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Chocolate Mocha Cake Recipe

Can we be honest with each other? The chocolate mocha cake is a love-hate relationship. You either love it, or you hate it. For coffee lovers, the chocolate mocha cake is a dream come true.

 This coffee lover’s chocolate mocha cake recipe has a secret. It’s not a deceptive secret or a secret that would hurt anyone. But the secret ingredient took this chocolate mocha cake recipe over the top. Aside from being an easy chocolate mocha cake, it was the best chocolate mocha cake I have ever made, and man did that surprise me.

 This recipe for chocolate mocha cake starts with Betty Crocker’s Super Moist Chocolate Fudge cake mix. It uses eggs and applesauce. I have been experimenting a lot with substituting applesauce for oil or butter in most of my favorite recipes. Using the cake mix as the base of the chocolate mocha cake recipe made the substitution an easy one.

We bake a lot, and my husband is not a coffee lover. I had to have plans for my experiment. He warned me and told me that I better make sure it’s good before I promise it to anyone.

I have some faith in myself and knew that by starting my chocolate mocha cake using cake mix. I couldn’t go too wrong. I called my neighborhood cake critic, Rosey, and promised her dessert for the evening.

 I followed the box directions to a “T’'. I only substituted the applesauce for the vegetable oil in equal quantities. The crumb of the cake was perfect. The flavor was so deep and moist, and the texture was spot on. When Rosey tasted it, she was so impressed and agreed, it was the best chocolate mocha cake she had ever tasted. 

 I am not sure this would have been the case if the cake was made from scratch. I have found that when you substitute applesauce for oil in baking, in most cases, it changes the end result. Given this, I typically just go all in when I bake, but I do keep trying. Honestly, I don’t think I will make chocolate mocha cake any other way again. It was that good.

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