The BEST Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake — Moist, Rich & Fudgy

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com Let me show you today a beloved classic that every kitchen ought to know, a proper old-fashioned chocolate cake, a moist, tender, rich chocolate cake, frosted with a simple chocolate frosting, the kind of plain honest chocolate cake a mother makes for a birthday or a Sunday, that everyone loves and nobody can resist. It is not a fancy bakery layer cake with all manner of fuss, but a simple, from-scratch, honest home chocolate cake, moist and chocolatey and frosted, made of plain things any kitchen has. Now, this is the plain chocolate cake of the home kitchen, the everyday cake, the birthday cake, the kind a mother or grandmother makes without fuss and the family devours. And it is better than all the fancy ones, for it is what a chocolate cake should be, moist and rich and chocolatey and frosted, no more needed. INGREDIENTS (one cake) For the cake: 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2/3 cup cocoa powder 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1/2 cup oil (and 4 tablespoons butter) 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup hot water or hot coffee (to bloom the cocoa) For the chocolate buttercream: 1/2 cup butter, softened 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup cocoa powder 3 to 4 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Here is what you will learn: ✔ The honest plain home cake (not a fancy bakery layer cake) ✔ The old trick: bloom the cocoa in hot water or coffee (deeper flavor) ✔ Why the coffee does not taste of coffee (just richer chocolate) ✔ Why you must NOT overmix (or the cake turns tough) ✔ What keeps it moist (the oil, the hot liquid, not overbaking) ✔ How to bake it until a tester comes clean ✔ Why you cool it fully before frosting ✔ The simple chocolate buttercream (no fancy ganache or cheese) ✔ Why a homemade birthday cake is love baked in ✔ How to fix a dry, dense, or sunken cake You do not need a bakery or a box. You need flour, cocoa, sugar,