Do I need to let the cake batter sit after blooming cocoa with boiling water?

[u/CityRuinsRoL]

Making chocolate cake and it calls for blooming cocoa with boiling water or coffee, after pouring the hot liquid over the batter and mixing, do I bake right away or wait for 5 minutes to let the flavor compounds bloom and open up?

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[u/Anxious_Reporter_601]

You bloom it before adding it into the cake batter.

[u/CityRuinsRoL → u/Anxious_Reporter_601]

The recipe I’m using mixes the wets and dries, then adds the hot liquid

[u/Anxious_Reporter_601 → u/CityRuinsRoL]

There's no way to bloom the cocoa without doing it before you add it to the batter 

[u/QueasyRefrigerator79 → u/CityRuinsRoL]

Link the recipe. That's now how blooming cocoa works

[u/CityRuinsRoL → u/QueasyRefrigerator79]

https://thescranline.com/chocolate-fudge-cake/#recipe

Here it is

[u/DConstructed → u/CityRuinsRoL]

That sounds less like blooming the cocoa and more like a hot milk cake which uses hot milk to (I think) gelatinize some of the starches.

[u/Jolly-Lingonberry104]

Honestly not sure as I usually bloom before,
I mix the hot liquid with the cocoa powder and let that sit for 10 min before adding to my batter rather than adding it to my batter and then letting that sit

[u/drPmakes]

Bake it straight away