Easy One-Bowl Chocolate Cake

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This is a classic, plain chocolate cake where all the ingredients are placed in a bowl and beaten together. Unlike other cakes (like the White Chocolate Raspberry Birthday Cake) where you have to combine butter, dry ingredients, milk, and meringue all in a certain order, this is super easy.

I made this as my birthday cake in 2015. I’ve been making my own birthday cakes since I was about 13 years old, so this year was no different. The chocolate flavour of this cake is enhanced by adding a bit of instant coffee powder to the mix. The recipe says to frost with your choice of frosting; I made a cooked rum buttercream frosting and used that as both a filling and frosting.

This recipe can also be made into chocolate cupcakes; place liners in 2 dozen 3-inch muffin-pan cups and fill each half-full with the batter. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the centre of one comes out clean.

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Easy One-Bowl Chocolate Cake

Course Dessert

Prep Time 7 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 37 minutes minutes

Servings 12

Author Kiku Corner

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/4 cup milk
• 1 tsp instant coffee powder
• 3/4 cup butter or margarine
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans.
• In a large bowl, measure all ingredients.
• With a mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping the bowl.
• Beat for 5 minutes at medium speed, scraping the bowl occasionally.
• Pour batter into prepared cake pans and bake 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean and dry.
• Cool layers in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely on racks. Then frost with frosting of choice!