Simple Chocolate Sheet Cake

Name: Simple Chocolate Sheet Cake
Yield: Makes one 9 by 13-inch cake
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-processed; 1 1/4 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (6 1/4 ounces); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 8 ounces, semisweet chocolate, chopped; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), plus extra for baking pan; 4 , large eggs; 1 1/2 cups, granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 cup, buttermilk; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2001

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Make Ahead

Cakes

For an easy, foolproof, last-minute cake that packs in great chocolate flavor, just whisk together a few ingredients and bake.

SERVESMakes one 9 by 13-inch cake

TIME1 hour, plus 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For an easy, foolproof, last-minute chocolate cake recipe, we just whisked together a few ingredients and baked. A low oven temperature and a long baking time produced a chocolate cake with a perfectly flat top, ready to be frosted.

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