Very Chocolate Cake Kids Can Make in 1 Pan Carrie Sheridan

Easy, moist devil's food cake

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 9

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 3  tablespoons  hershey's  cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 4  tablespoons  safflower oil
• 1  tablespoon vinegar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1  cup cold water

Directions

1. sift together dry ingredients [pressing through a fine sieve is fine] into a 9 inch square pan. Blend.
2. Make 3 holes with a spoon and add oil into 1st, the vinegar in the 2nd and vanilla in the 3rd.
3. Pour 1 cup cold water over all and whisk vigorously.
4. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. [325° for a glass pan].
5. Let cool and frost.
6. Vanilla Frosting: Heat 2-3 TBS of cream and let cool; blend with with softened butter and powdered sugar to taste. Add a splash of vanilla.
7. Easy Chocolate Frosting: melt butter and semisweet chocolate morsels [in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Remove, add powdered sugar and vanilla. Refrigerate. Whip with a mixer to add air and lighten - then frost cake.