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😀🇺🇸🍫🍰☀️❗️ What's Your Favorite Chocolate Cake? (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 OP
ALL of them! mnhtnbb Jan 2020 #1
Mmmmm! 😋🍫🍰 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #3
Chocolate underpants Jan 2020 #2
😋🍫🍰 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #4
I found a recipe for buttermilk chocolate cake Phoenix61 Jan 2020 #5
Oh wow! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #6
My dad used to make a sour milk chocolate cake with caramel icing OriginalGeek Jan 2020 #10
The one I found is a Domino Sugar recipe. nt Phoenix61 Jan 2020 #11
are sour milk and butter milk the same thing? OriginalGeek Jan 2020 #13
I don't think so. Buttermilk was a by product Phoenix61 Jan 2020 #14
Pinterest is your friend. yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #17
any cake recipe with buttermilk is going to be good yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #16
Sacher torte frazzled Jan 2020 #7
Oh man! I'm a sucker for Sacher Torte! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #8
Devils Food Chocolate and German Chocolate irisblue Jan 2020 #9
Yum!😋 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #12
My mum's Aunt Francis' chocolate cake with oatmeal in it. From rural applegrove Jan 2020 #15
Mmmm! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #18
I like a moist and dense cake like yellowdogintexas Jan 2020 #19
That depends on how I feel, but I prefer something light sakabatou Jan 2020 #20
I make a cake from scratch (one of my mother's recipes) that is a very dark, yet light and moist smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #21
All of them. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #22
I quite like hedgehog cakes IcyPeas Jan 2020 #23
That is a work of art! smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #32
German Chocolate for me n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2020 #24
Please don't take this seriously, but SCantiGOP Jan 2020 #25
German chocolate blm Jan 2020 #26
My mom's Chocolate bourbon cake. JudyM Jan 2020 #27
My husband loves...LOVES MuseRider Jan 2020 #28
One I haven't had in about 40 years DFW Jan 2020 #29
The one in front of me Leith Jan 2020 #30
Chocolate cake with vanilla... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #31
long ago worked in a restaurant that was famous for it's flourless chocolate cake. mopinko Jan 2020 #33
3rd one from the left --looks like a mocha chocolate cake flibbitygiblets Jan 2020 #34
funny story: when I was pregnant with my only child, that's the only time I hated chocolate flibbitygiblets Jan 2020 #35

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)
5. I found a recipe for buttermilk chocolate cake
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 11:58 AM
Jan 2020

With cream cheese frosting. Haven’t tried it yet but looks to be a winner.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
10. My dad used to make a sour milk chocolate cake with caramel icing
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:21 PM
Jan 2020

but sadly, the recipe was lost ages ago. He made it for me on my birthday one year and I never wanted anything else. I know he got the recipe from one of his aunts but they are all long gone too so I'm resigned to just knowing his Super Bowl Crab Dip that I'll be having very soon.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
13. are sour milk and butter milk the same thing?
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:46 PM
Jan 2020

my dad always said sour milk but that should be the same thing right?

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)
14. I don't think so. Buttermilk was a by product
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:50 PM
Jan 2020

of making butter. Sour milk is just old milk that is starting to go bad.

yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
17. Pinterest is your friend.
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 05:49 PM
Jan 2020

you will lose yourself in all the possibilities but you might find it. There are a lot of chocolate cakes with salted caramel frosting or icing these days because salted caramel is so trendy.

Any good buttermilk chocolate cake will do the trick and there are lots of caramel frosting recipes.

yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
16. any cake recipe with buttermilk is going to be good
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 05:46 PM
Jan 2020

Italian Cream Cake and German's Chocolate Cake are both buttermilk cakes.

Biscuits, cornbread and pancakes are also better with buttermilk.

irisblue

(33,032 posts)
9. Devils Food Chocolate and German Chocolate
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:02 PM
Jan 2020

Church of Satan twitter recipe-works well-

enjoy this vegan devils food cake:

3 C Flour
2 TS Baking Soda
1 1/2 C Sugar
1 TS Salt
6 TBS Cocoa Powder

Mix, then add:

2 C Cold Water
2 TBS Apple Cider Vinegar
10 TBS Oil
4 TS Vanilla

Mix by hand.

Bake for 45 minutes in 9x13 UNGREASED pan at 350 F


This is a depression era recipe when milk, eggs and butter were too hard to get but bakers still wanted to make something delicious. It may just be the best chocolate cake you will ever taste.




yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
19. I like a moist and dense cake like
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 05:55 PM
Jan 2020

German chocolate and pound cake not Devil's Food style. The difference is the texture. Devil's Food is sort of honeycombed inside, and pound cake or German Chocolate have a very dense crumb They taste different too.

Yesterday I found a recipe called Blackout Cake. It has 1 1/2 CUPS of cocoa powder in the cake and another 1 1/2 cups in the frosting! It is a chocolate cream cheese frosting, and then you cover the cake in chocolate chips.

I have this awesome cocoa that I get at Costco - our Costco only stocks it from late October until they run out. So I stock up when it appears on the shelf. Except for expensive imported cocoa I have not found any that tastes as good as this.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. I make a cake from scratch (one of my mother's recipes) that is a very dark, yet light and moist
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 07:34 PM
Jan 2020

chocolate cake. It's not too sweet, but it's delicious. I usually frost it with real whipped cream, lightly sweetened or homemade butter cream frosting. I don't like anything too dense or too sweet. This cake is just perfect.

SCantiGOP

(13,873 posts)
25. Please don't take this seriously, but
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 10:57 PM
Jan 2020

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FREAKIN' MIND?

I was about to post "any kind except German chocolate." I really can't stand it, but regular chocolate cake is possibly my favorite food in the world. I have often said that a quarter of a freshly made chocolate cake and half a gallon of Bryers Vanilla would be the end of my last meal on death row.

Oh, well, to each his/her own.

MuseRider

(34,120 posts)
28. My husband loves...LOVES
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:59 AM
Jan 2020

Black Oil Cake so that is what I make most, or made before we both got old enough we could not eat much of it anymore. It was quick and easy and quite tasty!

Personally I like Chocolate Cake with cherrys. Mmmmmm

DFW

(54,437 posts)
29. One I haven't had in about 40 years
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 07:04 AM
Jan 2020

My grandmother used to make a chocolate cake with two layers of a not-too-sweet dark chocolate cake with a bittersweet/coffee flavored icing in and around it.

Best chococlate cake I ever had, bar none. I have no idea who ended up with the recipe, but I can almost still taste it now 40 years later. Never had anything like it before or since.

Distant second: Sprüngli "Orange" cake--light cake interior with tart orange icing in the middle with a dark bittersweet chocolate icing exterior. As far as I know, only sold at the Sprüngli shops in Switzerland.

3catwoman3

(24,051 posts)
31. Chocolate cake with vanilla...
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 07:48 PM
Jan 2020

...buttercream frosting.

I live way too close to a Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise, and their chocolate chocolate chip (not a typo - double choc) with vanilla buttercream/ cream cheese frosting is soooooooo delicious.

mopinko

(70,225 posts)
33. long ago worked in a restaurant that was famous for it's flourless chocolate cake.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:12 AM
Jan 2020

that was a new thing back then, and we sold boodles of them.
i loved it. so creamy and gooey.
no frosting, just a dollop of whipped cream. not really sweet, just chocolatey good.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
35. funny story: when I was pregnant with my only child, that's the only time I hated chocolate
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:47 AM
Jan 2020

and here's the really funny part: that child hates chocolate. I however, went right back to being a chocoholic.

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