Homemade Chocolate Cake Perfect For Valentine’s Day

If you are looking for a great Valentine’s Day dessert recipe to impress your loved one, you have to make this Homemade Chocolate Cake!

Rich, delicious, and moist cake topped with a creamy frosting. You can make it as a double or triple stacked cake. However you can also keep it simple and make it in a 9 x 13 pan for a single layer cake.

Regardless of how you decide form your cake, you are going to fall in love with the taste and texture.

Although the cake has great chocolate flavor, it isn’t overbearing. And the texture is light, fluffy, and moist.

There is nothing worse than putting your fork through a piece of cake and it crumbles all over the plate. You definitely don’t have to worry about that with this special Valentine’s Day cake!

Homemade Chocolate Cake Recipe

CAKE Ingredients:

Sugar
All-purpose flour
Cocoa
Baking powder
Baking soda
Salt
Eggs
Milk
Vegetable oil
Vanilla extract
Hot water or hot coffee

Chocolate Cake FROSTING Ingredients:

Butter
Cocoa
Powdered sugar
Milk
Vanilla extract

Instructions:

Start by preheating your oven and grease and flour your cake pan(s). To make this chocolate cake you can use three 8 inch round cake pans, two 9 inch round cake pans, or a single 9 x 13 baking pan.

In a large mixing bowl add sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Then whisk until well incorporated.

Now it is time to add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla to the mixture. Once everything is in the bowl beat on medium speed using a hand mixer or the paddle attachment of a stand mixer for 2 minutes.

Next slowly add the hot water or coffee and slowly mix it in the chocolate cake batter. It will take a few minutes for the liquid to be absorbed into the other ingredients so be patient. It will eventually mix together and look like traditional, thin cake batter.

Then evenly pour the batter into the greased and prepared pans.

Baking Instructions

Place the pans in the preheated oven and bake until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  

This will take approximately 30-35 minutes for the round cake pans and 35-40 minutes for a 9 x 13 pan.

Once the chocolate cake is baked through, remove it from the oven and let it sit and rest in the pan for 10 minutes.  Then carefully remove the cake from the pans and finish cooling on wire racks.

Make Your Icing

While you let the cake cool completely make your icing. In a medium mixing bowl add melted butter and stir in the cocoa.

Then slowly add half of the powdered sugar and the milk and mix until most of the powdered sugar is incorporated. Now continue to add the remaining powdered sugar and mix until it is at a frosting consistency.

Now stir in the vanilla. If the frosting is too thick, add a little milk to the mixture. On the contrary, if it is too thin, add a few teaspoons of powdered sugar.

Once the chocolate cake is completely cooled, ice the cake as desired.

Enjoy!

Mary and Jim

Jim and Mary Competti have been writing gardening, DIY and recipe articles and books for over 15 years from their 46 acre Ohio farm. The two are frequent speakers on all things gardening and love to travel in their spare time.

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