{"id":37497,"date":"2025-07-02T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=37497"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:16:26","slug":"dark-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=37497","title":{"rendered":"Dark Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-37498\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dark-Chocolate-Cake.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>Dark Chocolate Cake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1\u00be cups all-purpose flour<\/p>\n<p>2 cups sugar<\/p>\n<p>\u00be cup unsweetened baking cocoa<\/p>\n<p>2\u00bc tsp baking soda<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd tsp baking powder<\/p>\n<p>1 tsp salt<\/p>\n<p>1 cup sour cream<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd cup vegetable oil<\/p>\n<p>1 T. vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>2 large eggs<\/p>\n<p>1 cup hot water<\/p>\n<p>2 tsp instant coffee powder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Chocolate Cake &nbsp; 1\u00be cups all-purpose flour 2 cups sugar \u00be cup unsweetened baking cocoa 2\u00bc tsp baking soda \u00bd tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 cup sour cream \u00bd cup vegetable oil 1 T. vanilla extract 2 large eggs 1 cup hot water 2 tsp instant coffee powder &nbsp; Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F. 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,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/?p=37497\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[81,80],"class_list":["post-37497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts-fruit","tag-baking","tag-sweet-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37499,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37497\/revisions\/37499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}