Take a look at the recipe for Ina Garten's Beatty's Chocolate Cake and you might notice that it calls for freshly brewed coffee among the more usual chocolate cake suspects such as flour, cocoa powder, and eggs. In fact, coffee is an extremely common ingredient in chocolate cakes, appearing, for example, in this recipe for spicy chocolate cake. And coffee isn't there to make the cake a coffee- or mocha-flavored one: It's there to enhance the chocolate's flavor and make it more, well, chocolate-y.
According to the blog Baking Bites, cocoa powder and coffee contain some of the same flavor elements, such as bitterness, fruitiness, and spiciness — and combining the two therefore enhances the eater's perception of the chocolate's flavor. The coffee added to a cake isn't even noticeable, the blog notes; Rather, the overall effect is simply to enhance the taste of the cocoa. So if you're thinking about baking up a chocolate cake any time soon, reach for some brewed or instant coffee to up the cake's flavor.
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