Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · Six-Layer Chocolate Cake with Toasted Marshm
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
It ranks #5 of 76 for crumb tenderness among the chocolate cake recipes we compared. 146 cooks on www.browneyedbaker.com rate it 4.4★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 282% | 101% |
| total sugar | 533% | 232% |
| egg | 50% | 48% |
| leavener | 7% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| liquid | 162% | 200% |
| dairy | 162% | 117% |
| chocolate | 104% | 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.
| 300 g | 2 1/2 cups + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour |
| 600 g | 3 cups granulated sugar |
| 85 g | 1 cup + 1 tablespoon Dutch-process cocoa powder |
| 14 g | 1 tablespoon baking soda |
| 6 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 9 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons salt |
| 150 g | 3 eggs (at room temperature) |
| 368 g | 1 1/2 cups buttermilk (at room temperature) |
| 356 g | 1 1/2 cups strong black coffee (hot) |
| 164 g | 3/4 cup vegetable oil |
| 20 g | 4 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 16 large marshmallows | |
| 200 g | 1 cup powdered sugar |
| 227 g | 1 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature) |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 213 g | 7.5 ounce Marshmallow Fluff |
| 454 g | 2 cups unsalted butter (at room temperature) |
| 800 g | 4 cups powdered sugar |
| 3/4 cup Ovaltine Classic | |
| 13 g | 1 tablespoon vanilla extract |
| Pinch of salt | |
| 227 g | 8 ounces semisweet or dark chocolate chocolate (melted and cooled) |
| 119 g | 1/2 cup heavy cream |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.browneyedbaker.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This chocolate cake is decadent and delicious! These are deep, dark chocolate cake layers in the best way possible. I did not slice each layer - so my cake was a 3 layer cake not a 6 layer cake - and I wasn't the least bit sad about it. It is still an impre” — a cook, 5.0★
“I spent 70.00 to make this cake for.my.boyfriends.birthday and this cake would not.stay.together. I put toothpicks in it but it slid completely off one side and collapsed on my kitchen floor! The icing is not very good , it's just extremely rich but doesn't ta” — a cook, 2.0★