Never Failed Eggless Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 125 g butter
• 15 ml vinegar
• 500 ml water
• 10 ml vanilla essence
• 750 ml self-raising flour (420 g)
• 5 ml salt
• 5 ml bicarbonate of soda
• 80 ml cocoa powder
• 500 ml sugar
• 60 g butter
• 30 ml milk
• 2 ml vanilla essence
• 20 ml cocoa powder
• 375 ml icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 melt butter, remove from heat and add vinegar, water and essence.
• 2 sift dry ingredients together.
• 3 add to melted butter mixture and whisk slightly until smooth.
• 4 spoon cake mixture into a greased and lined 23 cm springform cake tin.
• 5 bake in a preheated oven at 180 °c for 50 - 60 minutes.
• 6 leave in tin a few minutes before turning out on cooling rack.
• 7 icing: heat butter and milk.
• 8 remove from heat and add essence, cocoa and icing sugar.
• 9 whisk until smooth and pour over cooled cake.