Black Magic Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cakes are, of course, everyone's favorite. In college, we used to celebrate all our birthdays by ordering a yummy chocolate cake from a nearby small bakery. It was just Rs.50 those days for that 1 kg  cake. We had enough reason to order a cake almost every week, be it birthdays, or end of Internals, or even anyone's parents' anniversaries ;). That bakery made the yummiest chocolate cake we had ever tasted. I never even dreamt those days that I would bake a cake someday , let alone a soft, moist chocolate cake. After trying many recipes, I have finally got THE chocolate cake recipe, which is aptly named as the Black Magic cake ! 

Recipe Source : here

Ingredients :

• All Purpose flour : 1.75 cups
• Granulated white sugar : 2 cups
• Unsweetened cocoa powder : 3/4 cup
• Baking powder : 1 tsp
• Baking soda : 2 tsp
• Salt : 1 tsp
• Eggs : 2 nos.
• Strong brewed black coffee : 1 cup ( I used Nescafe)
• Buttermilk : 1 cup
• Vegetable oil : 1/2 cup
• Vanilla extract : 1 tsp

Method : 

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all purpose flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
3. Once whisked well, make a well in the center. 
4. Add buttermilk, eggs, vanilla extract, vegetable oil and coffee to this.
5. Beat on medium speed for 2-3 minutes or till mixed well.
6. The batter will be thinner than normal cake batter.
7. Pour this into greased cake tin. ( The original recipe says this yields 2X9" pans. I got one 9" square pan and 6 cupcakes.)
8. Bake at 350 F for 30-40 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean.
9. Take out, cool in the pan for 15 minutes and then take out of the pan, let it cool down fully on a cooling rack.
10. Slice and serve !