Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from www.jocooks.com
118 cooks on www.jocooks.com rate it 4.5★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 45% | 101% |
| total sugar | 167% | 232% |
| egg | 42% | 48% |
| leavener | 6% | 4% |
| salt | 2% | 2% |
| liquid | 102% | 200% |
| dairy | 102% | 117% |
| chocolate | 307% | 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.
| 360 g | 3 cups all-purpose flour |
| 600 g | 3 cups sugar (granulated) |
| 85 g | 1 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened) |
| 9 g | 1 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 14 g | 3 teaspoons baking soda |
| 368 g | 1 1/2 cups buttermilk |
| 164 g | 3/4 cup vegetable oil |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs (at room temperature) |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 356 g | 1 1/2 cups hot coffee |
| 1020 g | 6 cups chocolate frosting |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.jocooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“My 16 year old daughter and I were craving chocolate cake - a good one with real taste and substance. I made this cake this morning and it turned out perfect. There's some weight to it even though it rose nicely. I made it in a 13 x 9 pan which is our preferen” — a cook, 5.0★
“Jo, I love this recipe so much, instead of making a whole cake, I am going to size it down to make a tray of cup cakes instead. hubby is a diabetic so cup cakes are the way to make sure he doesn't eat too much cake, even though he loves your recipe. We have ma” — a cook, 5.0★