Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
539 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 52% | 101% |
| total sugar | 190% | 232% |
| egg | 27% | 48% |
| leavener | 6% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 229% | 200% |
| dairy | 116% | 117% |
| chocolate | 30% | 67% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 210 g | 1 3/4 cups plain / all purpose flour |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup cocoa powder (, unsweetened (Note 2)) |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 tsp baking powder |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 tsp baking soda (bi-carb soda) |
| 400 g | 2 cups white sugar ((Note 1)) |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt |
| 57 g | 2 eggs ((~55-65g / 2 oz each)) |
| 244 g | 1 cup milk ((low or full fat)) |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup vegetable oil ((or canola)) |
| 9 g | 2 tsp vanilla extract |
| 237 g | 1 cup boiling water |
| 1 1/2 batches Chocolate Buttercream Frosting ((slide scaler on recipe)) |
Method: 9 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I love this recipe! Its delicious, moist and flexible. It was a hit last year, when my daughter turned 3. I doubled the recipe - all but the sugar, using only 1/4 cup more than the recipe. I baked two cakes and stacked them & iced with Nagis chocolate butt” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made this Chocolate Cake yesterday at the request of my Husband for his birthday. I have made many successful and delicious recipes from RTE and this one was, as with all other recipes I have used, delicious. It was full flavoured ,moist, perfect texture, a” — a cook, 5.0★