Basic Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Serves: 24

410g (3 1/4 cups) plain flour, sifted
440g (2 cups) caster sugar
3 tablespoons good quality cocoa powder
2 teaspoons salt
3 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
125ml (1/2 cup) vegetable oil
1 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
500ml (2 cups) water
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence

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Prep: 15 minutes | Cook: 40 minutes

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I would like to ask how strong is cider vinegar. I live in the Czech Rep. and cannot get it here so I would like to change it for usual vinegar. Ours is 8% (for instance in Poland they have 10% so I must recount Polish recipes). Great cake!

Posted: 01 May 2012

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Loving this recipe so much. I made it at my grandma’s house. The combination of recipes goes well with each other and the taste is certainly admirable. www.gourmandia.ca and www.coffeefashion .com also have interesting recipes that you’ll surely want to try!

Posted: 14 Feb 2012

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Loved making this cake. It is egg and dairy free and could easily be gluten free. I have made this one for two birthdays. It keeps really well. For one birthday I made it two days before and didn't finish the last of it til a week later. It was still moist and delicious even then. The ingredients are all things I keep in the pantry and it was really easy for the kids to help. It doesn't require a mixer so is very easy to prepare. I also added more sugar as was recommended by previous people but if you are icing the cake it probably isn't necessary.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011

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Something else. I used plain vinegar and added 500grms of sugar in total. next time I will add some choc chip pieces. great recipe the family loves.

Posted: 17 Jul 2010

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Easy Peasy !! Made this into cupcakes, they are very morish and everyone loves them... added another 90grms of sugar and just used plain vinegar

Posted: 17 Jul 2010

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My 4 year old daughter said it was AWESOME!! I did tweak it up a bit

Posted: 05 Jun 2010

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Used different ingredients. I didnt have all the ingredients listed so what I did was substituted cider vinegar with vinegar 1 tbs, and I added an egg and half cup less water, I also only added 1 tsp of salt as I was worried it would be a bit salty....and 2 extra tbs of cocoa...my only problem is I can't taste it properly as I have a blocked nose, but the kids say its awesome!! (4 year old)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010

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Posted: 16 Apr 2010

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Baked this for a birthday and it was moist and fluffy and melted in your mouth! Combined with the cheerful butter icing recipe and it was a smash! Better than other chocolate cake recipes that I've tried.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009

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