Food Porn Friday: Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Chocolate Cake

I was craving something sweet all day. But I'm broke, and we don't have any eggs or butter to bake anything. But I reeeally wanted something sweet. I thought, "Surely, there has to be something I can make with the ingredients I do have." And so I went on the internet, and stumbled across a blog called Rak's Kitchen, and they had a recipe for chocolate cake that didn't use eggs or butter OR milk. So I decided to try it:

Ingredients:

• AP flour - 1.5 cups
• Cocoa powder - 3 Tbsp
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Oil (I used canola) - 1/4 cup
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Lemon juice/Vinegar - 1 Tbsp
• Water - 1 cup
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Vanilla extract - 1/2 Tbsp

Directions:

• Preheat oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. 
• Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda together and set aside.
• Mix water, sugar, salt - make sure the sugar gets dissolved - then add the lemon juice/vinegar, oil and vanilla. Mix well.
• Add the sifted flour and mix well.
• Grease a baking pan (I used an 8 inch round pan) with oil and dust with some flour, or use baking spray which is what I used. Pour the batter.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes 25-30 minutes - mine was done in about 25 minutes.
• Take cake out of the over and let cool for about 15 minutes. Invert cake and let cool the rest of the way. 

I must say, I'm very happy with the results. It was good. The cake tasted like cake (lol), it was moist - I'm rather surprised. Hehe. I'm not a vegetarian so I'm going to try making it with milk instead of water next time. I think it would make it taste even better.