Recipe by Deena Heisler

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour

• 2.5 cups sugar

• 1 cup cocoa

• 1 cup oil

• 2 cups cold black coffee

• 4 eggs

• 3 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp salt

• 2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees

• Mix the dry ingredients in a medium bowl

• In a separate large bowl, beat sugar and oil. Then beat in eggs one at a time, using an electric mixer.

• Add 1/3 of the coffee, and 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the egg/sugar/oil mixture. Mix until incorporated and repeat with the remaining 2/3 of coffee and dry ingredients, working in 1/3 batches. Be careful not to overbeat the batter.

• Add the vanilla to the batter and bake in a greased bundt pan at 300 for 30-45 minutes, until the cake is mostly cooked, but still a little moist- be careful not to overcook!

• If you’d like, go ahead and spoon a chocolate-coffee glaze (recipe below) over the cake

Chocolate-Coffee Glaze:

• 2 cups confectioners sugar (sift or strain to avoid lumps)

• 6 tablespoons cocoa

• 6 tablespoons coffee

• 4 tbsp oil

• 2 tsp vanilla

• Add hot water-start with 3tsp and add more little by little until it reaches a glaze-like consistency