Best ever chocolate cake. There are plenty of claims for the best chocolate cake recipe. But with one bite of this decadent, moist chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, every single person around the table commented that this was the best chocolate cake they'd ever tasted. If you need to learn how to make chocolate cake from scratch, this easy homemade chocolate cake recipe is a perfect place to start.
Add the water, oil, vinegar and vanilla. My grandmother taught me how to make this cake. This is the most moist chocolate cake I have ever tasted. You can have Best ever chocolate cake using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Best ever chocolate cake
- Prepare of AP flour.
- It's of sugar.
- You need of salt.
- You need of heaping cocoa.
- You need of butter.
- Prepare of boiling water.
- It's of buttermilk.
- It's of eggs beaten.
- Prepare of baking soda.
- It's of vanilla.
- It's of frosting recipe.
- Prepare of butter.
- It's of sugar.
- Prepare of cocoa.
- You need of milk.
- You need of vanilla.
- Prepare of chopped pecans for garnishment.
It was my dad's favorite and now it is my husband's favorite too. I highly recommend this cake to anyone who loves chocolate - it is indeed the best chocolate cake you ever ate! For me, it means my master recipes: Best-Ever Vanilla Cake, Best-Ever Carrot Cake, and the Best-Ever Chocolate Cake — with Whipped Chocolate Ganache. This recipe is a NEW and IMPROVED Best-Ever Chocolate Cake, which deserved the title.
Best ever chocolate cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°F and prepare a 18x13 baking sheet with cooking spray and parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl combine flour, sugar and salt..
- In a sauce pan melt butter and add cocoa. Stir together..
- Add boiling water and allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds. Turn off heat and pour over flour mixture and stir lightly to cool.
- In a measuring cup pour buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda and vanilla. Stir the mixture and pour into batter. Mix well and pour into prepared baking pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- For the frosting melt butter and add remaining ingredients except vanilla extract. Bring to boil and boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Set aside and stir occasionally until frosting has cooled. Stir with mixer until desired consistency. Spread on cooled cake and garnish with chopped pecans.
I bake alot and this is the BEST chocolate cake recipe i have ever tried! Instead of butter icing, try a chocolate glaze over the cake just before its completely cool so the glaze soaks in YUM! The secret ingredient in our recipe is avocado, which adds a decadent richness to the cake batter, along with simple substitutes such as sunflower spread and soya milk for the frosting. This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had, hands down. It's a copycat of the cake served at Magleby's, a restaurant in Utah.