-replaced the buttermilk with red wine I ended up with lots of frosting left over (I should have just made a smaller batch, I knew I didnt want a thick layer) but my biggest issue was that I ended up adding an additional 8-10 minutes to the baking time. That could be the issue too much creaming. It all came together rather quickly on a weekday evening too. This cake is perfect! Followed the recipe exactly as written. sunken black forest cake. Required fields are marked *. Got about 10 from a single batch, and baked about 24 minutes in my oven. Just wondering if youd any tips on scaling this cake to fit a 15cm tin as used for your Tiny but intense chocolate cake? Also, for the buttermilk, I mixed 1/2 cup black tea with 1/4 cup yogurt, and that worked really well. Ill never buy it from a store again. (but we still found the cake delish . My baking-phobic girlfriend made this for my birthday. Ill just skip the chicken with dinner or something. Ive made this multiple times before and its my definitely my go-to chocolate cake but I want to make it tomorrow for my birthday and I dont have any unsweetened chocolate. It was a hit! Baby is now 3 months. Ill quadruple the recipe (think I have that right!). I find melting and cooling the chocolate to be the most annoying task, and have seen recipes that simply call for cocoa powder instead. I also used to subscribe to the view that cake is just a vehicle for icingand then I made this cake. If so, how would I defrost? Must try! Fun at I dont have Dutch cocoa so used standard and didnt feel it was lacking all. Just enough cake, not too much, and so simple. Made this tonight! This was delicious, especially the frosting! I will report back when I try it :). I have made this many times and it never disappoints. Thank you so much. Came out perfect! We used m&ms instead. As it should be.). deb, i made this frosting again last week (underneath i confess i made the hersheys chocolate cake recipe as boyperson wanted a more box-mix-like cake), and we ended up not being able to eat the cake right away so we stuck it in the fridge. You can keep it at room temperature if youd like. This cake looks like it fits the bill. and that suited nicely. I regretted not licking every beater of chocolate buttercream that had ever crossed my path when I worked at a bakery in high school. I think the problem may have been my food processor. I had the great idea to make this today. Or maybe get one of these? ). My main purpose in commenting, however, is to commend you on your perfect parenting skills. Perfect swirls! I asked him if we wanted to make the small cake or double it for leftovers and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. Place your flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a sifter (I find this step necessary because my cocoa is very lumpy) and shake it over the batter bowl. It will be on the Christmas menu from now on. (See here.) Megan 10-inch round or square? Thank you! A family favourite in our house. It wont have the same texture defrosted. Wonderful cake!!! The only thing available to me that was vaguely cake-sized and shaped was a glass pie dish. I get impatient so I usually do both. Deb, you so perfectly describe what I experienced with food when I was pregnant!! There are ways to adjust a recipe accordingly to your neck of the woods. It was yummy but I would like to try to follow recipe next time. Deb, in a very saturated social media food scene, you are one of the OGs and my absolute favorite. They baked for about 20 minutes. I used gluten free flour (King Arthur general purpose is my favorite), subbed coconut oil for the butter and coconut milk with a little vinegar for the buttermilk (to make it dairy-free). Would the cake be able to take the weight of the ganache? I had to bake for the full 30 minutes, at 25 mins. Guessing I posted here before as I make this cake all the time. It feels suspicious to me. I was hoping someone had made it in 6 rounds and had figured out the number of pans! are the measurements the same? Ill update accordingly, suggesting you just mix it until smooth. So making this! A decent frosting can somewhat save it. Step 4. I didnt even notice. :) Yes, that was what I meant by uneven. How can I fix this? Here I am, all alone in my studio apartmentwith this damn scrumptious cake. I have a deep appreciation for the way you feel about cake. In 2008, when Smitten Kitchen was still an infant in blog years, I shared a recipe for my mom's apple cake. Better to make triple the batter and divide it between 4 pans. Perfect you can have two slices and one for breakfast the next day. Such a great recipie, Ive just topped off my finish cake and am pleased at how well its turned out! Chum Yes, it would be delicious. best chocolate cake ever! The batter tastes amazing! I questioned the need for unsweetened chocolate vs. one of the many choices I already had in my pantry and am certainly glad I went and got some. We found this disappointingly dry and bland. This post could not be timed more perfectly. Thinking of getting ahead of my sons bday next weekend. Now Im craving chocolate cake! Please, please tell me this doesnt mean you were still nauseous in week 16? 1 / 4 teaspoon baking powder Wouldnt be the same without them! We opted for a few fresh strawberry slices on each little square and it was just right. Life changing! This cake was so easy to whip up and it made just enough. For a cake like this, thats flexible, you can use either what you get in volume (from your 1/2 cup) or weight (145 grams) and youll be fine. Hi Deb! Frosting notes: I had super dark baking chocolate and used that instead of unsweetened for the frosting. I truly hope it will be me. Regrettably it hadnt survived long enough to be frosted with chocolate frosting, not to mention sprinkling it with sprinkles. I followed the baking instructions in the 2nd cook book to bake it for 38 minutes. (Me: Hmm this looks wrong..its all lumpy. Ha! Alexandra You probably can, but I think youll be surprised at how not terribly sweet this cake is, despite the seemingly large amount. And with that, I can hear the pitter-patter of my diets feet making itself scarce as I reach for more butter. But now I want to make this cake again and again I am in a chocolate cake loop. Its just the right size for when you dont want a larger sheet cake sitting around all week. Put all in the freezer to flash freeze and called it a night. Have just put this in the oven. Im using a Williams-Sonoma Gold Touch 88 here. I usually hear about substitutions with flax eggs, but nobody has mentioned doing so here yet in the comments. Wow. My hubby loved it for his decadent birthday surprise! Or have them page by page. Cake notes: I didnt have buttermilk so I used 3/4 cup thinned (with water) whole milk yogurt. This was the cake that saved the weekend. Sometimes it comes back for an afternoon but its not like it was. I love that this is an eight inch square; such a perfect size. Susan Im not, although I may not have declared it behind me until 17-18 weeks. Thank you! I have a fave friend who doesnt make a baking move without you. This is a delicious, fast chocolate cake! Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting would definitely be an understatement! Stir one-third of egg-white mixture into chocolate mixture. I have extra and my kids dont care for pudding so trying to figure out what to do with it. Boyfriend is allergic to wheat, so I used brown rice flour (he found out two weeks ago so Im pretty new to this) and I couldnt tell the difference! Soft and moist. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and 3/4 teaspoon salt in large bowl to blend. Turned out great! Sometimes that mixture is too thin, but in this case, it was fine. Thank you!! 1 /2 cup / 63 g all-purpose flour Even bought the special spatula. First, the butter wouldnt cream with the sugars {its pretty cold here at the moment, and room temperature was well below what it should have been.) Deb, how is it that you can take the most simple chocolate cake and make it look so amazing that I think that I will just die if I dont go make it right now, even though its nearly 11 p.m.? The directions mention this can be made as 12 cupcakes. One of those great Smitten Kitchen recipes that encourages me to make something I wouldnt have otherwise made, and turns out great, even though I was sure I messed it up! I havent made one since a family birthday version last summer, but this looks awfully tempting. I made this last night and it was delicious! As a 16 week pregnant lady myself right now, I have to commend you making a cake to satisfy your own cravings. This looks amazing! I was so happy when I saw this recipe as I knew due to schedules including mine Id be home and no one would be making me a cake for my birthday yesterday, so this one fit the bill! The wine and cocoa married so well in this cake. Must make! probably if i had filled them closer to 2/3 i could have gotten 16 altogether. Verrrry interesting!!! Delete the baking power and increase baking soda to 3/4 teaspoon. Its an okay price, at least. It was just fine; moist but not dense. -frosted with a ginger spiced dairy free buttercream, The result was amazing-ness! Used oil instead of butter (a scant 1/3 cup) and got great results. What did I do wrong?!?! they took about 18 minutes. Its fabulous and the husband pronounced it the best chocolate cake hes ever eaten. Its less expensive and bakes pretty well. I love your best birthday cake with the chocolate sour cream frosting, but tonight I wanted chocolate cake, so I thought this was the appropriate recipe to try. Fantastic chocolatey goodness. We had one at Tilth up here in Seattle this last weekend- it had buttermilk, browned butter, hazelnuts and currants and I want to eat there everyday just for this one scone! Still delicious baked on Friday, refrigerated till Sunday am, served Sunday @ noon. Hope it was a hit! Thank you. Just five more weeks of this! Is it true that 1/2 teaspoon sea salt has about 1/2 the sodium of table salt? As luck would have it, my husbands birthday is tomorrow, so Im using this occasion as my excuse! Made this tonight and shouldnt have, but am so very glad I did. Im salivating on my keyboard here. I weighed & added the ingredients for the frosting. I try to give credit to stores where I buy things, and not just Amazon all the time, but I cant help if their site doesnt have permalinks in the year 2015. Its the favorite of my family and friends though, so Im trying to create a chocolate cake recipe that both they and I will enjoy. Thank you! Can I bake this cake 24 hours in advance or does it need to be made and eaten same day? Please maam, may I have another?!!!!! How can I make this a vanilla version? It will need to be softened and re-whipped, i.e. The frosting turned out a bit too sweetsolved by beating in an oz or two of cream cheese to mellow it out. I didnt have electric beaters so I just forked the sugar and butter together well, and didnt sift the cocoa powder, but it seemed to be ok. Oh, and used sour cream + water for the buttermilk. 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). Thank you, for this recipe! Yum! Thanks, Deb. Let cool in pan for about 15 minutes, then use a knife to loosen the edges and lift out using parchment to help. I noticed Mels comment, but was wondering if you have any ideas about making this frosting without a hand/ stand mixer. Today its the first time Ill make it since I bought your new book and I noticed that there is a difference in the baking powder quantity (1/2 tsp in the recipe above, 3/4 tsp in the book). Did you see the Tasting Table chocolate cake recipe from a few days ago? Thanks for taking time out to respond so quickly, Deb! Serves or Makes: 8 . Your site is the first food blog Ive read continuously and made things from. I only had black cocoa and not regular Dutch-process (apparently black cocoa is very heavily Dutched) and it was super chocolatey and a big hit, even with my 4 year old. P.P.S I have the rainbow confetti sprinkles on order as I write because, well, rainbow confetti sprinkles.! I put little chocolate rainbow sprinkles on it which were very charming and made me happier than I expected they would. Thank you so much for all you do! Also the fact that its delicious and practically gone doesnt hurt! THanks! I will absolutely try this as cupcakes next time. Blueberry Boy Bait is an all time comfort food around here oldie but a goodie. If I double the recipe and make it a 9 by 13 pan,do I need to increase cooking time? Yum to both the cake and the frosting! Deb, Ive just noticed you forgot to mention the buttermilk when adding ingredients. The cake itself isnt very sweet, in hopes to provide contrast. Super hit! Thank you for this wonderful recipe it is incredible! I shop there because they have EVERYTHING FOR BAKING but.they arent the most pleasant peeps Ive come across. Thanks yet again, Deb! Small cakes? The batter was pretty salty with 1/2 teaspoon table salt. So I substituted cocoa (6 T with 2 T of melted butter). So easy and so quick (was supervising 10yos homework as well). I didnt know that was even possible. Next time I wont add as much sugar; I shouldve read the comments first, but live and learn! I have to leave in 50 min!! JP hit the nail on the head. stephanie I suppose you could use a bittersweet chocolate, the most bitter you can find, but it will make the frosting more sweet/less dark. Thank you, Deb, for all you do! We made this with your caramel chunks idea for the brownies sprinkled in, and added a whipped frosting with cream cheese, walnut, and chocolate chopped in. I need this cake in my life, and I need someone else to make it! I just want a few slices of cake, enough to last in our house for two or three nights, even when there is no birthday or holiday or cause for celebration in sight. Even serious adults turn giddy at the sight of sprinkles, men too! Im still super nauseous though, this was supposed to go away weeks ago, and havent baked anything because I cant stand being in the kitchen. I love the recipe and will have fun making this with her. These will be great for my babes first birthday party tomorrow! And I think increased the proportion of cocoa, too, I think. Huzzah for cake. Also, Deb, keep doing what youre doing! Not that I havent eaten what I wanted the whole time, and that want has mostly been chocolate (and frozen mango pieces lately, so good!) Man I have had a chocolate cake kind of week. My new go to icing! Everyone commented how fudgey it was. However, my cake was dense, moist, almost fudgy- like a good brownie! So, tomorrow is my birthday, and Im already planning to make David Lebovitzs salted butterscotch pudding, BUT we are also getting a decent snowstorm, so I think the weekend might require this chocolate cake as well! @Anna #216, I had to bake mine almost 20 extra minutes even though my thermometer read 360*F. I did use an 8 round instead of square, and it was nonstick. Boy those MEANIES ar NY CAKE did it again when you click on their link it doesnt work. I just wanted to chime in and say this recipe is perfect for 1/2 birthday celebrations. Your amazing photos have made me want cake. Do let it clabber for 10 to 15 minutes for a thicker texture. It is the kitchen tool that will make spreading cake batter, especially in round pans (among many other spreading chores) and icing a cake so much easier! I cant wait. Its especially lovely with 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon as well. Five years ago: Thick Chewy Granola Bars and Arroz Con Leche (Rice Pudding) I wish Id never made it because I CRAVE it and Im not pregnant. It looks so generous. Forgot to add I only put in 130 grams of sugar because of marmalade. I see many, many of these as birthday cakes in my sons future. So I was making this cake and I was mixing in the dry ingredients and I thought Wow this is a dry mix and I thought there is no way this is going to spread. 2.5 Years Ago: Leek Chard and Corn Flatbread You can make buttermilk by mixing a little white vinegar (somewhere between 1 tsp and 1 Tbsp) and the rest of the cup milk, itll curdle, and then you can use it as buttermilk! I realized I had everything in the kitchen already, and promptly went home and made it. Yay! Just worried about it warming up and shifting. You cant beat chocolate cake and this one looks incredible, Deb. Oh my I need this now! This! They are all gone now and left everyone (all adults) with smiles on their faces.
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