Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Dark Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from simply-delicious-food.com
8 cooks on simply-delicious-food.com rate it 3.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 217% | 101% |
| total sugar | 500% | 232% |
| egg | 56% | 48% |
| leavener | 3% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 230% | 200% |
| dairy | 164% | 117% |
| chocolate | 170% | 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.
| 180 g | 1 1/2 cups flour |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups sugar |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt |
| 4 g | 1 tsp baking powder |
| 2 g | 1/2 tsp baking soda |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup cocoa powder |
| 244 g | 1 cup milk |
| 164 g | 3/4 cup vegetable oil |
| 4 g | 1 tsp vanilla |
| 100 g | 2 eggs |
| 100 g | 100 g (3oz) dark chocolate (melted) |
| 118 g | 1/2 cup boiling water |
| 227 g | 1 cup butter (softened) |
| 600 g | 3 cups icing/powdered sugar (sifted ) |
| 42 g | 1/2 cup cocoa powder |
| 100 g | 100 g (3oz) dark chocolate (melted) |
| 52 g | 3-4 tbsp cream |
Method: 11 steps, published by simply-delicious-food.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.