Easy chocolate bundt cake

Name: Easy chocolate bundt cake
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup cocoa; 1 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 cup butter, softened; 2 cups sugar; 2 tsp instant espresso powder or instant coffee powder; 1 tbs vanilla extract; 4 egg whites, large; 2 whole eggs, large; 1 cup milk; 1/4 cup cocoa; 1/2 cup powdered sugar; 3 tbs milk; 1 tbs butter, melted

Jon @cook_23800007

I made this for a friend's birthday party and, well, folks seemed to love it. We fancied it up with raspberries and toasted almond slivers and then made it extra shmancy by serving Amaretto whipped cream on the side. Looks good and very easy to make.

P.S. I found this recipe on the internet, which ordinarily means I wouldn't post it here but I'm happy enough with how it came out to overcome those qualms.

Jon @cook_23800007

P.S. I found this recipe on the internet, which ordinarily means I wouldn't post it here but I'm happy enough with how it came out to overcome those qualms.

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Ingredients

Cake
2 cupsall-purpose flour
1 cupcocoa
1 tspbaking soda
1/2 tspsalt
1/2 cupbutter, softened
2 cupssugar
2 tspinstant espresso powder or instant coffee powder
1 tbsvanilla extract
4egg whites, large
2whole eggs, large
1 cupmilk
Icing
1/4 cupcocoa
1/2 cuppowdered sugar
3 tbsmilk
1 tbsbutter, melted

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease up a bundt pan or spray with non-stick. It should be a 12-cup bundt pan (mine is smaller, I think, so some batter oozed out the center during baking but nothing catastrophic).
2

Mix together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
3

In a separate large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, espresso or coffee powder, and vanilla. I don't have a mixer so I did this by hand (I use sanitary gloves and squeeze the crap out of it until I can whisk it smooth).
4

Add the eggs and the egg whites to the butter mixture and combine until smooth. Then, alternate adding the flour mixture and the milk, mixing until everything is combined and smooth.
5

Pour the batter into the bundt pan and bake it for 40 minutes or until a toothpick/sharp knife comes out clean.
6

Let it cool in the pan on a wire rack for ten minutes or so, then invert it onto the rack and let it cool completely out of the pan.
7

For the icing, just whisk all the ingredients together. I applied it after the cake was already cool.
8

Serve as is or shmancy up as you see fit.