Easy Chocolate Cake and Cream Cheese Icing
| March 10, 2011 | Posted by Lisa Sharp under Real Food, Recipe |
Abbie over at the Farmer’s Daughter is having a Birthday Cake Recipe Round-up for her birthday. I tend to do different desserts for birthdays but this is my favorite chocolate cake recipe and I have made it for several birthdays. I love this recipe because you can make a 8 in round cake, which is prefect for small families. You can double it if you want a full size cake but I always just make a small one. You can use any icing but I’m sharing one of my favorites.
Sorry for the poor picture but when there is dessert around here
people don’t like to wait for me to take pictures.
Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 cup cold water
Directions
Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt with a whisk until well blended.
Pour the oil, vinegar, vanilla and water, all at once, on top of the dry ingredients.
Stir until all the ingredients are throughly blended together but don’t over mix.
Bake at 350′F for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cream Cheese Icing
Ingredients
3 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
In a small bowl beat all ingredients until smooth.
Happy Birthday to Abbie and hope you all enjoy this recipe! Be sure to go check out all the other posts on Farmer’s Daughter tomorrow.
Oh I am trying this one!!! Thanks for sharing!
This sounds delicious! And I love that the cake is dairy free. I'll have to sub out the icing.
Abbie: Hope you enjoy it. It's easy and yummy!
Groovygreenlivin.com: I often make the cake with just some powder sugar on top. Coconut ice cream on top would be good as well! And I like that it's dairy and egg free not because I don't eat those things but we run out often and then I have few baked goods I can make haha.
That sounds delicious! Anna and I will definitely have to try making it. Thanks for sharing.