Mocha Cake

Minda
Minda @MindasKitchen6370
San Pablo, CA

This is my husband's favorite cake and for his birthday, decided to learn to bake it for the very first time. I didn’t have coffee icing so used what I had and he doesn’t like too much icing so didn’t put any.

Mocha Cake

This is my husband's favorite cake and for his birthday, decided to learn to bake it for the very first time. I didn’t have coffee icing so used what I had and he doesn’t like too much icing so didn’t put any.

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Ingredients

  1. 2 cupsall-purpose flour
  2. 2 cupswhite sugar
  3. 2/3 cupunsweetened cocoa powder
  4. 1/2 cupvegetable oil
  5. 2eggs
  6. 1 cupbuttermilk
  7. 2 tspbaking soda
  8. 1/2 tspsalt
  9. 1 tspbaking powder
  10. 1 tspinstant coffee or espresso powder
  11. 1 cuphot water

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9 inch round cake pans.

  2. 2

    Measure flour, sugar, cocoa, oil, eggs, buttermilk, baking powder, soda, and salt into a mixing bowl. Dissolve instant coffee in hot water, and add to mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes until smooth; batter will be thin. Pour into prepared pans.

  3. 3

    Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto racks to cool completely.

  4. 4

    Frost cooled cake with Coffee Icing. After frosting, melt some semisweet chocolate baking squares or chips in a double boiler. Drizzle chocolate around top outside edges letting it run down sides, or over top of cake.

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