do pack it and weigh it, 145g actually comes to a little over 1/2 a cup of brown sugar. Yummy! Everyone, Deb is right, get that small offset spatula. Deb made this cake last night in a woohoo Ive made it to the third trimester fury. You also ruined me with Dutch processed cocoa. Its expensive and I wouldnt encourage anyone to seek it out (I tend to price it out online, buy it in bulk and split it with baker friends) unless theyve tried it and, like me, found it impossible to buy anything else after that. Regarding the time this can be kept: Since my 3-month-old is not ready for cake and my husband was away but I NEEDED to make this I worried it would go bad too soon on the counter (frosting) or get too stale (in the fridge). Fun at I dont have Dutch cocoa so used standard and didnt feel it was lacking all. Any suggestions on the dryness? Love this cake and its counter part in the party cake builder section of your book!! I will try this recipe with coffee :) Im excited to experiment with unsweetened in place of bittersweet chocolate- I hadnt thought of that before! Either that, I would have to eat cake less often and at 21 weeks, that is unthinkable. Katie I think buttercreams with melted chocolate are better, or, at least I love this one most of all. I made this recipe into cupcakes, doubled, 3 times today. Add cocoa powder and whisk until mixture is smooth. We just finished my husbands favorite chocolate cake, which is my Moms recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake (dont laughits outrageously good), but yours sounds even better. Follow. You might want to aim for three layers, or just make even more batter for two thicker ones. I asked if she trusted you enough to plow through and make as directed. Well see if the cake it too salty or not. Baby is now 3 months. Wonderful cake!!! Was a bit nervous as we were having lunch at a v nice Italian restaurant and then coming back here for cake, but neednt have worried massive win and everybody demanded the recipe. Thanks :). I upped the amount of chocolate in the frosting to approx 80grams by accident but it tasted delish. just made into cupcakes and I cant stop licking my spatula. I remember those strange feelings of strongly disliking (yes, they know what they did) familiar flavors and textures. I am making your fudgy chocolate cake and golden vanilla cakes from your 2nd cookbook this week and I am so curious as to why, in your book recipes, you sprinkle the leavening agents on the batter instead of putting them in with the flour/cocoa or flour cornstarch mixture as you do in this recipe? I had to laugh at your comment about sweet potatoes. Even with the extra sugar, it was still bitter-sweet but in a good way. Thank you! Its a problem, I hear you loud and clear! Baking time is decreased to 12 minutes. Add the cooled chocolate and whisk until smooth. It only took about 20 minutes to bake, and it fell in the middle, but that may have been my own fault for checking on it too soon. Im making for a party and dont want to not have enough! The cake is heavy, not sweet, a chore to eat, and the only redeeming thing about it is the frosting and thats because it has a half cup of butter in it! And do I need to butter the inside of each paper cupcake wrapper or should I butter the actual cupcake tin and then place the paper cupcake wrapper inside that? Just watched you make this on YouTube and immediately felt compelled to make it happen in my home. Monday was my birthday. Because baking soda (not baking powder, which has cream of tartar as an acid) needs an acidic ingredient to activate it, there is some concern that the using Dutched cocoa in a recipe only leavened by baking soda will be a problem. and tastes great. Im not saying how many I had. I was brought to tears. I was sick for the first four or five months and couldnt really eat anything that wasnt starch plus dairy (mac and cheese, cheese enchiladas, etc.) I decorated mine with Smarties! TMI? Thoughts on a little white vinegar in regular milk to make buttermilk? This frosting, tripled, perhaps, looks perfect! Deb, you are always my go-to! If you suggest it, I make it. Maybe tonight?! xx. Have just put this in the oven. I love your recipes and you are my go to baking site. website "Around here, we sometimes make (one-bowl, intense, perfectly crumbed) chocolate cake just because it's Wednesday. My child decided against buttercream or unicorn sprinkles so we just had it plain tonight (may do a frost-your-own-slice pudding tomorrow as we have guests) and I have to say she liked it way better than a brownie. a simple three layered birthday cake? So easy to make, this is my forever birthday cake. This cake was so easy to make and was well loved by all who tried it! Distilled water would be a 7. Im thinking if I work with it while frozen all will be fine.any thoughts? Thanks. I made it in a regular cupcake pan. I Tried Four Popular Blondie Recipes and Found the Best One | Kitchn Deb: Dont worry if it looks lumpy! 1 / 8 teaspoon baking soda I was attempting to recreate the birthday cake my boyfriends mom made him growing up: a chocolate cake mix+pudding mix based recipe. It works just fine, though, and then you can split the layer and fill it. Sometimes when I really need chocolate cake I cant find this recipe! Less temptation as it sits on my counter! I like the ease of this cake; every now and again I too just crave something like this mid-week, but dont feel like making a whole thing out of it. Do you think I could add 1/4 cup cocoa powder and decrease the powdered sugar to 1 cup in the frosting? If I wanted to make this into a double layered round cake, would you just double the recipe and do in two 9 inch rounds? My sister cooks a lot and makes good cakes. Ive had my eye on this for a long time, and when I caught my 11 year old son watching chocolate cake how-to videos, I knew the time had come. Ha, this looks epic and just like the chocolate cake of my childhood. You and your blog bring me great joy! Used a round pan and used homemade curd for buttermilk. Turned out delicious! it really cuts the sweetness and just has the most awesome texture a solid lid to the cake but that still can be cut through, and so creamy. I live at 6000 feet. Its easy, moist, bakes in 25 min. .. is that normal? I could easily see this being a go-to recipe for last minute parties its fast, easy to make, and a definite crowd pleaser. If it has larger pockets, just needed more mixing of the leavening before adding the flour. The Delicious taste of chocolate ahaha. When I click Print Recipe I am directed to another website, which requires me to do I dont know what. 1 tablespoon / 13 g granulated sugar Just enough cake, not too much, and so simple. What would you suggest? you know, something about being in the family way (im assuming thats whats going on???) that said, flavor was good. Everyone told me I used the wrong pan and I got a chemistry lesson and another one on finding the right pan (which I still dont understand). I recently tested this doubled in one cake pan it works but it will go over the top a bit which can be unnerving. Ive been dreaming of my late mothers chocolate cake lately (yes, dreaming!) We celebrated National Chocolate Cake day with this recipe, and it did not disappoint! This is a delicious, fast chocolate cake! As soon as I hit home shores in Australia. Also, can you bake this in a round cake pan instead of a rectangular one? I 1.5xd the frosting for a 913 and was happy with the coverage. Thank you for an awesome cooking blog! This is calling my name. Could also yield: 1 generously frosted 8-inch or 9-inch round cake, 12 very generously frosted cupcakes, or it could be doubled and baked in a 913-inch pan. Thank you for your generosity and for this cake in particular it helped us support a friend who needed it. At around 25 weeks with my son, I suddenly craved chocolate after many months of guac, almonds and popsicles. Do you think this frosting would work to pipe with a star tip? It will be harder to get butter/sugar fluffy, though not impossible. Thank you! The frosting recipe I made as is, with the addition of about 3/4 cup of left-over coconut cream I had. I laughed at the we cut it into 16 small squares. I will admit I subbed bittersweet choc for the unsweetened because thats what I had. Its nearly a brownie, but not quite. Many of the older cakes and almost all in the last couple years are one-bowl or at least each component is. 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. I wish Id never made it because I CRAVE it and Im not pregnant. Thanks Deb! Any tips for a frosting I could make with a whisk or does that just not work for frosting? 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? Guessing I posted here before as I make this cake all the time. The dreamy frosting covers a multitude of floury sins, So I made this yesterday, and it was delicious. This looks like heaven on earth I think I might need to run to the grocery store and bake this tonight!! Just did it in a 913 and working on the frosting now! I only got ten cupcakes. 6 tablespoons / 73 g dark brown sugar Thank you for being an inspiration to get me started. I am quite pleased. Hi, I plan to give this cake a whirl for an upcoming family birthday for 3 chocoholics. 2.5 times the recipe? I get impatient so I usually do both. It's a great cake and I know why we love it so much: It's huge. Spinkle on powdered sugar if desired. Thank you! Did in a 9.5 pie pan, which alters the edge texture a bit, but that was what was on hand! The frosting is delicious too! 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. Thank you for the recipe :D. Okay so I made the cake but admittingly havent tried it yet. How would you adapt this frosting for other flavors? First time I made this cake (huge success, by the way) I used natural because thats all I had. Its funny I wasnt a cake person (blasphemy, I know donuts were my thing) until I got pregnant, and then one day I was like CAKE. How much should I decrease the sugar if I use the semisweet chocolate I have? It ended up being about 2.5 inches tall, which was the perfect height for a small birthday cake. Aprx. Your cake defies all logic, physics, and natural laws of consumption. What I really want is chocolate on chocolate. This is so totally the wrong place for this, but I will ask anyway. Want to make this for my husbands birthday and he is a big fan of cream cheese frosting! This is more of a 3/4-height layer. Do you prefer a particular brand of chocolate for both the Dutch cocoa and the unsweetened chocolate? I love the size of this cake. 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. Thats the tradeoff for me, at least. This is really embarrassing, but, yesterday when I made the frosting using the food processor (something Ive done a ton of times using this recipe), it curdled on me! Its especially lovely with 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon as well. I make this frosting whenever I need to ice cupcakes or a kid birthday cake (i.e. Ill quadruple the recipe (think I have that right!). Chocolate yummy!!!!! rounds. Seriously good. Can I frost them while they are still frozen? 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. Its a very busy page, even with my ad blocker, so itd be nice if you could put up a Print Recipe link or some other manner to make it more legible. OK, the chocolate frosting from this recipe is my favorite frosting to make of all time, so much so that I basically only make cakes with chocolate frosting now because I dont like to use any other frosting recipe. We used the Hersheys special dark cocoa and 6 large muffin wells came out perfectly in 18 minutes. I doubled this recipe using the weights instead of volume measurements and it turned out great. This was SUPER YUMMY. Hi Deb, is this cake freezable? Plush, soft, the icing was fluffy. So so so good! Is it true that 1/2 teaspoon sea salt has about 1/2 the sodium of table salt? I rescued a broken buttercream Id attempted for a friends birthday and added freeze-dried raspberry powder to it. Thank you for your recipes, despite being fussy, they have (for the most part) been delicious. I also have a non-standard oven (AGA). I am having trouble printing the recipe. 1 large egg On an I.V. Place your flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a sifter (I find this step necessary because my cocoa is very lumpy) and shake it over the batter bowl. My husbands birthday is this week. I plan to make this for a birthday party, and do a double layer 913. Yes I always make it as cupcakes. Now, I need to make this cake recipe Thanks. had seconds. Its hard to decrease sugar (more than I have) with a quick buttercream like this because the sugar provides the structure. Darn! Some more info about coffee acidity can be found here. I love how reliable your recipes are- I always know if I make something it will be really delicious and exactly as you describe it. I Made thr cake w/out the frosting. Deb, I am a fan of Smitten Kitchen and have your newest cookbook. 3 tbs cocoa and one tbs butter for one ounce of unsweetened chocolate). My three year old and I are going to make this cake for him. Cant wait to give my kids a treat!!! But fresh sounds lovely too. I feel like Im talking to a celebrity!! ), and had complete faith in the recipe. 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar Rave reviews on the cake and the frosting from my wife and house guest! Oops! Just buy the biggest ones they have. 1. had no chance of melting the butter, when you mixed it in? Thanks and happy early Mothers Day to you! Deb, I made this frosting tonight and I found it almost too bitter as written. Bottom line, it needed to be made well enough in advance to get to the best consistency and flavor. Hi Deb. Planning to make 30 mini cupcakes. Baked 25 minutes in a convection oven. 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 have enjoyed the recipes although my husband and I find them quite fussy (we find your title misleading). Make sure you use the bake setting, not the broil setting (I did that once when I was a kid!) The sugar is a bit much so the salt balances the sweetness a bit and enhances the chocolate flavor. Smitten Kitchen Chocolate Cake | House & Garden I want to dive into that swath of icing. I used golden brown sugar and non-Dutch cocoa powder because I had them on hand. Keep in mind that there is no telling where said birthmark will show up I am pretty sure my mother is not the only woman to utter the hint, I mean heartfelt words, Nonni, I want only to have her grandmother show up with a big dish of (fill in the blank)! It still looks pretty and the thought that counts :). It was yummy but I would like to try to follow recipe next time. I loved this cake. Is that the route we need to take in order to PIN a recipe? Looks delicious! -replaced the buttermilk with red wine I want to bake this beautiful for my daughter`s 14th bday Thursday. I want chocolate cake! I kinda wish I had seen this last night, I was looking for some easy, yummy, recipe to make on the quick, where I actually had the ingredients on hand already, and this totally would have fit the bill. If so, then it was the decrease in sugar. Probably for breakfast. Mmmm chocolate cake. I used a hand-held mixer, and made the frosting the same way, so not only did I not have to clean the food processor, I had the beater blades to clean. -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. I made this with regular cocoa powder from Trader Joes and it turned out amazing!! Made this cake this afternoon when an intense craving for chocolate cake with chocolate frosting hit. Just wondering if youd any tips on scaling this cake to fit a 15cm tin as used for your Tiny but intense chocolate cake?
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