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Coffee Chocolate Cake (small batch, one-bowl)

  If you are looking for a moist and rich cake that fulfills all of your chocolate and coffee dreams, this one is for you. For the base of this cake, I am baking a super easy one-bowl chocolate dough with sour cream and real espresso for that rich and moist coffee taste. Then, I top the cake with a chocolate coffee frosting, it is super simple too. We are using instant coffee and cocoa powder to enhance our flavors even more. If you want, you could add some berries on top - I think that would make the cake even more special! The chocolate coffee dough For the chocolate coffee base, I used a recipe from freshbeanbakery as guidance. I'll link her original recipe here . I just swapped out the hot milk for hot strong coffee in order to achieve the coffee flavor. The rest of the recipe is pretty simple, too. We start by whisking together the cocoa powder, instant coffee, and hot espresso. This is called "blooming" your cocoa powder and enhances the chocolate flavor. Then we ad...

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake (small batch, one bowl)

This lemon poppy seed cake is made in one bowl and is yogurt-based, which means you do not have to wait for your butter to soften! It is moist and rich and combines the two amazing flavors lemon and poppy seed. I recently bought poppy seeds for my easter cake (marbled carrot poppy seed cake - take a look at it here ) and looked up new recipes I could try with my remaining poppy seeds and then I found the famous lemon poppy seed cake. Honestly, I think, this flavor combination is quite popular at the moment - I saw lemon poppy seed cupcakes, cookies, cakes, and many more. But I love a versatile flavor combo that is so perfect for spring and summer. Which ingredients do we need for the lemon poppy seed cake? I use some basic ingredients for this cake, nothing fancy- so you probably have everything at home. Like I said in the beginning, this cake is yogurt-based so we need yogurt. I am using a non-sweetened plain white yogurt with 3,8% fat. I haven't tried it with other yogurts, so I ...