Chocolate layer/bundt cake recipes. Who has the best one?

Question

I'm looking for a good chocolate recipe. It can be a 2 layer cake or a bundt cake. All the "real" recipes I've seen for them have self-rising flour or distilled white vinegar, both of which I don't have. I say real because on allrecipes.com people get away with posting recipes that use ready made cake, brownie or pudding mixes. If you're going to bake, at least go the whole 9 yards...

I'll be making the frosting myself, I've got an excellent recipe for that. Thanks in advance :-)

Caitlin...."real" recipes. No boxed stuff. I buy and make those when I'm feeling lazy...

Answer 1

http://www.cacaoweb.net/chocolatecakes.html has great recipes, but they're set up as graphics, so I can't paste them in here. Death by Chocolate looks divine.

here's one from That's My Home:
Chocolate Fudge Cake

Measure into bowl:
1-1/2 cup sifted cake flour
1-1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
3 squares melted unsweetened baking chocolate
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, unbeaten

Beat 2 minutes, low speed.

Add additional 1/2 cup milk.

Beat 2 more minutes.

Pour into greased and floured pan 9 x 13-inch cake pan.

Bake at 375 F for about 25 minutes.

Answer 2

3's Chocolate Cream Cheese Bundt a la Michel

Grease and flour a large bundt pan with Pam butter spray and cocoa instead of flour

Preheat oven to 350F

Sift:

3 cups of all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
put aside

Have on hand 1.5 cups pecan or walnut bits
1 teaspoon good vanilla extract




3 - 8 oz packages Philly cream cheese (not the low fat use regular)
3 sticks of butter
3 cups of sugar
Cream the butter and the sugar then add the cream cheese and keep creaming

Add 6 large eggs one at a time beating between each egg

Add the sifted ingredients slowly beating as you add.

Add Vanilla
Fold in nuts

Put pan in oven and cook for 20 mins on 350 then turn the heat down to 325 for about and hour more.

Take out unmold: Heaven

I have to make this cake once a week without the chocolate because my husband loves it as a butter cake.

Answer 3

So delicious, everybody asks for the recipe!

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

"Mayonnaise makes this cake nice and moist."
Original recipe yield: 2 -8 or 9 inch layers.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup water
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8 or 9 inch round cake pans.
Sift all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and cocoa together.
Whip mayonnaise, white sugar, cold water, and vanilla together until mixed thoroughly. Add flour mixture slowly and beat at medium speed of an electric mixer for 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes. Frost with your favorite frosting.

Answer 4

I have a recipe for a chocolate bundt cake that it super moist and yummy....here it is:
3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (can use milk chocolate or a combo of the two).
3/4 c canola oil
1 c sugar
1 egg
2 c all-purpose flour
1/2 c cocoa powder (Ghirardelli makes a great one!)
1 T baking soda
3/4 t salt
1 c strong-brewed coffee
1 c buttermilk

1) Preheat oven to 350' and spray bundt pan w/ nonstick spray (or whatever you normally use).

2) In small saucepan melt 3 ounces of the chopped chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. Scrape into a med-sized bowl and whisk in oil and sugar until smooth. Then whisk in the egg.

3) In a small bowl whisk flour, cocoa, bkg soda and salt. Add half the dry ingredients to the chocolate mixture along w/ 1/2 the coffee & 1/2 the buttermilk. Whisk until smooth.

4) Add the remaining dry ingredients and the rest of the coffee and buttermilk. Whisk until smooth.

5) Pour the batter into a prepared bundt pan and bake in the lower third of the oven for about 45 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted in the cake come out w/ out a few moist crumbs on it).

6) Let cake cool IN THE BUNDT PAN on a rack for 10 minutes, then turnit out and let it cool completely before icing it.

7) ENJOY :)

Answer 5

OK here's a recipe no guaranties as to the quality
Chocolate Pound Cake
2 sticks margarine
2 c. sugar
3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 c. cocoa
1 c. milk
5 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream margarine and sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating well. Add vanilla. Bake in a well greased and floured loaf pan for 75 minutes at 325 degrees.

Answer 6

get the betty crocker super moist hershey dutch cocoa cake mix
and on the back of the box it tells you the other ingredients you'll need