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Devil's Dark Chocolate Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
For cake:
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
½ cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
½ – ¾ cup dutch Process cocoa Powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
1 cup strong-brewed coffee -not hot just warm.
1 cup of butter milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

For ganache:
1 cup heavy cream
10 oz. Semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate finely chopped.
1 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon of agave nectar
Directions:
Directions:
Cake:
Preheat the oven 350F
Butter a bundt pan and dust with cocoa.
Melt the bitter sweet chocolate, using a double boiler on low heat (or microwave), stirring constantly. Scrape the melted chocolate into a medium size bowl and let cool slightly.
Whisk in the melted butter, oil, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time and mix.
In a small bowl, Mix the dry ingredients, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt.
Start by combining half of the dry ingredients to the chocolate mixture along with ½ cup of the coffee and ½ a cup of the butter milk. Whisk until smooth. Add the remaining dry ingredients, coffee and butter milk and whisk. until smooth.
Poor the batter into the prepared pan and bake in the lower third of the oven for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached. Remove from oven and cool on a rack for about 10-15 minutes, then turn it out and let it cool completely.

Ganache:
In a small pot heat the heavy cream until small bubbles form around the pan (do not let it boil)
Place the chopped chocolate in a medium size bowl, pour the hot heavy cream over the chocolate let it stand for 3-4 minutes so the chocolate warms through. Whisk gently until the mixture is smooth, add butter mix until is melted. Add the agave nectar for a shiny finish.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
1 cake
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
~1hr

 

 

 

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