Best chocolate cake ever recipe please, mine always fail

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Made a choc fudge cake today with this recipe easy choc cake. It was only okay, the DC aren't fussy so ate it but I was disappointed. It involved adding vegetable oil instead of butter so I used rapeseed oil and I think this may not have helped with the taste.

Others I've made have been too dry, or just not right either. Where can I find a really good recipe for a simple chocolate cake that doesn't rely on having icing as can't stand icing. Send your perfect idiot proof recipes over here please!

Another vote here for Mary Berry's one. The same recipe also makes about 18 generous cupcakes (bake for 20 minutes). It's delicious served with some double cream.

yum...

I love Felicity Cloake's columns.

Me too squoosh. I got my go-to Black Forest Gateau recipe from her column.

Ooooh I haven't tried the Black Forest Gateau yet and I loooooove BFG!

Must remedy this situation!

Delia's flourless choc. mixture never fails
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/areturntotheblackfor_67199
Just forget about the Black Forest bit

I made some Nigella olive oil chocolate cake this week (it's DF and GF) not a heavy cake very squidgy.
I added some dark chocolate pieces, could add walnuts to make it more Brownie like.

Look up a devils food cake recipe (they normally involve mixing the cocoa with water first). Devils food cake is a really nice, moist chocolate cake. My recipe is from a 70s cordon bleu cookbook, so no links, sadly! The magnolia bakery one is good too.

I made this chocolate buttermilk cake from Magnolia recently and it was awesome- really velvety. Their recipe books are very reliable.

southbronxfoodie.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/chocolate-buttermilk-layer-cake-with.html?m=1

Someone posted this recipe when I asked a similar question in August. It was very easy and worked really well.

I was told the secret to a great light and fluffy chocolate or vanilla cake is to take time when mixing the eggs and slowly adding the flour, make sure you scrape all the mixture from the sides. Mix until it is nearly white. It works everytime!

Blimey this is the 3rd thread I'm on to discuss cakes! Must be the cold weather or something,

Where's my kiss on the GBBO thread CakeNinja ?

I've got a fabulous vegan rich choc. cake. recipe my own because dh and I like RICH cakes . He is pre diabetic so it's low sugar too.

Recipe please ppeatfruit?

I cannot repeat on the lovely recipes already suggested, but may I interject here? I made this brownie recipe yesterday and it was fab. Almost no mess too.

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/4557/one-bowl-brownies.aspx

This Lorraine Pascale chocolate cake is very easy, all in one. The kids love it as it is moist and not too rich. Add some horlicks to buttercream and you have a maltesers cake.

Chocolate Cake

I've recently made the Betty Crocker chocolate sponge cake as my kids wanted to buy it in the supermarket. It was the best cake I have ever made. Light, fluffy and perfectly moist so as could be easily eaten without icing.

I have tried all sorts of chocolate cake recipes and now prefer a good old fashioned chocolate Victoria sandwich cake.

Just replace two tablespoons of flour with two tablespoons of decent cocoa powder (Green and Blacks organic rather than Cadbury. Waitrose essential used to be good but has vanished from the shelves.) 1 tsp of vanilla helps. Some butter icing with plenty cocoa and vanilla and butter.

I got fed up of squshy sickly ones. Bought ones seem to be all squish and no chocolate.

(that was for a 4 egg recipe)

Okay Tenysmum here we go ( you can put in the spices you like btw this is a very flexible recipe!)

Ingredients:

75grms 70% best dark chocolate

200 grms almond butter

100 grams ground almonds

50 grams oats

50 grams flour ( I use low gluten spelt or Kamut)

100grams molasses\treacle

100grams maple syrup

100 grams light olive oil or an oil you like

handful of walnuts in largeish pieces or the nuts you like

ground ginger,and or nutmeg, cardamom or whatever

Almond or soya milk to soften it.

Method. Take a large solid saucepan,(this is a one pot recipe) on the lowest light you have on your cooker (I use a diffuser for this). put the spices and nut pieces in dry and let them cook gently until you can smell them then melt the choc. with the oil, almond butter, molasses and syrup < don't stir> then mix gently and take off the heat. , Gently mix then add the dry ingredients. If its too dry add the milk. Then put in a non stick oiled cake tin. Bake in the middle of the oven with fan on at 170C for 15 mins then at 150 until its done. It needs to be a bit wet in the centre and coming away from the edges so keep an eye on it, it takes roughly 3\4 of an hour when I make it. LEAVE IN THE TIN till cold. It improves with keeping it's a bit like a choc. brownie ginger cake

Sorry I missed the GF baking powder!!!! add a heaped teaspoonful with the dry ingredients.

Lorraine Pascal did a recipe for a chocolate malt esters cake and although this is iced the cake itself is made with soured cream and is lovely. I always find chocolate cake a little dry and this one isn't at all. My go-to chocolate cake recipe now.

My Pinterest baking board is being overtaken by fab chocolate cakes thanks to this thread.

And my notebook.

Are we all baking chocolate cakes this weekend then?

Inspired by the guinea pig wedding thread I'm going to bake a chocolate cake with fondant guinea pigs on top of it!

Have been craving good cake all day because of this thread (had a piece with lunch but it was dry and disappointing). There is nothing worse than sad cake that makes you question if it is worth the calories.

Don't forget to come back and report on the results OP - I've not had much success with chocolate cakes either, would be good to know which to try.

Nigella's old fashioned chocolate cake accomplished today. Easy to make (9/10 for ease). I found it very slightly crumbly and possibly dry (might need to tweak cooking times), but it tasted nice enough, and even though I don't usually like icing, the icing was nice and chocolatey and helped with making the cake a bit more moist. I give it a 6.5-7/10 overall. Old fashioned choc cake