Choco Wowie Cake

[Windfall]

Choco Wowie Cake

2 cups sugar
3 cups white flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp apple cider vinegar
2/3 cup oil – something neutral like safflower or canola
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups cold water

Mix dry ingredients together in large bowl. Add wet ingredients to bowl & stir well. Pour into an ungreased 9x12 pan & bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

Peanut Butter Frosting

4 tblsp margarine – room temp
3-4 tblsp creamy peanut butter
3 tsp cocoa powder
5-6 tsp milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners sugar

Combine the margarine, peanut butter, vanilla & 1 tblsp milk & whisk until smooth. Add the cocoa & mix well. Add sugar about ½ cup at a time, alternating between sugar and 1 tblsp milk. Keep adding the sugar/milk till all the sugar is gone. Frosting should be smooth & creamy.

[absentmindedfan]

This cake recipe-using vinegar and oil-is the best chocolate cake recipe I've ever used. It's quite rightly used and adapted by loads of vegan recipes because it's so so good! I made myself this:

for my birthday this year and it actually became more moist and chocolatey the day after!
Hooray for chocolate cake!

[cedarblue]

*slathers over keyboard*

[Imapeach]

I'd love to try this recipe. But just to clarify, is the flour supposed to be plain or self-raising??

[absentmindedfan]

In my experience plain wholemeal will be fine. I use it all my baking.

[Windfall]

yeah plain wholemeal flour works well for this =)

[Tigerlily]

Wow!

*bookmarks*

I was just looking for a chocolate cake with PB frosting!!

[Tigerlily]

Question:
Can these be made into cupcakes instead of a regular cake?

[absentmindedfan]

Yup, just make them in little cupcake tray instead of a big cake tin and ice them how you wish. I like coffee icing

[purple.cow]

Awesome, shame I'm allergic to chocolate.

[KezUK]

Awesome, shame I'm allergic to chocolate.

Me too! I get migraines from eating chocolate so we use carob instead.

I'm a little new to posting on this board, but I'm definately going to try out some of these recipes. I've never thought of doing peanut butter icing for a chocolate cake does it really go?

I've also just printed out 4 carrot cake recipes and one date and walnut cake recipe from the carrot cake thread. I home-educate my children so it will be fun for them to try some of these out!

Kez

[sandra]

What temperature is 350 degrees in centigrade?

[purple.cow]

Carob? Interesting, I'll have to try it in cakes.

[fiamma]

Sandra to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius I divide by two.

[sandra]

Thank you Fiamma

[Melanie]

mMmMmMm chocolate cake
I'm rubbish at baking though
-Vows to learn-