Most Amazing Chocolate Cake Recipe
Everyone needs a classic, delicious and moist chocolate cake recipe. Here you have an easy fool-proof chocolate cake recipe that you will love.
Today I’m sharing my delicious doctored up chocolate cake recipe! I tried different ways and tweaked a few things here and there and this one was perfect! I hope you guys try it out and let me know how you like it!
If you want to see some of my other favorite cake recipes check out this delicious churro cake and this delicious banana cream pie cake! Both are so good!
I also have some amazing filling recipes up that go really well with this chocolate cake!
What I’ve been up too
My January month was full of decorating cakes for the next few months. As many of you already know, we are expecting our little baby girl in April. So I tried to work ahead and get many fun cakes filmed to share with you all over on my Youtube channel in the next few months!
I literally woke up and went to bed thinking about cakes all month long! I tried so many new fun designs. I had a lot of fun with most of the cakes. There are certainly always some that need more work and effort to get to look how I want them but over all a fun month! It went by so fast. And here we are already about to go into the month of march!
Chocolate Cake Decorating
For the outside of this amazing chocolate cake I wanted a fun but simple design that also felt chocolatey. I started with a light ivory- almost white background and then threw in a little easy texture with a small spatula.
I decided to do a chocolate drip down the sides because doesn’t that just go perfect with chocolate cake? You can find my chocolate ganache tutorial here.
I topped the cake with a fun rope border using wiltons 6B Tip. I still love those big rope borders. Another favorite for me is the rope border with Tip 1M. It gives a completely different look in some ways but just as pretty.
Lastly I sprinkled some mini chocolate chips over on top and also on the bottom border to bring the whole design together.
Let’s get baking!
Most Amazing Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup milk room temp.
- ⅔ cup buttermilk room temp.
- ¾ cup sour cream room temp.
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 1 tspn Instant Coffee
- ½ cup Cocoa Powder
- 1 box Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° F and prepare three deep 6" cake pans (or 2 8" cake pans) by lightly greasing the sides with shortening and dusting with all purpose flour. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer whisk together all the wet ingredients until well combined.
- Sift in the chocolate cake mix, cocoa powder and instant coffee and mix until just combined. The batter should be smooth and completely combined but do not overmix!
- Evenly divide batter between your prepared cake pans and bake for 23-26 minutes.
- When the cake is done, the top should spring back to the touch and when inserting a toothpick in the center it should come out clean with no wet batter.
- Remove from the oven, go around the sides with a small offset spatula to separate the cake from the pan but not removing it from the cake pan just yet.
- Allow cakes to cool in the cake pans for about 5 minutes, then carefully flip the pans and remove the layers from the cake pans onto a cooling rack to cool completely before decorating.