Stop making the crap out of the box and roll up your sleeves a bit. This chocolate cake is what dreams are made of. Besides; if you're going to have cake… at least make it right!
Let's Get Started…
Things You Will Need:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon espresso powder
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup vegetable or canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
- Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe
How To Prepare:
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans by spraying with baking spray or buttering and lightly flouring.
- For the cake:
- Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.
- Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter. Beat on high speed for about 1 minute to add air to the batter.
- Distribute cake batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely.
- Frost cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
Finished!
Note: Enjoy a slice of this cake in your comfiest sweatpants, an oversized sweatshirt, your hair in a ponytail, and a giant glass of milk. Or, at your next special occasion. You can take this cake anywhere with you. To the most intimate I'm-going-to-binge-on-chocolate-cake moments all the way to little black dress moments. You decide. The cake is in your hands.
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I have my grandmothers multiple prize winning recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake! So good!
My recipe is also my grandmothers.
My mother in law, told me to substitute, cold coffee for water,or milk. Pinch of cinnamon too. Yes, I do it. Plus add a box of pudding, to make my PA gob cake.
Coffee and mayo
Coffee is the secret ingredient? Not really secret, most cake recipes that call for coffee call the cake “mocha cake”. Anyway, at least the secret ingredient wasn’t mayonnaise, nothing special about mayonnaise either, really, it was just used as butter substitute during the Great Depression. Using lard instead of butter or oil is also a neat trick, but come on, cake is cake, and who doesn’t swig a couple of cups of coffee with it anyway?
2 cups of sugar…no thank u. Diabetic.
There’s a whole CULT devoted to using cream cheese in cake recipes, some people call it “gooey cake”, I just call them cake bars. I don’t know why I get Recipe Station’s posts in my newsfeed, I don’t subscribe to this page, and I’m always a huge critic of the stuff I see, of course I’m a grrrr-eat chef myself and seeing some of their suggestion really aggravates me. lol Tony Notaro is my go-to guy for recipe ideas.
Actually, very easy recipe.
I have to try this
I use a small package of pudding mix , an extra egg or two, and Mexican Vanilla. I detest coffee and can tast it would n most chocolate.. Gak…
Where do I buy espresso powder?
Looks good!
is it coffee?!
Think it’s another egg… Just add extra egg to mix…
I make a cake called wacky cake, so moist. Look it up. So easy, no milk no eggs. I always double it to make a 9 by 13 pan.
Mine is lacking because I do sheet cakes, not layers!
It’s Facebook people! Ads are how they make money.
this site so ridiculous….removing it….. click and get advertisements…. not worth the effort
Looks good
Anything with Sponsored under the heading, you should know this!!
mayonnaise
I use to make chocolate mayonnaise cakes for my kids many years ago.
Looks so good…..
Buttermilk is used in Chocolate Cakes. Very good.
Yum
Jim, love chocolate.
I have been putting coffee in my chocolate cakes for May years in place of water!!
Stay away from this chocolate cake recipe. Clicking on to The frosting site has a VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh!! Hate the taste of coffee in anything!!
Would like the recipe for the frosting please.
Looks Good
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YUM > D&O