I use this trick when making any chocolate cake.
(I’m dating myselfthe internet back then wasn’t the same.
Today, a Google search yields nearly 750 million chocolate cake recipes.)
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To this day, my favorite chocolate cake recipe is Ina Garten’s famousBeattys Chocolate Cake.
It is easy to make, moist, and delicious.
Ina calls for coffee not once, buttwice.
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Once in the cake batter and again in the chocolate frosting.
Coffee is a natural chocolate enhancer.
Its bitterness coaxes out the chocolate flavor without making the cake taste like coffee.
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The ingredients and quantities are almost identical.
Hershey’s developed the recipe sometime before the 1970s and added it to a product label.
Some claim the recipe goes back to the 1930s.
Regardless of what kind you use, it should be fresh and something you would enjoy drinking.
To maximize the flavor of chocolate even more, swap out equal amounts of water with brewed coffee.
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