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When I had a piece I cut some cake, scooped out some frosting and let it sitto warm and frosted the squares individually before eating. Thanks, Deb!!!!!! It should have been on the rack one level up. What a treat for a weeknight! My husband promised my kids dessert last night, and it was up to me to fulfill this promise. Also can you recommend a baking pan for this cake? I want it to taste good, but the birthday girl (a 6 year old) wants a very specific design. (fwiw-I used Sharfenberger unsweetened. When I click Print Recipe I am directed to another website, which requires me to do I dont know what. Pour the batter into a nine-inch round cake pan and bake at 350F for 25 to 30 minutes until the surface looks matte and a cake tester comes out clean. Thank you! Is there a good way to search for all your one bowl cakes? Leti My favorite is from Valrhona. I made the cake the other day for my sons birthday. I dont like a lot of icing on my cake. Ive loved every single Smitten Kitchen recipe Ive tried, and these are no exception. Hello! Hands down the best frosting Ive ever made! I stuck the unfrosted cupcakes in the freezer. Im salivating on my keyboard here. Delicious and quick. Directions. I would love to make this for my daughters birthday.do I double the ingredients for 2 nine inch rounds? I made this a few weeks ago, and made the frosting as written whereas normally I use powdered cocoa. That said, if you dont have Dutched but only a regular or natural cocoa, I havent tested this cake with it but suspect that youll be just fine, although the cake may be less dark in color. Frosting notes: I had super dark baking chocolate and used that instead of unsweetened for the frosting. This will be the first time hes been away for his birthday. What do you suggest? I must admit, we had already finished off your raspberry buttermilk cake over the weekend, so the birthday boy got two cakes this year! Im going to stack some to make a birthday cake: Id freeze the cake layer, but not the frosting. When I went downstairs, I heard my oven timer beeping. It is so not fair that you gave me this craving this late in a very long day. Hope that helps and works! :), I doubled the recipe in a 913 pan for a birthday at work. I will try that recipe for sure. Except the word wanted doesnt accurately describe the craving; it was suddenly everything. ( thanks to the hereditary sweet tooth). Thank you! Finally, this is my note to selfat 25 minutes the cake needed another few minutes, I left it in for 6 minutes, and that was too long, and maybe should have been 3 more minutes. Um, do not make this cake unless you plan to eat the whole thing. will take more time than simply making the frosting right then. Make these for someone you love today! If you did, always start with the lower baking time and increase as needed. I subbed home-made full fat natural yoghurt for the buttermilk (loosened a little with a dash of milk) and used an inch of real vanilla pod rather than the extract and the cake came out very well indeed. Your food aversions made me smile. Its what I have always wanted my homemade chocolate frosting to taste like. Any tips for a frosting I could make with a whisk or does that just not work for frosting? I just tasted one of the chunks (for research, clearly, not as an excuse to have cake for breakfast ;) ) and its sugar!! I know better than that. I dont recommend trying to speed the cooling of the melted chocolate by putting it in the refrigerator though, things can change fast! Today my work email was hacked and my computer was down for several hours so I baked this cake, because obviously it was a day that NEEDED CAKE. just made into cupcakes and I cant stop licking my spatula. Will the N years ago parts be automated after that? Hope thats an ok combo. 1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour The melted chocolate had cooled a little but was not chunky when I poured it in. So yummy! The baking time was about 35 minutes, all told. Thank you for being an inspiration to get me started. Thank you so much. If I double the recipe and make it a 9 by 13 pan,do I need to increase cooking time? It was 10 and I had worked hard all day. Meanwhile, Uncle Vixen had bought unsweetened cocoa rather than unsweetened chocolate for the frosting, so I had to find a sort of halfway point between Debs recipe and the one on the back of the cocoa bag (which assumes a double layer of cake, natch) w/r/t proportions of cocoa, butter, and milk; also I had to deal with the same issue of the stand mixer not really being able to reach all of the frosting; also I splashed the vanilla and the frosting tasted Very Strongly of it when it was finally done. Im not sure whats been happening with my cakes but would love ANY advice or ideas! Ive made your version of this food processor frosting a bajillion times and its amazing. Thank you! 14 cupcakes. Thanks for so much deliciousness! I noticed that you put less white sugar in this than your Everyday chocolate cake (which I adore). I found it in March, around when quarantine started and for a couple of months, I made it every Saturday to celebrate another week of quarantine. And to top it off, hubby, the pickiest cake eater I know, who rarely finishes a slice, had seconds. I made these a cupcakes tonight. Fran You can use coffee for most of the buttermilk and Ive heard good things about mayo too. If so, should I alter the other ingredients? The cake was incredible. it is the number one thing boyperson asks for, half in jest but i know he really wants it, but im not going to bake a whole giant two layer cake, and scaling down baking recipes is something i havent wanted to try. This is a great cake! I made the same cake recipe with their dark chocolate salted pudding buttercream, and it was UNBELIEVABLE. I love that I dont have to go to five different grocery stores to find the ingredients. Eight years ago: Baked Tomato Sauce, And for the other side of the world: Delish no frosting just some a bit of icing sugar. Just watched you make this on YouTube and immediately felt compelled to make it happen in my home. Perfection! This is definitely my go-to chocolate cake. So, push and then make an S-swirl, push and S-swirl, repeat and always quit while youre ahead (hard, because its so fun). Anyway, DELICIOUS and for sure my new go-to one bowl, easy-as-can-be, need it now chocolate cake. What did I do wrong?!?! This cake would feed one of them, maybe 2 if they were forced to share. Thank you for always inspiring me! But OMG the icing is fantastic!!! -I used regular cocoa powder and absolutely missed the Dutch cocoa powder, so go for the gold here This was the perfect amount of batter for 12 cupcakes. For a summer party I baked triple the amount on a large tray, with mascarpone raspberry topping. Ive been a lurker heresince I was in highschool? In another bowl, whisk together sour cream, corn syrup, and vanilla extract until smooth. Could it be that I used salted butter??! I find melting and cooling the chocolate to be the most annoying task, and have seen recipes that simply call for cocoa powder instead. My three year old and I are going to make this cake for him. Thanks for your response! And she had marked so many pages with little pink tabs! Best chocolate cake ever. I mean, just look at this cake!! Hooray for pregnancy cravings! Youve totally made my two-year-olds day. Im using a Williams-Sonoma Gold Touch 88 here. THanks! Whats a mom to do?? I love that this is an eight inch square; such a perfect size. Have just put this in the oven. Thank you! The Double Chocolate Layer Cake is amazing, as is the Peanut Butter Chocolate Cakes cake layers (although I prefer the Double Layer) but this just wins. 2 tablespoons (25 grams) granulated sugar that I might have to exclusively dedicate this space for a while to a few currently acceptable categories, those that involve butter, bread, peanut butter or chocolate. Put the chocolate, butter, and salt in a large microwave safe bowl. Its so fun to make your recipes, read your stories, and learn to use my new camera while showing your creations in a different way that you have. Just made this amazing cake for myself for my birthday and want to thank you for the gift the most foolproof recipe ever. Came out perfect baked in a 9 inch round. Sometimes when I really need chocolate cake I cant find this recipe! I think it could be it will definitely be thinner. Seriously, we love it so much!! :/. Any other ideas? My (Italian) mother also used to say that if a woman craved a certain food during pregnancy the baby might end up having a birthmark in the shape of that food. Generously butter the bottom and sides of three 8 round cake pans. OK, the chocolate frosting from this recipe is my favorite frosting to make of all time, so much so that I basically only make cakes with chocolate frosting now because I dont like to use any other frosting recipe. Whipped this up during nap time, adding a handful of chocolate chips to the batter. (Or, Id have done it already. That could be the issue too much creaming. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A BON APPETIT and EPICURIOUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The long-awaited new book from the best-selling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Daya collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare a. The key here is the. . I think you might mean 185 grams of butter rather than 85g? Or should I be strong by hand? What do you think? That doesnt sound good at all. Every bit as wonderful as I imagined. Ummm, yum! It came out perfectly baked, not very risen. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); That is SURPRISINGLY little fat in the cake. Thanks!!! i love your blog thank you for posting & for all the inspirations! I used the alternative to buttermilk she mentions and used 1/2 cup strong coffee and 1/4 cup whole fat Greek yogurt (though doubled in my case, and the cake was deeply chocolatey and moist. I made this with Hersheys Special Dark Cocoa (they say this is a blend of natural and Dutched cocoas) and it turned out great! Thank you for the lovely idea, just in time for the weekend :). I made this cake for dinner at a family friends house we needed something amazing and indulgent, but not overwhelmingly complicated or fussy (small children ((and adults)) are only willing to wait so long for dessert, after all). Seriously. No, the recipe is correct and what youve written is not. Thank you! We did not make it to the grocery store until after we were both done with work and because its COVID times our trip took two hours so I started this cake at 7. If you suggest it, I make it. On the third round I added a 1/4 cup additional buttermilk to the batter. It evokes something so real and essential. Any idea if you can sub baking soda for Natron and baking powder for backpulver? But either way, the cake turned out great. I just made this using a homemade paleo mix of almond flour, arrowroot flour and coconut flour (in a 3:2:1 proportion I did 300 gm almond flour, 200 gm arrowroot flour and 100 gm coconut flour to create the mix, then took the exact amount of flour in the recipe). I mean EVERYONE commented on it. Can you PLEASE make The Cake tonight mom?! ), Its there Add the egg, yolk and vanilla and beat until combined, then the buttermilk and mix again. :). :) Yes, that was what I meant by uneven. However I am making this cake today with all my substitutes!! You can also type CTRL or + P from any recipe post to get to the same print template, or use the Print option in your browser, usually under the File menu. Higher in the middle tho I thought I evenly spread it. Hey Deb, should it make any difference if I substitute black (extra dutched) cocoa in the cake? Fewer bakeries this time, but more baking in the kitchen. This cake is EVERYTHING. Yum! Absolutely its intended a building block. Fabulous! Thanks for the update! Still delicious baked on Friday, refrigerated till Sunday am, served Sunday @ noon. This is getting pawned off on my coworkers as soon as my office reopens because I cant take it anymore. Rave reviews on the cake and the frosting from my wife and house guest! I choose to make this because I should have everything in the house for this cake. Deb, I am a fan of Smitten Kitchen and have your newest cookbook. This is happening tonight. Like eat-one-square-in-two-bites perfect. Love your Im pregnant recipes! The volume of a 6 round is half a 9 round; yay pi.