The Best Chocolate Cake You Ever Ate

Published May 22, 2012. Updated March 18, 2024

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The Best Chocolate Cake You Ever Ate is just that—a chocolate cake that is more delicious than any cake you’ve ever had the pleasure of eating. What’s the secret? You’ll have to make it to find out. 

Ahh cake, doesn’t it just make life good? And what makes life really good? A moist, lightly fudgy, perfectly chocolaty, slightly dense, kissed with cinnamon piece of the perfect chocolate cake frosted in a rich, fudge-like frosting. Haha I’m kidding, kind of. I know if someone were to hand me a piece of this cake on “one of those days” it would rapidly change from being “one of those days” into being a fabulous day.

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Best Chocolate Cake

I got this recipe from my sister, whom got it from allrecipes. I’m quite certain it’s a recipe for chocolate cake that cannot be topped. There’s not outdoing this one. It is simply as it’s named “The Best Chocolate Cake You Ever Ate.” Everything about this cake is divine. I made several of my own adjustments to the recipe, just follow the allrecipes link above to view the original recipe.

I almost forgot to mention the best part of this recipe (after it’s incredible taste of course), you frost it right out of the oven while it’s hot. No waiting an hour for the cake to cool to frost it! Amazing no? Just one more reason this is truly the perfect cake.

This is the perfect cake for the chocolate lover, and would make an excellent birthday cake! Experiment with sprinkles, fruit, coconut, and any other toppers that you can layer above the frosting to make it even more fun and festive, if you wish. But I won’t judge you if you want to make it for a random Tuesday. Sometimes you just need a perfect chocolate treat.

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The Best Chocolate Cake You Ever Ate

Deliciously moist and chocolatey cake covered with a rich fudgy frosting. Everyone will love this cake! I love that you don't have to wait for cake to cool to frost.
Servings: 16
Prep30 minutes
Cook35 minutes
Ready in: 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, set aside. Melt butter in a saucepan then stir in applesauce, cocoa powder and water and bring mixture just to a boil, whisking constantly. Pour hot butter mixture into flour mixture and stir. 
  • Add in buttermilk, eggs and vanilla and whisk mixture until well combine. Pour mixture into a buttered 13x9 baking dish and bake 25-28 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, prepare frosting during the last 5 minutes of cake baking. 
  • Immediately after removing cake from oven, pour (or dollop frosting by the spoonfuls) over hot cake and gently spread over entire cake.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

  • In a medium saucepan, combine butter and cocoa powder and bring mixture just to a boil, stirring constantly to break up cocoa powder. Remove from heat and stir in milk, powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until well combine. 
  • If mixture is too thick to stir by hand beat it with an electric hand mixer on low speed until well blended. Immediately spread over hot cake before frosting begins to set. If adding sprinkles add right away before frosting starts to set.
  • Recipe Source: adapted slightly from allrecipes

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68 Comments

  • Meg

    Hi Jaclyn!
    Do you happen to know if this bakes up well in a bundt pan?
    Thanks so much in advance! This cake looks delicious. :)
    Cheers!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      I haven’t tried yet but I’d imagine it would just fine as long is it’s not over-filled.

  • carla

    Hallo ! This cake looks so yummy. I want to make it for my daughter’s birthday but will need to make it in advance and freeze it for about a week. So I wanted to know if this cake freezes well and also, if I can wait to put the icing on when I have defrosted it – will that work ?
    Thanks !

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      I rarely freeze cake, as in a few times in my life and this happened to be one of them. I just froze it with the icing – it’s best to add the icing on when the cake is warm so it soaks into the cake a little. So you may want to frost first but it should work okay either way. I hope you and your daughter love it Carla!

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    Hi there, I want to subscribe for this blog to
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    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Hi – where it says “keep updated” on the upper right side of my blog, just underneath that is a box to enter your e-mail address.

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      I wouldn’t recommend it simply because this is a very moist and almost dense cake and the coca cola tres leches needs more of a light and dry cake to be able to absorb all the liquids that are added after baking. I do need to come up with a made from scratch method someday though =).

  • TxGal

    This is almost the same exact recipe for wonderful Texas Sheet cake … a long-standing tradition for parties, bbqs and potlucks around here !
    The only differences I see are, Texas Sheet cake uses all butter and no oil, and it’s usually made in a sheet cake pan (aka jelly roll pan @11 x 15) but great in a 9 x 13 too !
    Love your site !!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Thanks so much! This actually does taste quite similar to a sheet cake so maybe the person that created the original recipe had that in mind =).

  • Brandi

    I made this cake for my hubby’s birthday and it was wonderful! Stays really moist too! Thanks for a new “go to” recipe! ;)

  • Nisa Homey

    I was wondering whether there is any substitute for applesauce??? I badly want to bake this cake…

    • Jaclyn

      Vegetable oil, that’s what the original recipe call for =). I hope you love it.

  • Anonymous

    Just made this cake. It is fabulous. My family loves it and now I know that this cake will be on my go-to list for ever. Thanks for the assist!