The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe
Discover the ultimate chocolate cake recipe: moist, rich, and irresistible. Elevate your baking game and indulge in homemade perfection.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups 240 g all-purpose flour
- 2 cups 396 g sugar
- 3/4 cup 63 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons 8 g baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons 9 g baking soda
- 1 teaspoon 2.8 g kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon 2.3 g espresso powder, homemade or store-bought
- 1 cup 227 g milk, or buttermilk, almond, or coconut milk
- 1/2 cup 99 g vegetable oil, or canola oil, or melted coconut oil
- 2 large 100 g eggs
- 2 teaspoons 9.4 g vanilla extract
- 1 cup 227. g boiling water
- Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans by spraying with baking spray or buttering and lightly flouring.
- Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.
- Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter until well combined.
- Distribute cake batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center of the chocolate cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely.
- Frost the cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 124kcal
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