I got this recipe from one my vintage cookbooks, in the section called "Cakes for the Family". This is not a spectacular gourmet cake to impress people. This is the sort of thing you whip up when you want a little something sweet after dinner on a weeknight.
1 tbsp softened safe margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg (2 egg whites)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup buttermilk (1 tbsp lemon juice + soy milk to equal 1 cup)
1 1/2 cups flour, sifted
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp cocoa powder
Mix the margarine and sugar together thoroughly. Beat the egg and add it in. Dissolve the baking soda in the "buttermilk", add this into the mixture. Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together and add to the first mixture. Add the vanilla and cocoa and mix the batter well.
Bake in greased (spray with cooking spray) and floured 9-inch square pan in a 350-degree oven for about 30 mminutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool.
Make a half recipe of chocolate frosting, but use the full amount of cocoa. Spread over the cooled cake. Serves 9.
By the way, the cake itself isn't chocolatey, as you probably could have guessed by the small amount of cocoa used. I'm not sure what it would taste like with the cocoa omitted or increased, but that little bit of cocoa does give the cake a nice color, so...
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