Dry ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Wet ingredients
1 cup cool water
6 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice or distilled white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla optional
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan or place a parchment paper on the bottom.
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl and set aside. Combine water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla if using in another bowl. Add the liquids to bowl with the dry ingredients and gently stir until there are no lumps, this should take about 30 seconds.
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl and set aside. Combine water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla if using in another bowl. Add the liquids to bowl with the dry ingredients and gently stir until there are no lumps, this should take about 30 seconds.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Cool the cake in the pan. Once the cake is completely cool, decorate with frosting, glaze, or dust with powdered sugar.
Cool the cake in the pan. Once the cake is completely cool, decorate with frosting, glaze, or dust with powdered sugar.
We glazed the top with a quick frosting by beating 1/2 cup icing sugar, 1 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, and 1 tbsp milk. It is better to wait till the cake cools to cut it so the frosting can set. We were too eager to cut and enjoy it when I took this picture.
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Beautiful! I love both the tender smooth crumb and the shiny rich chocolate icing :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat recipe! This is so easy even I can make it
ReplyDeleteI normally use eggs and milk in my baking but this recipe is very helpful to have at this time. Right now, we are trying to leave home as seldom as possible. Even if we run out of eggs or milk, I'll be able to make this. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI don't do eggs or dairy so this is great!
ReplyDeleteMmm! This looks really tasty! I love that it's a nice simple recipe, as well. Very much something you could throw together any time as the ingredients are all common!
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious! I love chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
ReplyDeleteThis will be perfect for when it's my turn to bring the treats to bible study - we have two ladies who can't have milk.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to find a different frosting though; your recipe has milk. Maybe just a sprinkling of icing sugar would be good.
DeleteCheryl for the frosting I did add 1 tbsp of milk. Instead of adding the frosting you can sprinkle icing sugar or serve the cake without any frosting or icing sugar as it tastes good just on its own.
DeleteThis cake looks delicious
ReplyDeleteI love an easy to whip together cake.
ReplyDeleteThanks my daughter has restrictions but could eat this
ReplyDeleteIt looks very moist and tasty. I like that is is made from ingredients I almost always have at home.
ReplyDeleteNice, because I am out of eggs and cannot find any.
ReplyDeleteThe cake looks awesome, I remember my mother had a recipe like this but I had lost it so this is awesome
ReplyDeleteWe make a similar cake with the kids - we call it wacky cake because there's no eggs or dairy in it. lol!
ReplyDeleteI would love to try this with maple sugar to see how it tastes.
ReplyDeleteThanks I have been doing a lot of baking these last few weeks
ReplyDeleteHi my friend, how you doing? I'm back to blogland. Your chocolate cake look very tempting. Take care and stay safe.
ReplyDeleteHappy to hear from you Amelia and welcome back :) I sent an email a while back. Thank you for visiting the site. Take care and stay safe as well
DeleteThanks so much for sharing this recipe! I am intolerant to eggs, so it's really hard to find tasty cake recipes as so many of them include egg! I can't wait to try this one xo
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