Old-fashioned chocolate layer cake from The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Classic, Unique, and Modern Cakes for Any Occasion (page 36) by America's Test Kitchen Editors

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  • hillsboroks on November 10, 2024

    This cake is a wonderful birthday cake and I have made it as a layer cake and as cupcakes. It is moist and has a very rich chocolate flavor.

  • sdeathe on July 03, 2021

    Delicious, wonderful chocolate flavour and lovely texture, firm but not dense. I'd make this again, but I would not make the recipe for 5 cups of the Chocolate Frosting. It was good, but way more than was needed to frost and fill this cake, in my opinion. Also uses 1 cup corn syrup which I'm not too keen on. I would likely use an icing with butter and confectioner's sugar, or a ganache.

  • SpatulaClark on June 08, 2020

    Middle ground between fluffy chocolate cake and mud cake. Even after sifting, be careful to avoid flour pockets in final batter.

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