Good morning! I love Fridays, and I am sure most of the people do. Today is a very different recipe of what I usually do. This is a vegan chocolate cake, it doesn’t include animal derived ingredients (milk, eggs or butter) in case you want to try something different or trying to change your dietary habits. I personally find it very useful for when I want to eat something sweet but do not have milk or eggs at home.

Hope you like it and give it a try!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
• 3 Tbsp. cocoa (unsweetened)
• 1 Cup white sugar
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. white vinegar
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 5 Tbsp. vegetable oil (canola, olive..)
• 1 Cup water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Mix first 5 dry ingredients. You can do this directly in the baking pan – squared 8″ square – or in another bowl. I used a rectangular pan for baking.
3. Pour vinegar, vanilla and the vegetable oil in the dry ingredients and mix.
4. Pour water over all. Mix well until smooth.
5. Bake on middle rack for 35 minutes. Check with toothpick to make sure it comes out clean.
6. Cool completely and top with your favorite frosting. Enjoy!

Note: Oven cooking times may vary, be sure to check your cake to make sure you do not over bake or burn the cake.

**You can double this recipe, just use a 9×13 baking pan. You can also make cupcakes – just be sure to adjust the baking time.