Chocolate Fudge Cake is a rich and velvety chocolate cake with a chocolate fudge filling and a sweet and buttery chocolate buttercream.
You guys! How can you not love this cake? We have a rich chocolate cake - that rivals my Ultimate Chocolate Lovers Cake - made with oil as the base instead of butter. This results in an ultra moist and dense cake.
We then fill it with a chocolate fudge filling. The filling is a cross between fudge and frosting. We use butter, icing sugar, water and cocoa like an icing recipe but then we add melted chocolate and keep the consistency thick so it will set like fudge and melt in the mouth when bitten into.
Cover the cake in a rich chocolate buttercream and you have a winner.
The buttercream is sweet, the fudge is rich and the cake is somewhere in the middle. A perfect marriage of chocolate flavors and textures don't you think?
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Chocolate Fudge Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake;
- ½ Cup Vegetable Oil or Rice Bran Oil (125ml)
- 1 Cup Milk (250ml)
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 and ½ Cups Sugar (150g)
- 1 and ¾ Cups All Purpose Flour (210g)
- 1 Cup Cocoa Powder (95g)
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 Cup Water (250ml)
Fudge Filling;
- ½ Cup Dark Chocolate (90g)
- ¼ Cup Butter, Softened (55g)
- 1 and ½ Cups Icing Sugar (180g)
- 2-3 Tbsp. Water
- ¼ Cup Cocoa (24g)
Chocolate Buttercream;
- ¾ Cup Butter, Softened (170g)
- 2 and ½-3 Cups Icing Sugar (300-360g)
- ¼ Cup Cocoa (24g)
- ¼ Cup Milk (62ml)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350º F).
- Line two 20cm (9-inch) round cake pans with baking paper and spray with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, combine the oil, milk, eggs and vanilla extract and mix together.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix either by hand or on a low speed of a hand mixer. Don't over-mix.
- Add the water and combine. The batter will be thin.
- Pour the batter into both of the pans and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick poked into the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing cakes from the pans.
- Allow to cool completely before filling and icing.
Fudge Filling;
- Melt the chocolate.
- Add in the icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix.
- Mix through the softened butter.
- Add in a tablespoon of water at a time. You want the batter thick but pliable.
- Spread over the top of one of the cakes and place the second cake on top.
Chocolate Buttercream;
- Beat the butter and the cocoa powder together.
- Slowly beat in the icing sugar and milk.
- Add more milk as needed until you have a thick and spreadable consistency.
- Spread over the top of the cake and either let the buttercream flow down the sides of the cake for a more rustic look or cover the sides for a prettier look.
Nutrition
Noah little
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Noah Little
Hello, would you recommend natural or dutch cocoa for the cake and for the icing. I see that baking soda is used, which leads me to think that natural cocoa is the way to go, but I wanted to check to be sure. Thank you.
Emma Burton
Hi Noah, sorry for my late reply. Yes, I used natural cocoa in my cake for both the cake and icing. I have not tried with dutch cocoa but you could definitely give it a go but I cannot vouch for the results of the cake. Dutch cocoa would be fine in the icing
Noah little
Hello, I am about to make this recipe for the first time, and I wanted to check to see if I needed to use dutch or natural cocoa for both the cake and the icing? I see that baking soda is used which tells me that this recipe most likely calls for natural coca, but the cake in your images looks dark like oreo, which leads me to think that dutch cocoa should be used. Which would you recommend for the can and which for the icing? Thank you!
Rose Martine
YUMMY!!!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe! I’ve heard about your blog a couple of times and will now spend my afternoon reading 🙂