preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. sift the dry ingredients into the bowl of an electric mixer. add all of the wet ingredients (except the coffee) and beat well until combined.
stir in the hot coffee. the batter will be very thin. set aside.
place the graham crackers in a ziploc bag and seal. use a rolling pin to crush the graham crackers into fine crumbs. pour the graham cracker crumbs into a bowl and mix with the melted butter. add more melted butter as needed, until all of the graham cracker crumbs are evenly wet.
Grease and flour the sides of two 9-inch round cake pans, and line the bottoms of the cake pans with parchment paper. pour the graham cracker crumbs into the bottom of one of the cake pans. press the crumbs firmly in the bottom of the pan with your hands.
pour part of the cake batter over the graham cracker layer, and pour the remaining batter in the second cake pan until it is about 2/3 of the way full. (you will have leftover cake batter. you can bake off the rest of the batter in another cake pan or in smaller ramekins.)
bake the cakes for 30-35 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean. once baked, allow the cakes to cool in the cake pans for 10 minutes, then remove the cakes from the pans and allow them to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.