Chocolate Cake

This is a simple homemade chocolate cake that will make you never want to use a boxed cake ever again! This cake has just enough chocolatey taste to satisfy all the chocoholics out there. Even those that don't really like chocolate cake like this recipe, so hopefully you will too!

Ingredients:

Butter and flour for pans

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

¾ cup cocoa powder

2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

1 t kosher salt

1 cup milk

½ cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 t vanilla extra, not imitation please

1 cup freshly brewed coffee

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour two 8-in x 2in round cake pans.

SIFT the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Mix the dry ingredients to ensure even distribution of the dry ingredients. In another bowl, combine the milk, oil, eggs and vanilla. With the mixing on low, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix to combine. With the mixer still on low, add the coffee. Scrap the side and bottom of the bowl and mix until combined. Do not over mix. The batter will be thin, but don’t worry. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then go around the edges with a butter knife and turn out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.

Frost with your favorite frosting or try one of ours.