Butter-free Chocolate Cake

I wanted cake...
I had no butter. Sad times.

What to do... what to do?

This is surely the reason Google was invented! Here's a recipe for a chocolate cake which *doesn't* need butter or margarine!

(I've listed the amounts that I used, which was half the original recipe)

• 4oz plain flour
• 6.25oz caster sugar
• 1.5oz cocoa powder
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 egg
• 4.5floz milk
• 2.25floz vegetable oil
• 4.5floz boiling water

- Heat the oven to 180oC, grease and line an 8inch sandwich tin (avoid using springform loose bottomed tins. This is a very liquid mix!)
- Measure out the dry ingredients into a large bowl, and the liquid ingredients (but not the hot water) into a measuring jug. Using a wooden spoon combine the ingredients in the bowl, beating until smooth.

-Add the boiling water, a little at a time, and continue to mix until smooth.
-Bake in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake.
-Allow to cool completely before attempting to remove from the tin (if you try to peel the paper off while the cake is still warm, it will crumble...)

-Decorate the cake with either a chocolate ganache topping, or melted chocolate cake covering (because this is such a moist, squishy cake, a slightly liquid topping is better than a solid one)