Please tell me your best chocolate cake recipe!

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I made some Mary berry cupcakes at the weekend and they were utterly tasteless. Has anyone cracked the secret to a really scrummy chocolate cupcake?! I will be eternally grateful to know it!

This recipe was on the cardboard sleeve that my cake tin was in. As you can see by the state of it, it is very old and well used!
This is the most chocolatey cake ever. I either make cupcakes, keep it as just sponge and have with custard for a winter pud, or fill with chocolate butter cream and top with melted chocolate for birthdays. I do it at around 160 in my fan oven. Best chocolate cake recipe I’ve baked.
Enjoy!

I love Nigella Chocolate and orange marmalade, I don’t see a reason it cannot be turned into cupcakes. Some ganache and candied orange on top, perfection.

Nigella’s chocolate Guinness cake is lovely.

@Idoknowwhatyoumean - looks good! Can you tell us the diameter of your tin?

@LadyAddle I either use 2 x 20cm cake tins if I’m making a birthday cake with filling or a 20 x Roughly 27cm rectangle mini roasting tin If I’m just doing it to have sponge and custard or taking it as a tray bake to work.
I always line tins with baking paper.

I know pp like Nigella Lawson but I ended up sending her books to the charity shop. I could never just grab a book off the shelf and bake with ingredients I had in the cupboard, there always needed to be some odd ingredient for a cake that I’d be missing and need to dash to the shop for.

www.seriouseats.com/2018/02/devils-food-cake-one-bowl-no-mixer-diabolically-easy.html

This one. It’s so good I once made it for a friends birthday and had to make another as I ate 3 slices of the original

It’s my go to celebration cake and there’s never been so much as a crumb left.

Any of Nigella’s.

I love these, but following the thread with interest as keeping fingers crossed for regular" chocolate chip muffins / cupcakes or similar...

www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-cherry-cupcakes

You can split the batter into cupcake cases and use the frosting to top.

Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake...all in one and so tasty

125ml oil
250ml milk
3oz cocoa
8oz plain flour
12oz sugar
2 eggs
1.5tsp bicarbonate
1.5tsp baking powder
1tbsp vanilla essence

Mix then add 250ml boiling water

Bake at 180 for about 40 mins

I use this for all my celebration chocolate cakes and in my shop and always goes down a storm. Just half the recipe and bake for less for cupcakes

Ultimate chocolate cake on bbcgoodfood.com.

I split it between 3 tins rather than in 1 & cutting it later. Also cut out 100g of the sugar.
Gorgeous cake

Second for BBC Good food ultimate chocolate cake. It is amazing! DD are making it next week for a half term treat.

Is the ultimate chocolate one the one with oil in it? If so it’s excellent.

I love Nigella’s chocolate Guinness cake. It’s a dark, rich, slightly bitter chocolate cake, perfectly balanced by the slightly tart cream cheese frosting. It’s perfect for grown-up palates who prefer dark chocolate to milk.

@ThatScottishGirl www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/naughty-chocolate-fudge-cake I think this is the one you mean...I've been making it for years and wins hands down over every other chocolate cake have baked. Its so light and moist, lovely!

I have a recipe from an old family friend that is my best fail safe for moist chocolate cake.

Normal Victoria sponge recipe with the following additions/ changes

Deduct an oz of flour

Add in 3 0z of good quality drinking chocolate sifted with the flour.

Add in an ounce of cocoa powder.

And two tablespoons of boiling water to the final mix.

It's an ancient Swiss recipe apparently, handed down for many generations.

This is my go to chocolate cake recipe, though I double the chocolate buttercream amount:

https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipedirectory/c/chocolate-silk-cake.html?utmm_source=pinterest&utmcampaign=readysteadybake&utmm_medium=social&pp=1

This one has always come out well. Just reduce the cook time for cupcakes.

addapinch.com/the-best-chocolate-cake-recipe-ever/

Nigella does a devil's food cake as well which you can use as cupcake batter. Again just reduce the bake time down.

That’s the one @ilovebruuuceandbags!! Fantastic cake.

Tasty has the best recipe ever. It's called the best chocolate cake. It's quite involved and has a couple ingredients that make you go "eh? Why?!" But trust me it's amazing. Even people who don't like chocolate cake have told me how much they love this one. It's always requested by my eldest for his birthday.

This one is great, it's like a cross between a cake and a brownie. I make ganache rather than buttercream, and don't add the cat decorations.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/black-cat-cake

thestayathomechef.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-cake/

My daughter makes this one. It really is totally amazing!!

This is the recipe I have a lot of success with - makes a lovely, light and tasty cupcake and is extremely easy to bake. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_cupcakes_14164

I weigh 4 eggs and nd then equal amount of sugar/marg/ but minus 50g of flour but add 50g of cocoa.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/21/how-to-cook-the-perfect-chocolate-cake

This one is so good, it doesn't need icing!