One Bowl Chocolate Cake
"Whip up a delicious one-bowl chocolate cake with this easy recipe. Moist, rich, and perfect for any occasion. Try it now!"
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Electric Mixer
- - Round baking pans
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
- All ingredients gathered to make one bowl chocolate cake.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
- Stir sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
- Dry ingredients mixed together.
- Add eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla; mix for 2 minutes on medium speed with an electric mixer.
- Eggs, milk, vanilla, and oil added to dry ingredients and mixed together.
- Stir in the boiling water. The batter will be thin.
- Boiling water added to mixture to thin out.
- Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
- A top-down view of chocolate cake batter poured evenly into two round pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 to 35 minutes.
- Cakes finished baking and resting on a wire rack.
- Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy your delicious one-bowl chocolate cake!
Notes
This one-bowl chocolate cake is simple to make and results in a moist, rich cake. Be sure to cool completely before frosting.