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Basic Chocolate Cake

Recipe by: Jen  |  Photo by: Allrecipes
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  • Ready in: 55 mins
Basic Chocolate Cake
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  • Prep: 15 mins  Cook: 40 mins
  • Serves: 24
This is my basic recipe for a simple chocolate birthday cake.

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Ingredients

410g (3¼ cups) plain flour, sifted
440g (2 cups) caster sugar
3 tablespoons good quality cocoa powder
2 teaspoons salt
3 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
125ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
1½ tablespoons cider vinegar
500ml (2 cups) water
1½ teaspoons vanilla essence

Preparation method

1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease and flour a 23x30cm cake pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and bicarbonate of soda. Make a well in the centre, and pour in the oil, vinegar, water and vanilla essence.
3. Mix well, then pour into the cake pan. Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

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    Tweak: Cimm Altered ingredient amounts:

    I added a 1 cup of mixed berries to add a little more natural sweetness.Yum!!

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    • perth W.A, Australia
        
    Tweak: lisalisa Used different ingredients:

    Wow! I added chocolate chips (4tbsp) to the recipe. I would make this again and let the kids help out. I'm fat gram conscious, and this is a good lower fat recipe.

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    Review: a_b_normal123

    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 Easy

        
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    Review: Cimm

    Loved it!! I added 1 cup of mixed berries to add a bit more natural sugar. The kids couldn't get enough. Love that it doesnt have milk or eggs.

    Posted: 31 May 2009 Easy

        
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