one bowl chocolate cake

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One Bowl Chocolate Cake

This easy-to-make chocolate cake is dark, moist, and rich, and it's made with healthful canola oil and whole-wheat flour. Plus, it only dirties one bowl! It's not quite as easy as boxed cake mix, but our simple 3-step recipe gives you an entirely homemade cake in about an hour.

Ingredients

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole-wheat pastry flour (see ingredient note)
½ cup granulated sugar
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup nonfat buttermilk (see tip)
½ cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as canola or avocado
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup hot strong black coffee
confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray. Line the pan with a circle of waxed paper.
Whisk flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add buttermilk, brown sugar, egg, oil and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add hot coffee and beat to blend. (The batter will be quite thin.) Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake the cake until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes; remove from the pan, peel off the wax paper and let cool completely. Dust the top with confectioners' sugar before slicing.