Ingredients
2 cups white sugar
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup milk
½ cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
Directions
Gather all ingredients.
All ingredients gathered to make one bowl chocolate cake.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
Stir sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
Dry ingredients mixed together.
Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; mix for 2 minutes on medium speed with an electric mixer.
Eggs, milk, vanilla and oil added to dry ingredients and mixed together.
Stir in the boiling water. The batter will be thin.
Boiling water added to mixture to thin out.
Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
a top down view of chocolate cake batter poured evenly into two round pans.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Cakes finished baking and resting on a wire rack.
Enjoy!