Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

 

 

In honor of my Brother's birthday, I thought I'd post our favorite Chocolate

Cake recipe.This is a really moist chocolate cake.

 

Ingredients:

2 Cups Flour (High Altitude - add 2 more Tablespoons)

2 Cups Sugar (High Altitude - only use 1 2/3 Cups of Sugar)

2 teaspoons baking powder (High Altitude - 1 1/2 teaspoons)

2 teaspoons baking soda (High Altitude - 1 1/2 teaspoons)

1/2 teaspoon salt

9 Tablespoons Cocoa

7 Tablespoons butter

2 teaspoons coffee (already made) (High Altitude -3 Teaspoons)

2 Cups of boiling water (High Altitude - add 3 more Tablespoons)

2 eggs, beaten

2 teaspoons vanilla

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix the dry ingredients.  Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients.  The batter will be thin.  Bake for 30-40 minutes. 

 

Chocolate Icing

1 Cup sugar

1/4 Cup butter

1/4 Cup milk

1/4 Cup cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla

pinch of salt

 

Combine sugar, butter, milk and cocoa in a saucepan.  Cook over medium heat; boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add the vanilla and salt.  Pour the icing evenly over the cake.

 

This cake is a great cake to use with buttercream icing as well.  It is great for making birthday cakes.    I'll post my buttercream icing in another post.  It's not really an Ethiopia friendly recipe because it takes lots of imported ingredients. Here are some cakes I've made with this cake recipe: