The perfect chocolate cake has just the right amount of that chocolate-ness and fudge icing. I often bake this cake during birthday celebrations. Sometimes my relatives order this cake but I avoid baking for profit. I bake out of love.
Here I will share the cake recipe and the fudge icing.
The Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Mix A- Mix below
1 cup Hershey’s Cocoa
2 cups Boiling wanter
(mix the above till smooth then cool)
Mix B- Mix well in plastic
2 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare the rest of the ingredients below
1 cup butter, softened
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
4 pieces eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Procedure
1. Cream butter; add sugar gradually. (Make sure butter is soft when starting to cream). Cream till light and fluffy.
2. At low speed, add eggs, one piece at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla.
3. Add Mix B in fourths and Mix A in thirds alternately, ending with Mix B.
4. Bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes in two or three 9″ round layer pans. Cool 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire rack.
5. Add fudge icing (see recipe below) to the top of one layer then combine the two layers to ice the whole cake.
The Fudge Icing
Ingredients
1 can condensed mik
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 cup butter
1. Mix milk and cocoa with wire whisk or wooden spoon until smooth. Strain through a wire strainer.
2. Cook mixture in double boiler. Stir occasionally- when thick, remove from fire and add butter thoroughly.
3. Add desired flavor.
4. Use this icing right away. Keep bowl in double boiler to maintain warmth.
Other notes
1. You can decrease the cocoa down to 1/3 cup.
2. Icing starts getting thick when you see thick icing clinging to the sides of the bowl. Continually scrape sides of bowl until icing becomes very thick.
3. Do not over cook or else you will have a fudge candy.
Sarah Galicia said
January 6 2008 @ 10:08 pm
Really the PERFECT CHOCOLATE CAKE recipe i have ever tested. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for sharing this very good recipe of yours. My son Ahmad love it so much. He even helped me prepared it…very easy to follow instructions. Hoping you can share more great recipes……..
More power to you and may GOD bless you always.
noemi said
January 6 2008 @ 10:16 pm
@sarah- i am glad the recipe worked for you. Yes, I will write more recipes that I have personally tested.
Sarah said
January 6 2008 @ 10:19 pm
Thank you so much…I’ll be waiting for your great ideas.
Tina said
January 7 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Thanks for this Noemi! I’ve been planning to bake a double layer chocolate cake this year and this might be the one cake recipe that will make me do just that.
I’ll make sure to try this out. 
Connie said
February 9 2008 @ 4:17 pm
I made this cake & it was a bit bitter but I think it has something to do with the cocoa I used but it was beautiful… Love it!!!
I hope you post more recipes. Do you have ube recipe cake?
noemi said
February 9 2008 @ 6:27 pm
@connie- did you use Hershey’s?
ky said
May 9 2008 @ 6:46 am
i tried this recipe and i loved it! especially the icing! it tastes just like goldilock’s…maybe even better! the cake itself was a little dry (according to my dad & sis) but i could always add more butter i guess….i also recommend doubling the recipe for icing to cover a double layer cake…thanks for the recipe again!
Melody said
May 12 2008 @ 11:29 am
hi Noami!
I try to bake my first cake yesterday using your recipe, the taste is great, my mom love it, i use the chocolate lover cocoa, it turns out neat. the problem i had was my cake wasn’t that fine. I already mix it for like 30mins. what should i do? any tips? thanks your recipe is a success! hope you’ll write more cake recipe soon!
honey said
July 29 2008 @ 4:50 pm
im actually into baking ryt now and i would like to try this chocolate cake recipe of yours! m sure this wud be great!