The Easiest Chocolate Cake

This recipe makes an orange-accented chocolate cake with a coffee-flavored glaze

• Calories: 309 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
• 1 ½ ounces vanilla sugar
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 ½ teaspoons instant coffee powder
• 5 teaspoons milk

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 x 13 inch cake pan.

Step 2

Whip the sugar, eggs, baking powder, and the vanilla sugar. (To make Vanilla Sugar: Place one clean vanilla bean in a pint jar with 1 - 1 1/2 cups white sugar. Shake occasionally. After a few days, use the sugar and replenish as necessary.) Add the shortening and mix well.

Step 3

Stir in the flour, the cocoa powder, and the orange juice and mix until homogeneous. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Step 4

Bake cake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for about 40 minutes. Remove cake from oven and immediately spread coffee glaze over top.

Step 5

To Make Glaze: Five minutes before cake is done, mix together confectioners' sugar, Nescafe powder, and milk. Use immediately to spread over hot cake.