This is the easiest chocolate cake I have ever made I am not the craziest about baking as it is something I have never really enjoyed doing but this was fantastic. I did ice mine with frosting and I then sprinkled coconut flakes over instead of icing sugar. I have saved this one, as my family loved it and I do not mind making this regularly because it is not time consuming at all. If you would like to view the original recipe please click here.

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cups unsifted flour
1 Cup granulated sugar
1/3 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Teaspoon vanilla essence
1 Tablespoon cider vinegar
1/2 Cup sunflower oil
1 Cup water
1 Tablespoon icing sugar (I didn’t bother with this as I iced mine with chocolate frosting)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190 C / 375°F.

2. Grease and flour a 20 cm cake tin.

3. Combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.

4. Make a well in the centre of the mixture, and add the vanilla essence, vinegar and oil, then gradually stir in the water.

5. Continue stirring until thoroughly blended, but do not over-mix.

6. Pour all of the batter into the cake tin, and bake, uncovered, for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake, comes out clean.

7. Do not over bake, the secret to this cake is its moistness.

8. Cool in the in on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then transfer the cake from the tin to the rack, to cool completely.

I iced mine with frosting and sprinkled coconut over the top.

All photos taken by me unless otherwise stated.