“Perfectly Chocolate” Whoopie Cakes Recipe/VIDEO

“Perfectly Chocolate” Whoopie Cakes Recipe/VIDEO

These “perfectly chocolate” whoopie cakes are a homemade Hershey’s Cocoa chocolate cake recipe that I have been making for 20 years now!  Once you see how easy it is the make these moist and chocolately homemade chocolate cakes you’ll never go back to the box again! Besides on my blog you can find this recipe right on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa canister.

I was first turned on to the recipe by a mother-daughter baking team that I met 20 years ago. They were professional baking contestants from the Midwest who had won numerous times. My quest at the time was to find the “perfect” chocolate cake and their answer was to start with the Hershey’s Cocoa recipe. Not that the name itself on the back of the Hershey canister for this chocolate cake recipe wasn’t “perfect” enough I just couldn’t take the irony of it all so off I was trying out the recipe and baking this cake! It had such a lovely texture without being too dense or heavy, oh so chocolaty and moist to top it off. The amount of steps and effort put in to making this cake is pretty much equal to that of making a box cake so why would you ever resort back to making box ever again. I have made many other chocolate cake recipes but I always go back to the Hershey’s Cocoa recipe!

The Hershey’s “perfectly chocolate” chocolate frosting is one that should not be over looked either. The frosting is amazing and one of my favorite go to recipes totally blowing away that “canned” stuff with the plastic lid. When I make my whoopie cakes I use my friend Cheryl’s recipe for the creme filling consisting of heavy whipping cream and Jello brand vanilla pudding! It’s simple and easy. How great is that and what an amazing vanilla flavor. The pudding gives it a little bit of a creamy texture and the whipping cream adds in the light and airy. It’s a nice change up from the heavy whipping cream and confectioners sugar.

I love making a traditional 2 layer 9″ cake with this cake recipe but I also like to get a little creative on special occasions. For Valentines Day I like to use heart-shaped cookie cutters and fill them with that vanilla creme. I add in a drops of red food coloring to the creme making it as pretty as it tastes. You’ll be having fun with this one and bringing smiles to those who will be eating one of your homemade whoopie cakes with pink vanilla creme filling. You could actually skip the vanilla creme filling and go straight to the Hershey’s “perfectly Chocolate” chocolate frosting (recipe is on the back of the Hershey canister as well) and make little mini cakes…ooh so decadent! Make sure you watch my YouTube cooking show on how to make these whoopie cakes and don’t forget to subscribe on my Youtube channel so that you can receive my latest cooking show releases.

 

   

   

   

   

INGREDIENTS FOR “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” CHOCOLATE CAKE:

• Need 12″ x 18″ x 1″ cookie sheet (must have sides so batter doesn’t leak out the sides)
• 2 cup sugar
• 1 3/4 cup all purpose
• 3/4 cup Hershey Cocoa
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup boiling water

DIRECTIONS FOR “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” CHOCOLATE CAKE – PRE-HEAT OVEN TO 350º:

1. Grease and flour cookie pan with 1″ sides – Spray Pam, lay down wax or parchment paper then butter and flour over that
2. Add Dry ingredients to mixing bowl on mixer
3. Add wet next- eggs, milk, oil and vanilla
4. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes
5. Take mixing bowl off of mixer and stir in 1 cup boiling water
6. Pour into buttered and floured cookie sheet
7. Put into oven being careful cause the batter will thin
8. Bake for 22-25 minutes- ck the center with a tooth pick to see if it comes out clean then its done, take out and cool completely

CREME FILLING DIRECTIONS:

1. Put 2 cups heavy whipping on a large chilled mixing bowl and begin whisk cream slowly add in 1 box Jello vanilla pudding and whisk til stiff peaks
2. Add 5-8 drops -one at a time of red food coloring til desired pink