My whole 10 month long pregnancy plus these 3 postpartum months have been filled with with the desire.. no OBSESSION with finding the perfect chocolate cake. I have been really successful in recreating this recipe( without a mixer too Infact). 1.5 times the recipe? I have a fave friend who doesnt make a baking move without you. I know better than that. Also, Deb, keep doing what youre doing!
Smitten Kitchen Chocolate Stout Cake Recipe see? Leti My favorite is from Valrhona. b.) Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon over the top, then stir. Mmmmmmmm. . Also, for the buttermilk, I mixed 1/2 cup black tea with 1/4 cup yogurt, and that worked really well. Ive been reading your blog since before he was born and have cooked my way through a lot of what youve written about. Deb, today is my husbands 84th birthday and chocolate cake is his request. And OH MY. ahh, you just need to adjust it this way: the speckling is a *feature* rather than a detriment. It is the best! You read my mind! A perfect not too sweet cake with a cloud of fabulous frosting. Do let us know how it goes, if you can. Is it my oven or did something get lost when transferring the Fahrenheit to Celsius degrees?Anyway. Add the egg, yolk and vanilla and beat until combined, then the buttermilk and mix again. Or The Nothing Is Ever Going To Be Okay Again If I Dont Have Chocolate Cake Cake. Youll want to make 4x this recipe; it makes 1 dozen. It was a hit! . I know this recipe is going to be fantastic. I used natural cocoa and it worked just fine, and doubled the recipe to make 24 cupcakes (they took somewhere aroudn 25 minutes to bake for me, but I would advise anyone trying this to start checking on them as early as 17-18 minutes). I dont often write but I want to express my gratitude for Smitten Kitchen, Deb, and this cake. Must have been the chocolate. I compare sizes using the area of the bottom of the cake pan, because generally when youre doubling or scaling up a recipe, youd like the cake layers to be the same height, just bigger. I have made this many times and it never disappoints. I agree that a salad dressings index would be great. I decorated mine with Smarties! Mainly, you need an acidic ingredient and beer seems to be acidic, from what Ive read. I am a big chocolate cake lover, and this looks amazing. Thank you, for this recipe! Im totally making this cake for his first birthday. As a non-cake baker, I really appreciate a recipe that will be easy, and delicious, no matter how hard I try to mess it up. I love how moist it is, deep chocolate flavor, keeps well (if you dont eat it in one sitting). Ive made this recipe so many times- just wanted to share that it makes perfect cupcakes too! It's extraordinarily loaded with apples, like a pie inside a cake. ;) 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. I think that I would like chocolate cake better if it were significantly less sweet. I make my vanilla one in the food processor too. I live at 5000ft, so I added an extra 2Tbs of buttermilk, cut the baking powder down by 1/8tsp (to 3/8 tsp), and baked about 10 degrees higher for more like 30 minutes. thanks! Mmmm chocolate cake.
I Tried Four Popular Blondie Recipes and Found the Best One | Kitchn The color was beautiful and the taste was rich and chocolately in the best possible way. I know you have other vanilla frosting recipes but I love making this one in the food processorso easy and the texture is great. Or is it just a typo, either here or in the book? Equal parts using the coffee to thin out the yogurt? Made this last night and used the sour cream chocolate frosting from your best birthday cake, I was cheap and had a little left over. Ive made it twice in the last few weeks. Youll have more icing than you need, but of course, need is relative. I do so love other grown women who know that the necessity of rainbow sprinkles is a real thing. Because of you, my family eats cabbage/slaw, fritters, and more vegetarian. ), the perfect cake to whip up the night before youve decided to take cake to celebrate 2 years at your current job (woot!) Perfect size cake for two people. I made the spice cake with banana and found it tasteless, is that normal? Thanks. will take more time than simply making the frosting right then. I ended up snagging a more squared-off metal 88 while out running errands today, so thin-cake crisis averted. I can already tell by how great the batter is that this cake is going to make the awful week worth it. I could swap out the butter for margarine, but wasnt sure what would work to replace the buttermilk. Im making a double layer cake for my daughters birthday with 8 inch rounds. So good though for such a quick cake! I find melting and cooling the chocolate to be the most annoying task, and have seen recipes that simply call for cocoa powder instead. Joanne I agree; frosting this sweet is definitely more of an American thing. I made the same cake recipe with their dark chocolate salted pudding buttercream, and it was UNBELIEVABLE. Its 5:20 am and Im looking at cake recipes. I swapped the icing for dark chocolate ganache with whisky, and topped it all with toasted hazlenuts. Thanks :). I dont know if anyone else experienced this, but I attempted to process it the 1-2 minutes, and something happened to it. 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. Looks lovely! I think that sounds delicious. Like eat-one-square-in-two-bites perfect. How much batter should I make for two 10-inch pans? 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt mine clocks in at 5 grams vs. the 6 grams of table salt. Try it again and see if it succeeds this time! I am also trying to prep for a busy birthday weekend.. (twin boys who want DIFFERENT cakes. Your cake defies all logic, physics, and natural laws of consumption. Has anyone baked it in form of muffins/ cupcakes? (This is a 75% volume of that, so it wont fill out a loaf as well. Line the bottom of an 8-inch square cake pan with parchment paper, and either butter the parchment and exposed sides of the pan, or spray the interior with a nonstick spray. 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.) Ive had so much trouble finding good ones. Note: when I do pack it and weigh it, 145g actually comes to a little over 1/2 a cup of brown sugar. So, tomorrow is my birthday, and Im already planning to make David Lebovitzs salted butterscotch pudding, BUT we are also getting a decent snowstorm, so I think the weekend might require this chocolate cake as well! I just bought Dutch process thinking, I dont know how this cake could be any better, but Im in! to make a rerun on Sunday. The icing was looking perfect until I walked away from it to give it a good 2 minutes to beat. Chum Yes, it would be delicious. This was so good. Its the perfect cake size for our family of 3. Crap. I this chocolate cake!! I made this cake for my boyfriends birthday. i made this into cupcakes. No one will know except us. Details. This is the Cake! Anna You can replace all of the buttermilk with wine, because wine is an acidic ingredient (almost a match in ph, if I remember correctly from my research a few years ago). Im reading this recipe for Emergency chocolate cake while filling my mouth with your Cocoa Brownies from a couple of years ago. I look forward to trying it again with regular Dutch process cocoa. it actually reminds me of carvel frosting a little and i mean that in the best possible way. :). Can I replace the dutch cocoa with natural cocoa? And maybe use vanilla bean instead of extract? Thanks! (but we still found the cake delish . This cake lives up to the title! Have a great one Deb! It was incredible. For vanilla, I prefer 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar and a full teaspoon of vanilla extract. Sneha If the knife isnt batter-free (i.e. Lovely cake though, one of my faves! Here I am, all alone in my studio apartmentwith this damn scrumptious cake. The frosting turned out a bit too sweetsolved by beating in an oz or two of cream cheese to mellow it out. I like a center filled with frosting, which is one reason I have never been enamored of cupcakes either. This cake always comes out perfectly for mejust made for the tenth time! And for perfect timing! someone point me in the right direction! The 1/2 birthdays always sneak up on me so its nice to have an easy recipe not to mention that most are for much larger cakes this one is perfectly sized! Used oil instead of butter (a scant 1/3 cup) and got great results. I only realized the mistake after another comment about having the recipe add an additional yolk! I want to serve some (about 4) tomorrow and the rest on Sunday after a long car ride. This is a great recipe. This is definitely my go to frosting..will never need another. Thank you! I need enough frosting for a three layer cake 8 inch rounds. Im the only one here! Yes. 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. Super hit! I tend to use double what is recommended of the powder, due to the mildness. Thank you for the recipe :D. Okay so I made the cake but admittingly havent tried it yet. Hi! I tried it and it turned out superbly.Im going to tell just about everyone about your recipe,its too easy and decadent not to. Quick and easy for a last minute crowd pleaser. He tested covid +Ve and he is completely asymptomatic. The cupcake-in-a-can birthday present was a big hit! It was a big hit with friends, too. The food photography is top notch and presents the delicious food very well. I am frosting the bday cake with a double batch of the above chocolate frosting, and making the raspberry buttercream for the chocolate cake. The salt in the frosting is the perfect touch. I even went digging in our cabinets last night to see if we had any unsweetened chocolate around (alas, no) because I was feeling it so strongly! It turned out rather thick, but spreadable, and so delicious. I add new plugins and make changes here all of the time.) :). Both the cake and frosting are delicious, and are relatively simple to make with basic ingredients. Thank youit looks so good though! Hey Deb. Next time, Ill try your cake recipe, too (only remembered I wanted to try this when the other one was in the oven!). Thank you for posting! 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.