Because it wasn’t enough to have strawberries with shortcake. I also decided that I needed to have strawberries with chocolate cake, because what could be better with strawberries than chocolate? We’d already made a quick ganache to dunk some berries, but I wanted my favorite food group to be represented. What? Chocolate cake is not a food group? It should be. 🙂
This super easy one-bowl chocolate cake comes together in a snap. In my case, I made a half-batch and used my 9-inch square pan to bake this cake in the toaster oven. I love the toaster oven this time of year because I can bake without heating the whole house up, though it might be worth a little sweltering for chocolate cake.
Easy One Bowl Chocolate Cake
1 cups white sugar3/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 2 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup boiling water
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a nine inch round (or square) pan.
In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer.
Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pan.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.