Cocoa yogurt cake from Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings (page 135) by Yossy Arefi

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Accompaniments: Coffee whip; Cocoa whip

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Notes about this recipe

  • Pandan on May 05, 2026

    I made this as a Bundt cake, so doubled the recipe as instructed. Turned out fine although a bit dry. But maybe this was due to falsely turning on convection in my oven. It was the birthday cake for my daughter’s favourite stuffed animal Beppo.

  • jhavens on April 12, 2026

    This cake was great. I used a bundt pan and the cream cheese frosting from another recipe.

  • Likethetea on March 22, 2026

    A little dry

  • brenda_bv2nm8 on March 19, 2026

    Delicious and easy! I added the optional chocolate chips and happy that I did. Deep chocolate flavor and very moist, like all of the cakes I've made from this book.

  • breadenthusiast on August 24, 2025

    Did not make a glaze, cake is flavourful enough on it's own! Just a nice, simple chocolate cake.

  • emilycaj on May 15, 2025

    This is it: my holy grail plain chocolate cake recipe. I don't need to try any more. Incredible. I only used 185g of brown sugar, and I used 72% dark chocolate chips. I made the vanilla glaze, but did not use the suggested fruit/nut topping.

  • lisari on March 01, 2025

    Made with milk chocolate chips, a powdered sugar glaze with a little rosewater added, & chopped pistachios, baked 40 minutes. Good flavor & texture.

  • GingerFoodLovers on October 29, 2023

    We made this with Dutch processed cocoa and 60% chips. We didn’t see the need for the glaze and loved it as is.

  • memphiseat on August 12, 2023

    This was good. Easy - will make it again. Made the vanilla glaze with pistachios on top. This is the first recipe I've made from this book but interested in trying more.

  • Logan92995 on May 01, 2023

    Very tasty cake! Very dark and rich, and the glaze ended up being a good choice as well. Interested in trying the other variations

  • hibeez on April 01, 2023

    This cake is delicious and easy! I used 1/3 black cocoa and it gave it a dark rich color and flavor. Dusted one with powdered sugar because I didn't have time to make the glaze; worked very well. Thought about throwing in a bit of espresso powder but not sure it needs it. Will try the rye variation next. Definitely a keeper. As with all the cakes in this book, I am more gentle when folding in the flour than is suggested; I think it makes a softer less dense crumb.

  • ldyndiuk on January 22, 2023

    Love this cake! I considered making the glaze, but then I started eating the cake before I got that far. It’s so dark and rich and was very easy to make with ingredients I had on hand. I’ll definitely make this one again.

  • LouiseQuasiChef on December 24, 2022

    I love this cake. I have made it several times for various parties/picnics and people swoon over it as if I worked hard (hardly!). I like it with the vanilla bean glaze variation, scattering some chocolate chips on top to show as a preview of chocolate underneath. A keeper. It may overtake my long-time easy fave chocolate cake of Gourmet/Epicurious Everyday Cocoa Cake which also wows people and offers solid chocolate satisfaction disproportionately to amount of baking effort. <3

  • rochkay on June 24, 2022

    One of my favorite cakes to bake. So easy to put together with a few pantry ingredients you probably already have on hand. I've eaten the cake both with and without the glaze, and it's delicious either way! (I've used black cocoa and milk chocolate chips).

  • et12 on March 26, 2022

    I really liked this cake. Very moist and chocolaty, easy to put together.

  • leilx on August 18, 2021

    This is a super-chocolate-y cake, very dark and rich. I don't think I would use black cocoa here, and maybe semi-sweet chips. It was super moist for me--almost more so than I prefer. I made it as a bundt. It turned out nice and was very easy to make.

  • AndieEats on July 05, 2021

    Baked as cupcakes for an outdoor get together, took about 15-16 minutes to cook through. Easy to throw together with pantry supplies, and was delightfully moist even after a night in the fridge. Subbed organic cacao powder (from Costco), and used the vanilla bean glaze option in the notes.

  • kari500 on February 15, 2021

    Like mzgourmand, I didn't love this cake either. I made it with the coffee glaze. I normally love the coffee/chocolate combination, but this didn't work for me. Maybe I don't love a glaze on a cake? Either bare or frosting? I don't think this is the issue, but maybe. It was better on day two, the cake a bit more moist, more chocolatey. I honestly found it slightly depressing on the first day, which I don't think I've ever said about a chocolate cake before. I thought maybe I'd done something wrong, so I'm interested seeing this previous negative review.

  • vickster on January 21, 2021

    Fulfills need for a quick chocolate cake. Moist, delicious and chocolatey!

  • mzgourmand on November 17, 2020

    We did not love this cake and normally at least two of us are serious chocolate fans. The flavors were too intense, and the combo of coocoa and chocolate chips in the cake and then cocoa powder in the glaze - it just felt like too much. It took my teenage son with a serious sweet tooth five days to work his way through a fairly small cake, even though that was the dessert offering for this week, to give one a sense of the rather unenthusiastic reception this cake got. To be fair, it may have been the intensity of the cocoa that I used, which was the cocoa rouge, red dutch-processed cocoa powder. And it may be that I simply prefer baking chocolate to cocoa-based recipes. I made my long-time favorite "Katherine Hepburn" brownies recently using cocoa instead of baking chocolate and didn't enjoy the brownies nearly as much. It's very subjuctive but I wouldn't make this again.

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