This beautiful cake is very moist and very chocolately and is great decorated with fruit as well as with chocolate icing!
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serves:
24
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yield:
1 cake
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ready in:
1 hour 20 mins
(20 mins
Prep
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1 hour
Cook)
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655g (5¼ cups) sifted plain flour
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90g (¾ cup) dark cocoa
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3 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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660g (3 cups) caster sugar
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250ml (1 cup) vegetable oil
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700ml (2¾ cups) water
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2 tablespoons vanilla essence
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour a 22x30cm baking tin.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, bi-carb soda and salt. Add sugar and mix together.
- Add oil, water and vanilla essence and mix together thoroughly.
- Pour into prepared baking pan. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until skewer inserted in centre comes out clean.
clipped from: allrecipes.com.au 