Grammy's Kitchen · Chocolate Cake · The Best Double Chocolate Cake
One of 76 chocolate cake recipes we measured
from alexandracooks.com
72 cooks on alexandracooks.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 76.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 51% | 101% |
| total sugar | 202% | 232% |
| egg | 47% | 48% |
| leavener | 4% | 4% |
| salt | 2% | 2% |
| liquid | 115% | 200% |
| dairy | 115% | 117% |
| chocolate | 72% | 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.
| 85 g | 3 ounces (85 g) fine-quality semisweet chocolate |
| 356 g | 1 1/2 cups hot brewed coffee |
| 648 g | 3 cups (648 g) sugar |
| 320 g | 2 1/2 cups (320 g) all-purpose flour |
| 144 g | 1 1/2 cups (144 g) unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 3 g | 3/4 teaspoon baking powder |
| 8 g | 1 1/4 teaspoons salt |
| 150 g | 3 large eggs |
| 164 g | 3/4 cup vegetable oil |
| 368 g | 1 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk |
| 3 g | 3/4 teaspoon vanilla |
| Chocolate Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting (see notes above) |
Method: 5 steps, published by alexandracooks.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“(adapted from recipetineats - youtube) Chocolate Mirror Glaze Note: It's important that your cake's surface be smooth and frozen to semi frozen. I semi freeze a cake that has a (thin layer, my prefetence) ganached layer on top and sides before pourin” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made a few mistakes and some substitutions when making this cake. The biggest mistake, against my better judgement, was using a springform pan. Yikes! During the first few minutes of baking, some of the batter did seep out from the bottom of the pan 🙄. I als” — a cook, 5.0★