Moist Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon wine vinegar
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil, rice bran
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 50 g butter, softened
• 1 cup icing sugar, sifted
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted
• 2 tablespoons boiling water

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 170°c fan bake. line a 23cm square cake tin with nonstick baking paper. place milk and vinegar in a large bowl and stir to make soured milk. whisk in the sugar, egg, salt, oil and vanilla essence.
• 2 sift together the flour, cocoa powder and baking soda and add to the wet mixture, stirring just enough to combine into a smooth batter.
• 3 pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for 30 minutes or until the center springs back when pressed with a fingertip. remove to cool, then ice with chocolate frosting.
• 4 chocolate frosting.
• 5 beat butter and icing sugar together in a bowl.
• 6 add cocoa powder and boiling water and beat until creamy. makes 1 cup.