The Easiest, Healthiest Chocolate Cake...Ever

This cake is very easy. It has no eggs, no butter, no dairy, and is made in the pan you bake it in. Kids can make it. Everyone can eat it. And it's good! Especially with ice cream...

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  cup artificial sweetener, of your choice (refined white sugar, beet sugar, unrefined sugar, sugar substitute)
• 4 1⁄2 tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 6  tablespoons  vegetable oil
• 1  tablespoon white vinegar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  cup  cold water
• 1  cup powdered sugar
• 4 1⁄2 teaspoons milk or 4 1⁄2 teaspoons soymilk
• 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Mix all dry ingredients in a 9 inch round pan or 8-inch square pan.
3. Add the rest of the ingredients*excluding the last three* and stir, mixing thoroughly and scraping the sides and bottom of pan well.
4. Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
5. Cool for about 35 minutes.
6. Run knife around pan edges and turn upside down; tap to release cake.
7. Cool completely.
8. Mix the last three ingredients together in a plastic ziplock bag by squeezing until uniform.
9. Cut the corner of the bag and drizzle icing over cake.