SUPER EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE

Name: SUPER EASY CHOCOLATE CAKE
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2½ c FLour; ½ c Cocoa Powder; 2 t Baking Powder; 2 c Sugar; 1 t Salt; 2 c warm Water; ½ c Canola oil - or other vegetable oil; 2 T White Wine Vinegar; 2 t Vanilla essence

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Prep:10minCook:30min

Simon Holst - This cake seems to defy alot of traditional cake-making wisdom, but hey, it works and you get a large, moist cake at the end. In fact it's so simple there's little more for the kids to do than a bit of mixing, then licking the bowl... for one 22x23cm cake or two 21cm round cakes:

Updated at: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:20:50 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

Moderate

Glycemic Load

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories375.1 kcal (19%)

Total Fat11.8 g (17%)

Carbs66.6 g (26%)

Sugars40.1 g (45%)

Protein4 g (8%)

Sodium331.9 mg (17%)

Fiber2.1 g (8%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

10 servings

2 ½ cFLour

½ ccocoa powder

2 tbaking powder

2 csugar

1 tsalt

2 cwater

warm

½ cCanola oil

or other vegetable oil

2 TWhite Wine Vinegar

2 tVanilla essence

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven. When the oven is hot, non-stick spray and line your selected pan(s) with baking paper. Sift the first five ingredients (the dry stuff) into a large bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and whisk until smooth (that's it)! Pour the batter (it will be runny) into the pan(s) and bake for 30-40 minutes, until the centre springs back when pressed gently and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack before icing with a double mixture of icing for the chocolate fudge square.