Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Twix Chocolate Layer Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
4 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 4.2★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 99% | 101% |
| total sugar | 255% | 232% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 13% | 0% |
| egg | 54% | 48% |
| leavener | 4% | 4% |
| salt | 0% | 2% |
| liquid | 172% | 200% |
| dairy | 88% | 117% |
| chocolate | 29% | 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.
| 280 g | 2 cups (280 grams) plain flour |
| 80 g | 1 cup (80 grams) cocoa powder |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 7 g | 1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
| 300 g | 1 and 1/2 cup (300 grams) caster sugar |
| 90 g | 1/2 cup (90 grams) brown sugar |
| 245 g | 1 cup (240 ml) buttermilk |
| 164 g | 3/4 cup (180 ml) vegetable oil |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs, room temperature |
| 237 g | 1 cup (240 ml) hot water |
| 115 g | 1/2 cup (115 grams or 1 stick) unsalted butter, softened |
| 325 g | 2 and 1/2 cups (325 grams) powdered or icing sugar |
| 1/2 cup (120 ml) [url]salted caramel sauce∞http://www.sweetestmenu.com/blog/homemade-salted-caramel-sauce[/url] | |
| Twix bars, chopped | |
| Shortbread cookies, crumbled | |
| Extra caramel sauce for drizzling |
Method: 4 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I’ve never seen cake batter that looked like this. It was like soup, and I was certain I’d done something wrong. I definitely wouldn’t recommend making a make a layer cake. I put mine in a 13 x11” pan and that was perfect. If I’d made a layer cake the top laye” — a cook, 3.0★
“"I made this once for a family gathering and now everyone insists that it be at every gathering! It's so easy; you use a box cake mix! For chopping the chocolate bars, I put them in the freezer, then hit them with a hammer while still in the wrapper"” — a cook, 5.0★