This is one of The BEST Triple Chocolate Cake recipe — This is the chocolate layer cake to beat out all other chocolate cake recipes you know. It’s rich, decadent, and everything you want in a triple chocolate cake!
What Makes This Chocolate Cake So Special?
Yes, this triple chocolate layer cake is essentially a large chocolate cake. But the different layers that reveal themselves once the cake is cut into takes it over the edge. It is far more exciting than a typical chocolate cake.
The cake is tender, very very moist, and springy thanks to the tenderizing effects of buttermilk and using oil rather than butter. The chocolate flavor is deep, intense, and comes from both cocoa powder and coffee. Rest assured, the cake doesn’t taste like coffee. The coffee simply intensifies and rounds out the chocolate flavor.
Triple chocolate cake ingredients
You need mostly pantry-friendly ingredients that you may already have on hand for this triple chocolate cake recipe:
For the sponge cake: 4 eggs, separated into yolks and whites, Sugar, oil instead of butter to trap in moisture. Go on with milk, vanilla, all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, powdered sugar and tartar cream to stabilize your whisked egg whites.