FOOD
Best Ever Chocolate Fudge Cake
The only go-to chocolate cake recipe you'll ever need! 🍫🙌
FOOD
Best Ever Chocolate Fudge Cake
The only go-to chocolate cake recipe you'll ever need! 🍫🙌
Ingredients
Cake
- 4 cups flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 1/3 cups unsalted butter
- 2 1/4 cups brown sugar
- 1 1/4 cups stout
Fudge Frosting
- 12 ounces dark chocolate
- 2 1/4 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
Steps
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter and line three 9-inch cake pans.
- Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large mixing bowl, and mix together.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, buttermilk and mayonnaise together.
- Put the butter into a saucepan and let it melt, then add the brown sugar. Stir until it’s mostly dissolved, then take off the heat and add in the stout.
- Pour the sugar mixture into the dry ingredients and mix, then add in the egg mixture.
- Mix until just combined then divide between the three prepared pans.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
- Let the cakes cool in their pans for 15 minutes then transfer them to a wire rack to cool fully.
Fudge Frosting
- Finely chop the chocolate then put it in a large bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Don’t let the bowl touch the water.
- Once melted, set aside for 15 minutes or until almost at room temperature.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter, powdered sugar and vanilla paste.
- Cream together with a wooden spoon.
- Slowly add the cooled melted chocolate while mixing with a hand mixer.
- Use one-fourth of the frosting to sandwich the first two layers together, making sure you ice right up to the edge.
- Use the same amount to sandwich the third layer on top, then use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake.
- Smooth over with a spatula or palette knife.