The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe {Ever}

Super chocolate flavor, not super sweet and compliments sweeter frosting

A lot a firsts for me. 1. First time making a cake from scratch 2. First time making butter cream frosting 3. First time decorating a cake

- 1.5 cups sugar enough to still be sweet - 1.5 cups of whipping cream is enough - Put a lot of cream in between the layers

Absolutely LOVE this chocolate cake recipe! It's not only easy to make but super delicious and moist. My husband doesn't like sweet treats, so I reduced sugar by 1 cup, and it's perfect.

This was absolutely, surprisingly, the very best chocolate cake I've ever eaten, let alone made, EVER! I say surprisingly because of how easy it was to make!

I swapped my sugar for coconut sugar and reduced to half a cup. It was still plenty moist and sweet without being excessively so.

One of the best for sure

Would absolutely make again. Made it as is and it came out amazingly.

So yummy! 1/2 batch makes 12 muffins plus mini heart cake

I really enjoyed it, as did my son and the people I work with. My wife wasn't a big fan and probably wouldn't have it again.

Really Is the best chocolate cake ever!

Extremely moist chocolate cake recipe. I used it in another format, to make my chocolate pudding recipe and it was beyond indulgent.

This is going to be my go to chocolate cake. I had some batter left over so I made cupcakes out of it. I just put them in at the 20min mark, the cake & cupcakes ended up needing longer then instructed. You can't taste the coffee, I used the standard Nescafe blend 43.

I will SO make this recipe again! It is very moist and rich and the chocolate-oohhh the chocolate! The frosting is great-the only thing I will say about the frosting is, it is VERY sugary, I think maybe 1-2 less cups. But over all the cake is AMAZING!

A family favourite. Coffee flavour not overpowering.

Yummy 🤤

This is my go-to chocolate cake. It's so moist and chocolatey, and stacks well for layers. I typically ice with a vanilla buttercream instead because I usually need to color the frosting, but the chocolate icing here is also good!

This is my go to birthday cake recipe. I’ve used all kinds of milk - reg, soy, almond. It turns out more moist with whole milk, I’ll be doing that each time from now on :)

Really doesn't taste of espresso it just boosts the chocolatey taste

Best chocolate cake recipe I’ve ever made! Made it for my dad’s birthday and he loved it. Instead of adding boiling water and instant espresso, I just added fresh hot coffee (1 cup).

This is my favorite chocolate cake recipe I’ve ever made. Any time my kids want chocolate cake for their birthday, I pull this recipe out. Rich, velvety soft.

Made chocolate Mousse instead of buttercream frosting

No espresso

Made it without the espresso powder and it was still super delicious. Was a hit with the kids!