Chocolate Cake Recipe
About This Chocolate Cake Recipe
If you want to make a homemade chocolate cake from scratch, this is a simple, yet easy recipe to make. You are certain to enjoy this chocolate cake recipe.
Today’s Quote: “I’m grateful for every day I’m still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it’s the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.” – – Joan Rivers
Chocolate Cake Ingredients
3/4 cups butter or margarine, softened
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup milk
How to Make Chocolate Cake Directions
How to make Chocolate Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Grease and flour three 6″ X 1 1/2″ round cake pans.
- Mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat butter, eggs, and vanilla.
- Gradually add sugar.
- Beat on medium to high speed for about 3-4 minutes until well mixed.
- Alternately combine in flour mixture and milk with the batter while beating.
- Continue to beat until the batter is smooth.
- Pour equal amounts of batter into greased and floured round cake pans.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Check with a toothpick to see if it is done. Bake a few minutes more, if needed.
- Remove from oven and allow cakes to cool in pans for a few minutes.
- Place cakes on a wire rack, to them allow to completely cool.
Frosting Cakes:
- If you want to make your own frosting, see How to make Chocolate Frosting
- Place one round cake on a cake plate.
- Spread frosting on top.
- Repeat this for the third cake.
- Frost the top of the third cake.
- Frost the side of the cake.
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