I first saw this recipe on the authors's blog, and on my favorite forums.glutenfree message board. I gave it a try today. This is the best GF chocolate cake I have ever made. Moist and tender and not at all heavy. Gluten eaters would never know the difference. I made 24 cupcakes, and baked them for 25 minutes. One adjustment, however. The measurement for xanthan gum should be 1.5 teaspoon, not 1.5 tablespoons. I also used a simple buttercream tinted green for Saint Patrick's day. I'm sure the frosting posted with the recipe is great too.

I will NEVER make this again

This first time that I tried this recipe it wasn't particularly good... but then I actually read the comments and reduced the amount of xanthum gum and it was really good! Nobody believed that it was gluten free! :)

This cake was excellent. I made it for my sister's birthday and nobody even guessed that it was gluten free. I made 2 round cakes and baked them for 33 minutes. They did sink in the middle though. Not sure if I needed to cook it longer? I put caremal in the middle and on top then frosted it with whip cream. I crunched up a toffee bar and sprinkled it on top and the sides. It was a hit! Moist and dense. Very good!

I absolutely loved this cake. No one could even tell it was GF!! I did take the others recommendations of lowering the amount of xanthan gum though. Also I sifted the dry ingrediants together then mixed the wet ingrediants in a seperate bowl. I read in another post that the consistancy was that of pudding so instead of using a mixer I used a wisk to mix the wet with the dry and Im pretty sure thats why my cake didnt fall in the middle. It definatly made it nice and fluffy!! I would recommend this to anyone... it was really that good!! I will never buy nasty premade mixes again!!

I read reviews, and also cut x-gum to 1.5 tsp. I cut the white sugar to 3/4 cup (actually a little less than that) and it was still fine. For the rice flour, I used mostly white rice flour, but a little bit brown rice flour too. And I literally sifted together all the dry ingredients first. I wondered if I should not have used an electric beater, so next time I will try not to beat so much. It went into the pan almost like pudding (I guess it was the x-gum?) and btw the I greased first, then floured it with rice flour, which worked quite well, came out of pan perfectly. I cooked for 30 min because my husband likes dense cakes, so was hoping for an almost brownie like result. I used 2 round pans, and the center did fall A TON, but was SO moist! I didn't tell my husband it was gluten free because he would have been against eating it, but after eating I told him, and he was surprised. for my husband to be surprised, that is HUGE. So now I believe all the reviews that no one knew it was gluten free. Definitely worthy of making for my daughters' parties. And though the ingredients are expensive to buy initially (my first GF baking attempt) I can use it all for awhile (except the buttermilk, I found that at Trader Joe's) and I tried the choc. topping, but was not too thrilled with it, I would use a different topping/frosting next time..... my powered chocolate I used was Nestle, but best used by date was almost a year ago; I still used it, and came out great.

I think that I'm a baker... but clearly I'm not. I followed the recipe, subbing GF baking mix for 2/3 of the flour and soaking the rice flour in the buttermilk for a while (things that I'd read about online, having no actual experience in the matter). In the end, the batter was THICK and I was worried. Ended up adding about 1 more cup of buttermilk to some of the cupcakes. What a mistake! Once baked, the original thick batter became perfectly risen, gorgeous cupcakes. The one's that I thinned are sunken in the middle, gummy, an sad looking. All this to say, this is a thick batter, and it's great!

I used this recipe for a large anniversary cake instead of cupcakes. It was exceptional. The only adjustment I made was using 1 c. sour cream plus 1/4 cup milk instead of buttermilk. Since it was a mixed crowd with gluten sensitive and non-celiacs it needed to be great tasting period. Got raves. the only semi-complaint was that it was rich and somewhat filling (bean flour?) so good, I will use this recipe again and again. Instead of listed frosting, I did a caramel filling w/ dulce de leche frosting; so this rating is for the cake only.

I lOVE this recipie!!! You in now way can tell that it is gluten free. Everyone I make it for comments on how good it is.

I tried this recipe for the first time and the cake turned out amazing. I couldn't find sorghum flour at my grocery store so I substituted corn flour instead(I researched what would be a good substitute flour for sorghum) and used the 1.5 teaspoons of xanthan gum as suggested as well. You would never be able to tell this cake is gluten free and I know my friend with Celiac's Disease will be happy to enjoy this!