A rainy day, and two little girls who need something warm and chocolate-y REALLY SOON. This never-fail recipe tastes better than cake mix and takes no more time to soothe those rainy day munchies.

1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon Diamond kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup cold water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In an ungreased 8×8 inch baking dish, mix the dry ingredients together.
Makes three shallow depressions in the dry ingredients. Pour the oil in one, the apple cider vinegar in another, and the melted butter in the third. Pour the cold water over everything, and mix, scraping the edges and corners to get all the dry ingredients.  Don’t over-mix.
Bake 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean.

This is a slightly modified version of a recipe called Garlic-Optional Chocolate Cake. I clipped it from the Christian Science Monitor sometime in the early 1990s, I think.