Chocolate Cake

Happy National Chocolate Cake Day

January 27th is National Chocolate Cake Day.  This was my first ever attempt at making a cake from scratch.  All I can say is it is going to be hard to go back to the box!  I found the following recipe back in 2012 on Cooks Illustrated and every ingredient was already in my pantry.  Today is our first snow day of the season and we will be making this cake once again.

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 Cups unbleached all-purpose flour (7 1/2 ounces)

  • 1 Cup of sugar (7 ounces)

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/4 teaspoon table salt

  • 1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder (2 ounces)

  • 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate chopped fine

  • 1 cup fresh black coffee, hot

  • 2/3 cup mayonnaise

  • 1 large egg

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • Confectioners' sugar (for serving; optional)

Directions:

  1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray 8-inch square baking dish with - cooking spray

  2. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine cocoa and chocolate; pur hot coffee over cocoa mixture and whisk until smooth; let it cool slightly. Whisk in mayonnaise, egg, and vanilla. Stir mayonnaise mixture into flour mixture until well combined.

  3. Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out with few crumbs attached. (30-35 minutes)

  4. Let cake cool in pan on wire rack, 1 to 2 hours. Dust with confectioners' sugar, cut into squares, and serve straight from the pan; or turn cake over onto your serving platter and dust with confectioners' sugar.

For other yummy chocolate cake recipes check out a few of these recipes.

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