Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Best Dark Chocolate Cake



In our quest for the best tasting chocolate cake, we've come to find some good recipes online but this one stands the best because of the taste and it is super quick and easy to prepare and foolproof too. Even if you're just a newbie in baking, you can never go wrong with this recipe.


This cake has very rich chocolaty taste, soft and light. Frost it with dark chocolate ganache and you have a rich chocolate cake.




Dark Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup baking cocoa (I use Hintz dutch processed cocoa and it makes a lot of difference)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling fresh milk



1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda. Add sugar,salt, eggs, 1 cup of buttermilk, oil, vanilla, and orange zest. Mix for 2 minutes, then add the boiling milk and stir until well combined.
3. Transfer the cake batter to 9x13" pan or 2 10" pan and bake for 40 minutes or until toothpick tests done.
4. Cool and frost with your favorite frosting.





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