The Easiest Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 ounces vanilla sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 1/2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee powder
• 5 teaspoons milk

Recipe

• preheat oven to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c). grease and flour one 9 x 13 inch cake pan.
• whip the sugar, eggs, baking powder, and the vanilla sugar. (to make vanilla sugar: place one clean vanilla bean in a pint jar with 1 - 1 1/2 cups white sugar. shake occasionally. after a few days, use the sugar and replenish as necessary.) add the shortening and mix well.
• stir in the flour, the cocoa powder, and the orange juice and mix until homogeneous. pour batter into prepared pan.
• bake cake at 375 degrees f (190 degrees c) for about 40 minutes. remove cake from oven and immediately spread coffee glaze over top.
• to make glaze: five minutes before cake is done, mix together confectioners' sugar, nescafe powder, and milk. use immediately to spread over hot cake.