This is the ONLY chocolate cake I use for my business and my clients are OBSESSED! It is super easy, incredibly moist and has the best chocolate flavor. I call it a grown up chocolate cake because I use high quality dark chocolate. So rich and fudgy. Because this cake is so moist, it can be tricky to stack so my tip for stacking this cake (for tiers, not a normal 2 layer cake lol) is to freeze it, then crumb coat, then ganache coat for stability before buttercream. The extra step with ganache really makes a difference! Such a good cake! Also, I only use this frosting for my family. I don't use the egg frosting for my clients because of stability. I make buttercream.
i think a lot of influencers that end up becoming family/mummy bloggers are influencers who didn’t really have a strong content focus before having children? or their focus was on their everyday life so when you have children, it’s a BIG shift and hard to not have content around having children. i kind of feel like grace’s content might stay pretty consistent tbh
Ina is pronounced with a hard “i” like eye-nuh. And yes, her food is always incredible! So glad to see you make the cake. Made it look like something I could make!
The first thing I ever baked successfully was Ina Garten’s “Outrageous Brownies” and they were a huge hit. I can tell you that if you follow her instructions exactly, you will be able to bake any of her desserts with success. She actually tests all of recipes before they go in her books for print.
I think the dairy milk might be too sweet and hence the coffee overpowered it. (Usually semisweet chocolate here is not as pleasant to eat by itself, but often gets used in chocolate chip cookies.)
The conversations you have with yourself are so hilarious and so me. One minute you're talking about cake and the next you're talking about the perfect name for a sausage dog 😭😭😂✨
Hey! So I've been making this for a decade. The Hershey's Cocoa Frosting recipe (with any cocoa you have) is actually better on the cake than her frosting. You'll need to add a bit more milk than the recipe calls for.
American flour for cakes is bleached. Bleached flour is not allowed in the UK, so the results won’t be the same. According to Rose Levy Beranbaum, UK flour can be heated to 170 F in the microwave and it will have undergone the chemical change as though it were bleached. You can look up the procedure under Rose’s website.
The Beero chocolate cake is delicious. Evaporated milk us used in the cake and buttercream. My mam used to make it but I note that she made some adjustments in her measurements from what's in the beero cook book. No need to melt any chocolate with this one either, just cocoa powder used xx
If you use your spatula to blend your powdered sugar the briefest of moments, it’ll prevent a lot of the fly away of the sugar when mixing in the stand mixer.
I made this cake with my 7 year old on Saturday. Couldn’t get buttermilk anywhere so my own version with a mix of sour cream and milk. It is/was an incredible cake!!! Well worth a go!!!
Glid absolutely is a word, keep using it!! It's more common in some dialects than others where, because it's a less commonly-used word, the past tense version was forgotten and replaced. So you could say that 'glid' is actually the more correct word. (I remember hearing this discussed recently, I want to say it was on countdown but I can't be sure! 😊)
Literally a moment before you mentioned the $100 coconut cake, I'd searched for the chocolate acake recipe and and a website with an ad for the coconut cake popped up. So yes, please make the coconut cake. I've just subscribed to your channel and must say I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
White Winter Hymnal is not a Christmas song. It was just on Fleet Foxes regular album. It's just that Pentatonix put it on a Christmas album. But also, I've definitely been known to play Christmas music in warmer months just because. (And yet, I'm the kind of person who gets very grumpy hearing Christmas music in November, or worse October, because while I really enjoy Christmas music, more than two solid months of the same songs is just too much. I want to enjoy all the holiday vibes when it's near Christmas and if it starts in the shops in October, I definitely get sick of it by the end of December.)
@@annemarson4144 Bournville Dark chocolate is 36%. The name may be a trademark rather than a description but the % of cocoa solids is correct as it’s what’s written on their ingredients list.
That looks like such a good cake! Because of the time of year it is now, how about making some Elderflower Fizz or Ginger Beer? The latter is quite a fun one, if a little time consuming, because you create a ginger beer "plant", which can be used indefinitely and shared with friends and neighbours as to produce each batch of ginger beer, the "plant" is split in half (it can also be composted if you run out of, or don't have people to share it with). There's a great recipe that I've used in the past in a little book called "Favourite Country Wines & Cordials - Traditional Home Made Drinks", compiled by Carol Wilson and published by Salmon that you can get for a couple of quid.
Baking is a science so following the recipe is a must. I think people add coffee to chocolate cake mix because it’s supposed to bring out the flavour of the chocolate
My auntie taught me that buttercream recipe 40 years ago. We didn't put coffee in it. It was lovely and chocolatey. Chocolate cakes using buttermilk and hot water are so luscious. With that buttercream, extra. Refrigerated cakes taste amazing after 24 hours. Fresh cake is delicious too, but something happens during those first 24 hours that makes it sublime. Excellent video. Beautiful cake.
I thought I was the only one who loved refrigerated cake! Btw idk if you’re into nyc vlogs but if so, you might like mine! I’d be sooo grateful if you swung by and took a peek. 🙏 Stick around if you like!
Whenever baking with dark pans you always want to decrease your oven temp by 25° F not sure what the Celsius conversion is. But it makes a big difference & cooks more evenly
You need to try Sallys baking addictions chocolate fudge cake, you could also do the British bake offs one to see how they rival each other. But a cake you must absolutely do is the hummingbird bakery’s chocolate Guinness cake. 😋
Just got to the bit whare you poor the batter in the tins and am confident that cake is going to be perfect. I have been using a very similar recipe for 30 years. Delicious every time. 🎂
Yah. This is the same exact recipe as on the Hershey chocolate can. Listed everywhere on the internet as "best chocolate cake ever", etc. Yup, pretty tasty.
Great video, the cake looked so good. You should try the coconut cake. My mum used to make it for me on my birthdays. I’m not the biggest coconut fan either but the cake is amazing
It looked better than any Betty Crocker I ever made. I wanted a bite of that so bad. I agree about coffee which I am not a drinker of. So like you I will lessen the coffee when I make it. Just so you know you inspired me to make this cake. ❤️ 💕. Oh and since sieved which something I never did but I will on this one.
This looks so delicious, looks similar to a Hershey Black Magic cake, I love frosting but I hate chocolate cream cheese frosting the sour taste makes me want to gag but I love a vanilla cream cheese frosting 🤷🏻♀️
I think it is a short I not the long I. I - na. That recipe looks similar to the recipe I was using. Definitely with the coffee and hot water. Egg in the icing, interesting indeed. I like the Pepperidge farm chocolate cake, in the frozen section. It works in a pinch and satisfies that chocolate craving.
I work at a preschool and let the kids have Christmas music dance parties all year round 😂 choosing the Christmas top hits CD over the Cbeebies bop and nursery rhymes ones every time 🤣
I think they were going for a very mature flavor, certainly with that price so the heavy coffee would hit the spot. I don't know if I'd think it was too much, I have made mokka with fake coffee, decaf and with grain and chichoree instant powder and that is more mellow and will not keep you up at night. So that might work.
I am a first time watcher and very much enjoyed this. I was interested to hear you on cream cheese. As a fellow Brit, I wonder if you have had the problems I have with it, having to use the aerated and watered down pulp that passed for cream cheese here. If you've cracked it, I'd love to see how.
I have a similar recipe that uses 1 tsp of expresso powder in the cake and 1/2 tsp in the frosting and no egg. Here in the United States we can't eat raw eggs.
Congratulations 🎉 on your pregnancy Grace! 💖🌷 I play Christmas 🎄 music and movies all year long. It’s my purgative is how I see it. You could do 9 months of cakes leading up to the birth of your baby. Trying a different cake recipe each month.
Yep. Agree 💯 Real coffee in chocolate cake is amazing but the instant usually leaves much to be desired. That said, I use the instant powder in the dark swirl in my mocha marble cake for color and intense flavor, but there it’s balanced by the light cocoa-vanilla flavor, the rich sour cream, and the sweetness of the rest of the cake.
“One person’s shake is another person’s jiggle” - I need that on a t-shirt. 😂
I have been diagnosed with Essential Tremor. I also need that t-shirt. My grandson has asked why I jiggle when I hold his hand whilst crossing a road.
Ditto
One person's shake is another person's... twerk?
This is the ONLY chocolate cake I use for my business and my clients are OBSESSED! It is super easy, incredibly moist and has the best chocolate flavor. I call it a grown up chocolate cake because I use high quality dark chocolate. So rich and fudgy. Because this cake is so moist, it can be tricky to stack so my tip for stacking this cake (for tiers, not a normal 2 layer cake lol) is to freeze it, then crumb coat, then ganache coat for stability before buttercream. The extra step with ganache really makes a difference! Such a good cake! Also, I only use this frosting for my family. I don't use the egg frosting for my clients because of stability. I make buttercream.
I pretty much only use Italian Buttercream, but the stability issue is definitely an issue.
@@jake32901 I LOVE IMBC
Not grack going back to regular content after dropping the baby bomb! 🤣❤ I'm so excited for the baby content
We want the regular content too!
Yes, I want both please! 🎉
why not?
i think a lot of influencers that end up becoming family/mummy bloggers are influencers who didn’t really have a strong content focus before having children? or their focus was on their everyday life so when you have children, it’s a BIG shift and hard to not have content around having children. i kind of feel like grace’s content might stay pretty consistent tbh
I'm a silent watcher, but I wanted to come on here to congratulate you Grace!! You're undoubtedly going to make an amazing mum ❤
Ina is pronounced with a hard “i” like eye-nuh.
And yes, her food is always incredible! So glad to see you make the cake. Made it look like something I could make!
“This feels wrong for me, I haven’t sieved in YEARS” -real. 🤣
And the white jumper was still pristine at the end. Respect!!
The first thing I ever baked successfully was Ina Garten’s “Outrageous Brownies” and they were a huge hit. I can tell you that if you follow her instructions exactly, you will be able to bake any of her desserts with success. She actually tests all of recipes before they go in her books for print.
Me too! I baked them for the 4th of July some years back and everyone loved them. I still have a paper copy of that recipe😊.
You are very fun to watch and I completely agree on the vanilla. It shouldn’t be measured, the heart knows!!❤
I've made this cake a few times, it's absolutely delicious. Love most of Inas recipes. Shes a great chef!
Baking a chocolate cake with a white jumper is another kind of chaotic kind!😂
I think the dairy milk might be too sweet and hence the coffee overpowered it. (Usually semisweet chocolate here is not as pleasant to eat by itself, but often gets used in chocolate chip cookies.)
The conversations you have with yourself are so hilarious and so me. One minute you're talking about cake and the next you're talking about the perfect name for a sausage dog 😭😭😂✨
Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you! Can’t wait to see the little one!🥰
The chocolate cake looks so delicious and you did a fantastic job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ina would absolutely love that you're already thinking on making it to your taste. Love Ina! ❤️
Congratulations on your pregnancy!! You will be an excellent mother. Your positivity and zeal for trying new things will be great for your child! 👶
Grace, this video was so entertaining! You’re such a fun and clever creator to watch! I laughed out loud for real, plus the cake looked amazing!
As an american THEY HAVE LINERS FOR CAKE PANS THAT LOOK LIKE CUPCAKE LINERSSS
They are available in the US, too. Amazon comes to mind, but large urban areas likely have suppliers, too.
I am from the States as well. And I thought the same thing. Why don’t we have them? Ingenious 🎉
Same. Why have I never seen them. 40 years baking birthday cakes for 4 kids and I have never seen them!
Korean englishmen and grace vibes are so comforting , need a collab.congratulations Grace ❤
Literally everything Ina makes is good. She’s the only chef I’ve never found a bad recipe
Hey! So I've been making this for a decade. The Hershey's Cocoa Frosting recipe (with any cocoa you have) is actually better on the cake than her frosting. You'll need to add a bit more milk than the recipe calls for.
Ewww do not mention the word Hersheys (vomit ingredient). We got Cadbury over here, the king.
@@breakfastattiffanys741 I absolutely don't use Hersheys - just the recipe. I use Callebaut or Nestle cocoa :)
I've been making this cake for probably 15 years now. It's the only chocolate cake recipe I will ever use. It works for everything.
I could watch a compilation of you just cutting into cakes. Always a perfect slice 😍
BRB.. gotta go make this chocolate cake so I can charge $100 😂
Classic Grack! Now I need a Betty Crocker choccy cake mix... *sigh* not going to lose weight this week... 😊
Congrats on the pregnancy! 🎉🎉🎉 Your little one is gonna be one very lucky child with all these bakes!
please make the tom cruise coconut cake!! lovely video as always
"he doesnt need to know that" 😂 Thanks for sharing the recipe
I sing Christmas songs all year long. Just yesterday 6/17/24 was Here comes Santa Claus.😁. Brought some joy into the house.
American flour for cakes is bleached. Bleached flour is not allowed in the UK, so the results won’t be the same. According to Rose Levy Beranbaum, UK flour can be heated to 170 F in the microwave and it will have undergone the chemical change as though it were bleached. You can look up the procedure under Rose’s website.
Unbleached flour is very much available in the US, its all I use!
Saying "I have no coffee maker" moving a bright red coffee maker (percolator) around - twice.
I made it and also thought it was too coffee-ish! But Ina is my queen and no-one else here (England) seems to have heard of her! x
The Barefoot Contessa - she’s a legend😊
The Beero chocolate cake is delicious. Evaporated milk us used in the cake and buttercream. My mam used to make it but I note that she made some adjustments in her measurements from what's in the beero cook book. No need to melt any chocolate with this one either, just cocoa powder used xx
The cake looks amazing! Chocolate is my fav. I like coffee, so the buttercream would probably suit me just fine! 😋
If you use your spatula to blend your powdered sugar the briefest of moments, it’ll prevent a lot of the fly away of the sugar when mixing in the stand mixer.
I made this cake with my 7 year old on Saturday. Couldn’t get buttermilk anywhere so my own version with a mix of sour cream and milk. It is/was an incredible cake!!! Well worth a go!!!
Glid absolutely is a word, keep using it!! It's more common in some dialects than others where, because it's a less commonly-used word, the past tense version was forgotten and replaced. So you could say that 'glid' is actually the more correct word. (I remember hearing this discussed recently, I want to say it was on countdown but I can't be sure! 😊)
Countdown! Yay!
Ina Garten is an icon! Her chocolate cake is amazing👍🏻
Thanks for respecting the master and following her recipe to a T.
You did amazing. That looks so good!!
Literally a moment before you mentioned the $100 coconut cake, I'd searched for the chocolate acake recipe and and a website with an ad for the coconut cake popped up. So yes, please make the coconut cake. I've just subscribed to your channel and must say I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation.
INSANE job on that cake!!!!
White Winter Hymnal is not a Christmas song. It was just on Fleet Foxes regular album. It's just that Pentatonix put it on a Christmas album. But also, I've definitely been known to play Christmas music in warmer months just because.
(And yet, I'm the kind of person who gets very grumpy hearing Christmas music in November, or worse October, because while I really enjoy Christmas music, more than two solid months of the same songs is just too much. I want to enjoy all the holiday vibes when it's near Christmas and if it starts in the shops in October, I definitely get sick of it by the end of December.)
Plain chocolate is dark chocolate, and I imagine bournville will be less than 70% cocoa
If I remember rightly, I believe bournville is around 50%?
Classic Bournville is 36%.
It’s dark chocolate but not great for quality or percentage.
@@annemarson4144 Bournville Dark chocolate is 36%.
The name may be a trademark rather than a description but the % of cocoa solids is correct as it’s what’s written on their ingredients list.
I love coffee so I know I would enjoy this cake. Just not sure about a raw yolk in the frosting.
That looks like such a good cake!
Because of the time of year it is now, how about making some Elderflower Fizz or Ginger Beer? The latter is quite a fun one, if a little time consuming, because you create a ginger beer "plant", which can be used indefinitely and shared with friends and neighbours as to produce each batch of ginger beer, the "plant" is split in half (it can also be composted if you run out of, or don't have people to share it with). There's a great recipe that I've used in the past in a little book called "Favourite Country Wines & Cordials - Traditional Home Made Drinks", compiled by Carol Wilson and published by Salmon that you can get for a couple of quid.
Baking is a science so following the recipe is a must. I think people add coffee to chocolate cake mix because it’s supposed to bring out the flavour of the chocolate
I used to watch barefoot contessa on food network when i was little, it was one of my favourites! so nostalgic
i need a testing everything in gail’s bakery video! 😊
Her brownies are out of this world.
I literally made this cake like 3 days ago ! It was one of best I’ve had, it does have a hint of coffee but was still tasty!
My auntie taught me that buttercream recipe 40 years ago. We didn't put coffee in it. It was lovely and chocolatey.
Chocolate cakes using buttermilk and hot water are so luscious. With that buttercream, extra.
Refrigerated cakes taste amazing after 24 hours. Fresh cake is delicious too, but something happens during those first 24 hours that makes it sublime.
Excellent video. Beautiful cake.
I thought I was the only one who loved refrigerated cake! Btw idk if you’re into nyc vlogs but if so, you might like mine! I’d be sooo grateful if you swung by and took a peek. 🙏 Stick around if you like!
Omg, that looks thebest chocolate cake - will give it a go !!
Whenever baking with dark pans you always want to decrease your oven temp by 25° F not sure what the Celsius conversion is. But it makes a big difference & cooks more evenly
You need to try Sallys baking addictions chocolate fudge cake, you could also do the British bake offs one to see how they rival each other. But a cake you must absolutely do is the hummingbird bakery’s chocolate Guinness cake. 😋
can you do the coconut cake in a video soon please!! i loved this video and would love to hear your opinion on that cake
Just got to the bit whare you poor the batter in the tins and am confident that cake is going to be perfect. I have been using a very similar recipe for 30 years. Delicious every time. 🎂
Used to buy her coconut cupcake from her store in East Hampton. Top notch 😋
Chocolate cake… I’m in 🧁
Just found your channel and I laughed from the off!
Yah. This is the same exact recipe as on the Hershey chocolate can. Listed everywhere on the internet as "best chocolate cake ever", etc. Yup, pretty tasty.
This was so therapeutic
The white sweatshirt survived. I would have chocolate on it somehow somewhere even while wearing an apron.
I'm watching and thinking this is her profession she's got this 😂❤
Ina Gartener recipes are the best. I tried her ginger cookie and it is the best I have ever eaten.
When you see how many times Ina tests a recipe, if she says sieve then you sieve. I love her.
Great video, the cake looked so good. You should try the coconut cake. My mum used to make it for me on my birthdays. I’m not the biggest coconut fan either but the cake is amazing
It looked better than any Betty Crocker I ever made. I wanted a bite of that so bad. I agree about coffee which I am not a drinker of. So like you I will lessen the coffee when I make it.
Just so you know you inspired me to make this cake. ❤️ 💕. Oh and since sieved which something I never did but I will on this one.
That milk carton is sooo cutee!!
Please do the coconut cake!!
Bleurgh to butter frosting , ganache is much lovelier🎉
I-na not e-na 🤣
Do you think you could leave the coffee out and add choccy chips to the top for crunch?
PS hope baby likes cake 😊
This looks so delicious, looks similar to a Hershey Black Magic cake, I love frosting but I hate chocolate cream cheese frosting the sour taste makes me want to gag but I love a vanilla cream cheese frosting 🤷🏻♀️
I would use 50%-60% dark chocolate for baking. All the sugar in the cake and icing balance out the intensity.
I think it is a short I not the long I. I - na. That recipe looks similar to the recipe I was using. Definitely with the coffee and hot water. Egg in the icing, interesting indeed. I like the Pepperidge farm chocolate cake, in the frozen section. It works in a pinch and satisfies that chocolate craving.
The Vanilla extract should be omitted from a chocolate cake as the coffee brings out the chocolate flavour.
Gorgeous cake !
This looks so delicious! I was actually disappointed at the end that I couldn't have a slice.🤣
I work at a preschool and let the kids have Christmas music dance parties all year round 😂 choosing the Christmas top hits CD over the Cbeebies bop and nursery rhymes ones every time 🤣
I think they were going for a very mature flavor, certainly with that price so the heavy coffee would hit the spot. I don't know if I'd think it was too much, I have made mokka with fake coffee, decaf and with grain and chichoree instant powder and that is more mellow and will not keep you up at night. So that might work.
That looks amazeballs! Chef's kiss! 👌
I'm pretty sure im going to make this cake!
re: Adding Coffee to chocolate....yes, be careful. Better too little, than too much!
You should always shake your buttermilk - it always separates and there are chunky or watery parts. Shake it!!
I am a first time watcher and very much enjoyed this. I was interested to hear you on cream cheese. As a fellow Brit, I wonder if you have had the problems I have with it, having to use the aerated and watered down pulp that passed for cream cheese here. If you've cracked it, I'd love to see how.
I'm here so early🤭...so much love from Kenya🇰🇪❤
Instead of using the coffee in the frosting just swap it for cocoa ❤
Let’s make this a series for best chocolate cakes! Like trying other chefs recipes!
Triggered by the fact you put all the effort in doing it perfectly and to the letter, only to use cheap/the wrong chocolate 😫😭
It obviously turned out delicious, regardless. Sorry you’re so easily triggered.
I would love to see Grace on Footasylum locked in 💚
yesss I’ve been meaning to make this recipe!!
I have a similar recipe that uses 1 tsp of expresso powder in the cake and 1/2 tsp in the frosting and no egg. Here in the United States we can't eat raw eggs.
Congratulations 🎉 on your pregnancy Grace!
💖🌷
I play Christmas 🎄 music and movies all year long. It’s my purgative is how I see it.
You could do 9 months of cakes leading up to the birth of your baby. Trying a different cake recipe each month.
This looks like the choc cake from Matilda. So moist and choccy. 😋😋😋
Ina (pronounced EYE-na), typically uses instant Espresso powder not ordinary instant coffee. It’s not as strong and enhances the chocolate flavor.
Yep. Agree 💯 Real coffee in chocolate cake is amazing but the instant usually leaves much to be desired. That said, I use the instant powder in the dark swirl in my mocha marble cake for color and intense flavor, but there it’s balanced by the light cocoa-vanilla flavor, the rich sour cream, and the sweetness of the rest of the cake.
@@annemarson4144 Oops. I see that, now. That's what I get for multitasking!
I don't know why but this video was so relaxing 😌Now I want to eat a chocolate cake😂
Looks great. Congrats
I think coffee shouldn't have been used in the icing but it still looks delicious 😋
Yes, the Tom cruise coconut cake🤤
I'm not keen on frosting, because usually it's a really sweet. But a good frosting, I love lol
The coffee in the frosting actually would have tasted amazing to me, I don't like sweet frosting either.