Darker than normal cocoa, black cocoa powder adds unsweetened chocolate highlights and intense color to Baked’s mouthwatering chocolate layer cake recipe. Boasting a rich, smoky chocolate flavor, it transforms an ordinary chocolate cake into an extraordinary, sultry chocolate cake. It’s moist, delicious and sophisticated.

Baked NYC specializes in (even obsesses about) all manner of baking Americana. Baked started as a classic American bakery and café based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where they create a vast array of cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, bars, brownies and even more sweet treats. They’re not just bakers, they’re dessert archeologists—digging and researching and eating their way through the classic, regional desserts of America.

In addition to the mix, you will need:

• 2 eggs, room temperature
• ½ cup butter, melted and cooled
• ¼ cup sour cream
• ¼ cup water