Easy Cake Recipes with Few Ingredients
Cakes from a short grocery list — witch's cake, 1 min chocolate lava mug cake, pineapple upside down cake, peach dump cake — for weeknights you want dessert.
★ dessert
dessertWitch’s cake
I’ve put a spell on you and now you’re mine, be right back while I devour this chocolatey goodness!!
Trazia RaeIngredients
- 1-3/4 Flour
- 2 cups Sugar
- 3/4 cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Espresso powder
- 1 cup Coffee
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Melted butter
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla bean paste
Instructions
- 1Mix all your wet ingredients in one bowl.
- 2Mix all your dry ingredients in another.
- 3Slowly combined all ingredients together, grease a Bundt pan or cake pan really well, pour in the batter and bake on 350° for 40-45 minutes until you can stick a knife in and it comes out clean :) top with your favorite icing and enjoy!
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Open in Pepper →Cake Without A Trip To The Store
Most nights there's no time to shop for a dessert. A cake you can pull together from butter, sugar, flour and whatever's in the pantry is the one that actually gets made.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when somebody's birthday snuck up on them, when the kids want something sweet after supper, or when company's coming Sunday and the afternoon is already spoken for.
Every recipe here keeps the list short: witch's cake with cocoa powder, a 1 min chocolate lava mug cake, peach dump cake made from canned peaches and a box of yellow cake mix, banana carrot cake, birthday cake bars, and tres leches cake for when you want to make a fuss.
Quick Tips
- 1
Soften butter properly
Set the butter out 30 to 45 minutes before you start. Cold butter won't cream with the sugar and you'll get a dense cake.
- 2
Stop the mug cake early
Microwave 60 to 70 seconds and pull it while the middle still looks a little wet. It keeps cooking in the mug and turns rubbery fast.
- 3
Grease the pan well
For pineapple upside down cake, coat the sides and bottom, then flip it out 5 to 10 minutes after it comes from the oven so the topping doesn't stick.
- 4
Cool before slicing
Give bars and squares at least 30 minutes in the pan. Warm cake tears instead of cutting clean.
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