In my ongoing quest to figure out how to bake, I have set myself the task of baking 1 pie and 1 cake each month, trying different techniques and recipes over time. This month it was time to try out chocolate cake! The last time I tried this type of cake was kind of a disaster, so I was a little nervous. I read through a bunch of recipes and settled on this one. Really I should have looked for a regular chocolate cake recipe, but I just realized I don’t have normal cake pans. So bundt it is!
Anyway, it turned out well! The only substitution I made was that I did not have buttermilk, so I did the replacement trick of adding a tablespoon of lemon juice to regular milk and letting it thicken a bit. It worked out fine. I also threw in a half teaspoon of espresso powder I have on hand. It has a good chocolate flavor and is very moist. My brother and sister-in-law were visiting, and they gave it two thumbs up as well. I didn’t get a picture of it before we started eating, hence the partial cake.
I also did have to make it in my Halloween Haunted Mansion cake tin as it is the only one I have with the capacity for this recipe. Oh well – it is a tasty cake all the same!
I don’t know what the next baking experiment should be – something different from what I’ve done, but not too difficult… Any suggestions?
Quite A Yarn 
Mississippi mud pie and a traditional Victoria sponge cake with fresh cream and strawberries could be next, but you’d need to pick up some traditional cake tins.
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Oooo – those are great ideas! I will need to do that at some point in any case 🙂
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I love your cake pan collection. I look forward to seeing what will be baked in what shape next! The cake looks delicious!
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LOL! Me too! It did turn out really well 🙂 I love bundt pans – so pretty and sometimes unexpectedly wacky!
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I checked out the recipe. Chocolate cakes with oil and coffee make the best cakes!
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Agreed!
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Well my goodness, that looks moist and delicious. Have you made hand pies yet? That would be a fun pie to try. Smitten Kitchen has a very good banana cake with chocolate frosting that is so good when I think about it I start to look to see if we have the ingredients.
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I have not made hand pies, but that is a great thought! That sounds like a pretty delicious cake!
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That looks yummy! My biggest problem with Bundt cake pans is that they take up so much space. I’ve been considering the idea of learning to make a pound cake, but I don’t know if that’s something that interests you. One bonus is that it uses a loaf pan and not a cake tin, so you might not need to buy new kitchen supplies just yet.
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They do take up a lot of space! I’m struggling with that right now 🙂 Pound cake is a great experiment idea!
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Pound cake (store bought) was my dessert of choice when I was in college. I kept one in the freezer at all times. I didn’t always even thaw it before slicing off a piece to eat. 🙂
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That sounds good!
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Yum! That is amazing that you are baking 1 pie and 1 cake a month!
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It seemed like a good way to keep myself going with it, but not get overwhelmed.
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