Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Greek Yogurt Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
4 cooks on www.gimmesomeoven.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 | 106% | 101% |
| total sugar | 146% | 232% |
| egg | 42% | 48% |
| leavener | 3% | 4% |
| salt | 2% | 2% |
| liquid | 175% | 200% |
| dairy | 76% | 117% |
| chocolate | 83% | 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.
| 227 g | 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter (plus more for the pan) |
| 28 g | 1/3 cup cocoa powder |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon kosher salt |
| 237 g | 1 cup water |
| 240 g | 2 cups all-purpose flour (plus more for the pan) |
| 350 g | 1 3/4 cups sugar |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs |
| 122 g | 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt (I used 2% fat) |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons butter |
| 61 g | 1/4 cup milk |
| 170 g | 6 ounces bittersweet or dark chocolate (finely chopped) |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.gimmesomeoven.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“My kids and I loved this! It's rich, but not too rich. It's sweet, but not too sweet. It's deliciously chocolatey and moist, and the ganache is lovely. For cake, I replaced half of butter with coconut oil, and replaced sugar with coconut palm sugar. I added a ” — a cook, 5.0★
“Hi Ali I made this today.....cake itself was delicious. The glaze did not turn out well and I’m not sure what I did wrong! Followed directions....oh well, I will definitely make again” — a cook, 3.0★