Simple Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake – Simple, Quick and Easy
Simple moist chocolate cake is the simplest, easiest and quickest chocolate cake you can make. All you need is two bowls and a whisk. Deliciously light and airy this cake is can be served with whipped cream for a light dessert or with chocolate frosting for a more indulgent affair.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
I love spending time baking so all my cakes are perfectly moist and incredible. And yet, sometimes, I love those quickies. Just throw something together and voila! you have a cake. Well, not literally like that but you know…… I think you get the idea.
This is a delicious chocolate cake. Very soft, moist and dark in color. I honestly didn’t know what to call it. Since it’s very easy to make and yet so moist I thought why not just call it Simple Moist Chocolate Cake.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
Baking a Cake from Scratch
Well, here is another addition to my baking from scratch series. By now you probably already know what that means but if you new to my blog and don’t know what I’m talking about?
It’s simple! I love baking from scratch and in an attempt to encourage everyone to bake from scratch I have come up with a few recipes that are more easy then you can ever imagine. Most of these use one bowl or in this case; this cake use two bowls but with the same concept. Simple, easy, quick and effortlessly baking a cake from scratch. I hope you all are enjoying these recipes. Free free to let me know in the comments below. I love feedback.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
Such a versatile cake
If you need a chocolate cake to decorate with fresh cream, like a strawberry and cream cake or a Black Forest Cake; use this simple moist chocolate cake as your base. I promise you, you will absolutely love it.
Dress it with Ganache and it’s a complete chocoholics feast.
However, please do not use this one to carve or for a novelty cake. It’s a nightmare! Way too soft and falls apart. So while it’s perfect for your dessert type cakes not so perfect for those carving adventures.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
RECIPE – Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
Tools:
- Bowls x 2
- Whisk
- Spatula
- Parchment Paper
- Two 8 inch cake pans
- Oven
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 300 grams ( 1 1/2) cups Sugar
- 220 grams (2 cups) All Purpose flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 85 grams ( 3/4 cup) Coco Powder
- Pinch of Salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2/3 cup (158 ml) Vegetable Oil
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) boiling water with 2 tsp instant Coffee
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) Milk
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Yogurt
- 2 large Eggs.
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Frosting
- 400 grams (14 oz) Dark Chocolate
- 250 ml (1 cup) Whipping Cream
- 50 grams (2 tbsp) – Butter
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 160 C / 320 F.
- Prepare your pans for baking – grease and line them
For the wet ingredients
- Start with the hot water and coffee, then add in the yogurt, milk, eggs, oil and Vanilla.
- Use a whisk to make sure the egg are well incorporated.
For the dry ingredients
- Use a bowl large enough for the final batter.
- Add the Flour, Sugar, Coco powder, baking soda and salt.
- Mix them well together with a whisk
Combine wet and dry
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients.
- Use a whisk to combine the two slowly so you have a smooth not lumpy batter.
- This is a very pouring cake batter.
- Pour the batter into your baking pans.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 160 C / 320 F for about 25 to 30 mins
Prepare and Pipe Ganache
- Melt chocolate cream and butter in a microwave safe bowl for a minute or more until melted and well combined
- Cover and let cool for a few hours or over night.
- Mix well to combine and bring to peanut butter consistency.
- Place frosting in a frosting back with a star tip and have fun piping around the cake.
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Simple Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
Recipe Card – Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Yield 8 servings
Simple moist chocolate cake is the simplest, easiest and quickest chocolate cake you can make. All you need is two bowls and a whisk. Deliciously light and airy this cake is can be served with whipped cream for a light dessert or with chocolate frosting for a more indulgent affair.
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 300 grams ( 1 1/2) cups Sugar
- 220 grams (2 cups) All Purpose flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 85 grams ( 3/4 cup) Coco Powder
- Pinch of Salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2/3 cup (158 ml) Vegetable Oil
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) boiling water with 2 tsp instant Coffee
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) Milk
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Yogurt
- 2 large Eggs.
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Frosting
- 400 grams (14 oz) Dark Chocolate
- 250 ml (1 cup) Whipping Cream
- 50 grams (2 tbsp) - Butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160 C / 320 F.
- Prepare your pans for baking - grease and line them
For the wet ingredients
- Start with the hot water and coffee, then add in the yogurt, milk, eggs, oil and Vanilla.
- Use a whisk to make sure the egg are well incorporated.
For the dry ingredients
- Use a bowl large enough for the final batter.
- Add the Flour, Sugar, Coco powder, baking soda and salt.
- Mix them well together with a whisk
Combine wet and dry
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients.
- Use a whisk to combine the two slowly so you have a smooth not lumpy batter.
- This is a very pouring cake batter.
- Pour the batter into your baking pans.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 160 C / 320 F for about 25 to 30 mins
Prepare and Pipe Ganache
- Melt chocolate cream and butter in a microwave safe bowl for a minute or more until melted and well combined
- Cover and let cool for a few hours or over night.
- Mix well to combine and bring to peanut butter consistency.
- Place frosting in a frosting back with a star tip and have fun piping around the cake.
Courses Dessert
Cuisine American
This cake is delicious with Buttercream. You can covered it with fondant for a single tier cake. It’s quite a delicate cake so I wouldn’t use it in tier cake unless it is the top tier.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake
I make this often mostly as quick desserts to take to family. Often I will make small little cakes and give them away as gifts to people I need to treat.
Simple Moist Chocolate Cake – Baking from Scratch Series
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Hi veena mam
My fondant flowers and articles get very sticky what should i add so that it get hard
Sounds like you are in a high humid area. Are you using gumpaste? It’s best to use gumpaste and may be a little extra cmc.
Mam plz share eggless reciepe of this cake
Hi veena
I give this cake 5 stars i did it as a blackforest it came out very yummy for me i ve found the best blackforest cake
Thank you so much Faiza! So happy to hear that you are enjoying my recipes.
i have just put this in the oven,i reckon this is going to be a beautiful cake.veenas cake is so very moist and ruich looking.peeps if you make this cake but add or remove and substitute items please do not expect the cake to be the exact same as veenas ok.she has put up the method and all that goes into it and some others just like to say can i replace with this n that?come on guys ,if you do other stuff to it then you are not following the recipie properly,dont expect it to be the same and then winge its no good.respect veena xxox
Thank you Michele <3 Appreciate the support
Hi veena i love ur recipies
Thank you !
Hi Veena I tried your recipe, but the cake didn’t risen well, could it be because I only use a hand-mixer? It’s delicious thought but it’s like a big brownie.
NO a hand mixer is fine!! I sometimes do not use a mixer at all. It’s a cake I call fuss free because it’s so easy and require not much effort.
Mam ur site a simply super , a true guideline .. Actually Im not not able to get A mirror glaze with chocolate ganache …Tips plz l
I think you are looking for this <3 http://www.ahomemadechef.net/chocolate-ganache-chocolate-cake/
Hi Veena! Thank you for posting all these useful informations. Can I please have the ingredients for the moist chocolate cake for many tiers? Cause I can’t find the pdf you are referring to above!
Thank you in advance!
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Hey veena mam.. Which ingredient make cake spongy n soft?? N i would also love 2 know which ingredient v can add instead of egg to get goid result plzz rpl me.. As soon as possible….
Veena excellent
Hi Veena you are the best love all your recipies
Hi!
I Want to do this recipie but i want to know if i have to use unsweet Cocoa or semi sweet Cocoa?
Another question, is this cake firm enough to decorate with fondant?
I want to thank you, because ive learned so much from you!
Greetings from Guatemala!
I used unsweetened cocoa for baking cakes. And yes I have covered this cake in fondant
Hi Veena,
This cake is called chocolate mud cake if m not wrong…correct me please…I want to try dis one..but it does not have baking powder..have u forgot to put dat or it just doesn’t have? Also when u say use a whisk..is it a hand whisk which comes with springs in the tool or we have to whisk in d mixer..please reply about my white fondant also..it is very sweet and I had not put meringue powder.. Used butter in place of shortening and halved the measurements.. It is easy to play with but tastewise sweet :(..I mean very very sweet..and also the glycerin which I got here is different from yours..it has a consistency lil denser den aloe Vera gel..but it’s not liquid as urs..u r a great artist as well… Went through lots of pages yest..
Thanks from India,
Mru..
Hi Mru.
This is not a chocolate mud cake – much lighter. Please follow the recipe exactly as it says.
No I have not forgotten the baking powder. You can use a mixer or a hand whisk.
I did reply to your fondant question please check the reply to your previous comment.
As long as your glycerin is edible it’s ok – you do get non edible glycerine as well.
Thanks
Hi Veena, I would like to bake a single tall cake like yours (in my 28 LITRES OTG) instead of two cakes. Bit worried if the center will be cooked properly. Pls help.
Hi Veena, is it ok to use self raising flour instead of all purpose flour. And would I need to use baking powder if still using self raising flour?
I tried but my cake came out dry. No one likes it. 🙁 Where have I gone wrong?
Simply the best chocolate cake I have ever made! Thank you so much for sharing. Everybody should try this
Any substitute for egg
Looks delicious. .have you ever made cupcakes with this recipe? ? Thanks
Hai veena,
Tried this . Successfully done. Finished wid choklate ganache and fresh cherries. Becos I’m following good experienced teacher know? Thank u mam I send u picture in fb
Thank you so much !