Community Pick
Chocolate Cake
"This cake is very moist and extremely easy to make."
photo by LCrabbers
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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15-18
ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 6 tablespoons cocoa
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 cup margarine
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup boiling water or 1 cup coffee
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
directions
- Measure all ingredients into mixing bowl.
- Blend with electric mixer, beginning on low setting, and increasing speed until batter is of smooth consistency.
- Pour into greased and floured cake pan (s) (1 9x13 or 3 small layer).
- Bake at 350 degrees until toothpick tests clean.
- Frost with your favorite frosting when cool.
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Reviews
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Was looking through the newest recipes as I wanted a lunch box filler. Loved the sound of this as it was super easy. I used 2 round 9" pans and it took just over 30 minutes. Used a butter icing. Has turned out lovely and moist. Thanks for posting. =) -
Awesome! Its main features have to be its simplicity in preparation and its extremely moist chocolittyness!! I added 1/2 cup of Nestlés dark chocolate melts ( the big flat ones)to the mixture just for the effect. I was a bit dubious about making it at first as it had no baking powder in it and I was expecting a heavy cake. But no, I made the buttermilk (information gleaned from the link, as I had never heard of buttermilk. I thought buttermilk was something only found in sun-tan lotion), resisted the urge to pour in half a bottle of Tropical Blend tanning oil as a possible substitute, and went ahead. So glad I did!! It is YUM plus!! -
To: Cindy Lynn This cake is absolutely fantastic!!! Big, moist, and just plain tasty! Followed your directions and it turned out super. Very, very easy to put together. Baked it in a 9" x 13" pan and topped it with my favorite chocolate fudge icing. YUMMY! Thanks so much for sharing. Laudee C. Colorado -
Good and easy cake to make. Couldn't get any easier and tastier for a chocolate cake. It isn't so rich that all you can eat is one slice and that is it. I did change the recipe a little. I added only 3 tablespoons of cocoa and substituted the other 3 tablespoons with Milo. I like the malt taste in milo. When the mixture was done, i also added half a bag of hershey mini chocolate chips to give it a little of a fudgy taste to it. The cake rose up well and was very moist. Good recipe...will be doing this again for sure. -
I also made these into cupcakes, delicious!! They also froze well, will be keeping this recipe for lots of use in the future. Don't need to change a thing with this recipe.
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Excellent, easy, one bowl recipe. I just used a hand whisk and it worked fine (I also added extra cocoa after reading other reviews).<br/><br/>I'm vegan so i used egg replacer powder instead of eggs (and soy milk mixed with one teaspoon of cider vinegar - stood for 5mins - in place of buttermilk). <br/><br/>For other vegans/dairy or egg free folk this worked brilliantly and i can confirm this is the best choc cake recipe i've ever come across!
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it is extremely tasty, though I have to say similar to a previous user that the cake tastes better on the second day in the fridge than on the first day, strangely enough. also extremely easy to make. I made a few changes: used brown sugar instead of white, no baking soda, so just used baking powder, no buttermilk, so I used this recipe I found on ehow<br/>http://www.ehow.com/how_4828612_buttermilk-vinegar.html<br/><br/>which worked fine. also I added more vanilla cuz I love vanilla -
I made this cake for one of my twin boys for his 7th Birthday. I just used boiling water instead of coffee and used 3 cups of self raising flour instead of plain flour and baking soda.I frosted it with Kittencal's Chocolate Buttercream Frosting (Recipe 89207) Everyone loved it!!! My son decorated his cake with Smarties around the edges and his initial in the middle. Will definitely be making it again. Thanks for sharing...
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Very moist cake. I used hot coffee instead of the boiling water. One of the easiest chocolate cakes I have made. I used your fluffy white frosting # 55965 Thanks Cindy Lynn. Bullwinkle
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I was looking for a very quick to make, very chocolaty cake and this recipe was perfect! I made exactly as directed, using the boiling water instead of the coffee. This cake is moist, wonderfully flavorful and was ready in exactly 40 minutes (using a 9 x13" glass pan). I used MizzNezz's Creamy Chocolate Frosting recipe #18518 to top it off. Wonderful combination! Thanks for a great recipe, Cindy!
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