Coffee Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups vegan refined sugar
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
• 1 cup brewed coffee
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Chocolate Melty Frosting

• 1/2 cup earth balance, (or butter) room temperature
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 3 cups vegan powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup vanilla soymilk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Optional

• Chocolate chips to garnish

Directions

Cake

1. This is a vegan recipe but you can substitute non-vegan ingredients.
2. Preheat your oven to 350 degreees. Lightly oil and flour two 9 x 9 baking pans.
3. While you�re getting everything else ready, go ahead and brew the coffee.
4. Throw the flour and refined sugar in a bowl.
5. Add in the coco and salt.
6. Add the baking soda and whisk until the dry ingredients are well blended.
7. In a separate bowl, combine the vegetable oil, distilled white vinegar, water, warm coffee and vanilla.
8. Add the wet to the dry and stir stir stir.
9. Pour into two 9 x 9 inch cake pans and bake for 30-40 minutes.
10. If you want to eat the cake warm, make the frosting when you have about 5 minutes of baking time left.

Frosting

1. It�s so easy, just place all frosting ingredients into one bowl and mix on low-medium speed for 1 minute (or until fully blended)
2. For a warm, gooey cake, slather the frosting on while the cake is still warm.
3. Garnish with chocolate chips.