Your friends and family will love this gorgeous and simple moist chocolate cake. Black Magic Cake is a Hershey’s recipe that is big on chocolate flavour, perfectly moist and incredibly simple to make.
This chocolate cake recipe with coffee is super spooky and suitable for all your black magic get-togethers.
When it comes to cake, most people in my family are team chocolate all the way! If you’ve ever made Hershey’s Black Magic Cake, you know that this cake is a chocolate lover’s dream come true, so it’s one of the must-make cake recipes around here.
Black Magic Cake – Best Chocolate Cake Ever!
Ingredients
1 3/4 call purpose flour
2 c sugar
3/4 c cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 c strong black coffee, cooled
1 c buttermilk
1/2 c vegetable oil
1 tsp real vanilla extract
CHOCOLATE FROSTING
1/2 c margarine, softened
2 oz melted unsweetened chocolate, cooled
3 c powdered sugar
3 Tbsp milk
2 tsp real vanilla extract
STEPS
Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer.
Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla. Beat at medium speed for two minutes. Batter will be thin.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 9×13 pan or two 9 inch cake pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes for a 9×13, or 30-35 minutes for layer pans.
Combine frosting ingredients and mix with a hand or stand mixer. Spread frosting on cooled cakes.