Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Chocolate Cake with Whipped Mocha Ganache Fr
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
15 cooks on www.browneyedbaker.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 101% | 101% |
| total sugar | 190% | 232% |
| egg | 71% | 48% |
| leavener | 2% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 294% | 200% |
| dairy | 142% | 117% |
| chocolate | 189% | 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.
| 210 g | 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon kosher salt |
| 170 g | 3/4 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature) |
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon vanilla extract |
| 150 g | 3 eggs (at room temperature) |
| 158 g | 2/3 cup hottest tap water |
| 57 g | 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder |
| 161 g | 2/3 cup half-and-half |
| 340 g | 12 ounces dark chocolate (finely chopped) |
| 43 g | 3 tablespoons unsalted butter (cut into small pieces, at room temperature) |
| 4 g | 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder |
| 298 g | 1 1/4 cups heavy cream |
| 1 tablespoon Kahlua | |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.browneyedbaker.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi Michelle - I love your blog and am giving this recipe 5 stars in advance because your recipes have never failed to date! I have been following you for (I want to say) decades. Is that possible? Pre-kids era? I took a bit of break from baking myself, and am ” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made this cake and it is delicious. Been trying to find a recipe with "intense" chocolate flavor. This is it! I had read the reviews and my cake took exactly 20 minutes like the recipe said. The frosting (ganache) was another story...30 minutes in the fridg” — a cook, 4.0★