What is the BEST "tried and true" chocolate cake recipe?

Question

Please tell me! The recipe, method, and a story about why it’s so great. I want to make a cake for someone special.

Answer 1

$100 Chocolate Cake

2 cups sugar
1 stk. Butter
1 sm. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 egg
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups cake flour
Pinch of salt
1¼ cups milk
1 t vanilla
1½ t baking powder

Cream together sugar and butter. Melt choc. chips and add to above mixture. Add 1 egg beating well. Mix flour with salt and baking powder. Add flour and milk alternately into egg mixture. Stir in vanilla and pecans. Grease tube pan, line with greased brown paper. Bake at 350° for 1 hr.

Icing:
2 squares choc. melted
1⅓ cup powdered sugar
1 stk. Oleo
1 egg
1 t lemon juice
Pinch of salt
1 cup pecans

Beat oleo with sugar, add melted choc. Add other ingredients. Spread on cake when cake cools.

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German Chocolate Cake

1 pkg (4 oz.) German sweet chocolate
½ cup boiling water
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or oleo
½ t salt
2 cups sugar
1 t soda
4 egg yolks
1 cup buttermilk
1 t vanilla
4 egg whites, beaten
2½ cups sifted cake flour

Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cream butter and sugar. Add yolks, one at a time beating well. Blend in vanilla and chocolate. Sift flour with soda and salt, add alternately with buttermilk into chocolate mixture, beating until smooth. Fold in beaten egg whites. Pour into 3 8” or 9” layer pans. Bake at 350° for 30 – 40 minutes. Cool.

Answer 2

scrumptious Chocolate Cake: a million¼ hours 20 min prep 8-10 servings 3/4 cup butter, softened a million/2 cup caster sugar 9 oz. dark semi-candy chocolate, melted 2 cups floor almonds 4 eggs, separated 4 oz. white chocolate, melted,to beautify a million. Preheat oven to 350F levels. 2. Grease a deep 8 inch springform cake tin, then line the backside with greaseproof paper and grease the paper. 3. place a million/2 a cup of the butter and all of the sugar in a blending bowl and beat till gentle and fluffy. 4. upload 2-thirds of the dark chocolate, the floor almonds and the egg yolks and beat till they are flippantly mixed. 5. Whisk the egg whites in a sparkling, dry bowl till stiff. 6. Fold them into the chocolate blend, then circulate to the arranged tin and gentle the floor. 7. Bake for fifty-fifty 5 minutes or till a skewer inserted comes out sparkling. 8. depart the cake in the tin for variety of five minutes, then prove on a twine rack, peel off the liner paper and depart to kick back thoroughly. 9. place final butter and final melted dark chocolate in a saucepan. 10. warmth very gently, stirring continuously, till melted. 11. Pour over the cake, allowing the topping to coat the facets. 12. depart to set for a minimum of an hour. 13. to beautify, fill a piping bag with the white melted chocolate and snip the tip. 14. Drizzle all over the perimeters to make a squiggly double border.

Answer 3

So delicious, everybody asks for the recipe!

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

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Answer 5

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