Need a chocolate cake recipe

[MikeMike]

ok so my plan for my GF's bday is lobster, some candles for dinner, and what not, i still need to find her present, but she loves chocolate, and really wants a chocolate cake, so i need to bake one of them too.

any good recipes from experience?

 

[Phlargo]

Allrecipies.com
epicurious.com


I've found the reviews there are pretty good and if lots of people liked it and would make it again, it's usually pretty nice.

enjoy.

 

[everman]

foodtv.com
Cake > Boston Cream Pie > Pie

Oh and you might want to consider something like chocolate creme brule. There's also this super rich chocolate desert I've made called chocolate fondant, and sometimes called other things like chocolate lava I think. It will shorten your life by a few months, by the bite.

 

[MrBond]

In one of the Alton Brown cookbooks, he has a recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cake. It's awesome - tastes just like a Hostess cupcake.

This is a similar recipe.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,176,146188-227198,00.html

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: MrBond
In one of the Alton Brown cookbooks, he has a recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cake. It's awesome - tastes just like a Hostess cupcake.

This is a similar recipe.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,176,146188-227198,00.html

Hostess cupcakes are cheap crap...why spend time making something that tastes just like them?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: MrBond
In one of the Alton Brown cookbooks, he has a recipe for Chocolate Fudge Cake. It's awesome - tastes just like a Hostess cupcake.

This is a similar recipe.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,176,146188-227198,00.html

Hostess cupcakes are cheap crap...why spend time making something that tastes just like them?

i actually made the cake the other day at it was quite good.

 

[shortylickens]

Cant you just read it off the back of the box?

 

[SampSon]

Look on the back of the cake mix box.
Or ask your mother, she is a very useful resource when it comes to this sort of thing.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: everman
foodtv.com
Cake > Boston Cream Pie > Pie

Oh and you might want to consider something like chocolate creme brule. There's also this super rich chocolate desert I've made called chocolate fondant, and sometimes called other things like chocolate lava I think. It will shorten your life by a few months, by the bite.

I disagree. Pie and cake are both very good, depends on your mood.

Don't use a cake mix...it means more if you bake from scratch, and really isn't very hard at all.

 

[Squisher]

Betty Crocker has the best one I've ever done, you use buttermilk in the recipe.

Link, but I don't use that frosting

I use the one from this cake

 

[shopbruin]

how good of a baker are you? you could just buy the mix and just decorate it really nicely for her if you can't bake well or don't want to go get a million ingredients.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: freesia39
how good of a baker are you? you could just buy the mix and just decorate it really nicely for her if you can't bake well or don't want to go get a million ingredients.

i consider myself "good" in the kitchen.


i would LOVE to have a full on kitchen and just cook, if i had that, i think i could be "damn good".

i think in total this weekend is gunna cost like $70 for food, o well, more food than going out to dinner for that amount.

SampSon, my mom happens to be 6.5 hours away, and never really had a chocolate cake she made, Eclair Cake, and Jewish Coffee Cake, were her 2 best cakes.

 

[MikeMike]

up

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: jagec
Don't use a cake mix...it means more if you bake from scratch, and really isn't very hard at all.

Rachael Ray calls this "using your resources." Sure, you can measure out all the dry ingredients yourself. Or you can buy them pre-measured in a box. It's not like when you bake a cake "from scratch" in the 21st century it somehow implies that you ground the wheat and churned the butter by hand

 

[MikeMike]

http://cake.allrecipes.com/az/HrshysTMPrfctlyChcltChcltC.asp

think im gunna try that one, just have to purchase the 2 pans, and the ingredients.

 

[ultimatebob]

How did it turn out? I hope that it came out better than mine... I did a Betty Crocker boxed cake for kicks, and it turned out lopsided Still tasty, though!