Perfect Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup cocoa
• 2 cups boiling water
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Recipe

• 1 combine cocoa and boiling water, stirring until smooth; set aside until cool.
• 2 cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 3 combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl, add to creamed mixture alternately with the cooled cocoa mixture, beating at low speed, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. stir in vanilla. do not overbeat.
• 4 pour batter into 3 buttered and floured 9-inch round cakepans. bake at 350 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. cool in pans 10 minutes, remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.