Trader Joe's "Greatest and Easiest Chocolate Cake"

Submitted by raggedman

"Taken from a box of Trader Joe's Cocoa Powder. Pretty much the best thing ever, especially if you use really dark cocoa. I use a 9"x13" baking dish, which doesn't hold all the batter, so I pour the extra into a bread pan and it turns out great! This cake is particularly good with chocolate cream cheese frosting."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 cakes
• Serves: 26

ingredients

• 3 1⁄3 cups flour
• 1 1⁄3 cups cocoa powder
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 12 ounces butter
• 3 cups buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 eggs

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease and flour two 9" round baking pans.
3. Combine all ingredients except flour and buttermilk in a large mixing bowl and stir until well combined.
4. Stir in buttermilk.
5. Add flour and beat with an electric mixer for 3 minutes scraping down the sides of the bowl once during mixing.
6. Pour into pans and bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Reviews

[brushjl]

My son made this, it was pretty easy. I made it as cupcakes to be able to.give to friends. The buttermilk is a good addition.

 

[kerri.mahar]

Thank you for posting this. Trader Joe's has something else on the back of their cocoa powder now. I was a faithful follower of the chocolate lovers cake on the back of Hershey's cocoa powder, but this is even better. This is by far the best chocolate cake I have ever had/made. I have eaten a lot of chocolate cake and experimented with many. I must admit that for me, the key to a good cake is a good buttercream or cream cheese frosting. This cake is good enough to eat without frosting. (But why would you do that?) It does make a lot of cake and it rises a lot. I usually make a 3 layer cake from the one recipe. 9 inch rounds, and a little thin. But like I said, it rises a lot.