Chocolate Cake Express - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups unsifted flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1/2 cup sunflower oil
1 cup water
1 tablespoon icing sugar

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 190 C / 375\u00b0F.
Grease and flour a 20 cm cake tin.
Combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
Make a well in the centre of the mixture, and add the vanilla essence, vinegar and oil, then gradually stir in the water.
Continue stirring until thoroughly blended, but do not over-mix.
Pour all of the batter into the cake tin, and bake, uncovered, for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake, comes out clean.
Do not over bake, the secret to this cake is its moistness.
Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then transfer the cake from the tin to the rack, to cool completely.
Sift the icing sugar over the top, and serve.