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Need a chocolate layer cake recipe

Posted on 2/13/25 at 1:06 pm
Posted by LSU Wayne
Walker
Member since Apr 2005
4426 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 1:06 pm
I’m looking for a really good chocolate layer cake recipe. Not a boring store bought type cake but a tried and true homemade recipe that’s a can’t miss. Anyone got something?
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
79140 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 1:09 pm to
Sally's Baking Addiction


Definitely use espresso powder
Posted by Will Cover
Davidson, NC
Member since Mar 2007
39475 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 5:17 pm to
Very Best Chocolate Cake by J Alexander's

Ingredients

2 tablespoons softened butter
12 ounces Hershey's chocolate bars, coarsely chopped
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 (16 oz.) can Hershey's chocolate syrup (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon vanilla
hot fudge sauce (your favorite brand), warmed
vanilla ice cream

Directions

Generously grease inside and top edges of a 15 cup capacity bundt pan with softened butter. Melt the chopped chocolate bars and cool to around body temperature. Melt the butter and cool, about 15 minutes. While the chocolate and butter are cooling, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, mix cooled butter and sugar with the paddle attachment on medium speed, 1 minute. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 10 seconds after each addition. Add chocolate syrup, mixing well. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture along with the buttermilk. Mix well, about 30 seconds. Do not overbeat. Add vanilla and melted chocolate bars, mixing well. Turn off the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Finish combining the batter by hand by folding with a large spatula. Pour into the prepared pan and transfer to a sheet pan to catch any drips.

Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake reaches an internal temperature of 195 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. Remove from oven. When cool enough to touch, gently push down toward the cake any edges of cake that remain at the top of the pan. Cool completely, preferably overnight. Note: Cake will fall in slightly on itself.

To release the cake, place the pan in a 250 degree oven for several minutes. Remove from the oven, place a large plate or cutting board over the cake and flip the cake over, releasing it from the pan. Cut desired number of slices. Serve warm cake topped with warm hot fudge sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Tip:

First, inn the bunt pan they put Hershey bars in the pan then the batter that's what makes that wonderful shine almost glaze on top.
This post was edited on 2/13/25 at 5:18 pm
Posted by lsushelly
Denham Springs
Member since Aug 2006
3297 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 7:00 pm to
Holy shite I’m making this
Posted by Mr Roboto
Seattle
Member since Jan 2023
4423 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 9:08 pm to
Gambinos makes an excellent doberge cake. You won't be dissapointed
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
17924 posts
Posted on 2/13/25 at 9:16 pm to
One of my all-time favorite cakes is made with the yellow cake mix with chocolate icing-----BUT the way my grandma made it was very good.

She'd take the bottom layer and smooth some chocolate icing on it and then take a very ripe banana and thinly slice it and put the slices on top of the icing before putting the top layer on. Then she'd put the icing on the rest of the cake.

IF, and that's a big IF, the cake made it to day 2 after it was made, it was even better as the banana flavor permeated the cake layers.

It would not be much to substitute a chocolate cake mix instead of the yellow cake mix to make this cake.
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