Mocha Chocolate Sourdough Bundt Cake

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This easy sourdough chocolate cake is a delicious way to use your sourdough starter. Dense and rich, with a slight sourdough tang, this mocha chocolate cake is a great sourdough recipe.

A rich, spongy, chocolatey cake? Yes, please.

An amazingly delicious one bowl cake you make with your sourdough starter discard? Heck. Yes.

This chocolate bundt cake uses sourdough starter and brewed coffee to help the taste be extra rich and have a great depth of flavor – but it doesn’t really taste like coffee or have too sour of a sourdough flavor. Trust me, the combination is great here!

Don’t throw your discard away! Try these amazing recipes that use sourdough discard :

• Cheesy Sourdough Popovers
• Sourdough Donuts
• Sourdough Banana Bread
• Overnight Sourdough Waffles

How to make this cake

Sourdough cake is so easy to make! For the compete recipe make sure you scroll to the recipe card below, but here is a general overview:

1. Preheat the oven and prepare the bundt pan with butter and flour.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter and sugar with a fork until combined.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, and whisk until combined.
4. Whisk in the vanilla extract.
5. Add the flour, brewed coffee, cocoa powder, vegetable oil, baking powder, baking soda, and sourdough starter to the bowl.
6. Whisk until combined.
7. Pour into the prepared bundt pan.
8. Bake for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted inside comes out clean.
9. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a cooling rack.
10. Prepare the chocolate ganache and drizzle over the cooled cake.

What kind of sourdough starter do you need for this recipe?

This recipe calls for 100 % hydration sourdough starter. You can use sourdough discard or fed and active sourdough starter for this recipe.

Kids in the kitchen: How your kids can help you cook

Inviting kids into the kitchen with you is a great way to help teach kids important kitchen skills, but also to help them be more interested in actually taking a bite of food – and enjoying it!

This recipe is great for beginner bakers because it is so easy! It is great for learning to measure, crack eggs, whisk liquids, identify new smells and flavors, and in learning how different ingredients flavors work together.

• Kids aged 1-3 can help you measure ingredients and whisk the ingredients together.
• Kids aged 4-6 can do everything above plus help you crack the eggs and prepare the bundt pan.
• Kids aged 7-10+ can help you do everything above, plus help you pour the batter into the pan.

*Please note that these recommendations are generalized, and to please use your personal discretion with your child’s skill level. And always, always supervise! Read more about how to have your children help you in the kitchen.

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