Midnight Sin Chocolate Cake

The cake is quite easy to make. No fussing over the crucial creaming step that is so important to butter cakes (and so difficult in hot kitchens). Best of all:  No cake flour required! I know this will please those of you who cannot get your hands on the stuff.

Ingredient :

• 546g (2 3/4 cups) granulated sugar
• 4.5g (3/4 teaspoon) salt
• 69g (3/4 cup) dutch processed cocoa powder
• 5g (1 teaspoon) baking soda
• 237ml (1 cup) boiling water
• 237ml (1 cup) canola oil
• 10ml (2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
• 2g (2 teaspoons) instant expresso powder or crystals
• 218 grams (1 3/4 cups, spooned and leveled) bleached all purpose flour
• 4 large egg yolks
• 2 large eggs
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• non-stick spray

Instruction :

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F. Place a rack in the lower third of the oven and set a baking stone on it. (The stone helps the cake bake evenly and prevents humped tops. If you don't have a stone, the cake will survive don't worry. Just be prepared to trim any uneven tops and make sure the cake gets an adequate amount of time in the oven to fully cook.)
2. You'll need two 9" or two 8"cake pans for this cake. Spray the pans with non-stick spray oil and then line them with parchment (sides and bottom--this is a sticky cake) then spray the parchment with even more non-stick spray. 
3. In a medium sauce pan, combine the sugar, dutch processed cocoa, salt and baking soda. Stir with a whisk until combined and then slowly add the boiling water while whisking. This will bubble up a bit while the baking soda reacts with any remaining acidity in the dutch processed cocoa. Once throughly mixed, place the sauce pan over medium-high heat and bring back to a boil. Then remove from heat and allow to stand for a minimum of 10 minutes. This step makes the dutch processed cocoa even more alkaline, so our cake will be nearly black. 
4. While waiting on the chocolate mixture, get your mise en place goin' on! Measure out the flour,  buttermilk (no weird substitutions, folks. We need the acidity), and separate the eggs. (If you're odd like me, you'll remove the stringy white chalaza from the yolks. Sometimes they show up as white scrambled egg bits maring my otherwise perfect black cake.)  Add the oil and vanilla to the bowl of your stand mixer with the paddle attachment (this can also be done by hand with a wooden spoon). 
5. When the chocolate mixture is ready, stir in the instant espresso powder. (This won't make the cake taste like coffee, rather it enhances the chocolate flavor of the cake. Dutch processed cocoa has great color but it isn't quite as flavorful as it's light-colored acidic cousin, natural cocoa.) Add the chocolate mixture to your stand mixer and mix on low speed for about 20 seconds. Add the flour and continue to mix on low until combined. With a minimum amount of beating, add the egg yolks, eggs, vanilla and butter milk. The batter will be very thin.

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