Description
I make a moist chocolate cake for my birthday. I didn’t buy a birthday cake, I make of my own. I make a three-layer cake of this moist chocolate cake, all my friends they like it all. Everyone eats this cake. Next time I make for my husband’s birthday cake.
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder (such as Hershey’s®)
- 2 cups cake flour
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (such as Hershey’s®)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup 2% milk
- 1 cup brewed coffee
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan; dust pan with 2 teaspoons cocoa powder or as needed.
- Whisk cake flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa
- baking soda
- baking powder
- and salt in a bowl. Mix sugar and canola oil in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Beat eggs into sugar and oil
- one at a time
- blending in the first egg before adding the second. Gradually beat milk
- coffee
- and vanilla extract into sugar mixture until smooth.
- Reduce mixer speed to low and beat flour mixture into wet ingredients. Stir sour cream into batter. Pour into prepared baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean or with moist crumbs
- about 40 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 12