Chocolatey Chocolate Cake

 

Delicious and easy to make chocolate cake! I made this for my nephew. All the kids loved it!

Chocolatey Chocolate Cake (~WSJ, recipe adapted from “Simple Cake” by Odette Williams)

Ingredients

• Butter, for greasing pan
• 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs, at room temperature
• 1 cup whole milk
• ½ cup grapeseed oil or neutral oil
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water

Steps

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 10 by 3 inch round pan or a 12 by 4 by 3 inch loaf pan with butter, line bottom and sides with parchment paper and grease (I used 2 smaller loaf pans, sprayed with cooking spray and lined with parchment paper; did not grease the parchment paper).

2.      Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a mixing bowl. Whisk in sugar.

3.      In another large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla. Gradually add wet ingredients until smooth with no lumps. Stir in boiling water to combine.

4.      Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in center of oven until wooden skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean and cake bounces back when lightly pressed, about 50 min for round pan, 35 min for loaf pan (checked at 35 min and still undercooked so baked at 40 min).

5.      Remove cake form oven and let stand for 10 min. Run a butter knife around cake to gently release. Peel parchment from sides. Invert cake onto a wire rack and peel off bottom piece of parchment.