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Black Coffee Chocolate Cake
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- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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1 layer cake or sheet cake
ingredients
- 414.03 ml flour
- 473.18 ml sugar
- 177.44 ml cocoa
- 9.85 ml baking soda
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 236.59 ml strong black coffee, cooled
- 236.59 ml buttermilk or 236.59 ml soured milk
- 118.29 ml grapeseed oil
- 4.92 ml vanilla
directions
- Beat it all together in one big bowl.
- The batter will be very thin.
- Pour into a greased and floured 13 x 9 inch pan or two 9-inch layer pans.
- Bake 350°F for 35-40 minutes.
- * This is great when filled with creamy peanut butter and frosted with dark chocolate frosting.
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Reviews
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Great recipe! I have tried many recipes for chocolate cake, several of them very good, but I think this will be the chocolate cake that I will turn to again and again. I love a white icing against the dark chocolate and used the icing from Recipe #216715. Great combo. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
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Tweaks
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I used french pressed coffee for a more complex taste plus 1 TBSP of vanilla and 1 tsp of cinnamon. I also substituted butter for grapeseed oil. Instead of mixing everything at once, I creamed sugar and butter ,then added eggs beating until light and fluffy ,this helps build the structure of your cake. Next I added my mixed dry ingredients alternating adding the buttermilk and coffee with dry ingredients into the egg,butter,sugar mix until well blended. The result was a lovely batter, not runny and and a superb chocolate cake. Maybe my favorite new recipe. Also Droste cacao is so rich few can compare, it is so dark it has crimson undertones, try it ! I have never bothered to review a recipe before,that is how much I liked it. Suzanne Cristwell Daphne AL
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This was a huge hit with my boys after dinner tonight! I made it as a sheet cake and frosted with chocolate frosting. I soured my milk with lemon juice and also used canola oil instead of grapeseed oil. Oh, I also used about 1/4 cup of Hershey's Special Dark cocoa and the rest with regular cocoa, so my cake was very rich and dark looking. Thanks for a great cake!
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