To ask your go to Chocolate cake recipe

[GreenerGrass321]

I am a home baker, and I just can’t seem to find a good chocolate cake recipe that works well every time. (Not that I make chocolate cake very often). I have great recipes for vanilla cakes and chocolate cupcakes (too light to be used as a cake sponge) but not chocolate

There are so many online, some with coffee, or buttermilk, some use oil instead of butter. Also such a massive variation in egg amounts too

do you have a go to and want to share with me?

Mary Berry's chocolate victoria sponge works perfectly for me every time! My mum used it for our birthday cakes every year and I am now continuing the tradition with my own kids.

I always weigh my eggs first. So say 4 eggs and they might be 9 oz. Then I add 9oz of flour/cocoa powder/pinch baking powder, 9oz stork and 9oz caster sugar.

I first mix the sugar and stork then gradually add the flour/cocoa/baking powder mix and the eggs together. I don’t actively weigh my cocoa out but I don’t go mad with it. I just make sure that all together the cocoa, flour and baking powder pinch is the correct weight.

bake at 180 for 19 mins

The easy chocolate fudge cake recipe on the bbc good food website. Gorgeous fluffy, moist (ahem) cake and great results every time! Here you go

https://www.oetker.co.uk/recipes/r/wicked-chocolate-fudge-cake

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chocolate_cake_31070

https://smittenkitchen.com/2015/02/the-i-want-chocolate-cake-cake/

For a celebration cake esp kids bdays this one though usually do normal chocolate butter cream and decorate with sweets or whatever
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/celebration_chocolate_18175

for a general cake this loaf one tho I just do the actual loaf, not the syrup or topping
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/quadruple-chocolate-loaf-cake

Enjoy!

The be-ro milk chocolate cake. But swap the evap milk and water for normal milk.

Following!

Mary Berry’s Victoria sandwich https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mary_berrys_perfect_34317
Basically weigh an egg, equal quantities of sugar, fat and flour ( SR flour 3/4 to 1/4 cocoa) and a teaspoon of baking powder for each 100g of eggs. All in the mix and I add a slosh of milk.

Betty Crocker double chocolate cake - everyone always asks me for the recipe!!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-chocolate-cake

I've made this one a few times

I made this last week www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-chocolate-cake
Easy and delicious. The recipe tells you to chuck it all in together, but I creamed the butter and sugar for a while first. Also only made half the amount of buttercream, which was still plenty!

Nigella lawson chocolate cake with Guinness (and I hate Guinness, but you don't taste it)

Not guna lie, it makes me want to try all the recipes and find a winner. Better not though or else I’ll be rolling into work for the foreseeable future. Thanks everyone! Will certainly give a few a try next time I need a chocolate cake

www.bakingcapture.com/recipe/chocolate-pistachio-cake/

This is the BBC good food easy chocolate cake

Nigella's chocolate fudge cake

Just one more to add, this never fails me, in fact I rely on a lot of Felicity's recommendations.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/21/how-to-cook-the-perfect-chocolate-cake

I prefer it with cream & jam in the middle though.

Following

Ravneet Gill's lazy person's chocolate cake from Sugar, I love You is insanely good and very simple https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/recipe/lazy-persons-chocolate-cake

This one- my son has requested I bake it for his birthday since he was about 9, and he's almost 16!

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2183283/Recipe-Let-eat-cake-cake.html

Chocolate cake is so tricky ,
, I tried so many famous ones like Nigellas and Marys recipes , but most just turn out too dry and taste quite flat , even though I use excellent chocolate like Valrohna. The only one that is just right and always turns out so rich and chocolatey and so delicious is Joy of baking Chocolate genoise recipe.

https://charlotteslivelykitchen.com/chocolate-birthday-cake/
My go to- never dry and is delicious

2nd for Ravneet Gill's LPC (you can sub 2 Tbsp yoghurt + milk instead of buttermilk)