Recipes Discovered

Double Chocolate Cake Recipe

Although I love chocolate, I don’t usually like chocolate cake. It’s always too dry, too bland, or too sweet. Seth’s mom makes a chocolate cake she calls an Old Black Joe that includes coffee in the cake batter. The cake is good, but I’ve found a similar recipe that adds chocolate to the coffee, which creates the most amazing chocolate cake I’ve ever had.

The cakes comes together differently than other cakes as well. All of the dry ingredients – sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt – are sifted together. Similarly, all of the wet ingredients – eggs, coffee with melted chocolate, oil, buttermilk, and vanilla – are combined before mixing in the dry ingredients. As for the cake pans, the recipe calls for two 10-inch cake pans, but my pans are 9-inch. This recipe easily makes enough batter for three 9-inch cake pans. The batter is thin, but it raises a lot while baking. I have also made this into a 9×13 cake, and there was enough batter left over for one 9-inch cake. However you divide up the batter, just remember that the cakes rise quite a bit. I also increase the baking temperature to 325 and the cakes usually bake in about 30 minutes.

The result of this recipe is so amazing, I could probably eat the entire cake in one day. It’s rich, chocolatey, and moist. The cake is easily good enough to eat on it’s own, which I often do, but it’s also good with an array of frosting. My favorite combination is probably peanut butter icing, but it’s also very good with a chocolate-raspberry ganache or mocha buttercream frosting. It really doesn’t matter what is on top though, because this cake is absolutely incredible.