Devilish Chocolate Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add oil, coffee and milk and mix at medium speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and beat 2 more minutes. Expect batter to be thin.
• Pour into a 9" x 13" greased and floured pan or 2- 9" round pans. Bake 9 x 13 pan for about 45 minutes or 9" pans for about 30 minutes. Cool in pans for about 15 minutes and then cool completely on racks.
• While cake is cooling make the icing: Combine the milk and flour in a saucepan and cook over low heat until thick, whisking constantly. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
• In a medium bowl, beat butter, shortening, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add chilled milk and flour mixture and beat for 10 minutes. Frost cooled cake and enjoy! The frosting sounds intimidating, but it is worth it! By the way, for some reason, we prefer this cake chilled, right out of the refrigerator. The rich chocolate and cool frosting just seem to taste best this way.

Steps:

• Position oven rack in the center of the oven; preheat oven to 325°; grease bottom and sides of a 9x3 inch round cake pan; dust the pan with flour and set aside.
• Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt the bowl of an electric mixer.
• Add the sugar, and using the paddle attachment, mix at low speed until blended.
• Add the safflower oil and mix a few seconds, until the dry ingredients are crumbly.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs until blended.
• Whisk in the milk and vanilla extract until blended.
• With the mixer at low speed, add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and mix until blended, scraping down the sides of bowl as needed.
• Gradually add the boiling water and mix just until blended and smooth; scraping down sides as needed.
• Pour batter into cake pan.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes, until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
• Invert cake onto the wire rack and cool completely.
• Frost as desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9" round pans, or line the bottoms with parchment.
• Whisk together 1/2 cup each of agave nectar, cocoa, and buttermilk. Set aside.
• Sift together the cake and whole wheat flours, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• Mix vanilla and remaining buttermilk together. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter. Gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup agave nectar, then beat at high speed until fairly well incorporated. (This took about three minutes in my stand mixer.).
• Add the eggs, one at a time, to the butter/nectar mixture.
• Slowly beat in the cocoa mixture.
• At low speed, add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture alternately. This can be done by hand as well with a rubber scraper.
• Scrape the batter into prepared pans and spread evenly.
• Bake 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick poked in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Let cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove the cakes from pans to cool completely on a rack.