Chocolate Cake

Recipe Courtesy of Cathy Lowe

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (104)

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Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup boiling water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans by rubbing with butter, sprinkling with flour and tapping out extra. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix together with a wooden spoon then set aside. In small bowl combine eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Beat well with hand mixer. Slowly add boiling water and mix. Add wet ingredients to flour mixture and fold and stir until smooth. Pour batter into pans, dividing evenly. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Remove cake from pans and cool on racks.

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Mrs Beverly Hills, NY 01-29-2010
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Great Recipe, Copied from Hershey's!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Um, Food Network? This recipe is IDENTICAL to the HERSHEY'S "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" Chocolate Cake recipe found on the back of... the Hershey's Baking Cocoa can, and also on the Hershey's website. That being said, this recipe for chocolate cake is wonderful. Whenever I've attempted chocolate cake from scratch, it usually has a weird, flour-y and/or bland taste. This one has a great chocolate flavor, it's moist and dark, and just sweet enough. The batter is beyond thin -- it's actually watery, which is scary because it looks like it can't possibly bake, but it does. I split mine into two pans and needed the full bake time. Hershey's also publishes a chocolate frosting recipe to match this cake, and I highly recommend that too. It only needs cocoa for the chocolate flavor, and it's hard to find a recipe like that -- most chocolate frosting recipes require baking chocolate which you then have to melt. The instructions here from Cathy Lowe have a mistake in them -- you are supposed to add the boiling water at the end (AFTER blending wet with dry), not before. If you add it the way she says, you could end up cooking your eggs in the wet mixture -- not cool. Read more
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Ashlee Vinemont, AL 01-27-2010
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Delicious!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Very good cake! Will make again and again!
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Carm Plainfield, IL 01-13-2010
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Falls Apart
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

Cake tasted OK, but the batter is so thin, the cake doesn't set right.
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Maria Henderson, NV 12-16-2009
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easy to make
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made it several times already and I think is wonderful, my family liked it a lot
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Angela Los Angeles, CA 11-19-2009
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Loved it!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

After reading all the reviews, I thought I would give it a try. I saw that some had trouble and figured that would be me. To... my delight, this cake came out perfect. I loved the density, the flavor as di d those I shared this cake with. My only concern was the amount of time that it took me to put it all together. I know it was because it was my first time making the cake. I am looking forward to making this cake again. Read more
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Judith Frisco, TX 11-09-2009
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Easy and sooo good!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I was looking for a quick easy recipe to bake with my daughter, we added walnuts and turned the cake into muffins, thye were... so good and moist.Read more