1 Jan 2015

Hershey's Chocolate Cake

What better way to ring in the New Year than a perfect chocolate cake! This is one of the best chocolate cakes out there, it's Hershey's Perfectly Perfect Chocolate Cake! I baked this cake for my son's birthday party, we had a total of 3 small parties and for the first party, I made an eggless strawberry mousse cake and for the second party, I baked this cake.


Hershey's Chocolate Cake


This cake is so moist and so delicious and so rich! The kids who came for the party and the families who had this cake, enjoyed it very much. This cake is very similar to another chocolate cake in my blog, that's the Best Ever Chocolate Cake recipe except, that recipe uses buttermilk and coffee and this recipe uses only milk and no coffee.


Hershey's Chocolate Cake


HERSHEY'S CHOCOLATE CAKE
Preparation time - 15mins | Baking time - 35 mins | Serves - about 10 slices

Ingredients
  • All purpose flour (maida) - 1 and 3/4 cup
  • Hershey's cocoa - 3/4 cup
  • Sugar - 2 cups
  • Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
  • Baking soda - 1.5 tsp
  • Salt - 1 tsp
  • Eggs - 2 (replace with 1/2 cup thick beaten yogurt for eggless version)
  • Milk - 1 cup
  • Oil - 1/2 cup
  • Vanilla extract - 2 tsp
  • Boiling water - 1 cup
Hershey's Chocolate Cake

Method
1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and line two 8" or 9" pans.


2. In a bowl, add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat until light and frothy. Add the sugar and beat again.
3. Add the oil and beat again, add milk and beat again.


4. Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Or pre sift and add.
5. Add the hot boiling water and fold everything together.


6. Pour into prepared pans and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.


7. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then remove from pan and cool completely.

I frosted the cake with ganache. Here's a post on how to make ganache.

Hershey's Chocolate Cake

Notes
1. I used granulated sugar but powdered it before adding to the vbatter.
2. I did not bake in 2 pans, I baked in one 10" pan.
3. Grease the pan well.
4. Do not over mix the batter.

Happy New Year folks! Wishing you all a blessed 2015!!


Until next time,
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22 comments:

  1. Rich and delicious looking chocolate cake, looks yummy..

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  2. Woooww!!!happy new year !! The cake is so rich,soft and moist!! I am def gonna try it soon!

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  3. Looks super delicious! I'm sure it tasted great too!

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  4. can i use dream whip to frost

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  5. or can i use kdd liquid cream to frost a cake...i want like yrs...perfect it is...just wowww

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    1. I'm not sure what kdd is but yes, you can use any of your favorite frosting - ganache, whipped cream, buttercream - anything.

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  6. wow..yummy chocolaty,wish I could have a slice ..Happy New Year to u n family :)

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  7. the cake carries such a royal look dear!!! Love it..

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  8. Beautiful cake and love the deco.

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  9. beautiful cake, would love to give it a try...

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  10. Beautiful Cake, loved the texture and decor.

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  11. Beautiful and delicious cake..... Love to have this at any time.... :)

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  12. O my goodness cake is looking is so moist soft and perfect.. thumbs up gal

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  13. Hello mam can i bake dis cake one by one because i have small oven and only one cake pan i am having.. if yes then while baking one cake can i kept another one batter in kitchen counter only or shold refridgerate plz mam plz help me on these

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    1. Generally, if a recipe has baking soda, it starts reacting once the batter is mixed and it's not a wise idea to keep it out for long. It should be baked immediately. You can halve the recipe and bake it in your small pan, the timings will be less though.

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    1. Beulah, I have been following your posts and have baked a couple of cakes based on your recipes. I must say this is one of the best cakes I have tasted.. so moist and rich. My family loves this cake and I have baked this couple of times now. I have been baking a lot these days based on the recipies posted here and have now developed a new found interest towards baking. Look forward to more wonderful recipes. Thanks a ton for this amazing recipie.

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    2. Hi, thank you so much for your feedback! Glad you like my recipes :)
      And thanks a lot for taking the time to write back!

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  15. Beulah , thanks for the lovely re ipes ...I had tried many recipes and it turned out well ....want to try this chocolate cake.
    Can this cake be used under fondant?TIA

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    1. Hi Vanditha, thank you so much for the feedback! This cake is quite a soft and moist cake since we use oil. I'm not sure if it will hold well under fondant.

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