Incredibly Easy Chocolate Cake

A community recipe by Renske

Not tested or verified by Nigella.com

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Introduction

For the girls using the cup system; it doesn't get any easier then this. I feel this is totally not necessary to mention, but the this cake keeps very well...

Ingredients

Serves: 4-6

1 cup sugar
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup water
¼ cup vegetable oil
1½ cups self-rising flour

Method

Incredibly Easy Chocolate Cake is a community recipe submitted by Renske and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Preheat the oven on 200*C.

Stir all the ingredients together (add nuts or dried fruit if you want) and pour the mix in a greased baking tin.

Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes.

If you have a bread maker: put everything in the machine and choose the cake program. That's it.

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What 4 Others have said

What did I do wrong? Followed the recipe and on turning out the cake it crumbled to pieces??

Posted by Vix1978 on 29th July 2020
Love this cake,so easy..... especially for someone like me who can't bake.I've made it in the oven and in the bread maker!!

Posted by Shell shell on 15th December 2015
I usually stick to Nigella's fool-proof cakes, but this is one of very few exceptions :) Delicious cake, soft crumb, SO easy - and no eggs or dairy if that's important to you. You can leave it as a simply perfect chocolate cake or add some fruit to mix it up - never had a failure with this recipe :D

Posted by Coby on 30th March 2015
I could not get this to work in the slightest. It came out flat as a pancake. Maybe it was just me but I do a lot of cakes in my bread machine (combination of a lazy baker & a son who loves pressing buttons). There just doesn't seem to be enough raising agent and probably needs an addition of eggs.

Posted by rachysetty on 26th June 2014