Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake with Choc
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from www.twopeasandtheirpod.com
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 160% | 101% |
| total sugar | 381% | 232% |
| egg | 48% | 48% |
| leavener | 6% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 314% | 200% |
| dairy | 201% | 117% |
| chocolate | 172% | 67% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 400 g | 2 cups sugar |
| 210 g | 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour |
| 64 g | 3/4 cup cocoa (we used Hershey's) |
| 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 |
| 244 g | 1 cup milk |
| 109 g | 1/2 cup canola oil |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 237 g | 1 cup boiling water |
| For the frosting: | |
| 114 g | 1/2 cup butter |
| 57 g | 2/3 cup cocoa (we used Hershey's) |
| 600 g | 3 cups powdered sugar |
| 81 g | 1/3 cup milk |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
Method: 10 steps, published by www.twopeasandtheirpod.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.