Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Hershey Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from tastesbetterfromscratch.com
803 cooks on tastesbetterfromscratch.com rate it 4.9★.
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 | 476% | 232% |
| egg | 48% | 48% |
| leavener | 6% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 268% | 200% |
| dairy | 155% | 117% |
| chocolate | 57% | 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.
| 400 g | 2 cups granulated sugar |
| 210 g | 1 3/4 cup + 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
| 100 g | 2 large eggs ( , room temperature*) |
| 245 g | 1 cup buttermilk* |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup oil ((vegetable or canola oil)) |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 237 g | 1 cup boiling water (, or hot coffee) |
| 114 g | 1/2 cup melted butter |
| 57 g | 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 600 g | 3 cups powdered sugar |
| 81 g | 1/3 cup milk |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
Method: 6 steps, published by tastesbetterfromscratch.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“OMGOSH!! This is the most delicious cake I have ever made!! My husband raved over it and asked me to make it again!! He rarely tells me how good something is and he talked about this cake until the last piece was gone then went to the store and bought a can of” — a cook, 5.0★