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: 40 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 1 nine inch one layer cake

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

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, sugar and salt.
3. In a separate bowl,whisk together oil, vanilla and vinegar with 1 cup cold water.
4. Whisk in dry ingredients, blending until completely free of lumps.
5. Pour into a greased 9-inch round cake pan.
6. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until top springs back when pressed gently.
7. Cool before removing from pan and dusting with confectioners' sugar.