Description
If you love light and delicious chocolate cake you will love this recipe!! Enjoy!
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 cup cocoa powder dutch processed is best
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoons sea salt
- 1 1/4 cups low-fat buttermilk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoons vanilla
- 2Â large eggs
- 1 cup boiling water
For preparing the bundt pan:
- 2–3 teaspoons butter or margarine
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Next, prepare your bundt pan by greasing it well with 2-3 tsp butter or margarine and “flouring” it with cocoa powder. Tap our as much of the excess cocoa powder as you can – you only want a very thin layer to coat the inside of the cake pan so it disappears as the cake bakes.
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After the bundt pan is greased and floured, measure the flour, white sugar, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and sea salt into a large mixing bowl. Give the mixture a stir with a wire whisk to combine all the ingredients.
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To a separate bowl add the buttermilk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla and whisk them together with a fork.
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Dump the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir them together with a rubber spatula to combine.
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Set your kettle to boil and once it’s boiled, measure out one cup of boiling water.
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Add the boiling water to the cake batter in a slow stream, whisking as you add it. Continue adding the boiling water and whisking until the boiling water is all combined and the batter is smooth.
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Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 36-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
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Let the cake cool almost completely on a wire rack in the bundt pan. While it cools it should pull away slightly from the pan, making it easy to remove when it’s cool.
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Carefully flip the bundt pan upside down on top of a wire rack to remove the cake.
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Add some parchment paper under the wire rack once you’ve inverted the cake (this will catch the extra glaze you’re about to make!).
You can make a glaze for the cake but I thought it was delicious just the way it is. Enjoy!