Halloween Chocolate Cake Recipe | Hersheyland

Ingredients (22)

• 1 HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Bar (6 oz), broken into pieces170 g
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 stick), softened≈ 114 g
• 1 cup water boiling≈ 237 g
• 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
• 1-1/2 cups sugar≈ 300 g
• 1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa≈ 43 g
• 1 tsp vanilla extract≈ 4.2 g
• 2 tsps baking soda≈ 12 g
• 1 tsp salt≈ 6 g
• 2 eggs≈ 100 g
• 1/2 cup dairy sour cream≈ 115 g
• 1 cup HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Mildly Sweet Chocolate Chips or HERSHEY'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips≈ 170 g
• 1 Tbsp shortening (do NOT use butter, margarine, spread or oil)≈ 13 g

Toppings and extras

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

• 1/3 cup butter or margarine≈ 76 g
• 2 cups powdered sugar≈ 240 g
• 2 tsps freshly grated orange peel≈ 10 g
• 1-1/2 tsps vanilla extract≈ 6 g
• 2 to 4 Tbsps hot water≈ 44 g
• few drops yellow and red food colorn/a
• 3 Tbsps water≈ 44 g
• 1 Tbsp meringue powder≈ 15 g
• 1/8 tsp vanilla extract≈ 0.5 g

flour 250 gbatter 1534 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Baker's percentages

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 357 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

• Cocoa17% · 39th percentile · median 23%
• Chocolate136% · 96th percentile · median 0%
• Sugar120% · 37th percentile · median 142%
• Fat51% · 36th percentile · median 62%
• Egg40% · 31st percentile · median 46%
• Liquid141% · 53rd percentile · median 138%
• Leavening4.8% · 50th percentile · median 4.8%
• Salt2.4% · 86th percentile · median 1.1%

Oven

Temperature

350°F / 175°C

median 350°F

Time

50 to 55 minutes

median 33 minutes