Super Easy Chocolate Cake

Category: Desserts

Cuisine: American

12 reviews 
Ready in 1 hour

Ingredients

1/2 ts Salt

1 ts Baking soda

3 tb Cocoa

5 tb Vegetable oil

1 c Water

1 ts Vanilla

1 c Sugar

1 1/2 c Flour


Directions

Mix all ingredients together. Place in an 8x8 baking pan, ungreased. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes. This is a dark rich chocolate cake. As there are no eggs, it can be made when there is almost NOTHING in the house!! Frost, if desired but we frequently eat it right away! Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #2 by Stu <stalkofs@optonline.net> on Apr 2, 1998

Reviews


Very simple recipe. Used Baileys Irish Cream instead of water. Came out excellent!

AvitalBornstein

It dint taste like a cake !! Disaster

Deep1986

We have made this cake since we were little kids. Suggest add tablespoon malt vinegar and don't overmix or it will be tough and chewy. Don't let it cool in the tin or it will taste like a steamed pudding. Quick

rache65

Love this recipe! I will say I do think the baking temp is a bit high, but that's easily fixable. And I top it w/marshmallow frosting, delish! MARSHMALLOW FROSTING 1 3/4 c. sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 1/2 c. water Combine and cook until syrup forms a firm ball in cold water. beat 3 egg whites until stiff. Pour hot syrup slowly over whites while beating at medium speed. As soon as all syrup is added, drop in 12 marshmallows, cut in halves, and beat at fast speed until marshmallows are dissolved. When cool, frosting will spread over 3 layers.

Grettaluetta1

This cake was amazing in terms of ease of preparation and time and the ingredients are generally common household ingredients that are always on hand. However, the quality was only so-so. This is a great recipe if you're craving something sweet and only have the bare essentials on-hand.

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