The Only Chocolate Cake Recipe You'll Ever Need With Claire Saffitz | NYT Cooking

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I just love the fact that you get to learn the reasons why some ingredients go in a specific order or why they're added a certain way. Claire is phenomenal and I'm so happy to see her thrive in her element.

I made this recipe and it's absolutely FIRE. The cakes bake so perfectly!! Sour cream as a substitute for the creme fraishe worked wonderfully! I love how soft this cake is and it holds its shape so well! Thank you so much Claire, this recipe was super fire!!!

I’m not even halfway through this, and I’m so impressed with how well she explains everything. I’m learning things I never knew I wanted to know 😁

No one does it like Claire 👸🏼

I baked this cake. It was my first ever cake from scratch and it turned out PERFECT! So delicious! Thank you Claire! It's the perfect recipe and you made it so easy to follow. A+++

Ok I never comment but I had to come back to this video to comment. I have tried every chocolate cake recipe under the sun…… they’re always too crumbly, dry, or lack in flavor. This is truly the best. Perfect in every way. Flavorful, soft, stable. Now, my go-to recipe 🥲 Thank you so much Claire !!

Thank you so much for specifying "Not an electrician" at the begginning. I was actually here to get some electrical advices on Chocolate Cakes! Thank God I didn't waste my time! ❤

What I like about this cake is that despite the outward appearance of a very rustic and rough looking frosting, once you cut into it, you see these flawless and meticulously even layers that are no doubt the work of a perfectionist. I just think that it speaks a lot to who Claire is as a person

My Hungarian mother’s buttercream included a homemade pudding. When I lived in Germany during the 80’s my German landlady, who was locally famous for her baking, made frosting the same way. Less butter, less sweet, and just delicious!

The absolutely great thing about this is all the tips and tricks to make the cake look and taste fabulous! I'm 60 and just learned some awesome tips: cutting the round parchment, using parchment to keep the plate clean, always frost cut side down (seems obvious and yet😁). Thanks for not assuming we know all the small steps that make this beautiful and a definite keeper!

Claire, thank you so much for giving us amateurs the confidence and courage to take on baking this cake. I have cooked for my wife and kids for twenty-seven years but never baked anything. Your joy in cooking and helping us be better cooks is appreciated.

This is why I like Claire and her content. She has this deep bag of knowledge about baking and can scientifically explain why she chose to do what method. Shes the baking goat!

This is the BEST tutorial I have ever seen on anything on YouTube 🤯 She's so smart and she KNOWS her craft 🔥

I have now made this recipy a couple of times (followed it all to the letter no random substitutions) and honestly the cake itself is UNREAL I am not a big cake person but it was amazing! The only thing I would add is that the dark chocolate frosting is very rich, which for me was just a bit much. However I found that if I swapped about 3/4 of the dark chocolate in the frosting to milk that it was much easier to eat especially if you have picky eaters at the table. Regardless of that though this cake is spectacular!!! As always claire does it best and thank you as always for explaining the baking process fully as this would have helped me so much when I was first starting to bake!

Every year, for my birthday, my mother would make a little Joffre chocolate cake. She only had one pan, small and heart-shaped, and she baked the layers one by one. It took her at least half a day to make, bless her, and my favourite part was that I got to clean the chocolate cream off the spoons and the bowl 😂 This cake reminds me a lot of that, it probably tastes amazing and has great texture!

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realized that what I like about Claire's explanations of her process is that it sounds scientific. and I guess with baking, it is so precise that it is somewhat scientific. but I like do understand why something works or is important.

She is so thorough and detailed with her demonstration. I love her videos. ❤

So glad to see that the difficult nature of stopping smoothing frosting affects even Claire!