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Randy Smith
Carob Cake
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Vegetables
Vegetarian
Cakes, Desserts, Vegetarian
1
Servings
INGREDIENTS
1
c
White flour
1 1/4
c
Whole wheat flour
1
ts
Baking soda
1/4
ts
Salt
1/2
c
Carob powder (or cocoa)
1/2
c
Sugar
1/2
c
Corn oil
3/4
c
Water
1 1/4
c
Honey or maple syrup
1
tb
Cider vinegar
2
ts
Vanilla extract
INSTRUCTIONS
Sift the flours together with baking soda, salt & carob. Stir in the sugar.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together oil, water, honey, vinegar & vanilla
until well blended. Add dry ingredients, mixing till well blended.
Lightly oil & flour 2 8-inch cake pans. Divide batter equally between the
two pans & bake at 350F for 20 minutes, or until the cakes test done. Cool
for about 10 minutes then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.
Ron Pickarski, "Friendly Foods"
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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