Original cake pan cake (eggless chocolate cake) with chocolate glaze frosting
King Arthur Baking Company · 11 min video
Read about sheet cakes and traybakes in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
- 1½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
Whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cocoa.
Measuring the dry ingredients
- 1 cup cold coffee
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Measure the cold coffee (or water with espresso powder), then add the vegetable oil to the same cup, plus the vinegar and vanilla.
Wet ingredients: coffee, oil, vinegar, vanilla
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix; it can also be mixed in wells in the cake pan itself.
Mixing, and why it is a cake pan cake
- 1½ cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup half and half
Microwave the chocolate chips and half and half together for about a minute and whisk until smooth.
Two-ingredient chocolate frosting