Dark Chocolate Cake

 

1¾ cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

¾ cup unsweetened baking cocoa

2¼ tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup sour cream

½ cup vegetable oil

1 T. vanilla extract

2 large eggs

1 cup hot water

2 tsp instant coffee powder

 

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 13- x- 9-inch pan. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Beat sour cream, oil, vanilla, and eggs using a handheld mixer or an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Combine water and instant coffee in a separate bowl. Alternately beat dry ingredients and coffee mixture into egg mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients until just blended, scraping sides of bowl as needed. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool. Frost with Chocolate Buttercream recipe.