Chocolatey chocolate cake from Simple Cake: All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake (page 22) by Odette Williams

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Accompaniments: Beautiful buttercream; White and whipped cream; Nutella whipped cream; Condensed milk whipped cream; Coffee whipped cream; Chocolate crumble; Toblerone ganache; Tres leches; Silky marshmallow icing; Chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream; Crème Anglaise; Caramel sauce; Compote

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    Can substitute any other mild-flavored oil for grapeseed oil.

  • kshell on August 11, 2023

    Easy and good. Baked as cupcakes. I do wish I had found foil liners as the paper ones were a bit wet on the bottom after baking. I got exactly 24 cupcakes out of this recipe and the marshmallow frosting was just the right amount with a bit leftover. That marshmallow frosting was EXCELLENT. Good paired with the cake.

  • Rradishes on October 20, 2022

    Great chocolate cake. Made a double batch for toddler's birthday party along with the mascarpone buttercream. Delicious! Definitely will return to this recipe for other chocolate cake occasions.

  • gtrezz on March 04, 2020

    I've made this recipe in sheet cake form a couple of times and topped it with the cream cheese frosting recipe from this book. The cake really is simple to make and turns out really moist. Several people commented that they don't normally like cake, but they had second helpings of this one.

  • anya_sf on October 15, 2019

    Super quick and easy to make. I made 24 cupcakes for a bake sale. I had to fill the liners 2/3-3/4 full, but the cupcakes baked up just fine, just needing a few extra minutes in the oven. The chocolate flavor was there, but wasn't super intense - perfect for kids. I topped them with mascarpone easy creamy icing (double recipe).

  • bwhip on April 11, 2019

    Great chocolate cake recipe. Easy to throw together, with fantastic deep chocolate flavor and soft texture. Stays really good for a few days. I used hot coffee as alternative to hot water (as recipe also offers), with grapeseed oil, both times I've made this so far. Once I topped with coffee whipped cream, another with the tangy mascarpone icing in the same cookbook. Both turned out excellent.

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