Basic chocolate cake

I have always been very interested in baking but never took the effort to experiment. I would always use the cake mixes and brownie mixes. After seeing Sudha's chocolate cake I've been wanting to bake a chocolate cake from scratch. I even went and bought all the ingredients. I wish I had a big oven like the ones we had in the US. I just have a toaster oven here, and was a bit doubtful about whether it would work the same. There are some people in my family who don't eat egg and so I searched for an eggless cake recipe. Judging from the pictures I settled for one from Chowtimes. The recipe uses a 9x13 pan, but my toaster oven would only fit a smaller one. So I made half the qty in a 8 inch square pan. And shortened the baking time to 30 minutes. The result was awesome. It felt a but crusty on top, but within an hour or two turned very soft and moist. And everyone was happy.

Ingredients

Set 1:

Flour: 1.5 cups

Baking soda: 1 tsp

Salt: 1/4 tsp

Cocoa powder: 3 tbsp

Set 2:

Water: 1 cup

Sugar: 1 cup

Vanilla extract: 1/2 tbsp

Lemon juice: 1 tbsp

Oil: 1/4 cup

Some mini chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 350F.

Sift the ingredients in Set 1.

Mix the ingredients in set 2 until sugar has dissolved.

Mix together both sets.

Pour into a greased and floured pan (about 8-9 inch pan) and sprinkle some chocolate chips on top.

Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool and cut into squares.