Amazon Cake
"This is a great little cake when you just gotta have chocolate! Adapted from "Cafe Beaujolais" and published in our local paper recently. And yes, it is eggless!"
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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1 nine inch one layer cake
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa, preferably dutch processed
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons corn oil
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- confectioners' sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, sugar and salt.
- In a separate bowl,whisk together oil, vanilla and vinegar with 1 cup cold water.
- Whisk in dry ingredients, blending until completely free of lumps.
- Pour into a greased 9-inch round cake pan.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until top springs back when pressed gently.
- Cool before removing from pan and dusting with confectioners' sugar.
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Reviews
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You cannot go wrong with this recipe. Excellent. -
I cooked this cake for a vegan friend and he loved it! So did the non-vegans. Very quick, easy recipe and a delicious, moist cake - this one is definitely on my 'must-make-again' list! Thanks for sharing, Sharlene -
Let me confess up front that I am not a fan of chocolate cake. Most Chocolate Cakes I have eaten have tasted kind of dry and slightly off--not this one!!! Moist! Chocolatey! Rich! PERFECT! I found this exact recipe on someone's food blog several months back. I just got around to making it, as I am not a big fan of choclate cake. It took maybe 15 minutes to put together. I used Canola oil instead of corn oil and Valrhona cocoa. I think the key to the flavor in this cake is the quality of the cocoa. In other words, use the very best you can afford! It is worth the results! I can't recommend this cake enough! Truly an amazing, EASY, chocolate cake--even looks like the picture from the cake box! -
This is a very moist cake and there's no hint of the vinegar used in it. It's very handy as a cupboard recipe when you don't have anything else left in your home and want chocolate cake. I think the cake did have a slightly different taste to a "normal" chocolate cake but that might have been due to the fact I used vegetable oil instead of corn oil. I suggest greasing the cake pan and lining the bottom of it with parchment paper or similar as I remember having trouble getting the cake to come out of the pan because it was so moist.
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Let me confess up front that I am not a fan of chocolate cake. Most Chocolate Cakes I have eaten have tasted kind of dry and slightly off--not this one!!! Moist! Chocolatey! Rich! PERFECT! I found this exact recipe on someone's food blog several months back. I just got around to making it, as I am not a big fan of choclate cake. It took maybe 15 minutes to put together. I used Canola oil instead of corn oil and Valrhona cocoa. I think the key to the flavor in this cake is the quality of the cocoa. In other words, use the very best you can afford! It is worth the results! I can't recommend this cake enough! Truly an amazing, EASY, chocolate cake--even looks like the picture from the cake box!
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This is a very moist cake and there's no hint of the vinegar used in it. It's very handy as a cupboard recipe when you don't have anything else left in your home and want chocolate cake. I think the cake did have a slightly different taste to a "normal" chocolate cake but that might have been due to the fact I used vegetable oil instead of corn oil. I suggest greasing the cake pan and lining the bottom of it with parchment paper or similar as I remember having trouble getting the cake to come out of the pan because it was so moist.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sharlene~W
Campbell, California
I live in the San Francisco area and love it here. I discovered Recipezaar (then Food.com..Genius Kitchen) in 2001 and have been so happy to have my favorite recipes stored safely here. I am mother to 7 and grandmother to 7.
I love to knit, smock, sew, etc., but my favorite hobby of the moment is traditional rug hooking. This is a sample of what I do.? It's called "November".? I dyed most of the wool myself. It is made from wool flannel, cut into strips a little less than 1/4" and then worked into a linen backing. This is my 3rd rug.
