Elyse's Chocolate Cake

5.0(10)

This cake is a deep dark brown. It is so easy and comes out perfect everytime. When I moved to Israel, I gave Elyse cake decorating lessons and she shared this recipe with me. It is the only chocolate cake recipe I use. It is so easy, my husband (who can barely microwave a hot dog) made this for me and it turned out great. This is the perfect base if you are going to ice/decorate it. Just put it in the freezer overnight first and the icing spread beautifully. Just as easy as Duncan Hines and much cheaper too.

by Caryn Gale·published 2003-02-28

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Dessert

Servings

2 round or square pans

Total time

55 min

prep 10 min

Calories / serving

2877 kcal

Ingredients (10)

serves

1 cup cocoa
3 cups flourflour
1 1/2 teaspoons saltsalt
2 teaspoons baking sodabaking-soda
1 teaspoon baking powderbaking-powder
2 1/2 cups sugarsugar
2 cups coffee (2 tspn. instant coffee plus 2 cups boiling water mixed)coffee
1 cup oiloil
4 eggsegg
2 teaspoons vanillavanilla

Instructions (6 steps)

01Place all dry ingredients in the mixer.
02Turn mixer on low and slowly add the wet ingredients 1 at a time.
03Pour into 2 greased round pans or 2 square pans.
04Bake 350 for 45minutes-1 hour.
05Freezes well.
06

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