Chocolate Cakes Compared, by the numbers

I previously wrote a post comparing yellow cakes numerically. I enjoyed writing it, and it helped me with my baking.

I am trying to find a chocolate cake recipe I like. I have a very specific ultimate chocolate cake in my head. Luckily I've found a picture of it for those of you without remote telepathy. I'd like to find it without making more than maybe four cakes. Yes, I know there's a recipe with the picture, but I'm not willing to trust it.

So once again, I rounded up several cake recipes from my usual sources, plus a couple that are really popular.

I indulged a couple of prejudices in selecting the recipes. I only selected recipes that use cocoa, and not chocolate. Also, I excluded recipes that use sour cream, mostly because I don't know how to account for its behavior in the cake.

I included different categories in this table, based on the similarities of the recipies. I've simplified by converting all ingredients to ounces using the KAF Weight Chart. As previously, I adjusted each recipe to make the same size cake, based on the amount of flour.

Recipe	Flour	Cocoa	Fat	Sugar	Liquid	Yolks	Whites
Cake Bible Butter	10	2.7	7.8	12.7	9.7	3	3
Cake Bible Fudge	10	2.9	6.1	13.3	11.4	2.9	2.9
Cake Bible Devil	10	2.5	7.8	12.9	9.8	3.3	3.3
KAF Chocolate	10	2.3	5.8	12.7	12.5	4.2	4.2
KAF Fudge	10	2.6	6	16	11.4	4.6	4.6
ATK Velvet	10	2.4	7.7	14	12.8	3.2	3.2
Hershey	10	2.6	4	16	9.1	2.3	2.3
BakeWise	10	2.8	8.9	24.4	12.7	2.5	7.6
Suzanne's	10	2.3	5.2	12.4	10	3.3	3.3
Cookie Madness	10	3.8	8	17.5	20	2.5	2.5

Let's see. Sweetest: BakeWise (by a mile). Most Chocolate: Cookie Madness. Richest: BakeWise. Wettest: Cookie Madness. I don't think I can draw any conclusions though.

I think I see another taste test in my future!

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