Recipes & Cooking: September 2006 Archives

No butter, no eggs, no milk. Just flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, water, cider vinegar and oil (I used olive) for a perfectly moist, simple chocolate cake. It kind of has a reddish hue, which I thought might be a result of the vinegar/baking soda reaction, sort of like a red-velvet cake. I read about this on Words to Eat By. Thank goodness she got to baking this cake before she went and had that baby!

Mix 1 1/2 cups flour with 1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt. In another bowl, whisk 5 tablespoons of oil with 1 cup cold water, 1 tablespoon cider vinegar and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla (oops, forget to mention vanilla above). Pour liquids into flour mixture, then pour into a greased 9-inch pan. Bake 30 minutes-ish in a 350 oven until the top springs back when pressed in the middle.