One Chocolate Cake Recipe Many Different Flavors
One Chocolate Cake Recipe with many different flavors is an absolute winning recipe. Just one recipe & you can create six different flavors with simple addition or subtraction. It’s a great place to start when you think baking a cake from scratch is overwhelming.
Have you ever wanted to try different flavors? Of course, you have! We all do!
But most of us go looking for a new recipe every time we need to try a new flavor. And of course; if you are like me then you will try a few recipes before you actually settle for one.
The power of experiments
I love chocolate cake very much and I love variations in chocolate cake. I often will start making the cake and then go scan the fridge or pantry to look for what variations I can try today. All those little experiments have led to this one chocolate cake recipe with many different flavors.
This is how my mom taught me as a kid. She thought me what recipes must have ingredients are and what are the ingredients you can play with and how you can tweak twist add or subtract. Baking in the kitchen with mom was my favorite as a kid. She’d make it so much fun by letting us leap to success or failures and still showing us that the most important was to have fun baking and learning.
Calculated Recipe collection
No!! this is not the same as the calculated recipes in my online shop. I have similar flavors there too but those are my premium recipes. Please do not come back to me complaining that I am giving the same recipe for free. I repeat those are my premium recipes and calculated for the benefit of cake decorators like me. This is a basic recipe that is absolutely delicious and very easy to use and I use it for family and friends all the time.
- Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl. Sift well.
- Add fruit to dry ingredients.
- Mix wet ingredients in a second bowl.
- Combine the dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
- Pour into baking pans
- Bake in preheated oven @ 160 C / 320 F for 30 to 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes clean.
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How to use this recipe
So how do you use this recipe? Well, it is as simple as it looks. You take the common ingredients first. Choose the ingredients for the flavor you want and add that in too.
Let’s say you want to make a chocolate strawberry cake. You would take the common ingredients and the ingredients listed on the chocolate strawberry cake. Now do as directed in the recipe card instructions. That’s it!!
One Chocolate Cake Recipe Many Different Flavors
One Chocolate Cake Recipe many with different flavors is an absolute winning recipe. Just one recipe & you can create six different flavors with simple addition or subtraction
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup (220 g) All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup (86 g) Cocoa Powder
- 1 ½ cup (300 g) Sugar
- 1 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1 ½ tsp. Baking Soda
- ¾ cup (180 ml) Vegetable Oil
- 3 Eggs large
- 1 Tsp. Vanilla extract
- ½ cup (120 ml) Boiling Water (1/2 cups)
- 1 tsp. Strawberry extract
- ½ cup (120 ml) Chopped Strawberry
- ½ cup (120 ml) Buttermilk additional
- 2 tbsp. Espresso Powder
- ½ cup (120 ml) Buttermilk additional
- 1 tsp. Orange extract
- ½ cup (120 ml) Orange Juice
- 1 tbsp. Orange Liquor optional
- 2 tbsp. Cherry Liquor
- ½ cup (120 ml) Chopped Cherries
- ½ cup (120 ml) Boiling water or buttermilk
- 2 tsp. Mint extract
- ½ cup (120 ml ) Buttermilk
- 1 tsp. Raspberry extract
- 1 tbsp. Raspberry liquor optional
- ½ cup (120 ml) chopped Raspberry
- ½ cup (120 ml) Buttermilk
Method
- Preheat oven 160 C / 320 F
- Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl. Sift well.
- Add fruit to dry ingredients.
- Mix wet ingredients in a second bowl.
- Combine the dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
- Pour into baking pans
- Bake in preheated oven 30 to 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes clean.
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Hi Veena! Thank you for sharing your recipe.Tried it for the first time but my cake did not rise properly. I followed the procedure completely. I’ve used dutch processed dark cocoa powder.Does it affect the rising of the cake? Hoping for your reply.Thanks.
Hi Linda. Not sure why hun. Check your baking powder and soda? I use this recipe a lot and have many use it successfully.
Sorry it did not work for you <3
Hi …I have been following u fr long.
Can u pls suggest me what can best replace eggs in cake.
Condensed milk I have tried.
Something other than that?
Hi! Ms. Veena can this cake be used under fondant? hoping for your reply. thanks!
Hi! Ms. Veena can this cake be used under fondant? hoping for your reply. thanks!
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Veena,my angel in disguise.God bless d work of your because you are my mentor,teacher and hero.i have learnt so many things through u.please keep it up.
Thank you so much Tosin!! Appreciate you taking the time to write such kind words. Thank you !!
Hi Veena. Is this cake firm enough to withstand fondant?
Hi Veena, when you say tsp. of coffee. Is that instant coffee?
Hi Veena…in your chocolate cake recipe, you say 4 eggs separated, but in the method, there is no mention whether I add egg yolks or egg whites. I read egg whites to make your cake fluffier so does this mean egg yolks go into the batter?