One Bowl Chocolate Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Yields:
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1 cake
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄3 cup cocoa
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1⁄3 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Frosting for the cake
- 1 tablespoon butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar (icing sugar)
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa
- 1⁄2 teaspoon instant coffee
- 4 -5 tablespoons heavy cream
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and line the bottom of a 9" square cake pan with waxed paper.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the first six ingredients.
- Add the rest and blend on low speed, or by hand, till its nicely moistened.
- Mix further for three mins on medium speed.
- Pour mixture in the prepared cake pan.
- Bake 35 minutes.
- Cake should rebound when gently pressed in the centre.
- Cool in pan for 10 minutes before inverting on to a plate.
- When completely cool, cover with chocolate frosting.
- Frosting: Cream butter, salt, vanilla, instant coffee and half of the sugar.
- Now use up all the cream and sugar in alternate additions till a rich gloss is reached and the frosting is of a thick spreading consistency.
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This went very well at my home this evening. Even though I'm trying to lose weight, I couldn't, just couldn't stop myself from eating 2 good sized pieces of this cake. I loved it. My friends' wiped the plate clean! The cake went really really well. It really came out nice and "spongy" and just seems to be so good, I will have to repeat this one. I did not do the icing for the cake, I just made the cake. The cake is wonderful. A 100% keeper! In the cake, I substituted the butter with margarine. Otherwise, I did use all the other ingredients. This is a real good cake. I baked it in my AMC Dutch Oven. It took an hour to bake, but the wait was well worth the time! Thank You for sharing! I plan to make this again very soon:)
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This went very well at my home this evening. Even though I'm trying to lose weight, I couldn't, just couldn't stop myself from eating 2 good sized pieces of this cake. I loved it. My friends' wiped the plate clean! The cake went really really well. It really came out nice and "spongy" and just seems to be so good, I will have to repeat this one. I did not do the icing for the cake, I just made the cake. The cake is wonderful. A 100% keeper! In the cake, I substituted the butter with margarine. Otherwise, I did use all the other ingredients. This is a real good cake. I baked it in my AMC Dutch Oven. It took an hour to bake, but the wait was well worth the time! Thank You for sharing! I plan to make this again very soon:)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Honeybeee
New Delhi
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