Claire Saffitz's Chocolate Buttermilk Cake | Dessert Person | Recipe Test Review

Today I'm trying out Claire Saffitz's Chocolate Buttermilk Cake from her cookbook Dessert Person. The buttermilk in the cake kept it nice and moist during the baking process. The texture of this cake was incredibly tender and a little crumbly at room temperature. I actually preferred the cake SLIGHTLY chilled -- it took on a richer and fudgier quality. I assembled this cake using Claire's recipe for French-style Buttercream -- it's in a separate video and it was ... intense.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:26 Dry Ingredients
00:42 Wet Ingredients
01:54 Creaming the fats
04:02 Alternating creaming method
04:57 Dividing the batter
05:55 Baking
06:56 Cake leveling
08:14 Assembly
09:18 Crumb coat & chill
10:45 Final frosting
12:00 Tasting
13:17 Overall opinion

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