Cook's Illustrated Best Easy Chocolate Cake |
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Prep Time: 120 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 155 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Like grandma's..but better. Moist, delicious, and chocolatey Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour |
1 cup sugar |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
1/4 teaspoon table salt |
1/2 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder |
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine |
1 cup hot coffee |
2/3 cup mayonnaise |
1 large egg |
2 teaspoons vanilla |
confectioners' sugar |
Directions:
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray 8 square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in large bowl. In separate bowl, combine cocoa and chocolate; pour hot coffee over cocoa mixture and whisk until smooth; let cool slightly. Whisk in mayo, egg, and vanilla. Stir mayonnaise mixture into flour mixture until combined.
3. Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean with few crumbs attached, 30-35 minutes.
4. Let cake cool in pan on wire rack, 1-2 hours. Dust with confectioners sugar, cut into squares, and serve straight from pan, or turn cake out onto serving paltter and dust with confectioners' sugar.
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