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The BEST Chocolate Cake Recipe

This is the BEST chocolate cake recipe! It's fudgy, chocolatey, moist, and made completely from scratch! Be sure to check out the video!

Original recipe: sugarspunrun.com

Yield:
12 servings
Prep:
20 min
Cook:
40 min
Total:
60 min
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The BEST Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients

  1. 1 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
  2. 1 cup light brown sugar (firmly packed )
  3. 1 cup granulated sugar
  4. ¾ cup natural cocoa powder
  5. 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  6. ¾ teaspoon salt
  7. ½ cup unsalted butter (melted )
  8. ½ cup neutral cooking oil ((use avocado, canola, or vegetable oil))
  9. 2 large eggs + 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten (room temperature )
  10. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  11. 1 cup buttermilk
  12. ½ cup hot coffee or hot water
  13. 1 batch chocolate frosting (see note)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and prepare two 8" round cake pans by lining the bottoms with parchment paper and lightly greasing and flouring the sides. Set aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment) stir together flour, sugars, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt until well combined.
  3. Add melted butter and oil, stir well. Batter may be thick, this is fine, just stir until all of the dry ingredients are moistened.
  4. Add eggs, egg yolk, and vanilla extract and stir until well combined. Pause occasionally to scrape sides and bottom of bowl.
  5. Gradually add buttermilk and stir well.
  6. Add hot coffee or water, stirring carefully until ingredients are well-combined (be sure to scrape sides and bottom of bowl to ensure batter is uniform).
  7. Evenly divide batter between prepared pans. Transfer to center rack of 350F (175C) and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or with moist crumbs.
  8. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting onto cooling rack to cool completely before frosting with your favorite frosting (I recommend the one linked in the recipe above, or one of my favorites linked in the notes below!).