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Jeanette Bekker’s eggless chocolate cake
Ingredients
- 375 ml cake flour
- 10 ml baking powder
- 250 ml sugar
- 2 ½ ml baking soda
- 40 ml cocoa
- 2 ½ ml salt
- 250 ml boiling water
- 125 ml oil
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- 25 ml white vinegar
Icing Sugar
- 500 ml icing sugar
- 8 tbsp soft margarine
- 4 tbsp cocoa
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ± 3 or 4 tbsp of boiling water
Preparation
Step 1: Sift the cake flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda, cocoa and salt together.
Step 2: Mix the boiling water, oil, vanilla essence and white vinegar well. Add the mixture to the dry ingredients and beat thoroughly.
Step 3: Bake in a 22 x 22 cm baking dish at 180 °C for 20 minutes.
Step 4: Beat all the ingredients for the icing to form a soft mixture.
Step 5: Decorate the cake to your own taste.
