Happy Labor Day everyone!!

Hope everyone has had a nice Labor Day weekend!  We didn't do much this weekend, just relaxing mostly.  We were at Mysti's on Saturday.  We went with her to Pittsburgh to look at an apartment, then came back and had pizza and enjoyed time with Torsten and Javyen.  Oh, yeah, we also had Black Magic Cake that I made Friday evening.  So I thought I'd post the recipe for it.  If you are worried that your family, etc. won't like the coffee in it, you can't really tell it is there.  I really like this and I'm not a big chocolate cake or coffee lover!! 
If you try this, please post back and let me know what you and those who ate it, thought about it. I refrigerated mine because of the cream cheese frosting and I loved it cold!!

Black Magic Cake

1 3/4 cups flour                2 eggs
2 cups sugar                     1 cup strong black coffee
3/4 cup baking cocoa      1 cup buttermilk
2 tsp. baking soda           1/2 cup veg. oil
1 tsp. baking powder      1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. salt

1. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl or stand mixer.
2. Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla.
3. Beat at medium speed for two minutes. Batter will be thin.
4. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x13 pan or two 9 inch cake pans.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes for a 9x13, or 30-35 minutes for layer pans
6. Cool and frost as desired.  I frosted mine with cream cheese frosting, but you can use what ever frosting you wish.
 

Here is a pic of my grandson, Torsten feeding his new baby brother, Javyen!! It was taken when Javyen was 3 days old.

 

 

Here is Javyen at 2 1/2 weeks old.  He has gained almost 2lbs. already!!