For some reason, it’s hard for me to land on the perfect chocolate cake. Everyone and their mother’s mother says, “this is the best chocolate cake ever — you’re never going to need another recipe.”
I’m going to spoil the ending: these aren’t it for me.
I just find that every chocolate cake recipe on the Internet isn’t actually chocolate-y. What you’re tasting is the chocolate frosting that’s paired with the recipe.
At least that’s my experience.
But, I’m sharing them anyways because maybe they’re for you? They are for a lot of other people. 🤷🏻♀️
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Scientifically Sweet Chocolate Cake
This recipe makes 8 mini loaves.
Ingredients
- 180.00g Hot Coffee
- 187.50g AP Flour
- 42.00g Dutch Cocoa
- 3.60g Baking Soda
- 3.60g Baking Powder
- 150.00g Granulated Sugar
- 82.50g Brown Sugar
- 135.00g Sour Cream (room temp)
- 90.00g Canola Oil
- 75.00g Eggs (room temp)
- 5.00g Salt
Method
- Follow instructions here.
- Bake for 23-26 minutes.
My Verdict
Not chocolate-y enough.
Sugarologie Chocolate Cake
This recipe makes 8 mini loaves.
Ingredients
- 135.00g Hot Coffee
- 48.38g Dutch Cocoa
- 179.63g Brown Sugar
- 37.50g Granulated Sugar
- 75.00g Canola Oil
- 3.50g Salt
- 75.00g Eggs (room temp)
- 90.00g AP Flour
- 5.40g Baking Powder
Method
- Follow instructions here.
- Bake for 27-31 minutes.
My Verdict
Tasted like cheap grocery store cake. Something about it was too simple in an unrefined way.
The Diane Collective Chocolate Cake?
I tried a hybrid chocolate cake where I increased the cocoa levels of Scientifically Sweet Chocolate Cake to match the ratio in the Sugarologie Chocolate Cake.
Weirdly, the chocolate flavor almost evaporated from my taste buds as soon as I started chewing.
In retrospect, I should have increased the sugar along with the Dutch cocoa, but I already deleted the recipe.
It’s not worth sharing.
Who wins the chocolate cake-off?
No one. I don’t even win LOL
But, sometimes that’s how baking goes. Sometimes, things don’t hit even if they should.
While there is nothing chemically wrong with their recipes and are arguably perfect, it all comes down to taste and these aren’t to mine.
But wait — there’s more!
I did go back to my mini chocolate cake by Brooki Bakehouse review where I said I didn’t think I landed on the perfect chocolate cake with it, but I did note that I loved the flavor — just not the texture.
So, I lowered the amount of leveaners in my Chocolate Cake Spreadsheet.
A new blog post on Chocolate Hostess Cake Bars will debut it but I have it ready in the Recipe Library already!
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