Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from www.chelseasmessyapron.com
2 cooks on www.chelseasmessyapron.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 | 255% | 101% |
| total sugar | 619% | 232% |
| egg | 48% | 48% |
| leavener | 6% | 4% |
| salt | 4% | 2% |
| liquid | 293% | 200% |
| dairy | 180% | 117% |
| chocolate | 130% | 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 |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup Dutch process cocoa powder (see note 1) |
| 6 g | 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 7 g | 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs (at room temp) |
| 244 g | 1 cup whole milk (at room temp) |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup vegetable oil (or canola oil) |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon vanilla extract |
| 237 g | 1 cup boiling water |
| 426 g | 30 tablespoons unsalted butter (at room temp) |
| 900 g | 4-1/2 cups powdered sugar |
| 96 g | 1-1/8 cups Dutch process cocoa powder |
| 134 g | 8-10 tablespoons heavy cream |
| 6 g | 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 113 g | 4 ounce milk chocolate bar (optional, for decorating) |
Method: 11 steps, published by www.chelseasmessyapron.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This recipe was sooo good! I made it for my dad's birthday when we didn't really have any baking things (we were moving) so I had to make this cake as a sheet cake. But let me tell you, it was absolutely delicious. It was gone in literal days!! I WILL be makin” — a cook, 5.0★
“The cake was superior, but I didn’t freeze it and the cake turned out perfectly fine.” — a cook, 5.0★