Moist Chocolate Cake
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Moist Chocolate Cake
I want to make a dark chocolate cake using a Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Cake Mix but I want the cake to be very moist. Does anyone have any ideas how to make a cake mix moist.
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Instead of water use cooled black coffee and put in some mayonnaise (probable good heaping tablespoon or two). I am a cook in a rehab center and do this all of the time. Makes a world of difference. In white or yellow cakes, add 2 or 3 mashed up bananas.
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To keep a cake moist, professional bakers make a sugar syrup and add that after the cake is cooled. To make a sugar syrup you boil one part water with one part sugar. Just until the sugar is desolved. Cool. Use a pastry brust to add syrup to your cooled cake. Frost as normal.
I make extra and store in the refrigerator. A sugar syrup will last a long time.
I make extra and store in the refrigerator. A sugar syrup will last a long time.
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I have made the Darn Good Chocolate Cake, it is so good. It is very rich and a bit dense, I used a bundt pan and just sprinkled powdered sugar on top. It really doesn't need frosting. I also used 1/2 cup Kahula instead of water. The richness and sweetness of the liquor helps with the moistness.
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