~~~ For Cake: ~~~ ## Ingredients ## 9 oz bleached cake flour 12.25 oz sugar 1 + 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 baking soda 1/2 tsp table salt 1/2 cup buttermilk 4 large eggs + 2 yolks 1 tbsp vanilla 1 stick unsalted butter 1/2 cup veggie oil ## Recipe ## 1) To mixing bowl, add cake flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda salt. mix to combine. 2) Combine buttermilk, eggs, vanilla in separate container, wisk together. 3) Add softened butter, in pieces, and veggie oil to dry ingredients. Mix 30 sec to incorporate. 4) Mix on medium to aerate 1 min. 5) Turn mixer to low and gradually add wet ingredients. 6) Mix on med-high for 3 mins. 7) Grease and flour 9x13 in cake pan and add batter. Spread to even out and tap the pan to remove bubbles. 8) Bake for 28-32 mins at 350 degrees until cake tester comes out with few crumbs. 9) let cool at least 2 hours. ~~~ For Frosting: ~~~ ## Ingredients ## 2 oz 60% chocolate 9 oz confectioner's sugar 1.5 oz cocoa powder 1/4 tsp salt 8 tbsp softened butter 1/4 cup hot water ## Recipe ## 1) chop fine chocolate and melt in microwave. 2) Add sugar, cocoa, salt, butter, and hot water to mixing bowl. 3) Using wisk attachment, mix on low to combine. Then increase speed to medium for 1 min. 4) Add melted chocolate and incorporate on low speed. 5) Allow to set up at room temperature for 30-40 mins. 6) Frost cake and let set up in fridge about 20 mins.

I love ATK because they are willing to take on and showcase recipes that are often seen as pedestrian one day and sophisticated the next, but still give the same expert care to each recipe - the premiere unpretentious cooking show! You guys got the formula figured out - never change!

"the fork just cut right through there" Like, it's cake. That said, I have made this cake, and it IS the stuff of childhood dreams. I also like how she calls it snack cake, that way you don't need a reason to make it.👼

This by far, turned out to be the best yellow cake 🎂 I've ever made and eaten. 👏❤😋

We’re all friends here..right? We can share things with each other without judgement? 😆😆 Ever year for my birthday, my wife makes me a boxed yellow cake mix with milk chocolate frosting…it’s what my mother use to make me growing up and there’s a familiarity with it. Yes, homemade is much better. But I like it.

Such a simple good old fashioned recipe that everyone loves!! Finally someone scrapes down the sides of the bowl which no one does on any of the cooking shows or videos!!!

I love your expressions of joy when eating desserts! You say all the things I am thinking, and your sense of humor is priceless! Can't wait to try the recipe. Thanks Bridget.

Thanks Collin for making the effort for writing this all down for us. Nice of you to do that.

Watched this whole video. Was laughing out loud with genuine excitement by the time she cut into the first bite! Lol wish I had a mixer!! I’d be making this right now

Love this video and the cake looks beautiful. My favorite cooking show!

I love the chemistry lessons and they have added to my own cooking and baking abilities exponentially! I understand the role that sugar plays in baking thanks to these lessons over the years, but does anyone at ATK have an interest in developing a sugarless cake to beat the one I've developed over the holidays? Its light and fluffy, moist with a fine crumb and has a delightful flavor.

My favorite cake‼️ my favorite cooking show 😋 😍 ❤

Yum,that cake is on the road map to my heart.

Oooh, this is mom’s favorite combo! Gonna make this real soon for her, thank you for putting this out!

Definitely trying

I am so going to bake this right now!! Thank you, thank you!!🙏🌹

Wow, that cake is ON POINT!

YUM! YUMMY!! YUMMIEST!!! ❤ Thank you for sharing this recipe.

I will definitely try this

This is a great cake. It came as light and fluffy as boxed mixes. Thanks ATK!

That needs so much more frosting!

Thanks for the science lesson also re: bleached vs unbleached flower. Good information there!

Thanks for the info ☺️

I want to bake with Bridget (and Julia too)!!! I love your wisdom and sense of humor...and (as icing on the cake...tee hee hee) you're someone who enjoys a vintage Pyrex plate! I think we are soul sisters...

Thank you for sharing… I was looking for my favorite childhood Cake which was the one I ate at School. I’m definitely keeping this recipe ❤️

Looks amazing

Great explanation of the flour. I like the idea of using both oil and butter, too. Generally, you did a super job on this workshop. Well-done. I have a question, though: I can`t find bleached cake flour where I live (Ukraine), so I can replace two Tbsp of AP flour with corn starch for every cup required in the recipe to create a cake flour, but what do you suggest in terms of modifying it to make it more like bleached or just having the effect of bleaching? My hands are largely tied here unless I want to pay a lot to ship some unusual flour in, and then wait for it.

Beautiful cake!😁👍

My favorite cake!

Tasty chemistry lesson!

Looks delicious. Any thoughts on high altitude adjustment for the cake?

Dang ur hide, Bridge- this is another seam-busting outta here home run! The hubs and I singlehandedly demolished this entire cake, thankful for elastic... Anyway, my new perfect yellow cake recipe as well as primo perfecto go to chocolate buttercream frosting nirvana! Thank you for all y'all do for us poor slobs over there at ATK. We love ya❣️

I would marry the crap out of Bridget if only for this recipe

Oh hooray!!! My favorite!

Trying this tomorrow morning I'm going shopping for the ingredients.

Thanks for the recipe greetings from dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 Patricia obrien

This is food channel quality stuff

",,,,creamy and dreamy." What else do you need to know? I'm in!

I understand that weighing the ingredients is more precise. However some of us don't have the scale needed to do this but still want to make this recipe. Please consider giving measures in cups in addition to ounces or grams.

I've never had a problem with a cake made with just butter going stale. But that says more about me than the recipe.

I just follow the directions on the box… delicious every time! 😋

I can taste it

I make this a lot. Duncan Hines butter golden cake mix and chocolate frosting. I know I'm not the only one!

People never understand that baking is science and you can't just do wherever you want 🤷 and expect great results!

This makes it worth hopping on the stationary bike.

I remember watching this when it originally aired. A little too rich for me. I would need to go easy on the sweetener and eggs!

My sister would make a chocolate cake similar to this from the back of the Hershey box...soo good..we all tried and failed..years and years later she said we had no vanilla extract so she used lemon extract. Use lemon extract with chocolate

I think i'm in love with Bridget... not because she's absolutely gorgeous, but because she makes me favorite cake **salivating** don't worry! my wife won't mind, she loves cake too lol

I want a microwave review! I need you to tell me which one to buy!

How would the recipe change if I wanted to pipe it onto a grooms cake and decorate with it. (not making flowers or anything that would require it to be stiff)

Thank you I love this recipe.

Will this recipe work with 8” cake pans too

Made this for my son’s bday and it was so good! Cake didn’t last a day! lol

7:13 “it’s chocolate…” 💄 👸

Hi

72% for my toppings :) Then unsweetened cocoa powder to help it stay at a decent %.

I know that this type of flour is pretty much a key to the recipe, but can I use AP instead? Since cake flour isn’t available where I live :)

I'll take the rest! 😊❤

Is there any reason why High-Ratio Shortening was not used?

Why don't you cream the butter first? And in your cookbook "What Good Cooks Know" the instructions are to melt and cool the butter before adding it to the flour.

Can this be made into a layer cake?

How long do you bake if it's a rectangular glass pyrex ?

Answer: Betty Crocker cake mix with a can of frosting. Done.

Hyperinsulinemics Unite! 💕💪😎👍

If I wanted a mocha flavor could I add some hot coffee instead of the water?

It may be like your childhood food, but my mom couldn't really cook. I mean, I survived it, right? So it couldn't have been that bad. She could burn steak beyond well done, and constantly stir white rice into a gloppy mess, and open a can of mushrooms,,or bake a TV dinner with Tang beverage and Jello for dessert. Boxes and cans. But she thought it was elegant and inventive to mix cooked flat noodles with a can of diet fruit cocktail, and Slim n Trim cottage cheese, bake it with corn oil on top. I learned everything I know on my own, starting when I was about. 10 or 11. The mess drove her crazy in her kitchen, since she was it was her kingdom and she was the queen of the house. You had a very different childhood! LOL!

I just got diabetes from watching this.

I didn’t get the reference. Does golden ticket refer to Drag rase? :)

🤞👌✌️👍💯💕

Did some1 say yellow cake

I read "ATK at home" as "attack at home" not America's Test Kitchen haha

You know lots of today’s children get really fancy cakes for their birthdays cakes that cost hundreds of dollars when I was growing up just 30 years ago this is what we got for cake yellowcake chocolate icing and a scoop of ice cream to go with it. Some of the cheapest birthday fun I’ve ever had.

I made this cake quite a few times and I keep thinking something is off. The overall taste is good but the top of the cake has a sticky consistency. I may try to cream the butter and sugar first before adding the other wet ingredients, then the dry, like most recipes do.

That's not a microwave, that's a small oven.

Hoooly mackerel! That microwave could also be used for cremation.

Seems like a lot of eggs (4 whole plus 2 yolks).

A "snack cake"?

Bridget I love ya - but you need to double the amount of chocolate frosting.

:)

Chocolate cake and frosting is too rich and sweet. Chocolate frosting w/white or yellow cake balances richness better.

Make sure it's wrapped in those special CIA napkins.

.... 7:48 that's the biggest damn microwave I've ever seen ...

Martha, Martha, Martha. :-) Unlike America's Test Kitchen, Martha Stewart doesn't include weights in her cookbooks. That's a Bad Thing. :-)

It looks dense like poundcake

The first recipe that I have made from ATK that I didn’t care for. The taste was very bland. Frosting was ok. Nothing special. Not bad considering I love everything else I have made.

“The fork just cut right through there”….. One would expect a Steel Fork, to cut through any cake. 🙄

Notice the vanilla is artificial which olds up better for baking

HOW ABOUT AN EGGLESS CAKE.

As she took the fist bite, and her eyes rolled back, I was wishing she would say "it's better than sex", but alas, this is American Test Kitchen, and we just won't stand for that talk.

Don’t understand why you are using imitation vanilla instead of Real Vanilla Extract???

Truly terrifying amount of sugar!

I made this a couple days ago. The only change I made was, I made half the recipe. Baked in an 8 x 8 pan. It came out very thick, dense and lots of tunneling. Based on this, I would not make again. Love the taste... just not the overall results.

I wish the US used grams instead of ounces.... C'mon.

It's funny that you have to pay $5 to get recipes. And you can get a box cake and make it just as good.

You lost me at buttermilk. Elitist! Get real, honey.

I love like 95% of ATK videos but this one just seems unnecessary. Just buy a $1 box of cake mix and a tub of frosting.

That cake looks so dry

I hoped yellow sheet cakes with chocolate frosting had been banished.

Way too much work😣😤😤😥😥

I like your channel but would like it even more if you featured more healthy foods and stayed away from these sugary baked goods that, frankly, we just don't eat anymore.