This is a really easy yet exceptional Chocolate Cake that truly tastes of chocolate.

The crumb is beautifully tender and moist, and it keeps for up to 5 days.

It requires no beater, just a wooden spoon.

A photo showing half a Chocolate Cake frosted with Chocolate Buttercream on a white cake stand with a large slice partially pulled out.

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And theres also a time and a place for shortcut recipes and quick dinners.

Youll love how tender the crumb is, and how it stays moist for 4 to 5 days.

Though of course, smothering it withfrostingnever hurts….

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting on a white cake platter with a piece cut out, photographed from overhead.

I love being proved wrong when it comes to food.

But to me, its perfect as it is.

I dont see myself using any other recipe for an everyday Chocolate Cake, ever again.

How to make Chocolate Cake

No more dry chocolate cake!

Im publishing this recipe as part of theEaster Recipesposted yesterday!

So here it is, dolled up for Easter.

Close up photo of a slice of Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Chocolate Frosting on a white dessert plate with a fork partially cutting into it.

There will be times that call for a mud-cake likeFudge Cakemade with both cocoa powder and melted chocolate.

There will be times that call for intensely dark chocolate cakes.

There will be times that you need / want the nutty brownie-likeFlourless Chocolate Cake.

A Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting decorated with small speckled Easter eggs and tiny fluffy yellow chicks.

And there will be times youre after one thats light-as-air, a delicate chiffon cake.

This one is for all the other times when you just want a great, classic Chocolate Cake.

Which in my world, is 80% of the time!

A moist Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting on a white cake platter with a slice cut and partially pulled out and a stack of dessert plates next to it.

A slice of Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting on a white dessert plate with a fork, ready to be eaten.

Chocolate Cake with buttercream frosting on a white cake stand, ready to be cut and served

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Cute Golden Retriever with head on white table with tiny toy fluffy yellow chick right in front of his nose.