The Best Easy Chocolate Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2009

SERVESMakes one 8-inch-square cake

TIME1 hour, plus 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted an easy chocolate mayonnaise cake recipe that would deliver good chocolate flavor. To get there, we “bloomed” unsweetened cocoa powder in coffee to intensify its flavor and supplemented it with bittersweet chocolate. Although trad...

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