Comments on: Chocolate Cake

By: Julie @White Lights on Wednesday

Julie @White Lights on Wednesday — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000

I found your cake through Pinterest. I love coffee with chocolate. I can’t to try this cake some day soon. I’m featuring your recipe on my Chocolate Cake Day post today.

http://whitelightsonwednesday.blogspot.com/2012/01/chocolate-cake-day.html

By: KC

KC — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:19:58 +0000

I made this last weekend and it was THE best! The cake was moist and the espresso buttercream was perfect. The ganache really did put it over the top. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but this would be perfect even without the ganache! I might even try making extra espresso buttercream for the outside as an alternative. I know I’ll be making this again and again.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:08:45 +0000

I used this recipe with one change! Instead of 2/3 cup cocoa powder, I used 1 standard size box of instant chocolate pudding mix, which is a little over 1/3 cup, and I used a little under 1/3 cup of cocoa powder. This was to make the cake richer and more moist – and it definitely worked! Try it

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:56:23 +0000

I just finished the last piece of this cake and I’m already missing it! Made it monday when my mom was visiting (for my birthday) and she’s not really a baker but successfully baked it up for me. I’m more of a peanut butter girl so we used a peanut butter buttercream (http://www.marthastewart.com/312753/peanut-butter-buttercream – increase the powdered sugar in this recipe to 1 cup) in place of the espresso. This cake was beautiful to look at and the best I’ve had. And I am a maniac for chocolate cake. Can’t wait to make it again and again experimenting with different buttercreams. Thanks so much for the recipe!

By: Jana

Jana — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:38 +0000

This looks and sounds soooo delicious! I hope I take the time one day to make it…
Awesome pictures, btw

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:19:19 +0000

This cake was *so* perfect – gorgeous and delicious! Thanks for sharing!!

By: Coralie

Coralie — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:03:32 +0000

Oh my gosh, thank you for giving me this recipe! I absolutely loved it! The cake turned our SO well for me, I made it for my daughter’s birthday party, and her, and her friends loved it! (the parents did too!) It was great, this is the first recipe I have tried from you, and it was such a success, I will have to start using more! I found about this blog through a mom friend of mine, and I can’t wait to get more into it! Thanks!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:45:55 +0000

Never really worked with ganache. Can it be piped??

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:58:26 +0000

I must admit I was a bit intimidated by this recipe but my son wanted a chocolate cake for his birthday, I have made numerous recipes from your site and I knew this cake would be out of this world! oh boy was it!! Everyone raved about it and could not believe I made it. It was moist, delicious, so flavorful- truly sinful!!! it will go in my “keep” file and will be making it again- on special occasions. My hips can’t take my making them too often… I made two recipes and the 5 sticks of butter made me a bit nervous….I used 1/2 of one of the recipes and made cupcakes with it, I cut a hole in the middle of the cupcakes for the buttercream, put the chocolate ganache on top, they were awesome as well!!!! the cupcakes disappeared in a heartbeat, i didn’t even get a chance to take a picture of it!! my 5 year old was over the moon asking me to make this for her birthday!!! thank you for sharing it, i am too becoming addicted to baking. You are such an inspiration!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:02:39 +0000

Hi, this cake looks absolutely delicious. I was wondering how much butter is used in making the frosting, and how much butter is used in making the ganache?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:34:16 +0000

Lazette-

The ganache shouldn’t “melt” when left at room temperature for such a short period of time. Hope it was delish!

-Jamie

By: lazette

lazette — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:08:40 +0000

I have a few questions, and I hope someone can answer. Will the ganache melt if left outside of the refrigerator? I’m planning to make one for a friend (actually, it’s done, yummy, YUMMY cake), but since he’ll be lagging it around until school’s over (which isn’t until 8pm, I’m giving it to him around 9am), I’m worried the ggnache might melt… Will it melt? I hope someone can reply, thanks!

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:05:16 +0000

This is definitely a recipe to try! I am always nervous cooking with eggs like that for the butter cream. Does adding the hot simple syrup cook the eggs? How do you avoid ending up with scrambled eggs?