Thanks to daylight savings, I was up at five am this morning 🙂 Up at five am and thinking about this chocolate cake! I got to taste-test it for The Hershey Company back in July.
It was one of the best things I ate while visiting (and I ate a lot of chocolate that weekend.) It was a new recipe among several new, gluten-free recipes created by Hershey, and I got to devour it, then critique it. Fun job right?
It’s a moist and rich, dense and smooth chocolate cake covered in a perfect chocolate frosting. I never would have known it was a gluten-free cake just by tasting it. It really is a “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake ~ you’ll never even know it’s gluten-free!
Aside from eating fair share in chocolate while I was there, I learned a lot about The Hershey Company~ its history, its values and goals, its dedication to consumers. Being a mom of a little boy with nut allergies, I love that Hershey is dedicated to providing products and information for consumers with specific dietary needs. I love that their products are labeled accurately and are easy to read, I never have to question if my son may or may not be allergic to a product or worry about cross contamination. If you have any questions about which products meet your needs, the Hershey website provides a list of gluten-free products, sugar-free products, and kosher products.
You can even get gluten-free recipes on their site now too. You’ll find this delicious chocolate cake on there, but to save you a step and show you just how good it looks, I’m sharing the recipe with you here 🙂
- 2 cups sugar
- 1-3/4 cups gluten free all-purpose baking mix
- 3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
- "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING (recipe follows)
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9-inch round baking pans or one 9 X 13-inch cake pan; dust with cocoa.
- 2. Stir together sugar, baking mix, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour into prepared pans.
- 3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. If using round pans, cool 5 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING. Makes 12 servings.
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
- 2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount of additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.
This post is sponsored by The Hershey Company. All opinions are my own!
Love Hershey’s chocolate! That frosting looks insane!
I love Hershey’s and love to go to Hershey Park too. I tried to look for the recipes on their webpage but could not locate where they are. Can you help me out? Thanks. The cake looks delicious! Pinned 🙂
The cake looks great! But powdered sugar is not gluten-free I’m afraid 🙁
Dixie Crystals powdered sugar is gluten free!
What do you mean by gluten free baking mix? Is that like GF Bisquick? Please leg me know b/c this looks delicious!
It’s kind of like a bisquick….here’s a link of what to look for http://www.arrowheadmills.com/product/gluten-free-all-purpose-baking-mix
King Arthur Flour has a GF baking mix. No, this is NOT the same as the GF Bisquick. I live in Michigan and found the King Arthur baking mix at Meijer stores. Check out the King Arthur website to see what the box looks like so you get the right item. (they also have some wonderful GF recipes…their pie crust is to die for.
That is a LOT of sugar. 🙁 Aside from the baking mix, it looks like a basic cake recipe and exactly like an old recipe I have for chocolate sheet cake, which is to die for. Instead of buying a mix, why not just grind your own “flour” from nuts or rice? They work very well. I just grind them up in one of those little hand held “Bullet” type blender things. : )