How do you make the perfect chocolate cake?!
Not to many ingredients Please!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Answers: Not one from the internet... one that is really good and you actualy made it and worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not to many ingredients Please!!!!!!!!!! ;)
This recipe will NOT fail you...few ingredients and VERY good and moist.
Darn Good Chocolate Cake
ingredients
1 package of Devils food or dark chocolate fudge cake mix
1 package of Devils Food or chocolate fudge instant pudding mix (3.9 oz)
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup water (I use milk, others have even used hershey syrup)
1/2 cup vegetable oil (some people sub softened or melted butter)
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups semisweet chips
Place rack in middle of oven and preheat to 325. Mist and flour your pans.
Place cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water (or milk instead), oil and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds - 1 minute. Stop the machine and scrape down the sides. Increase mixer to medium and beat 1 1/2-2 minutes. (really, only beat it until it is combined). The batter should look thick and well combined. Fold in the chips, making sure they are well distributed throughout the batter.
Pour the batter into the pans and smooth with a rubber spatula.
Bake the cake until it springs back when lightly touched and it starts to pull away from the pan - about 28-35 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes in pan and then turn out onto a cooling rack.
**If you want the chips to stay suspended in the cake, you could also toss them with a little flour before putting them in. I've never had to do that, but other people have said that their chips sink. If you want the chips to melt, use the mini's.
with a lot of chocolate
go to a store and buy a box of cake mixer,and follow the directions. :)
I have one...it's called made-in-the-pan chocolate cake from a cookbook called Honest pretzles. It's amazing and doesn't make a mess!
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6iBjNt...
That is the recipe. I had the book a few yrs. ago but I couldn't find it so I looked it up on google. This is sooooo good, even without frosting!
:)
Best of luck!
-Meshugana Jules
DOUBLE RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE
2 c. sifted pastry or cake flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter
1 1/4 c. superfine sugar
2 eggs
3 oz. (3 squares) unsweetened chocolate
1 c. milk
1 tsp. almond extract
Chocolate Frosting (recipe follows)
Sift flour and measure out 2 cups. Sift again with the baking soda and the salt. Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar. Beat together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and beat well after each addition. Melt the chocolate and cool it. Add it to the butter mixture gradually, alternating with the milk to which the almond extract has been added. Divide the batter between 2 buttered 8" layer cake pans.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from pans and cool. Fill and frost.
DOUBLE RICH CHOCOLATE FROSTING
2 eggs
2 c. sifted confectioners' sugar
Pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. almond extract
1/4 c. milk
5 oz. (5 squares) unsweetened chocolate
2 tbsp. butter
Break the eggs into a bowl and add the confectioners' sugar and salt. Add the vanilla and almond extracts and the milk. Beat until smooth and creamy. Set this bowl in a larger bowl filled with ice cubes. Melt the chocolate with the butter. Add this gradually.
Very rich! Very good!
Get a 10 inch springform cake pan, and grease it with butter; cut a piece of parchment (found in the supermarket by the plastic wrap and tin foil) to fit on the bottom, grease it with butter on one side, and put into bottom of pan butter side up. Wrap 3 layers of heavy duty tin foil around the outside of the springform pan, snugging it right to the top. Take 3/4 cup white sugar and 1 cup of water in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil, stirring until all of the sugar is melted, and continue to simmer for 5 minutes; remove from heat. In another sauce pan melt 1 stick and 1 tbs. of butter on low heat; add 19 onces of semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate baking chips; stir with a whisk until smooth; add the sugar/water mixture and continue to whisk slowly until smooth; remove from heat for 2 minutes; slowly whisk in 6 large eggs that have been lightly beaten until everything is incorporated; pour into springform pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees; place springform pan inside a large roasting pan, and fill the outer pan with enough hot water to come up the springform pan half way. Bake for one hour. Cool completely, about 5 hours. In Another pan, bring 1 cup of heavy cream to just boiling and rermove from heat; add 9 onces of the same chocolate baking chips and whisk slowly until smooth; pour over the cooled cake, and holding the sides of the cake pan, shake pan slightly to evenly distribute the chocolate over the entire top. Loosely cover with wax paper and them tin foil, and refrigerate for 8 hours. It is easier to cut the cake with a pizza cutter because of it's density. There aren't many ingredients in this recipe, but time? Good things take time.
This is the best chocolate cake around and all in one pan, no mess, no eggs, no milk.
Crazy Cake
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
3 Tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. bkg. soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cold water
Preheat oven to 350
Pour flour, sugr, cocoa, soda and salt in an ungreased 8x8 baking dish. Make 3 depressions in the dry ingredients. Pour oil into one, vinegar into one. Pour water over all and mix thoroughly with a fork. Bake 30 min.
This is the most moist, chocolatey cake you'd ever want to eat. Everyone loves it. Just double for a 9x13 or 2 layers. Can be mixed in a bowl as well.
Enjoy!