Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar (*to cut back on some of the sugar you can replace some or all of it with applesauce, but treat applesauce as a wet ingredient)
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk (I used almond milk, but any milk will do.)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 serving instant coffee **optional, but the coffee really enhances the chocolate flavor.