This chocolate cake is probably one of the easiest chocolate cake recipes I’ve ever made and probably one of the best. If you don’t want a whole two layer cake this recipe can be halved or made even smaller for only 1 or two people.
Back when I published this post in 2013, I wasn’t a fan of coffee at all. It’s funny how your taste buds change over time and now iced lattes and frappucinos are my favorite coffee drink to have. Iced is the only way I’ll drink coffee or inside baked goods like this chocolate cake.
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Why You Will Like This Recipe
Ina Garten stated that coffee helps to enhance the flavor of the chocolate inside this cake. Even though there’s coffee in this cake you still can’t taste it but it is super moist and the chocolate flavor is spot on.
Ingredients Needed for Chocolate Cake
- All-purpose flour - is a type of wheat flour that is commonly used in cooking and baking. It is versatile and can be used for a variety of recipes, including bread, cakes, cookies, and pastries.
- Sugar - Or regular granulated sugar, I do not use sugar substitutes in any of my recipes but if you know the conversions feel free to do so
- Cocoa, unsweetened - Is a product of cocoa beans that have been roasted, fermented, and processed to remove the fat, leaving behind a dry and bitter powder. I like Hershey's Cocoa Powder
- Baking soda - also known as sodium bicarbonate, is a white crystalline powder that is commonly used in baking as a leavening agent
- Eggs - The best type of eggs you can buy at the store are organic or free-range eggs, while others may prefer eggs from specific breeds of chickens. When baking make sure eggs are at room temperature.
- Buttermilk- To make homemade buttermilk add some lemon juice to some regular melt and let it sit for a couple minutes to form buttermilk.
- Butter, melted - is the most commonly used type of butter in baking, as it allows for more control over the amount of salt in the recipe.
- Vanilla extract - It is made by macerating and soaking vanilla beans in a mixture of water and Vodka. Use a good pure vanilla instead of the imitation vanilla extract.
- Hot coffee - get some cold brew and warm it up in the microwave for a bit.
- Chocolate Frosting:
- Semisweet chocolate (recommended: Callebaut)
- Pure vanilla extract
- Sifted confectioners' sugar
How to make Beatty’s Chocolate Cake
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2-9 inch baking pans or line with parchment paper circles and set aside.
In a large bowl of a standing mixer stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
Add eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, and vanilla extract and beat until smooth about 3 minutes.
Remove bowl from mixer and stir in hot coffee with a rubber spatula. Batter will be very runny.
Pour batter evenly between the 2 pans and bake on the middle rack of oven for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached.
Allow to cool 15 minutes in pans then run a butter knife around the edges of each cake. Place a wire cooling rack over top of each pan.
Wearing oven mitts use both hands to hold the racks in place while flipping the cakes over onto the racks.
Set the racks down and gently thump on the bottom of the pans until the cakes release. Cool completely before handling or frosting.
Recipe Tips and Tricks
Since this recipe requires coffee keep a cup of cold brew available in the fridge prior to making this cake so you won’t have to brew it the day of making. The coffee does not have to be hot like the recipe states.
All the other ingredients are probably already in your pantry or fridge.
Baking Equipment
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Cooling Racks - For those who love to bake but have limited space, this three-tiered Wilton cooling rack just solved that problem; cool batches of cookies, cake layers or countless finger foods all at once without sacrificing counter space
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Really Moist Chocolate Cake
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 35 min
- Total Time: 1 hr 35 min
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Medium
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Beatty's Chocolate Cake Recipe | Ina Garten
Ingredients
1 ¾ c all-purpose flour
2 c sugar
¾ c cocoa, unsweetened
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 c buttermilk
½ c butter, melted
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 c hot coffee
Chocolate Frosting:Â
6 ounces good semisweet chocolate (recommended: Callebaut)
½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 extra-large egg yolk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups sifted confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2-9 inch baking pans or line with parchment paper circles and set aside.
- In a large bowl of a standing mixer stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
- Â Add eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, and vanilla extract and beat until smooth about 3 minutes.
- Remove bowl from mixer and stir in hot coffee with a rubber spatula. Batter will be very runny.
- Pour batter evenly between the 2 pans and bake on the middle rack of oven for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached.
- Allow to cool 15 minutes in pans then run a butter knife around the edges of each cake. Place a wire cooling rack over top of each pan.
- Wearing oven mitts use both hands to hold the racks in place while flipping the cakes over onto the racks.
- Set the racks down and gently thump on the bottom of the pans until the cakes release. Cool completely before handling or frosting.
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Frosting: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until light yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and continue beating for 3 minutes. Turn the mixer to low, gradually add the confectioners' sugar, then beat at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary, until smooth and creamy. Dissolve the coffee powder in 2 teaspoons of the hottest tap water. On low speed, add the chocolate and coffee to the butter mixture and mix until blended. Don't whip! Spread immediately on the cooled cake.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
Bee says
I have made this cake for years but I use 9 by 13 pan and I put white icing on the cake.