Oh, and the offset spatula makes the frosting swirls so easy. Thank you! Delicious. You just make the most lovely things. Thank you so much for sharing!!! The 1/2 birthdays always sneak up on me so its nice to have an easy recipe not to mention that most are for much larger cakes this one is perfectly sized! I would like to order it. Do you mean other chocolate flavors or the style of frosting, in a food processor? My kid ate only the frosting, though :) Thank you, Deb! Eight years ago: Baked Tomato Sauce, And for the other side of the world: Hope that helps and works! Ill add a note. I had to chime in because Ive now made this twice and it is delightful! In the past, iirc, you have mentioned having a salad dressings section in the Recipe Index. It still looks pretty and the thought that counts :). I love how moist it is, deep chocolate flavor, keeps well (if you dont eat it in one sitting). I followed the baking instructions in the 2nd cook book to bake it for 38 minutes. Works equally good with besan flour and organic cacao powder (not that is NOT a spelling error!) Were probably not going to add frosting, as going paleo has made us really sensitive to sugar, so this cake by itself is sweet enough. Not sure I would make this cake again. Nomnomnom! You can also bake it as a lovely loaf. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Seriously good. I ordered one for an upcoming birthday party cake, and the instructions say to use a dense cake such as a pound cake. I will use this again because it was so creamy and smooth and didnt have that powdered sugar chalkiness or ultra sweet after taste. It helps the flour soak up moisture and makes things much better! :). My question with brown butter in baked goods is always the same: can you taste it? 1 tablespoon / 13 g granulated sugar Pati Sorry, Im completely unfamiliar with this. Oh, and funny how I only noticed the s shapes after I read your notes on how to swirl the frosting ;), I made this last night and it is amazing. So easy and so quick (was supervising 10yos homework as well). Just found out were having a second boy. Wow, just wow. Thank you for a lovely, easy cake recipe in the ideal size! Since there are so many positive reviews Id look beyond the recipe for another cause of the dryness and blandness you experienced. I will try that recipe for sure. Mel For a whiskable frosting, well, its all about how strong your arms are. I questioned the need for unsweetened chocolate vs. one of the many choices I already had in my pantry and am certainly glad I went and got some. Can you help? All of the basic ingredients cheddar cheese, tortillas, and cauliflower can be found in your corner store, and it works just as well if you sub it with a different veggie. Love your site your writing, approach and photography are all just superb, and I appreciate your sense of humour and real-life tips. It might have needed less baking time; it can happen. Ill definitely have to make it again. The frosting came out awesome. Making a commenting account just to say this is now my favourite chocolate cake recipe. Yum to both the cake and the frosting! And I love the suggestion of sour cream thinned with coffee sounds like my kinda cake!! Im not sure whats been happening with my cakes but would love ANY advice or ideas! I baked it in an 99 square, for just about 21 mins. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. I followed directions exactly including using Dutch processed cocoa. I tend to use double what is recommended of the powder, due to the mildness. So good though for such a quick cake! That frosting is to die for!! Just enough for one ;) Quick question can I use light brown sugar instead of the dark brown? My family enjoyed every bite. The cake came out too salty and I really like salt! This is the fudgiest, most delicious chocolate cake Ive ever experienced. Its ludicrously easy and not over the top sweet. Its got neither the slight fudge-like tendencies of a rich chocolate cake, nor the depth of flavor you need in a good crumb-textured cake. Thanks for the birthday prompt! Or is there a list? Is it supposed to be like that? . I really wanted chocolate cake but it was so late. but I shall brave the cold kitchen to make this chocolate cake. This was so good. I wanted a thicker cake layer so halved the ingredients from the fudgy sheet layer cake recipe. Whim to bite of cake time was 90 minutes, and during that time I also gave the kids a bath, tucked them into bed, and read some books. Yum. its very hot here today so unfortunately i had to refrigerate it, much to the detriment of the cake. Thanks for sharing! The icing was looking perfect until I walked away from it to give it a good 2 minutes to beat. Remove from the heat and let cool. But since I have been paleo for two years now, I find almond-flour baked goods much more fulfilling than wheat flour goods. This cake always comes out perfectly for mejust made for the tenth time! This is the most reliable chocolate snack cake recipe! They are all gone now and left everyone (all adults) with smiles on their faces. Megan 10-inch round or square? Hi. Loaf pan Use the Everyday Chocolate Cake recipe. Better to make triple the batter and divide it between 4 pans. But now I want to make this cake again and again I am in a chocolate cake loop. Because when you really need chocolate cake, I vote for doing it properly. Kim Whooooops! The batter tastes amazing! Simply meant to say I dont have Dutch cocoa, so just used standard. Ill update accordingly, suggesting you just mix it until smooth. and were talking been on the counter for days. Can I replace the dutch cocoa with natural cocoa? Glad it was a hit! anyway I came here looking for the fudgy chocolate cake recipe, that I used for cupcakes a couple months ago. Deb this cake looks great and just the type of thing I want to make, but dont want my husband to realize I am capable of making, lest the requests come non-stop! Is it round or square? Its the favorite of my family and friends though, so Im trying to create a chocolate cake recipe that both they and I will enjoy. Its so beautiful! Thank you for this quick and delicious recipe! Its funny I wasnt a cake person (blasphemy, I know donuts were my thing) until I got pregnant, and then one day I was like CAKE. That extra 1/2 cup of powdered sugar didnt really hurt the flavor, its still very chocolaty, just not as bitter. I have made this cake dozens of times, it is easy and delicious. An inexperienced baker may appreciate a more precise explanation of just how mixed you were intending. The frosting recipe I made as is, with the addition of about 3/4 cup of left-over coconut cream I had. I subbed home-made full fat natural yoghurt for the buttermilk (loosened a little with a dash of milk) and used an inch of real vanilla pod rather than the extract and the cake came out very well indeed. Thank you! If you give the mixer 30 more seconds, suddenly the capsules break apart and the batter becomes thick, shiny, and more like the texture in the pictures. Looks absolutely heavenly, making it today!! I know youve given us variations on it before, but for some reason the photos here really drove home that this chocolate buttercream appears to be the frosting I have been looking for all my life. So delicious. Same for apple cinnamon cake good luck with pregnancy! Made at 9:30 at night and it baked perfectly in 25 min. I didnt know that was even possible. I recently tested this doubled in one cake pan it works but it will go over the top a bit which can be unnerving. This was fun to make and eat for my first gathering with a friend post-vaccination. This cake looks so delicious! Chocolate Cake. I did have to bake it for almost 35 minutes. Yield Serves 8 to 12 Prep time 10 minutes Cook time 25 minutes to 35 minutes Show Nutrition Ingredients 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, natural or Dutch-process 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon This frosting, tripled, perhaps, looks perfect! Going to make this this weekend for my nephews birthday. Gathering the ingredients now, I need chocolate cake! YUM!!! After noodling for a day, I decided that the acid present in the buttermilk must be enough to do the job. Id LOVE any advice you have. Really wanted to like this cake but it was dryfollowed the recipe exactly but I knew right when we cut into it that it was not going to be as amazing as I had hoped. How this the cake so fudgy and the icing so irresistibly fluffy? There is a Pin icon at the bottom of each recipe, where it says DO MORE: It will allow you to Pin just that post/recipe. WOWWW!! 1.5 Years Ago: Key Lime Popsicles (still a favorite!) The cake was good too. Fabulous. Beautiful Deb! The batter was pretty salty with 1/2 teaspoon table salt. Will definitely make again. This looks so good. It was a little grainy/granular, and I had a really hard time getting it nice and smooth/whipped. .). So the question of saving it for later doesnt even arise! ;). Raspberries & chocolate- what could be bad? how long would i bake for in a 10.5 inch (round) pan? My little pregnancy book chimed in, asking if I was craving sweets. Its almost like.dinner. And we ate this delicious cake, marking time and friendship. And its the perfect size to not hurt yourself :). I will also add that the cake batter is delicious by itself so I enjoyed risking a bit of salmonella and licking my spatula during the clean up. I can relate, as I was dry sick when growing each of my two little people. I made a double layer round train track cake fir my sons birthday. Im not saying how many I had. sick. Probably need to stick to 20 min. Made this cake last night. We are not alone: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-of-cake.html, Oh sheesh, I know why my frosting came out grainy (see post 213)I didnt just melt the chocolate first, I melted the butter first too. deb says to eat it pretty much right away, and i agree. And I really really love the frosting. handfulofshadows I dont think theyll be automated because I dont think theres a way to do it the way I want them to look. Just made this cake & your perfect birthday cake for a friends 1-year old party. Who files stuff under THE? I want to triple this to make a 9 inch 2 layer cake and a dozen cupcakes for a birthday party, but Id like to split up the work. One should never taunt the idea faeries, of course.) lol j/k :). There are others like us. Thanks for this recipe! sunken black forest cake. The kitchens not too hot, and its snowy outside. and its better still not as sweet as if Id made it with chocolate chip melts or something like the Green & Blacks milk chocolate and it looks smashing, once again! But I am living in a country free of baking powder (Switzerland!). Please send help. I made this yesterday and it was delicious! My husbands birthday is this week. This recipe looks fantastic!! Oh my I need this now! This is the MOST delicious and eye-pealing chocolate cake I have ever seen. (What a little jerk, amiright?) Youll want to make 4x this recipe; it makes 1 dozen. Fantastic recipe!! Regrets: I have many. Followed the recipe exactly and made 14 cupcakes (baked for 19 minutes). Heres a measurement converter from Land O Lakes but please feel free to Google the information from any website youd like: https://www.landolakes.com/kitchen-reference/measurements-abbreviations/. :). I kept going, because you cant waste eggs in a pandemic, but a little worried if its safe to eat? Hi, I really want to make a chocolate orange cake. Thank god for that frosting, because it turned out the ratio and the richness of the frosting balanced with the sturdy, deeply chocolate-y cake that was barely almost a smidge over but not too badly. And the cardio/working out/yoga that followed. I know that you do them by hand right now, and I totally admire your patience with that, hence the q :). Yes, thats totally normal here. Not fancy or perfect, but just right for the occasion. Thank you! Even if this recipe is similar to some youve posted in the past, Im glad you did just to see the beautiful pictures. The first time I doubled the recipe and baked it in a 913 pan baked for about 30 minutes. This looks so good and I know my little girl would love this. It evokes something so real and essential. Very best wishes from the UK, Jo :-) I just wanted to correct you because I dont want you to accidentally mess up anything you bake in the future as you would be using way too much butter. Thanks for replying! 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt mine clocks in at 5 grams vs. the 6 grams of table salt. Thanks Deb! https://instagram.com/p/z8VQVBy55B/?modal=true. that said, flavor was good. I made this recipe into cupcakes, doubled, 3 times today. This seems silly to ask, butwhich amount should I use? Im still super nauseous though, this was supposed to go away weeks ago, and havent baked anything because I cant stand being in the kitchen. Thanks for the doable, approachable, ingredient-accessible recipe. Dear hubs just made me two flower beds where I was hoping he would so I can plant morning glories and sunflowers I started from seedhe deservs this cake! Great little cake, so nice to have something smaller and delicious! Thanks for the update! This is the cake that inspired me to comment. one note: We only have glass 88 baking dishes, and it required quite a bit more time to bake the cake to done. I am going to purchase a metal 88 as soon as possible! 3 tbs cocoa and one tbs butter for one ounce of unsweetened chocolate). But if youve been there, youve felt this, this is for you. Im thinking about making it on Friday to serve on Sunday am Thanks! Just took it out of the oven and I can already tell by the smell that this things going to be good. I didnt originally have dutch cocoa powder and thought about using natural, but ended up re-stocking my dutch cocoa and im glad I did. Have visited this page many times, but thinking about making it for the first time for my roommates birthday! having major third trimester chocoholic cravings and this is on the agenda for tonighthopefully this wont derail my glucose test next week (pray for me!!!! Great texture! Does it give a tighter crumb for it? We were at the cabin so this was going to be a hand-mixer + $5 ikea-cake-pan-smeared-with-whole-cow-of-butter kind of a job. that I might have to exclusively dedicate this space for a while to a few currently acceptable categories, those that involve butter, bread, peanut butter or chocolate. Quick question! Exact same pregnancy cravings, as I sit here eating another PB on English muffin. I will absolutely try this as cupcakes next time. Instead of digging into my husbands chocolate box (he has so much self-restraint! Lovely cake though, one of my faves! Even with chunky frosting its still delicious and I may or may not be having a piece with my morning tea :). How can I fix this? Add the egg, yolk and vanilla and beat until combined, then the buttermilk and mix again. I made this and I just wanted to say that it was so good. I had to make one change to the frosting. Kate I havent done it, but if I were going to, my approach would be to replace the buttermilk with 3/4 cup mashed banana. I am allergic to dairy what substitute do you recommend for the buttermilk? Its held up great over the years. I was skeptical that such a simple recipe could produce such an amazing cake BUT IT DID. I backed it 28 min because 20 min wasnt enough and it became a bit dry. Thanks for posting- I love your recipes, and especially enjoy the baking ones :) I keep running into the same problem with cake baking though, and I wanted to ask for your advice. .. is that normal? Lovely, Deb, thank you. Can you file it under I at least? Its a problem, I hear you loud and clear! Whipped this up during nap time, adding a handful of chocolate chips to the batter. A combination of too much flour, too little cocoa and too much heat or time in the oven will certainly dry out baked goods. Its easy, moist, bakes in 25 min. layered mocha cheesecake. This cake was so easy to whip up and it made just enough. Two notes: I baked the cake for 27 min and it was a teeny bit dry watch carefully as it gets close to being done. This recipe is so disappointing, especially after all the other ones Ive made from your site. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, graham-cracker crumbs, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. 1 / 8 teaspoon baking soda I decreased the icing sugar and added a titch of cocoa to compensate. Hello Jen, sometimes I avoid cake recipes like this that require creaming the butter and sugar, because Ive heard that its actually tough to get that step exactly right. My daughter wishes for a chocolate layer cake filled with chocolate chip ice cream for her birthday next week, and 6 cakes are my familys favorite size. I decorated mine with Smarties! However, keep in mind that this is a thin cake layer, a little under an inch. The cake didnt look too overbaked, though. We had one at Tilth up here in Seattle this last weekend- it had buttermilk, browned butter, hazelnuts and currants and I want to eat there everyday just for this one scone! I mean, its definitely on the sweet side, like all powdered sugar buttercreams. I was thinking of starting with your dreamy cream scones as base and use browned butter. To make it one-bowl and ensure that they get very well mixed. All of your chocolate cakes look delicious and I cant decide which recipe to use! Thanks :). 3/4 cup (145 grams) firmly packed dark brown sugar Lower than 7 is acidic, higher than 7 is basic/alkali. ), I decided to make this cake instead! Add a pinch of cinnamon, if desired. Perfect Friday night dessert. But I wonder if thats more due to my mixing by hand than to inherent flaws in the recipes. It reminds me of childhood parties and I can just imagine how it tastes my mouth is watering just looking at the pictures! I was so tired and grumpy, the kids were fighting, and hubby was exercising his birthday right to take the day off. Its not too sweet and the texture is incredible! Hi, am I able to make the frosting in advance (perhaps 3 days or so) and leave in the fridge until required to frost the cake layers? Put all in the freezer to flash freeze and called it a night. Step 4. The cake came out fine, but the batter was just that pourable batter, not the spreadable, brownie batter-like kind in your photo. However, my cake was dense, moist, almost fudgy- like a good brownie! But fresh sounds lovely too. Scoop the frosting onto the cooled chocolate cake and swirl it around. Its amazing on this cake and thinking of using for other chocolate cakes or yellow cake. 1 / 4 cup / 21 g dutch-process cocoa Or maybe I just really, really like sour cream. O.M.G. How did it taste in the end? A question about the eggs. I made this with Hersheys Special Dark Cocoa (they say this is a blend of natural and Dutched cocoas) and it turned out great! I used cocoa in the frosting instead of chocolate because that is what I had (had to add more milk to compensate) and it turned out to be just what I was hoping for. Smitten Kitchen's cake, which is baked in a single layer in a square pan, met a similar fate. I added chopped walnuts instead of the sprinkles . I just tasted one of the chunks (for research, clearly, not as an excuse to have cake for breakfast ;) ) and its sugar!! Theres a note under the instructions about swapping the two types of cocoa, which I hope helps. Place your flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a sifter (I find this step necessary because my cocoa is very lumpy) and shake it over the batter bowl. Ive been dreaming about making chocolate cake. I spread it thick on an 88 pan of brownies and sprinkled peppermint bits over the top. The color was beautiful and the taste was rich and chocolately in the best possible way. But so thick that the cakes moist crumb couldnt hold up to it. Im fairly new to gluten-free cooking, but learned a good trick to get rid of the sometimes gritty taste the baked goods can have: let the batter rest for 30 min before baking. I may have taken it out a bit early, the rise went slightly down. I still have half of your Moms apple cake in my cake caddy so this will probably have to wait until the weekend but I am definitely making this! I tried to make this cake, but the batter curdled when I added the thinned yogurt I just frosted it and now half the cake has disappeared! I really wanted that light & fluffy frosting. Thank you eight thousand times. HOLY HEAVENS! For the buttermilk substitution, could you use stout in this? 1 large egg I made this cake for dinner at a family friends house we needed something amazing and indulgent, but not overwhelmingly complicated or fussy (small children ((and adults)) are only willing to wait so long for dessert, after all). If I want to make mini cupcakes, how long do I bake these for? Moist, flavorful and absolutely a winner every time I have made this. :-O. Thats what I get for making frosting while trying to watch the Downton Abbey finale. Thank you! The frosting was incredibly simple and so, so much better than store-bought frosting. Maybe its not as pretty but it worked really well- maybe this is helpful to someone with the same dilemma. My husband promised my kids dessert last night, and it was up to me to fulfill this promise. The batter was so good I didnt want to bake it, and the resulting cake is very rich but still so fluffy and light. Can I halve egg in the recipe by just omitting the yolk from the cake base? Red wine chocolate cake, mocha chocolate cake: You could replace the buttermilk in full with yogurt or sour cream thinned with a little milk or water, with red wine or replace 1/2 cup of it with strong coffee. Every year I make my kids half a cake for their half birthday and this made a PERFECT half double layer cake. When I click Print Recipe I am directed to another website, which requires me to do I dont know what. This ultra-moist chocolate cake is deep and rich in flavor and best served with whipped cream and toasted hazelnuts. I made it on Saturday with my 5 year old and it was a huge success among adults and kids alike. Ive also just made it as square. Four years ago: Pina Colada Cake Magda I dont have the functionality at this time, but Id love to get it if possible. (The 88 I have on hand is glass, with rounded corners, which makes it seem so much smaller.). Thank you for sharing the recipe. I want to dive into that swath of icing. It will be a win for somebody for sure, since your goodies usually are. Making the coconut cake from your second book, which, like this, has one egg + one yolk. Nope, way too dry so I added an extra Tablespoon or so of heavy cream. I followed it exactly. Ive had great success with them. We just finished my husbands favorite chocolate cake, which is my Moms recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake (dont laughits outrageously good), but yours sounds even better. I love reading your recipes, etc, and often print off the recipes. Thanks! I bought a six inch cake pan last year, and thought Id try halving this recipe to make one six-inch layer. I believe I saw that exact offset spatula for a nice price at TJ Maxx today and I didnt buy it because I thought I would never use such a small one. Can I frost them while they are still frozen? Can I do part yogurt and part coffee? Even if your batter is too thin and your frosting takes forever to thin to the right consistency dont lose heart. 2017 on smittenkitchen.com | 2009-2023 . Recipes. This will be the first time hes been away for his birthday. This looks amazing Deb what a perfect cake! I liked your frosting a lot, but the chocolate didnt fully emulsify. Try shortening the bake time and then decide. The thing is, if you reduce the confectioners sugar, youll have less structure and more chocolate and butter whipped together. The cake turned out very moist, really delicious. I made the cakes in two 6in pans and it took a lot longer than what was written for one 8in square. In short: not safe. Fewer bakeries this time, but more baking in the kitchen. It turned out amazing, just as advertised, and I enjoyed eating it a lot :p. I am a nervous cake baker but I would like to make this for my sons bday in a few days. I cooked the cake for 20 minutes in a 9 inch round pan and it was slightly over done. Emily If my notes are correct from the last time I converted it, youll get 12 standard. My wifes final verdict on the cake was We have no words followed by Next piece please!. Oh. I love this cake. Out of buttermilk can I add a bit of vinegar to some slim milk.think I will wait until I get the buttermilk hate to tamper with a great recipe. Im curious, though, is there no formatting to just see the recipe for printing or just to simplify viewing while trying to make. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Enquiring minds want to know. Could I make the frosting a raspberry buttercream by putting in raspberry pure instead of chocolate? An exceedingly cute mini-cake! Turned out, really, really well. Deb, re: your comment to me above, I may have been a little hasty in my judgment as the first taste while mixing hadnt had time to settle in with all the sugar and butter so the flavor was still overwhelmingly bitter. I thought it was an issue with my oven temp (175, standard convection) at first but at 20 mins I had a ring of cooked cake around a pool of batter. Must try! I recently warned (threatened?) stephanie I suppose you could use a bittersweet chocolate, the most bitter you can find, but it will make the frosting more sweet/less dark. This icing, which we used for our sons birthday cake, is my favorite. My solution was: I didnt frost the cake after baking but kept the frosting in the fridge and the cake on the counter in cling film . I never made frosting in a food processor. It will be on the Christmas menu from now on. Its a winner. Thank you; I know its TONS of work. several times a year) and if anything, its on the sweet side. Melt semisweet or bittersweet chocolate and espresso powder in a double boiler until smooth. I doubled this recipe using the weights instead of volume measurements and it turned out great. I was looking for a quick and easy chocolate cake recipe, so finally I tried this one and I am thrilled! I want real cake made with real butter and real sugar and good chocolate, I just try to limit portion size. Is this the chocolate frosting that was on the Monkey Cake, because that was amazing, and got rave reviews at my sons birthday party! I couldnt figure out what Id done, but probably using an incing mixture instead of pure icing sugar, with the 70% dk choc, meant there wasnt *quite* enough sugar to soften the edge of that very bittersweet chocolate. I wonder if you weighed your dry ingredients? The outside was not dry and the cake did not collapse. And best wishes to you and your growing family! We love so many of your recipes in our housewe literally make your Favorite Brownies at least a few times a month (my husband somehow remains just as excited every time). I like blooming cocoa mixed the dry cocoa with 1/2 cup boiling water; once the mixture was cool, added enough buttermilk to arrive at 1 cup of liquid total. The five-year-old said, as I was cutting, make sure that I dont just get a sliver!. Just five more weeks of this! The intensity from the smallest amount of unsweetened chocolate is surprising; plus, its so bitter, it really helps offset the sugar-assault that butter-powdered sugar icings usually are. I love the rich chocolate flavor. Thank you so much for reminding me of this wonderful cake just in time for my brothers birthday tomorrow!! I made it in a regular cupcake pan. i dont have rainbow sprinkles and am feeling a bit too lazy to run out and get them right now would it be a terrible idea to finish this with some grey sea salt? The Double Chocolate Layer Cake is amazing, as is the Peanut Butter Chocolate Cakes cake layers (although I prefer the Double Layer) but this just wins. I have to say, however, that the part about cutting it into 16 pieces made us laugh and laugh and laugh! Do I still need to mix dry ingredients separately first? Yet another reason to get a food processor! THIS CAKE LOOKS SO YUMMY!!!!!! Im making this now for my little girls second birthday. Regrettably it hadnt survived long enough to be frosted with chocolate frosting, not to mention sprinkling it with sprinkles. I cut the 913 into 4 pieces, frosted 3 pieces with only minimal fighting. Im making a double layer cake for my daughters birthday with 8 inch rounds. I just popped by as many bloggers dont respond to questions. Really, I tried to come up with a less cumbersome title, but chocolate cake with chocolate frosting doesnt connote the central urgency here. I hope I can get to the bottom of it. ), YES YES YES! . It all came together rather quickly on a weekday evening too. Incidentally, I did walk into every cupcake store and bakery during my first pregnancy. What do you suggest? I compared the recipe to your fudgy chocolate cake recipe in my copy of Smitten Kitchen Everyday, and I was happy to see theyre essentially the same (and the comments here are giving me extra confidence I can pull this off!). All in all, not a problem. How can I cut down on the sugar in a cake recipe without throwing off the volume and texture? best chocolate cake ever! 3 times? Ive doubled the recipe and its currently in the oven in a 913. Baked for 30 mins. The frosting was fantastic, creamy and smooth using the food processor. I only had black cocoa and not regular Dutch-process (apparently black cocoa is very heavily Dutched) and it was super chocolatey and a big hit, even with my 4 year old. Even my usually anti-cake husband liked it, which is saying a lot. WrittenPyramids Glad it was a hit. Love how you swirled the frosting on top! Thats the tradeoff for me, at least. I think it could be it will definitely be thinner. I think it was too close to the bottom heat source too. Is it a 3 or a 5? Thank you, Deb! I read a comment on how to get the swirls and Debs guidance was spot on!!! Adjusted the cake for high elevation (extra 1 Tb flour, 1 Tb less of sugar, and 2 eggs instead of the 1+yolk) and it was perfect.