Best chocolate cake ever recipe please, mine always fail

[Naicecuppatea]

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!

There's a Mary Berry fudge one made with oil, which is honestly the moistest, most gorgeous chocolate cake I've ever eaten in all my years on this earth, (which is a lot) but I'm nowhere near my recipe books to find it. I'll update tomorrow if no-one else posts it in the meantime.

4yoni I like the look of that one a lot. Any cake that involves condensed milk must be good. It's gone to the top of my list.

I'm always throwing random ingredients in my cakes. I'm trying Mayo next time

Thanks for the recipeppeat.

Tried making the Mary Berry one with DD "assisting" it's very easy and delicious though we didn't make the icing but put hedgerow jelly in the middle and a bit of chocolate fudge icing on top. Really nice and chocolately.

Lushness!!

I like Hummingbird's Blackout cake best. Here - I sandwich it, and cover it with ganache though, rather than the chocolate custard.

I think the secret to good choc cake is prunes (mushed up in a liquidiser) dark brown sugar and black treacle as well as cocoa, flour, butter, corn oil, eggs. sometimes I also put in semolina or ground sunflower seeds but that makes it a little heavier.

I've scanned through and don't think anyone's suggested 4 ingredient chocolate cake yet - foolproof and yummy! www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/food/recipes/cheats-chocolate-cake

Oreo cake is great if you ever need a dairy free chocolate cake recipe.

Whichever chocolate cake you choose to make for proper dark yummy colouring chocolate must be melted into the cake mix.

this thread is making me hungry!

Jimmy your suggestion for dates etc sound really interesting. Do you have a recipe?

Please can this be kept as a thread, moved into food once looking as though it is up against its 90 day limit? Every MNr needs these recipes and I won't do them all in 90 days, pretty please HQ? Might even drop one off in Camden f they seem good enough..( who says bribery never works..worth a try...)

oh Olivia, I didn't see your post, you are a superstar, thank you. Now I need to try them and find my way to Camden ..

I second either Chocolate Guinness Cake or Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake- both Nigella, and both delicious.
Both also last for days- in fact, they improve with keeping.

This thread needs moving to food/recipes!!! can OP please ask MNHQ to do it please? so many good recipes on here!!!

It's already been done.

Oh good! but why is it still in chat?

www.nigella.com/recipes/view/quadruple-chocolate-loaf-cake-130

Not sure if this is the loaf cake previously mentioned. Had to add it just for this description,

"I love this for tea, even for weekend breakfast, or late at night when its melting squidginess tends to fall darkly on to my white sheets - and I don't care."

Isn't that gorgeous? I want to make it right now.

Ah sorry, of course it's been posted before by Purple and I pinned it. It's obviously meant to be.

Ishould I think I stick with the traditional 8oz SR flour, 6oz dark brown sugar,6oz butter,5 eggs and loads of cocoa but I add a big handful of prunes (the sort that is 'dried' in a packet such as Whitworths or ASDA own make and whizz em in the blender so they are sludge) a tablespoon of black treacle and a quick glug of corn or rapeseed oil. I don't weigh stuff any more as am too lazy but the prunes add that stick to your teeth factor. You can't taste them. DH calls it 'Prune Surprise' because of this and also assumes it can be factored in as one of his five a day -

Have just reead the thread this morning. Oh yum is all I can say.

So my tuppence worth is that I can second the recomendation (on page 1, by StangeLookingParasite) for Smitten Kitchen's everyday chocolate cake. Altho you could hardly eat it everyday... I'll link the blogpost and recipe so we can all salivate together at the photos

And if you like a rich grown up chocolate cake that's a doddle to make and fantastic to bring as a gift here's Rachel Allen's chocolate Amaretti cake. Having a need desire to mainline chocolate, I usually leave out the orange. It is heavy but oh so phenomenally bloody gorgeous.

Nigella's quadruple loaf cake also looks amazing!! It is going to be so difficult to choose from all these wonderful recipes.

Ah lurking I was going to ask if anyone had a flourless recipe, which the Rachel Allen one you posted is. Thanks!

Naicecuppa Scroll to the previous page, my recipe is probably there, it's flourless if you want it to be.

Hi guys, could anyone recommend a nice EASY chocolate cake for a child's birthday party?