Hey there, one and all. Does anyone have a really good recipe for a lighter chocolate cake? Not "lite", but more like a milk chocolate as opposed to really dark chocolate cake. I have a Bride who likes chocolate cake, but told me that she doesn't like it "so fudgy". I was thinking of just doing a box mix, combining a white mix with a chocolate fudge mix and baking that (it would be like marble cake only all mixed together as one).

Does anyone have any other thoughts on this? I would really LOVE to make it from scratch (thte wedding is this Saturday), but if I can't a doctored box will be fine. I can always "goose it up" a little.

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Odessa

Hi, my family is not a dark chocolate fan either (which I personally don't understand ) so what I've done for choc cake is used Devil's Food Box mix with devil's food pudding mix, extra egg, 1 cup of water and double the oil. It gets rave reviews. HTH

Delia

I use the recipe on the back of the Hershey Cocoa box, it's very light and moist. I don't think I would call it milk chocolate but someone I made it for called it that, I made it 3 layers with choc buttercream and she loved it!

The Duncan Hines Milk Chocolate cake mix is pretty good and not so dark. I only use cake mixes, so no scratch recipe.

I recommend this one:

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/recipe.asp?article=1094

The recipe is only for a 7in cake though - so you will need to scale it up:

PER LAYER
For 6in cake - 1/2 x recipe
For 8in cake - 1 x recipe
For 10in cake - 2 x recipe
For 12in cake - 3 x recipe
For 14in cake 4 x recipe[/u]

You could try doctoring up a German chocolate mix, or use Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate.

I second the German chocolate idea. Chocolatey but not TOO chocolately!

It is probably too late but the Hellman's chocolate cake is awesome! I have heard that this has been out forever and is tried and true with me and my family. It is:
1box Duncan Heinz Devils Food cake mix
1cup hellmans mayo
1 cup water
3 eggs
1 tsp ground cinnamon

beat all ingrediants for 2 minutes, pour into 2 greased and floured 8 inch pans. bake at 350 for 30 mins.

I dont know who created this recipe as it was hand written and handed down to me. I can only imagine it was Hellmans or somebody along time ago. Let me know if you know so that they can get proper credit.