Please give me tips and recipes for a richer, gooier chocolate cake

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I always find my homemade chocolate cake recipe slightly underwhelming. It’s not gooey or chocolatey enough. I want to make one next week for a family member who is visiting so please could you tell me any tips and tricks and recipes. Thank you

This is the recipe our family really likes. It’s really chocolatey and really moist/ gooey if not overcooked it’s called easy chocolate cake bbcfood

I do the ‘Easy chocolate fudge cake’ from the good food website. Always goes down well in my house. I do 50% more mixture and cook three layers separately. I double the icing recipe and it works perfectly!

There are several chocolate cake recipes here but this was nice:

https://scientificallysweet.com/the-best-moist-chocolate-cake/

Put some espresso or make up a spoon of instant coffee with about a shot worth of hot water and put that into your cake mixture. You can’t taste the coffee at all but it really brings out the chocolate flavour

Mary Berry's Can't Go Wrong chocolate cake is a great choice. I suspect 50-75g of chocolate melted into it would make it denser and gooier. It's made with oil and golden syrup which is the secret to a chocolate sponge that isn't dry. Cocoa absorbs more water than flour does, I think, which is why chocolate cakes can tend to the dry side.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/celebration_chocolate_18175

Use whatever icing you want on it.

Has nobody mentioned Nigella! 😄

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-cake

I came here to post this very recipe. It’s the best chocolate cake ever.

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/dark-and-sumptuous-chocolate-cake
I had to go online for a couple of ingredients -coffee powder and coconut butter but everyone wanted seconds, and it’s vegan

https://iambaker.net/depression-cake/

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vegan-birthday-cake

Two of my favourites for gooey, sticky chocolaty-ness. I've had a couple of people even say they were 'too' moist. Most people have loved them though.

If only I could reach through the screen... that looks seriously good!!

Add beetroot

Betty Crocker!

Aargh now I have to choose a recipe, these look amazing. Thank you

Use oil instead of butter.
Use boiling water, it supposedly helps bring out the taste of the chocolate powder and makes it very smooth.
Add a tbsp of Nutella or other nut spread to the mixture.

My mother had the Cordon Bleu cookery series and they had a fantastic Devil’s Food Cake in there but I can’t find the recipe. Have you thought of making a Sachertorte?

I found this for a Devil’s Food Cakr and it gives a good explanation of why particular ingredients are used

https://www.seriouseats.com/bravetarts-devils-food-cake

Melt a Mars Bar into the mix!

James Martin's cola cake. Freezes beautifully as well!

Do not make this for family OP or you will face a lifetime of requests to keep making it for every possible occasion (speaks from experience) 😂.

That is inspired!

Nigella Lawson quadruple chocolate cake. It comes out very luscious, but is made even more so by the chocolate glaze/syrup that she includes at the end. It’s my only chocolate cake recipe now. And quite an easy one.

Another vote for nigella!

we now only bake gluten free though and have found an excellent choc cake that no one else realises is gluten free! the mixture is like a muffin mix with oil, plus buttermilk and coffee and is very runny going in the oven but comes out beautifully every time . https://glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2017/08/16/gluten-free-chocolate-cake-recipe-dairy-free-and-low-fodmap/

delia smith - chocolate beer cake

I do a Chocolate cake from a really old cook book (The Best of Sainsbury's Baking ) which uses melted chocolate, fill with Chocolate butter cream, top with Chocolate fudge icing.

Always goes down well. Its been my chocolate cake of choice since I started baking when I was a child (the book has been my book of choice since then too). I try other recipes but always go back to that.

I made her flourless brownies which use almond flour and they were amazing!

I love Nigella 💕 I spent one Saturday looking at all her cookbooks and poring over the pictures of the chocolate cakes drooling 🤤🤣

The only - ONLY! - time I would consider a box cake mix is for gooey chocolate cake. Add milk instead of water, one more egg than they say, and a big splash more oil than they say. There’s some weird alchemy they use and I don’t know what it is, but truthfully they’re the best chocolate cakes. I do make my own buttercream though.