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Chef Kelly's Favorite Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 3¾ cups sugar
- 3 1/3 cups flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 3 t. baking powder
- 3 t. baking soda
- 2 ½ t. salt
- 4 eggs
- 16 oz. milk
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 2½ t. vanilla
- 16 oz. boiling water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in the bowl of your stand mixer.
- In a different bowl, combine eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla.
- Add wet ingredients into the dry with paddle attachment on medium speed.
- After combined, add the boiling water.
- Fill 3 9-inch round pans 2/3 full and bake at 350 until cake tests done and begins to pull from the sides of the pan, about 20 minutes.
Kelly loves to serve this cake with Warm Caramel Sauce
- In a small saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter with 2/3 cup brown sugar; add in 2 T. brewed coffee, 2 T. corn syrup, and a pinch of salt.
- Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, cool slightly and drizzle over cake and serve.
Adapted from Chef Nancy Carey
Adapted from Chef Nancy Carey
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