Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Best Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
It ranks #2 of 76 for moistness among the chocolate cake recipes we compared. 143 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 50% | 101% |
| total sugar | 180% | 232% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 100% | 0% |
| egg | 90% | 48% |
| leavener | 2% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 209% | 200% |
| dairy | 102% | 117% |
| chocolate | 38% | 67% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 85 g | 1 cup (85 grams) Dutch-process cocoa |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder* |
| 237 g | 1 cup (237 grams) boiling water |
| 222 g | 1 3/4 cups (222 grams) all-purpose flour |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon fine sea salt |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon baking soda |
| 400 g | 2 cups (400 grams) lightly packed light brown sugar |
| 227 g | 1 cup (227 grams) sour cream or full-fat plain yogurt, (at room temperature) |
| 200 g | 4 large eggs, (at room temperature) |
| 112 g | 1/2 cup (112 grams) neutral oil, such as canola or avocado oil |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 1 batch Chocolate Buttercream Frosting |
Method: 11 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made this cake for my son's 5th birthday. We both LOVE chocolate and this recipe came out delicious! Even my husband who isn't much of a chocolate fan loved it! The cake wasnt overly sweet which was so nice. The frosting gave it the perfect amount of sweetne” — a cook, 5.0★
“Hands down the best chocolate cake I have ever made . So moist and a wonderful chocolate flavour. I made the cake in a 13x9 pan. Cut it in half and put my raspberry jam in the middle and used your chocolate frosting recipe for the outside of the cake. After 4 ” — a cook, 5.0★