Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 355 milliliters well-shaken buttermilk (or 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice); 4 eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutes; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters granulated sugar; 296 milliliters packed light brown sugar; 1 teaspoons sea salt; 79 milliliters semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled; 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing pan; 177 milliliters unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch processed); 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Chocolate Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 16. One serving contains 309 calories, 5g of protein, and 15g of fat. A mixture of butter, buttermilk, brown sugar, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 50 minutes.

Instructions

Put a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 2 (9 by 2-inch) nonstick round cake pans. Line the bottom of each with a round of parchment paper, and then butter the paper.

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Butter

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Baking Paper

Oven

Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together onto parchment paper. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 4 or 5 minutes.

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Baking Soda

Butter

Cocoa Powder

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Baking Paper

Hand Mixer

Add your eggs, 1 at a time, mixing until completely incorporated before adding each additional egg.

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Egg

Mix in the chocolate and vanilla, making sure to combine really well. Turn the mixer to low and slowly add the dry ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk, in 3 batches, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Make sure to let it mix thoroughly.

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Buttermilk

Chocolate

Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

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Blender

Pour half the batter in each pan and spread it evenly with a spatula or butter knife.

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Butter

Spread

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Butter Knife

Spatula

Frying Pan

Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 25 minutes.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove the pans to racks and allow the cakes to cool for 10 minutes or so. Loosen the edges of the cake from the pan with a knife, then turn them onto the racks.

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Knife

Frying Pan

Remove the paper and let the cakes completely cool.