Amazon Cake
MAKE IT SHINE!
ADD YOUR PHOTO
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
- Serves:
- Yields:
- Units:
4
People talking
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.
MY PRIVATE NOTES
Add a Note
RECIPE MADE WITH LOVE BY
@SharleneW
Contributor
@SharleneW
Contributor
"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!"
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
upload
review
tweak
ask
all
reviews
tweaks
q&a
sort by:
-
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!Reply
-
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!Reply
-
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.Reply
see 2 more