How to Make the Easiest Chocolate Cake From Scratch 🍫 🍰 _ Easy & Quick Homemade Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake is easy .

It's fast and it comes together in one bowl and one pan .

I dare you to find a simpler recipe .

Now , y'all know I don't bake but sometimes everyone needs a little homemade chocolate .

When searching for the easiest cake recipe ever on all recipes .

I found this one .

It's called a one bowl chocolate cake .

This is five star recipe .

It has over 4000 ratings and over 3000 reviews definitely check this one out .

We'll start by mixing our dry ingredients together in this bowl and then we'll add our wet ingredients to that and get it going .

These are all items you already have in your pantry most likely .

So you probably can make this cake without even having to go out and buy anything .

I forgot to add the salt right now for the wet ingredients .

You can dump them straight in since I'm already measuring them out .

I like to mix them together in the measuring cup and then pour them in .

No fancy big stand mixer required for this recipe .

Just a good old whisk and then we're gonna whisk it a cup of boiling water , your batter is gonna be really thin .

That's ok .

It will all work out .

Another great thing I love about this recipe is that you don't even need those little round cake pans .

We're still gonna layer it if you want and it's still gonna look like what you would get at the grocery store for about like a fraction of the price .

So I like to have a rimmed baking sheet .

This is a half sheet pan ready to go lined with parchment and sprayed with cooking spray for extra insurance .

It goes into a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes .

Come on y'all , you can bake this faster than you can order one voila cake .

Now you have some decisions to make , you can serve this up in a sheet cake style .

This makes it really easy to serve at a party .

But if you wanna make that fancy grocery store style cake with some layers , I'm gonna show you how to do that .

Either way you're gonna let it cool in the pan for about 5 to 10 minutes , then we're going to flip it out .

If we're gonna layer it or you can just leave it right here in the pan to make it even easier .

I'm also going to make a homemade frosting , not the store box stuff , even though you know , I've used that in the past .

Now , I have said before that even if you used a box cake mix , homemade frosting does make the difference .

You can tell a difference in the taste of what comes out of that canister and the homemade version .

You can do this whole thing by hand if you want .

I'm a little bit lazy for that .

So I am gonna break out the hand mixer , but everyone has one of these right .

I can't stress this enough .

If I can do this recipe .

You can too .

I mean easy and cake together is something I didn't know existed until today .

Right now .

We put the two together .

All right to flip it because this cake is a little bit sticky .

You wanna put another parchment on top and then set a pan or a cutting board on top of that and then flip it over again .

In my opinion , it's done .

We can ice it and move on .

But I'm gonna show you how to make it extra special for a birthday .

The first things first , you gotta let your cake cool .

Absolutely completely .

You can even refrigerate it .

That's gonna make the icing go on easier and then we're just gonna cut it in half and layer it that way .

I went ahead and made an extra one so that you can see what it looks like .

If you just left it in the pan , iced it like this look .

You can decorate , right ?

Happy Birthday camera boy on the top .

And I mean , that's a perfectly fine birthday cake and it's delicious .

But I'm gonna show you how to make the layered old school birthday cake , right ?

So I've got half of it on my serving platter .

I'm going to just like mommy used to teach tuck some parchment or wax paper along the edges so that we can remove them afterwards and we don't get our platter all messy .

All right , we're gonna get some frosting in the middle and then we'll put our second half on top .

I did make a double batch of the frosting .

If you're gonna layer your cake , otherwise one batch will cover just the top .

I did it at this point .

You can decorate it however you want because this is perfect for any occasion , but it's also great just for a dinner party .

You know , the perfect dessert at the end of a meal .

That is a perfect chocolate cake and it's always better when it's easy .

All right , let's cut a piece out and see just how I did .

I had to quit while I was ahead because we all know my decorating skills , you know , aren't top notch .

It's all about how it tastes anyway .

I can already tell it's gonna melt in my mouth .

Mm .

Oh man , I'm telling you .

It is so rich and chocolate .

It is so good .

It's perfect .

Calling all chocoholics .

You have to make this cake and we barely have any dishes to do .

I promise when it comes to baking the easiest cake ever , you can cook that .

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And we barely have any dishes to do .

I made multiple cakes .

Ok .