One Bowl Chocolate Cake Recipe

June 21, 2018

This is my go-to birthday chocolate cake. It's so decadently chocolate, chewy, fudgy, melt-in-your-mouth...do I need to continue? 😉 It's hands down, the BEST homemade chocolate cake recipe out there.

Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 30 mins
Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar

• 1 3/4 cup flour (I use whole wheat flour)

• 3/4 cup cocoa or dark cocoa

• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda

• 1 tsp. salt

• 2 eggs (1/4 cup dry egg powder + 1/2 cup water)

• 1 cup milk (3 Tbsp. powdered milk +1 cup water)

• 1/2 cup oil (or bean puree)

• 2 tsp. vanilla

• 1 cup boiling water

GANACHE TOPPING

12 oz. chocolate chips

12 oz. cream

Directions

1Heat oven to 375. Spray 9-inch round pans, 13×9 or bundt baking pan.

2Beat all ingredients except boiling water on medium speed of electric mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

3Bake 30-35 minutes for round pans, 35-40 minutes for 9×13 pan or 50-55 minutes for bundt pan or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans to wire racks.

4GANACHE TOPPING

5Pour your chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl. Add cream on top of chocolate chips. Microwave for one minute. Remove and allow to cool for 5 minutes (no stirring, I mean it!). Then stir the cream and chocolate to combine.

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