Cant wait! Anyway, not a sponsored (lol, of course) opinion but Im thrilled youre enjoying the site. My mom has been making it my whole life always iced with butter frosting. Didnt notice until I tasted itit rose beautifully (1 1/8 tsp baking soda), and tasted a little bland but not terrible. This was great! 1 Cup All-Purpose Flour, Cup Cocoa Powder, teaspoon Baking Powder, teaspoon Baking Soda, 1 Cup & 2 tablespoon Granulated Sugar, cup Brown Sugar. I LOVE this cake recipe. Thanks for the recipe! I followed the recipe (minus the glaze) and it turned out excellent! Melt it in a saucepan on the stove, low heat, watch it carefully. It looked terrible but was tasty! Thank you! I originally made it for the family vegan with a raspberry sauce. Its so moist and fudgy already, and the top crust has a chewiness I adore that I suspect the glaze would interfere with. The only thing I had to adjust was the baking time. I read the comments and put some of the extra batter in a small dish so it didnt overflow. Im making this right now. Just delicious!!!! Made this a few days ago while were all stuck inside amid the pandemic here in NYC perfect recipe for right now when eggs and butter arent easy to find. P.S. Im sorry if its already been asked, but does this cake freeze well? I just let it cool in the pan and it sunk a little, but not enough to bother me. :). It took around 45-50 min. Ive made it so many times over the past couple of years, so I thought Id comment on it to say thanks. I used the weight measurements too. Cheated and deflated. I love this cake! We ate it anyway. Instructions. I added a tad more olive oil and tried to coax the mixture to a more liquid state. One question: my cocoa (yes, its T.Joe too) seems to be super light: 3/4 cup is like 35 grams! rest was the same easy to put together & clean up The best cake recipe ever with very easy steps and readily available ingredients. Ive made this luscious cake many times. I also used Bobs Red Mill 1-to-1 gluten free flour because of my stepdaughters wheat allergy. Could this have anything to do with my suddenly soupy cake? It came out incredibly dense and tasted like mochi cake. Oh My Wow. Came out a bit fudgier than that one, but perfect and delicious. The cake is wonderfully dark and the coffee works perfectly, but its as light as any cake Ive ever baked. If anything, my cake domed a little definitely no caving! Id love to see a Smitten Kitchen amazing version of that: a vegan white wine olive oil birthday cake for grownups. Like the chocolate magic shell dip you used to be able to get at ice cream parlors. I didnt have the ingredients for the glaze, so I sprinkled powdered sugar on top and served with a few raspberries as a garnish. The glaze was perfect texture and flavor. What I love most about you and this site is that I can see your similar culinary stretches and taking chances, but instead of walking away in a huff forever, youll come back a month or year or five years later and keep tweaking. Webcandace nelson chocolate olive oil cake candace nelson chocolate olive oil cake. I cant wait to try an olive oil version!! There was a distinct olive oil flavour on the day of baking, but on the second day it is not very noticeable. Deb, my glaze ended up being frosting. I also used Costco olive oil. Let me know your thoughts!! Beat on high speed for 30 seconds. Skip the icing. shortbread in the book with rosemary and chocolate chunks and sea salt and its not pretty at all, or its not when I make it, but we love them. I used coconut oil in place of the olive oil as that is what I had on hand. Just wondering if you had come across it before? Oh, and it took about ~35 minutes total to bake. Went on beautifully. I hope this helps because this cake is such a winner. Also used 1/4 cups special dark cocoa from Hershey and the rest, Natural Cocoa from Trader Joes. I do not comprehend. Maybe melted butter? Like other bakers, my cake overflowed the 9 inch baking pan and took an additional 10 minutes to bake (45 minutes total). I baked in a 9 inch pan for 33 minutes. Deb, you are a life saver I need to make a vegan cake for a co-worker but left myself with little time. I was wondering if this could be successfully converted into cupcakes, and if so, would you recommend changing the baking time. Waiting anxiously, My coworker made this cake and sent me the recipe. You can also skip it. Because the batter I made was way more soupy than in any cake Ive ever made, and then although the cake seemed baked after about 34 minutes (springy, tester with a couple of crumbs on it), when I went to turn it out of the pan it made a huge mess, with all this gravy-like goop under the cake, which proceeded to slop all over my counter and floor. It was delicious and even better throughout the week. Cant wait to see you! This is perfect. This looks amazing I absolutely need to try this cake! I love chocolate cake, but I never tried chocolate olive oil cake. This is an amazing helpful website but I am getting overwhelmed with plugs for the book and other ads. What that is about, I do not know because I did spray the parchment with cooking spray. Need. I often sub canola oil for olive oil for flavor reasons and always use coffee instead of water. My partner is a chocoholic, and this cake got the biggest rave from him ever (and I have made a LOT of different chocolate cakes.) Love and hugs! No changes to the recipe except that I dont put frosting on top. Now I no longer feel like Im missing out. Perhaps but its not about the taste of the vinegar (you wont taste it) but activating the baking soda. I rescued it, but it was rather explosive. I made this cake for the third time this past weekend. Thanks! hee hee, I like your typo. Its been my go-to chocolate cake for years. Maybe because it was never my favorite . Some posts said to reduce the baking soda but her recipe called for 1 tsp and we are at sea level so it cant be altitude either. Hi Deb, It is the only cake I can count on to come out great. Id add some if you want the flavor, but would be nervous to use a less acidic vinegar. (Cause there definitely will be a next time!). Deb, come to New Zealand on your tour and escape the horrible winter weather in December and January! Made this tonight with a couple of slight modifications cut baking soda to 1 tsp, as recommended by other commenters, and subbed butter for half of the olive oil in the cake and coconut oil for half of the olive oil in the glaze. of xanthan gum. We had a blast (oh yeswe started out with Jasmines, a tip of the hat to one of your fans, David Lebovitz)! I made this last night wouldve been 2 nights ago but I realized we had no cocoa powder, the horror! Has always turned out well when Ive used the wacky cake recipe so am confident Debs recipe would be good made with GF flours. Will skip the glaze next time. Set aside. Thank you so much! Ill be trying this recipe again, but a little different next time. How many ml the honey be? Coat bottom of a 9-in. I will play with the baking soda amount next time. Add water and vanilla to melted chocolate and stir (stir stir) until completely smooth (it will eventually get smooth!). Im wanting to try to adapt this concept to a ginger bread cake. I made this cake as well and it took 10 or so minutes longer to bake than the stated time in the recipe and even then, it was very moist, and more dense and fudgy than I expected I think with this cake it may be better to err on the side of baking over the stated time. ..and Ill try coconut nectar instead of corn syrup on the glaze with the coconut oil cake; and maybe honey? Result was delicious and moist, but warning: it did stick to the cake pan sides much more than expected so the sides looked less finished, and it baked for 40 min (all of this is in line with other comments). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! It is so moist and fudgy, like a brownie. No problems whatsoever. Ive made this cake many times for family- Ive got vegan and GF cousins and with the bobs red mill 1:1 this satisfies everyones needs. I made this for a vegan friend for her birthday, and everyone agreed that it was better than most non-vegan chocolate cakes! It has overflowed into the oven and burned, made a huge smoky mess. Unfortunately, it DID NOT WORK!!! As usual:). I reduced the baking soda to 1 tsp but in a 9 inch round pan I had to bake it about 45 minutes. Tonight, yearning for a piece, I took it out of the freezer and cut thin, 2 slices. This worked out well for me. My Husbands birthday next week, He loves chocolate very much. So I made it again. P.s. Do you have any high altitude recommendations? Thanks! sigh. Having said all this: the flavor and texture of the cake itself was DIVINE. It does make me want to screech and pull my hair out to have to cook like this, but sometimes I do. Yes here are a bunch of comments with tips from people who made it as cupcakes: I will have to keep this in my back paocket for when I dont have eggs on hand. Are you at altitude? Abandon ship? Thank you. Im a loaf kind of girl and my 9X5 gets much love. I have made this recipe a few times now. Big fan of wacky cakes, KAF has several variations. Preheat oven to 350F. I switched out butter for the olive oil, since my costco brand EVOO was not something I wanted to emphasize in a cake, and i dialed back the sugar to 1 cup. I preferred the cake heated over room temp/cooled & it actually reminded me of a lava cake, ha. and it was so easy and delicious! (My olive oil is *very* olivey, and I was afraid it might overwhelm the other flavors.) Delicious. One layer crumbled out of the pan so I glued it together with ganache (not vegan but a delicious fix!) 1/2 C of Herseys cocoa powder I delivered to my husbands office still warm. Huge success! With coffee, Id probably be in heaven. Ariel Did you make this in a 9 x 13 pan? Measure and sift the cocoa powder Mine made way more than 12, I made 18 cupcakes, but the 18 min in the oven was spot on and super helpful! This was delicious! I have made wacky cake for close to thirty years as our younger daughter is allergic to eggs. My chocolate icing often comes out grainy. Deb, I have been looking for a good dairy free coco powder for a co-worker who is dairy/nut free due to allergies. Better than any restaurant dessert Ive ever had! WebInstructions. It was fully baked but the center still sunk a bit. Id call that success! This is tasty but, as my kids pointed out, even prettier with star-shaped-sprinkes! Being the intelligent young adult that he is, he said Of course not! Both times I made it with coffee instead of water. The spouses family mentioned it months later. Ok. Do not know what happened here. I would say I am pretty seasoned cook and followed the instructions to the letter. When I checked the cake at one point, it was nearly therea toothpick came out cleanand with a butter cake, I would have stopped there. I just made the cake after work today. What a quick, easy and delicious dessert to make for friends, especially those who cant eat eggs/are vegan! I had all the ingredients at home, and so I couldnt simply not make this. I have made this cake twice now it is the best chocolate cake Ive ever made. I want to make 1 9 x 13 cake for my sons birthday. I might add cinnamon this time (as other commenters have mentioned) since I usually add it to baked goods that dont already call for it. Thanks! I used 1 tsp baking soda based on other comments but might try it with the full amount. I made this today following the recipe exactly, using coffee as the liquid. I got a slight depression too which I thought might have been because I opened the oven and tested at 30 mins when the cake was still basically liquid. But I could tell from the top that it was still just a titch gummy, and I knew that was a frequent complaint. Or is it more a matter of taste preference? Lastly, went with the other recipe notes and did 1 tsp of baking soda per cake (so 2 tsp total). How great would that be? Alchemy. I stumbled across it in a Moosewood Cookbook probably 16 years ago and its been my family everyday cake ever since! 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