Old fashioned Chocolate Cake. Old- fashioned Chocolate Cake, that just melt in your mouth. This old fashioned chocolate cake is made even better by a tangy buttermilk pecan icing. The cake itself is a moist cake, and the cinnamon is just enough to perk up the chocolate; but it is the icing that makes the cake.
This old-fashioned chocolate cake is moist, rich and a perfectly sweet end to any meal. A HERSHEY'S Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Bar gives this cake all the chocolatey flavor you could ask for. Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake. by Nigella. You can cook Old fashioned Chocolate Cake using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Old fashioned Chocolate Cake
- You need 3 cup of all-purpose flour.
- You need 2 cup of sugar.
- You need 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa.
- You need 2 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 2 cup of hot water.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of distilled vinegar.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of instant coffee granules.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
This is, for me, the quintessential chocolate cake: melting, luscious and mood-enhancingly good. A food technologist would explain this in terms of "mouthfeel" but I don't know quite how that makes me feel. I call this "Old Fashioned" Chocolate Cake because it has a very soft and moist crumb that is reminiscent of a cake made from a box-mix. Cakes made from a mix have a the super soft, very fine crumb that many, many people think of as the quintessential old fashioned chocolate layer cake.
Old fashioned Chocolate Cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Spray 2 8x2 round cake pans with non-stick spray..
- Whisk together.
- In a large measuring cup, combine.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry mixture all at once, stirring until just combined. A few lumps are ok..
- Divide batter between pans..
- Bake 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes clean..
- Cool cakes in pan for 15 minutes. Then invert onto rack. Leave upside down and let cool completely (this flattens domed cakes)..
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