Description
This cake is make without milk or eggs and is moist, dark and delicious. A brain child of the depression era when ingenious cooks developed a cake that could be made without expensive and scarce ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Sift together flour
- sugar
- cocoa powder
- baking soda
- and salt into an 8×8-inch ungreased cake pan. Make 3 depressions in the flour mixture. Pour oil into one well
- vinegar into second
- and vanilla into third well. Pour water over all
- then stir with a fork until well blended.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- 30 to 40 minutes.
Servings: 10