Name: Dark Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 35 minutes
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 2 cups granulated sugar; 2 tsp. baking powder; 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda; 1 cup milk; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 2 eggs; 1 vanilla bean of choice*:; 1 cup boiling water

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Dark Chocolate Cake

Recipe by Cindy Jones

All-Purpose Cooking

Baking

Rich dark chocolate cake that's impossible to describe without using the word "moist."

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Serves 12 servings

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cooking Time 35 minutes

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Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups granulated sugar 1/2 cup Dutch Cocoa Powder

1/4 cup Black Onyx Cocoa Powder

2 tsp. baking powder 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. Mayan Sea Salt

1 tsp. Pure Espresso Powder

1 cup milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs

2 tsp. Madagascar Vanilla Bean Paste, OR

1 vanilla bean of choice*: Madagascar Vanilla Bean Mexican Vanilla Bean Ugandan Vanilla Bean 1 cup boiling water

Dutched Cocoa Powder

Madagascar Vanilla Beans

Mexican Vanilla Beans

Ugandan Vanilla Beans

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two 9-inch cake rounds with parchment paper and lightly grease with cooking spray. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, Dutch Cocoa Powder, Black Onyx Cocoa Powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and Espresso Powder until well-combined. In a medium bowl, whisk together milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla bean paste until well-combined. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Set large bowl with batter on a damp kitchen towel to prevent bowl from moving around. While whisking with one hand, use the other to slowly pour boiling water into the batter. Mix until just combined. Distribute batter between the two cake rounds and bake for 30 to 35 min., or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 min. before removing from pan to cool completely on a wire rack.

Recipe Notes

*To use vanilla beans: split beans in half lengthwise and scrape seeds out from pod with the back of a knife. Use empty pods to make homemade vanilla extract or flavor homemade vanilla sugar.

For baking at elevations above 5,000 ft., add 2 additional Tbsp. all-purpose flour, reduce granulated sugar by 2 Tbsp., cut baking powder and baking soda amounts in half, and bake at 325 degrees for about 37 min. to prevent the center of the cake from sinking.