Small Chocolate Cake (2024)

Are you looking for a small chocolate cake recipe from scratch?

This 9 inch chocolate cake recipe is absolutely amazing. It’s a very soft, moist cake that can be served with chocolate frosting or without frosting. You can decorate this small cake by simply dusting the top with powdered sugar if you want to forgo making the frosting.

With just my son and I in the the house I feel like it’s such a waste to make a 13×9 inch cake that we will only end up eating half of. The rest will go to neighbours, and that’s not a bad thing, we love sharing, but sometimes all you want is a good small chocolate cake. This cake is a small cakeperfect for intimate small celebrations.

When to Use A Small Chocolate Cake Recipe:

• Small Anniversary Celebrations
• Valentines Day
• Small Birthday Parties
• Small dinner parties
• And the best reason of all: a just because cake

Let’s gather the ingredients for this 9 inch chocolate cake recipe and make it together.

Ingredients to Make a small chocolate cake recipe from scratch:

Cake Batter Ingredients:

• 1 cup boiling water
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 3 Tablespoons cocoa
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 Teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 Teaspoon salt
• 1 Teaspoon baking soda
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla

Chocolate Frosting Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (one stick) butter
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

We start our Small Chocolate Cake recipe by placing the boiled water and softened butter in a large bowl, beat the two ingredients together until the butter has melted. Add the egg and vanilla to the bowl and beat until the ingredients are well combined.

Place the flour, sugar. cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium size bowl. Stir the dry ingredients together to combine them. Add the dry ingredients to the bowl with the wet ingredients in it and beat them together with an electric mixer for 2 minutes.

Pour the cake batter into a greased 9 inch baking pan. If you don’t have a 9-inch baking pan for a small chocolate cake, check out any of the ones below!

Bake the cake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 25 – 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven to a cooling rack to cool completely. While we’re waiting for the cake to cool, let’s make the frosting.

We start the frosting by melting 1/2 cup butter in a medium saucepan. After the butter has melted, stir the cocoa into the butter.

Alternately, add the powdered sugar and milk to the cocoa mixture in the bowl, beating the ingredients together to a spreading consistency. Add additional milk if needed to achieve the spreading consistency you desire. Stir the vanilla into the frosting.

Frost your completely cooled small chocolate cake with the homemade chocolate frosting.

Small Chocolate Cake recipe, it’s what’s for dessert for the two of you and it’s delicious!

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