Yummiest Chocolate Cake Ever

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The World's BEST Chocolate Cake Recipe

Hattie's Chocolate Cake is the best home made chocolate layer cake in the world. Rich, dark, moist and toothy chocolate cake, made from scratch with a secret ingredient - just a hint of coffee ... mmmmm. This is my family's favorite chocolate cake. The world's yummiestchocolate cake is the only cake we bake for birthdays in this family of chocoholics. We also bake this chocolate cake for Valentine's Day.

If you would rather bake cupcakes, this chocolate cake recipe adapts easily - just use a cupcake pan with your favorite cupcake liners, then decorate each one to create miniature chocolate masterpieces.

This heavenly chocolate cake recipe was given to me by my mother-in-law when she was 90 years young. She got it from her sister-in-law Hattie.

This chocolate cake recipe been tested in many kitchens and countless tummies, by thousands of chocolate cake lovers.

Does this chocolate cake make me look fat? I don't care, I love Hattie's Chocolate Cake! It does your heart good to eat a bit of dark chocolate!

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Millie Celebrates Her 90th Birthday 

The lady behind the recipe for Yummiest Chocolate Cake Ever

Millie Rohrbach Hoch was my mother in law. She shared her favorite family recipe for chocolate cake with me a few years before she passed away. It's named after her sister in law Hattie, who shared the recipe with Millie when they were young homemakers in the 1930s.

Here's a photo of Millie blowing out the candles on her birthday cake at her 90th birthday dinner.

The Top Five Reasons Hattie's Chocolate Cake is the Yummiest 

  1. Rich and moist, dark chocolately goodness
  2. Home made from only the best ingredients and rich, dark cocoa
  3. Gets better every day - richer and moister chocolate flavor
  4. Great for your Heart - lots of dark cocoa!
  5. Tastes like the chocolate cake Grandma used to make

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Keep chocolate in a cool, dark place (unless it never makes it to storage). High temperatures will cause it to "bloom" and change texture.

Ingredients for Hattie's Chocolate Cake 

1/2 C. butter, softened
1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
3/4 C. baking cocoa
2 C. flour
pinch of salt
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 C. milk
1 C. strong coffee, cooled
1 tsp. vanilla

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Finest chocolate makes perfect chocolate cake

Chocolate Cake Instructions 

How to Mix and Bake a Perfect Chocolate Cake

Sift dry ingredients together; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy; beat in eggs 1 at a time.

Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk, beat gently until combined.

Add coffee and vanilla and stir until well blended.

Bake in 2 greased and floured cake pans at 350 degrees F until cake tests done with a toothpick in the center (start testing after about 20 minutes baking time).

Cool and remove layers from pans. Complete cooling on cake racks.

Fudgey Dark Chocolate Icing 

Deep dark brown chocolate, moist and delicious frosting

1/2 C. butter (1 stick) melted
1 box (2 C.) confectioner's sugar
2 Tbl. Cocoa (+/- to suit your chocolate desire)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. milk

Melt butter in saucepan; remove from heat and stir in sugar and cocoa, then vanilla and milk.
Stir until glossy and thick. Cool slightly and spread on cake.

Variations on Chocolate Cake 

It's hard to improve on a perfect chocolate cake ... unless you add whipped cream

1. Substitute butter cream frosting for chocolate icing, and decorate cake top with chocolate curls or sprinkles.

2. Split layers into two thinner layers each after cake is thoroughly cooled. Spread sweetened whipped cream filling between all the layers, then frost sides and top with butter cream frosting or chocolate icing.

3. If using whipped cream filling, add 1 tsp mint extract while whipping. Chocolate mint delight - yum.

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