Grandma’s Chocolate Cake

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  • Makes

    one

    8 in [ 20 cm ] two-layer cake
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Guittard Chocolate Cookbook

By Amy Guittard

Published 2015

  • About

This cake is rich, moist, and delicious—the kind of chocolate cake you dream about when you’re pouring yourself a glass of milk. Donald developed this cake recipe two decades ago when he was the pastry chef for the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.

As he tells it, “Every hotel pastry chef gets beat up over three things: muffins for the morning breakfast, American-style cookies, and a classic chocolate cake. Sean Loeffel, the food and beverage director at the hotel, had a clear idea of

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