This is a great recipe to make with your kids. It's easy and fun to make. However I think using Heated Milk instead of Water is better, and leaves it with more moist. Also added another Egg so it would cook because it wasn't cooking correctly. Overall the recipe is great, I'd love to see more.

Delicious!

I used 3 eggs and added some raw honey and vanilla extract to make it extra moist and spongy. It is in the oven. I hope I do the icing justice, I always botch the icing.

Good cake. Easy to make. Iced the cake with this tried and true recipe for chocolate icing. Heat 6 tbsp. of evaporated milk, 4 tbsp. cocoa, 1 stick of real butter in a pan heat on med-low until it just begins to bubble. Remove from heat, stir in 1 tsp of vanilla. Mix together with 1 box of powdered sugar (sifted) until smooth. (You can also mix in 1/2 to 1 cup of chopped pecans if you like nuts in icing.) Spread while cake is still warm. Great on this cake!

I used some vanilla extract in this. But it definitely is taking longer than 35 minutes to bake. Almost 50 for me... taste good so far after testing it. :)

I made this cake today. I used organic cocoa, and I increased the flour by 1/3 cup because it seemed a bit liquid-y. I also substituted the shortening with Apple Sauce and I added an extra tsp. as well and one tsp. sea salt. I brushed strawberry preserves over it and used cream cheese frosting. It's my daughter's birthday today and I'm going to surprise her when she gets home. Thank you for this easy and delish recipe.

First time baking a cake from scratch, it was super easy. It didn't take any longer than a box cake and I got to see everything ingredient wise that went into it. I used caramel cocoa and butter in place of shortening. It had to bake for 40 mins instead of 35, but it turned out so moist that it was hard to frost lol. 5 star review for sure, will absolutely make this again!

I plan to use this recipe in the near future, but I will add a can of cherry pie filling before baking.

This recipe is yummy. It is the best chocolate cake I have ever had! Im only 12 and made it by myself no problem. I didn't have cocoa and had a lot of hot chocolate packets. I used the hot chocolate as a substitute for the cocoa and it was amazing! Not too rich and not to plain. My whole family loved it and it doesn't need frosting. It was very moist and I will be making it again soon!

Love this recipe! I made it for my boyfriends birthday. I will never buy box cake mix again! I added chocolate chips to the batter and topped it with a chocolate buttercream icing. Yum. Thanks for sharing!

So quick literally took five minutes to get in the oven. I'm always looking for something sweet at night and this did it. Not so sweet I felt terrible about eating it. But I added chopped pecan and a pinch of salt(cause you Gould always add salt to chocolate) and 2 teaspoons vanilla. It was delicious!! No icing needed (unless you like icing) just sprinkle with powdered sugar. Yumm!!

Baked this cake for the first time. I will bake it again. Didn't take long to put it together and it wasn't crumbly like a box mix. My husband likes Chocolate cakes and he gave this a thumbs up.

Tried this very good. Just bought new pans bakers secret, non stick, do I still have to grease pans? I used my older pans last time and greased them a little, but just wondering with new pans. Very good recipe.

Added cinnamon. Interesting texture and taste.

I will be trying this recipe today. I saw the one person said it tasted funny when she substituted whole wheat flour for the regular, well that might be why! If you are changing the recipe by subtracting the original ingredients and adding others it might not taste as well as it is supposed to. I also read someone say it was too chocolatey for them, is there a way to reduce the cocoa powder to half a cup and reduce the water just a tad to make it not so liquidy? I will try the original today and try to play around with this recipe when I will not be using it to serve others.