Best Ever Chocolate Cake Recipe

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Best Ever Chocolate Cake
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Ingredients
16
Count
Nutrition
720
Calories
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Cake: Combine cocoa and boiling water until smooth. Cool
  2. Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Beat on high for 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Starting and ending with flour, alternately add flour mixture and cocoa water mixture to butter & sugar mixture, beating at low speed. Do not overbeat. Pour batter into 3 9 greased and floured cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan, remove from pans and cool completely. FILLING Beat cream and vanilla until foamy; gradually add the powdered sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Chill until ready to assemble the cake. FROSTING Combine chocolate chips, half & half, and butter in saucepan and heat until chips are melted. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar. Mix well. Set pan over ice water and beat until set and loses gloss. Add few drops of half & half if needed to thing. Use whipped cream between layers. Frost top and sides with frosting. Can add raspberries or sliced strawberries on top of cream.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 720.03 Kcal (3015 kJ)
Calories from fat 369.75 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 41.08g 63%
Cholesterol 143.16mg 48%
Sodium 512.96mg 21%
Potassium 396.58mg 8%
Total Carbs 82.47g 27%
Sugars 50.6g 202%
Dietary Fiber 2.64g 11%
Protein 8.06g 16%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.3mg 11%
Iron 1.2mg 7%
Calcium 81.8mg 8%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 342.89 Kcal (1436 kJ)
Calories from fat 176.08 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.56g 63%
Cholesterol 68.18mg 48%
Sodium 244.28mg 21%
Potassium 188.86mg 8%
Total Carbs 39.27g 27%
Sugars 24.1g 202%
Dietary Fiber 1.26g 11%
Protein 3.84g 16%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 11%
Iron 0.6mg 7%
Calcium 39mg 8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 17.3
    Points
  • 20
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar

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